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Anzac’s dark history Giving Indigenous ANZACs the welcome home they deserve PAGE 18

NEWS Too much information leaves public in the dark

HISTORY Light Horse saddles up to re-ride history

FEATURE Three generations of returned servicemen

PEOPLE Sab Lord: legend in the Top End

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Friday 17.04.2015 to Sunday 19.04.2015 History

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Letters home from young Dubbo born and raised soldier, John Henry “Jack” Reid PAGE 16

Anzac’s dark history Giving Indigenous ANZACs the welcome home they deserve PAGE 18

Diggelman Diggers Three generations of returned servicemen PAGE 24

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Meet the former Dubbo lad who is a master of his own destiny PAGE 28

BUSINESS

DUBBO CITY COUNCIL’S CBD PRECINCTS PLAN

Matt Wright Fire up to ignite growth opportunity PAGE 42

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Hard work makes time to play PAGE 54

Sport The Dubbo Kangaroos have drawn first blood in their bid to retain the Blowes Clothing Cup PAGE 60

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Why we should avoid antivaxxers like the plague COUPLE of years back, I had the very good fortune to meet an impressive young man by the name of Akram Azimi, who came to Australia in the 90s as a refugee from Afghanistan. He told me he owes his fortunate life here in Australia to the volunteer doctor who placed a single drop of liquid on his nine year old tongue at a refugee camp at Peshawar in Pakistan.

That liquid was the polio vaccine, and Akram Azimi was the Young Australian of the Year.

He’s visited his homeland on humanitarian grounds a number of times and told me the image of young people begging on the roadside, dragging themselves painfully along on limbs twisted beyond recognition is a constant reminder of how lucky he is to have escaped the ravages of that disease by fleeing his homeland.

Thanks largely to the decadeslong efforts of Rotary International, Unicef and the World Health Organisation (WHO), there are only three countries in the world where polio still exists – Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.

According to WHO, the Global Polio Eradication initiative has reduced the incidence of the disease worldwide by 99 per cent since it began in 1988. Now, the majority of the cases of polio reported in the world can be traced back to those three nations, and more than half the world’s current (reported) cases of polio are found in Nigeria.

Why? Because, as in Afghanistan and Pakistan, extremist governments successfully convince their largely illiterate and poverty stricken populace the vaccinations are an evil tool of oppression, effectively exploiting existing paranoia and suspicion against Western aid.

Rotary? Involved in some kind of global infidel conspiracy to poison children in a bid to control and dominate the planet? Ridiculous, huh?

But that’s exactly how it sounds right here in lucky Australia when those opposed to vaccination claim it’s some kind of corporate plot to line the pockets of pharmaceutical companies by wilfully harming innocent children.

It would be a tragedy of apocalyptic proportion if polio were to again take hold of the world, and with international travel and the movement of displaced people across the globe, it’s not inconceivable. In fact, it’s a distinct possibility thanks to the anti-vaccination lobby.

Let’s get one thing out of the way: vaccinations do no cause Autism.

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scaremongering can be traced back to a single article published in 1998 by a bloke, not even a doctor, who failed to reveal that he was in fact paid for that “research” by by lawyers who were putting a class action together against the manufacturers of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine. His “findings” were roundly and quickly debunked and there has since been no credible scientific evidence or research to suggest the link between autism and vaccinations. None-the-less, a growing army of “anti-vaxxers” have grasped the threadbare theory, using it as a vehicle to channel their paranoia.

And they’re viciously defensive of their flawed arguments against vaccination, striding across the boundaries of rational debate, waving their zealotry like a flaming torch in the face of anyone who dares question their pseudo-scientific, Google-bred “research”.

Statistics show that immunisation rates in Australia are dropping – they’ve reached as low as 85 per cent in some areas. The result is a serious threat to what’s called the “herd immunity” – the level of disease resistance in a population. Basically, the immunity of the greater population is able to protect the few who have no immunity to a particular contagious infection.

There are many areas of science and medical practice that deserve an injection of healthy scepticism and where questioning conventional wisdom is warranted. This isn’t one of them.

Instead of heeding the pack-mentality advice of those who pick and choose from online information, taking only those “studies” that agree with their own stance, doesn’t it make more sense to follow the counsel of credible scientists and doctors, developed through decades, if not centuries, of measurable, repeatable, reliable study and research?

It seems the fear of science is greater than the fear of children dying from diseases like measles and whooping cough – and that’s largely thanks to the fact that, until recently, those afflictions – like smallpox and bubonic plague before them – were all but a distant memory. Do we really want to risk it?

Take a look at the images of those polio affected children in Pakistan and get back to me – then go ahead, anti-vaxxers and take your best shot. Because, unlike the newborn babies whose health your tinfoil hatted paranoia endangers, I can defend myself.

There are many areas of science and medical practice that deserve an injection of healthy scepticism and where questioning conventional wisdom is warranted.

This isn’t one of them.

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Too much information leaves public in the dark

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

E’RE under assault from all sides.

Terrorism, or the perception of it, is the highest profile issue and the one on which taxpayers are spending the most money.

To throw a spanner further in the works, we now apparently have depressed pilots who want to make statements on the world stage by killing plane-loads of innocent people – this is Facebook and the 15 minutes of fame concept gone mad, but taking a leaf out of the terrorism PR guidelines of maximum impact for minimum effort.

Slowly creeping up there as an issue of recognition is the number of assaults and murders perpetrated on women by their partners, a statistic that has killed far more Australians than terrorists, yet which attracts only a miniscule percentage of “terrorism” funding.

But after carefully weighing up cost benefit analyses and comprehensive holistic social studies, governments don’t fund this area of public concern – it’s way too complex Thousands die on roadways across the world each year, yet one terrorism beheading of a westerner receives more coverage than all those road deaths put together.

So many important issues receive zero coverage, yet we’re overloaded with the trivialities of royals, celebrities and Kardashians.

We’ve become a far crazier world in the years since the death of Princess Diana, but even back then I saw reports claiming there was more media about her death than the end of both world wars and the first moon landing combined – this defies any rational belief.

I think our national newspapers and TV news bulletins should have 10 per cent which is called news, and the rest of the tripe they present should be la-

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belled as gossip, so at least we’re being honest with ourselves.

This week’s cause celebre is a disgusting advertisement from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) portraying a bloodied lamb and claiming that’s how young sheep regularly look after shearing.

PETA, (can I call you by your first name?) – this is so, so wrong.

I genuinely doubt that any shearing shed in Australia, at any time, has ever turned out anything even remotely approaching the state of the animal in the PETA image.

Such a campaign intrigues me, because I would have thought there were far more pressing animal cruelty issues for PETA to hammer on about.

Which brings me to Halal certification, an issue that has raised a huge ruckus on social media.

It’s tough to write a news article when no-one wants to talk publicly about the issue. Such is the emotion of the debate, no one with credibility in the industry wants to get involved for fear they’ll be the next target.

Over the years I’ve done plenty of news stories on Fletchers’ International Exports and for years that operation has

There’s just way too much information out there, much of it ranging from pretty average to downright lies, and it takes a long time to trawl through it all.

had an Halal ‘kill’ because many of the countries into which the sheepmeat is exported wouldn’t buy it unless it carried that certification.

Until now that’s never been a drama, but if Fletchers’ stopped that practice, we could kiss goodbye to Dubbo’s largest private employer and hundreds of local jobs.

Lamb prices would also plummet, leaving farmers struggling through years of drought in an even more dire situation.

On the domestic front it’s a different story and it seems many certifiers have sniffed the easy money and popped their heads up.

Like any area of life where there’s money involved, there’ll be a percentage of charlatans out to make some easy dollars by scamming people and exploiting their fears and vulnerabilities.

There are claims money from Halal certification is being funnelled to terrorist groups, but the chances of proving that with a media decimated of resources range from slight to none.

Anyone wanting to send cash to terror mates could be doing that anyway, and if they have an Halal certifying sideline that could be said to be subsidising ter-

A still from PETA’s latest YouTube campaign “Here’s the Rest of your Wool Coat”. PHOTO: YOUTUBE/PETA

ror if the money all went into the same pot.

People I spoke to off the record suggested a number of solutions for calming the current problems, ranging from having a single domestic certifier through to establishing a federal government agency to do it independently, and at a single set fee to provide transparency.

The Muslim organisations should take a proactive lead on this; have a single certifying body charging a single price, both to create transparency and, for the Muslim community, take the wind out of the barrage of criticism this issue has inflamed.

Part of the problem is there’s just way too much information out there, much of it ranging from pretty average to downright lies, and it takes a long time to trawl through it all.

On one side you have the conservative news outlets, on the other is the ABC’s Fact Check, which seems hell-bent on single-handedly providing a left-wing balance to the dominant Murdoch newspapers’ hard right slant.

So we end up with emotion-charged debates with simplistic headlines and content and full of political point-scoring – all combining to take the considered detail and rational argument out of public policy making.

Any half decent, ethical reporters are generally too harried by scorched earth newsrooms, extra social media workloads for no extra pay and bean-counter bosses to do their jobs properly.

Most people don’t have time to wade through and analyse this mostly unbalanced information; others have already made up their minds and will agree with the media organisation they’re aligned with, depending on those already formed beliefs.

For all the benefits of this incredible age of free and instant information and the ability of anyone to express any opinion on anything at all, in many cases we’re literally back in the dark ages.

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Cruelling an industry that rides on the sheep’s back “My sister lives in Sydney and a lot of her friends don’t know about this kind of thing; it’s hard to expect them to know what the industry is.

“But it’s sad because it’s a beautiful industry.”

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

HEARING industry representatives in the local area have had a strong reaction to the latest campaign from animal rights activists PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), describing it as “something not worth giving oxygen to” and a “pile of crap”.

The video, which has been shared widely across social media, uses Adelaide musician Jona Weinhofen as the spokesperson to describe the so-called cruelty that occurs on farms and in shearing sheds across Australia. It’s labelled “Here’s the Rest of your Wool Coat”.

Graphic imagery, along with a fake lamb carcass, is used to highlight Weinhofen’s industry slaughter.

In the clip, the Californian-based I Killed the Prom Queen metal rocker describes Aussie farmers as “ranchers”.

As well as being vegan, Weinhofen abstains from wearing any products that come from animals, including leather, silk, and, of course, wool.

He advises viewers to never buy a product that contains wool “because now you know that it’s more than just a sweater or a coat: it’s painful, cruel, and heartbreaking”.

“Twenty-five percent of the world’s wool comes from Australia, and it’s made from 100 per cent cruelty,” he says during the clip.

A second video accompanies Weinhofen’s speech, which shows acts of cruelty allegedly taking place in various wool sheds. It was secretly filmed

by PETA in 19 sheds across three states.

At the end of that video, a spokesperson says “whatever you’re buying, read the label and if it says wool, leave it on the shelf”.

The cruelty of the campaign is that it is in turn cruelling an industry upon which the nation was built.

Federal agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce described it as a “load of rubbish”

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ARYVALE shearing contractor Jim Bourke has been shearing and mulesing for 27 years. He believes the campaign organisers have jumped to conclusions in its creation.

“Without trying to criticise PETA, I would say a lot of people involved in the campaign haven’t had anything to do with the actual industry.”

A statement to PETA from the Shearing Contractors’ Association of Australia said it was “appalled by the footage” while telling television media it was “completely misleading and a desperate, self-serving publicity stunt”.

WoolProducers Australia president Geoff Fisken said the behaviour shown in the video was “unacceptable and unsupportable” while a local Australian Wool Industry representative told Weekender this kind of story did not deserve oxygen.

A spokesperson for Shearing Supplies NSW in Dubbo said he had not heard any comments, positive or negative, about the issue.

In response to the backlash received over the story which has gone national, I Killed the Prom Queen posted a statement on social media this week: “We know farmers are hardworking and often dealing with ongoing financial and emotional hardships, but that doesn’t mean everyone should turn a blind eye to the cruel practices the animals have to cope with during their existence in the livestock industry.

“Of course this isn’t a product of farmers being vindictive or bad people at all, but merely because the animals involved are considered possessions to turn a profit, with maximum efficiency and minimal to no care for the physical or psychological wellbeing of the creatures, outside of those with an economic impact.”

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A still from PETA’s latest YouTube campaign “Here’s the Rest of your Wool Coat”. PHOTO: YOUTUBE/PETA

and a ‘pack of lies.’

Condobolin wool producer Nicole Leighton told Weekender: “This ad is a load of crap!

“I should have taken a video of our sheep being shorn today because they looked nothing like that! They’re happy and bouncing around after getting all of that weight of them.”

Yeoval farmer Matthew Philipson is also a former shearer and described the campaign as “scaremongering”.

“I can’t believe they go to such lengths to do stuff like this,” he said.

“It’s a load of crap. They make it all up. I don’t know how they are getting away with it.”

Philipson said PETA was maiming an industry that didn’t deserve it.

“There are good eggs and bad eggs in every industry – this kind of campaign

just makes it hard for all of us.

“It’s a great industry and the world can’t survive without it.”

Philipson said he was annoyed by how much the campaign video was repeated – with almost 25,000 shares on social media platform Facebook alone.

“The main thing that got me cranky was that the shearers were the ones sharing it when they should have just shut it down.”

He also pointed out that taking animals out of farming would shut down the industry.

“There’s not much left if you do. We can’t all be vegan. If you’re going to cruel one aspect of it, you’ll cruel the lot.”

Philipson believes there is a greater divide that’s more than a mountain range separating city from country and the respective industries of each area.

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Light Horse saddles up to re-ride history

BY JEN COWLEY EDITOR

T’S almost a century since 1917’s Battle of Beersheba brought the Australian Light Horse Regiment galloping into folklore, but the Light Horsemen’s place in the nation’s military history will not soon be forgotten.

As Anzac Day dawns across the country next weekend, marking 100 years since that fateful landing at Gallipoli, a 400-strong contingent of modern-day horsemen and women will don the iconic emu-feather adorned slouch hat and saddle up to pay tribute to the famed regiment and its place in Australia’s WWI efforts, including at Gallipoli.

Among those saddling up is Kerrie Martin who, with fellow Australian Light Horse rider Glenn Orman and their trusty steeds, will take part in Dubbo’s Anzac Day commemorations. The pair will spend an hour at the pre-Anzac Day evening camp-out, then take part in both the Dawn Service and the 11am parade.

It’s will be Martin’s debut in Dubbo, but the former Sydney woman is something of a veteran of the Australian Light Horse Association – a civilian, not-for-profit organisation the aim of which is to preserve the history and tradition of the Australian Light Horse, which hung up its saddle as a military outfit in 1942.

Martin has been involved with the Light Horse for the past 15 years, and is keen to continue that involvement – and to “recruit” like-minded history and horse buffs to establish a troop here in Dubbo.

“It’s a wonderful way to combine my love of Australian military history and my love of horses – it’s perfect to be able to put those together and do something for the community,” says Martin of the organisation that has around 400 riding members and 100 non-riding members across 15 troops nationwide.

“It’s a current day association that is the overarching body for the re-enactment troops that take part in commemorative activities. We’re not military – and most of our members are non-military, although it helps to have someone in the troop with a bit of military experience. We aim to keep as close to history as possible, but it’s more to simply commemorate and keep the history alive.”

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dition is the iconic emu-feather, long considered the distinguishing embellishment of the Light Horseman and inseparable from the legend, and both Martin and Orman will proudly sport the plumage when they mount up on Mortimer and Allenby (Martin’s horses) for this year’s commemorations in Dubbo.

Legend has it, according to the Australian War Memorial, that the emu feather enabled many a Light Horseman to mine a rich vein of humour. When asked by foreigners about the plume, the men would reply that they were, in fact “kangaroo feathers” – a term that’s become part of the national vernacular over the past century.

HILE it might look like a leisurely way to spend some time on horseback, being involved with the Australian Light Horse takes a significant commitment of both time and money, according to Martin.

“To outfit horse and rider in the basic gear, you’re looking at about $10,000. We have reproduction swords and saddles and other bits and pieces including the uniforms which are made to the WWI pattern. That’s before you buy a horse!”

And not just any horse, apparently – the steed needs to be bomb-proof, if you’ll pardon the expression.

“Exactly,” laughs Martin.

“The horse’s temperament

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needs to be exceptional. We do a lot of educational stuff at schools, and at nursing homes and things like that, and other commemorations might include simulated musket and cannon fire, so the horses need to be able to cope with that.”

Getting the horse to parade standard, says Martin, is a lengthy exercise. “You’re probably looking at a good 300-400 hours basic training – there’s a lot of groundwork.”

But the work is worth it, says the passionate historian.

“This year in particular is a very important commemoration. It’s special in a number of ways – so many lives were lost in WWI, and the conditions and the hardship were unimaginable.”

We aim to keep as close to history as possible, but it’s more to simply commemorate and keep the history alive.” – Kerrie Martin, from the Australian Light Horse Association, who will take part in next weekend’s Centenary of Anzac commemorations.

It’s not just the human cost of war that Martin says needs to be considered. Horses played a significant part in the war effort, particularly in terms of infantry and carrying supplies, and it’s here that her true passion lies – in paying homage to that equine effort.

“We have to remember that of all those horses, only one returned to Australia. One. Unfortunately the government of the day was worried, or so they said, about infection in and from returning horses, so it was only the highest ranking officer’s horse that came home to Australia. The rest were destroyed. It’s just one of those horrific facets of war that needs to be remembered.”

The horror of war as a whole, says Martin, needs to remain in the nation’s psyche.

“It’s important for children today to learn about war because they haven’t experienced it, and their parents may not have experienced it. And we are today reaping the benefits of the freedoms they fought for – but I think we still take it too much for granted.”

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More than just hot air During the Royal Australian Airforce hot air balloon’s “tour of duty” through the region last week, Weekender spoke with pilot Squadron Leader Damien Gilchrist, who has made a career out of this unique way to fly. WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Cowley QUADRON Leader Damien Gilchrist doesn’t fit the central casting mould of an air force pilot. There’s no Top Gun swagger, and this experienced pilot doesn’t feel any great need for speed.

In fact, for Gilchrist, it’s quite the reverse.

He’s a hot air balloon pilot for the Royal Australian Air Force, and although he’s done his fair share of fast jet flying, these days he’s just as happy floating quietly thought the dawn above the Australian countryside.

This week, Gilchrist was part of a RAAF contingent that spent a few days in Dubbo introducing locals to the peaceful magic of balloon flight – a gentle recruitment drive and promotional exercise for the air force.

The experienced pilot has been up in the air, so to speak, one way or another since he was a 17 year old growing up across the ditch in New Zealand.

Joining the air force might be many a youngster’s dream, but Gilchrist says he’s not your typical “born to fly” type.

“At different times throughout my childhood, I was interested in flying of course as most boys are. But when I got to about 17 years old, being in the air force looked like a really good option and, well, no-one ever said “no” – so there I was.

“I started off as most people do, on little propeller driven trainers then moved into jets for a few years which was pretty challenging. Most of my flying was with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. I joined the

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RAAF in 2001 – I’d come across from New Zealand on an exchange tour and ended up liking Australia just a bit too much! For most of my time in Australia, I was flying Hawks over at Perth, where most of the RAAF pilot training takes place, as an instructor at No.79 Squadron. I left to go take up a public service role, but stayed on as a reservist and that’s where I was introduced to ballooning.

“Then, about a year ago, the Air Force offered me the job full time, so now I’m back in uniform and looking after the balloon flight.”

Gilchrist agrees it’s a great way to earn a living.

“We get to go all ‘round the country – although we have to balance our time between commitments in Canberra and what we do right around regional Australia. “The main thrust is to get the balloon out into the regional and remote areas where the air force

It’s a unique way to fly. You have to be prepared to be quite flexible – you can’t just point and go where you want to go.

doesn’t otherwise go.”

Ballooning, he says, is vastly different to fixed wing flying, and while it comes with a different set of challenges, it’s a very rewarding way to take to the air.

“It’s a unique way to fly. You have to be prepared to be quite flexible – you can’t just point and go where you want to go. You can control it to some extent by observing the wind and planning your flight to the conditions you have, but it’s not as if you can wake up in the morning and say I’m going from A to B. You have to decide what A is and what B is after you’ve had a look at the conditions.”

As the world’s first form of aviation, Gilchrist says ballooning is something “we’ve had a handle on for a good 230 years now compared with only about 110 years of fixed wing flight”.

“Being at the mercy of the conditions, I guess you have to be more in touch with them – you have to be awake to what’s happening with the weather and ready to adjust your plan.”

When you say flying, most people think of wings and engines – but according to the affable pilot, a balloon is “basically an envelope filled with hot air with a basket attached that lifts you off the ground”.

Beyond promotional work, there’s not really a specific role for ballooning in the defence forces, although Gilchrist says that with the evolving nature of science and technology, he wouldn’t rule it out in the future.

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“Ballooning has a great utility in terms of promotions, but people are always coming up with new and novel ways to do their jobs, whether that’s in the military or elsewhere so you never know.”

He’s pleased with the way the regional tour has gone, and with the enthusiastic reception from locals in centres like Dubbo. The turn-out has been encouraging and that’s the object of the exercise, but it’s clear part of the reason for the success of the balloon’s “tours of duty” is Gilchrist’s passion for this particular mode of flight.

“It’s very peaceful when the conditions are right and while you do have to operate the burners off and on to make sure you stay airborne, it’s a really tranquil way to fly. It’s mostly done in the early mornings, so you’re up early before there’s much noise and before people are out of bed, but generally by the time you land people are stirring and looking up at you floating above their town.”

It’s one of the aspects of the job Gilchrist most enjoys.

“It’s very satisfying to be able to introduce people to the science of flight, and during a school visit or a community exercise like we’ve just done in Dubbo, you can bring people to a level of basic understanding. We conduct an outdoor classroom, if you like. By encouraging people to participate and knowing they then go away and share that knowledge, we have a common bond in understanding this strange form of aviation that’s actually really accessible.

“We get people’s attention, which then allows us to explain to them about what we’re doing.”

What they’re doing is in fact flying the flag – or the balloon, to be more precise – for the RAAF. The current tour of regional areas is designed to introduce people to the role of the air force and to promote this particular arm of the defence force as a potential career path.

As for the benefits and value of choosing such a career path, Gilchrist is the consummate salesman.

“Certainly in the beginning it can be an unusual experience for people coming into the structured environment of the air force, but at the age of 17-25, that structure is often what your need. It certainly offers a very clear and structured career path. After the first few months, depending on what trade you’re in within the air force, you can be going off to all kinds of places all over the world. And it’s not just about being a pilot – there are plumbers, electricians, photographers, public affairs personnel... People can bring a wealth of talent to the defence forces, which in turn can take them as far as they want to go.”

The defence forces might have the image of being male dominated but that’s no longer a reality.

According to Gilchrist, the RAAF would be “a much smaller force” if it were not for the input of women who are joining up on a daily basis.

“There are no restrictions on women joining the air-force, and it can be just as rewarding a career for a young woman.” » For further information on a career in the Royal Australian Air Force, go to http://www.defencejobs.gov.au/airforce

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The week’s top stories from around the region Compiled by NATALIE HOLMES

ATIONAL YOUTH WEEK has almost wrapped up for another year, with the city’s youth entertained and informed by a variety of sessions through the week. The event made a colourful entrance last Friday with a graffiti art workshop at the mural in Macquarie Street.

The workshop, hosted by Mission Australia and Basement Studios, featured professional graffiti artists who were on hand to show young people how to make an impression in an artistic way.

Dubbo City Council youth development officer Jason Yelverton said it was a suitable way to launch the program for 12 to 25 year olds. “The program was designed to have broad appeal and offer a mix of entertainment and educational activi-

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ties that young people will feel comfortable getting involved with,� he said.

This year’s Youth Week included a sexual health campaign, library activities, trivia night, sporting events and an outdoor cinema. “The youth week program is put together by youth organisations in Dubbo through their involvement in the Dubbo Youth Interagency,� Yelverton said. “Youth Week has really come into its own as the young people of Dubbo have shown a real sense of ownership over the program of events which is evident given the number of activities on offer. “We are very lucky to have so many organisations passionate about youth issues in Back, Kyristie Bollard, Willow Coe-Kennedy, Maddi Gaffney, Shannon Kassell, Sam Orth, front, Max Gaffney, Ashley Kassell at the graffiti art workshop held as part of Youth Week. PHOTO: ALEXANDRIA KELLY Dubbo.�

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Sowing window opened SOME farmers took the small window of opportunity to sow winter crops this week following last weekend’s rainfall across the district. With very little precipitation in the past few months, it was a chance to be seized, with the hope of follow-up rain in the near future. In Dubbo, 32mm fell across the Easter weekend, with more rain predicted this weekend.

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MEANWHILE, locust activity may have stalled with the onset of cooler autumn temperatures.

According to Central West Local Land Services senior biosecurity officer Rhett Robinson, locust activity is slowing with colder weather.

The focus now is on deterring spring hatchings. “We expect things to ramp up in spring, particularly those eggs laid after mid-March,� he said.

Landholders are encouraged to control any emerging locusts over the coming weeks and mark any known beds and talk to Local Land Services staff about monitoring and management. “This way we can check their viability leading up to spring and prepare accordingly,� Robinson said.

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A cool morning and warm day without too much wind provided perfect conditions for the spectacle on the local skyline.

Chefs on fire ahead of baking comp A TALENTED culinary duo from Dubbo RSL Memorial Club are ready to whip, bake and pipe their way to glory after making the finals of this year’s Chef’s Table competition.

Head Chef Sally Cornish and first year apprentice Brooke Stewart have beaten out a record number of club chefs from across the state to make the finals of this year’s competition.

In the finals round the chefs will have to serve up a delicious three course meal to 25 people, including three judges, while keeping the cost to less than $22 per person. They will also have to include a key ingredient in their mouthwatering menu, which this year is rosemary in honour of the Centenary of Anzac.

The 32 finalists will be judged on taste, presentation, preparation skills as well as their overall innovation and creativity.

ClubsNSW CEO Anthony Ball said that with this year being the Centenary of Anzac, it was appropriate to have rosemary as the key ingredient. “When deciding on the key ingredient, we thought it would be appropriate to use something that would give the chefs an opportunity to commemorate the Anzac legacy through food,� he said. “Having rosemary as the key ingredient will certainly be a challenge for the chefs because while

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Dubbo RSL head chef Sally Cornish and apprentice chef Brooke Stewart have made the finals for this year’s Chef’s Table competition. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE

you think of rosemary as a great addition to lamb, it’ll be interesting to see how creative these club chefs can be with it.

“Clubs are no longer all about schnitzel and chips. Increasingly we are seeing club food offerings rival some of the best restaurants in town – something we hope this competition will continue to foster.”

Finalist events will take place during May and June. The Dubbo RSL Memorial Club chefs will find out if they are winners at the Chef’s Table Awards Dinner at Revesby Workers’ Club on July 20.

Poultry tops the crop DUBBO’S David Geering has made his mark at the Sydney Royal Easter Show with his award-winning poultry.

Geering won the Best Standard Langshan Australian, male and female in various colours and classes as well as the Champion Standard Langshan Australian, Blue, Champion Standard Spanish Poultry Bantam – Breeding Trios and Champion Bantam Langshan Australian, Blue. He is a very successful poultry breeder who lives west of Dubbo.

Property stolen included three firearms consisting of an Akkar shotgun, Winchester rifle and a Ruger rifle.

Gun detected in luggage A GUN was detected in the luggage of a passenger set to fly from Dubbo to Sydney on Sunday.

Security staff made the discovery and seized the.22 calibre pistol and empty magazine when the 76-year-old man was checking in for his flight.

New health network system THE Western Primary Health Network is set to replace three Medicare Local

districts, covering a massive 70 per cent of the State from July onwards.

The Western and Far West Medicare Locals have put in a joint bid to run the network as part of a consortia with the Bila Muuji and Maari Maa Aboriginal Health Corporations.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service has put in a separate bid but has also offered in-principle support for several other applicants.

Federal health minister Sussan Ley said the Primary Health Networks would build on existing local expertise and the transition would be smooth.

“We’ve got careful provisions about transitions, so that people who were being included in services provided by Medicare Locals will transition to the new primary health networks,” she said.

“Our networks won’t be duplicating or providing services themselves, they’ll be working with the existing general practice, with the Aboriginal community health organisations, with allied health workers, community support and with mental health workers to actually make that difference.”

Mayor crashes out of MTB race DUBBO mayor Mathew Dickerson might be in need of the new health network following a recent accident. Dickerson crashed out of the Evocities MTB Series race in Sydney last weekend after falling off his bike. He suffered three fractured vertebrae in his back, as well as injuring the AC joint in his shoulder and needing four stitches in his right ear.

The Mayor spent Monday night in Liv-

Firearm theft at Rawsonville RURAL investigators from Orana Local Area Command are appealing for public assistance following the theft of three firearms from a house in Rawsonville, near Dubbo this week.

Overnight on April 7, a break and enter occurred at a house on Rawsonville Bridge Road when the occupants were asleep.

The Western Primary Health Network is set to replace three Medicare Local districts, covering a massive 70 per cent of the State from July onwards.

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More awards for zoo THE staff at Taronga Western Plains Zoo will have to clear some space in an already brimming trophy cabinet after picking up two new gongs at the Australian Tourism Awards in Adelaide last Friday. The zoo crew took home a silver award for Best Attraction and a bronze for Unique Accommodation at the gala ceremony.

The zoo’s general manager Matthew Fuller said it was the local facility’s second year as a finalist at the national event.

Just to be a finalist in these two categories is a great achievement.

“To bring home silver and bronze awards is a fantastic result,” he said.

Leading the region’s young people A REGIONAL project designed to inspire school students about the world of work is making promising progress.

The Work Inspiration project, initiated by Regional Development Australia (RDA) Orana is helping to create strong partnerships with schools and employers in order to provide students with an insight into the world of work.

A number of employers met with Dubbo College and Dubbo School of Distance Education to discuss how the program would be implemented by the schools and employers within each workplace. During Term 2, Year 10 students from Dubbo College will learn about career path opportunities and hear about employees’ career journeys.

The students will also participate in Work Inspiration programs with local businesses RDA Orana CEO Felicity Taylor-Edwards said one of the key findings from regional workforce research was that many young people are not practically ready for the labour market once they leave school “Work Inspiration is a strategic project, aimed at inspiring young students and assisting them in their transition from school into the workforce.

“It is great to see this opportunity being embraced by local schools and employers. I During the program, students will have the opportunity to assess their own skills, learn about various career opportunities and recognise how each role fits into a workplace. They will also be grouped with employees in order to research specific career paths, and will have the chance to create their own networks within the employment world.

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so are Maggi’s Two Minute Noodles and I highly doubt their priority involves funding terrorism. It’s a commercial decision that appeals to Halal observing Muslims.

Suck on those Halal certified apples, Pauline.

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Hateful Halal hullabaloo SEEMS Pauline Hanson is at it again. The One Nation leader, founder and all-round idiot recently told the Today program (in an expert example of tautology) that the halal certification was a “profit money-making racket”.

Hanson then went on to make claims that explicitly link the certification to terrorism. According to ol’ Pauline, companies that get products halal certified fund terrorism.

Halal is Arabic for “permissible” – very simply, the certification ensures the food does not contain alcohol, pig meat, meat of an animal that has died of natural causes or blood in liquid form.

Vegemite is Halal certified,

ANNUAL hipster gathering and music festival Splendour in the Grass released its lineup this week and well, it’s not that impressive.

Blur, Mark Ronson and Florence and the Machine have been named as headliners in comparison with last year’s Outkast and Lily Allen and previously Mumford and Sons and Lorde.

Go ahead and douse me in your kale chips and soy lattes but for the country’s largest winter music festival with a 30,000 strong audience that costs poor university students and dole bludgers literally hundreds in tax-payer dosh, I think we deserve a bit better, don’t you? Or at least rename it, “Moderate amount of musical fun in the Grass”.

Dirty tourism TWO sides of an age old argument have resurfaced with a new twist after Spanish photographer David Rengel slammed tourists for engaging in “dirty tourism” by tak-

ing photos of children at Siem Reap’s Anlong Pi dumpsite in Cambodia.

According to an article in the Phonm Penh Post, Dutch photographer Michael Klinkhamer says photojournalists are “hypocritical” in claiming a higher moral ground over amateurs. He says the accused tourists are in fact engaging in a form of citizen journalism.

Admittedly I agree with photojournalist Thomas Cristofoletti when he says he doesn’t find enjoyment out of people’s suffering and can’t understand why people would pay for such an experience.

With so many ethical dilemmas it’s tricky and often dangerous, with blurred lines between legitimate reportage and exploitation. Something to think about next time you’re in a poverty stricken environment taking photos of brighteyed kids with

dirty faces.

The best of it... and the worst JOB search website CareerCast.com released an annual list of the worst jobs of 2015 and “newspaper reporter” is number one.

Now I might show slight bias, but personally I can think of a few things a lot worse than being a journalist.

In fact, three out of the ten worst jobs of this year are communications-based: newspaper reporter (1), broadcaster (5) and photojournalist (6). No surprises with corrections officer (7) or taxi driver (8) considering the ranking is based on “income, outlook, environmental factors, stress and physical demands”.

Good news for numbers people p p – the top p ten best jjobs of the year include actuary (1), mathematician (3) and statistician (4).

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident who knows when to fold ‘em.

The lure of riches turns this miser’s mind to immortality SELDOM gamble.

It just seems like voluntary taxation. There’s a reason casinos are gaudy monstrosities that can make their own rules, like ejecting people who win too much and fawning over organised crime figures.

Plus, I’m a miser. I lost $80 playing two-up one year and the thought still brings tears to my eyes.

But mindful of god’s reply to the guy who was moaning about never winning the lottery (“Is it too much to ask that you at least buy a ticket, already?”) I bought a ticket already.

It was in the big Lotto draw a couple of weeks back and I guess I suspected I wouldn’t win a razoo, but you gotta be in it to win it, right?

And somebody has to win, because somebody always does and their odds are no better than mine.

The downside is those odds are also about the same as the likelihood of me winning the Melbourne Cup in a possum fur onesie.

But the act of buying the ticket got me day-dreaming: the “what ifs” started falling like rain.

What if I win $500 – better than a slap in the guts with a wet fish.

Or why not $5000? Or even $50,000? It’s not probable, but it’s possible.

What would I do with it?

Suddenly options fanned in front of me like a massive mental blackjack grid.

Ditch the family and go on a two-week bender? Or ditch the family and go on an eightweek bender?

Before I knew it I had what I understood to be the gam-

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bler’s fizz, the creeping elation at the elicit thought of what might be.

I could give some to my longsuffering parents, for whom I suspect I have always been considered a high-functioning imbecile, who could otherwise never hope to help out financially without selling my organs.

With $500,000 I could invest, with $5million I could follow a dream.

As I walked to the newsagent to check my results suddenly it was as if the shingles of statistical reality fell from my eyes to reveal the gleaming brilliance of possibility.

The fizz became a rising sense of euphoria – I could sense golden good fortune washing over me in anticipation of this rare blessing, being singled out by a silver lining after what seemed a lifetime under a persistent

black cloud.

The footpath blurred underneath my feet as my mind gaped at the limitlessness of possibility.

What if I go in there and the kid in the newsagent says I’ve won 10 million? Or the whole 21 million!

Or there’s been some glitch and I stand to get 21 billion instead.

I’d be rich enough to make Aztec royalty look like malnourished Dickensian chimney sweeps by comparison.

And as a result somehow England’s crown jewels all get melted down into a single ingot and fortuitously delivered to my door.

Who knows? Putin might give me the Caucasus oil fields and a dozen Faberge eggs, just as the global blue-chip stocks start inexplicably swirling into my possession.

That would be beyond probability, and so having transcended the feeble bounds of what’s likely, would I not then have effectively slipped the very bonds of reality itself?

The boundaries of financial acquisition would lie like broken brittle chains at my feet as my gargantuan wealth accumulated at ever-escalating speed, making me a sort of fiscal vortex, wealthy and powerful beyond belief!

I’d be virtually superhuman,

a superior power that bordered on demi-god status – I’d effectively be an immortal supreme being, astride the universe, divine and omnipresent – the godhead other gods worship!

“Nothing,” the kid at the newsagent said after checking my ticket.

“Not a razoo?” I said.

“Nope, nothing,” he said, handing the ticket back.

I walked out of the newsagent as sheepish as New Zealand’s GDP: still mortal, fallible and broke.

It was probably for the best in the end, though I don’t really think the money would have changed me.

I’d be rich enough to make Aztec royalty look like malnourished Dickensian chimney sweeps by comparison.

New clue suggests ‘dark matter’ isn’t just sitting around doing nothing

2015 SPACE LIFE

PARIS: Scientists say they have found tantalising evidence suggesting “dark matter” – the mysterious substance believed to comprise most of the Universe’s mass – may be more dynamic than thought.

Theorised by physicists back in the 1930s, dark matter cannot be seen by telescopes, and its existence is inferred indirectly, through its gravitational effects on visible matter.

Calculations based on the Standard Model of cosmology suggest it accounts for nearly 85 per cent of

the mass in the Universe, stretching out in clumpy tendrils that enfold galaxies.

But until now, that was pretty much all we knew, said Richard Massey, an astrophysicist at Durham University in England, who led the new study.

“Everything that we’ve known about dark matter until now is that it sits around doing nothing, affects the Universe around it but doesn’t do anything else,” he said in an interview with AFP. “We’ve found for the first time that

it may have more tricks up its sleeve – it might be affecting things around it in other ways, through other forces.”

The evidence comes from a unique chance, using the US Hubble orbital telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.

Together, the two high-powered facilities viewed the simultaneous collision of four distant galaxies at the centre of a galaxy cluster a very distant 1.3 billion light years from Earth.

What grabbed the astronomers’

attention was that one dark matter clump seemed to be lagging behind the galaxy it surrounds.

What the interaction is remains unclear – it could be a well-known force or something exotic, but it is clearly not gravity.

Massey admitted that the discovery only slightly moved the needle when it came to learning more about dark matter.

But it did validate a theoretical pathway about the enigmatic stuff.

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From Gallipoli, A Dubbo son’s In the fourth of Weekender’s five part series of excerpts from “letters home”, young Dubbo born and raised soldier, John Henry “Jack” Reid, takes his fateful first steps onto the shores of Gallipoli – helping to forge what is perhaps our nation’s most culturally significant event in the theatre of war. As we prepare to mark 100 years since that fateful landing at Anzac Cove, Jack’s letters help give us an insight into what hell those young diggers faced on April 25, 1915.

“Under heavy fire ...”

N the dawn of April 25, 1915, Jack stepped ashore at Gallipoli and walked into the history books. Just 36 hours later, a Turkish bullet found its mark, wounding the young Dubbo soldier.

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May, 2015 O-DAY I sent you a cablegram, stating that I’m slightly wounded and progressing favourably in hospital, for I know you will be anxious to learn how I fared as soon as you heard that the Australians were in action at the Dardanelles.

Well, I’ve had the experience of real fighting and of being under heavy fire, and I find that it is much pleasanter to be recalling those experience here in safety than being exposed to shrapnel and machine-guns.

On Saturday, April 24, the troopships weighed anchor and steamed from Port Muros the north of Limnos Island. This move was to mislead the enemy as to our intended landing operations, for they were watching and waiting for us. We had everything in readiness. Each man earned 200 rounds of ammunition and rations for three days, which, together with the pack, made an approximate weight of 50lbs.

Early on Sunday morning the troop ships, covered by a line of battleships, arrived off the appointed landing place. At 4.30 am the first shots from the warships fell on the Turkish positions, and awakened us all.

We were soon up on deck. It was most exciting.

We would see a flash of flame from the side of a warship, hear the accompanying boom, and then see the shell explode amid a shower of sparks on the Turkish positions upon the top of a ridge.

It was most interesting to watch and the semidarkness made the display rather spectacular.

The Turkish reply was feeble; their shots fell short and raised a splash some distance away from our ships. The troops remained calm and cheerful, and sallies were freely exchanged. As a shell would burst, some way would call out, “Another doll over.”

We made a good breakfast and then prepared to leave the ship. The Third Brigade landed first, and they had the difficult task of driving the Turks back from the shore – a feat which they did successfully at the point of the bayonet, so that we had a comparatively easy landing.

At 7 am we left our troopship and went aboard

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a torpedo boat, which took us to within a few hundred yards of the shore. Here we transhipped again into small boats and were towed into the shallow water by a naval pinnace.

We pulled in as close as we could, and then jumped over the side and waded onto the beach.

All this time the Turks were bursting shrapnel shells overhead, but their range was faulty and most of them

Shrapnel shells screeched over our heads, and bursting with a loud report, scattered their contents with dull thuds all around us. It seemed that every square foot of country was hit.

splashed harmlessly into the water. Our warships covered the landing operations with a persistent bombardment and it was grand to see the way one of the battleships stood right in to the shore and at close range silenced a fort on our left, while the Queen Elizabeth spoke effectively some miles away. Hydroplanes sped overhead and gave the range to the naval gunners and from a captive balloon sent up from a supply ship the effect of the fire was signalled.

As soon as the 1st Battalion was ashore we fell in our companies and the order came for us to reinforce the Third Brigade, which had by this time driven the enemy some distance inland. Each man carried an extra, such as a waterbag, pick, shovel, or sandbags, for entrenching purposes. Our company (B) led the way to the firing line, and we had a stiff climb up steep, sandy bluffs.

How the Third Brigade charged up here and drove the Turks back surprised us as we followed on, and its accomplishment must stand as a great military feat.

Half-way up we were obliged to take off our packs and leave them behind. We advanced in single file down the

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with love letters home

Jack Reid

I called out, “It is the end; goodbye Les.” Thoughts of home and friends crowded into my brain, and, strange to say, the thought occurred to me that by dying then I left my life incomplete. side of a gully and up the other side.

The bullets were now whistling overhead and things were anything but comfortable, though nobody showed any signs of fear.

We paused below the ridge to recover our breath and then dashed over the sky line and took up our position on the right flank of the firing line, which we reached about 10 am.

We had to lie in the open facing a stretch of country, with low scrub and bushes, rather similar to an Australian bush-scape. Our cover consisted of plants scarcely a foot high and we were exposed to a terrific fire – I shall never forget it.

Shrapnel shells screeched over our heads, and bursting with a loud report, scattered their contents with dull thuds all around us. It seemed that every square foot of country was hit.

Then machine-guns would rattle out a hail of lead, and the bullets seemed to fairly whistle round our ears. The feeling is akin to that experienced by a small boy, who, having disturbed a wasps’ nest, brings those fiery insects in a fury about his head. The enemy outnumbered us in machine-guns, and we were at a further disadvantage in having no battery with which to reply to their shrapnel.

For a long time we could not get a glimpse of the Turks, and to make things worse we were getting a heavy enfilading fire from the left. At last we got the range, 600 half-left, and a heavy rifle duel was kept up all day.

In the afternoon the navy began a heavy bombardment, and added tremendous thunder-like peals to the noise of battle. They fired over our heads on

to the Turkish guns, and seemed to blow the very tops off the hills.

We were situated in the centre of the fighting line and held the one position all day, but attacks and counter-attacks were being made from either flank, and at times we had to withhold our fire for fear of hitting our own men.

The Australians acted magnificently, and though getting the worst of it at first, remained remarkably cool. As a machine-gun section would be put out of action others would readily volunteer to take their place and as a shrapnel shell burst some wit was tempted to say, “I believe there’s a war on.”

Another passed a remark about “Turkish Delight’ – but it was being served redhot. Messages were frequently passed down the line asking for stretcher-bearers, but it was to commit suicide for the Red Cross to go into the firing line.

Men were being hit round about me ‘til the afternoon the uncertainty of when my own turn would come was almost unbearable, and I can tell you I offered up a silent prayer.

It seemed as if the sun would never set. Late in the afternoon our position was repeatedly peppered with shrapnel.

A piece tore a hole through the side of my boot, and passed into the sole without touching my foot, while a poor fellow alongside me was hit twice and fatally wounded.

Our platoon commander was hit in the arm and leg and was compelled to retire. Our Company suffered heavily.

Captain McGuire, the OC was killed; the four platoon commanders wounded, all the sergeants disabled, and many of the men wounded. There was a short lull in the fighting, at the close of the day,

and we immediately began to entrench ourselves.

ES (Dinning) and I had been separated all day, and we now got together. Les had received a bullet right through his upper arm so I bandaged it for him. Fortunately for me, I survived the first day without as much as a scratch. We dug a hole with our entrenching tools and stuck to it through the night. The Turks advanced as close as 20 or 30 yards to our trench. It was that dark that we could only locate them by the flash from the muzzles of their rifles, and when they got close enough we drove them back with the bayonet, and inflicted heavy losses on them.

Daylight brought a repetition of the previous day’s fighting, and we were strengthened by reinforcements and a battery of the field artillery. The various battalions were now hopelessly mixed, and the loss of officers was being badly felt. Sergeants would send messages down the line asking for instruction but we stuck to our positions, and there were no retirements made.

About 5 o’clock on Monday afternoon reinforcements were asked for on the left flank. So Les and I, with a number of others, went round and an officer led us to a point where the Turks were making a special effort to break through.

We had scarcely knelt down behind some bushes when I was shot – the bullet passing through the right side of my head above the ear, and towards the back of the head.

It was accompanied by no pain, and I did not lose consciousness. The blood flowed freely. I was breathing heavily, and was prepared to give up the ghost. I

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called out, “It is the end; goodbye Les.” Thoughts of home and friends crowded into my brain, and, strange to say, the thought occurred to me that by dying then I left my life incomplete.

There seemed to be too big a break between this barren peninsula and home.

Les came over immediately and applied my field dressing and although I was insisting that it was no use, he put my arm round his neck and carried me back.

Bullets were still whistling about us, so we dropped down behind a bush.

Les then took off one of my puttees and wound it round my head. I was feeling a bit groggy, but managed to keep on my feet. We went down a gully towards the beach, where a hospital base had been established. We met one of the Red Cross corps, and he bound my head afresh.

The fact that I remained conscious was reassuring and I began to think that while there was life there was hope.

On reaching the base a doctor dressed my head, and I was given Bovril to drink.

The wounded were being taken from here in naval boats to the troopships.

As I said goodbye to Les and left him to return to the fighting, I felt as if I were deserting him.

He had undoubtedly saved my life by his promptness in rendering first-aid, and in getting me to the base quickly, and by doing which he had risked his own life.

I pray to God that he may be protected from the dangers of the battlefield, for he deserves it.

» Next week... As Jack recovers in hospital, his thoughts remain with his mates, and with Les in particular.

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Anzac’s dark history

Joe Flick’s grandfather Michael was a WWI ANZAC who fought on the battle fields of France. Knee deep in mud and bodies, dodging machine gun fire and poisonous gas, every man had stood equal; every sacrifice the same. There were no tickertape parades once back home however, just the worn out welcome mat of prejudice and hypocrisy, as if nothing had changed. But it had. Michael’s story has tapped Joe on the shoulder for decades as if asking to give Indigenous ANZACs the welcome home they deserve.

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Joe Flick, grandson of Friday 17.04.2015 to Sunday 19.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender Michael Flick, who joined the ANZACs in 1916

didn’t know what happened to them after, but obviously they weren’t allowed inside (the RSL),” Flick says.

“I didn’t really understand the discrimination (indigenous soldiers) were faced with when they got back home, until years later.

“I knew in Collarenebri that Pop’s children could not go to school because they were black; he had to sit in a different part of the picture theatre because he was black, had to drink in a different part of the hotel, as it was known then “the blacks bar”, and was not allowed in the RSL Club or to become a member of the RSL club... even though he’d served.”

Aboriginal diggers were also denied parcels of land given to returned WWI soldiers through the government’s Soldier’s Settlement Scheme.

Some came home from war to find their children had been taken away or if they didn’t make it, their war widows met the same fate. Upon dying their entitlement to a plaque from the Department of Foreign Affairs was denied, in some cases their pay was withheld and, in possibly the greatest slight to their memories, their names were omitted from war memorials across Australia.

Imagine, on the centenary of Gallipoli, if all the soldiers who died or

fought there had their names erased; dismissed for some reason, as unworthy of remembrance.

At this historic juncture that idea is sacrilegious but if you find that thought repugnant then you’ll know the depth of hurt and resentment indigenous soldiers felt or the degree to which descendants’ pride in their grandparents’ roles, as far as the First Boer War, is tainted.

ICHAEL Flick’s journey from far western NSW to a bloody house-to-house battle on the Western Front in France, against Germans seeking control of a village called Villers-Brettoneux which cost 2400 Australian lives, reads no differently to any other soldier sent to the horrors of the front for King and country.

“Michael Flick joined the Australian Imperial Forces, (AIF), in the First World War in 1916. He came off a property around near Collarenebri.

There are two family stories – where he rode a horse to Narrabri which is about 100 kilometres or that he actually walked there to join up. That was the local recruiting depot,” says Flick the grandson.

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Pop’s children could not go to school because they were black, he had to sit in a different part of the picture theatre because he was black, ... and was not allowed in the RSL Club or to become a member of the RSL club... even though he’d served. helmet with a dent in it where a bullet had ricocheted off the top, a 303 rifle and a machine gun. I remember playing with this machine gun. We lived on a 10 acre block which had a couple of little gullies and we’d be running around playing cowboys and Indians and using his gun.

“Then he passed away when I was probably about five or six so I didn’t have a real lot to do with him but over the years I have kept asking questions.”

In his searching, Flick found a paper by David Huggonson called Too Dark for the Light Horse, which talked about Aboriginal soldiers.

“In there was a letter from a man called Charles Collett who served with my Pop and he spoke about him, saying he was a great man, a good tracker, a good athlete and a good

soldier; a friend you’d want in the trenches, those sorts of things,” he says fondly.

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“A number of years had passed and I thought I’ll just ring up directories and see if there’s anyone at this address. A lady answered the phone, it was in about 1995, and I told her who I was and she said, “Would you like to talk to Dad? “I said, “Is he still alive?” and she said, “Yes, he’s here.” I think he was about 98 at the time so he got on the phone and we was as bright as a »

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George Combo, an indigenous ANZAC from Collarenebri who shipped out to the Western Front in 1916 with Michael Flick.

button. He knew about Pop, talked about the Somme, France and knew about Villers-Brittoneux.

“The next year I went and visited him on his 99th birthday and took my dad, and my aunty and another sister, so we made that connection.

“I also remember going to his 100th birthday. He passed away when he was 101 and we went to his funeral. It was just one of those things, I don’t know, maybe it was fate, he’d stayed around long enough for us to meet. I look back and it was just incredible,” says a teary-eyed Flick.

Charles Collett also had a property at Wee Waa, between Collarenebri and Narrabri and it’s very likely Michael worked in the area, only 60 odd kilometres away.

“But the last time they saw each other was on the battle fields of France,” says Flick solemnly.

NSPIRED by meeting a man who recalled his Anzac grandfather with respect and grace, Flick was encouraged to put together more information on Aboriginal soldiers. Then came an invitation to attend an Anzac Day ceremony at the French embassy in Canberra.

“The ambassador wanted me to put up a display in the embassy and I did that. Then out the front at the service he mentioned Aboriginal soldiers and I think it’s one of the first times I’d heard that in the company that he had – An admiral from the US navy and politicians – and I was thinking this is incredible,” Flick recalls.

“Two years ago, involved with rugby league, the guys were taking a group of young fellows over to France for a rugby league tour and said I’d love to go. We were down the south of France and it was the 10th of November and I said, “Tomorrow’s Remembrance Day, so we need to do something.

“We were at this little place, a bit like Burrendong sports camp. I’d taken a couple of books, one called the

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Frontier Wars and another one about a couple of brothers from Tasmania who’d served in the First World War, and I was reading them.

“We needed an Australian Flag and we rounded up one from someone there,” Flick says. “We were carrying an Aboriginal flag with us and the French people at the sport camp had a French flag. So we had those three.

“There was another guy Mick ‘Poppy’ Barlow, who’s a Vietnam veteran, so at about a quarter to 11 o’clock we invited the staff to come out and told them what it was about. I read a short passage and Mick did the ode. We didn’t have a bugle so one of the boys played the didge.”

Flick’s eyes glass over.

“It was really great.

“A couple of days later I knew we were going up to the battle fields but didn’t know whereabouts and we’re heading up there, turned a corner and the sign said Villers-Brettoneux and I thought, “This is where my granddad had served...””

Flick chokes on the words. “I was gone.”

The group was taken to the Franco-Australien Museum where Flick discovered a small display on Aboriginal soldiers and a welcome to return should he ever wish to expand it.

“Last year I was saying I’ve got to get back there.

I contacted Brendan Nelson at the War Memorial in Canberra and got some details and said I’d love to take some books on Aboriginal soldiers, and they gave me a heap of books. I wanted to take a slouch hat and I got a didgeridoo from the company I was working for.

“I thought I was a world traveller,” he laughs. “I’d been over there once before and could speak hello and goodbye and hot chocolate. I found my way my around and I remember I was carrying the hat because I didn’t want to bend it and I had about 20 kilos of books on my back, carrying this didgeridoo and walking through a train station in Paris.

School children in Victoria raised money in the 1920s to send over to help them and when you go into the school there’s a big sign in the playground in lettering about a foot high that says DO NOT FORGET AUSTRALIA and the kids see it every day.

“I stayed with a family in Villers-Brettoneux. They absolutely looked after me. I spoke to a couple of the schools and gave them a bit of a history lesson and left them with some of the books. Villers-Brettoneux loves Australia, absolutely loves Australia,” Flick says.

“There’s a Melbourne pub, one of the schools is the Victoria School, there’s so many different street signs, all about Australia particularly after Victoria or Melbourne because after the First World War a battalion or a number of people from Victoria who served there helped them rebuild the village.

“School children in Victoria raised money in the 1920s to send over to help them and when you go into the school there’s a big sign in the playground in lettering about a foot high that says DO NOT FORGET AUSTRALIA and the kids see it every day.”

Last year, he made the trek by himself and made contact with the Mayor of Villers-Brettoneux, who invited Flick to be his guest for Remembrance Day, where he and the mayor together laid a wreath at the service.

“Acouple of days later he came out here when the G20 was on and met up with the French President. He bought some soil from the war cemetery, from VillersBrittoneux, to plant an Oak tree in Canberra.”

S Flick’s connections expand and his quest is embraced by the right people, his research reveals more forgotten stories creating new reasons for pride, but he’s empathetic to the long-harboured resentment.

“Going back a number of years ago I used to write off to government agencies, I wanted this or that, and they’d say, “it doesn’t fit the criteria”. You just look at them and wonder what they would say to my old grandfather when he’d signed up.

“Would they say “thanks Mick, you’re going to go over there, some of your mates are going get wounded, gassed or die over there or and not going to make it back to Collie”?

“Would they say, “When you come back to Australia well your kids won’t be allowed to go to school, you’re not allowed to drink in a certain part of the pub, not allowed to be seen on this side of the street; you won’t get any soldiers settlement blocks and by the way when your grandson asks in 100 years time, for some money to go and pay respect to those blokes we’re not going to give him anything anyway, but thanks for serving and to your mates who gave their lives”?

“I sit there sometimes and think geez ... you know.”

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When John Diggelman set off to serve on the Western Front during World War I, little did he know his descendants would follow in his footsteps in significant war efforts in World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Veteran Allan Diggelman told Weekender his family’s fascinating story. WORDS Natalie Holmes RGANISING a concert with an ANZAC theme became a very personal journey for Ballimore man Allan Diggelman, who retraced the military steps of both his father and grandfather.

Together, they represent three generations of returned servicemen, each serving their country in different wars.

Diggelman’s mother Heather also served in World War II although he doesn’t know in what capacity as she never spoke of her experiences. He has a nephew in the Navy and two nieces and a nephew who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“People have said to me, you all must be war-mongers, but I say no, we are just proud Australians,” he says.

As a member of the Harmony Singers choir in Dubbo, Diggelman says the idea to stage an ANZAC concert to coincide with the centenary of the Gallipoli landings in 1915 came mid-way through last year.

Through the songs of each era, Diggelman’s own family story will be honoured along with Australia’s military history. His Navy buddy and NSW RSL president Peter Stephenson OAM will also be a special guest at the event.

“But I didn’t want it to be about me; it’s a remembrance concert.”

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IGGELMAN’S grandfather Johann (John) will be one of the diggers remembered at the event. The son of European immigrants, the young Aussie went off to fight in World War I. As they were farmers, initially he didn’t join the war effort.

“Primary producers were asked to remain on the land in order to supply food for the soldiers. But when France suffered major losses, they called on all ablebodied men to fight. They needed as many as they could get. More people were killed in France than Gallipoli.”

At age 29, Johann joined the Australian Defence Force along with his two brothers, Eugene and William.

They were all injured by gunshot wounds but survived, and were sent to England before returning to Australia.

The irony of their war service was that, while they were serving their country in Europe, their parents were kicked off their land back home.

“Because they were born in Europe (of Swiss and German heritage) they were still classed as enemies of

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the crown,” Diggelman explains.

But when their sons returned from war, they were able to reclaim the land as part of their Soldier’s Settlement.

Johann went on to have children, one of them being Diggelman’s father.

However, he grew up not knowing his dad.

“He disappeared after my father and aunty were born. My father believed he died when he was a little boy.”

Many years later, when Diggelman’s own daughter Cassie was born, they found out the truth.

“He had moved away from Ardlethan, changed his name and worked on the Snowy Hydro Scheme. In 1971, we discovered that he had died a couple of years previously. My dad was devastated.”

Johann was buried in an unmarked grave in Melbourne and his grandson ensured he was honoured with a military headstone.

His dad Allan also served, joining the Volunteer Forces and moving to the Northern Territory during World War II. “He was attached to the last of the Lighthorse Brigade, breaking horses,” Diggelman explains, adding that the Volunteer Forces were much like the Army Reserves.

When the Lighthorse Brigade was disbanded, Allan joined the 2/24th transport unit, and moved to Atherton, Qld. “He was in the Volunteer Forces infantry and ended up in New Guinea on the frontline.”

Allan was one of the drivers responsible for transporting soldier supplies and equipment. It was a dangerous task.

“There was just the driver and no-one else so one hit from the enemy and they would be gone.”

Diggelman says his dad was reserved about that time in his life.

“He never spoke much about the war but he was a

People have said to me, you all must be war-mongers, but I say no, we are just proud Australians.

dedicated returned serviceman and never missed a march in his life.”

From the age of eight, Diggelman was there marching alongside his father just as his own daughter would march alongside him years later.

“I marched with Dad whenever I could and tried every year to get back. I wore his medals to Remembrance Day when he died. Cassie would also march beside me after that wearing his medals so he was still beside me in a way.”

T 16, his own military service began when he sailed off to join the Navy.

“I grew up on the coast and loved the water.

Then I left school at 14. I worked in a fish and chip shop for a while but I wanted something that was more substantial.”

Diggelman’s parents supported the move.

“I never said anything to Mum and Dad; I just brought the paperwork home.” Admitting to being a bit of a wild child, Diggelman says his parents “nearly killed each other to sign the form” to get him into the Navy, a service that offered both security and discipline.

Pretty soon, the teenager had embarked on what he expected to be the adventure of a lifetime.

“I joined in Sydney and then went to Melbourne and Adelaide, then across the Nullabor by rail to Perth. Prior to that, the longest trip I’d been on was to Coffs Harbour. I had a sleeper cabin over the desert. To this day, it’s still one of my fondest memories.”

That all changed a year later.

“I turned 17 in March 1968, by June, I was on a ship to Vietnam.”

Nine months shy of his 18th birthday, when he would be officially classed as an adult, the youngster boarded the HMAS Sydney, which was referred to as the Vung Tau Ferry.

Diggelman explains that their role in the war was in logistics and support.

“We took soldiers, equipment, heavy machinery such as tanks and vehicles and ammunition.

Sadly, the experience would haunt Diggelman for many years to come.

“Going over, the soldiers were all young and enthusiastic and it was a very social atmosphere. We would play volleyball and have boxing tournaments and the » crossing the line ceremony.

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Allan Diggelman proudly wears his own medals alongside those of his father and reproductions of those belonging to his grandfather.

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Allan with his father (Allan).

Leeuwin 1967: Allan is pictured in the back row, second from right.

Going over, the soldiers were all young and enthusiastic and it was a very social atmosphere...Coming back, they just sat in the corner by themselves. It was awful.

“Coming back, they just sat in the corner by themselves. It was awful.”

Because of people who opposed the Vietnam War on home shores, the war veterans were not even offered a homecoming after fighting for their country.

“We had to sneak them in because of all the protests in Australia,” Diggelman explains.

“They weren’t allowed to wear uniform and had to be camouflaged in civilian clothing to fit in with the hippies of the late ‘60s.”

They, Diggelman included, were called baby killers by their fellow Australians, were spat at, and had pieces of fruit thrown at them.

“We were actually helping to rebuild villages not destroy them.”

Life was not any easier back in home territory.

Moored near Garden Island, the naval officers had to have tight security to avoid being attacked by Australian citizens.

“We had to do patrols all the time and we even had three bomb threats in one day.”

Diggelman suffered greatly following his service and there is still a hint of bitterness in his voice when describing that time.

“Our own government did nothing about the protestors. Then it was 17 years after the war that they had a welcome home. I didn’t go.

“I left the Navy in 1986 but from 1968 to 1998, I was not recognised as a returned serviceman, it made me angry. We were there to serve our country, not glorify war.”

OW in his 60s, Diggelman runs a blinds and awnings business, with those war years far behind him.

He has been performing as a bass baritone with the Harmony Singers for the past nine years and is looking forward to this Sunday’s concert which will honour all returned military personnel, past and present.

“Every concert has been good, but none with this much meaning,” he says, his voice quavering with emotion.

Diggelman’s role this weekend will be as MC as well as performing various songs with the choir as well as a solo effort “It will be very emotional but I’m also very proud.”

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LORD AND MASTER He’s travelled the world leaving little pieces of his heart with the friends he’s made over the years, but it’s to the land on which he was born and raised that Sab Lord keeps coming back. He’s something of a legend in the Top End, having carved a niche as one of the Territory’s best known tourist operators and while life hasn’t been easy, there’s no doubt this former Dubbo lad is master of his own destiny. WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Cowley E’RE both sporting a few more lines and a few extra kilos, but in the 35 years I’ve known him, Sab Lord hasn’t changed much at all. His eyes still flash with mischief, he’s as ready as ever to voice his opinions, and a passion for his beloved rugby has deepened even though his playing days are long gone. He’s still fond of a beer, still loves a party and has never lost his partiality to a good old fashioned bullshit session.

But if there’s one thing that’s remained constant about this quintessential Aussie bloke and former Dubbo boy, it’s his fierce devotion and loyalty to his mates. It’s nearly a quarter of a century since he left NSW to go back to the Northern Territory where he was born and where he runs a successful tourism operation, but his connections here – and all over the world – remain solidly intact. Friendship is what’s kept Sab Lord going through good times and bad – and it’s what brought him back recently for a whirlwind visit to the town he once called home.

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ORN and raised in the Northern Territory on the vast and largely untamed reaches Munmalary Station – now part of Kadadu – Lord spent his formative years “running wild” until the structures of a 70s Sydney boarding school tamed him... sort of.

In 1980, the family moved to Dubbo – or more precisely back to Dubbo. The Lord roots run deep down into the soil of the NSW Western Plains – Lord’s father John and his brother Peter were both well-known local Dubbo identities, and his mother Pauline hailed from Warren.

After school, and a stint in the Top End bull catching and working on a station, Lord returned to Dubbo where he would remain for the next decade.

First ignited during his Sydney school days, it was playing for the Dubbo Kangaroos Rugby Club that really fanned the flames of his passion for the “game they play in heaven”.

Lord played for the ‘Roos throughout the 80s, including the 1988 grand final – times he recalls fondly.

“It was a great atmosphere back in those days. We had the rugby club there in Wingewarra Street back then and whoa, we had some good times there,” he says with a chuckle and I’m not game to ask him to elaborate.

“It was a real family, the rugby scene back then. Very tight knit.”

In 1984, Lord was invited to go to South Africa to

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play rugby for a club in Cape Town. It was an invitation he thought too good to decline, despite the worldwide condemnation of the apartheid regime that at the time held that country in its grip.

It was a time he remembers fondly, but it wasn’t until his return to Australia that the consequences of his decision to play rugby in South Africa became painfully apparent.

“I couldn’t get into any rep side. They just wouldn’t have me – no way, no how – because I’d played while there were sanctions in place. I came back and played for the ‘Roos, but even though I was picked for NSW Country there was no way they would let me play, and that meant I couldn’t take my rugby any further than club level.

“Some of the locals tried to help me convince the state rugby blokes to let me play, but they just said “Sorry – you chose to play rugby at a reasonably high level in South Africa during apartheid.”

By the time he was allowed to have another serious crack at the game – after apartheid ended in South Africa and sanctions were lifted – Lord was 31.

“I was back in the Territory by then, and I was too old anyway really.”

The pain of lost opportunity still eats at the passionate rugby devotee.

“I honestly didn’t think it was fair at all,” he says of the rugby administration’s refusal to allow him to play at rep level following his return from South Africa. “I wasn’t supporting apartheid – I just wanted to play rugby. And what was the difference between me playing rugby there and the people who went there to play golf or to surf? It was hypocritical.

Some of the locals tried to help me convince the state rugby blokes to let me play, but they just said “Sorry – you chose to play rugby at a reasonably high level in South Africa during apartheid.”

“I could have taken them on,” he says, but recalls the threats made by those holding the reins at the time.

“They said that if I went to the media or whatever, they’d just make it really hard for me. They said you won’t even play for provincial clubs.”

Still, the decision to play in Cape Town isn’t one he regrets – mostly because of the friends he made during his time in South Africa.

“I go back every year now to spend time there and in Zimbabwe with those mates. I’ve left a fair chunk of my heart in Africa, I guess. I’ve been travelling backwards and forwards for 30 years.”

S fond as he is of Dubbo and the western plains, it’s to the Top End that his thoughts and his feet always carry him.

“I’m a homing pigeon,” says the now 55 year old who has carved a comfortable, if hard fought, niche as arguably the most renowned high-end tour operator in the Northern Territory.

“I look at Dubbo as a part of my life and I treasure the friends I have there, but the bush (of the Northern Territory) is my home. It’s where my heart is – that’s why it keeps dragging me back. My home is in Arnhem Land. Being out there and doing my thing, either by myself or with tourists, showing them around – that’s what I love.

“I love showing this unique country off to tourists – and I don’t think most Australians appreciate just what an incredible asset we have here. I have clients from America, Europe, England... all over the world, and I think sometimes they leave here with a deeper appreciation for Australia than most Australians have. We need to come to terms with just how lucky we are to have this and we can’t afford to lose it.”

He’s been running Lord’s Safaris – first with his father, now as his own boss – for the past 23 years, and he says not one day has been the same.

“I never tire of it. I just meet so many incredible people and I feel incredibly lucky to call this work – although it’s hard work, and there have certainly been some ups and downs over the years.”

Part of the success of Lord’s Safaris is his deep connection not only with the land of the Top End itself, but with the people – the traditional owners and the Aboriginal people who have been so much a part of his life and are now an integral part of his business.

“It’s my relationship with and respect for the Aboriginal people that’s meant I could go into a lot of areas»

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where no-one else is allowed. Those people are real bush people – they understand me and I understand them.

“Until you spend time with these people, you can’t really understand what a deep spiritual connection they have with their land. But that’s one of the reasons I feel so strongly about Arnhem Land and Kakadu as my own home – because I grew up with these people.

Until I went away to school, the Aboriginal kids were the only friends I had.”

Lord recalls he and his younger brother being “picked on pretty heavily” when they went to boarding school in Sydney.

“But we could handle ourselves,” he laughs. And while he came to enjoy his school days in Sydney – and is still close with the mates he made during that time – he recalls never really feeling settled anywhere

but the Territory.

“I missed home. And I’ve missed it every time I’ve been away from it – and I suppose that’s because of the connection I made to the land here when I was growing up. Going out hunting with the Aboriginal people, hearing their stories, spending time with them... I dunno,” he says with a shrug. “It’s hard to explain unless you’ve experienced it.”

ORD has long been master of his own destiny. He’s never really fit an expected or accepted mould – he’s played his own game and made mistakes along the way, but they’ve been his mistakes and he’s owned them.

“The one thing is that I’ve never forgotten my friends. Mates are everything. You get a bit older and it becomes even more important that you don’t lose

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connections. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you are or how much money you have, you should never forget what you came from.

“A lot of people lose their way when they lose that sense of connection – I guess it’s a fault in human nature. I think of all the friends I’ve made over the years – as you move through life, it’s important to stay in contact, and to remember those people who have had influence on your life.”

Lord agrees that he’s always followed his own destiny, but says it’s a combination of luck and “bloody hard work” that have brought him to a comfortable time in his life.

“I’ve been in the right place at the right time a couple of times, and I think I’ve been awfully fortunate many times.

“Things haven’t been easy. I stuck with my Dad – he

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had a lot of money and lost it all â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never resented that. I looked after him and I was happy to do that. Like him, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken some gambles in life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and as everyone knows, gambles donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always pay off. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never run from a challenge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anyone who runs from a challenge is afraid of their own identity,â&#x20AC;? he says, reverting as he often does to a rugby analogy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like on the footy field â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if you run and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not prepared to take it up to your opposition, then you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really be on the team.â&#x20AC;?

PEAKING of challenges, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about to take on another. As happy as he is running his safari operation out of Darwin, Lord and Ann-Maree, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;AMâ&#x20AC;? as he calls his New Zealand born wife have bought land near Lake Tekapo on the picturesque South Island and are making plans to set up a Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;B outfit there some time in the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the retirement package,â&#x20AC;? he laughs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But even then, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep coming back here for at least four months of the year because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still want to do what I do here â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even if I work for someone else. I just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave the Territory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM has gone through a lot with me â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as many downs as there have been ups. When we first bought the business, we ran straight into the Sars virus and September 11 and all those sorts of things that really took a toll on tourism. Everyone said weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go broke, but we persevered and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finally paid off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I suppose itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a case of now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time. She wants to go back to New Zealand, to her roots but also stay in the industry. The Territoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home, always will be, but I do like New Zealand,â&#x20AC;? he muses.

So when he finally makes the leap across the ditch, will he ever cheer for the All Blacks? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ha!â&#x20AC;? he bellows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whadda you think, mate?â&#x20AC;? Â&#x201E;

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Lorraine Gould and Michael Beh Together siblings Lorraine Gould and Michael Beh had already faced some of life’s cruellest challenges, but when an accident ten years ago robbed Michael of the use of his limbs, their special bond grew even tighter. Now, they’re on a quest to allow him a small measure of the freedom so many of us take for granted. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Sally Bryant Michael Beh: WAS living and working in the Kimberley and one day after work in 2005, I went out for a nice quiet motorbike ride – nothing spectacular. I was 45 and I’d been riding bikes since I was a kid. We came around a corner and there was a bend in the track and there was a hole in the track – six metres wide and two metres deep – and I couldn’t stop in time. I landed on my back and was instantly paralysed from my neck down. I didn’t break any bones, but the spinal cord swelled so much from the impact it caused instant paralysis.

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We were only six kilometres out of town, but because we were on a dirt track, the ambulance couldn’t reach me – they had to ferry all the equipment back and forth in a 4WD. The hole had water in the bottom of it and I had to try to keep my head up – it was the only part of me that I could move – while he went to get help. It was the longest 15 minutes of my life. I was in that hole for three hours, and my wife and my mate’s girlfriend spent that whole time holding my head to keep it above the water while the ambos did their thing. Once they finally got me out, my family called Lorraine, who is a paramedic, to ask where they should send me, and she said Perth would be best for a spinal injury.

So the Flying Doctor took me from Kununurra to Perth, but on the way my left lung collapsed and I nearly died.

Five weeks after the accident, my wife decided she couldn’t handle supporting a quadriplegic, so she left me – and that ruled out me going back to Kununurra to live because she had the house and everything. So after 15 months of being in hospital and rehab and therapy, I moved back here to Wellington.

It was very hard to come to grips with being a quadriplegic. Because you’re so institutionalised from being in hospital for so long, it’s very scary to go out into the real world and I was worried about putting such a burden on Mum. It took me about two years until I really settled down. Having lost everything – not just the use of my arms and legs – to come to a place where I knew no-one, that was very hard.

Lorraine is a Godsend. I can’t even put it into words. We’ve been very close since we were kids – and when my old man and my brothers were killed in a car accident (they were hit by a drunk driver), and Mum was injured and then struggled with her grief, it left Lorraine and me to support each other. I was 12 and she was only about nine.

Since my accident, she’s been the one who’s kept it all together. Without her, I would have wound up in an institution. She’s generous and kind – she’s one of the most loveable people you could ever meet. I can honestly say I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t love her – she’s willing to help anyone and everyone, not only during her career as a paramedic but just as a person. She was Wellington’s Citizen

of the Year a few years back – that’s an indication of how caring she is.

She’s been the one driving the fundraising to get this vehicle to help get me around – and we started doing this because it just reached a point where life was becoming impossible; my disability is so restricting it drives me around the bend – and she knew that something had to be done.

We need to raise about $70,000 for the purpose-built vehicle. We’re about halfway there – I’ve been putting $50 a week away for nearly ten years and we’ve had two years of fundraising. So we’re hoping this weekend’s fundraiser will add significantly to that, and whatever the shortfall is, Lorraine and my uncle will put that in. We can’t continue to fundraise forever.

Lorraine Gould: O matter what happens to either of us, we’d be there for each other. We have a very strong bond that goes beyond the usual sibling relationship – we have a deep understanding because of what we’ve been through.

I was only two when my father left home, but then our step-father came along and he was wonderful – he’s the only Dad I remember. My sister died of cancer in her early years and we were just going through all that when the family had a car accident that killed our step-father and two of our brothers – a drunk driver cleaned up the car.

I wasn’t with them – I was at home waiting for them to come home and they never did. Mum was in hospital for nearly a year, and Mi-

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chael was seriously injured as well.

Michael has been a strong brother all the way along, but I guess I’ve been the glue that keeps the family together. He’s a bit of a rough diamond – a real bushie. He loves his rollies and he used to love his beer.

He loved camping out under the stars and rounding up horses and being outdoors. I was the opposite – I wanted education and a career. But we’ve always been close.

I’ve never understood families that don’t get along and don’t want to talk to each other. Even with everything we’ve gone through, we’ve remained very close.

It’s very difficult to see Michael confined to a wheelchair. I find it really hard to talk about him not being able to do all the things he used to do – it’s very painful for me to watch. He’s lost everything. People don’t understand the depth of the change in someone when they’ve lost their freedom. They don’t understand what a struggle it is for him every day.

Take, for example, the reason behind our fundraising efforts to get a special vehicle for Michael. People think you can just get out of a wheelchair and into a

car – but to see the agony and to watch his whole body convulse from the effort, and to watch him convulse for the entire four hour journey to Sydney because of the physical stress of transferring from the chair into the car seat. I’ve been a paramedic for more than 20 years and that’s helped me to empathise and also to have the skills, but to see it happening to my own brother is heartbreaking – to know every ache, every pain, every humiliation. People talk to him like he has brain damage just because his legs don’t work.

He’s different person since the accident. He’s much more withdrawn and there was a time there when he was suicidal – that was really hard. We’d always said to each other, before the accident, that if anything awful ever happened we’d help put the other one out of our misery – so I held off going over to Perth when he was in the hospital because I didn’t want him to ask me that question.

If we can get this purpose built vehicle, it’s going to give him back a life. That’s hard to explain, but it’s simple things like going to watch my sons play football for Dubbo Demons (AFL) – he just can’t go. And we put

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of doing things because we feel guilty that he can’t go with us – even simple things like going to the movies.

This fundraiser is our last push. We’ve personally put quite a bit of money together and the communities of Wellington and Dubbo and further afield have been fantastic. We’re hoping this last event will help us get nearer our target, and we’re so grateful for the support we’ve been given – the community has responded because of my job here as a paramedic, but believe me, they’ve given me back tenfold what I’ve given to the community. » This weekend’s High Tea Garden Party is the last fundraiser for Michael’s quest to buy a purpose built vehicle to transport him to and from medical facilities and to enable him to re-join life. It will be held this Saturday, April 18 from 2-7pm in the gardens of Lorraine’s home at 68 Whiteley Street, Wellington. There will be market stalls, an auction and lots of live entertainment as well as high tea – tickets are $25 per person, and can be purchased from Kings Hall Jewellers or Bank of Queensland in Dubbo and from Put The Kettle On and NJ Jewellers in Wellington, or by visiting the website at: wheelsonwheelsformichael.wordpress.com/high-tea-ticket-orders.

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Don Keast: Check mate He moved from the city to the outback in his career as a hospital librarian, but it’s moves on the chess board that truly inspire Don Keast. AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Natalie Holmes I am the librarian at Dubbo Base Hospital and I’ve been here for almost four years. It’s a one-person library, many specialised libraries are. Medical libraries, like law libraries, are a subset of bigger libraries concentrated on that area.

I became a librarian after studying a BA in the ‘70s. With that degree you could do teaching, librarianship was one of the more interesting choices.

I have written a number of researchbased articles, mainly for work in the area of library science. I was brought up in Sydney and didn’t leave there until I was 40, so I spent my childhood and early adult life there. Then I spent four years in Adelaide and eight years in Broken Hill working for the University of Sydney’s School of Rural Health.

I think living in the country is better.

In work, the skills you need are generally the same but probably better resourced in the city. The area I grew up in – Punchbowl/Bankstown – there’s all these drive-by shootings there now. It’s terrible. I don’t go to Sydney very often these days, mainly only for work.

I would go to Canberra and Newcastle where my daughters live.

I picked up chess when I was in my fourth year of high school, so I have been playing for more than 45 years.

When I was at school, John Kellner was one of the top players in Australia. He ran classes for juniors on weekends which I was able to attend. He was a very good teacher. But at 14, that was relatively late to start. In the NSW Junior Chess League, the youngest member is six and there are many under 12s.

Just because you start early, it doesn’t mean you’re any good! (Some players start later in life). I have been involved with postal chess for a long time, that’s where you conduct your moves by post. There’s still postal tournaments around but most of it is done on a server through the International Chess Federation. When it was by post, you would do one to two moves a month, now it’s five to six moves a month. The standard of play was high in those days but there were a number of countries that couldn’t participate because of their postal service.

They couldn’t play in Cuba because

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of the restrictions that existed and many African countries such as Algeria were disrupted by civil war. I used to play against the chief prosecutor of Nicaragua a lot. A lot of countries can come into it on a more even footing because of the internet. It’s opened the game up a lot more which is good but there is still a huge place for cross board chess and for teaching juniors.

In those days, a chess move also involved extensive letter writing so I formed friendships along the way. I became friends with a teacher from East Berlin who would send me rare German chess books in exchange for boomerangs. I remember helping out 30 German girls with finding pen pals in Australia. But we all write less these days, so it’s different. I recently reconnected with two fellows at the Dubbo Open that I’d met in the early ‘80s. You haven’t got a clue about their lives and

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don’t know if they have kids or wives or anything but that’s not dissimilar to other sports like football.

The Chess Olympiad is held every two years, I was involved in the correspondence competition and captained the Australian team. I was also an Australian champion player at one stage and I was the joint winner of the Dubbo Open last year. I was in the Australian masters for correspondence chess and I’ve done a lot of administrative stuff over the years such as chess annotating for the Correspondence Chess League of Australia magazine and editing the NSW Chess Association news.

In the World Championships, there are players of excellent ability, but fitness has a lot to do with it. Games can go on for nine hours a day for six days straight. In a major tournament, you’re likely to play 15 rounds and have two rest days. It’s very demanding. Some-

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times, you even see minor to major illness and personality changes over the time. I’ve seen players lose in the World Championships, not because of their ability, but because it’s very stressful.

Distance has been a problem for a lot of Australian players. The grandmasters of the European circuit can play masters every day. Ian Rogers played to the top level in Australia (he was the first Australian to become a chess grandmaster).

We don’t have a lot of tournaments in Australia, the biggest competition is the Doeberl Cup in Canberra which attracts a number of grandmasters.

What I love about the game is that it has a long history and wide appeal and has stood the test of time. It’s an excellent strategy game for children – the challenge is to get them to play at a senior level. It’s a game that appeals to everyone. Many famous people have been chess players like Napoleon, Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne.

George Sanders actually said that he and Zsa Zsa Gabor did nothing but play chess on their honeymoon. Then there was RA Buckland who was working in Antarctica and would send his moves by radio telephone. And world champion Alexander Akehine, who was actually an alcoholic but an attacking genius. He lost to Dutch mathematician Max Euwe.

I’ve met players from all walks of life – from doctors to car mechanics. There were once these two players who would make a move every Christmas – it was a slow game! They also played during World War II but games were shut down because it was thought to be coded.

Dubbo’s annual tournament gives country players an opportunity to go to other towns to play – we regularly get players from Armidale, Gunnedah, Tamworth – there’s even a blind fellow from Port Macquarie whose wife drives him down. Some of the really good players can actually play blindfolded.

Dubbo Chess Club does coaching, particularly for juniors, which improves your game.

It’s a good game for juniors because it involves critical thinking and the need to adapt and change plan. It helps your thinking skills and your ability to formulate a long-term plan. It’s also very social. Once a year, we also offer a masterclass. There are various styles of the game and I would play a more eccentric style. I sometimes play conservatively. My advice to others would be to attack the stronger player and make them defend. » Dubbo Chess Club meets at Dubbo RSL from 7pm on Tuesday nights. All welcome.

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Greg Smart

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By his own admission, Greg Smart was born 40 years old and is in training to be a cranky old man. He spends his time avoiding commercial television and bad coffee.

Reform: Let’s talk about tax, baby HE Federal Government wants to start a national conversation about reform. Or have an adult discussion about having a conversation about reform. Or a mature debate about having everything on the table. Or something along those lines.

Regardless of the talking point of the day, reform is a mixed message – lauded with growth as the panacea of our economic ills, but is it actually achievable?

Treasurer Joe Hockey recently launched a discussion paper on tax reform and declared the Australian tax system hasn’t changed since the 1950s. If we disregard little trifles such as the GST, fringe benefits tax, compulsory superannuation, and capital gains tax, the Treasurer would be right.

I think what he meant to say was the economy has obviously moved on from the 1950s. We are no longer a society of quarter acre blocks, a Holden in the driveway and full employment. Our phones are mobile, our employees are casual and our trading is online and worldwide. Hockey is right on the need for widespread economic reform – of which taxation revenue is an integral part.

In building his case for tax reform, Hockey studiously avoids two things.

Firstly, tax avoidance and minimisation is Australia’s national pastime.

Be it small scale cash in hand transactions or corporations moving profits offshore, we have an ingrained attitude of the taxman being both the enemy and a fair target. When questioned about his tax affairs in 1991, Kerry Packer famously said, “I am minimising my tax and if anybody in this country doesn’t minimise their tax they want their heads read,” before alluding to the government’s inability to spend his tax dollars properly.

From his ivory tower, Mr Packer neatly summed up Australia’s attitude to taxation – do what you can

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to minimise paying it because the government can’t spend it properly.

The notion of spending it properly links to Hockey’s second avoidance.

Australians are WIIFM champions. The What’s In It For Me concept is nurtured by reality television and a sense of entitlement. We are happy for Apple/Amazon/ Google to pay their fare share of tax, but we want to buy their products online for the cheapest price possible. We are happy for Rupert Murdoch’s Daily Telegraph go after evil welfare cheats and refugees but don’t raise an eyelid when Mr Murdoch gets a $880 Million tax refund from the Australian Taxation Office based on some pea and shell game creative accounting.

We are happy for other people to pay more tax, but don’t come near my investment properties and superannuation tax concessions.

In relation to taxation reform, Hockey has been quoted as saying everything is on the table. While it’s an interesting platitude, I can’t see the government harming its voter base by targeting the sacred cows of negative gearing, fringe benefits tax and superannuation tax concessions. The banks and miners will certainly not be in the government’s sights; lest they

We do need a national reset of the attitude to and the workings of taxation, but ideology will prove to be a permanent hindrance.

mount publicity campaign like the one which aided the defeat of Labor’s Mineral Resource Tax and ultimately the Labor government.

With the hope of garnering better public and Senate support than was forthcoming for last year’s budget, the next Federal Budget is being heralded as “dull and boring” by Prime Minister Abbott and according to Hockey will contain no new taxes. In other words, a political rather than economic budget.

It will be interesting to see where the budget revenue will come from. Unsurprisingly (mining booms are following by busts – the hint is in the name) the iron ore price is rapidly dropping. Assuming an unbridled demand for iron ore with the associated tax receipts was borderline negligent. Hockey is saying no new taxes, so will there be spending cuts to compensate? Not if the Senate has anything to say about it.

The Coalition home team – the business community – works on the adage that you need to spend money to make money. The Budget however will call for further fiscal policy measures to cut government spending, thereby reducing demand and the overall money supply in the economy – the opposite result.

I don’t envy Hockey’s job. He always has the look of someone who dropped a dollar coin but found a 20 cent piece. Technology moves faster than legislation, be it metadata gathering or profit shifting multinational corporations. The Government is permanently on the back foot, trying to appease party donors, big business, the media and those burdensome voters.

We do need a national reset of the attitude to and the workings of taxation, but ideology will prove to be a permanent hindrance. The idea that one person will gain a perceived advantage over another is anathema to each opposing political stance.

I can’t see any amount of conversation changing that.

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Weekender regular Sally Bryant was born with her nose in a book and if no book is available, she finds herself reading Cornflakes packets, road signs and instruction manuals for microwaves. All that information has to go somewhere...

In my book, change can be difficult OW many women does it take to change a season?

I’m not talking here about waving our magic witchy wands and seeing a miraculous transformation of the landscape. The sort of work that the witch in Narnia could do on her surroundings...

My question is this: what is a critical mass when it comes to numbers of women who grasp the nettle and decide to change seasons? How many women need to make the leap of faith, before we can say the season has genuinely changed? And, do some women carry more weight in these matters than others?

(Well, that’s obvious, some of us do carry more weight and I guess we use more fabric to cover it, so perhaps we can influence the zeitgeist of the season.)

It’s about dragging out the tights and woolly scarves.

It’s about putting away the loose billowy cotton shirts, the sandals, the light cotton trousers. It’s about choosing underwear of a more robust nature.

It seems to me that it actually doesn’t matter when they do it, you can guarantee that as soon as they do, the weather will revert to what it was a week ago. As soon as we do the clothing migration, we’ll then find ourselves grossly under or over dressed and looking tragic.

The change of season can be tricky to wrangle, in terms of planning and clothing. Your teeth will be chattering as you dress in the morning and the temptation is to put on all your winter woollies, but you just know you’ll be wandering around all day with a red face and sweaty brow. So you ignore your inner Nanna and eschew your sensible vest and other warming items, and stay with the trending clothing with a brave scarf draped against the chill. The idea is to persevere with your lighter clothes in the certainty that the day will heat up to the point that you’ll eventually be comfortable. And then that will be the day the clouds roll over and a breeze kicks up and you end up chasing the

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sun all day to try to warm up.

My preferred method of dealing with the change of season this year is my big black oversized jumper. My remedy for the unpredictability of the temperature for the day is to put on a vague approximation of what I think is appropriate, possibly a sun-frock, and then wack the black woolly jumper over the top. And so far it’s worked a treat, in terms of comfort but it’s not doing anything for my reputation as a snappy dresser.

The jumper in itself is actually pretty funky but it’s not enhancing my shape or the look of my trans-seasonal vibe.

The reason I’m doing the denial version of season change is to do with the way I established my vastly self-indulgent dressing room in my smart new house.

I’ve set the room up so I have lovely access to all the clothes I need to do one season. Everything is to hand, so easy to find, I just reach out and I have it; it’s spectacular. And then all the ‘other clothes’, all the transseasonal clothing, is stored down the other end of the house. It was at one point neatly stored in the suitcases it was transported in, but since that time there has been the odd cold day. And I’ve had to go in search of tights and a jumper or two. And a coat. And where is that scarf that matches the coat; I’m sure they were in

Perhaps I just don’t have enough clothing to get me through and the true solution to all of this could be a bout of retail therapy. I’ll have to contemplate that.

the same suitcase? And they’re never in the first place you look. And thus the mess ensues.

In fact, if you had been watching me, it would have looked for all the world like a sheepdog digging out a rabbit burrow. All frantic activity and flurry of excitement in the pursuit of a precisely the one thing.

And then the pause and the thinking, and the sudden resumption of digging until the item is located. The result is a series of mounds, in this case mounds of clothes on the floor.

So now the storage room is looking a bit of a mess and the dressing room is beautifully organised and tidy, but fully stocked with summer clothes with no room for a bit of fluffy autumn warmth to make its way in, except for the black jumper and two pairs of black tights. But they’re not really cracking it as fashion accessories for the summer frocks.

All of which would be less problematic if it weren’t for the fact that I’m shortly to undertake a road trip which will take me from Come-by-Chance to Canberra, within the space of a week. Don’t even ask what I was thinking when I agreed to do this sort of thing in autumn. They must have caught me in a moment of weakness.

I’m thinking the answer to all this is to pack a Very Large Suitcase indeed with a combination of winter and summer clothing and use this trip as an opportunity to integrate the extremes of my wardrobe into something that might serve me on this road trip and for the next month or so.

Is it possible I just have too many clothes?

Or, a more attractive thought, perhaps I just don’t have enough clothing to get me through and the true solution to all of this could be a bout of retail therapy.

I’ll have to contemplate that.

So if you see me down the street in thongs and a frock and a big woolly jumper, don’t judge me. I’m trying to change.

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Revolutionary, but can it roast a marshmallow?

OTHING can play on your home making insecurities better than the new kitchen gadget everyone raves about for its “your-life-is-worthsquat-without-one” properties – when you don’t own one and, gasp, have never even heard of them.

Fortunately the first person to whom I revealed this sad fact in the same breath as “What’s Master Chef?”, knows I’ve been living in America, so forgives my indiscretions.

Out from under my US rock, I’m culturally not prepared for the fact that what’s worthy today of Aussie scullery benches has rocketed in price since the Sunbeam Mixmaster first dazzled with promises to rock your wifey world (it was 1948, after all).

In those days, hire purchase was the window to achieving dream kitchen status. Fifty years later, you’ll need a small bank loan or extra credit to own this latest kitchen fad.

It’s a kudos cult and nothing else can lighten up a room of modern day Aussie mums like the presence or the mere mention of the alpha male of appliances – the Thermomix.

Oh, bring back the heady days of the Neanderthal kitchen (not that I remember them) when keeping up with the Jones meant nipping down to the local riverbed to pick up the hottest thing in grinding stones... for free.

Can you imagine being the first mum in the cave neighbourhood to invite the whole street over to mark time by your revolutionary new cooking appliance: hot coals?

The first Domestic Goddess is born along with cooking.

So mention the brand name, Thermomix, in a huddle of women and there’s a reverent hush, as if the evolution of food preparation is turning another cog.

Stand those mums in a circle and there’s a collective leaning into the centre of the group at the mention of the T-word – a knowing, secret handshake of minds (or possibly the opportunity to look at the ground while you compose your “I don’t have one” mask or to stand

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upright and show your “I’ve just started my payment plan to get one” face.)

Having been otherwise occupied for seven months since coming back to Oz, it’s high time to look into what all the fuss is about.

The Universe was listening and offered me up a sampling this past week of fresh chilli paste made in a Thermomix – which it turns out might be the preferred blender of the Gods, because with exceedingly high expectations I indulged and discovered I’d never tasted anything quite like it.

My inner fears of permanently wearing Crimpolene skirts and heels in the kitchen fell away to a niggling acceptance that as far as kitchen appliances go this one could in fact be reasonably liberating.

Venturing into the glittering online Thermomix cathedral festooned with inspiring images of believers – or models paid to look interested – I went to the website.

What a pleasant surprise! My estimation increased tenfold to discover it not only has 12 functions... but raises mon-

ey for charity!

Sorry grinding stone, no wonder you were passed over; how can you expect to compete?

In February this year, Thermomix donated $1M to the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and $260,000 to the Devil Island Project, which works to help save the Tasmanian Devil. You can’t argue with either of those great causes.

The site does look a bit American though, with clearly defined roles for the sexes.

There’s women of course (the home cooks) who if need be can book a demo (done by a man who clearly knows about such things) and images of men who cook but who’d, naturally, be professional chefs.

It appears that when you buy a Thermomix, you don’t just buy a product that whips, cooks, chops, kneads, mills, stirs, steams, weighs and four more things – you buy a Thermomix Journey, joining an enriching inclusive community of classes, seminars and social media support.

It’s a lifestyle choice, for which more than 100,000 Australians have opted to the tune of $60M for owner of Thermomix Australia, Grace Mazur.

Twenty-eight of the 106 components are made in France (the rest are a mystery), it’s a German owned brand with a very strong, long European heritage.

And it’s all yours for $2000.

Ironically enough my introduction to the Thermomix and all its wonders was sampled at a campsite, without power or internet access to the Thermomix recipe community.

With just a gas cooker for creating

My inner fears of permanently wearing Crimpolene skirts and heels in the kitchen fell away to a niggling acceptance that as far as kitchen appliances go this one could in fact be reasonably liberating.

meals it was in this Thermomix-free zone that a camp kitchen appliance truth was revealed, hitting me in the dark like a flying possum, while watching a big bunch of happy kids jostle for space around the campfire.

The fire is old school tech but does come with five functions; warmth, atmosphere, togetherness, fun and roasting, (and one side effect – “smoke follows beauty”, but this was never a problem...)

Combined with Australian-made and manufactured single component – the stick, widely available on the ground – (also recyclable and diesel-mile free) therein is a competing cult, which ritually roasts marshmallows, sans financial plan.

Is the Thermomix a revolution? Most definitely. Like the contemporary clock, the phone, the television, it’s shrunk its functions down to a compact convenient size, comes with a YouTube channel and exponentially grows company profits.

As far as a business model goes it’s flawless, giving so much more than the product itself.

It is nice to know though, that a packet of marshmallows, a warm fire and a long stick, still cut it in our time.

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Almost all my friends are getting married N my 20s the idea of my friends getting hitched often left me bewildered.

Most of my friends took the full decade between 20 and 30 to act like real adults (myself included) – the concept of committing to a city or a job was foreign enough for us, let alone an actual person/mortgage/kids.

I had a few friends walk down the aisle in that time, but since turning 30 the invites have been flooding in. Every time a fancy envelope arrives, a few thoughts run through my mind. The first is “Me? Are you sure? I know these things are expensive, surely there’s someone you’d rather invite?” The second thought is often something along the lines of “You have seen me after a couple of celebratory champagnes, haven’t you?”

Once it’s clear the bride and groom do, indeed, want me to not only attend but are also allowing me to drink at their festivities (and three times to actually be a bridesmaid) I can settle in to the fun stuff.

I’ve previously written about how you don’t need to have your own kids to love kids, and I feel the same about weddings. I’ve actually never taken a date

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to a wedding. The one time I could have, I opted to take a friend instead. My single status does nothing to dampen my

enthusiasm for the weddings of others, and I don’t understand why it should – for it’s the one day we can dedicate entirely to other people and the love they share for each other, and for everyone they’ve invited to their special day.

This past weekend one of my best friends was married. I seem to have lucked out in the friends stake – every wedding I’ve attended has been amazingly styled with gorgeous food and a killer dance floor with a bunch of fun guests. But this wedding took things to the next level. The bride has a background in events and her and her team of wingwomen managed to pull off a

A couple of friends will probably elope; some of my friends won’t get married until it’s legal for all people to get married in Australia, and some of my friends simply can’t get married for the same reasons.

Oh yeah, it’s raining!

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flawless day all the while continuing to be grounded. The groom was heavily involved as well and his groomsmen were three dapper dudes who stood by him to make everything run smoothly.

There was a bunch of great speeches, everyone was gushing and having a great time, I may have nearly lit a grass fire with some sparklers (I still maintain whiskey and sparklers don’t mix) and the dance floor was kicking it. A great day all ‘round – who wouldn’t want to be involved with that?

So when I counted the number of friends who are still unwed, I was glad there were a few on the list to come.

But despite this, I know that a couple of friends will probably elope, some of my friends won’t get married until it’s legal for all people to get married in Australia, and some of my friends simply can’t get married for the same reasons.

I’m sad to miss the weddings I can’t or won’t be able attend for the ones I love.

I do think it is a privilege, not matter how traditional, to witness two people commit to each other on that level – and not to mention a damn good excuse for a party!

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THE BIG PICTURE.

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Business

Fire up to ignite growth opportunity

BY MATT WRIGHT PRESIDENT OF THE DUBBO CHAMBER BER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

OULD adding Kmart to the city’s retail mix boost the appeal and vitality of Downtown Dubbo – that is, the underperforming central business district (CBD)?

In a word, yes. Its presence would boost the capacity of Dubbo as the premier city in the Orana region; it would attract shoppers from within the city and a catchment upwards of120,000 people and it would boost local jobs, offering career paths for its employees and increasing pedestrian traffic in the CBD, which has been calculated in Macquarie Street as 1600 people daily, or almost 600,000 annually, in a council-commissioned study by consultants, Hill PDA, in 2014.

A Kmart would not only increase the value of the city’s retail trade of some $255 million annually, but also, more importantly, help bring back to Dubbo the so-called escape expenditure that Dubbo and regional shoppers spend in other regional cities.

“It is clear that the lack of a Kmart is a disadvantage for Dubbo,” the consultants concluded following respondents’ desire for the discount operator.

“Even with the provision of an Aldi store in the Dubbo CBD”, the report said, “there is an existing undersupply of supermarket and grocery store floorspace which will exacerbate to 2026.”

This underscores the opportunity in the CBD. A survey of shoppers found that 34 per cent of Dubbo residents shopped outside the local government area (LGA) and 63.2 per cent of that number shopped monthly in other LGAs.

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The survey showed that while 43 per cent of respondents visited the CBD weekly – some 23 per cent daily – trading estimates imply respondents are window shopping, not spending.

“Ways to increase expenditure from existing shoppers by, for example, diversifying (further) the retail offer or encourage shoppers to stay longer, should be considered (by council),” Hill PDA commented.

Given council’s view – which the chamber of commerce strongly supports – that the future growth and development of the CBD will have an important role in shaping the ongoing growth of the city, council has heeded Hill PDA’s report.

The outcome has been the Ignite Our Centre campaign: “Get excited about our CBD” council proclaims.

“What do you want to see and what do you want to do while you’re downtown Dubbo?”

The campaign aims to tackle the concerns expressed within the community over the years regarding the primacy and operation of the CBD, its economic viability and financial health as a retail and business district, and its relationship with Orana Mall. The consult-

The future growth and development of the CBD will have an important role in shaping the ongoing growth of the city.

diculously reasonable prices, but at the same time contribute to a great cause.

Michael Egan was a foundation member of Macquarie Rotary, who died from cancer in 2007 at the age of just 49. Proceeds from the book fair named in his honour go directly to the Bill Walsh Cancer Research Laboratory at Royal North Shore Hospital and to the RFDS here in Dubbo.

So if you love reading, or you’re a collector of books, mark this annual event in your calendar. For a gold coin donation, you’ll get to browse the thousands of books on offer – covering every genre imaginable – and you can settle in for a long, happy winter of reading courtesy of the Rotary Club of Dubbo Macquarie.

Local students on the road to uni A NEW program being launched by the University of Sydney aims to help make university study more accessible to Dubbo students by helping talented scholars to reach their full po-

ants noted that the CBD was underperforming compared with the expanding shopping centre.

Council wants stakeholders, including property owners, retailers, professional groups and residents, to advise it how to boost visits to the CBD, encourage people to stay longer, and make the CBD a magnet for retail, commercial and professional investment.

While Dubbo’s retail sector is “generally strong ... weak spots are perceived because many of the [retail] vacancies are within the primary CBD area of Macquarie and Talbragar streets,” council said.

Council reports that in September 2014 the CBD had a total occupied retail floorspace of 83,539 square metres with vacant space in the order of 11,598 square metres, representing 12.4 per cent of the total retail space.

Council is keen to promote the Ignite Our Centre campaign to “revitalise and reshape” the 71-hectare CBD, which has been divided into six specific areas: Macquarie Central Precinct, Talbragar Boutique Precinct, Brisbane Business Precinct, Darling Civic Precinct, Growth Precincts and CBD Gateway Precincts.

Council says the campaign is bottom-up and not a top-down project – it will be driven by the community. The chamber, therefore, urges everyone in these precincts with an interest in the future of the CBD to make a submission or complete a short survey by going to mydubbosay.com Submissions close on June 5. Consultations and workshops are planned during the year with a draft plan to be placed on public exhibition in August and council considering the final plan in December.

Hopefully the implementation of the plan will boost the vibe of Downtown Dubbo and attract much needed investment and employment opportunities, and a Kmart as well.

tential at the uni of their choice.

The program, dubbed Getting Started, will see a teacher-mentor based at Dubbo College Senior Campus to give students information and support with application forms, scholarship applications, alternative pathway options and Centrelink eligibility, as well as help with accommodation, travel options, and support services available at their chosen institution. The teacher-mentor will also maintain regular contact with students and their families in their first six months of university to help a smooth transition to university life.

“Students in regional areas have so many more barriers to overcome to access the same opportunities as their metropolitan counterparts, not least the requirement in many cases to be the first in their family to leave their home and community,” said Annette Cairnduff, Director, Social Inclusion at the University of Sydney.

“Many students in regional areas – particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stu-

dents or students from low socio-economic backgrounds, do not have a personal history or knowledge of the benefits and opportunities that tertiary education brings.

“While each year a significant number of students from Dubbo leave school with the intention to attend university, many of them don’t end up enrolling or withdraw within the first six months,” Ms Cairnduff said.

Up to 40 Year 12 students from low socioeconomic background have been identified to work with the teacher-mentor to build their ability to plan, organise and self-manage their transition and consequent study at university, particularly through self-confidence and skills in initiative and enterprise, problem-solving and independent learning.

New guide tackles youth suicide REGIONAL areas such as Dubbo will benefit from a new guide, launched by mental health advocacy organisation beyondblue to help parents and other family

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ANZ boss says ‘get on with it’ IT may not be what the Orana business community wants to hear, but ANZ boss Mike Smith is urging business leaders to get on with accepting slower economic growth, and give up an obsession with iron ore.

The steel making commodity’s value has dived in the past year and recently hit its lowest level in a decade, slashing government revenue and forcing miners to cut jobs and costs.

But Mr Smith says miners could never had expected record high prices to go on forever, with China’s economy slowing.

“In many ways, this is sort of self inflicted,” he told a Bloomberg business lunch.

“Is it any surprise that commodity prices have dropped with the sheer amount of supply?”

Australia’s most senior bank boss said there is more to the economy, and exports like tourism, education and agriculture, can fill the void left by the fading resources boom.

“I think that we’re obsessed by iron ore, and if that’s not working then the whole economy’s not working,” he said.

“That’s not true.”

The economy has good prospects, with China set to become the largest source of foreign investment by 2030, representing a ten-fold increase on current levels, he said.

“Business needs to lift its sights and talk up the Australian economy,” Mr Smith said.

In the short term, slower economic growth needs to be accepted as a new normal, along with political instability in the age of social media, he said.

“These are issues that are not easy to deal with and we as business people just have to understand that that is the way it is, and frankly, we just have to get on with it.”

“It is easy to become transfixed by the issues of the day – softness in the resources sector, the state of politics, business confidence, and even the availability of slippers in my office.”

members reach out to young people at risk of suicide and to reduce Australia’s youth suicide rate.

The free Family Guide for Youth Suicide Prevention, which can be downloaded from the beyondblue website, offers advice on how to have a conversation with a young person who may be at risk, what factors place young people at risk and the warning signs to look for.

Suicide is the biggest killer of young people in Australia, with around 350 people aged between 15 and 24 dying by suicide in 2013, the latest year for which data is available. This is around one death a day, double the number killed in car accidents. According to beyondblue, the family guide contains potentially life-saving information, along with other practical tips and evidence-based advice to help family members support at-risk young people and steer them through adolescence and beyond.

A young person in crisis can call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or Lifeline on 13 11 14, 24 hours a day seven days a week. If a family member is concerned that a young person may be experiencing depression or anxiety symptoms, they can contact the beyondblue Support Service 24

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Mr Smith declined to criticise Prime Minister Tony Abbott for ditching an election promise to cut corporate tax by 1.5 per cent.

The government is instead flagging a small business tax cut but has yet to provide details.

“We can complain about all these things and changes and ‘this is going to happen, and this was promised and that wasn’t’,” he said.

NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian and ANZ chairman David Gonski were among the audience.AAP

Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

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Badgerys Creek could rival JFK: report Leaked plans suggest Sydney’s second airport at Badgerys Creek will eclipse Sydney Airport at Mascot, with work to begin as soon as next year.

Confidential maps obtained by News Corp showing the planned site, runway and terminal locations reveal an airport that could eventually rival New York’s JFK International Airport for capacity and size.

A site map for “stage 1” includes a 3700m east-west runway, a domestic, international and cargo terminal, and a tunnel earmarked for a future underground rail link to the airport.

It would take eight years to build and take 10 million passengers annually at a cost of $4 billion, News Corp reports.

By 2050, a second 3700m runway would be complete, with the airport forecast to take 80 million passengers annually – about twice the number presently serviced by Sydney Airport at Mascot.

Mass excavation work is expected to generate several thousand jobs, with work reportedly to begin by the middle of next year.

The maps were reportedly drawn up by commercial contractors and provided to the Abbott government in February. AAP

hours a day, seven days a week on 1300 22 4636. There is also an online chat function at www.beyondblue. org.au between 3pm and midnight AEST, seven days a week, or people can send an email from the website for a response within 24 hours.

Gallipoli ballot fires Anzac spirit IT seems the ANZAC spirit is well and truly alive and kicking, with the announcement this week that every single seat for the commemorations at Gallipoli now allocated and accepted. All 8,120 places have been filled and those lucky enough to secure a berth will be making their way this week to Turkey to be part of the historic occasion as Australia marks 100 years since that fateful landing in the dawn of April 25, 1915. More than 42,000 Australians applied for the 3,860 double passes. For those not lucky enough to be going to the Anzac Day commemorations at Gallipoli, there are a number of special events planned for Dubbo, including a “camp out” in Victoria Park the night before and the traditional Dawn Service which begins at 5.45am. For more information, go to www.dubbo. com.au/events-calendar/anzac-day.

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A Game of Thrones hook. Creating marketing magic.

ELCOME to Panscott Media’s Marketing Minute, this week opening with a print ad campaign run by the Sky pay-TV network in the UK as a double page spread. It immediately grabs the attention of Game of Thrones fans, which was the target market, and so it’s an ad that works!

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Our most common question IF there’s one thing we love more than being involved in your marketing campaign, it’s helping you create it! We’ve always got time for your questions, and believe it or not the one we usually get is this: “What really makes a good ad?”

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That is, keep it SIMPLE! A simple ad is a great ad. Wherever possible utilise white space and use it to your advantage. (‘White’ doesn’t have to be the colour white – the Adidas ad referred to below utilises what we’d call ‘white space’ because the designer didn’t feel the need to fill all that nice clear space with words!)

People tend to get caught up in putting as much information as possible into the space they have – but as the age old adage says, it’s quality not quantity that counts.

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what ingredients it has.

3. Promotes the name of the store or brand while visually creating an image for it.

4. Speaks to a specific group of people.

5. Provides all the facts a reader needs without providing too many.

6. Conveys its message simply. It is believable and honest.

7. Is news: Readers say advertising in newspapers is as important as the news.

It is in fact a primary reason that people seek out advertising in newspapers.

8. Offers answers to the consumer’s current needs. Advertising sells to people’s wants and not just needs. If people need transportation, they want a Mercedes. If they need clothing, they want Polo.

9. Uses white space. Crammed ads get poor results because readers don’t want to work that hard.

10. Has a sense of urgency. It tells the reader to do something now.

Clever ad by Adidas THE ad below ran across a whole spread of a glossy magazine. These days newspapers and magazines can be a lot more flexible about the space and shape you want to utilise to maximise the impact.

– Until next week, keep up the great marketing!

AS well as keeping it simple, check out these great points compiled by Scarborough Research for creating marketing magic.

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Taming the tyranny of distance

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

OTHING beats a cup of tea and scones with jam and cream at a friendly farmhouse, so that’s why the latest technology tools are being used to complement rather than replace farm visits in the agricultural sector.

One such addition to the tool box of Central West Local Land Services is the use of webinars to connect farmers and get information out to a broad area.

LLS livestock officer David Trengove said it’s the most cost-effective option when dealing with a region as large as the Central West.

“This represents a new direction for Central West Local Land Services in innovative delivery of information to producers,” he said.

“We’re delivering something that’s different than what’s been delivered in the past. “The webinar topics are timely and relevant, and take place in real time so that producers can interact and ask questions during the session.

“The webinar series complements what we’re doing with face to face workshops. “The main reason is because of the geographical distance of trying to deliver across a vast area.”

Sending the presenter to each and every district would not be a viable option, but streaming his presentation to landholders has the power to reach a much bigger audience.

“This is not a new technology but we struggle with the tyranny of distance,” Trengove explained.

“What we’re doing is fairly new in NSW and particularly for the LLS because we have a lot less staff on the ground.”

The LLS is currently running a series on sheep husbandry, with the first two of eight webinars shared with registered participants late last

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year and earlier this year. The program is being hosted in conjunction with Sheep Connect NSW thanks to funding from that body.

Trengove said one of the benefits of the webinar format is that information goes directly to the people who need it when they want it.

It’s also a lot more efficient and sessions are recorded to be replayed when convenient.

“We can do this for a lot less than the cost of running a workshop and it cuts down on the logistics,” Trengove told Weekender.

“And we are creating a resource library that can be replayed at any time of the year by anyone.”

Feedback from the first two sessions has indicated webinars are of use to the farming community.

“We did direct monitoring and evaluation pre and post webinar,” Trengove explained.

“It’s definitely useful in agricultural circles.”

Sessions on the use of social media, phone apps and tapping into internet resources are gaining relevance to a generation of farmers that are much more tech-savvy than their predecessors.

“We’ve had sessions on information sharing and the use of apps in agriculture and the days have been very well-attended.

“Plenty of landholders now, if they have the internet connected, they are making use of the technology with drought-feed calculators and things like that.”

The LLS also hopes to have more reactive sessions dependent on what’s happening in the industry at the time.

They also want to expand into other areas.

“In the future, we will definitely be looking at doing more,” Trengove said. » The next Sheep Connect NSW webinar will be held in late April with Gordon Refshauge, a NSW DPI research officer in the field of meat production.

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Beat it, heartburn!

BY ABI JACKSON AFFECTING one in three adults, heartburn is common. Thankfully, most of the time, that horrid burning sensation under the breastbone – sometimes accompanied by a nasty taste, stinging in the throat and pain in the stomach or chest – caused by acid rising into the oesophagus, is very temporary.

For one in six however, it’s a frequent problem, occurring twice a week or more.

“It can have a big impact,” says Dr Sarah Jarvis. “As a GP, that’s something that almost everybody experiencing frequent heartburn says – it really does affect them and can really bring them down.”

A BURNING WORRY ASIDE from the discomfort, there’s often anxiety too. “Frequent heartburn can leave people feeling like they have no control over the condition,” notes Helen Boardman, a pharmacist and lecturer in Pharmacy Practice.

Knowing what’s safe to eat can become a worry, and this – along with the symptoms – can affect people’s social lives and stop them participating in hobbies and sports.

One of the biggest anxieties is that there’s something more sinister going on – it’s not uncommon for people to fear that they are suffering heart problems or cancer.

These things combined are part of the reason why lots of people present to their GPs with heartburn.

TAKING CONTROL THE majority of the time, heartburn is something that can be self-managed and doesn’t really require a trip to the doctor. While some people with particularly troublesome, frequent heartburn may need a prescription, for most, symptoms can be avoided with few simple lifestyle tweaks and soothed with over-thecounter (OTC) treatments.

Until relatively recently, these were mainly antacids and alginates – which work by neu-

tralising stomach acid or forming a protective barrier over it – and can offer speedy relief for mild symptoms, lasting a few hours.

For more intense and long-lasting symptoms, however, a proton pump inhibitor (PPI), which blocks acid production, may be more suitable.

Your pharmacist will be able to discuss which treatments may be suitable for you.

However, if you’re still popping those PPIs after 14 days, or symptoms are getting worse or not going, make an appointment to see your GP.

WHEN HEARTBURN GETS SERIOUS THOUGH heartburn generally isn’t serious, there are always exceptions, and if in doubt, get things checked – sooner rather than later.

You should make an appointment if your symptoms are worse, or lingering, after two straight weeks of taking OTC treatments.

EIGHT TIPS FOR EXTINGUISHING HEARTBURN :: Keep a food diary ONE of the best ways to avoid heartburn is to avoid the triggers. “Triggers vary from person to person, but common ones include citrus drinks, high-fat foods, onions and chocolate. Cutting down on alcohol, coffee and fizzy drinks can also help,” says Boardman. The only way to know your triggers for certain is by monitoring symptoms and trying to spot patterns – do certain foods always result in a flare-up?

Jotting down everything you eat and drink can be an extremely useful tool. :: Prop yourself up to sleep HEARTBURN is often much worse at night, because when we’re lying down, it’s easier for acid to travel into the oesophagus. Let gravity give you a helping hand and avoid sleeping in a completely flat position. Stacking up some pillows, or buying a wedge pillow, may help. Or, Dr Jarvis has this top tip: “Try placing a couple of sturdy bricks under the head of your bed to prop it up. You don’t want it to tilt so much that you slide out, of course, but just enough that you’re slightly tilted when you’re lying down – it could really help.” :: Don’t go to bed on a full stomach IN addition to the above, it’s also a good idea not to eat your dinner too close to bedtime. If symp-

toms are particularly troublesome at night-time, you may even find it helpful to have your bigger meal at lunchtime and a lighter evening meal. “Wait for two to three hours after you eat before going to bed,” suggests Boardman. “This gives your stomach a chance to process your meal and move it through your digestive system. Your stomach will then be empty and less likely to reflux when you lie down.” :: Sit up straight WHEN we’re hunched over, it’s easier for acid to rise up the oesophagus – so when your mother told you to “sit up nicely” at the dinner table, she had a valid point! Avoid eating in front of the TV slumped over a low coffee table, and try to avoid bending forwards too much for a while after eating meals too. To highlight this point, Dr Jarvis recalls learning about the case of a heartburn sufferer who couldn’t work out why his stubborn symptoms wouldn’t go away, especially as he was otherwise fit and well – until a specialist revealed his racer bike was actually a factor; bending forwards over those low handlebars every day was causing awful acid reflux. :: Keep stress to a minimum STRESS affects people in different ways, and it may – though not always – be a factor in heart-

Diabetes: Dubbo urged to have a say

HEALTH IN BRIEF

RESIDENTS in Dubbo and the Orana region are being urged to have their say as part of what the federal government calls “the largest conversation” in the nation about the best ways to prevent, treat and cure diabetes.

Federal Health Minister Susan Ley this week announced the opening of a national consultation process to help guide the government’s development of a National Diabetes Strategy. Diabetes affects the lives of most people in some way, shape or form and the government says this is a critical opportunity for all Australians to par-

burn. Avoiding stress entirely is not possible (and sometimes not necessary), but knowing our limits and learning to manage our stress levels before they make us unwell – by prioritising rest, relaxation and exercise, getting enough sleep and addressing any circumstances and situations that may be causing distress – can help keep us feeling tip-top and reduce the impact of symptoms when they occur. :: Don’t eat too quickly “EATING too much, too quickly, can increase heartburn, so take your time and enjoy mealtimes,” says Boardman. “Feeling stressed

ticipate in finding the best ways to prevent, treat and cure this rapidly growing national problem at https:// consultations.health.gov.au.

More than one million Australians are now living with diabetes, while hundreds of thousands more are either at high risk of contracting the disease or are living with it and don’t know, according to Ley. The overall cost of diabetes to the Australian economy is estimated to be as high as $14 billion annually. “That’s why it’s so important we get a broad diversity of views.

Whether you’re a carer, parent, employer, doctor, researcher or someone living with the disease, we want

or rushed when you eat can also cause the stomach to produce more stomach acids.” :: Quit smoking SMOKING is bad news for health all round – and that includes where heartburn’s concerned.

“Not only can cigarette smoke irritate your throat, it also relaxes the oesophageal muscles that keep stomach acid where it belongs,” says Boardman. :: Watch your weight HEARTBURN’S more common in those who are overweight, so aim to keep to a healthy weight by eating sensibly and taking regular exercise.

to hear your views, experiences and ideas about addressing this rapidly growing national problem,” Ley said.

Comments received through this consultation process will inform the National Diabetes Strategy, due for release late 2015. Consultation will close Friday May 17.

Anzac campaign an epic fail for Woolies SUPERMARKET giant Woolworths has apologised after its Anzac commemoration website caused social media outrage by inviting users to share war tributes under the slogan “fresh in our memories”.

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The site was taken down on Tuesday night after receiving widespread criticism on social networking site Twitter, with users labelling the marketing stunt crass and insulting to Australian diggers.

The commemoration website featured a picture generator and invited members of the public to upload images of relatives lost to war, or affected by armed conflicts. Woolies had hoped people would then post those images on social media feeds, but the decision to overlay each image with the “fresh in our memories” slogan and the retailer’s logo has drawn howls of protest.

The disaster escalated when trolls hijacked the picture generator to lampoon the retailer with its own marketing tool.

In a statement issued after the campaign was taken down, Woolies apologised for branding the site.

“We regret that our branding on the picture generator has caused offence, this was clearly never our intention,” the company said on its Facebook page.

“Like many heritage Australian companies, we were marking our respect for ANZAC and our veterans.”

The RSL said Woolworths had crossed the line with a campaign that was both unfortunate and insensitive, while Veterans’ Affairs Minister Michael Ronaldson says Woolies failed to seek the required permission to use the word ‘Anzac’, and he personally intervened to end the campaign.

THE recent cold snap may have you thinking about winter, and coughs and colds that often accompany the change in seasons.

Coughs and colds are very common. Each year, adults can develop between two and four colds and children between five and ten.

With our increasingly busy lives, we are often seeking a treatment for coughs and colds and the first stop is usually the pharmacy.

Coughing helps to clear the airway. It is caused by an irritation of the lining of the throat and lungs and may be due to an infection such as a common cold or influenza (flu), an allergy, changes in temperature, something in the throat, an irritant (e.g. cigarette smoke) or inflammation (swelling).

Coughs are usually classed as either dry (non-productive) or chesty (productive). A dry cough is described as dry, tight, tickly and irritating. A chesty cough produces phlegm. It is often described as ‘wet’. However, coughing may be a symptom of a serious illness or a side effect of a medicine.

Croup is an infection of the throat and is associated with a harsh, barking cough. It is often worse at night when the air is cooler. Croup is usually seen in children under 5 years old but sometimes it may occur in older children (aged between three and eight years). It is important to ask the pharmacist if you are unsure.

Cough treatments will not cure a cough; but they may help relieve the cough symptoms. Treatment depends on the symptoms and the type of cough. If you have a dry, non-productive cough, a treatment that sooths the throat and/or suppresses (stops) the cough may help.

If the cough is chesty and productive, a cough treatment that will help break up the mucus making it easier to cough may provide relief.

A cough medicine that suppresses a cough is not suitable for a chesty cough.

Colds are caused by viruses.

There are no medicines that can cure a cold. Some medicines such as cough suppressants, expectorants

and mucolytics, antihistamines, pain relievers and decongestants may ease the symptoms of colds and flu. Antibiotics do not work against viral infections and so are not useful for treating colds.

Often it may be difficult to tell the difference between the common cold and influenza (the flu). You may think you have the flu when you have a cold. Although viruses cause both conditions, the flu virus causes symptoms that are usually more severe and often appear suddenly. Always check with your pharmacist if you are unsure. They will provide you with the most appropriate information and know when to refer you for further medical review.

` Colds are caused by viruses. There are no medicines that can cure a cold... a To relieve the symptoms of a cold try to rest, drink plenty of water and non-alcoholic fluids, avoid cigarette smoke and use steam inhalations to help relieve a blocked nose (check with a doctor or pharmacist before using with children). To soothe a sore throat and cough, try gargling with warm salty water, anti-inflammatory, anaesthetic or antiseptic gargles (avoid in young children), sucking on an ice cube or a throat lozenge (avoid in young children) and drinking hot water with honey and lemon.

Your local pharmacist and pharmacy staff can provide a range of products, medicines, services and advice about the best treatment for your coughs and colds. Visit your local pharmacy next time you have a cough or cold and find out what they have available.

You can get more detailed information on coughs and colds from the Self Care Fact Cards titled Coughs and Colds and flu, available from pharmacies providing the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Self Care health information.

For the nearest Self Care pharmacy location phone the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia on 1300 369 772, or go to www.psa.org.au.

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Rock-a-royal baby style

This three-piece nursery set uses greys, but you can always add a touch of colour.

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN RINCE George will soon have to abdicate his nursery to make way for a brother or sister.

THE new prince or princess will most likely take up residence in the young prince’s Beatrix Potter-themed room at Kensington Palace, and will also enjoy a brand new nursery, currently being completed at the Cambridge’s country home, Anmer Hall in Norfolk.

No expense will have been spared to make it royally spectacular, and Kate and William may soon also be thinking of creating a ‘big boy’s’ bedroom for toddler George.

Of course, all parents, whatever their budget, lavish care on nurseries and children’s rooms.

Here’s how to give your own little one’s space the regal touch...

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PETITE PALACE

A matching Alphabet Zoo design incorporating fabric for curtains and chair upholstery, wallpaper and chest of drawers. PHOTO: PA/MEL YATES.

“IT’S a room on which parents lavish a lot of thought and care, and second time around, if they want a decor change – perhaps because of a different sex sibling – are often more confident about opting for a specific style and bolder in their colour choices,” says Lucinda Croft, owner of Dragons of Walton Street, the business that created nurseries for Princes William and Harry and their cousins, Beatrice and Eugenie.

“A space which is functional but stylish is always the most successful, and after a first baby, people are aware of the must-haves and the pieces which took up space needlessly.

“Warm cream, antique white and dove grey are still classic choices for walls, but there’s a growing enthusiasm for brighter colours. We’re seeing deeper

blues, bright pinks, sharp, citrus yellows and vivid greens coming through this year. Wall murals, which are enjoying a huge revival, are becoming more dramatic in vivid, rich colours too.

DECOR TIP: Two By Two, a parade of Noah’s ark animals, is a delightful design in fabric and wallpaper. It’s reportedly being considered by the Duchess of Cambridge, who chose furniture and furnishings decorated with Beatrix Potter illustrations for George’s nursery.

Unless you live in a royal residence, space is often at a premium in a nursery; so look for a Cot Bed that incorporates a storage unit with drawers - it is a clever solution. Simultaneous nursing and rocking soothes both baby and parent, and a nursing chair could be a perfect gift from doting grandparents.

A night nursery needs a soft light, too - look for something sweet as well as practical.

TODDLER’S KINGDOM WHEN a little one moves out of the nursery to make way for a new baby, he needs to be given his own little kingdom, reflecting his personality.

“Be inspired by your toddler’s favourite books or TV programmes to help you decide on a scheme, which will also help your child feel involved in the choice,” says Toks Aruoture, designer and founder of an online nursery specialist.

“A simple rule to follow is ‘less is more’. Children love colour, but an excessive amount of bright colours can over-stimulate, so reserve those for a playroom. Grey is ultra-fashionable and can be paired with reds, yellows or oranges for an adventurous scheme, or consider on-trend geometric prints,

Childproofing Blinds

BY SAMANTHA MAZZOTTA

THIS IS WHY YOU D.I.Y. Left, threading a cord stop through the pull cord, with the cord end looped through. Right, installed cord stops.

Q: A friend told me that the cords on my home blinds weren’t safe, and that kids or my cat could get tangled up in them. I’m not sure what to do to make them safe – should I replace the blinds? – Val A: These days, window blinds manufactured for sale here are required to have a safety feature installed to prevent children or pets from getting tangled up in the pull cords. Older window blinds may not have this feature.

The blinds’ manufacturer should include instructions for cord safety. If you can’t locate them, you can find general information at websites like www.productsafety.gov. au where it states: “The mandatory standard for internal blinds, curtains and window fittings (corded internal window coverings) was declared on July 8, 2010, and applies to relevant blinds, curtains and some fittings supplied after December 30, 2010. The mandatory standard that deals with the installation services of window coverings

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 17.04.2015 to Sunday 19.04.2015 which would work well picked out on rugs, bed fabrics and pictures.”

DECOR TIP: Make an engaging focal point in a room by repainting a key piece of furniture, such as a chest, and stencilling it with a pattern featuring nature, animals or flowers.

REGAL STYLE: Although you might need a king’s ransom to pay for it, you could give a prince or princess their own bespoke Castle Bed, with a play area and bed in its base and another bed upstairs in the turrets.

Provide a bedroom ‘camp’ with a Kids Tepee Cabin Bed in white solid pine, and matching Teepee Bookcase. Follow that outdoor theme with treeshaped Nursery Bookshelves.

Even little rulers need a grand place for toys, and a royally decorated trunk could be perfect for their treasures.

TODDLER TREAT: A uniquely coloured and shaped lamp would add a fantasy woodland touch.

into works of art. There are fabulous collections available, including elephants, giraffes, flowers and fish... the list goes one.

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BABY CHIC: Look for unique cushion collections - there are varieties available that include children’s book characters for instance.

A kids teepee cabin bed and bookcase in white solid pine

ROYAL REVAMP

AFTER your toddler’s grown out of the nursery, you may find it needs a right royal makeover to get it ready for a newcomer.

“Simply turning one wall into a feature, by painting it in a deeper, more striking version of a shade which complements your existing furnishings, may be all that’s needed,” says Marianne Shillingford, a creative director with Dulux.

“Alternatively, give a neutral scheme new life by painting the bottom half of the walls in another shade. Beauty Cream and Honest Touch are super emulsion shades which are warm and gentle, and tone with most versions of white.”

DECOR TIP: Accents of colour in accessories and pictures put zing into a room. Frame an older child’s paintings, so they feel they’ve helped decorate a room, and bring in further colour with a decorative blind.

REGAL STYLE: Give a crib or cot a touch of royal grandeur by adding a hand-made crown or coronet and a canopy.

Snuggling up with a new baby and a toddler in the nursery is bonding, and especially important in the early days when there may be jealousy, so sumptuous seating is a must.

Children’s wall stickers, once confined to garish cartoon characters, have evolved

This setting uses a cot canopy fabric

A Treasure Map theme.

A giraffe jungle fever blackout blind provides the colour inspiration for this room.

was made on March 28, 2014, and came into effect on January 1, 2015.”

Look on the pull cords of your window blinds for cord stops. These are small round plastic discs threaded through the cords. Here’s how to use them to make the pull cords safer, from the WCSC (www.windowcoverings.org/ how-to-retrofit/): 1. Lower the blind to its proper closed length and tug the cords slightly to the right to lock them in position.

2. To install a new cord stop, pinch together a section of the pull cord (near the top of the cord) and slide the plastic disc over the pinched-together cord so that you create a loop threaded through the disc 3. Keeping the loop large for now, bring the bottom part of the same pull cord through the loop and then tug it

into a loose half-knot under the disc.

4. Adjust the disc until it is about 5cm below the blinds’ head rail and tighten the knot. Repeat with the other cords.

5. The bottom of each cord shouldn’t hang past the bottom window sash when the blinds are closed. Shorten them by cutting each cord above the plastic tassel to a safer length, then rethreading the tassel onto the cord and securing with a knot tied on the end.

If you have young children or adventurous pets, consider replacing the blinds with safer cordless models as soon as possible.

QUICK TIP: Check the batteries in your digital thermostats. If they’re worn out, the thermostat behaves erratically. – Dennis.

NOW HERE’S A TIP

BY JOANN DERSON z Putting some time into your garden before winter?

To keep your fingernails from developing a dirt problem, use this classic tip: Rake your nails over a bar of soap. It “seals” the gap underneath, and later when you wash your hands, the soap slips right out... no need to spend time scrubbing out the dirt! – JoAnn z Add these to the list of items to eliminate the odour

of cooking cabbage: a heel of bread, a whole walnut or a pinch of baking soda. z Love beans but trying to save a little money? Don’t be intimidated by dry beans, just rinse them and throw them in the slow cooker. Add water according to package directions and cook on low for up to eight hours. After they cool, you can bag them in freezer-safe zipper-top bags and freeze them for easy use later. z If you keep a couple of crackers in your sugar jar, they’ll keep the sugar from caking. z If you or your kids have

trouble drifting off to sleep, try this aromatherapy trick: Spray sheets with a diluted lavender essential oil. Lavender is classic for sleep time. z “To make the handiest long-handled garden tool, do this right now: Lay the tool on the ground (it can be a hoe, rake – whatever you use most) and, using a tape measure, mark out metres and centimetres, or feet and inches, with a permanent marker right on the handle.

Now, when you go to put plants in the ground, you can space them out perfectly by laying down your tool along the planting line.” – C.O.

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Making friends on The Great Ocean Road

BY PAUL PURCELL T’S not as if the Twelve Apostles don’t exist. They do, just not as advertised.

For starters, only seven limestone stacks remain from the original nine just off the south Victorian coast. The others fell victim to the extreme weather and erosion that created them in the first place.

To add to the confusion, there are another eight rock formations in the immediate area that some locals in the nearby townships of Apollo Bay and Port Campbell count as part of the original set.

So where to start when trying to understand the formation once known as the Sow and the Piglets?

There’s only one place: the Great Ocean Road.

Running between the seaside towns of Torquay and Allansford, the 243km tarmac ribbon snakes through popular Victorian getaways Anglesea, Lorne, Apollo Bay and Port Campbell.

A collection of sweeping corners, sharp switchbacks and arrow straights that wouldn’t look out of place on a racetrack are accompanied by a stunning backdrop of the state’s beaches and countryside.

It sets the tone for spirited, and sometimes illegal, driving – as one England cricketer knows.

Even before he set out in a bright yellow Lamborghini, Kevin Pietersen was warned by local police about getting carried away as he tackled the twisting tarmac.

Less than 24 hours later, he was $239 poorer and on the back pages of nearly every Australian newspaper after being caught 20km/h over the speed limit.

But as it weaves between the soil and sand, what makes the experience special when driving the Great Ocean Road is not the speed or the tarmac.

As stunning as the scenery is – culminating with the

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GETTING THERE: The Great Ocean Road starts in Torquay, about a 90-minute drive from Melbourne.

The 243km road cuts a swathe across Victoria’s southwest beaches before finishing in Allansford.

STAYING THERE: A 10-minute walk from the township of Apollo Bay, Big4 Apollo Bay Pisces offers powered and unpowered campsites, caravan berths and a range of basic, deluxe and oceanview cabins.

PLAYING THERE: 12 Apostles Helicopters has a range of scenic flights from a 15-minute jaunt around the Apostles and London Bridge to an hour-long, 220km adventure stretching all the way to the Bay of Islands and Cape Otway Lighthouse.

Twelve Apostles – it isn’t that either.

It’s the people you meet along the way.

At our night stop at Apollo Bay, we stopped in at the local pub to get an authentic sense of the region.

We met four German doctors, three Kiwi pilots, two American retirees and a score of locals spending their Saturday night recounting adventures and sharing advice about Victoria’s southwest pocket.

It was a theme we encountered at every stop on our two-day journey and one that leads us back full circle to the enigmatic Twelve Apostles.

Named after Jesus’ most devout followers, the misdirection of the limestone stacks’ nomenclature is somehow appropriate.

You won’t make twelve new friends while on the Great Ocean Road; you’ll make many more. AAP *The writer travelled as a guest of Great Ocean Road Tourism.

Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park

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Actress-turned-cook says ‘let them eat cake!’

Lisa Faulkner. PHOTO: PA

BY JEANANNE CRAIG ISA Faulkner has a lot to thank the worldwide MasterChef franchise for. Since winning the UK version of Celebrity MasterChef in 2010, the former Holby City actress (seen here on Foxtel) has carved out a successful second career as a TV cook, and released three recipe books.

The BBC One show was also where she met Australian-born chef John Torode, the firm-butfair judge who eventually became her boyfriend.

“I took on three jobs at the same time as MasterChef, thinking I would only be in it

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for a day, and I ended up in it until the end. That was amazing in itself,” the 43-year-old says.

“It completely changed my life and I haven’t stopped cooking since. It’s been amazing, really.”

Torode – who she began dating in 2012 – is “lovely, very lovely”, according to Faulkner, who has an eight-year-old daughter, Billie, from her marriage to EastEnders actor Chris Coghill.

“Somebody said, ‘So what’s it like at home when you’re both cooking?’ It’s just like we’re both cooking! It’s not like he’s going, ‘Oh, you need to do

that’, or, ‘Hurry Lisa, you’ve got five minutes!’,” she adds with a laugh.

Things have been busy recently, with the release of her third cookbook, Tea & Cake.

“I wanted to do a book that was just about things that I liked, and memories of tea in days gone by when I was little – things like sandwiches and cake and tins of biscuits,” Faulkner explains.

“We run around so much and we are all crazy busy,” she adds. “We can get so caught up in everything that’s going on, and sometimes just to stop for five minutes with a cup of tea in a pot and a piece of cake, it’s

Ramp up the flavour

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS AND GINA HARLOW

THE KITCHEN DIVAs

Many of us head out to the farmer’s markets on a routine basis these days. In addition to buying incomparably fresh food and supporting the local economy, there’s another reason why shopping at a farmer’s market is a treat.

If you keep your eyes and mind open, you’ll find many varieties of vegetables and fruits that you won’t find anywhere else. If you’re lucky, wild leeks (sometimes called “ramps”) are a great catch.

Because of their short season, these are lesser known than other members of

like, ‘Do you know what? Everything’s actually all right’.”

Faulkner has also been helping out with a campaign encouraging people to love their kitchens and explore their cooking potential.

She is keen to stress that image isn’t everything when it comes to baking.

“If you’ve made a cake for somebody you love and there are little dents in it, or the icing falls down the cake, it’s how it tastes, who you’ve made it for and why you’ve made it [that counts],” she says.

“My grandma was properly slapdash, but she was an amazing cook.”

the allium family, which includes onions, leeks and garlic. They grow wild and can also be found on the side of mountains, in forests and along creek bottoms.

Wild leeks are even more desirable because they are not easily cultivated. So, most times, even at the farmer’s market, the ones you find are ‘harvested from the wild’. Besides their unique taste and rarity, wild leeks are high in vitamins A and C. Studies have shown that they contain selenium, which is an essential micronutrient.

Wild leeks have a strong flavour that is similar to a garlic and onion combined.

When used with a knowing and delicate hand, their unique flavour lends itself to a variety of dishes.

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If you’ve made a cake for somebody you love and there are little dents in it, or the icing falls down the cake, it’s how it tastes, who you’ve made it for and why you’ve made it [that counts],

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As the world around us has becomes more food obsessed, chefs looking for new and different ingredients have incorporated wild leeks into their menus.

If you are fortunate to find ramps, prepare them soon, as their delicate leaves don’t hold up well. They can be substituted in any recipe that calls for onions, scallions or garlic. But use caution, as a little of this pungent vegetable goes a long way. These recipes for Ramp Butter and Ramp and Bacon Vinaigrette showcase the vibrant flavour of ramps while extending their season.

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SELF-SAUCING CHOCOLATE PUDDING 125g plain flour Pinch of salt 60g caster sugar 2tsp baking powder 2tbsp cocoa powder 120ml milk 40g butter, melted 1 egg 1-2 drops of vanilla extract For the topping: 180g muscovado sugar 2tbsp cocoa powder 250ml boiling water Sift the flour, salt, caster sugar, baking powder and cocoa powder into a bowl.

Combine the milk, butter, egg and vanilla extract in

another bowl, then mix the wet and dry ingredients together.

Pour the mixture into a 1-litre pie dish. Cover with cling film and put in the fridge overnight to set.

The next day, preheat the oven to 180C (350F)/gas mark 4. Sprinkle the muscovado sugar and cocoa powder over the pudding and pour the boiling water over the top. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, until the pudding is puffy and firm in the centre.

Remove from the oven and serve with pouring cream or ice cream.

CLAFOUTIS LIMOUSIN 400ml milk 150g flour 70g caster sugar Pinch of salt 3 eggs 2tbsp rum (optional) About 80g butter, for greasing 200g fresh cherries Icing sugar, for dusting Preheat the oven to 180C (350F)/gas mark 4.

Put the milk in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Take off the heat and leave to cool.

To make the batter, mix the flour, sugar and salt

together well, then beat in the eggs, one by one.

With a spatula, incorporate the boiled milk very slowly and gently, turning the mixture rather than beating. Add the rum, if using.

Generously grease a 2cm deep, 25cm diameter baking tin with butter and add the cherries, spreading them evenly. Pour the batter over the top and cook in the preheated oven for 30 minutes.

Sprinkle with a little icing sugar before serving hot or cold.

The first two recipes were created by Lisa Faulkner for Hotpoint. All three are also available in her new book Tea & Cake by Lisa Faulkner, published in hardback by Simon & Schuster Ltd

Billie, who Faulkner adopted in 2006 when she was 15 months old, is also a keen chef.

“She loves to cook and bake, and set the table, anything to do with food, she’s well into.

She likes making pastry and bread, and she loves making chicken noodle soup.

“I feel so very grateful to have her that I spend as much time as possible with her,” adds Faulkner, who was 16 when her mother Julie died of cancer. “She and I are a right little team.”

While best known for her culinary prowess these days, she hasn’t bid farewell to her acting career.

“I went for something the

other day – that I didn’t get, sadly – but it was nice to go in again,” she says.

“What’s exciting for me is that I’ll only go for characters that I really want, because I have another job that I absolutely love.”

As for turning 43 earlier this year, she confesses: “I don’t feel like I’m grown up enough to be 43, I feel like a child!

“It’s weird to think that great big number is me,” the actressturned-cook adds. “But when I look back on what I’ve done, I think, ‘God, I’ve fitted quite a lot in’.”

Fancy a sweet treat? Here are three of Faulkner’s delicious recipes to try at home.

RAMP BUTTER 110g ramps, roots trimmed 11 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 3 whole salt-packed anchovies, rinsed, soaked and filleted, then finely chopped, optional 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest (from about 2 large lemons) 1 1/2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice, or more to taste 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a

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heavy-bottom pan over high heat until melted. Saute the ramps until wilted, then chop into a small dice.

Scrape ramps into a large bowl and add the remaining 10 tablespoons butter, salt, anchovies if desired, lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil, red pepper flakes and black pepper.

2. Stir mixture with fork or wooden spoon just until well-combined.

3. You can refrigerate the butter for a day or two in a covered bowl. Or, spoon the butter mixture onto a piece of food-safe parchment paper.

Roll up mixture on parchment to create a log shape. Twist ends of paper to seal butter, and place it into a re-sealable plastic bag. Refrigerate

EARL GREY TEA LOAF 225g raisins 225g sultanas 125g dried figs, chopped 125g glace cherries, halved 110g chopped dried apricots 1 Earl Grey tea bag 110g light muscovado sugar 110g dark muscovado sugar Juice and zest of an orange Butter, for greasing 110g ground almonds 1tbsp golden syrup 2 eggs, beaten 450g self-raising flour 1tsp ground mixed spice 100ml whole milk Combine the fruits in a large, heatproof mixing bowl. Pour 300ml boiling water onto the tea bag and leave to brew for a minute

butter log until firm, about 3 hours.

Slice into “coins” to serve immediately, or freeze parchment-wrapped logs in plastic bag for up to 3 months. Makes about 1 1/2 cups.

RAMP AND BACON VINIAGRETTE 12 ramps, roots trimmed 2 slices bacon 3/4 cup olive oil 3/4 cup minced parsley 1/4 cup white wine vinegar 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon freshly ground black

or so. Discard the tea bag then dissolve the sugars in the hot tea, add the orange juice and zest, and pour over the fruit. Stir to combine, then cover and leave to soak overnight.

The next day, preheat the oven to 150C (300F)/ gas mark 2, and grease and line a 900g loaf tin with greaseproof paper.

Stir the ground almonds, golden syrup and beaten eggs into the soaked fruit mixture then sift in the flour and mixed spice. Stir to combine, adding the milk if the mixture seems a little stiff, then spoon into the lined tin.

Bake for two to two-anda-quarter hours, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

Cut into thick slices and serve spread with butter.

pepper, to taste 1/2 teaspoon honey 1. Heat a cast-iron grill or heavybottom pan over medium-high heat.

Cook bacon for 2 minutes. Add the ramps and continue to cook both, flipping once, until ramps are slightly charred and bacon is crisp, another 3 minutes.

2. Transfer bacon and ramps into blender. Add half the oil, parsley, vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper and honey; and puree until smooth. With the motor running, drizzle in remaining oil until emulsified.

3. Store in refrigerator in air-tight container for up to 2 weeks. Shake before using. Makes 1 1/2 cups.

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Hard work makes time to play

BY VIVIENNE WINTHER DIRECTOR MACQUARIE CONSERVATORIUM

OR students who have learnt a musical instrument since they were very young, realising that making music means more to them than just an extra-curricular hobby raises a lot of questions. It is a big step to decide to pursue a career as a classical musician.

What does a student need to do to get on the path to that higher level? The much talked about 10,000 hours principle claims that amassing hours and hours of individual practice will give you the skills to become a master of your instrument. But surely there’s more to becoming a professional musician than just putting in the hours practising on your own?

A group of young musicians who’ve travelled a fair way down the professional path will visit Dubbo for a concert on Friday, May 1. David Miller, a senior lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, is leading six students from the Conservatorium’s prestigious Masters performance program on a tour of the Central West.

“To be a professional musician, the first important thing to understand is why you are learning the craft of playing an instrument,” says David Miller, an acclaimed pianist who specialises in accompaniment and chamber music playing as well as teaching at the graduate and postgraduate level.

“It seems obvious, but the reason you strive to excel on your instrument is to share music with others, to communicate your insights and feelings about music to people who want to listen. The technical work and hours of practice are designed to make that possible.

“So mastering the art of performance and being able to communicate effectively to an audience is a big part of the transformation of a student musician into a professional.”

Their Central West tour gives the young players a chance to experience the life of a professional musician.

“It’s important for student musicians to have lots of performance opportunities. On a tour like this, they will play in different halls with varying acoustics, the audiences will be made up of different people with their own unique expectations.

“The students will play the same pieces several times in different circumstances over a short period. This gives you insight into your playing; what works well, what needs improving, how successful you are in expressing your ideas to an audience in performance, as opposed to practising at home.”

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BY NATALIE HOLMES CULTURE VULTURE

RANGE FOOD Week dawned with a warm autumn day last Saturday in a city renowned for its often chilly reception. The event traditionally kicks off with night markets in Robertson Park featuring an impressive 50 stalls but instead we arrived in time for the Farmers’ Markets on Saturday morning ready to soak up the atmosphere and sample some of the fine fare on offer.

With some quality acoustic music providing a pleasant ambience in local parkland, we meandered among the stalls, sampling everything from olives to boutique beer, and everything in between. There were soft cheeses including marinated feta, fine wines, teriyaki beef jerky, honey, homegrown apples and pears, curried pistachi-

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Macquarie Conservatorium students with visiting artist mentor: Students Emma Newby & Amanda Hovenden, visiting artist Tim Nankervis

Performing is also important for music students at an earlier stage of development.

Three Macquarie Conservatorium students who are still at school have embarked on a special course of chamber music study, rehearsing together each week and preparing for performances with the guidance of Conservatorium staff. Emma Newby, Amanda Hovenden and Eunice Roberts will perform a program of piano trios, string trios and solos for a coming Mothers’ Day event.

“These three students are individually at a level of proficiency on their instrument where they really benefit from playing chamber music together,” says one of their teachers, violinist Kelly Bird.

“Working together as a trio offers them more varied performance opportunities, playing as a group as well as solo.”

Kelly’s own diverse experiences as a performer with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Pops Orchestra and Camerata of St John’s, as well as in smaller ensembles, showed her how important it is to grasp every chance to perform.

“As a young player, say yes to all do-able performing opportunities! It’s hard work, to build up stamina, to learn new music quickly,

to absorb different styles of music, to play in large orchestras and small groups, but that is what a professional musician’s career is like.

It’s good to experience as much of that as you can while you are studying.”

David Miller agrees that being open to all facets of a career in music is important.

“A student needs to recognise their strengths, weaknesses and interests as a musician, assess what is available as professional work, and then try to find a niche in a number of areas,” says David.

“Full-time jobs in an orchestra are very limited, so a versatile musician who has experience in several fields of playing and is open to different roles will do better than someone who walks out looking for that one permanent position.

“It’s important not to dismiss teaching as part of your career; your own playing will benefit a lot from teaching, you learn about yourself when you have to teach others.

“Most of all, a student should make connections in the industry, find mentors, and seek work experience in music organisations.”

As an undergraduate student at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Kelly Bird valued the opportunity to be mentored by professionals in the field.

It’s hard work, to build up stamina, to learn new music quickly, to absorb different styles of music, to play in large orchestras and small groups, but that is what a professional musician’s career is like.” – Violinist Kelly Bird os, gourmet meats and a taste of the Orient with pulled pork rolls along with rolls of the good old bacon and egg variety. Stallholders were friendly, with some even wandering among the large crowd to offer a taste of dishes as varied on the palate as gherkin relish and lemon butter.

Venturing into more adventurous territory, there were a range of handcrafted dukkhas and oils to try, along with some chilli jam with lime and ginger, which added a nice kick to the morning stroll.

For the sweet tooth, there were delicious cupcakes on offer and a stall offering the signature salted caramel delights of Kate Bracks of MasterChef fame, and lo and behold, I was surprised to see the lady herself selling the treats. There were also stalls offering non-edible produce including beauty products and botanicals, all locally grown and sourced too.

The morning was a fine way to start a day out in Orange, which is fast becoming the food capital to visit. Its Tablelands location is perfect for cool climate produce including

stone fruits, wines and cider. Growers are now capitalising on this location, and trends such as the 100 mile diet and paddock to plate and more cottage industries, are popping up in the traditional orchard areas outside the city.

Known collectively as The Food Basket, the shires of Orange, Cabonne and Blayney group together for this annual 10-day feast which stands for the Food of Orange District.

The event supports local produce, showcasing the producers, their products, the local chefs and restaurants, and other enterprises that provide the region with its great reputation for fine food and wine. This week, there has been walking tours, long luncheons, greet the grower and plenty of sampling sessions. But never fear, there’s still more to do this weekend, with the event not wrapping up until Sunday afternoon.

So for anyone looking for something fun to do, you can sup and sip to your heart’s delight. Just follow your nose, and the Mitchell Highway down to Orange. You won’t be disappointed.

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Irissa Knight

Irissa Knight never thought she would be a florist, let alone own her own shop.

This born and bred local loves to travel, and sees a future filled with kids, a dream home and a dream garden... with flowers. Lots of flowers.

What’s On May 1: Sydney Conservatorium Young Artists Concert, Macquarie Conservatorium 7.30pm May 2: Masterclasses for strings, flute and guitar students with Sydney Conservatorium Young Artists, Macquarie Conservatorium May 10: Musical High Tea for Mother’s Day, performed by Macquarie Conservatorium students and staff, Dundullimal Homestead, 2pm May 21-22: New Sydney Wind Quintet concert, masterclass and schools performance, Macquarie Conservatorium More info: www.macqcon.org.au Sydney Conservatorium Young Artists 2: James Larsen, Meg Cohen, Sonia Wilson and Hayasa Tanaka.

“I was part of a student mentoring program with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, attending rehearsals and playing alongside their musicians. It was an eyeopener that made me realise you need a very strong work ethic to get somewhere in the industry. It certainly inspired me to work harder.”

As well as lots of performing and taking on board the advice of mentors, simply playing together with others is a learning curve for young musicians.

“The most important skill a musician can have is being able to listen and react,” says Kelly.

“You need to listen to yourself critically when you are practising alone, but it’s another process to listen to others and adjust what you are doing when playing

in an ensemble. With our student trio at Macquarie Conservatorium, I will ask one student to play their line of music while the others just listen, or two of them to play softly while they concentrate on listening to the third person’s part.”

David Miller agrees that being a good listener as well as a good communicator are important traits of a professional musician.

“As well as learning how to listen, and developing an awareness of your own playing in relation to others, working together in any music performance requires good interpersonal skills,” says David.

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“In that way, it’s a lot like any other human endeavour when people work together, you bring your skills and craft to the exercise and find ways to get the best result as a team; in our case, to create an inspiring listening experience for our audience. In the end, that’s what it’s all about.”

Dubbo audiences can judge for themselves how well these young musicians listen to each other when they perform at concerts in early May. Visit www.macqcon.org.au for more details.

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BY ANDY WELCH HAT better way to mark your 20th anniversary, than joining the 21st century?

That’s what Placebo did, by recently placing each of their seven albums on streaming platforms, such as a Spotify and Deezer, for the first time ever.

“We had resisted before, but decided to give it a try,” says frontman Brian Molko. “I sincerely believe there is some work to be done regarding remuneration, serious work, but on the other side, one has to ask oneself, do you remain a Luddite, and do you dictate to people how they consume your music, or do you join in?”

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We had a lot of mixed feelings, particularly concerning the money...

The band has signed a threeyear streaming deal, and will reassess when that’s up.

The debate about streaming, particularly revenue, has been happening since Spotify was founded in 2006.

The idea is simple. Users don’t buy music, they just sign up to an account with one of the companies offering such a service – whether it be Spotify, Deezer, Rdio, Napster, Google Play Music, or one of the many others – and can then play whatever music they have in their vast libraries (as long as they’re connected to decent broadband or mobile internet, of course).

Most streaming services offer monthly subscriptions for about ten dollars (give or take a few), so you never hear adverts, and for that, you’ll also receive unlimited play.

Charts have been altered to take streaming into account.

Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk notched up almost three mil-

lion streams since its release last year, keeping it high in the charts ever since.

The problems arise when it comes to paying artists for their work. Taylor Swift famously removed all of her albums from Spotify last year when she released 1989, as she feels streaming is an experiment she’s not willing to give her life’s work to. Many others share her opinion – and when you consider she would earn between 12 and 40 cents for every song downloaded from iTunes, even more per song for every CD bought, but just one cent per stream on Spotify, it’s not hard to see where she’s coming from.

Molko says he and the rest of the Placebo team were mulling over their decision to get involved for two years, before finally saying yes.

“We had a lot of mixed feelings, particularly concerning the money, if I’m honest, but it’s easier with a band like us with a back catalogue, that has sold lots of records, than for a new band trying to eke out a living solely on streaming.”

Interestingly enough, Jay Z has just launched his own service, Tidal, which promises to address this imbalance, with a raft of his friends, including

Chris Martin, Jack White and Madonna, signing up.

Sound quality is another thing that concerns Molko, with many services offering lower-quality streams.

“No matter what anyone says, MP3s just don’t cut it,” he says. “They sound like cassettes to my ears, and MP3s work by cutting out low and high frequencies, so the file size is suitably small enough – the idea being that the human ear can’t hear those frequencies, so no one misses them. But you do – the body can feel those notes.

Listening to music is a physical experience, and that’s the problem with MP3s.”

He is, however, happier about forthcoming vinyl reissues of their albums.

“It’s the format I fell in love with, and it’s obviously a beautiful object,” he says. “It was basically me and the album in my hand, the gorgeous artwork on the front, a small photo of the band on the back of the sleeve and my imagination.”

The band is currently on tour promoting their seventh album Loud Like Love, and will be until July. If none of them get sick, that is.

Molko, who was born in Belgium, grew up in the Scottish city of Dundee and has lived in London for more than 20 years, says he’s been fighting off the flu for a couple of weeks, although he tries not to let it affect his performance on stage.

“You just have to do your best,” says the 42-year-old. “As long as it’s the best that you can do that night, then you come out of it karmically sound, I think. Obviously, your best one night is different to your best another night, but that’s all you can do.

“We all also believe in Dr Theatre [a showbiz phrase meaning unwell artists will somehow recover and get through a performance, before plunging back into illness again afterwards]. And Dr Theatre seems to appear about 15 minutes before we go on stage and takes things in hand and helps us through. The idea of the show just makes you feel better. I’m more likely to get sick when I come off tour and relax for a few days.”

After this one, the trio will have a small break, and then get ready to tour again at the beginning of 2016, to celebrate their 20th anniversary.

“Well, you know...” begins Molko, before pausing for what feels like an age. “I feel very grateful to be in this position after 20 years, and to still have an audience, and an audience that cares, shows up at gigs and is interested in what we’re doing,” he adds. “They’re my true feelings about it, more than any feelings I have about time that’s gone by.

“We’re incredibly privileged.

Being in a band is also what I’ve done for my entire adult life. I can’t drive, so I couldn’t drive a cab, I refuse to tend a bar, my computer skills are quite shoddy, so I’m kind of stuck for anything else to do. We have to keep going.

Brian Molko of Placebo on stage as part of the iTunes Festival in London last year. PHOTO: DAVID JENSEN/PA

“There’s a lot to be said for putting all your eggs in one basket, determination and just refusing to go away. And in our case, our refusal to go away has got a lot to with the fact that we don’t know what else to do.”

When it comes to touring next year, he says the band is currently talking about what form their shows should take, and what songs they’ll play.

“I think we’ll exhume some of our more popular material,” he says. “It might be a greatest hits tour, but we’ll definitely play songs we haven’t played in a long time, perhaps even playing them for the last time ever.”

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:: Deezer, by comparison, has around 16 million users and six million paying subscribers.

:: Since Apple purchased streaming service Beats Music last year, they’ve also acquired BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe to head up a new platform, widely rumoured to be a personalised streaming service like a radio station.

Apparently due to be announced soon. :: Music streams doubled in 2014, compared to 2013’s tally, and accounts for almost 13 per cent of overall music consumption. :: Placebo’s back catalogue is now available on streaming services including Spotify and Deezer. Their latest album, Loud Like Love, is out now

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Julia Blackburn’s work becomes her salvation in “Threads” salvation too. A poignant meditation on creativity and grief.

9/10 Review by Dan Brotzel z FICTION The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips is published in hardback by Oneworld Publications.

THIS latest work of fiction by the West Indies-born writer and Yale professor is as much a personal journey of discovery as it is a literary gem.

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE z BOOK OF THE WEEK Threads: The Delicate Life Of John Craske by Julia Blackburn is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape.

JOHN Craske was born in 1881, and became a fisherman in the East England county of Norfolk. In 1917 he fell seriously ill with a mysterious condition which left him in an intermittent ‘stuporous state’ for the rest of his short life.

In 1925, he felt a sudden urge to start painting, and from then on he spent all his lucid moments covering every surface he could find with pictures of boats and his beloved East Anglian coastline.

Later, when he was too ill to stand and paint, he took to embroidery and crafted many fine marine tapestries including his masterpiece, a giant thread canvas of the Evacuation of Dunkirk. His deceptively simple work, with its acute understanding of how a ship holds itself in water, at last looks set to emerge from decades of neglect with a new exhibition and with this unorthodox biography that is part memoir, part travelogue and part eulogy.

Very little is known about Craske, but Blackburn makes a virtue of this uncertainty by folding in stories of her search for facts, of her own life, and of the eccentric Norfolk coastline. Along the way we learn about Einstein’s wartime stay in Sheringham, hear an alternative history of the Elephant Man, and investigate the mysteries of the pituitary gland.

Behind it all is the enigmatic figure of Craske himself, absorbed in his painting, fixated on the sea, the return to stupor always imminent.

The work is what gets him through. As the book progresses, Blackburn must contend with the death of her own much-loved husband.

Her work – the completion of this subtle and absorbing book, full of sad treasures and odd pleasures – becomes her

Identity, belonging and family are the focal themes of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author and screenwriter, who was born in St Kitts in the West Indies but grew up in England’s West Yorkshire during the 1960s and 1970s.

Phillips cleverly stitches together two separate narratives, imagining the early

years of Emily Bronte’s conflicted protagonist Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, which he interweaves with the Sixties-set story of Wakefieldborn dreamer and social recluse Monica who drops out of Oxford and cuts all ties with her parents after falling for Caribbean graduate Julius.

The couple’s eventual acceptance of the failure of their marriage sees her heading back up north, alone with her two young sons.

The brooding landscapes of the moors merge two reflective tales of a sense of place and home. A beautiful but haunting read.

9/10 Review by Laura Carless Adeline: A Novel Of Virginia Woolf by Norah Vincent is published in hardback by Virago.

SPANNING 1925 to 1941, this richly imagined novel ‘of’ Virginia Woolf delves deep into her psyche, drawing perhaps too heavily on the biography written by Hermione Lee, which lends it enormous accuracy.

An exploration of the events that led to Woolf’s eventual suicide, the book is haunted

by Adeline (Woolf’s given first name), realised here as a 13-year-old apparition of herself, beckoning her towards her eventual death. This does give the novel a desperately sad insight into Woolf’s mental state – her guilt about the ever-practical Leonard, for example – but is, for this reader

at least, the book’s undoing.

It’s worth reading for so many wonderful scenes, from Woolf’s meeting with Dora Carrington to Vincent’s portrayal of Lytton Strachey, but although ‘Adeline’ sheds light on Woolf’s earlier life and mental landscape, she becomes a distraction and an affectation: one which this lush novel could sail along without.

7/10 Review by Emma Herdman The Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Arguing by Melissa Kite is published in paperback by Corsair.

THE key to any good novel is to perfect your main character into someone the reader feels they have got to know. And Melissa Kite hits the nail on the head on that front.

Madison Flight is a divorce

Caryl Phillips’ new novel is a beautiful but haunting read. PHOTO: ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS

lawyer who, as the title suggests, cannot stop arguing.

Nicknamed the ‘Chair Scraper’ because of the amount of time she spends jumping out of her seat during a court case, Madison has an uncontrollable need to fight against whatever is said to her.

She refuses to be born on time, her first word, discovered on holiday in Spain at the age of one, is, of course ‘no’, and when minestrone soup is taken off the menu at the restaurant she has lunch at every day, the poor waitress has no choice but to go out and buy her a tin.

The contrary character’s persona makes this a highly entertaining, witty and, at times, laugh-out-loud read.

The one problem is that there’s

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There is a lot of back story for every character featured, but the main show doesn’t seem to kick in until chapter 20, making it a slightly slow burner from the start.

6/10 Review by Emily Pawson z NON-FICTION Another Little Piece Of My Heart: My Life Of Rock And Revolution In The ‘60s by Richard Goldstein is published in hardback by Bloomsbury Circus.

MANHATTAN, 1966. Socially awkward, music and Beatsobsessed teenager Richard Goldstein lands a (barely paid) job with the Village Voice as a rock critic, which turns out to be a passport to fame and influence, meeting stars from the Beatles to the Beach Boys.

This memoir picks through Goldstein’s memories of the drug-enhanced hope and sourness of Sixties America and is particularly effective as his job put him in the centre of the youth movement.

Unsurprisingly, it’s very well-written, though veers into self-indulgence as the author recounts his struggles with bisexuality, indoctrinated racism and craving for attention.

Names are dropped on every other page, but the confes-

as topics and ideas bounce around each section; but there’s also a wearying sense that perhaps – in contrast to Steve Coogan’s constantly evolving Alan Partridge – is there much more comic mileage to be squeezed out of the Landlord? Maybe the next few weeks will tell us more...

You’ll hjave a much better chance of seeing the funny side in Murray’s book if you have an interest in British politics, and the General Election due next month.

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sional tone means it’s hard to feel more than a smattering of sympathy as Goldstein relates their lives and deaths.

He wishes he could “wring the juice” of his Sixties experience to reach a profound message, like in the film Almost Famous, but real life is more interesting, though less satisfying – rather like this book.

7/10 Review by Natalie Bowen Let’s Re-Great Great Britain

by The Pub Landlord Al Murray is published in paperback by Penguin.

AL Murray is an English comedian and TV personality.

While he’s far less known in Australia, because we have an ongoing affection for British comedy here, it’s worth noting that he was named one of the 50 funniest British comedians by The Observer a decade ago, and more recently named amongst that country’s top 20 stand-up comedians.

Based on Murray’s best known character, The Pub Landlord, this comedy offering is a boon for fans of the character, revelling in his stereotypical views on a range of government agendas.

Latching onto the publicity garnered by the Landlord’s real life decision to stand

against Nigel Farage in the upcoming British General Election, the book lays out ‘his’ manifesto for an even greater Great Britain.

Any semi-serious notions on economy, immigration, defence, etc, are interspersed by flights of whimsy by Murray and comedian co-writers including Andy Zaltzman of The Bugle fame and Matt Forde.

Historical and modern targets are shoe-horned into the narrative (an amusing diagram of how the criminal mind works, contrasts with ‘Eric Pickles could do with shedding a few pounds’ gags),

What are you thinking?

ODAY’S article is motivated by a customer who was buying a book about rifle shooting which emphasised the disciplines necessary to consistently achieve on-target results.

A comment he made was that the book would help him gain confidence – that when aiming to fire, if there was a thought that one would miss, then that’s what would happen. If there was confidence that he was on target – better results were achieved.

This approach, this mental attitude, extends beyond the gun target to a multitude of goals that we have in life, and how we achieve them depends so much on the thinking and choices made.

The brain works all the time, helping us to meet the challenges of the day – big and small – and when we are asleep, to sensor bodily functions. IQ tests tell us that some people have “more brains” than others yet we occasionally become aware that a high IQ endowed person may achieve in one faculty whist another person of lesser measure will achieve at least as well in their own field.

Why is it that each of us tends to develop a skill that would not have occurred had we not applied ourselves positively?

An example about the role that tests have on us is shown in the number of people who work through standard and cryptic crosswords each day.

Phillip Carter and Ken Russell have published four books that involve the IQ, each addresses

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a different aspect of our thinking and shows that we can improve our mental abilities. IQ tests can be used as part of a job interview but they can be used for you to assess your own performance and act as personal motivation.

“Assess Your IQ” deals with numerical, verbal and aptitude tests. It is designed to improve your verbal and numerical skills, and using 400 questions it is organised into 10 timed tests so that you can assess your performance. It is designed to develop your powers of calculation and logical reasoning, increase vocabulary and boost confidence.

“Succeed at IQ Tests” includes 400 questions that focus on verbal spatial and reasoning skills.

Working through these aims to develop confidence particularly when considering a job interview or seeking to rise through the ranks at your employment.

It builds confidence and is a stimulus for interacting successfully with people, gained by boosting your brain power.

“IQ Testing” steps up the odds with 400 challenging questions aimed at developing your powers of calculation and logical reasoning as well as vocabulary use. The book will familiarise

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you with the different types of tests, increasing your chances of passing, whilst reducing the fear factor.

And “Test Your IQ (2nd edition)” includes brand new questions that can boost your brain power. Confidence in the making.

For those who are faced with senior academic entrance challenges, Mike Bryon has written “The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook”. For the advanced level, it provides advice on adopting a winning approach plus 500 practice questions covering personality questionnaires, quantitative reasoning, data interpretation, verbal reasoning and analysis of information tests.

In quite a different format Joel Levy has prepared “Boost Your Brain” which provides a graphic series of tests that encourages you to switch on your brain using 300 puzzles and tips. If you are faced with challenges such as “where did I leave my keys”, “what’s my password”, or “I’ve forgotten their names”, these pages have the content to get you thinking and remembering.

“The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale is an excellent example of using our thoughts to reason our progress in life and achieve with determination. Considered the

z CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Hooray! It’s A New Royal Baby!

by Martha Mumford, illustrated by Ada Grey, is published in paperback by Bloomsbury.

THE new royal baby is already proving quite lucrative for some, even though it is yet to be born – or named.

Martha Mumford and Ada Grey follow up their previous books Shhh! Don’t Wake The Royal Baby and Happy Birthday, Royal Baby! with a charming, if bland, tale about how Prince George takes to the new arrival.

He’s rather jealous at first, fearing his younger sibling might steal his jam sandwich-

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es, but all is well when the new baby gives George a goldfish. Until George gets bored of watching it swim round and round.

Luckily though, by that point, the new baby has figured out how to smile, crawl, roll and blow raspberries and generally keep its big brother entertained.

Parents will marvel at the speed the new baby seems to pick up these skills – seemingly all on its first day at home, judging by size and clothes – but you can’t help but find the illustrations cute and for those introducing new bubs into their family nest this autumn, this tale about George taking on his big brotherly duties will be a big help.

6/10 Review by Kate Whiting

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Rugby declares open season PHOTOS STEVE COWLEY THE Dubbo Kangaroos have drawn first blood in their bid to retain the Blowes Clothing Cup rugby union premiership, downing the Narromine Gorillas in a 39-11 season opener last weekend.

The final score didn’t reflect the solid Narromine performance in the first half with Dubbo’s forwards and backs combining well in attack to outscore their opponents in the second half.

New combinations in the backs will only improve and the work done by the loose forwards was excellent given this was the first game of the season.

The Glenn Browning Memorial Trophy, named in honour of the popular local man and passionate rugby supporter who took his own life nearly three years ago, features a shifting spanner, is fittingly inscribed with the words, “Shifting the stigma of mental illness”. Glenn’s wife Jody and her family were on hand to present the trophy, and funds raised throughout the day will go to support the RU OK Foundation and Narromine Community Mental Health.

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Lunch out at The Grapevine

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE great food and service at The Grapevine cafĂŠ always hits the spot, with many people enjoying the lovely weather on Saturday, April 11, and eating in the beautiful sunlight.

John and Colleen Moffitt

Lea Munro, Kaylene Green and Tim Millgate

Ken Wotton and CoCo Chanel

Malcolm Roth, Lawrie Donoghue and Margaret Hughes

Robert and Barbara Marchesi

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A day at the movies

BY KAITLYN RENNIE DURING the school holidays, family and friends of all ages set out to see the great variety of movies showing at Reading Cinemas, particularly on Saturday, April 11.

The Williamson family from Warren

Janice Baker with Krystal and Will Herbert

Jack and Meg Holden with Kylie Hull

Bean Keating, Tyler Gillespie and Indiana Keating

Anna Newcombe and Sarah Bruce

Lunch at Short St cafĂŠ

BY KAITLYN RENNIE A scrumptious lunch was being enjoyed by visitors at the Short St CafĂŠ on Saturday, April 11, when Dubbo Weekender visited. Family, friends and couples were enjoying a great lunch and drinks, along with the great service and facilities.

Jess and Marie Giddings

Tanya, Grace, Ruby and Tom Storer

Michael and Kristy West

Drew Davis and Dean Norton

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A big Barwick family gathering

BY KAITLYN RENNIE A big day was had for the Barwick family on Saturday, April 11. People from as far as Brisbane travelled to Dubbo to be at the zoo to attend the annual Barwick cousinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reunion.

The family enjoyed lunch together, while sitting on the lovely lawn at the zoo, with several generations attending the get together.

Although some could not make it, it was appreciated by the older members that so many had been able to attend.

The descendants of Bert Barwick and their families

The descendants of Walter Barwick

The descendants of Muriel Barwick

The descendants of Clarry Barwick

Descendants of Simeon Barwick

The whole Barwick family that could attend

The descendants of Mervyn Barwick

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The biennial patchwork quilt exhibition

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE 15th biennial quilt exhibition was held on the weekend of April 11 and 12.

The Dubbo Patchwork and Quilters Group Inc was formed 30 years ago, made up of 25 women. Today, there are still three original members, with current member ages ranging between mid-20s to mid-80s.

The group works hard, and has presented more than 650 quilts to the community, particularly to groups such as Meals on Wheels, Kids in Crisis and the Women’s Shelter.

The stunning quilt created by Vicki Dawson, made for her great nephew’s 18th birthday

Jean Slack-Smith doing some demonstrations

Rosalin McIntosh and Janelle Cullen

Lorna White, Charlene Bower, and Nola Joens

Larnie Keen and Colleen Flynn

Vanessa Hey and Aileen Flower

Annette Pearce and Lesley Morgan

Dot Hilton and Sue Bailey

Carol Gaiter and Therese Zell from Zelle’s Craft and Gifts

Lynn Keast and Sue Brown

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear Fake and Forgeries

tact Bruce Gray 0419 200 795.

THE Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society of Dubbo will present its April lecture on Monday, April 20, at the Wesley Hall, Church St at 6.30pm.

Internationally recognised Jolyon Warwick James will speak on Fake and Forgeries in Silver and how to avoid them.

A light supper will follow and there will be ample opportunity to ask Jolyon questions. For further information con-

Carers Workshop PARENTS and carers of children with autism are invited to attend a one day workshop covering transitioning to school from preschool, transitioning between primary and high school and the needs of carers and parents. The presenter is Marina Bailey, a psychologist who has worked in the disability sector

for the past 27 years. The workshop is to be held on Tuesday, April 21, at the Dubbo RSL Starlite rooms. RSVP to Sharon Dawson on 6881 3700.

Harmony Singers ANZAC Tribute COMMEMORATING 100 years of ANZAC, join the Harmony Singers as they pay homage to returned servicemen and women. A haunting collection of songs

will take you on a journey of musical reflection as they honour those who served and died in war.

Featuring the story of Allan Diggelman and his family – three generations of men who served their country during two World Wars and Vietnam, and special guest NSW RSL president Peter Stephenson, who will provide an opening address. This event will be held at St Andrew’s Chapel from 4pm on Sunday, April 19.

see Centenary Ball THE Mendooran Anzac Centenary Ball will be held on Saturday, April 18, at the Mendooran Mechanics Institute Hall commencing at 7.30pm. Period style 1915 dress (optional) with music by “Keys and Strings”. Supper provided and bar available. $20 per person and bookings essential by phoning 6886 1239 or in person from Mendooran Post Office. (No ticket sales at the door)

ANZAC concert THE Dubbo RSL Sub-Branch & Dubbo District Concert Band will present the 100th anniversary ANZAC concert on Sunday, April 19 from 1.30pm at the Club Auditorium. The band will perform under the

baton of musical director Neill Ryan while the concert also features the talents of Dubbo Pipe Band and guest vocalists Jo Gibb and Allyn Smith.

Anzac documentaries TO mark the centenary of ANZAC, a series of films will be screened in the Dubbo RSL Theatrette from April 20 to 24.

The lineup is as follows: Remembered at 10am, In the Desert we have written our names at 12 noon, Sisters in Arms at 2.30pm, Explosion 4.30pm and Legacy 6.30pm.

Parental guidance is recommended for persons under the age of 15. This is a special family time as we all remember those who have served our nation in war.

do ANZAC memorabilia display

Bastille Gun Shop.

VISIT Dubbo RSL Club on Monday, April 20 to see a display of wartime memorabilia. Featuring military clothing and equipment, all are welcome to come and view the amazing pieces of wartime history with thanks to the Austin Bourke

A LUNCHEON will be held on Sunday, April 26, in the Masonic Hall, Church St commencing at 12noon.

There will be a lucky door prize and competition to be played. Proceeds to the Dubbo Wagon Wheel Club for Royal

Fundraiser luncheon

Far West Caring for Country Kids. Enquiries to Lorraine 6887 8371 or Margaret 6884 6907/0400 116 907.

Black Tie Ball MAKE sure to add this one to the weekend’s activities. Dress up and head out to the Royal Flying Doctor Service on Saturday, April 18, for the annual Black

Tie Ball.

The fun begins at 6 for 6.30pm in the RFDS hangar. Presented by the Rotary Club of Dubbo South as a fundraiser for the service, the event is proudly sponsored by a host of local businesses.

Contact Henry Jom on 0409 815 998 for further information.

etc.

Creasy with enquiries, 0428 683 301.

Dubbo Motor Show CHECK out the ex 888 racing V8 at the 2015 Dubbo Motor Show at Clancy Automotive, Dubbo this Saturday, April 18.

There will be 20 judged categories, with all makes and models welcome. There will also be market stalls, tea and coffee, a jumping castle, face painting, along with a barbecue and cold drinks.

Presented by the Orana Car Club Inc. Gates open at 7.30am. Contact Charlie

Youth Homelessness Matters Day AN open-air movie night will be held in Dubbo to help raise awareness of youth homelessness. The event has been organised by UnitingCare Burnside’s youth services team and the film will be How to Train Your Dragon 2. The night will be held at Barden Park, beginning at 5pm with a National Rugby League

training session. The movie will start at 6.30pm and there will also be entertainment by Isaac Compton. Steak and sausage sandwiches, along with soft drinks will be available for purchase. Contact Simome Julius on 6884 5254 for more information.

Diabetes Luncheon THE Dubbo Diabetes Support Group is celebrating 40 years of helping people living with diabetes in the Dubbo area.

They are having a luncheon at the RSL Club on Tuesday, April 21, at 12 noon.

For bookings, please contact Valda Kellehear on 6882 6778.

Autumn Fair Market Day DUBBO Arts and Craft Society, is holding an Autumn Fair Market Day at 137 Cobra St, on Saturday, April 18, starting at 8am. The craft cottage will also be open to have a browse. Contact 6887 3150 or 6881 6410.

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

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OPEN WEEKENDER ^ƉĞŶĚ ƐŽŵĞ ƟŵĞ ďƌŽǁƐŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ƚŚŽƵƐĂŶĚƐ ŽĨ ŬƐ Ăƚ dŚĞ ŽŽŬ ŽŶŶĞĐƟŽŶ

GYMS

RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ Open Sunday 8.30am-3pm 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ Steam room ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

SHOPPING DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES Open Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 3pm ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

COFFEE & MEALS OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

CLUBS & PUBS

TED’S TAKEAWAY Open Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-8pm dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

PASTORAL HOTEL

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to 5.30pm.

Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

Open Saturday 10am to 4am, Sunday 10am to 9pm.

ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ ůů ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ŚŽŵĞ ŵĂĚĞ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ 8am - 11.30am ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday 8am to 10pm.

YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

STICKS AND STONES Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ Homemade pastas ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ ŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ůů ĚŝƐŚĞƐ ĂƌĞ ŵĂĚĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌĞƐŚĞƐƚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ƚŽ ĞŶƐƵƌĞ ƚŚĞ ĮŶĞƐƚ ŇĂǀŽƵƌƐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJ ŵĞĂů͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-4pm 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY Open Saturday and Sunday

CLUB DUBBO Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am.

ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ 6pm to 9pm.

ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL Open Saturday 10am to 2am, Sunday ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ ŽŵĞ ĚŽǁŶ ĂŶĚ ĞŶũŽLJ Ă ĚƌŝŶŬ ǁŝƚŚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚƐ ŝŶ ŽƵƌ ďĞĞƌ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ͕ Ă ƌŽƵŶĚ ŽĨ ƉŽŽů ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĨƌŽŶƚ ďĂƌ Žƌ ŽŶĞ ŽĨ ŽƵƌ ĚĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ĐŽƵŶƚƌLJ ƐƚLJůĞ ŵĞĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ restaurant.

Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ and 5.45-9pm.

101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

THE BOOK CONNECTION Open Saturday 8.30am to 4pm.

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY Saturday and Sunday from 5am- 1pm.

EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY Open Saturday 9am to 12pm. ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10 &Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ Saturday 8am-4pm Sunday 9am-4pm 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ and Bernardi’s SUPA IGA. ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ Food Court ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THE PARTY STOP Open Saturday 9am-4pm Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

GROCERIES DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD Open Saturday 6am to 3pm ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ 6pm. 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ museums in NSW Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL Open Saturday and Sunday 9-5pm >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

TARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO Open Saturday and Sunday 9-4pm. dŚĞ njŽŽ͛Ɛ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ ŽīĞƌ ǀŝƐŝƚŽƌƐ ƚƌƵůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĞdžƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĂǀŽƵƌŝƚĞ ĂŶŝŵĂůƐ͘ Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

TRIKE ADVENTURES ŽŽŬ Ă ƌŝĚĞ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ Žƌ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨŽƌ ƚŽǁŶ ƚŽƵƌƐ͕ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ŽĐĐĂƐƐŝŽŶƐ͕ ŽƵƚďĂĐŬ ƉƵď ůƵŶĐŚĞƐ Žƌ ũƵƐƚ ďůĂƐƟŶŐ ĂůŽŶŐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ǁŝŶĚ ŝŶ your face 1300 TRIKES (1300 87 45 37)

READINGS CINEMA ŽŵĨŽƌƚ͕ ƐƚLJůĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĂůƵĞ ΨϭϬ ƟĐŬĞƚƐ ϯ ĞdžƚƌĂ͘ ĂŶĚLJ ďĂƌ͖ ϱ ƐĐƌĞĞŶ ĐŝŶĞŵĂ ĐŽŵƉůĞdž͖ ŝŐŝƚĂů ƐŽƵŶĚ ŽůďLJ ŝŐŝƚĂů ϯ ƉƌŽũĞĐƟŽŶ >ƵdžƵƌLJ ĂƌŵĐŚĂŝƌ ĐŽŵĨŽƌƚ 49 Macquarie St,6881 8600

CALL FOR A GREAT RATE ON A LIST FOR YOUR BUSINESS HERE! 6885 4433.

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 17.04.2015 to Sunday 19.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, April 17 MOVIE: The Avengers

The Midwives

Heston’s In Search Of Perfection rfection

Aussie Chris Hemsworth, as Norse god Thor, joins an all-star line-up of Marvel superheroes out to save the world in director Joss Whedon’s amped-up blockbuster that delivers on every action-packed promise.

Called into service by special agent Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the dysfunctional star squad – including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Captain America (Chris Evans) – must go up against evil villain Loki (Tom Hiddleston), while also overcoming the group’s internal conflicts. It’s smart, fast, unrelenting fun that’s sure to become an instant classic.

Midwives have to be one of the toughest bunch of people on a hospital ward. They work ungodly hours, their decisions can literally mean life or death yet they still manage to support mothers, babies and often besidesthemselves fathers in their most lifechanging moments. This series follows a handful of new midwives at St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester. Lesley used to be a dental nurse until her own difficult pregnancy inspired her to retrain as a midwife. Tonight she’s looking after Neelam who has type 1 diabetes and has been an in-patient for the past two months as her pregnancy is putting even more strain on her fragile kidneys.

erstanding Known for his keen interest in understanding the science behind food, celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal (right) is as creative as they come in the kitchen. And he’s certainly in his is element in this series, which allowss him to strive for the very best take on a range of recipes. Tonight, he focuses on a fast food favourite: fish h and chips. First, he swings by an old d stomping ground in Paddington to relive some cherished childhood memories. Then it’s off to Cornwall in search of the perfect fish – from which there are many to choose – before he gets to work in his lab, trying to pinpoint the perfect type of potato and method to create a superlative chip.

PRIME7, 8.30pm, M (2012)

ABC

ABC2, 8.40pm

PRIME7

SBS ONE, 6pm

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Life At 5: Great Expectations. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Kitchen Cabinet. (R, CC) 2.30 The Paradise. (PG, R, CC) A woman works at a department store.

3.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A detective investigates murders.

5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Avalon High.

(R, CC) (2010) A new student transfers to Avalon High. Britt Robertson.

2.00 The Daily Edition.

(CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News At 4. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.00 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking. (CC) Easy-to-cook recipes.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.15 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, CC) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight.

(CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 NITV News Week In Review.

1.30 France 24 International News. (CC) 1.45 The Journal. (CC) 2.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 3.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 3.30 Rex In Rome. (PG, R) 4.30 Indian Ocean With Simon Reeve. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the team pay a visit to Wimbledon’s All England Lawn Tennis Club.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Guests Bill Bailey, Gyles Brandreth and Sue Perkins join host Stephen Fry for a letter “H”-inspired discussion.

8.30 Midsomer Murders. (CC) After a woman is killed during a magic show in Midsomer Oaks, Barnaby and Nelson uncover a conflict between the village church and ancient pagan traditions being practised by the locals.

They also suspect the illusionist, performing the trick, was the real target.

10.00 The Trip To Italy: Hotel Locarno, Rome. (M, CC) Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan’s road trip around Italy continues with a visit to the Eternal City, Rome.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

11.05 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

11.20 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh travels to outback Queensland to meet My Kitchen Rules contestants, Jac and Shaz.

A family of six have their home transformed by Adam and Jason. Ed heads to the Sydney markets for fresh produce. Dr Harry meets an energetic golden retriever.

8.30 MOVIE: The Avengers.

(M, R, CC) (2012) A group of heroes, including Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye, is brought together to battle a rogue Asgardian called Loki who is threatening world peace.

However, before they can defeat their enemy they must learn how to fight like a team. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans.

11.30 Sunday Night: The Power Of Ten. (R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Ben Roberts-Smith profiles 10 Anzacs awarded the Victoria Cross.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 7. St George Illawarra Dragons v Brisbane Broncos. From Jubilee Oval, Kogarah, Sydney.

9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 7. Canterbury Bulldogs v Manly Sea Eagles. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Dr Chris Brown travels to Australia’s Top End in search of a monster crocodile.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with English actors David Tennant and Olivia Colman, and American film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Musical performance by English singer-songwriter Jessie J. 9.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) A former Big Brother contestant and his business partner are less than forthright with their financials.

10.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) The team investigates the death of a US Navy petty officer whose body was found in a billionaire’s sports car.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (CC) Chef Heston Blumenthal embarks on a search for the “perfect” fish and chips. He savours some childhood memories at Micky’s in Paddington, before making his way to Cornwall where he tracks down the star of this great British classic, the white fish.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 26. Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. From Hunter Stadium, NSW. Commentary from David Basheer and Lucy Zelic.

10.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) The squad decides it is high time Jake paid them back all the money he owes them from over the years. Amy has her chance to partner up with Captain Holt after he re-opens his old Brooklyn Broiler case.

10.30 World News. (CC) 11.00 MOVIE: Trivial Matters.

(M, R) (2007) A collection of vignettes revolving around hapless men and their failures to understand the women in their lives. Fai-Hung Chan, Kristal Tin, Angela Baby.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 AC/DC Live At Riverplate.

(M, CC) 2.30 The Avengers. (PG, R) 3.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) Join David Letterman and special guests for his Top 10 and more.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.45 MOVIE: Fuera Del Cielo.

(MA15+, R) (2006) Demián Bichir.

2.40 MOVIE: Un Secret. (M, R) (2007) Cécile De France.

4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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7.30pm Free Birds (2013) Animation. Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson. Two turkeys team up to travel back in time and get their species off the holiday menu. Family

7.30pm Judith Durham: Diamond Night. This live concert performance features The Seekers’ Judith Durham live at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Arts

6.30pm Yankee Jungle. The team at DEW Animal Kingdom in Maine prepare the exotic animal refuge for opening day.

(PG) Animal Planet

5.30pm Rugby Union.

Super Rugby. Round 10.

Crusaders v Chiefs.

From AMI Stadium, Christchurch. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Deliver Us From Evil (2014) Horror. Eric Bana.

(MA15+) Premiere

7.30pm The Carbonaro Effect. Michael astonishes an antique store employee with glass figurines that feel emotion and repair themselves.

(M) FOX8

7.30pm Wild Mexico. (PG) Animal Planet

7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 26. Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. From Hunter Stadium, Newcastle.

Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) Comedy. John Cho, Kal Penn.

Two buddies with the munchies head off on a wild odyssey.

(MA15+) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.25 Joe & Jack.

(R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 The Hive. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.45 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.40 The Midwives. (PG, R, CC) 9.40 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, CC) 10.20 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 11.05 World’s Toughest Jobs.

(M, R, CC) 12.00 Pineapple Dance Studios. (M, R, CC) (Final) 1.10 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.25 Close. 5.00 What’s The Big Idea? (R, CC) (Final) 5.05 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.15 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 8.20 Get Ace. (R, CC) 8.35 Jar Dwellers SOS. (R, CC) 8.45 Gawayn. (R, CC) 9.00 Endangered Species.

(R, CC) 9.10 Strange Hill High. (R, CC) 9.35 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 10.00 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 10.10 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 10.40 Wacky World Beaters.

(R, CC) 11.05 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 11.35 Horrible Histories. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Grojband. (R, CC) 12.25 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 1.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 1.35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 2.10 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. (R, CC) 3.25 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 3.50 Vic The Viking. (CC) 4.00 Tashi.

(CC) 4.15 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) (Final) 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 5.10 Endangered Species.

(R, CC) 5.25 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 5.50 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 6.20 Slugterra. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Deadly 60.

(R, CC) 7.30 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. (R, CC) 7.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.20 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.45 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.10 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.35 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. (R, CC) 9.55 Close.

8.30pm The Real Housewives Of Melbourne.

(M) Arena

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 Spit It Out. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle.

(P, R, CC) 8.30 Man About The House. (PG, R) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Shortland Street. (PG) 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 11.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 12.00 Pie In The Sky. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 How The Other Half Live. (PG, R) 2.00 Air Crash Investigations. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

4.00 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.00 Best Houses Australia. (PG, R) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Indian Doctor.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

9.30 The House That £100K Built: Tricks Of The Trade. Kieran and Piers help a couple.

10.45 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG) 11.15 Best Houses Australia.

(R) 11.45 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 12.45 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.00 Man About The House. (PG, R) 2.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 3.30 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 4.30 Best Houses Australia. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. (CC) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (R) 8.30 Art Attack. (R, CC) 9.00 NBC Today. (R, CC) 11.00 Motor Mate. (R) 1.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 2.00 Trash To Treasure. (PG, R) 3.00 Kickin’ It. (R, CC) 4.00 Star Wars Rebels.

(PG) 5.00 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R, CC) 6.00 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 AFL Pre-Game. (CC) Pregame coverage of the match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 3. Collingwood v St Kilda. From the MCG. 11.00 MOVIE: Van Wilder: Freshman Year.

(MA15+, R) (2009) A party animal rebels against his university’s rules. Jonathan Bennett.

1.00 1000 Ways To Die. (AV15+, R) 1.30 1000 Ways To Die: Dead Wrongs. (AV15+, R) 2.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 3.00 Trash To Treasure. (PG, R) 4.00 Motor Mate. (R)

9.30pm Lady Killers.

Looks at the life of 16th-century Hungarian noblewoman, Elizabeth Bathory, who was apparently responsible for the murders of up to 650 of her own servant maids. (M) Crime & Investigation

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol. 7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. 8.00 Move It. 8.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 9.00 Surprises.

(P, R, CC) 9.30 SpongeBob. (R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 Extra. (CC) 12.30 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Super Fun Night. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo! And The Samurai Sword. (R) (2009) 7.30 MOVIE: Another Cinderella Story. (R, CC) (2008) 9.30 MOVIE: Fool’s Gold. (M, R, CC) (2008) Matthew McConaughey. 11.45 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.10 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 12.35 MAD. (M) 1.00 Robotomy.

(M, R) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Supernanny USA. (PG, R) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Shopping. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: Pink String And Sealing Wax. (PG, R, CC) (1945) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 David Attenborough’s Life. (R, CC) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona pays a return visit to Hever Castle.

8.30 MOVIE: Pale Rider.

(M, R, CC) (1985) A nameless stranger rides into a gold-rush town and becomes involved in a feud. Clint Eastwood, Mark Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress.

11.00 MOVIE: The Marseilles Contract. (M, R, CC) (1974) Michael Caine.

12.50 MOVIE: Loot. (M, R) (1970) 2.50 GEM Presents. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 MOVIE: The Raging Moon.

(PG, R) (1971) Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman. 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

8.00pm Football.

AFL. Round three.

Collingwood v St Kilda.

From the MCG. Fox Footy

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Extreme Collectors. (PG, R) 9.30 Extreme Collectors. (R) 10.00 Rare Bear: The Tablelands Tree Kangaroo.

(R) 11.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 12.00 A League Of Their Own. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 White Collar. (PG, R) 2.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 4.30 Wild Racers.

(PG, R) 5.00 Reel Action. (R) (Final) 5.30 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Megafactories: Laverstoke Mill. (R) 8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 MOVIE: Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning. (AV15+, R) (2012) A man sets out to get revenge. Scott Adkins.

11.50 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.50 Shopping. 2.20 Motor Racing.

Formula 1. Chinese Grand Prix. Race 3. Highlights. 3.25 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 4.30 International Fishing Series. (R) 5.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. Round 4. Buenos Aires ePrix. Highlights.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Raymond. (R, CC) 11.30 Taxi.

(PG, R) 12.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Sabrina.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 Caroline In The City. (PG, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy.

(PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 American Idol. (PG) Hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

9.30 Glee. (PG) The Warblers consider teaming with New Directions.

10.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) 11.10 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.40 Wonderland. (M, R, CC) 12.40 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.05 Caroline In The City. (PG, R) 1.30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

John Cho and Kal Penn star in Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News.

4.00 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.45 Vs Arashi. (R) 5.40 American Ninja Warrior. (R) 6.30 UEFA Europa League Highlights.

7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) Leslie and Ben decide to get married.

8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. (MA15+) A couple go on a naked date.

9.20 Lady Wankers. (MA15+, R) An exploration of female masturbation.

10.30 Banana. (M) 11.00 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.55 Friday Feed. (R) 12.25 The Story Of Film. (M, R) 1.35 PopAsia.

(PG, R) 3.35 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo.

9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 The Other Side. (PG) 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 My Survival As An Aboriginal. (PG) 1.25 Alick Tipoti. (PG) 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo.

4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 The Medicine Line. 6.30 The Other Side. (PG) 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Marn Grook.

8.30 Our Songs. (PG) 9.00 Go Girls. (M) Amy feels betrayed.

10.00 Seeking Salvation.

11.00 NITV News. 11.30 The Medicine Line. 12.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater.

(PG) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2.00 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Football.

2011 Lightning Cup. Ntjalka v CAFL Combined. 5.00 Defining Moments. 5.30 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Capital Hill. (CC) 1.30 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

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Saturday, April 18 Jamie’s Food Fight Club TEN, 6.30pm

Continuing his seemingly endless supply of cooking shows, popular healthy eating advocate Jamie Oliver shows off the pop-up cafe he opened in Essex with his farm shop-owning mate Jimmy Doherty. For both health and taste reasons, the food itself is more than enough reason to tune in, but when you add Oliver’s charming personality, his likeable offsider and the regular appearance of a special guest, you’ve got a recipe for success.

Tonight, British music sensation Ellie Goulding drops by to relive some of the junk food of her past. The Lights and Anything Could Happen singer, a vegan, offers a twist on the “dirty burger”.

ABC

Great Continental Railway Journeys SBS ONE, 7.30pm

Using his 1913 railway guide as a reference, British journo Michael Portillo makes his way to fascinating cities all over Europe in this six-part documentary. Following up on last week’s premiere, he tonight takes the train from Italy’s former political capital Turin to Venice. There’s plenty to see along the way, including fabulous fashion and the historic Fiat test track in Milan, as well as the House of the Capulets in Verona. He also makes use of a seaplane to check out Lake Como, and checks out a microcosm of pre-World War I Europe in the Venice Biennale art exhibition.

PRIME7

MOVIE: The Incredible Hulk ulk PRIME7, 9pm, M (2008)

The big green guy returns in this somewhat dissimilar sequel where Edward Norton (right) takes over from Ericc Bana as Bruce Banner. This regeneration n from orterr) director Louis Leterrier (The Transporter sees scientist Banner searching for a way to escape his monstrous persona, and resigned to living a life away from his love, Betty re Ross (Liv Tyler). But, in a bid to lure Banner out of hiding, a sinister military man (Tim Roth) endows himself with Hulk-like abilities, forcing Banner to come to the aid of the people of New York City.

The climactic smackdown between Norton and Roth’s CGI alter egos is a showstopper. You won’t know what hit you.

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SBS ONE

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Project Manta. (R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 The Restaurant Inspector. (R, CC) Presented by Fernando Peire.

2.45 River Cottage Veg Every Day. (R, CC) Hugh becomes a vegetarian.

3.30 Cyber Dreaming. (R, CC) The story of artist Stuart Campbell.

4.00 Saturday Landline.

(R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

4.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Girls Vs Monster.

(PG, R, CC) (2012) Olivia Holt.

2.00 MOVIE: William And Catherine: A Royal Romance. (PG, R, CC) (2011) Tells the story of William and Kate’s courtship. Victor Garber, Jean Smart.

4.00 The Zoo. (R, CC) Hosted by Melissa Doyle.

4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Mornings: Saturday.

(PG, CC) 12.00 Recipes That Rock. (R, CC) Presented by Alex James and Matt Stone.

12.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Matthew Broderick.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants.

(PG, R, CC) (2005) Amber Tamblyn.

4.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 6.30 Fishing Edge.

(R, CC) 7.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 7.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud.

(R, CC) 8.30 St10. (CC) 10.00 St10: Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Tour The World. (CC) 12.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (CC) 1.30 The Hotel Inspector.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 3.00 Car Torque. (PG, CC) 3.30 iFish. (R, CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) 4.30 Escape With ET. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Maurizio Pollini: A Musical Profile. (R) 3.00 Gloria Victoria. (R) 3.10 Microtopia. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Tim Marlow’s Virtual Gallery. (R, CC) 4.20 Everybody Street: NYC Street Photography.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Julian Clary. (R, CC)

6.00 The Checkout. (PG, R, CC) Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Kirsten Drysdale and Kate Browne take an irreverent look at consumer affairs.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 New Tricks. (PG, CC) (Final) The team reopens the investigation into the three-decades-old murder of a high-school girl.

8.30 Scott And Bailey.

(M, R, CC) Gill is forced to reinvestigate a death she had claimed was accidental after the deceased’s daughters reveal new information.

After Nick is assaulted, Rachel finds herself a suspect in the case.

9.20 Miniseries: Birdsong.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 2.

Recovering from his injuries, Stephen turns down an offer of a desk job in order to rejoin his unit.

10.45 Miniseries: Case Sensitive: The Other Half Lives. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. A suspicious DS Charlie Zailer decides to investigate the new partner of one of her acquaintances.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda.

(PG, R, CC) (2008) A panda is chosen as the saviour of his home village, much to the surprise of his potential teacher and the elite warriors he is to train alongside. However, with a deadly menace approaching, he will have to prove himself in-spite of their doubts, and his own.

Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie.

9.00 MOVIE: The Incredible Hulk. (M, R, CC) (2008) An experiment causes a mild-mannered scientist to turn into a giant green monster when he gets angry. While he searches for a cure, the military attempt to create their own genetically modified equivalent using one of their soldiers. Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth.

11.15 Marvel Studios: Assembling A Universe.

(M, R, CC) Documents the story of Marvel Studios and its cinematic universe.

Featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and upcoming Marvel films.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Just Go With It. (PG, R, CC) (2011) In Hawaii for a holiday, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told his younger girlfriend. Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker.

9.20 MOVIE: Paul Blart: Mall Cop. (PG, R, CC) (2009) After a shopping centre is overtaken by a gang of organised crooks, a mild-mannered security guard attempts to stop them. Kevin James, Keir O’Donnell, Jayma Mays.

11.15 MOVIE: Obsessed.

(M, R, CC) (2009) A successful businessman discovers his personal and professional life is in jeopardy when he is stalked by an employee. Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter.

6.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) Senior Constable Matt Bloomfield and Constable Joshua Ford are called to a violent confrontation in the street.

They find two men virtually incoherent, but one is also dripping blood from an earlier incident.

6.30 Jamie’s Food Fight Club. (CC) English singersongwriter Ellie Goulding learns how to cook a vegan burger.

7.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Vet Dr Chris Brown is disturbed to find a kitten with shocking injuries.

8.30 MOVIE: A Good Day To Die Hard. (M, CC) (2013) After learning his estranged son is in trouble, a New York cop heads to Russia to lend a hand.

The trip takes a deadly twist when they must join forces to thwart a plot with devastating consequences.

Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch.

10.30 MOVIE: Die Hard: With A Vengeance. (M, R, CC) (1995) A New York detective tries to stop a mad bomber who is holding the city to ransom.

Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys. (CC) Michael Portillo takes the train from the former political capital of Italy, Turin, to the Queen of the Adriatic, Venice. He re-creates the The Italian Job on a historic Fiat test track.

8.35 MOVIE: Downfall.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2004) Follows the final days in the life of Adolf Hitler in his bunker, through the eyes of his private secretary, as the Russian army lays siege to Berlin. With the dictator spending his time ranting and raving, a continuous series of life and death struggles plays out in the city’s streets.

Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler.

11.25 MOVIE: Sarah’s Key. (M, R, CC) (2010) In modern-day Paris, a journalist becomes intrigued by a young girl whose family was torn apart during the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv roundup of 1942, where Jews were arrested by authorities at the behest of the Nazis. Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup.

12.30 Home Shopping.

1.20 MOVIE: Plenty. (M, R, CC) (1985) Meryl Streep.

3.35 Impractical Jokers.

(M, CC) 4.00 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

1.25 MOVIE: At The End Of Daybreak. (M, R) (2009) Tien You Chui.

3.05 Greece: The Lost Signal Of Democracy. (PG, R, CC) 4.05 Lilyhammer. (M, R, CC) (Final) 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

12.15 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by a special guest programmer.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.35pm The Other Woman (2014) Comedy. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann. After discovering her boyfriend is married, a woman teams up with his wife to take their revenge. (M) Premiere

6.00pm Archer. An agent from the past has a hand in creating tension between Archer and Lana. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

6.30pm Ghosts Of The Third Reich. Descendants of Nazi supporters and officers share their poignant and agonising stories of guilt, shame and pain that continue to shadow their lives. (M) National Geographic

2.30pm Rugby Union.

Super Rugby. Round 10.

Hurricanes v Waratahs.

From Westpac Stadium, Wellington. Fox Sports 2

7.30pm Postman Pat: The Movie (2014) Family.

Jim Broadbent, Ronan Keating.

Family 8.00pm Blue Velvet (1986) Thriller. Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini.

(MA15+) World Movies

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.25 Rob The Robot. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.25 Joe & Jack.

(R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 The Hive. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.45 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts.

(R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep.

(R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout.

(CC) 8.25 Australian Encounters.

(R, CC) 8.30 Build A New Life In The Country. (PG, CC) 9.20 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 10.05 Buzzcocks. (PG, R, CC) 10.35 The Inbetweeners. (M, R, CC) 11.00 The Awesomes. (M, R, CC) 11.25 Portlandia. (PG, R, CC) 11.45 Archer.

(M, R, CC) 1.35 News Update. (R) 1.40 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) 5.05 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.15 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout.

(R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.55 Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist.

(R, CC) 7.20 Dr Dimensionpants.

(R) 7.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 8.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.15 Numb Chucks.

(R, CC) 8.25 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals.

(R, CC) 11.35 Lockie Leonard.

(R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 2.20 Slugterra. (R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60.

(R, CC) 3.15 Wacky World Beaters.

(PG, CC) 3.40 Studio 3. 3.45 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 4.10 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) 4.35 Detentionaire. (R, CC) 5.00 Young Dracula. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Operation Ouch! (R) 6.00 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.35 Mortified. (R, CC) 7.00 Heartland.

(R, CC) 7.45 Annoying Orange.

(R, CC) 7.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.20 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.45 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.10 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.35 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. (R, CC) 9.55 Close.

6.30pm Double Your House For Half The Money.

(PG) LifeStyle 9.30pm Wilfred. During a walk at night to fight off Ryan’s insomnia, a neighbour’s actions make Ryan and Wilfred suspicious. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 Animal Academy. (PG) 11.30 Great South East. (R, CC) 12.00 Coxy’s Big Break. (R, CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 Horse Racing. Stakes Day. Includes the Group 1 $400,000 All Aged Stakes (1400m), and the Group 1 $360,000 Champagne Stakes (1600m). 5.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 6.00 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) 6.30 The New Reclaimers. (PG, R) 7.30 Storage Hoarders.

8.30 Taggart. (M) A hostel burns down with a man still inside.

9.30 Tennis. Fed Cup. Netherlands v Australia.

Day 1. From Maaspoort Sports & Events, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

12.30 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Storage Hoarders. (R) 3.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 4.30 MOVIE: The Woman On Pier 13. (PG, R) (1949)

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport.

(PG, R) 10.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. Australia Day Weekend. Demo Derby. 11.00 Zoom TV. (PG) 11.30 Meguiar’s MotorEx. (PG, R) 12.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 1.30 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 2.30 Turtleman. (PG, R) 3.00 Footy Flashbacks. 4.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 3.

Sydney v GWS. 7.15 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 3. North Melbourne v Port Adelaide. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

10.30 MOVIE: Anaconda 3: Offspring. (AV15+, R) (2008) A mercenary is hired to capture a giant snake. David Hasselhoff.

12.30 MOVIE: Triassic Attack.

(M, R) (2010) 2.15 Scare Tactics. (M, R) 3.00 Motor Racing.

AHG Sprintcar Series.

Australia Day Weekend.

Demo Derby.

4.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R) 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7.30pm My Cat From Hell.

(PG) Animal Planet 7.30pm Who Were The Ancient Greeks? Dr Michael Scott visits ancient cities, great ruins and wild countryside, to uncover how the ancient Greeks lived. (PG) History

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Dogstar. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG, R) 4.00 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Looney Tunes.

(R) 5.30 MOVIE: Dennis The Menace. (PG, R, CC) (1993) 7.30 MOVIE: Happy Feet.

(R, CC) (2006) Elijah Wood.

9.40 MOVIE: Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery. (M, R, CC) (1997) A spy confronts his arch nemesis. Mike Myers.

11.40 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.10 MOVIE: Rogue. (M, R, CC) (2007) Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell. 2.00 The Darren Sanders Show. (M, R) 2.30 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG, R) 3.30 PAW Patrol.

(R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids Invasion.

(PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Pink String And Sealing Wax. (PG, R, CC) (1945) 8.00 Shopping. 9.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 11.00 MOVIE: The Courtneys Of Curzon Street.

(R, CC) (1947) Anna Neagle. 1.15 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 1.45 Postcards. (CC) 2.15 MOVIE: How To Murder Your Wife. (PG, R) (1965) 4.45 MOVIE: Battle Of Britain. (PG, R) (1969) Laurence Olivier.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Items are presented for appraisal.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) The team investigates after a police dog is blamed for an officer’s death.

9.30 CSI: NY. (AV15+, R, CC) Mac is targeted by a criminal.

10.30 Unforgettable. (M, CC) 11.20 Golden Boy. (M, R, CC) 12.20 MOVIE: Dracula: Prince Of Darkness. (M, R) (1966) Christopher Lee. 2.10 MOVIE: Lust For A Vampire. (MA15+, R) (1971) 4.00 MOVIE: The Long & The Short & The Tall. (PG, R) (1961) Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd.

7.00pm Football. AFL. Round three. Brisbane Lions v Richmond. From the Gabba, Brisbane. Fox Sports 3 7.30pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round seven. Melbourne Storm v Sydney Roosters.

From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

Fox Sports 1

ONE 6.00 Motor Racing. Trans-Tasman Trophy. Replay. 6.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 2. Grand Prix Of The Americas. Replay. 8.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 7. Melbourne Vixens v Queensland Firebirds. Replay. 10.00 Where It All Began. (R, CC) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (PG, R) 11.00 Wild Racers. (R) 11.30 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 12.00 RPM. (R, CC) 1.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

2.00 Motor Racing. Aussie Racing Cars. 2.30 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. (R) 3.00 International Fishing Series. 3.30 Megafactories. (R) 4.30 Reel Action. (R) 5.00 Freddie Flintoff: Lord Of The Fries. (PG, R) 6.00 Garage Gold. (R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.00 Cops.

(R) 8.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Blue Bloods. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon. (M, R) 11.30 Blokesworld.

(R) 12.00 The Killing. (M, R) 1.00 48 Hours. (M) 2.00 Cops. (PG, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan.

(M, R) 4.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. Replay. 5.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. Round 5. Miami ePrix. Highlights.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with David Tennant and Olivia Colman, producer Harvey Weinstein and singer Jessie J. 9.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie and Aleksandr’s relationship continues to sizzle.

10.10 Sex And The City.

(M, R) Carrie considers Aleksandr’s question.

10.50 Empire. (M, R, CC) 11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.30 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 Diagnosis Murder.

(PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. 5.30 Mass. (CC)

H. Jon Benjamin voices Sterling Archer in Archer

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Soccer. (CC) A-League. Round 26. Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. Replay. 3.00 Athletics. Marathon De Paris. 4.05 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. 4.10 Beyond Survival. (PG, R) 5.05 Planet Sport. (R) 6.05 Urban Freestyler: Al Johnson. (R) 6.10 Knife Fight. (PG, R) 6.40 No Kitchen Required.

(PG, R) (Final) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Vikings. (R, CC) Rollo ponders the Seer’s prophecy.

9.20 No Limit. (MA15+) (Final) Vincent tries to prevent an attack.

10.20 Orphan Black. (MA15+, R) 12.50 MOVIE: The Housekeeper.

(M, R) (2002) 2.25 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 NITV On The Road: Boomerang Festival. 11.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 The Marngrook Footy Show.

(PG) 2.00 The Other Side. (PG) 2.30 Surviving. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint.

4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs.

7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Roots Music. (PG) 8.30 MOVIE: Beauty. (2010) A silently suffering maid in northern Argentina struggles to hold onto her Wichi community identity.

Rosmeri Segundo, Ximena Banús, Victor Hugo Carrizo.

10.00 The New Black. (M) A series of short films.

11.30 Unearthed.

12.00 Volumz. (PG) Music program featuring interviews.

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 AusBiz Asia. (R) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Saturday Landline. (CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The World This Week. (CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 Foreign Correspondent. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 The Quarters. 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 Landline. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 AusBiz Asia. (R) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 Australian Story. (CC) 1804

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Sunday, April 19 Jennifer Byrne Presents Great War Stories ABC, 6pm

While much is known of the soldiers fighting in World War I, little is said of their comrades-in-arms, the war horses.

This documentary charts the animals from their training in the Australian outback, to the disaster of the Gallipoli campaign, to the ‘Great Ride’ preceding the capture of Damascus. Thousands of farriers, veterinarians and trainers kept these horses ready for war, and because of the strong bonds felt by man and animal, their loss during battle was greatly mourned. Featuring rare archival footage, plus interviews with war historians and equine experts, it’s a seldom-seen perspective of the horrors of war.

ABC

Modern Family

MOVIE: The Heartbreak Kid id

This US show is the king of mockumentaries on the box right now, winning award after award for its hilarious take on modern-day, chaotic family life in California, with stepparents, adoption and gay marriage in the mix. Tonight, Gloria (Sofía Vergara) wants Jay (Ed O’Neill) to teach Manny (Rico Rodriguez) how to stand up to a bully. Meanwhile, Claire (Julie Bowen) is stuck at the airport and her computer is her lifeline when she tries to contact Haley (Sarah Hyland) after a big fight. So sit back, relax and have a good giggle as you enjoy the last few hours of the weekend.

Eddie Callow (Ben Stiller) is a lifelong ng commitment-phobe who finally findss Mrs Right in Lila (Malin Akerman, right) and decides to settle down to a life of wedded bliss. The couple celebrate their nuptials with a trip to Mexico and Eddie discovers honeymoons are indeed a time for romance.

Unfortunately, it’s extra-marital love that Eddie finds in Miranda (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’s Michelle Monaghan), as Lila reveals a series of disturbing habits that only drive her beloved further away. What follows is the fulll Farrelly brothers (Dumb & Dumber) treatment of Neil Simon’s 1972 script, t, as the unlikeable Eddie tries to trade in old for new. A fun flick.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Art + Soul: Beauty And Cruelty. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Art Of Australia: Coming Of Age. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Restoration Home.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) (Final)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 Camp. (PG, CC) (New Series) 12.00 Malibu Country. (PG, CC) Reba writes a commercial jingle.

12.30 MOVIE: Fly Me To The Moon. (R, CC) (2008) Three flies try to reach the moon. Trevor Gagnon, Philip Bolden.

2.30 MOVIE: Duplicity.

(PG, R, CC) (2009) Two spies compete to secure a formula. Julia Roberts, Clive Owen.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Dora travels to Crocodile Lake.

7.00 Weekend Today. (CC) News, current affairs and sports.

10.00 Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

1.00 The Block Triple Threat.

(PG, R, CC) Host Scott Cam tries his hand at live talkback radio with the contestants.

3.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 7. Newcastle Knights v Parramatta Eels. From Hunter Stadium, NSW.

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.00 Where It All Began. (CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 All 4 Adventure.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 The Hotel Inspector.

(PG, CC) 2.00 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 1. (R, CC) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew Bolt.

4.00 RPM. (CC) Pay a visit to the home of Betty Klimenko.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The World Game. (CC) (Series return) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing.

(CC) Superbike World Championship. Round 3.

Highlights.

4.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine. (CC) 5.00 World Of Cycling. (CC) 5.30 The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars. (PG, CC)

6.00 Jennifer Byrne Presents Great War Stories. (CC) A discussion of books about World War I. 6.30 Compass: The Legacy Man (Anzac Special) (CC) A profile of the distinguished military career of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Australia’s Great War Horse. (PG, CC) The story of how more than 130,000 Australian horses served in the Great War from 1914-18.

8.40 Poldark. (PG, CC) Ross sets his sights on reopening the family mine, in hope it will help bring prosperity to the area.

9.40 Fortitude. (MA15+, CC) Stranded in the frozen wastes, Henry is forced to call on Dan for help.

10.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (M, R, CC) (Final) Hosted by Shaun Micallef.

11.00 The Boffin, The Builder, The Bombardier: Weapons Of Gallipoli.

(PG, R, CC) Three friends deconstruct history.

11.30 Junior Doctors: One Year Check-Up. (PG, CC) A group of doctors discuss their experiences.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 My Kitchen Rules.

(PG, CC) The teams have one last chance to book a berth in the finals.

8.30 Sunday Night: The Power Of Ten. (CC) Part 2 of 2.

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith heads to Gallipoli to follow in the footsteps of the ten Anzacs who became heroes, uncovering the details of their extraordinary stories.

9.30 Castle. (M, CC) Ryan finds himself caught up in a murder mystery after agreeing to help his brother-in-law by moonlighting as a charismatic congressman’s bodyguard.

10.30 Castle. (M, R, CC) After giant footprints are found at a murder scene, Castle suspects the legendary Bigfoot might be the killer. Beckett is less than convinced of his claims.

11.30 Cougar Town. (PG, CC) After Bobby’s boat goes missing, Jules and Bobby take on their crime fighting personas, Blacktop and Gumshoe, in order to investigate. Grayson helps Andy win over his new supervisor by teaching him a new technique.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block Triple Threat.

(PG, CC) Neale Whitaker, Darren Palmer and John McGrath arrive to judge the contestants’ staircases and studies.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

9.30 Stalker. (M, CC) Beth, Jack and the team are called in to investigate after a stalker breaks into the home of a teenage girl.

However, they quickly realise she is not the one being targeted. Perry pays Beth an unsolicited visit at work.

10.30 The Following. (AV15+, CC) Ryan continues to investigate the killings in the New York subway.

11.30 Almost Human. (M, CC) Kennex and Dorian investigate the murder of the designer of Intimate Robot Companions, better known as “sexbots”. They are surprised to discover the android involved appeared to have the DNA of a missing woman, raising some disturbing possibilities.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Gloria wants Jay to teach Manny how to stand up to a bully in his cooking class.

7.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Claire gets stuck at the airport.

7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, CC) Showcases three young Australians who are carving out their niche in their respective fields.

8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, CC) Wade, Sebastian and Danny are taken hostage when an armed man bursts into the morgue during an autopsy and demands the remains of a petty officer who was thought to have died from natural causes.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) A US Navy officer is murdered and Gibbs suspects a friend of the victim’s, a marine, may be the key to solving the case.

10.30 Empire. (M, CC) Lucious, Hakeem and Jamal come together to record a legacy album.

11.30 Empire. (M, CC) The Lyons takes drastic measures.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Rome: The World’s First Superpower: Death Of A Hero.

(PG, CC) Part 3 of 4.

Larry Lamb continues to trace the story of Rome’s transition from a city state to empire by focusing on the story of Tiberius Gracchus. During the mid-second century BC, Tiberius became a champion of the common citizen farmer.

8.30 Jesus: Rise To Power: Christians. (M, CC) Part 3 of 3. Dr Michael Scott and a team of scholars continue to explore the rise of Christianity. He reveals how in less than four centuries, the religion grew from obscurity into a spiritual and political force, permanently woven into the fabric of the Roman Empire.

9.30 Dateline Presents: Putin’s Way. (PG, CC) An investigation into the accusations of criminality and corruption which surround Vladimir Putin’s reign in Russia.

10.30 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Amstel Gold Race. From Limburg, Netherlands.

12.30 The Writers’ Room: American Horror Story.

(PG, R, CC) 12.55 MOVIE: Platoon.

(M, R, CC) (1986) Charlie Sheen.

2.55 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Fortitude. (MA15+, R, CC) 5.00 Collectors. (R, CC) 5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

12.00 Citizen Khan. (PG, R, CC) Mr Khan’s opportunity to rub shoulders with the big wigs of the Sparkhill Business Association is threatened.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news.

12.30 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 1.00 20/20. (R, CC) 1.50 WIN Presents. (CC) 2.00 Spyforce. (PG, R) 3.00 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Bahrain Grand Prix. Race 4. From Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain.

3.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC)

2.00 Death Unexplained.

(M, R, CC) 2.50 Sunday. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 First Australians: There Is No Other Law. (PG, R, CC) 3.55 SAS: The Search For Warriors. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.00pm Independence Day (1996) Sci-fi. Will Smith, Bill Pullman. (M) Action

6.05pm Entourage.

Vince is impressed by porn star Sasha Grey and her literary knowledge and ends up bringing her along to a meeting with Stan Lee. (MA15+) SoHo

6.30pm My Tiny Terror.

(PG) Animal Planet

10.00am Basketball.

NBA Playoffs. ESPN 4.30pm Football. AFL. Round three. West Coast v Fremantle. From Domain Stadium, Subiaco. Fox Footy

6.30pm Gogglebox Australia. (PG) LifeStyle

7.30pm Lair Of The Mega Shark. Shark experts Jeff Kurr and Andy Casagrande head to New Zealand to investigate reports of a 3.5m great white shark. (M) Animal Planet

6.35pm Up In The Air (2009) Drama. George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick. (M) Romance

9.30pm Hell’s Kitchen USA. Gordon Ramsay takes on a new crop of aspiring restaurateurs who compete to become the head chef at a prestigious restaurant.

LifeStyle

7.30pm Crime Of The Century. In 1932, the US was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered.

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6.10pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Action. Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson. Captain America soon finds himself in the middle of an ever-widening conspiracy that threatens to bring down S.H.I.E.L.D. (M) Premiere

6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.25 Rob The Robot. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.25 Joe & Jack.

(R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel.

(R, CC) 5.00 The Gruffalo. (R, CC) 5.25 The Gruffalo’s Child. (R, CC) 5.55 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) 7.50 Seconds From Disaster. (PG, CC) 8.40 Lest We Forget What?

(M, CC) 9.40 Our World War. (MA15+, CC) 10.40 Tattoo Tales.

(M, R, CC) 11.10 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, R, CC) 12.45 Kumaré. (M, R, CC) 2.05 The Real Hustle: New Recruits.

(PG, R, CC) 2.35 News Update. (R) 2.40 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) 5.05 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.15 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout.

(R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 8.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 8.25 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 8.55 Operation Ouch!

(R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species.

(R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 11.35 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Mortified.

(R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep.

(R) 12.30 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 Nowhere Boys. (R, CC) 2.20 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Wacky World Beaters. (PG, CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 4.30 Roy. (R, CC) 5.00 Studio 3. 5.05 Life With Boys.

(R, CC) 5.30 Horrible Histories.

(R, CC) 6.00 Riders Of Berk.

(R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.35 Mortified. (C, R, CC) 7.00 Heartland. (R, CC) 7.45 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 7.55 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 8.00 Degrassi. (PG, R, CC) 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Total Drama Island. (R, CC) 9.15 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 9.40 Rage.

(PG, R) 2.10 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Downsize My Pet. (R) 12.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Rugby Union.

Shute Shield. Round 5. Warringah v West Harbour. 4.00 Untold Stories Of The R.A.A.F Caribou. 5.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 5.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 6.30 Vicious. (PG, R, CC) Violet visits her lover in Argentina.

7.00 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) Hyacinth is desperate to impress Emmet.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Hosted by Aled Jones.

9.30 Tennis. Fed Cup. Day 2.

Netherlands v Australia.

From Maaspoort Sports & Events, Netherlands.

12.30 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 1.00 Downsize My Pet. (R) 1.30 The Travel Bug. (R) 2.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 MOVIE: George White’s Scandals. (R) (1945) Joan Davis, Jack Haley.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping.

9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 12.30 Ultimate Factories. (PG, R) 1.30 The Border. (PG, R) 2.30 AFL PreGame. (CC) 3.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 3. Geelong v Gold Coast. From Simonds Stadium, Victoria.

6.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) Jerry hires a maid for his apartment.

6.30 MOVIE: Battleship. (PG, R) (2012) A US Navy ship fights aliens. Taylor Kitsch.

9.15 MOVIE: Safe House.

(M, R) (2012) After being tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house, a CIA agent must defend himself and his charge.

Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Robert Patrick.

11.45 MOVIE: Anacondas: Trail Of Blood. (MA15+, R, CC) (2009) Crystal Allen.

2.00 The Border. (PG, R) 3.00 Ultimate Factories.

(PG, R) 4.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 5.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (R) 11.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz.

2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 4.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG) 6.30 MOVIE: A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A Song.

(R) (2011) 8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) Penny and Amy spy on Leonard.

9.30 MOVIE: The Social Network. (M, R, CC) (2010) A student creates a successful website.

Rooney Mara.

12.00 Arrow. (AV15+, R, CC) 2.00 The Darren Sanders Show. (M, R) 2.30 The Batman. (R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 6.40 MOVIE: Two Way Stretch. (R, CC) (1960) 8.30 Shopping. 10.00 Avengers.

(PG, R) 11.00 Eventing In The Park.

(CC) 12.00 Cycling. Tour Down Under. Highlights. 12.30 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: The Naked Spur.

(PG, R) (1953) 4.00 MOVIE: The Unforgiven. (PG, R, CC) (1960) Audrey Hepburn.

6.30 River Cottage Heroes.

(PG) (New Series) 7.30 Journey To The Centre Of The Planet. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: A Perfect Murder. (M, R, CC) (1998) A man hires a hit man to kill his wife. Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow.

10.45 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) A suicide case from the ’60s is reopened.

11.45 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.15 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 12.45 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

6.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round seven. Wests Tigers v Canberra Raiders.

From Leichhardt Oval, Sydney. Fox Sports 1 Chris Evans stars in Captain America: The Winter Soldier

ONE 6.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 7.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 7.30 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. (R) 8.00 Sport Science.

(PG, R) 9.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 Reel Action. (R) 10.00 Grizzly: Nature’s Entrepreneur.

(R, CC) 11.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. 12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Round 8. Sydney Swifts v Northern Mystics. 2.00 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Extreme Collectors. (PG, R) 3.00 Extreme Collectors. (R) 3.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.30 International Fishing Series. (R) 5.00 What’s Up Downunder? (R, CC) 5.30 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 The Odd Couple. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) 9.00 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 MOVIE: Trainspotting.

(MA15+, R) (1996) Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller. 11.30 Sons Of Anarchy. (M, R) 12.30 RPM. (R, CC) 1.30 48 Hours. (M, R) 2.30 Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon. (M, R) 3.30 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 4.00 Wild Racers. (R) 4.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 3. Argentine Grand Prix.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, CC) 10.30 Brady Bunch. (R) 11.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.30 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) Fry sends the crew back to 1947.

8.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Lisa enrols in a military academy.

8.30 MOVIE: The Heartbreak Kid. (MA15+, R, CC) (2007) A man falls in love with another woman. Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman.

10.45 Californication. (MA15+) (Series return) 11.25 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) A planet enlists the help of the Enterprise.

1.25 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 2.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News.

8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia. (PG) 11.00 Portuguese News. 11.30 Croatian News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Be Your Own Boss. (M, R) 2.05 Foodie Planet. (PG, R) 3.05 Cuba With Simon Reeve. (R, CC) 4.05 Bunk. (PG, R) 4.35 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. 4.40 The Pitch. (M, R) 5.35 Brazil’s Next Top Model. (PG, R) 6.30 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) The parents’ TV shows get blocked.

9.00 Cockroaches. (M) Panic spreads through the camp.

9.30 Housos. (MA15+, R, CC) Franky visits his brother.

10.00 Pizza. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Toast Of London. (M) 11.00 In Her Skin. (M) 12.45 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.40 MOVIE: The Swamp. (M, R) (2004) 2.55 Death Row. (M, R, CC) 3.55 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 26. Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 1.30 Living Black. (CC) 2.00 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout.

4.00 Marn Grook. 5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken. Hosted by Stan Grant.

7.00 Native Planet. Hosted by Simon Baker.

8.00 Colour Me. Presented by Anthony McLean.

9.00 Deadly Thinking. (PG) An intimate portrait of a community social wellbeing workshop in remote communities.

9.30 MOVIE: Good Hair.

(M) Chris Rock explores the wonders of AfricanAmerican hairstyles.

11.15 Yorta Yorta Youth.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 #TalkAboutIt. 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 News Update. 5.35 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 News Update. 7.35 The World This Week. (R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News.

11.30 Big Ideas. (R) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 1904

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) There is power and importance in your words this week. If there is the chance to get together with people in authority, you should do so.

What you need now is a showcase for your talents. Look to see where you can find this. Pay special attention to loved ones and friends who are trying to achieve something. Encouraging your own talent and the talent of others is crucial. Small beginnings can bring big success.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Someone who seems to constantly need your help is a bit of a worry now.

Trying to get them to be more independent may not be an option. Could you share the task with someone else?

With the highlight still on finances, be sure that you consider all options. Big savings can be made with a little homework. Someone who needs experience could be taken under your wing. Although you may feel in need of a bit of encouragement yourself, that is no reason not to offer it to someone else.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23)

Although you love speaking your mind, think hard this week.

Your words can hold special significance, more than you could know.

Although trying to be tactful gives you a headache it is best not to rush ahead. Take care of your health as the new season gives a new start. Get those niggling aches and pains checked out. Although keen to look after others, being your own best friend is what you need to be right now.

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At home, sprucing the place up and planning some changes brings a lot of satisfaction. Don’t forget, in an intense week, to have some fun. Mostly this will be found at home and with younger relatives.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Big

things are happening for you this week. Anticipated meetings can be more intense than expected.

If these are of a romantic nature they could catch you unawares! Being someone who knows what they want, this should not be a problem. However, don’t agree to anything just out of kindness or it could come back to bite you. Being firmly in charge of your next move, make sure that it is the right one.

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) This week you may be entrusted with an important assignment. It is unusual but crucial to someone else. Maybe the boss needs help with sorting out a project. There may even be the chance of your business moving into new premises. Help is also needed at home with making small but significant changes. Pot of paint anyone? Encouraging someone to get involved in a spare-time interest with you can really pay dividends.

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What a wonderful week for partnerships and romance! Even business colleagues seem more responsive and helpful. Make the most of this week to put forward ideas and to ask for what you want. As a relative approaches you with a problem you find a solution. Is it that easy, though? Maybe cash flow is a problem for them. Get together with others for the best results in any area of your life.

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pretending that you want to be serious all of the time! Getting out and having some fun may be a longlost concept to you. That is even more reason to rekindle your enthusiasm. Someone who brings something new to the table needs a chance to show the merits. Bouncing around ideas can go hand-in-hand with physical activity. Bring together some positive people for a brainstorming session.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

It seems that the more you see the possibilities ahead of you, the more you appreciate freedom.

Sometimes it is confusing. However, getting the right balance between responsibilities and freedom of choice is crucial. However annoying someone is, try to see things from their point of view. This could even lead to a solution. When we make our decisions there are some that can be changed and some that can’t.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

Do you need someone who you can really look up to? Look in the right places and it will not be so difficult to spot them! When inspiration is needed, your open mind really is an asset.

What can you see in others that passes by most? Going in a new direction businesswise may seem daunting. Sometimes there is no gain without risk. Committing your time and talents is fine to get something started. Take care, however, if a large chunk of your money could become involved.

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is a lucky week as long as you don’t gamble with your heart!

Encouragement can be given but being commitment-phobic can be an asset right now. Someone out to make mischief could cause a ruckus at home but are they important enough to worry about? As long as you and your partner stand firm, the favours should fall at your feet. Being creative and sensible is sometimes nigh on impossible. Be sure that any compromise, however, is only a temporary thing.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Gunnedah-raised supermodel Miranda Kerr, 32 (below). Of course you hope for an easy ride this year, Aries, who wouldn’t? However, success depends almost entirely on hard work and good, thorough research. As a special time comes round, you need to step up.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Also celebrating is Queen Elizabeth II who turns 89 today (above). Taurus, a fresh start is indicated but by no means for sure. What will make it so? A great deal of effort and a big bit of teamwork! Yes, working with others is the key to success now.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bring on the bling and phase out the austerity, especially in thought.

Having been protective of your situation for so long it is hard to see that things have changed. Opportunities are back, Taurus.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Times for celebration are many in the months ahead, Taurus. It is as good to see others thriving as it is to be thriving yourself. Continue to gather brownie points by helping others. It brings big benefits.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Taking your place alongside others’ success stories can be very satisfying. There are more needs that remain unsatisfied though. We never want to see you settle for less than you are due. Keep your foot firmly down, Taurus.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Taking the bull by the horns means that you have to gain a lot of courage in the months ahead. When you feel that anything is possible you may be right. On the other hand, success could mean just stopping someone else.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: What a lovely time to get together with family and friends. A business venture could really take off if you continue working together.

Negative thoughts could derail you, however, if you listen to gossip.

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QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Cost; 3 Prepared; 8 Neat; 9 Aversion; 11 Estrangement; 13 Streak; 14 Stable; 17 Indifference; 20 Invoices; 21 Magi; 22 Relegate; 23 Very.

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9. Three consecutive Olympics (2002, ‘06, ‘10). 10. 1876.

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