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Breaking toxic habits OSSIBLY the most balanced discussion I’ve read or seen in recent weeks of the latest drug scourge ‘ice’ is the article by Mayor Mathew Dickerson in this edition of Dubbo Weekender.

He raises two interesting points, backed up with sound statistics.

Firstly, that alcohol is – as the numbers show – a far more wide reaching and destructive drug than ‘ice’ will ever be and secondly, the media’s obsession with ‘ice’ right now is more about needing a new story to tell, than telling a news story.

A quick Google search will show you ice has been Australia’s number one epidemic for quite a few years now, and the “sudden” rise in use has been on the rural reporters’ ‘stories to follow up’ list for over a decade.

While any drug abuse is a concern, a report released last month, called The Hidden Harm: Alcohol’s Impact on Children and Families also revealed more than a million Australian children are harmed by their parents’ or carers’ alcohol abuse.

In a bewildering statistic released by chief executive of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, Michael Thorn, 47 per cent of child protection cases involved alcohol.

Mayor Dickerson tackles the issue of how media reports ‘ice’ using terms such as ‘epidemic’ and ‘pandemic’. See his article in explanation.

Why then are these descriptors absent when reporting the much wider spread problem of alcohol abuse?

Verbal abuse, being left unsupervised, being physically hurt, witnessing verbal and physical conflict or inappropriate behaviour and being exposed to domestic violence are loads one million Aussie kids must bare creating long term problems and in some cases very tragic outcomes.

Society’s burden to pick up the pieces of these kid’s lives also comes at great cost.

What is needed is public outrage.

What the issue’s getting is pushed aside again to make way for more shock and awe around other more easily demonised drugs.

Here’s the rub. Experiences with alcohol and Australia’s relationship to it are so widely diverse the lines between good and bad are blurred.

We don’t sit down with friends over a pleasant meal in a vineyard to socialise, share and connect, over a nice glass of ‘ice’.

We don’t pop the cork on a bottle of ‘ice’ when we’re celebrating a milestone, or open a cold one (of ‘ice’) on a hot summer’s day after mowing the lawn.

Nor do we catch up with mates or old friends over a few glasses of ‘ice’ on a Friday night to wind down or relax.

We, the majority of alcohol users, don’t do that because ‘ice’ is a dangerous drug associated with anti-social behaviour such as fits or uncontrolled jerking, extreme agitation, confusion and clumsiness, sudden, severe headache, unconsciousness, stroke, heart attack and death.

Of those side effects ‘ice’ does share five

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of them with alcohol (agitation, confusion, clumsiness, unconsciousness, death).

The decider is that ‘ice’ doesn’t have a place in broader society whereas alcohol does.

There are too many normal social situations like the backyard barbecue, Christmas dinner and a wedding toast, where alcohol is the social norm.

It’s hard then to acknowledge alcohol’s dark side.

And get outraged about it.

At the mention of the rise of ‘ice’ in Dubbo I’ve heard impassioned disapproval, rightly so; and terrible reports children as young as eight are users.

Not a lot different to alcohol.

The Australian School Students’ Alcohol and Drug Survey, conducted in 2005 found 10 per cent of 12 year-olds had consumed alcohol in the week prior to the survey, and by 17 this had increased to 49 per cent.

What is a 12 year-old doing drinking alcohol?

Drinking Nightmare is an Australian Government endorsed campaign to combat binge drinking in youth, one of dozens of community and government endorsed attempts to stem the rising tide of drinking teens.

I can pick up a brochure at my local supermarket advising me as a parent how to help my teen have a safe party where alcohol is served. The message doesn’t seem to be just for teens who can legally drink.

So the real message is, look, teens are going to drink, so let’s help them do it safely. Which they can never do because health studies show underage drinking is physically extremely harmful, not taking into account other inherent risks.

I’ve heard of parents buying their children alcohol so they at least know what their child is drinking at a party. What about telling their teen, if there’s alcohol being served, they’re not going?

Your teen might not thank you now but what favours are we offering by teaching them to ignore valid health warnings or that the only way to have acceptable fun is with a glass of alcohol in your hand.

Where’s the pride in sending our kids off for a good time, with a six pack under their arm when current statistics tell us the most common causes for alcohol-attributable death for young people aged 15-24 years are road injury (males 52 per cent, females 37 per cent), suicide (males 19 per cent, females 22 per cent) and assault (males 7 per cent, females 20 per cent). * One in four hospitalisations of 15-25 year olds happen because of alcohol. One in two kids aged 15-17 who get drunk will do something they regret. 70 Australians under 25 will be hospitalised due to alcohol-caused assault in an average week and, here’s something to get really outraged about; four Aussies under 25 die due to alcohol related injuries ... in an average week.

I’d say there’s nothing average about burying your teenager due to alcohol related injuries in any week. * WWW.DRINKINGNIGHTMARE.GOV.AU

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Welcome to Ice Land, Senator Nash

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

FTER more than a decade on the streets, the Federal Government is finally taking a hard line on crystal methamphetamine, better known as ice, with visiting Senator Fiona Nash saying that a plan to manage the issue had already begun to ‘crystallise’ after her afternoon in Dubbo this week.

As addictive as heroin and as easy and cheap to obtain as marijuana, ice is no longer confined to the drug dens of major cities and is hurting small communities - with places such as nearby Wellington described as the ice capital of Australia, or colloquially ‘Ice Land.’

Kids as young as eight years-old are getting hooked on the drug, and dealers are not afraid of the strong arm of the law. And if they are jailed, there is always someone else waiting in the wings to take their place and the spoils of the lucrative industry.

The effects are devastating and farreaching, with ice addiction destroying homes, families, work places and worst of all, lives.

The newly-formed National Ice Taskforce (NIT) announced by the Federal Government is devising a national strategy to help curb the problem by visiting rural and regional centres across the country, talking to local frontline workers in each destination to ascertain the depth of the icy abyss.

Assistant health minister, Senator Fiona Nash was in Dubbo on Monday and hosted a two-hour roundtable discussion with everyone from counsellors to councillors from across the western region.

Police and social workers weren’t afraid to put their views forward, and urged this government to not just throw money at the issue and walk away - that it would need a whole community, longterm approach to address the latest ice age.

The Howard Government had previously pledged $150 million to fight what’s now described as an epidemic.

However, in the eight years since that time, the problem has only escalated further.

“It’s more visible and rapidly escalating in rural and regional communities,” Nash told Weekender.

Her afternoon in Dubbo only served to reinforce the Senator’s impression of the issue, giving her some ammunition with which to deal with it.

“I wasn’t shocked by what I heard,” she said.

“It’s very much a reflection of what I’m hearing in other regions - and this is not just an isolated issue. As a community issue, it’s in the top three everywhere I go.

“What this does is build a bigger picture of what we need to address it, because this drug is not disappearing.”

The meeting, she said, had ‘been increasingly productive and useful to feed into our broader spectrum.’

“There’s nothing startling about today,” she told the gathering of over 40

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What they said Meeting participants were asked to give their views on the future action plan against ice. These were some of their suggestions: 9 education and early intervention 9 additional resources 9 minimum sentencing for dealers, manufacturers; harsher penalties 9 giving ownership back to the community 9 focus on broader issues such as unemployment, social housing, Stolen Generation, alcoholism and other drugs 9 rehabilitation and detoxification programs 9 mentor programs 9 support systems at a local level 9 programs in schools 9 local heroes 9 prevention rather than reaction 9 alternatives to parenting solutions 9 using technology such as skype, apps to connect 9 intergenerational treatment 9 stimulant treatment program 9 commitment, accountability, transparency, honesty 9 ONE80TC 9 change the culture 9 whole community/whole government non-partisan approach

people.

“From here, it’s build and build and I’ve received the same feedback across the board. This information will feed directly into the taskforce and what we need to do has already started to crystallise.

“My focus is not on a one size fits all approach … but we need to be coherent across communities.

“Local communities need to be involved in the solution - the government can’t tackle this alone. We need to allow people who know how to do their job to do their job.”

Nash admitted that the government’s initial advertising campaign, described by some of the roundtable participants as ridiculous, was just the beginning of the action.

“That is just the start,” she said.

Parkes MP Mark Coulton, who attended the forum alongside Nash, said the widespread problem was nothing new, and had even impacted the smallest communities in the electorate.

In his opinion, there were now three main areas to address: prevention, addiction and legislation.

“A community is only as strong as those who are doing it toughest,” he said.

“I thought it (the forum) was really good … everyone there had first-hand knowledge of the issue.”

Coulton himself is also well aware of the devastating effects of ice.

“I have heard anecdotally that they (the dealers) are putting meth in cannabis to give kids their first hit that way … it’s pretty horrific stuff.

“The magnitude of this issue defies belief. It has been deliberately swept under the rug for too long.”

Comparing the scourge of ice with the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, Coulton said direct and immediate action was required.

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Dear Fellow Resident, DUBBO CITY COUNCIL – PUTTING DUBBO FIRST On 31 March 1980, the Councils of Dubbo City and Talbragar Shire amalgamated, expanding the area of the new Dubbo City Council from 44km2 to 3,425km2. This amalgamation was needed at the time to secure the ongoing growth and development of Dubbo into the future.

Since this amalgamation, the Dubbo Local Government Area has evolved significantly and grown from a population of 29,000 to a thriving regional service centre of 41,573 people today.

Reform to Local Government in NSW is once again imminent.

NSW Councils have been asked to prepare proposals to Government by 30 June 2015 outlining how they will become and remain sustainable or “Fit for the Future”. This is in response to a report commissioned by the NSW Government by the Independent Local Government Review Panel which has recommended that Dubbo be a “council in Orana Joint Organisation or merge with Wellington and/or Narromine”.

A copy of this report and the Panel’s recommendations can be found at www.fitforthefuture.nsw.gov.au/background.

We as a Council have unanimously resolved that a merger with any council, including Wellington and Narromine councils, is simply not supported as it is considered that it would not be in the best interests of Dubbo, nor is it in the best interests of the Narromine or Wellington communities or the wider Orana Region.

Accordingly, Council has prepared a draft “Fit for the Future” submission that says “No” to any merger.

As part of the “Fit for the Future” reform package, councils are required to assess their position in respect of “scale and capacity” and further assess their position in respect of 7 financial benchmarks. These benchmarks relate to sustainability, infrastructure and service management and efficiency.

Based on this assessment Dubbo City Council has the “scale and capacity” to stand alone and is projecting that it will meet 6 of the 7 benchmarks in 2015/2016 and with the implementation of the draft Improvement Plan, Council is confident of meeting all 7 benchmarks from 2018/2019 onwards ensuring Council can stand alone and be financially sustainable into the future.

Community feedback is critical to this process and as a part of it, we as Councillors want to know if you support saying “Yes” to a Joint Organisation but “No” to a merger. The draft submission, including the Improvement Plan, is available online at www.mydubbomysay.com and copies can be viewed at Dubbo City Council; Macquarie Regional Library Dubbo Branch; Ballimore Inn; Eumungerie and Wongarbon Post Office.

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Dubbo leading the way in adult water safety

BY KIM V GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

VER the last 12 months, the learn to swim team at Dubbo RSL Health Club have been at the forefront of delivering a swimming program to more than 160 adults in the region, lacking what is considered an essential skill in Australia.

The local learn to swim provider delivered swimming tuition under the State Government’s Water Safety Black Spot Fund program to 115 people over 10 weeks last year, many of them from culturally and linguistically diverse communities within the city.

They were so successful in their delivery they were given the opportunity to use left over funding from the other regions to deliver more classes to another 50 people earlier this year, and are now hoping to continue some of the more targeted adult sessions alongside their usual adult learn to swim classes.

Austswim qualified teacher, Karen Martin is part of the team delivering the adult learn to swim classes.

“The State Government realised they were spending so much money on rescuing people from different cultures because they have no idea of what water is about or the power of the water.

“They figured they’d be better off teaching people how to swim than rescuing them all the time.

Initially, 200 places were made available across the region for various swimming program providers to deliver to, but it wasn’t well taken up, explains Martin.

“We ended up doing 115 out of the 200 spots for this area.

“We taught them a lot of different things from how to read rips to how to monitor how far away they are from land.

“We had one night where we did a talk before we put them in the pool because we didn’t know how much they knew.

“We talked about beaches and rivers and showed them scenarios they might face.”

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Austswim qualified teacher, Karen Martin. PHOTO: KIM V. GOLDSMITH

Martin says being able to teach people a life skill is a highly rewarding thing to do but is often dismayed by how many teens she still encounters who don’t know how to swim.

“I don’t know how that can happen in Australia.

“Some adults didn’t have the opportunity to learn to swim and they develop

Now they’re living in Australia, they get invited to BBQs and things like that and they don’t want to go because they don’t know how to swim and don’t want to admit they can’t swim.

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a fear – they’re not comfortable taking their children to learn to swim.

“When there are whole families who don’t know how to swim it can become a perpetual cycle and that’s dangerous in a country like Australia.”

Martin works with a wide range of ages in her adult swim classes, from 18 year olds through to those in their 60s

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and 70s.

For the adults who come, it’s often something they’ve always wanted to do but haven’t had the opportunity, or they’ve harboured a life long fear of the water.

“The other thing is people who have grown up in other countries who have never had access to clean water or pools to be able to swim.

“Now they’re living in Australia, they get invited to BBQs and things like that and they don’t want to go because they don’t know how to swim and don’t want to admit they can’t swim.

“It’s such a massive part of our culture.”

While Martin feels the government support of adult swim classes is important, she says ultimately what’s more important than the funding is the wide range of skills participants gain in the process.

“People were so grateful to have this skill that they never had before ... they feel confident they can now take their kids somewhere with water.

“It’s amazing to watch. One fellow who grew up in Africa had tried to learn to float forever.

“It took a while but in the end he could float for five or 10 seconds, which is something he couldn’t do before,” she recounts grinning.

“A lot of it is just getting around their anxieties and getting them confident enough to trust you ... it was just beautiful.

“To me, it was teaching the community a really much needed skill and for these people to feel a bit safer living in Australia.”

Martin’s own near drowning experience as a child learning to swim is what motivates her to keep sharing her skills with both children and adults.

“I’ll do whatever I can to keep that from happening to anybody else.”

Martin and her employer have been recognised over the past few years through various awards, nominations and commendations for their work with adult learn to swim programs, particularly with under-represented groups.

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Camilla shines as showgirl After being crowned as the 2015 Dubbo Showgirl, Camilla Kenny is looking forward to the fun and friendship, but on also using her role to raise awareness of mental health issues in rural areas.

INNING the title, Kenny says, was a huge surprise. “Every one of the entrants was wonderful, intelligent and fun, so it would have been a very tough job for the judges. “We are also very different girls in regards to our backgrounds, studies and future goals, but through this common interest in the show we have sparked a great friendship.�

Participating in the various aspects of the show was also enjoyable. “It was great to see so many people out to watch the grand parade and grand opening of the show where the announcement was made, showing how much our community loves the local show,� she told Weekender. “The weekend has been an amazing experience, meeting the committee and seeing how much work goes on behind the scenes at our local show. The whole committee has been wonderful in involving all of the showgirl entrants, and making it a highly enjoyable weekend. I spent the weekend with the other showgirl entrants, 2014 showgirl Anna Tickle and 2014 runnerup Michaela Davis, where we walked around the show talking to people about the showgirl competition and getting to see and participate in each of the sections. “It was great to have so many people wanting to ask us about the showgirl competition and involve us in what was happening. All of the entrants have become so close and I feel that we will remain good friends into the future from this experience.�

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As for the coming year, Kenny will continue to work in her role in mental health across the district, helping to promote mental health and how to access help for people who may be doing it tough. “Due to my job (as a Rural Mental Health Coordinator), I was so pleased to see the Black Dog Ride as the main charity supported for the show, and hear how well they went, not only from the funds raised, but also from being able to have discussions on mental health and show people that it is okay to talk about and get help. I also look forward to being involved in the Dubbo Show Society Committee as well as the showgirl committee to help give new perspective to the show and an extra set of hands, as I have been able to see briefly the large scale of work to be done to organise the show each year and keep things running smoothly.� “Huge thanks and congratulations are in order to our Show Society and president Martin Morris on a highly successful 2015 show and showgirl coordinator Jane Diffey, for her enthusiasm and support of all the entrants, making the weekend an enjoyable and valuable experience. Also to our previous showgirls Kate, Kennedy, Jess and Anna for supporting myself and the other entrants throughout the week in the lead-up to the show and across the whole weekend. “I would highly recommend to any young woman from Dubbo to enter the Showgirl Competition in 2016 for this incredible experience and what has been the highlight of 2015 for me thus far.�

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National service; not a prince of an idea

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

HAT a world of difference a single word makes.

That word is ‘Prince’.

This week the Royal Redhead suggested Australia should look at reintroducing national service with a non-military component to the scheme, an idea that was enthusiastically taken up by the ‘commentariat’, with all the unpaid, profile-building celebrities on the cheaply produced TV and radio programs agog with the righteousness of the concept.

‘It’ll help the drug problem with our youth,’ proclaimed one C-List celebrity who I can’t name.

‘It will give some direction to so many young people who are rudderless in life’, said another.

On it went, ad infinitum.

I agree that it’s a great idea and has so many positives to recommend it, that we should just make it happen.

But people should realise that the concept of National Civil Service, while spawned by a famous redhead, wasn’t first conceived in Prince Harry’s fertile imagination.

That honour should be clearly placed at the feet of our own home-grown Pauline Hanson, and the story started right here in Dubbo almost 20 years ago.

This idea passed unnoticed in her maiden speech to federal parliament as a brand new member back in 1996 where she said: “I call for the introduction of national service for a period of 12 months, compulsory for males and females upon finishing Year 12 or reaching 18 years of age. This could be a civil service with a touch of military training.”

So unreported was this fact that when Pauline Hanson visited Dubbo not long afterwards I was unaware she’d made the call.

During that Dubbo trip she was surrounded by more security than any other citizen except then Prime Minister John Howard, and her every movement and utterance was dissected by a ravenous media pack.

At 2:50 one afternoon, while working at Dubbo’s Daily Liberal, we got a call which said Ms Hanson was deviating from the schedule and making a visit to the city’s military museum which was owned by my family, and being the only available reporter off I went.

Not knowing anything about Ms Hanson’s call to arms, when editor Richard Lawson screamed at me what angle was I going to take as I walked out the door, I said, ‘I’m going to get a shot of her popping out of a tank turret wearing a helmet and I’ll get her views on national service’. ‘Good luck,’ he replied with a laugh.

At 3pm Ms Hanson arrived and I proceeded to give her a guided tour of the exhibits, and also asked her what she thought about reintroducing national service.

Straightaway she replied, “No, national civil service,” and outlined how she wanted to see kids for all walks of life and socio economic backgrounds living and working together, learning how to get along while learning trade skills.

She also envisaged this workforce as a quickly deployable asset during times of floods, fires and other national disasters.

The metropolitan journos tagged along, unaware the story of the day was breaking in their midst.

Pauline duly got into a tank turret for me, whacked on a helmet inner and delivered a huge smile with her salute, and the metro snappers couldn’t believe their luck, coming up to me afterwards to tell me these were the best pictures they’d ever taken with the politician.

No TV was present, and the next day I had every station in the country asking if anyone at all had shot any vision, with one outlet offering me $3000 for anything I could come up with from any other tourists who’d been there at the time, no matter how bad the quality or how small the quantity.

Back at the office and the editor liked the differ-

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Pauline Hanson and John Ryan during her visit to Dubbo, almost 20 years ago.

ence of the angle so much he put it on the front page and also put the story on the AAP wire services, which meant any news outlet which subscribed had the right to use it.

It was only the next morning I realised how the media could so hopelessly misuse and mangle what was pretty basic information.

Every national newspaper led with the photos on the front page.

TV and radio news bulletins did the same.

But every single one of them got it wrong.

Not a single reporter from any organisation bothered to call Ms Hanson or myself to check on the facts of the story, but every single report deleted the word ‘civil’ from National Civil Service and the angle was that warmongering Pauline Hanson wanted everyone to join the army.

A conspiracy theory plot couldn’t have pulled this one off any better, so perfectly and unanimously orchestrated was it.

I called Pauline Hanson this week and she remembers the incident well.

“They took the ‘civil’ out of it to get people incited that I was calling on the youth to be conscripted to go to war,” Ms Hanson told me.

“It was all about stirring up public concern about me as I was a huge threat to the major parties.

“In one year we had pulled 24 percent of the vote in Queensland which was a shockwave for the major parties, that’s why the media was on my case,” she said.

It wasn’t the only issue where she touched a chord of public opinion which is only just now being recognised by the major political players.

“In 1997 I said multinationals weren’t paying tax in

Pauline duly got into a tank turret for me, whacked on a helmet inner and delivered a huge smile with her salute, and the metro snappers couldn’t believe their luck, coming up to me afterwards to tell me these were the best pictures they’d ever taken with the politician.

Australia and now the coalition is just starting to tinker around the edges of that issue when the people want big companies to pay their fair share,” Ms Hanson said.

“I’ve remained true to all my convictions since I began in public office while the party politician have changed their minds again and again.

“The fact I’m still here after being ridiculed by the media and even wrongly jailed shows that I now have the trust of many people that I’m a true conviction politician and fight for the average Australian,” she said.

On Prince Harry’s National Service views, she’s glad he said it and that his standing gives the idea credibility, because he’s been there and done that, but is upset that her visionary stance 20 years ago has cost the nation dearly.

“When you’re in politics you have to be visionary, you have to think to the future and not just deal with day to day issues,” Ms Hanson said.

“Leaders lack vision now and National Civil Service is a visionary concept which would be a great leveller for our youth and give them a greater understanding of other areas of our society.

“Kids who get on to drugs because they feel rejected by society would actually feel pride in being a part of something, it would give them a great sense of selfworth,” she said.

If the media had done its job and reported accurately on this story 18 years ago, who knows what could have been.

Countless people may have avoided a downward spiral on to drugs and ended up with fulfilling careers and lives according to Ms Hanson.

“The number of people who have saved themselves by joining the armed forces is incredible,” she said. “it would be a lot cheaper in the long run to have kids in National Civil Service. It would prevent a lot of people getting onto drugs, stop lifetimes of addiction, welfare and intergenerational dysfunction.”

Who knows, the government may even have a spare trillion or so dollars if it had acted two decades ago on multinational tax avoidance, and that would have made a real difference to the infrastructure and social services of Australia.

What a chance we may have lost, and the systemic failure of the national media to accurately and honourably report the fact was highlighted by an inconsequential visit to a Dubbo military museum.

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

Crash closes Mitchell Highway N elderly woman has died after being struck by a car when crossing the Mitchell Highway on her mobility scooter on Monday morning.

The accident occurred at 11.30am when the 87-year-old was negotiating the busy intersection at Darling and Cobra streets. She was struck by a westbound vehicle and critically injured before being airlifted to Sydney’s Westmead Hospital where she was in an induced coma, before her death was reported by police on Tuesday. The highway was closed for a significant amount of time while police and forensic teams examined the scene of the accident. They have reminded both pedestrians and motorists to exercise caution when crossing the road.

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Icy topic up for discussion THE National Ice Taskforce roadshow came to town on Monday, hosting a two-hour roundtable at Dubbo Neighbourhood Centre on the impact of the drug and the options available for future management. The meeting was attended by frontline workers from across the western region. Meanwhile, police uncovered what they believe to be a suspected clandestine drug laboratory in Hutchins Ave on Tuesday afternoon. » More: page 3

Drug driver blitz THE drug bus hit the streets of Dubbo last week, with eight drivers testing positive for amphetamines during the one-day police blitz.

One in 14 drivers tested positive for drugs, which was an alarming figure for police.

The bus moved around to different parts, with other police vehicles circling each area. The bus was also at the annual show.

Big weekend for showgoers FINE weather and big crowds greeted showgoers at the annual Dubbo Show, the 142nd event for the city. Held over

Cash boost for saleyards

PHOTO: STEVE COWLEY

three big days, the show included shearing displays from the nation’s best, live entertainment from local musos, showjumping, harness racing as well as an on-site circus.

This year’s show supported the Black Dog Ride as the event’s nominated charity, raising awareness of depression and supporting suicide prevention in the community. The Black Dog stand reportedly sold out of merchandise. » Photos: page 54

The week for stories and scams LIBRARY and Information Week featured the theme Imagine and showed library users that the facility was about more than just book borrowing.

From researching family history, to downloading the latest magazines, creating art and learning more about staying safe online, events each day helped library users imagine the possibilities available to them in the library. The week included the annual National Simultaneous Storytime, held on Wednesday morning.

This week was also National Consumer Fraud Week, with the NSW Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe urging consumers to be wary of scammers.

He said almost 100 people across NSW had reported travelling conmen so far this year.

“Travelling conmen are unqualified and unethical charlatans,” he said.

“Even one person stung by these itinerant traders is one too many.”

Stowe said that scam traders have sophisticated schemes set up where they can look and seem like the genuine deal.

Focus on palliative care A TWO-DAY conference is in its second stage in Dubbo today to discuss integration of palliative approaches to chronic and life-limiting illnesses.

The event follows on from 2013’s inaugural conference, and has a focus on networks of care.

It has the theme Dying to Know and is being attended by 200 nurses, doctors and allied health professionals from across the state.

Drop tackle for obesity THE Dubbo Region Obesity Project (DROP Study) has kicked off, bringing together a range of health care experts to tackle the issue of obesity in the region.

The University of Sydney’s School of Rural Health is collaborating with Western NSW Medicare Local as well as local GPs and their practice teams, obesity specialists, nutrition and physical activity experts, health psychologists and the wider healthcare community to address the issue.

THE Dubbo Regional Livestock Markets will receive a financial injection, thanks to a $3.29 million grant from the Federal Government, which will be matched dollar for dollar by Dubbo City Council, taking the project budget to $6.58 million.

The funding, allocated under the government’s National Stronger Regions Fund, will allow council to upgrade the market’s cattle sale facilities.

“This funding is a big boost not only for the Dubbo economy but also for livestock producers across NSW,” Coulton said.

Council’s corporate development director Ken Rogers said cattle sales have been consistently high and expansion is crucial to support industry and regional economic growth.

“The Dubbo Regional Livestock Markets has been ranked the number one cattle-selling market in NSW for the last eight years. Buyers and sellers come from as far afield as Victoria and Queensland because of the central location and they know the markets attract the highest quality stock and good sale prices,” he said.

“The funding secured is for a significant upgrade to the cattle selling facilities increasing the capacity to meet the increased demand and make the buying and selling process more efficient.”

Rising star on the horizon DUBBO childcare worker Tammy Davis will soon be attending an awards ceremony, after being named as a finalist in the Rising Star of the Year category for the Australian Family Early Education & Care Awards.

There are 100 finalists from 1000 nominations, with 26 of them from the ACT and NSW. State winners will be announced on June 8.

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Pride of the zoo The gorgeous, mischievous cub trio are now on public display at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. PHOTO: RICK STEVENS

THREE of Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s newest arrivals have made their way onto public display, and will no doubt be a crowd-pleaser in coming months.

The three lion cubs - the zoo’s first - made their media debut on Monday,

ognised by ACON as one of Australia’s top 20 employers for LGBTI people.

NSW’s leading HIV and LGBTI health organisation.

ACON’s Pride in Diversity Award is determined using the Pride in Diversity’s Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), an annual survey that evaluates and benchmarks LGBTI workplaces. UnitingCare Ageing is an inclusive faith-based organisation, and has been included in Pride in Diversity’s ‘Top 20’ list for the first time.

Clubs reach out to multicultural community CLUBS from across the Central West have met to discuss working with local multicultural groups in order to deliver critical facilities and meet the needs of the whole community.

Representatives from up to 100 clubs met at Gilgandra Services Club to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to enable them to better engage multicultural groups that may be unaware of the assistance and facilities clubs can provide.

The MoU sets out a framework for collaboration to enable those registered with Multicultural NSW to gain access to club facilities for community group activities.

and were not shy to explore their surroundings or indulge in some child’s play.

At three months old, keeper Roger Brogan said the male and two females are certainly keeping first-time mum Maya busy.

Coulton: need for rethink on NAB branch closure WITH the Walgett branch of the National Australia Bank set to close later in the year, Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton has expressed his anger about the decision.

The NAB wrote to Coulton in April advising of the planned October closure because the Fox St premises no longer meet the required NAB building standards.

“I am disgusted with the NAB’s decision to close its Walgett branch, particularly at a time when the Walgett community is struggling with the drought,” he said this week.

Mr Coulton understands the concerns raised about the safety of the NAB premises in Walgett; however he warns that this should not be used as an excuse to close the branch.

“The NAB needs to overcome the issues with the accommodation for the Walgett branch and ensure they do not use these issues as an excuse to desert Walgett.”

Walgett provides valuable services to many agricultural and small businesses in its area with face-to-face banking being one of these.

“The NAB and all other banks need to ensure they support rural and regional

He said they were keeping active climbing over rocks and logs and rumbling with each other.

“They are a bit mischievous and are certainly keeping Maya on her toes,” he said.

Keepers have been impressed

communities such as Walgett and continue to contribute to the local economies of these towns.”

Stars shine in Super League IN local indoor cricket representative news, Dubbo’s Western Stars travelled to Inverell for Round 1 of the Northern NSW Indoor Cricket Super League.

In the Men’s 1s division first game to retain the title they have won for the past five out of six years, the locals stumbled against Coffs Harbour, losing 109-120. But in true Stars fashion, they rebounded from that defeat with a better display of discipline, recording dual wins in their double header with a very young and talented Inverell side, a side predicted by many to be the team that the Stars will have to defeat to retain their title.

Steve Skinner and Jordan Peacock both had good weekends with the bat, scoring 65 and 63 respectively for the weekend. Mat Skinner and Dan Horrocks’ bowling was a highlight, taking early wickets and setting a platform.

Fatal accidents across the region A TASKFORCE has been called in to in-

by Maya’s nurturing of the cubs.

“Maya is a great mother, she is very attentive.”

The two female cubs have been named Makeba and Zuri respectively.

A competition will be held to name the male cub.

vestigate the death of a Tamworth man this week.

Involved in an altercation, the man suffered a head injury. After refusing medical treatment, the 52-year-old returned to his home, before presenting at Tamworth Base Hospital the following afternoon. There, it was found that he had significant internal injuries and he died a few hours later.

Meanwhile, there were three serious road accidents across the region this week. In Cootamundra, a female passenger died following a police pursuit of a Holden station wagon on the Olympic Way last Thursday. While police terminated the chase for safety reasons, the vehicle was discovered to have crashed into a culvert a short time later.

Police are also investigating a fatal crash near Condobolin, which occurred on Monday. The sole occupant of a Suzuki Vitara, a 33-year-old Nyngan man was found deceased in his vehicle 7km from the Palistan Rd turn-off on the Gooma Rd. In a separate incident, a woman was also injured after being trapped under her vehicle at Forbes last Thursday.

She sustained serious leg injuries and was treated by NSW Ambulance Paramedics before being taken to Forbes Hospital.

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The schizophrenia debate

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Vegemite the right way THE nation’s pride has been restored by none-other-than Hugh Jackman after he prepared a vegemite sandwich for America’s Jimmy Fallon, the proper, Aussie way.

All hail the pioneer of the legitimate Vegemite taste test. We know very well in the outback Vegemite is often best served simply on warm toast with a sliver of butter, contrary to Fallon’s original attempt of a dose that’d make Nutella jealous.

I’ll give Karl Stefanovic credit too, after downing Vegemite like a champion in response to Fallon’s hiccup. With their combined efforts, we can rest easy knowing Vegemite’s image in the US has finally been rehabilitated.

Campus rape protest IN a powerful ploy to raise awareness of sexual assault, Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz has graduated, with her mattress in tow. he art student vowed to carry the mattress everywhere on campus for as long as she attended the same school as her alleged rapist, whose case was dismissed.

The mattress symbolised the “weight” of sexual violence and a consequence of what she says was the university’s mishandling of the situation.

Various Columbia University alumni have praised the performance saying “for the students and activists like Emma who have shown bravery in the face of rape apologism and misogyny.”

GOULBURN’S ‘spider rain’ has gained widespread media coverage in what those are calling ‘an arachnophobes worst nightmare’.

Earlier this month, millions of spiderlings appeared to be falling from the sky. Contrary to reports of “everybody freaking out”, resident Ian Watson told the Sydney Morning Herald it was beautiful but he was annoyed they kept getting caught in his beard.

How no one has actual footage of this in this day and age is beyond me, causing most online publications to recycle photos from Wagga Wagga’s 2012 scare.

The episode is all simply caused by a dispersal technique called “ballooning” according to Australian Museum Naturalist Martyn Robinson, it’s not the end of the world after all, perfectly scientific.

Turban calms head wound THIS week in New Zealand a Sikh man removed his turban to calm the bleeding of a child who had been hit by a car on his way to school.

Sikhs tie their turbans each day as a commitment to the religion and leaders have applauded his actions as a representation of what Sikhism stands for.

An outpouring of respect followed the release of the news, hailing him as a hero. Showing the true meaning of religion Advisory Board member of Multicultural NSW said, “The way I see it, religion doesn’t really have a place if it’s not for helping people.”

Turned away for wearing flats IN an odd bout of tyrannical fashion-policing Cannes controversy has arisen as reports of red carpet guests denied entry for not wearing heels.

What’s worse is the timing of the incident, occurring during a year when the international film festival was seeking to address sexism in cinema with a female-directed film opening Cannes for the first time since 1987.

Cannes’ director Theirry Fremaux responded to the criticism on Twitter saying, “The rumour... the Festival insists on high heels for women on the red carpet is unfounded.” Sicario’s lead actress Emily Blunt has joined the backlash in disappointment of the news; “just when you kind of think there are these new waves of equality,” she said.

SHOULD schizophrenia be renamed to help reduce the stigma that surrounds people with the illness? The suggestion continues to spark debate.

There is no question that people living with schizophrenia are still stigmatised. We know that people diagnosed as having schizophrenia die up to 20 years earlier than others in the community and a few years ago schizophrenia was declared the ‘abandoned illness’ by the Schizophrenia Commission in the UK. Now new research, the largest study to explore renaming the illness, has again highlighted the complexities of damaging stigma associated with diagnoses, particularly schizophrenia. After surveying more than 1600 people, researchers in the UK conclude that ‘... any decisions to rename should be made with caution.

‘However’, they add, ‘... a decision not to rename may overlook an important opportunity to tackle damaging stereotypes ...’.

In Japan, after they changed the name, psychiatrists were almost twice as likely to tell their patients about their diagnosis. Furthermore, 86 per cent of psychiatrists said it was also easier to talk to their families and discuss the treatments available.

Award winning Australian poet and author, Sandy Jeffs has lived with schizophrenia for thirty-eight years. She says, somewhat despairingly, that even though mental health is discussed more openly and other mental health conditions become more visible, schizophrenia has retreated further into the shadows.

In a recent essay shortlisted for the Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition, she says: ‘One has to be brave to say ‘I have schizophrenia’ ’.

What’s needed most is a change of attitude across the community. SANE Australia recently called on the Federal government to put in place a five-year national stigma reduction campaign.

During this year’s Schizophrenia Awareness Week, ending this weekend, I again urge the government to support this initiative, so that we can build a fair, decent and prosperous Australia in which we all have a place and contribution to make.

Jack Heath CEO SANE Australia

Many doing it tough this winter A GROWING number of our neighbours will face a lonely winter this year with as many as 7 per cent, or 1.5 million Australians predicted to be considered isolated or very isolated this year.

Having friends around us makes us more resilient to life’s knocks and challenges.

Red Cross helps people of all ages who are doing it tough. We help isolated people reconnect with their communities by assisting them to join social groups and build new friendships. Red Cross also provides free phone calls to thousands of elderly Australians each day just to check they’re OK. We help people who are homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless, those with mental health issues and disadvantaged families who want a better future for their children.

Across the Asia Pacific region we are working provide clean drinking water and better sanitation, and help rebuild lives after major disasters.

All of our work relies heavily on the generosity of people like you who donate to Red Cross.

I’m asking everyone to dig deep before the June 30 to make sure Red Cross will always be there for our friends and neighbours.

To make a tax deductible donation by June 30 call 1800 811 700, go online or use your smartphone to go to our website at redcross.org.au.

Robert Tickner Chief Executive Australian Red Cross

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a long-time Dubbo resident and ardent pacifist.

Difference between what Bill and Bush left in the Oval office EB Bush is being touted as a possible next president of the US. That’s right: “Bush” as in the brother of the man who pretended to be president when the oil industry actually seized power in America a few years back.

Pundits are already calling it Hillary v Jeb in 2016 and there’s been speculation aplenty about the legacy both contenders carry, and how vulnerable it leaves them for campaign mud-slinging.

But comparing Bill Clinton with George W. Bush is like comparing a bloke who farts in the elevator to the career axe-murderer who bombs a convent while releasing raw sewage into a Swiss glacial lake.

Personally I would have thought there’s a fair bit of daylight between knobbing an intern on the one hand, and laying waste the Middle East, killing thousands and subjecting millions more to years of unspeakable horror that continues to ricochet murderously across the region.

Bill might have brought a cheesy funk to the Oval Office, but Bush and the dead-eyed, bloodless freaks with which he surrounded himself radicalised a generation of disaffected Muslims, brought a warmonger’s shame on the US and her allies, returned torture to government policy, trashed freedoms centuries in the making and fouled the diplomatic credibility of western Anglo powers for generations.

Recently Jeb gave four different answers in four days to the question of whether he would have invaded Iraq as his brother did.

His safest ground was the stock standard “on the intelligence available at the time...”

Of course the correct intelligence from UN weapons inspectors, France, Germany, and highprofile whistle-blowers like Scott Ritter and our own Andrew Wilk-

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ie, was discredited in favour of stuff the Bush administration was falsifying.

It’s not really an honest mistake if you act on information you fabricated yourself.

And there’s a fair bit of difference between having oral sex with someone other than your wife, on the one hand and being sufficiently gullible to actually believe that deregulated free market dogma is not just an excuse to direct public money to the rich and is instead a viable economic philosophy, and thereby create the global financial crisis, bringing misery to millions, and which then consumes the taxes meant for the wellbeing of future generations to instead bail out banks, thereby totalling contradicting the neoliberal ideological claptrap that we are still subject to, and instead resorting to socialism in the form of direct government intervention!

(And while we’re on that, even Bush admitted at the time that this government bailout response was totally at odds with his neo-con philosophy, and therefore everything big business has been spouting through its elected mouthpieces since the 1980s, but nobody else did – a silence that pervades to this very day.)

Bill tried to weasel his way out of the latest in a life-time of sleazy extramarital behaviour, but George W. unleashed the greatest strategic catastrophe in modern history – in fact it is difficult to look back in recent history to a more brutal, needless, dreadfully counterproductive act of unprovoked aggression, that rebounded so viciously, not just on the perpetrators, but across numerous countries from Libya to Yemen, and destroyed the quality of life of so many innocents.

To juxtapose Slick Willy’s slippery zipper with one of the darker periods in recent Western civi-

Jeb Bush. PHOTO: REUTERS/BRIAN SNYDER

To juxtapose Slick Willy’s slippery zipper with one of the darker periods in recent Western civilisation seems like an exercise in comparing apples with the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

lisation seems like an exercise in comparing apples with the transAtlantic slave trade.

Optimism seems misplaced too, when you consider all but one of Jeb’s foreign policy advisors worked previously for his father, as president, or his brother, as presidential laughing stock.

And Jeb opened a recent speech with: “we definitely no longer inspire fear in our enemies,” which overlooks the fact that American violence inspires fear in just about everybody.

Instead of maintaining dynastic solidarity, Jeb could better reassure US voters and the world at large by distancing himself from his brother’s legacy of frightening incompetence.

For her part, Hillary should just avoid blue dresses.

Scientists have a tip for movie-goers: 3D films may slow brain decline

BY MARTYN LANDI

2015 FILM LIFE

LONDON: Watching films in 3D exercises the brain, and improves short-term functioning in a similar way to brain-training tests, a group of scientists have claimed.

An experiment led by a neuroscientist from Goldsmiths University in London has found that people who watch video in 3D have improved cognitive skills compared to those who watch in 2D. More than 100 people took part

in an experiment where participants watched the Disney film Big Hero 6 in either standard format or RealD 3D, as well as carrying out a brain-training-style test before and after seeing a segment from the film.

The test covered memory, reaction times and cognitive function, and the results were subsequently compared.

According to the research, which was carried

out in partnership with science group Thrill Laboratory, participants experienced a 23 per cent increase in cognitive processing, as well as an 11 per cent increase in reaction times.

Neuroscientist Patrick Fagan, an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, said the results showed enough of an improvement in brain function to suggest that 3D could play a part in improving brain

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“It is a fact that people are living longer and there is a noticeable decline in cognitive brain function in old age which can impair future quality of life.

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Tackling the Black Dog During a ten year career in first grade NRL, Wayne Wigham faced some tough contests on the paddock, but none so brutal as the battle raging in his own head. Now, the former “Balmain Boy” is a Black Dog Institute ambassador, using his own life-long experience with depression to help others understand that it’s okay to ask for help. AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Jen Cowley How long have you been living with depression?

My parents knew there was something wrong when I was about 12 – I was just a sad child. I saw a doctor, but there were no answers really – it was the 70s. I struggled through school, then through teachers’ college which I managed to get through by the skin of my teeth – always feeling sad and down. Then I played Rugby League at first grade level, and I struggled through that as well. Same thing when I spent ten years with the fire brigade.

When did you start playing league?

I was graded in 1976 – I was 18 when I started playing first grade for Balmain, where I played for eight years. Then I had a year with North Sydney and a year with Western Suburbs. I retired at the end of ’85. All that time I was battling depression, but I didn’t know what it was – I didn’t have a name for it. I was just too sad too much to be normal.

I joined the fire brigade because I knew it would involve shift work – with the way I was mentally, I knew I couldn’t cope with a nine to five job. I pretty much kept to myself.

You can still do things – you just can’t do them well.

Over a period of time, suicidal thoughts began to build and about ten years ago, I attempted to take my own life.

Was that the catalyst to getting help?

It took a while, but a friend of mine said to me that he thought I had clinical depression, and took me to see the Black Dog Institute (BDI). I really didn’t have any faith that they could help, but I was diagnosed with melancholia (a form of depression) and put me on medication. After a couple of weeks, I was sitting out the back of my place and suddenly the sky became blue and I felt “normal” for the first time in my life. I finally knew how it felt to be normal.

What was that realisation like? That this is how other people, who don’t suffer depression, feel most of the time?

It’s quite an amazing moment. You have no comparison for what normal is. If you’ve been depressed your whole life, like I was, you have no benchmark.

I think that’s why a lot of people don’t get help – because they don’t know what “normal” should be. Without that benchmark, and without an understanding of depression, you think the way you feel is normal – and that’s a real problem because you’re listening to the depression.

Has your illness affected your relationships?

Of course. I haven’t been able to hold a relationship together. My depression cost me my marriage. I had a couple of girlfriends after that, but it’s impossible to be with someone who’s reclusive and wants to sleep all the time and is sad all the time.

But that’s the point about getting help – if you do get help, it can mean you and your partner can face things and fight together. Seeking help can actually be a positive for your relationships – you can be a better partner, husband, friend, father.

I have two children, and I managed to find the strength to be a good father because my own father died when I was young and I was determined to be a good dad. My kids went through some ups and downs

with me for sure but after my suicide attempt, they learned a lot about depression as an illness. The good part about all this is that they talk about it openly and their friends are more aware of depression now, too.

The positive thing about letting people know what was going on was that spread of awareness – my kids and their friends now help each other a lot through their understanding. So that’s a positive.

You’ve also managed to turn your experience into a positive with the work you’re doing through the Black Dog Institute.

That’s right. I began to do some volunteer speaking with men through the BDI and then they employed me to talk to mainly male-dominated workplaces. Then the NRL partnered with the BDI and we’ve developed the presentation that I’m currently taking around some of the western and far western communities. I find that having gone through this I can share my experience and turn a negative into a positive – it gives me a meaning for what I’ve gone through.

Do you find that your experience not only with depression, but having played sport at elite level gives you a level of credibility with blokes in particular?

To a degree, yes. But I’m just a normal bloke and that’s what strikes a chord. I’ve been a footy player, a fireman, a truck driver – I’m an everyday bloke and if I can get depression, any bloke can get depression. I feel that I can connect with blokes because I’m one of them – just a working class man.

Your experience, and your work now, shows what a great vehicle sport can be for good mental health.

Exactly. Physical exercise is great because of the endorphins it releases. Belonging to a team means you’re being social and making friends, which is important for your mental health.

For me, sport was really important especially when I was younger. Exercise and sport have kept me alive and even to this day, I need to work every day to stay mentally healthy. Exercise is an integral part of my mental fitness.

You’ve been doing some work in the western region – what are some of the challenges you see for men out here?

We’re basically trying to get men to understand that it’s okay to talk about things, and to understand that depression is an illness. You can’t be ashamed of having an illness – it’s just bad luck. So there’s nothing wrong in seeking help. We want this generation that I’m talking to, to understand that they need to talk so that the younger generation coming through will be better prepared. They’ll know it’s okay to talk, to seek help, to know it’s okay when they’re feeling bad and not to hide it. The main aim is to break down the stigma and to understand that you need to seek help if you’re struggling, so that future generations will stop hiding it.

Why is sport such an effective vehicle to promoting

the message of good mental health?

Sport attracts the “toughest” or well-known people in country towns – people around town see them play and they respect them. They also see that famous players are putting their hands up and telling their stories – that shows that no matter who you are or where you come from, no matter what sport you play, this can happen to you.

And sport gives you a relationship – we’re all part of a footy family, for instance. Even if you don’t know that person well, you have a connection through footy.

It gives you a starting point for a conversation. Sport has that spirit of teamwork – you have a common goal.

All through sport there are people who have put their hands up among their team mates to ask for help and start that conversation about their struggle. The BDI has run sessions specifically for the NRL, and there have been blokes who’ve seen those presentations and come forward to say, “I think that’s me – I think that’s what’s happening with me”.

The NRL has talked about forming a program where each club has a “safe person”, who is someone that any club member can talk to without fear of judgement or without it going any further. That’s something we’re encouraging as we go around – for each club to have one or two people that everyone knows is a “safe person” who can act as a sounding board without passing judgement. The first step to getting help is to admit it to someone.

Throughout your travels, have you had people come to you at the end of a session and tell you it touched a chord?

Absolutely. All the time. Usually they won’t want to talk to you in front of other people, but I make a point of hanging around after or just standing out in the carpark and a lot of people will just come up and have a general chat. When you think that one in five Australians will suffer mental ill-health at some point, well that’s potentially two and a half people out of every football team.

Do you see challenges in some of our smaller remote communities that people in the city wouldn’t necessarily face?

Access to mental health services is the big one. You can’t always access a psychologist as easily. Once you take the first step you feel better just having said it out loud, but getting access to professional help can be a challenge in smaller, remote places.

Country towns do have resources in the form of great people who really care. It can be a double edged sword because in a small community, everyone knows your business and that can make it hard for people to feel comfortable coming forward, but on the other hand, a small community cares about you.

What I say to the guys is that if they’re worried about people knowing their business, drive to another town.

Exercise and sport have kept me alive and even to this day, I need to work every day to stay mentally healthy. Exercise is an integral part of my mental fitness.

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Do what you have to do – go and see a GP in another town, but just get in the car and get help.

If you do choose to talk about it in your own town, I guess you need to know you will run across some stigma; that’s just a fact of life, unfortunately. But the point is that if everyone starts to talk about it, then anyone who perpetuates the stigma becomes the outcast. Eventually, if enough people step up, we could have towns where people aren’t afraid to put their hands up for help. And wouldn’t it be great to have suicide-free towns? A town that’s a “safe place� where everyone knows they can get help – that would be the dream. That would be the prototype for what we would love to achieve in the big cities.

One of the things you say during your presentation is that depression is a great liar.

Is that one of the things that makes it hard for people to come forward?

Yes, very much. Depression is the greatest bullshitter ever. It lies to you. It will tell you you’re no good to anyone. That’s the biggest lie but it’s the one you believe. Everyone has value – everyone is loved by someone, and every life is worthwhile.

But depression will tell you otherwise. That’s why it’s so important to get help because it often needs someone to help you reorganise and reframe your thoughts and to let you know that the thoughts you have are

actually the depression talking – it’s not the reality.

If you could, what would you say to the younger version of Wayne Wigham?

Get help. Get help immediately. Do not waste one week of your life. It’s an unnecessary waste. Think of the people around you. Help yourself and you will also be helping those you love.  The NRL and the Black Dog Institute have partnered with the Act Belong Commit NSW Community Wellness program to promote the message of staying mentally healthy, and are running a series of education sessions throughout the west and far west regions. More information on forthcoming sessions is available through Act Belong Commit’s Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/ActBelongCommitNSW. If you would like more information on depression, how to spot the signs and where to go for help, go to www. blackdoginstitute.org.au.  If you, or someone you know, is struggling – help is available through Lifeline on 13 11 14, or Men’s Line Australia on 1300 78 99 78. You can also contact your GP or health professional, and in the case of an emergency ring 000 immediately.

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Friday 22.05.2015 to Sunday 24.05.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Mel Matheson and Miriam Tan When two dietitians got together, they had a lot more to offer than calorie counting and nutritional advice. They decided to introduce Dubbo to the parkrun concept, and the idea has really taken off. AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent Miriam Tan: ’VE always been interested in a healthy lifestyle and did a lot of sport when I was younger – netball, touch, dancing. I’m also a huge foodie.

When I was deciding on a career, I chose between physiotherapy, exercise physiology and nutrition and dietetics. As a course, physiotherapy was very competitive and because it was so popular, the UAI was high.

I decided on dietetics and moved to Newcastle to study. I moved to Tamworth last year and then a job came up in Dubbo so I’ve been here since February. I like the rural lifestyle and it’s very laidback and friendly here.

I got into running three years ago and I was looking for a weekly running group when a friend from Newcastle got me into parkrun. There’s multiple venues across the city, in the suburbs as well as in other places in Australia – it actually started in the UK. I started the one in Tamworth with another lady called Heather

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Hunter. I had the idea and experience and she had the local knowledge. It’s going really well now.

Running is good because you can go wherever you want, it’s free, you can do it anywhere, and it’s just you.

I run every second day and will attempt my first half marathon of 21.1km – Running for Premature Babies.

Running with other people gives you motivation and makes you feel like you’re part of something bigger.

It’s good to run with people or by myself. If you enjoy something, you’re more inclined to do it. The parkrun is held every Saturday, and is for all ages. It gets people into town in the same place at the same time and becomes a real social outing. There is so much to do between now and the Dubbo launch in July to get it up and running. We need funding, involvement and interest but a lot of people have been contributing through sponsorship and support.

Exercise is so good for your physical and mental health but there is often a gap in country areas in

terms of there being less infrastructure, lower incomes and differences in culture. There is still the issue of diabetes, heart health and mental illness but the effects of exercise are intangible and there is certainly a need to have great initiatives that are free.

When I go running, I go at my own pace. It’s not a race. With parkrun, we always say it’s a run not a race.

There’s not a winner. People can include it into their training program and walk, run, jog, bring their dog, kids, or pram.

Starting out with this, we called for expressions of interest on Facebook and got 400 likes in two days – that’s the power of social media. Things progressed from there.

Mel and I have become good friends since she employed me, we’re about the same age so that helps. We also have similar values and both come from a regional area. Her brother does professional triathlons so she had heard of parkruns before. It’s good that we’re able to bounce ideas off each other and just hearing her

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point of view and her thoughts is good. We can feed off each other. She’s also really fun and so supportive from the start. Mel does a lot of boot camps and helps a lot of sporting groups as she is an exercise physiologist as well as being a dietitian.

Mel Matheson: HAVE always had an interest in food and sport. I did my degree at Wollongong, doing dietetics and exercise rehabilitation and exercise physiology. I came back to Dubbo and I have worked at the Aboriginal Medical Services in community health in Wellington and private work in Dubbo.

A lot of people think that dietitians are about rules and regulations and they can get caught up in fad diets. I guess they have that perception of dieting. They are genuinely surprised when they come in and find out that it’s about utilising foods, enjoying them and improving the balance.

Personally, I will still go out for tea, eat chocolate

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and cheese or have a beer. It’s just about being aware and making the right choices.

High blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease and diabetes can all be the result of making bad choices. I think more people are aware of their health and getting the most out of it – everyone has become more mindful of it – in the community and socially. I think we are changing the food environment, encouraging activity and better behaviour. People really think about what they’re eating in terms of long and shortterm effects and outcomes.

In terms of exercise, I am a big believer in getting outdoors and the Tracker Riley Cycleway is great for walking and running – it will be perfect for parkrun. I do a lot of running and gym-based activity as well as sports like netball and league tag. I quite enjoy having the mix and doing outdoor activities holds your interest as well as having sustainability. Being outdoors makes you feel better.

I’ve brought Miriam on board to help with running

clinics. It’s definitely more of a partnership – we work as a team to discuss clients and cases. In dietetics, it’s about networking and ideas so we bounce off each other. She’s from Singleton so comes from a rural background too.

Miriam is also very organised, very efficient and has great time management. She has great communication skills and has built a good rapport with clients. She also has a lovely personality and has done a lot of great work. She is really passionate and I thought the parkrun was a great initiative. It’s her baby and it’s another opportunity to keep changing that environment.

Anyone can access running and it has really taken off in terms of fitness. There’s been a real explosion of fun runs and marathons. » Parkrun is a free five kilometre run/walk held every Saturday in which anyone can participate. The first Dubbo parkrun will be held on July 11.

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WHAT I DO KNOW.

Friday 22.05.2015 to Sunday 24.05.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Keith Schleiger: From builder to Blockinator He’s the foreman contestants, and some viewers, of the phenomenally popular reality TV show The Block love to hate. But with more than 20 years’ building experience under his tool belt and a new DIY book on the shelves, Keith “The Blockinator” Schleiger isn’t about to trade his reputation for a popularity contest.. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley It was sheer dumb luck that a builder from the ‘burbs in Melbourne became a TV personality. When The Block came to Melbourne, they appointed a builder – and I was associated with that builder. When they offered me the role, I didn’t really take them seriously. But a week later I had a phone call and they said, “You’ll be starting in three days”. So it all happened very quickly.

I pinch myself every second of the day. I don’t like being called a TV star – I’m on the telly, but you wouldn’t call me a “star”. I’m very fortunate – it’s been a great ride. It’s been a hard ride, but it’s been very rewarding at the same time. What you see on the telly is just a tiny part of what goes into the building side of things – while it’s entertainment for the viewers, the building has to be right and that’s my responsibility.

I would be found out in five seconds if I didn’t know what I was doing. We have building inspectors that come and inspect every part of The Block, as you have on any build. We just manage to do it probably 20 or 30 times faster than you would in the real world, but it’s all through hard work, lots of planning and good management.

It’s still a buzz for me to be walking around on a TV show – once you get a taste for it, it really lures you in. It’s exciting and I really enjoy doing all that kind of thing. But the hardest part is going through all the emotions the contestants have to suffer. It’s a really arduous undertaking, being on The Block, and to watch them go through it all can be really hard at times; really stressful.

We all go on that ride with the contestants and behind the scenes there’s much more to it. They really suffer sometimes. As foreman, I have close conversations with them to try to encourage them to keep on going and get through it, but it’s hard to watch people suffering like Anastasia did on the last series. It affected a lot of us. People think it’s engineered to bring out the drama, but honestly, we don’t have to do anything at all – it just happens. It’s the nature of the beast when you have that many people working under that pressure.

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the end of the day, we have to build to code. The contestants sometimes don’t like hearing that. We also have to finish the job – and there’s a lot of pressure on the contestants to finish. I don’t like seeing houses unfinished so there’s pressure all ‘round. My job is to call it as I see it and that’s the same as it would be in the real world. I’m also aware that there are a lot of people watching me who know about building.

I know when someone’s not putting in an effort and I know when people are just being silly. I have a very good understanding of that because I’ve been working around builders for a hell of a long time and I’ve been a foreman now for 19 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of builders over the years. Part of the appeal of The Block is that it’s an even field – and people enjoy watching ordinary people having a crack. And they see that those who work hard reap the rewards.

Everyone is different and all the contestants have had their strengths and weaknesses, so I couldn’t really pick a favourite. I have made a lot of friends from this show – really close friends. Even some of those that it might look like I don’t get along with. For instance, outside of The Block, I get along very well with Darren (Jolly). I genuinely love some of the guys from the block – they’ve become good mates.

Having seen what they go through, could I ever be a contestant on The Block? Good question! They make a lot of money but gee, it’s hard. I’d really struggle with the painting aspect of it. The painting is just relentless.

Who wants to be painting at four o’clock in the morning? To be honest – no, I probably wouldn’t put my hand up to be a contestant… knowing what I know!

It’s taken a while, but I’m now used to people coming up and going, “Hey, you’re Keith from The Block”.

I don’t mind. It’s not really that hard to say “G’day, how you going?” is it? At the end of the day, I’m pretty lucky and that’s a small price to pay. People come up to me and ask me for building advice all the time. They get quite serious.

I can be out with my family and people will walk up and try to get half an hour’s advice out of me! It depends on what the question is and what mood I’m in, but I don’t mind people giving building advice.

It’s a pretty punishing schedule when we’re building. But when we’re not filming, I like spending time with the kids – I have a two year old and a five year old - and I enjoy a game of golf. I also love

horse-racing and I’ve just bought a horse. It’s busy when we’re doing The Block, but then I get to spend a couple of months straight with my kids, so I’m lucky.

I start on the next series of The Block in a couple of weeks which is bigger and scarier than any other one I’ve seen. I’ve had a look through it and it’s a massive project – if they finish it on time it’ll be a massive effort. There have been times when I’ve tried to tell the producers, “Guys, this is simply not do-able” – I’ve definitely said that over the years. But we have a big team, and a good team, and we always manage to get things done somehow. As long as you manage things and you have the right team around you, and the right amount of help, you can achieve amazing things.

Building has come a long way. People say “they don’t build things like they used to” and I think, well, thank God for that. We build things so much better these days – a hundred times better than we used to. Technology has brought building a long way forward. In China, they’re building 30-40 storey buildings in three months.

My new book is really practical – I just tried to keep it simple. I’m really happy with it. I was worried about it when I started, but I really enjoyed writing it once I got into it. I’ve kept it simple and stuck to the main points – get enough finance, get three or four quotes for everything, get a good carpenter/foreman, do your homework. If you follow my guides, it should be simple. It’s basically a “how to” guide.

If you don’t have any building experience, my best advice is to employ a good carpenter/foreman. He’s going to run all your on-site stuff and you’re basically managing the project. Once you get the plans from the engineer and architect, and once you have your building inspections in place you’re pretty much meeting those building inspecting needs already. The rest is all design.

I wouldn’t say anyone can do it – you have to have good management skills.

And you need to be honest with everyone. You need to have a schedule and you need to stick to it – and you need to have the confidence to be able to tell tradies and builders when they need to hurry up because delays can bring everything undone. » Keith’s new book, Be Your Own Builder: How to design and build your own home, is in stores now.

People think it’s engineered to bring out the drama, but honestly, we don’t have to do anything at all – it just happens.

1. GEOGRAPHY: The island of Sardinia is part of which nation?

2. LITERATURE: Which poet won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for a long poem called “The Age of Anxiety”?

3. SOCCER: In 2014, Germany’s Miroslav Klose set a World Cup record for most career goals (16). Who had held the mark of 15?

4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the former name of the United Arab Emirates?

5. HISTORY: During which century were Papal Swiss Guards first posted

in the Vatican?

6. MOVIES: Who wrote and directed the movie “La Dolce Vita”?

7. MYTHOLOGY: Tyr was a Norse god of what?

8. INVENTIONS: Which English agricultural pioneer invented a seed drill that planted seeds in a neat row?

9. LANGUAGE: What’s a fedora?

10. ENTERTAINERS: What French entertainer’s most famous character was clown named Bip? 11. FLASHBACK: Name the band that was started by a dentistry stu-

dent, a physics student and an art student before adding a bass player.

12. POP MUSIC: The music from the Italian song “O Sole Mio” was used for which Elvis Presley hit (right)?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “Now it’s been ten thousand years, Man has cried a billion tears for what he never knew, Now man’s reign is through, But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight, So very far away, maybe it’s only yesterday.”

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TALES FROM THE TRAILS.

Friday 22.05.2015 to Sunday 24.05.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Weekender regular Lisa Minner continues with a new weekly series on the interesting faces, places and hidden gems along our own beautiful stretch of the Macquarie River.

BEDLAM IN MONTEFIORES With a love of all things historical, its no great leap to find Wellington craftsman Danny Hawke forging out a career in brass and iron bed restoration and living in a home that was one of the towns first inns.

Set on the old Cobb and Co route alongside the bridge, this property houses many a secret, possibly a ghost or two and over 1000 beds from another century, awaiting their new homes. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner ELLINGTON craftsman Danny Hawke lives in a 14-room house which in its first incarnation in 1866 was called The Stragglers Inn. It is said The Stragglers Inn, which was a stop on the Cobb and Cobb route, was built in preparation for the first wooden bridge to be constructed across the Macquarie River.

The home that “the brass bed man,� shares with his family, sits about 20 metres away from the banks of the river at the intersection of the Mitchell Highway and Montefiores, a leafy and historic suburb of Wellington. ‘Stragglers,’ was built by the former owner of the Wards Inn which was situated close to the nearby Lion of Waterloo Hotel also in Montefiores. The township of Wellington was growing and the Stragglers Inn, with its ideal location was to play an important part in housing, entertaining and watering Wellington’s growing population.

Driving past the shop front gives no indication of the bounty of antique beds Hawke keeps stocked on the rambling premises. Around 1000 bed frames in various states of repair are stacked in racks in and around his work shed, wedged between lathes and other heavy machinery.

Being in his shed is like stepping back in time. He even looks the part with his old felt hat and long beard. He’s completely at ease amid the organised chaos of rusted frames, twisted lengths of metal, offcuts and shavings.

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A resident since 1983, his father Geoff purchased the premises in 1980 for a “bargain price.� Far from the restored beauty it is now, the inn (after many incarnations), was rundown, having once been a boarding house and then converted in to four flats in the 1950s.

Hawke said he has pumped the dollars back into the property since then. He described the work that’s gone into the Stragglers Inn as a labour of love and has done 90 per cent of the restoration himself.

His passion for all things historic is reflected in the beautifully crafted furniture that features throughout the large home. Ornate hand carved pieces from England, hard to find Jacobean lounges and an antique clock collection accentuate each of the lovingly

A woman who believed she could see spirits said she sensed a scullery maid walking around the place and another man who would have been a book keeper, so two ghosts apparently, but so far I have never felt any chills, but I am open to it.�

restored rooms.

But far from being museum-like the family home is warm and comfortable with plenty of traces of his two children Sophie and Thomas and wife Katie, who is a local infants teacher at Wellington Public School.

The building has had a colourful past as you would expect from its age and purpose. One of the Napoleon Bonaparte movies made in the 1970s used the inn as a primary filming location and of course no old home is complete without its own ghost or two. “I did hear an old shearer was found deceased out the back there apparently from natural causes, there were quite a few dings in the wall from where he used to throw his beer bottles at the wall and bounce them into the bin,� he said. “A woman who believed she could see spirits said she sensed a scullery maid walking around the place and another man who would have been a book keeper, so two ghosts apparently, but so far I have never felt any chills, but I am open to it.�

He said his goal was to have the building restored, finished and paid for by the time he was 40. While he met the financial goal, the restorations are still plodding along and evolving over time, and the family is enjoying every bit of the process. “I’ve tried to keep it all as true to the original building as I can, even down to the light switches and original door locks, trying to bring it back to life as it should be,� he said. “I’ve even had the name, ‘Stragglers Inn’ done in

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lead light above the door at the entrance- that’s what this place will always be called to me, I just love the name.”

AWKE’S trade in the bed restoration business came about by default. Having just left school and unsure of what direction to take, he stepped in to help his father, who was unwell at the time. He soon found himself a partner in the business at the ripe old age of 16 and has devoted himself to restoration work ever since. He is one of very few craftsman left in Australia who restore brass and iron beds from beginning to end.

“There’s not many of us left, it’s much easier to make a new bed than restore an old one,” he said.

“I don’t believe in powder coating old beds either, I think it destroys the look, it’s like dipping it in a molten plastic, its thick and ugly.”

He said the pits and the corrosion add to the charm of the bed, not detract.

“I am a realist, I’m dealing with things that are 140 or 150 years old, they have dings in them, that’s part of their character and a sign of their age,” “That’s why you get old things, you like to see a little bit of character, its like people- the older you get the more the canvas evolves.”

When restoring a bed, he is the only one that works on it.

“I strip it down, I repair it and make sure it all works properly, I take it out and sand blast it, spray paint it, I do all the brass work, polish it and lacquer it and piece it back together to make sure it’s all right.”

His attention to detail is precise: he has cut out small pieces of shell (mother-of-pearl) to replace inlays on a decorative brass feature.

The oldest bed on the premises at the moment dates back to about 1840. Hawke said those beds were blacksmith-made; made not from steel but forged from malleable iron, a forerunner to steel, with many featuring applied casting.

The beds were usually four posters and designed with the Australian climate in mind, complete with a mosquito net over the top as a practicality rather than a decorative addition.

With so many beds passing through his work-worn

Friday 22.05.2015 to Sunday 24.05.2015 | Dubbo Weekender Mother-of-pearl inlay hand cut to fit a decorative piece on a bed Danny is restoring.

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hands over the 32 years he’s been restoring them, seeing what Hawke had deemed worthy for his own bed, was a must.

“It’s a special piece, it’s a Scottish made bed with cast stags in both ends and dates back to about 1860,” he said.

“It’s quite intriguing because before I found it I had a beautiful old oil painting from New Zealand (1914) featuring a stag with a broken leg up in the mountains, so when I stumbled across the bed, I thought, ahhh that’s my bed.”

The stag became the theme for the bedroom, the first themed room in the house. Further to that, Hawke has commissioned a cousin to create stained glass windows above each of the doorways. The glass piece in

It’s about a 1915 model that one, don’t know where it was operational but we had another brothel bed that came from the gold fields in Victoria.”

the couple’s bedroom features (not surprisingly) a stag, while the remaining windows depict native animals. Except one, the bathroom, which features a rather busty mermaid.

One bed perched anonymously in the work shed awaiting restoration, has a sordid history.

“The bed apparently came out of a brothel and it even has bullet holes in it, true,” Hawke said laughing.

“It’s about a 1915 model that one, don’t know where it was operational but we had another brothel bed that came from the gold fields in Victoria,” he said.

“A beautiful cast bed with no springs – the early beds had a slated hoop-iron base – so thin strips of metal woven across and probably a kapok, feather or horse hair mattress.”

When asked if there was particular bed he would like to see come through his doors for restoration, Hawke stopped to consider.

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James Eddy also exercises his freedom of speech on stage with Dubbo Theatre Company, in his classroom at Dubbo College and from the stands at any good AFL match.

Artificial brains and the future of everything HEN a delightful, 14 year-old Fiona Coote stepped out of the St Vincent’s Hospital ward in 1984 with a triumphant grin on her face, she became the poster girl for modern medical science and the great white hope for the ailing multitudes.

As history will remember, Fiona was at the time, the youngest successful heart transplant recipient in the world and her bright, gleaming dial marked a flagstone that brought medical miracles right into the spotlight.

Fiona was the youngest, not the first though (that was way back in 1967 would you believe), but the news that surrounded her sits prominently in my memory (I was 11 at the time) as a significant milestone.

If you jump onto Youtube and check out any of the old ‘Beyond 2000’ videos (or its predecessor ‘Towards 2000’), they are full of advances in the world of technology and predictions from the murky late 80s, that we can now look back on in quaint reflection.

It’s a real blast for nostalgia buffs and I distinctly remember recurring conflicting feelings each week as I watched; excitement about being one step closer to hoverboards and an ominous sense that technology was going too far, opening Pandora’s box, that we had just about unlocked the secrets to EVERYTHING. Specialists will insist that there is nothing routine about a transplant though. Recipients will talk about the problems associated with the perpetual immunosuppressant medications that come with post-op survival, a problem that stems from having a biological bit that’s not actually yours.

This is much less a problem when your new body bit is bionic however, made of metal or silicone and not made of someone else’s cells.

So, scientists a while back developed a heart that is a pump without a heartbeat, a pump that simply cycles the blood at a sufficient rate as a continuous stream.

Imagine that, no pulse. And this 50c piece-sized bit of gadgetry is now set to replace heart transplants.

Amazing, huh?

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Well that’s old news. Since then the medical world has added a bionic eye to the collection. An implant in the brain and a fancy pair of glasses with iphone-style cameras embedded within them. Voila, and the blind can see. Well partially, at least. Trials with the technology as of last year haven’t yet provided 20/20 vision but patients can make out shapes of light and dark.

The silhouette of a loved one, a jutting table edge, a step on a walkway, that sort of thing. It’s hardly Superman’s x-ray vision or Steve Austin’s infra-red zoom vision yet (that’s the ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ for the whipper-snappers out there who don’t remember the ‘70s, not the ‘Stone Cold’ variety).

Nevertheless, we are on our way to building the universal soldier. Robotic arms, legs, hands and feet all have working prototypes if they are not in ready consumption today. Controlled by nerve impulses from the brain, the joints are made stronger with modern materials and more efficient than the real article that you and I were born with.

Most body bits are now replaceable (for the right price of course), except the brain. And it seems now that even a replaceable brain is approaching the foreseeable horizon. Your Maths teacher joked about it 30 years ago (well, mine did) but those ‘buy yourself a new brain’ jibes may become more of a helpful suggestion than an insult, and it just might make you dangerous.

The very thing that makes us who we are as individuals, is not off-limits for scientists at Melbourne’s RMIT. On Tuesday a bulletin broke that came and went without interrupting too many people’s dinners. These clever cookies have produced something that may just lead to bionic brains. It comes down to nanotechnology and some man-made neurons (the cells that make up your brain). Nanoscience has become somewhat of an excitement for a while now and opening up a universe of possibilities. In 2015 these scientists have produced fibres that are 10,000 times narrower than human hair with the capacity to store memory much

more efficiently than in your average everyday USB drive that still uses 1960s binary codes. It is foreseeable (though still well distant) that from these you could build a human brain.

Neat, huh?

But what about the memories, which make your life what it is today? Consider what an awesome thing that ‘thought’ is. Now consider that sights, smells, tastes and feelings are simply just electronic messages bouncing around inside your skull; the memory of a tasty Sunday night dinner, or the feel of a brisk Autumn morning, they’re just electrical impulses.

They can misfire and you can get mixed messages fair enough, that’s an hallucination. Our perception of reality is just a bunch of electrical stimuli in our brains. And so, just like a Youtube video, they should be able to be downloaded and saved on hard disk.

Not yet though, but there are some BIG funding dollars overseas being splashed about in the US and Europe to unlock how that will happen. Scary? That’s how I felt when Amanda Keller told me in 1989 on Beyond 2000 that soon we would all be able to carry a telephone around with us and be contactable anywhere on the planet. ANYWHERE! A telephone! Like on Star Trek.

It’s OK, you can relax (for now at least), the dystopian future still exists only on a Hollywood soundstage. There are some groups stretching out to build the brain’s infrastructure, and other groups that are trying to download the information from a brain and onto a PC somewhere, the combination of the two still doesn’t constitute a human persona.

A person still needs the chemical fizz that gives you the daily highs and lows, your emotional quotient, and that requires some glands to make the hormones that make you feel human. Our robots may about to become cleverer, but we still have some big steps to climb before building an artificial human brain.

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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, it depends on the colour of your glasses... ’M in the market for some new spectacle frames.

The ones I have make me look like Walt White, and that would be Walt White, daggy white jockey shortwearing, mild-mannered and put-upon, downtrodden chemistry teacher.

Not edgy, slightly dangerous, devil-come-lately, murderously exciting methamphetamine-manufacturing Walt White. (Same spectacles but totally different vibe). It appears that it takes a certain rakish derring-do to wear my current frames with any sort of panache. And that’s something I’m sadly lacking right now.

So, that would be me in the market for a new set of spectacles. And, as luck would have it, this prescription has ceased to render the world in any sort of decipherable code that I can understand, so I can actually justify the expense of changing.

I’m going to have to work hard to justify the expense of the sort of spectacle frames that I’m contemplating – but that is another matter.

While I’m in the market for said spectacles, I’m considering getting the lenses rose-tinted. I’m feeling in need of a bit of an attitude adjustment right now, and I’m thinking rose-coloured glasses could give the me that la vie en rose, je ne sais quoi that I could use right now. And, tip for nothing, once I get those glasses, I’m going to be sharing them around with a few other people.

And about half of the people I’m thinking of who need their attitude adjusted don’t even wear glasses.

They must be wearing shit-coloured contact lenses.

It’s the only way to account for their crappy outlook on life. It’s hard work dealing with someone who believes they have been dealt a poor set of cards; that it’s all someone else’s fault and the world is conspiring against them. Sheer hard work. For which I am underequipped in both attitude and weaponry.

So, when I get these brand new specs, I’m going to be offering all and sundry a peek through those lenses, so they can see there really is an alternate view, a parallel universe in which the fates are not conspiring against them.

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Imagine! It’ll be like Eeyore but with groovy tinted shades putting a smile on those dismal dials.

I’m contemplating a road trip. It’s been a while since I’ve been on a really satisfactory road trip and I’m thinking I’m overdue for one. And I’m not mucking around here, we’re talking about crossing through three states and a variety of time zones and climates.

And I’ve given myself several months to plan (and save) for the trip. And also, and probably most importantly, I’ll be giving myself plenty of time to anticipate the pleasures that await me.

And the thing that is giving me most pleasure about the concept is that I’ll be travelling all alone. I’ll be loading my life up in a suitcase, packing it in my little flivver and hitting the road. And I reckon I’ll take my swag too, and camp some of the nights so I get a real sense of being away, of being at one with nature. And so I can enjoy sanctioned non-bathing for at least half of my journey.

It will be in the very late Spring so the weather should be purely delightful. And I’ll passing through wine country. Bliss. Life on the open road. I’ll be like Toad of Toad Hall, back when he first discovered the horse and wagon and before he fell in love with the sports car, fell foul of the law and ended up in prison.

And I’ll be wearing my wayfarer sunnies, and struttin’ my cool. And I won’t look like Walt White on a bad day. And by then I’ll have glasses that I can live up to,

... it takes a certain amount of extra time to move through life in a truly appreciative and aware manner. You have to be engaged, you have to actually look around you rather than putting your head down and going like a train.”

not frames that are framing me for dagginess that I didn’t do. Because it’s not a good look right now.

Sometimes it’s the simplest things in life that can give you short moments of pure pleasure. As I type this, I’m sitting at my desk in my jammies, finishing my fourth cup of tea for the morning. It’s that final cup from the bottom of the pot and I’m straining it through my teeth as I sip.

I’ve just been outside to the rain gauge to check what rain I ended up with (here on my acreage, up my tree-lined drive, on top of the hill, with the wonderful view). And that in itself was a pure pleasure, walking out across the wet grass on a rain-freshened morning, to my very own rain gauge. My feet snug in my very ugly Ugg boots and the morning air all cool and clean.

The grass is that extra level of green from the nitrogen hit; that green you’ll never achieve though you water and sprinkle for days. The rain gauge showing a healthy total for the second day in a row.

The air is washed clean, and the birds are singing their gratitude. I remembered to put the lid firmly on the bin last night so the foxes haven’t been able to get into the manky rubbish – it’s all still in one piece, if a little smelly; all of it pure pleasure.

You just have to be ‘in the moment’ to truly appreciate it all.

Of course, it takes a certain amount of extra time to move through life in a truly appreciative and aware manner. You have to be engaged, you have to actually look around you rather than putting your head down and going like a train. So I’m looking for some spectacularly Zen-like statements to make when I arrive in the office a little on the late side this morning. Something to indicate that I’m living life at a higher level, that I’m truly engaged and therefore more aware and operating on a superior level.

Because otherwise it could appear that I’m mooching around in a bit of a dream and having trouble getting anything done because I’m in my own little world.

Let me introduce you to my optometrist. He’ll help you see things my way.

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Cr Mathew Dickerson

Mayor Mathew Dickerson was born and bred in Dubbo and is married with four children.

Alcohol puts chilling drug figures on ice T the moment the National Ice Taskforce is consulting around the country with Senator Fiona Nash in Dubbo this week. We hear that the nation is in the grip of an ice epidemic or perhaps even worse – a pandemic.

I have two thoughts on this. Firstly, does the data support calling the ice problem an epidemic or pandemic? An epidemic typically spreads to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time. An epidemic may be restricted to one location; however if it spreads to other countries or continents then it may be termed a pandemic. So it can’t be a pandemic unless it is first an epidemic.

So is it an epidemic? What do the numbers say?

The data from the Australian Drug Foundation (ADF) says that 1.06 per cent of Australians over the age of 13 have used crystal or ice at least once in the last 12 months. That equates to 441 people in Dubbo – remembering that this is the number of people that have used it once or more.

I don’t know what the usage is to be ‘addicted’ to ice, but the data further shows that 0.16 per cent of the population uses ice weekly. Breaking that down to Dubbo, that equates to 67 people in Dubbo using ice at least weekly.

I am not sure what you would call a “large number of people in a given population” to satisfy the epidemic definition, but just over one per cent using ice at least once a year does not seem to me to be a “large number”.

So my first thought is that we don’t actually have an ice epidemic or pandemic.

My second thought is that we don’t have an ice problem per se. With all the reports on ice splashed across news-

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papers and on TV it might seem like a strange thing to say.

What I believe is that our focus is too narrow to say that we have an ice problem because what we definitely have in our society is a drug problem.

Ice is just the current popular drug of choice. It was only a short time ago that ecstasy seemed like it was going to be the drug that destroyed society and cannabis seemed to be the drug of choice before that. At the moment ice isn’t even the most popular drug of choice – it is just the newest.

When you look at the statistics from the ADF, drug-related ambulance attendances are dominated by alcohol; benzodiazepines; heroin; analgesics and then methamphetamine in that order.

It may not be very popular to say it, but alcohol is a much larger problem than we care to admit. For a nation that prides itself on the laid-back ocker attitude and having a few beers, it may be time we addressed the harmful impacts of alcohol.

Alcohol causes more than twice as many deaths as the annual road toll.

There are 37.3 per cent of Australians (over the age of 13) that drink alcohol at

least weekly (compare that to 0.16 per cent of people that use ice at least weekly) and 15.6 per cent of people over the age of 11 had consumed more than ten drinks on a single drinking occasion in the last 12 months.

None of this is helped by famous people on television asking members of the Australian World Cup winning team if they are going to drink to excess to celebrate their victory as we saw just two months ago.

In front of millions, Shane Warne, the greatest leg-spinner of all time, kept asking questions such as, “Are you going to have a bit of a drink tonight too, Smitty? Are you going to get thirsty as well?” and “So what’s the plan – besides lots of drink and that? How long is that going to last? Just one night, two nights?”

It seems somewhat ironic that we expect incredibly fit and talented athletes to celebrate winning the ultimate prize in one-day international cricket by destroying their mind and body with excessive alcoholic intake.

If ever the word epidemic is going to be thrown out there in relation to drugs, look no further than alcohol.

Smoking is another one that we begrudgingly accept yet 12. 8 per cent of

It may not be very popular to say it, but alcohol is a much larger problem than we care to admit. For a nation that prides itself on the laid-back ocker attitude and having a few beers, it may be time we addressed the harmful impacts of alcohol.”

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Australians over the age of 13 are daily smokers. Alcohol and tobacco are legal, of course, which means that for some reason we tend to ignore their harmful effects but a National Health Taskforce could certainly improve the health of the nation – and reduce the nation’s health bill – if it just focused on these two areas.

In illegal drugs, cannabis tops the list with 10.2 per cent having sampled a smoke in the last 12 months followed by analgesics at 3.3 per cent and then ecstasy with 2.5 per cent and cocaine sitting at 2.1 per cent.

If we focus on cigarette usage for a moment, governments have been very successful in reducing the number of smokers in society. In 1980, 34 per cent of all adults smoked. I believe that has decreased down to its current figure through a targeted education program over many years that has been very successful.

The solution to the current ice problem – and the wider illicit-drug problem – is a two-fold attack. Firstly an education program over many years in the same way we have seen the education program work for cigarette reduction.

There is no reason that this shouldn’t work for other types of drugs.

Secondly, with illicit drugs, the sentencing regime needs to be made much harsher. Currently, dealers in drugs are making business decisions to deal in drugs as the penalties are not a deterrent to market entry. If the sentencing was of a strong enough nature, it would deter some of the dealers in death and misery.

Let me know if you think I should send this article to Senator Fiona Nash at mayor@dubbo.nsw.gov.au

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When asking for help is a gift to others SKING for help – we’re so happy to help when someone asks, but we’re not so great at asking for ourselves. A conversation with a friend this week unlocked a few insights.

“I see so many mums at school putting on such a show, looking like they’ve got it all together but they’re really struggling. No wonder there’s such high rates of anxiety and depression,’ she shared.

So what is it that has us hold back from asking?

We can assume that everyone else is too busy to help, or that there are other people in worse situations, and we don’t want to complain, or feel sorry for ourselves, or have others feel sorry for us.

Oh, and we don’t want to let anyone down. And heaven forbid, what if they don’t like us when they realise we’re not as fabulous as we look. Or act. What if they see the real you?

I’ve discovered that my weaknesses are someone else’s strengths, and what I don’t like doing and am not good at others can’t wait to dive in and make a difference.

An example is paperwork and all the details behind the scenes of business.

It’s no fun to me at all – yet I see that when I hand this over to the right person, their eyes light up with joy and a sense of possibility. Things that don’t even make sense to me are someone

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else’s happy place.

Helping others is a joy, and I’m sure you experience this, but we limit the joy by not being open to receiving help ourselves. We limit their joy by not giving them an opportunity to help.

I’m reminded of a friend who, when insisting he’d pay for lunch, or offering to help would say; “You won’t deny me the blessing of giving to you, will you?”, which is a great line to assure cooperation from the friend you’re trying to give to/bless/encourage.

We relate to difficult situations and love to help people when they’re in one.

We’ve all been there in one way or another. I remember one day a few years ago, striding through Martin Place in ridiculous (yet comfortable) heels, wheeling along a small suitcase when suddenly my heel wedged in between pavers, bringing my right foot, which was wedged in the shoe to a complete halt. However my momentum sent the rest of me and my suitcase forward and

I’m reminded of a friend who, when insisting he’d pay for lunch, or offering to help would say; “You won’t deny me the blessing of giving to you, will you?”, which is a great line to assure cooperation from the friend you’re trying to give to/bless/encourage.”

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I landed on my hands in a somewhat inelegant plank position. Before I could gather my thoughts, and my balance, a young woman was beside me helping me up as she exclaimed, “The exact same thing happened to me!”

So while others passed by, hopefully more amused than annoyed, there was a girl with empathy, and possibly a sense of justification for her own fall.

It happens to others. It wasn’t my neediest moment, but it was lovely to know that someone related to my dilemma and it was great to have a laugh with a stranger.

I’m not sure what the statistics would be, but I believe that Dubbo has a massive number of volunteers and community minded residents. You are surrounded by givers. You’re probably a giver yourself. You may not understand the difference you make or the impact of your kind thoughts and words, and sometimes, your ‘just being there’.

What if you look for opportunities to help people this week?

What if you ask for help?

So what if they do see the real you?

I hope they do. I daresay you are more fabulous than you think. People around you are just waiting for you to be real, be honest and willing to ask for help.

Here’s to a beautiful week of giving and receiving and sharing the joy of it!

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O person is an island. Nor should any organisation, place or region be.

In a world of competition and polarised opinions, it is easy to forget the simple fact that it is collaboration, above all things that drives innovation, entrepreneurship and growth. Collaboration requires exploring all avenues, perspectives and systems to arrive at a more mature and broad outcome.

You only have to spend five minutes reading or viewing coverage of the recent budget announcements (or any political event for that matter) to know that we live in a world where if you are not completely in support of something, you are judged as then being against it.

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That is what is called the “intelligence trap”.

An intelligent person uses thinking to support a point of view, rather than to explore other points of view and is thereby missing the opportunity to grow and expand.

Paradoxically in many ways, we are also more collaborative than ever before: we can crowdsource skills, services, advice or opinion from all corners of the globe via social media. Have a great idea? Take it to the world via Kickstarter and have it funded by global bedroom philanthropists. Want to track earthquakes? Enter ShakeMaps, a tool created by researchers at Stanford to collate recordings and geological data with ‘did you feel it’ data, collected through sources such as Twitter.

This issue of collaboration versus competition is something commonly faced in emerging industries. Take for example the growing carbon crediting and emissions reduction industry. This industry has been driven on the ground by a number of highly experienced individuals. They have had to work together to build awareness of the issues; develop the scientific methodologies, the training and the policy. Now that the industry is beginning to see results and more businesses are looking to develop emissions reductions projects, these collaborators will become competitors for clients and funds. Yet collaboration has

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Stock handling workshops in June FARMERS have the opportunity to learn how they can better handle their stock and influence their behavior at a workshop on June 17 and 18.

The workshop is being held in partnership between Central West Local Land Services and

been the key to driving these businesses’ current successful positions.

On the flipside, where competitors become collaborators, an apt example may be the function of the Emissions Reduction Fund itself. Through this ‘direct action’ policy the Australian Government intends to buy as many ‘carbon credits’ as possible, for the lowest price. There is a lot of opportunity for businesses to obtain these credits, but scale is a necessary factor in being successful in attracting the right price. Within the region there are already businesses looking to see how they can work in partnership - in many cases with those who may usually be seen as competitors within their industry - to generate the necessary scale and participate in the Fund for a joint benefit.

As a region, the Orana also has competitors. We compete for funding, skills, new business and greater tourist numbers. In the funding realm, particularly when it comes to justifying a public-dollar spend, we know that our lower population may disadvantage us: we will never win based on that argument alone.

So we make the argument in terms of productivity and potential increases to productivity that increased funding would provide, not just in the Orana but across the state and the nation. We leverage our partnerships and position in the broader environment to demonstrate our joint worth.

Recently we have seen an increase in funding and attention on the Golden Highway.

Improvements to that corridor will be of great benefit to the Orana, but also the Hunter region.

The Hunter and Orana have worked in collaboration to bring the required attention to the corridor, under a planned initiative that will see the development of a full corridor

strategy. The councils along the route will work together as a control group, to ensure the best possible outcomes for all involved.

These outcomes would not be being met without a willingness and drive to work together. The simple fact is: none of us can get things done without others.

Globally, collaboration is seen as a strong measure of a region’s innovation. The EU measures business innovation collaboration alongside factors such as R&D expenditure and commercialisation patterns to benchmark them against the economy they see as their biggest competitor: the US. Even this benchmarking is only possible where there is collaboration; a willingness to share data to grow together and improve, even whilst trying to out-do each other.

Closer to home, our regional neighbour Hunter undertakes a similar process and then benchmarks its innovation capacity against the EU. Orana will be undertaking a similar process shortly.

When we think in a competitive or polarised mind-set, we tend to limit our views to what is happening locally. We need to raise our sights to cross-regional and global partnerships and advantages through a new practice of “collaboratition”.

We enjoy the ability to communicate and do business with the world, to share news, TV shows and other media across the globe.

We need to keep open to options that will expand this new-world attitude to business and economic growth.

I urge you to remember that we do not operate in a vacuum. Embrace your competitors as potential partners and look at opportunities to work across regions and across the world. We will all be better for it, and the Orana will be a stronger region.

When we think in a competitive or polarised mind-set, we tend to limit our views to what is happening locally. We need to raise our sights to cross-regional and global partnerships and advantages through a new practice of ‘collaboratition’.

Bruce Maynard from Stress Free Stockmanship.

The workshop will cover theory and practice on advanced animal movement and stockhandling skills, eliminating stress factors in livestock for maximum production, weed eating - changing livestock into weed eaters and increasing daily gain.

The course offers the most up to date information on animal performance and animalplant interactions, according to Land Services Officer Stephen Pereira.

To secure your place or find out more, contact Stephen Pereira (0409 814 182 or stephen.pereira@lls.nsw.gov.au).

Higher fines for mining breach of consent rules MINES and industry that breach

development consent rules for high impact developments such as coal mines and other hazardous industries will face higher fines and increased monitoring.

An increase to planning penalty notices would apply to companies that breach development consents for high impact developments and allow communities in NSW to be confident that high impact developments are following strictly enforced rules.

The increase would allow NSW Planning and Environment to issue tough on-the-spot fines of $15,000, a $12,000 increase from the current maximum of $3,000.

Planning Minister Rob Stokes said impacts on the community such as noise, dust, traffic and waste management are real concerns.

Nominations call for NSW Carers Awards NOMINATIONS are now open for the NSW Carers Awards, which celebrate the contribution carers across NSW make to the person or people they care for and to the community.

In NSW more than one in ten people are carers who provide unpaid support to those who need it because of a disability, mental illness, chronic health condition, dementia or ageing.

Carers can be anyone from parents to partners, brother or sisters, friends and sons or daughters.

The NSW Carers Awards in 2015 will recognise up to 55 individual carers and organisations from across NSW. Nominations can be made online until June 29 2015.

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$120 million to support local community Landcare projects R EFORMS to the regional stream of the National Landcare Programme are creating a flow of funds to local community environmental and agricultural projects.

The reforms announced late last year ensure at least 20 per cent of the Australian Government’s investment of over $450 million in sustainable agriculture and environmental rehabilitation is directed towards community engagement and on-ground activities undertaken by community groups, including Landcare.

Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, and Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, this week commended the way in which Australia’s 56 natural resource management organisations have embraced the changes to the National Landcare Programme.

“Together our natural resource management organisations have committed over $120 million for community natural resource management activities, including projects run by Landcare groups, as part of the Government’s commitment to supporting regional landcare in Australia,” Minister Hunt said.

“This amount is considerably more than 20 per cent of regional funding and speaks volumes for the ingenuity and creativity of our farmers, Landcare and other community groups in developing viable and practical longterm land management solutions based on local priorities,” Minister Hunt said.

“Farmers, landcarers and community groups know what works best for their farms, their local landscape and their community,” Minister Joyce said.

“Before making any changes to the National Landcare Programme we

listened closely to the views of the natural resource management community, and one of the clear themes that emerged was the need for investment in on-ground community-based projects.

“Natural resource management organisations play a pivotal role in helping communities to identify priorities for environmental action and sustainable agriculture in their local area.

“We are helping communities to deliver simple, local and long-term solutions to improve their local environment. This is proof positive that the Government is meeting its commitment to putting Landcare back at the centre of natural resource management in Australia,” Minister Hunt said.

“In its new form, the National Landcare Programme contributes to positive long-term outcomes for productive land and the environment,” Minister Joyce said “It also enables communities to identify local priorities and develop on-ground solutions to local issues and it provides long-term surety of investment for regional organisations.

“It is a key driver in delivering on the Government’s commitment to support productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of Australia’s primary industries, and good management of natural resources,” Minister Joyce said.

The National Landcare Programme along with complementary programmes such as Green Army and 20 Million Trees brings the total investment in natural resource management to over $2 billion over four years.

Before making any changes to the National Landcare Programme we listened closely to the views of the natural resource management community, and one of the clear themes that emerged was the need for investment in on-ground community-based projects.

Skills needed to run a business Strengths -v- Weaknesses KNOWING your strengths and limitations will help you determine whether you’re likely to be suited to running your own business. Here are just a few of many factors to consider: z Can you clearly communicate directions? z Are you happy to delegate tasks? z Are you decisive? z How do you react when things go wrong?

Management and leadership skills THESE skills include the ability to: z Organise tasks and set priorities z Set goals and methods to reach those goals z Plan strategies for growing your business z Develop new products and services z Deliver consistent and reliable service z Communicate and negotiate z Make decisions and solve problems z Manage your time effectively z Delegate tasks and responsibilities z Supervise, train and teach Also included here would be knowledge of occupational health & safety requirements, human resources and risk management responsibilities.

Financial skills YOU should have some knowledge of:

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Bookkeeping Costing and pricing Budget and cashflow forecasting Credit control and record keeping

Marketing and sales IT’S helpful to have some of these skills to help promote your business: z Merchandising and selling z Customer and competitor analysis z Market research z Product positioning z Promotion and advertising

Technical TECHNICAL skills vary depending on the type of industry. While it would be an advantage to have prior industry experience, it’s not a pre-requisite.

Many successful business owners ‘learn as they go’ and others work with people who have complementary technical skills.

Not every new business owner will possess all these skills from the start – you can learn a wide range of skills through training courses, seminars, books and literature and networking within your industry. Plus, in areas where your skills are limited, you can employ staff or hire consultants and contractors who have the expertise.

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From Unknown to Expert Catriona Pollard is regarded as one of the 50 most influential women in Australia and has made a global name for herself in public relations specialising in the use of social media in business. She also grew up in Dubbo. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley How do you describe what you do?

Through my role as CEO of CP Communications and author of From Unknown To Expert, I help people and brands to build their profile and get noticed by the right audiences.

Are there key turning points, or people, in your life, which helped to shape the business you now have?

The first turning point for me was when I was working in the corporate arena and realising that it wasn’t the right fit for me and then bravely stepping out and starting my own business.

It was a huge risk for me personally and professionally. I literally started with just a borrowed computer in the sunroom of my apartment.

But with a great deal of persistence and tenacity, I built a successful business. But then in 2010 I knew if I was going to continue I needed to do what I had advised so many of my clients, to become a recognised expert and thought leader.

This was a very uncomfortable notion for me as I’ve always shied away from the spotlight but I realised I had to break this pattern if my business was to continue growing.

So what I did was every time I wanted to say no to being in the spotlight, I said yes. As a result my profile and my business have both grown. I now get asked to speak internationally. I have received millions of dollars’ worth of media coverage, I’m listed as one of the top 100 PR people to follow on Twitter, have an award winning blog and am placed in the top 5 per cent of people using social media and one of 50 most influential women in Australia.

How did you get to where you are today?

With considerable hard work, patience and tenacity. By saying yes to opportunities more often than no. By taking risks and being prepared to work hard for the results.

What inspired your book, From Unknown To Expert?

One of my guiding motivations is truly wanting to help people, knowing that people will benefit from my expertise.

In my consulting business I’ve helped thousands of businesses and entrepreneurs, but I wanted to use my knowledge to help so many more, and this is where the book comes in.

What is the Unknown To Expert 5 Star System?

The 5 Start System is the exact process I use in my agency to build the profiles and reputation of my clients. It’s a proven system that I’ve fine-tuned over 20 years of experience.

The first step is all about figuring out the why and your motivation, asking why you want to build your profile.

The second step is setting the stage for building your personal brand and involves writing a bio and defining your niche.

Thirdly, you need to turn on the spotlight and start to shine with blogging and maybe a personal website.

Fourth is using the media to shine your light where you learn what the media find interesting and how to approach them so you can begin to be featured in stories.

Lastly, I talk about owning the light and using social media to cement your

role as a thought leader. This is all about setting your goals for social media and choosing the platform that suits you best.

You were on CNBC talking about CEOs needing an online presence. Why do you recommend this?

Social media is a powerful tool for building and demonstrating personal brand. It works best for those executives that have adopted a specific strategy and embraced social media. The more you use social media in your own voice, the more powerful it can be. This is because leaders who use social media can develop emotional connections with their followers.

How does a businessperson build a profile using social media?

Funnily enough, building a profile on social media isn’t really about you at all, it’s about others. It’s about the relationships you build with others online

and what you can offer that’s of value to them. This might be an insightful article on a relevant topic, inspiration, humour, entertainment or even good advice. This is what builds trust which leads to a good reputation and then a strong profile.

Also, it’s important to be consistent and maintain your social presence. It’s not something you start, do a few posts and then forget and then say, “Well that didn’t work.”

Are there risks involved in using social media?

Executives on social media can attract criticism and leaders need to think carefully about how they respond to fiery comments and tweets and make sure they remove the emotion when responding.

However, business leaders can use social media in a way that can neutralise

criticism.

If you have a strategy which is all about sharing your voice and using it to create two-way dialogue with the people who matter to your brand, then you can absolutely see the difference. People become engaged and it stops the criticism.

During a crisis situation, like a strike or negative headlines, many CEOs choose to stay away from social media.

But if you have built up a great brand voice and following on social media and can put it in a positive way because you have already done the groundwork.

What is the future of doing business online or using social media?

Social media is a growing space and it’s more than just Facebook and Twitter. There are countless social tools being developed, like messaging apps, mobile sharing and online chat tools – these offer up new business possibilities that haven’t even been thought of yet.

Mobile will also continue to be used in new and interesting ways from how we pay for things, how we interact with our environment and how we receive information.

Is this a particularly exciting time for women entrepreneurs in Australia?

Why? When I started my business people didn’t really talk about entrepreneurship, but now it’s such a talked about concept in Australia. Also way back when I started, people didn’t even have computers at home and the internet was dial up!

Technology has created so many new opportunities and women have embraced this. You can run a global business from your kitchen table now, and women love that kind of flexibility. I think women need to understand that entrepreneurship is whatever you want it to be.

Do introverts make good managers?

Introverts are great at building relationships, good listeners and effective networkers. This is because they put a lot of energy into maintaining and building one on one relationships and making those relationships count.

True or false: self-promotion is a dirty word: please explain.

Totally false. We need to rethink the concepts of self-promotion, thought leadership and expert. What I learnt was putting yourself forward isn’t actually about you, it’s about the people you could potentially reach and help in some way. How can this be a bad thing?

What do you care about the most about your business?

I love that I get to share my experience and knowledge with thousands of people, with the goal of helping them build stronger more profitable businesses.

What would you dare to do if you knew you could not fail?

Start a whole bunch of new businesses – I have a new business idea nearly every day!

What’s your connection with Dubbo?

My family moved to Dubbo in the late 70s. We shared the family around the schools! My mother was in the library at Dubbo High, my father was at Delroy (and then Principal at Narromine and finally Director of Education), and my sister and I were at South! I’m very much a coastal girl now, but I do miss the wide open plains.

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START THE PRESS Alister Dyson-Holland, owner of Brigade Espresso is about to embark on a new venture in Bultje Street called Press bringing his own brand – literally – of coffee, service and style.

WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent USINESS-OWNER Alister Dyson-Holland is unflappable during our interview at the back room communal table in his Brigade Espresso café. His colleague’s Toby and Andrea occasionally appear at the adjoining window to the service area, beckoning him to please come make the coffees.

He slips away to create not just cups of hot drink but beverages in which he’s deeply invested. He’s personally chosen the beans grinding inside the coffee machine ordered from Kenya and Ethiopia; roasted them to his taste at a facility outside town, branded and packaged to make them his own and serves the fruits of his labours to customers, ever mindful of the importance of the personal touch.

Returning to our interview he’s measured and mindful and in every sense the contemporary entrepreneur, unruffled by the prospects of the next page in his business story.

Next month, Brigade Espresso, which he’s owned for around 18 months, will close and the 25 year-old will open new doors to Press, which he describes as a ‘bar and dining’ experience, at 33 Bultje Street, once home to the Dubbo branch of iconic rural newspaper, The Land.

Renovations are now in full swing on the 1930s house and the interior design will be a relaxed mix of Cyprus and natural timber, foliage green and touches of brass.

The effect will be simple, casual dining, but DysonHolland plans to serve a menu you’d expect from a fine-dining experience.

“It’s going to be very casual. We’re trying to do food that you’d typically find in a fine dining establishment but make it less expensive and more accessible.

We want to get rid of any pretension and influences which might be distracting for the majority of people in Dubbo,” he said.

Serving breakfast and licensed for lunch and dinner, full time chef will be Brigade Espresso’s Toby Rouse.

“Everything is going to be ‘signature’,” smiles DysonHolland at the thought. “The day-time menu is done, the night time menu we’re still working on but we’ve

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In major companies which are massproduced; there’s no real control of the finer details, so doing everything by hand makes a big difference. It adds the personal touch and makes a big difference to the quality.

got ideas.”

Acting on ideas sits well with the self confessed foodie, who also says he’s ‘not a particularly good cook’.

“I’m better at making ideas,” he says with residual confidence.

The good idea for Brigade Espresso took seed while travelling overseas.

“I think I’ve always enjoyed the lifestyle of cafes and I was living in Europe, based in London, moving around to different places. It’s a lot different to Australia,” he said.

“I guess there’s a lot of tradition on how they serve

things. You wouldn’t find the array of coffees you find in Australia, like iced coffees. You’ve got a very limited offering, which is good in a sense.”

His own model at Brigade Espresso, and soon at Press, will also be limited to one brand of bean, his own, called Suburban Coffee Roasters.

“I started about two and a half years ago, roasting and experimenting with different coffees, and we wholesale to various cafes,” he said.

Dyson-Holland’s crossed some hurdles creating the brand, the not least of which has been the expectation that to roast beans you need decades of experience.

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“People think that coffee’s something you need to learn over years and years, but you can learn anything really. It’s just research and science and a bit of study.

I’ve done a lot of research,” he said.

Bolstered by a business degree from the Blue Mountains Hotel School at Leura and the learning curve only working for a corporation can give you – which in his case includes Versace on the Gold Coast and Sheridan Hotels – that ‘bit of study’ has quickly evolved into a wholesale business which services cafes locally and as far afield as Sydney.

“For the café in Alexandria we’re a point of difference because we’re regional. Our branding and packaging looks a lot different to what’s happening in Sydney at the moment too.

“In Sydney everything is very minimal. Everyone’s using very natural colours, light colours; lots of whites – all the big brands, and in Melbourne as well. It’s very Scandinavian.”

By contrast Suburban Coffee Roasters is packaged in dark chocolate coloured bags with a brass coloured logo.

Already though it’s time to reinvent and evolve the brand to find a new point of difference.

“It’s getting very hard now. Two new roasters have popped up in the last four weeks. One in Orange and one in Dubbo with very similar products, so it’s a challenge to differentiate yourself,” he said.

“Any quality focus café is going to start roasting their own coffee, or using their local supplier, so it’s really hard to sell to local cafes now. It’s hard to convince them to change. It’s definitely preventing us from growing in that area, but that’s life.”

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Alister Dyson-Holland with Andrea Cross: keeping staff happy is essential in hospitality

land has opened another with the decision to move his roasting operation into Press, creating the bar and dining operations’ own boutique coffee.

As a destination, Press will also combine a bakery, the bar, dining, a cold cut display, dinners to go and coffee, all under one roof.

“The bakery will be like a typical bakery but we’ll only be doing artisan products, like sourdough, and a couple of pastry lines and a couple of dessert lines,” he said.

Using this holistic approach will give Dyson-Holland the chance to enhance the uniqueness of Press with more of his personal touch approach.

“In major companies which are mass-

produced; there’s no real control of the finer details, so doing everything by hand makes a big difference. It adds the personal touch and makes a big difference to the quality.

“I do dictate to our customers what I want. The Dubbo market is a bit difficult. I guess people are used to a certain type of coffee and what they’ve been getting for however long. So it’s challenging to try and introduce people to try new things.

Suburban Coffee Roasters flavour sets it apart.

“Our coffee’s quite sweet. It’s not as strong or full-bodied as most coffees are, though with a double shot, it might be a bit different. There’s sweetness at

the end of it; or a fruitiness, a citrus sometimes,” he explains.

The pathway to achieving that unique flavour is similar to wine.

“It’s a lot like wine. There are varieties and how it’s processed, where it’s grown, its altitude and soil types are all going to dictate particular flavours and what the final results will be.

“There’s a process called cupping. So after you roast it. You do small sample lots, which is basically hot water you’re pouring over course ground coffee, letting it rest for while, scraping off the surface then slurping it, exactly, the same as wine tasting.”

The method to achieving the sweetness Dyson-Holland seeks involves leaving the sludge of the fruit on the bean.

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“The Ethiopian coffee ... is dried on beds so the cherry has more contact with the actual bean and the sugars are fermenting on the outside of the bean and it gives it a sweeter flavour.”

Blending it with a Kenyan variety adds the finishing touch.

“That’s the idea of blending. If you used just one of those beans ... it would be acidic and bright and unpalatable whereas you blend them with other coffees it will work. It will have more desirable flavours to create a more complex rounded profile,” he said.

Choosing the right blending is an involved process, not unlike finding the right staff who Dyson-Holland knows are his greatest assets.

Looking after his staff is a priority.

“Staff care is one of the most important things in hospitality. You have to work out how to make the environment you work in fun.”

Having the time to enjoy life outside work has also been a big appeal to café ownership.

“The hours are pretty good. I have to wake up a bit earlier, but we finish early so it’s fine. It was very good prior to commencing [Press]. “[The Brigade Espresso] was all I was going to do, there wasn’t an end date like there is now. I was working three days a week, roasting one day and bookwork one day a week. In my spare time I’m learning to fly though I haven’t had time for that right now.”

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Ham, cheese, spinach and asparagus omelette

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Y Pop has a mountain of spinach in his garden and I always stock up after a visit to his modest farm.

He’s so inspirational. At 75 he’s still driving his truck (a business he established after retiring from being a butcher), mowing lawns for the community (another job he does on the side), grows his own vegetables, raises and cuts his own lamb and beef … I just love it!

He has also always been the breakfast chef. My Pop’s specialty is bacon and eggs on the barbecue with homegrown tomato.

Occasionally there will be ham,

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sausages, mushrooms, beans or chops. Everyone who visits Nan and Pop’s always looks forward to a big cooked breakfast.

After my a recent visit I came home with two bags full of spinach (and some basil, cucumbers and an entire lamb!). So this ham, cheese, spinach and asparagus omelette is something I’ve been eating quite a lot of for breakfast recently!

Spinach is loaded with antioxidants, especially when fresh, steamed, or quickly boiled, and a rich source of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, magnesium, manganese, folate, betaine, iron, vitamin B2, calcium, potassium, vitamin B6, folic acid, copper, protein, phosphorus, zinc, niacin, selenium and omega-3 fatty acids.

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1 in 7 Australians affected by arthritis Riding to raise money for TOOTH DUBBO dental prosthetist Peter Muller, 66, will be riding a from Lightning Ridge to Dubbo to raise money for The Outback Oral Therapy and Health (TOOTH) program, which is operated out of Dubbo by RFDS SE. In the past three years the program has provided 695 clinics and treated almost 5,000 patients across the remote Central West communities of Bourke, Collarenebri, Goodooga and Lightning Ridge.

Peter will start his ride from the Lightning Ridge airport at 8.45am on Tuesday, May 26, and arrives at the RFDS Base, Dubbo around 2pm on Thursday, May 28.

Support Peter by visiting his

DATA released this week by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that about 3.3 million Australians – or 1 in every 7 people – reported having some form of arthritis in 2011-12.

The release is part of the Institute’s web-based Musculoskeletal conditions compendium.

“Our release shows that 1.8 million Australians had osteoarthritis-a degenerative condition affecting joints such as hips, knees and ankles,” said AIHW spokesperson Tim Beard.

Almost half a million (over 445,000) had rheumatoid arthritis-a condition marked by inflammation of the joints causing inflammation, swelling and stiffness.

‘Women continued to be most affected by all forms of arthritis,

Ham, cheese, spinach and asparagus omelette Ingredients: 2 eggs, beaten Half of a large spinach leaf, washed and chopped roughly 1 desert spoon of cream A small handful of ham, diced A small handful of grated cheese 2 asparagus spears, washed 2 teaspoons of butter Method: Melt one teaspoon of butter in fry pan over low heat. Add asparagus spears and turn up heat to medium. Fry, turning occasionally for about two minutes or until browned slightly. Remove from pan.

In a medium bowl combine eggs, spinach and cream. Heat one teaspoon of butter in the same frypan you used for the asparagus over low heat. Pour in omelette mixture and cook over low-medium heat for about 30 seconds, dispelling bubbles with an egg flip.

Then, sprinkle ham over the omelette as it continues to cook. Sprinkle cheese over half the omelette and place asparagus spears on top of the cheese.

Give the frypan a little shake to ensure the omelette is not sticking to the bottom of the pan. If it is, use the egg flip to skim around the sides of the omelette to loosen.

Once the cheese melts, scoop the eggflip under the opposite half of the omelette and fold over to enclose the cheese and asparagus.

Cook for another 30 seconds or so, until the egg is just cooked in the centre of the omelette.

Transfer to plate and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Enjoy!

Serves 1.

accounting for over 60%-or 2 million-of self-reported cases.”

Domestic violence scheme launched

Life-saving clinical trials at fingertips

MEMBER for the Dubbo electorate Troy Grant has called on locals to have their say on an Australian-first scheme to protect people who may be at risk of domestic violence.

Announced as a key election commitment the NSW Government will now pilot a Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS) that enables people to find out whether their partner has a history of domestic violence offending.

A DVDS allows people to make informed decisions about their relationships and safety, to seek assistance or undertake safety planning. The scheme will be piloted over two year in four areas in NSW. If successful, it could be rolled out across NSW. To view the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme Discussion Paper and provide feedback, visithttp://www.haveyoursay.nsw.gov. au/consultations/domestic-violence-disclosure-scheme

IN an Australian-first patients will be given access to potentially life-saving clinical trials at their fingertips with the launch of an online one-stop shop this week.

Minister for Health Sussan Ley and Minister for Industry and Science Ian Macfarlane said it will be easier for patients across Australia to take part in innovative medical research as the Abbott Government launched an Australian-first website today – International Clinical Trials Day. Ms Ley said the website would help boost patient participation following data that indicated just under half of all Phase Three clinic trials conducted in Australia did not meet their patient recruitment targets.

“Clinical trials are an essential part of ensuring that the life-saving treatments and drugs we use are safe and effective,” Ms Ley said.

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Smoke-free dining celebrated by restaurateurs

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

ITH all commercial outdoor dining areas in NSW set to go completely tobacco-less at the beginning of July, many local restaurant owners are breathing a huge smoke-free sigh of relief.

Sticks and Stones owner Glenys Hubbard is very pleased about the upcoming July 6 legislation.

“This day has been a long time coming,” she told Weekender.

“It’s fabulous. I’ve been ready for four years.”

The new laws, under the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000, will mean that all hotels, clubs, restaurants and cafes will not be able to allow smoking in any part of their establishment. Smoking is already banned any closer than 4m from the entrance. However, some places have previously had designated outdoor areas where smokers and diners could co-habitate.

Although her restaurant has an outdoor dining area, Hubbard has been clear about it being non-smoking.

However, she has struggled with smoke from passersby and nearby premises.

“No-one can smoke here in our dining area at all but it does filter through from other places including the street,” she said.

“It hasn’t been illegal but it’s an intrusion on our diners.”

Smoking has never been allowed anywhere on the premises, but Hubbard says ‘it’s very hard to police.’

Nonetheless, she is looking forward to July 6.

“I hope the public takes this on board. It should have happened years ago.”

Church St Café owner Julie Cross is also excited about the changes to legislation.

“We have been smoke-free ever since we opened,” she said.

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However, the café’s open plan and central location have made it difficult to monitor their outdoor dining area.

“The (street and rotunda) is a public thoroughfare so we can’t control it. We can’t stop people from smoking.”

If a smoker lights up at one of her tables, Cross has politely asked them to smoke elsewhere. It hasn’t cost her any customers.

“We just ask people not to,” she explains.

“It’s amazing how many people don’t realise and think they can smoke there. I thought the law was very

I hope the public takes this on board. It should have happened years ago.

clear on that. But people are very happy to move away from the table and smoke and then come back to have their meal. It’s not a problem.”

Sharon Campbell from Salad Run, also welcomes the change.

“I think it’s great. I’ve relocated here from Melbourne where these regulations have been in since 2007, so I think it is overdue. My customers can now enjoy their lunch break without having to inhale second hand tobacco smoke and put up with unsightly cigarette ash and/or butts. I also believe the old adage of out of sight out of mind works a treat too.”

Western NSW Local Health District health promotion manager Lyndal O’Leary said NSW Health is working closely with local businesses to help them get ready for smoke-free outdoor dining.

“There is strong public support for making outdoor dining areas smoke-free and a number of businesses have already voluntarily banned smoking in their outdoor dining areas, with positive results,” O’Leary said.

“In fact, our health district has been working with eateries in Bathurst, Dubbo and Orange since the end of 2013 in a campaign promoting smoke-free dining in outdoor areas ahead of the new legislation, which has been very successful.”

Under the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000, smoking will be banned in seated outdoor dining areas while food is being served, with NSW Health authorised inspectors entitled to issue on-the-spot fines of $300 for individuals and penalties of up to $5500 for occupiers who ignore the ban.

Since the beginning of 2013, smoking has been banned in a number of outdoor public places including all NSW public transport stops and stations, within 10m of children’s playgrounds, at spectator areas of sporting grounds, at public swimming pools and within 4m of a pedestrian entrance to or exit from a public building.

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Paul Allan

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MOTORING.

When Paul Allan restores a car he likes to make everything original and can proudly tell you stories of all eight he has stabled in his garages. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent ALKING into the first of Paul Allan’s garages feels like wondrous moment seeing presents under the tree on Christmas morning for the first time. A burgundy 1956 Jaguar XK 140, a ’47 Mach 4 Jag and a turquoise coloured 1960 Studebaker Hawk are squeezed into the space like shapely post war pin ups.

Amidst the finery of assorted tools and stored furniture they are beautifully restored examples of a long lost motoring age.

Of the two door “massive thumping V8” Studebaker, Allan said: “They’re an optimistic shape. They really show what life was like in the late 50s early 60s.

We were going to be living on Mars by 1990 … 2001 A Space Odyssey. We were off to Jupiter and places like that and that’s what people expected.

“And these cars embodied that enthusiasm. They had fins on them because fins looked like a rocket ship. The Brits were still making things like that one

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there (’47 Jag), they were still in a conservative era.”

That conservatism is nothing, however, by today’s standards.

“Now, so many cars look similar to me. Now there’s so much badge engineering, a Ford car could be made by Mazda, that sort of thing.”

“When these cars,” referring to his collection, ” were coming out every two or three years they’d make a new body shape. We’d all race down to the dealership to see what the new Holden or the new Falcon looked like because every second or third year there was a totally new body shape. Everyone was enthusiastic.”

Paul’s enthusiasm for restoring historic vehicles didn’t start until 1999. His working life in pest control and a ‘termimesh’ business rarely allowed for holidays, let alone the playtime he needs to bring his cars back to their former glory.

Listening to him proudly tell their story however,

you can imagine the part time bus driver has been doing this his whole life.

“They didn’t bring a lot into the country initially,” he said of the Studebaker Hawks. “This has got a larger 289 V8 engine in it. The first ones were 6 cylinders because they though they were too fast and people were going to kill themselves. Then they brought in the 8 cylinder.”

Owning the Hawk has definitely been a life long dream.

I saw one of these in about 1959, and I was riding a pushbike down Macquarie Street, and this thing just oozed into the service station there, where Coles is now, and I thought Holy Moly, this thing’s come from another planet!

“People were driving old clapped out Holdens, and rubbish and this thing just purred in and pulled up and I thought, ‘man, this is like something from space!’. I thought one of these days I’m going to own

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one of those so this one became available in Victoria right where those fires where all the people died. We got it six months before. It wouldn’t have been there if it had stayed there. It would have burned.”

The family favourite is definitely the burgundy the 1956 Jag XK restored to the prestigious colour from a rather offensive canary yellow.

“These were built in the late 40s. They were very advanced for their time; with a twin overhead cam engine. They were used for racing. It won the Le Mans for about four years running. It got quite a good reputation as a racing car, and now they’re fairly scarce.

Luckily I picked this one up and restored it, rebuilt the engine. We’ve been everywhere in it, it really sticks to the road.

“It’s called a 140 because it does 140 mils per hour.

It’s good to be able to drive an historic car at road speeds. A lot of old cars tend to hold the traffic up because they really do only go 80 miles per hour. Most people are understanding but not everyone and people tend to get impatient driving behind an old car.”

In garage number two more motoring delights await.

“There’s a Dodge Imperial Roadster 1925, probably about the only one in Australia that’s actually going to be on the road. They were way above the average

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Fifty-year celebrations Dubbo Antique Automobile Club, is celebrating 50 years since its beginning on the weekend of May 30 and 31 with about 90 people coming from across New South Wales who have been members.

On the morning of Saturday, May 30 guests will be arriving at the Dubbo City Bowling club for registration, morning tea and lunch then going for a run in our cars, which will be something to see!

On Sunday morning, May 31 there will be a display of cars at the Western Plains Cultural Centre car park.

bloke’s income. A big car for two people,” said Allan.

“An indulgence,” adds Robyn, Allan’s wife.

“You couldn’t put the family in it, strictly for saying ‘look at me’, Allan said.

Beside the Dodge sits a 1920 French Berliet.

“There’s no front brakes on it. Front brakes didn’t come out until 23 on most vehicles. No one drove that fast anyway so it didn’t really matter.”

Then there’s the American made, Marmon Roadster (pictured), found on a property west of Narromine, reduced to a paddock basher, complete with bullet holes for Paul to “fix up”.

“We took it on a rally out through the Oberon hills a few weeks ago. There were nearly 100 car; 97 cars all before 1930 and when you look behind you over the hills, all you could see were vintage cars, just moving along the road.

“It was fun. You meet people from all over the world.

People love coming to Australia because they love rallying here because you don’t have the restrictions you do in Europe with roads and stuff like that, in England, they could never a rally like they do in Orange, or Adelaide or Dubbo because the roads aren’t wide enough, you couldn’t have 100 cars going along because the traffic is so dense.”

“Two brought steam cars along with them, one belonged to Howard Hughes. One of them sold the other day for 2 million pounds.” (Close to A$4M).

Paul has been in the Dubbo Antique Automobile Club since 1999 and is looking forward to participating in the club’s celebration of 50 years, happening in Dubbo next weekend.

“Our club goes back 50 years ago and obviously started off with vintage cars because those cars (like the Studebaker) 50 years ago were moderns, now there’s not so many of these models in the club and you’ve just to move with the times.

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“You can’t expect a club to survive if people in their 30s and 40s aren’t welcome into the club. They’ll have their memories of childhood, which were 1970s; cars that they had enjoyed, so they want to have a Falcon GTHO or Ford Mustang or something like that.

“We really enjoy it. We do say amongst ourselves what’ve going to happen to these old cars, because when we fall off the perch, is there going to be anyone that’s interested in driving these old things, or are they going to end up in museums?” Allan said.

In the late eight to 10 years, vintage and historic car clubs are experiencing a significant growth in people taking an active interest.

“Whether or not it’s people who are retiring and they see the historic cars and they think ‘that’s what I want to do to, or they decide they’ll restore the old Holden their father used to own, there’s quite a few of those type of cars in our club; cars that a grandfather owned or an FJ Holden, and they’ve restored them.”

Whatever the motivation, historic car clubs are here to stay while cars continue to be manufactured and as a lifestyle choice, there’s nothing like it.

“It’s quite funny when we go on a rally, we have to think, now what are we going to take out this time,” said Robyn of the many beautiful choices stabled in their garages.

Counting eight cars in Allan’s collection there also seems no end of new cars to do.

“We work on the assumption that if you‘ve got too many projects, God’s not going to take you,” he said.

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On safari in Zimbabwe

Cheetah cubs playing in the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, in Zimbabwe. PHOTOS: PA/RENATO GRANIERI

BY SARAH MARSHALL OW in full spring bloom, a purple haze of Jacaranda trees swathes Harare’s quiet suburbs. Images of angry rioters, broadcast worldwide 15 years ago, are no more than ghostly memories.

Leaving the Zimbabwean capital behind us, we pass groups of Seventh-Day Adventists shrouded in long white smocks and carrying wooden shepherds’ crooks. Escaping the burning late October sun, their religious ceremonies are conducted under the shade of gravity-defying sandstone rock stacks.

Spiralling hyperinflation, which reached an estimated mind-boggling 79.6 billion per cent in 2008, along with violent land seizures, unashamed political corruption and inevitable international trade embargoes brought one of Africa’s richest nations to its knees.

A thriving tourist industry collapsed, safari lodges closed, and excellent guides, reputed to be the best trained on the continent, left for a better life elsewhere.

But now fortunes seem to be changing in Zimbabwe. Despite Robert Mugabe’s steadfast refusal to relinquish power,

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foreign investment is returning, new lodges are opening and tourists are discovering an overwhelmingly hospitable country, rich in diverse wildlife, heart-stopping scenery and traces of ancient civilisations.

We’re driving south-east to Gonarezhou National Park, the second largest park in Zimbabwe, covering an area of 5000 square kilometres.

Overhanging the Save River, just outside the park boundaries and close to the Mahenye village, Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge is working hard to build a bridge between community and wildlife, with tourism providing the obvious stepping stone.

Owner Clive Stockil, who was awarded a Tusk Conservation Award by Prince William in 2013, has served as a vital intermediary between the government and local Shangaan people, and has subsequently helped reduce poaching in the park by 85 per cent. He now has plans to set up a wildlife conservancy around Chilo, with the help of EU funding.

A poker hot sun is already climbing skyward by the time we set off on a morning drive, timed to coincide with the park’s 6am opening. But there’s no need to anguish about be-

Aussie snow resort wrap

BY GLENN CULLEN

TRAVEL BRIEFS

SYDNEY: Dollars and snow. As always, they act as both push and pull factors for Australians deciding on where to spend their tourism dollars this winter.

When it comes to the former, there is at least some good news emanating from local ski areas in 2015.

Vail’s buyout of Perisher has already presented a tasty $749 season pass option for riding at the NSW resort, as well as the American giant’s 12 ski areas.

Thredbo (pictured) has offered a counter of sorts through the Mountain Collective agreement, where up to 18 days’ riding (in-

Singita Pamushana Lodge, in Zimbabwe.

ing first off the starting block; for the entire day, we have the place to ourselves.

Powering across sandy, dried out riverbeds, we head into the bush, weaving through fans of ilala palms and 2000-year-old baobab trees. One trunk is so bulbous, our guide Thomas claims poachers once used it as

a hideout.

We encounter several nyala, a species of antelope native to southern Africa, and catch a fleeting glimpse of wild dogs.

“We’ve had 10 packs denning in the park this year,” Thomas proudly tells me. “But they’re hard to spot.”

Elephants, on the other hand,

cluding three at Thredbo) can be had with a group of other North American resorts for $US379 ($480).

Across the border, you’ve missed the boat for the best deal – the $749 Hotham/ Falls two-mountain Hero Pass needed to be purchased by the end of the previous season.

Now $1549, it’s hardly as tempting, and we’d suggest the resorts strongly consider extending that deal for next season.

But perhaps more keenly felt is the Aussie dollar’s value against the Kiwi this season.

When many people were making booking decisions about whether to stay local or cross the Tasman over the past two months, the two currencies were close to parity.

are a game drive guarantee – there are 11,000 in the park – although their behaviour is far from predictable.

After getting too close to one very protective herd, we’re charged by an agitated bull for nearly five minutes. Thomas tells me many of the skittish creatures are still reeling from

While the Kiwi has softened a little, it is far from the $1.35 to the Aussie it was a few years back.

Make no mistake – on a family ski trip, that difference can run into as much as $1500-$2000.

As for the snow, it’s early advantage New Zealand, with some of the country’s resorts enjoying a metre or more of snow in May, which should help form a base.

Some small May falls have stoked the fire in Australia, but are likely to be gone by month’s end if not before.

The El Nino weather pattern – which is expected to dry up the precipitation in the second half of the season – won’t help things in Australia, so fingers crossed for the snow to come in June and July.

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A Cheetah and cub drinking from a watering hole, in Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe.

the long civil war in Mozambique, just a few kilometres away.

My next stop, the neighbouring Singita Pamushana, is a breeze in comparison. Set within the private 130,000 acre fenced Malilangwe Reserve, the wildlife – a mixture of antelope, birds, big cats and even black and white rhino – is easier to manage, and there’s greater flexibility with game drives.

With infinity plunge pools on the private decks of villas perched high in the rocks, it’s an obvious hit with A-listers, and I’m told my bright Zulu-patterned abode, Villa 1, wowed Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas on their honeymoon.

But for all its grand interior design, Pamushana’s greatest attractions are outdoors.

My guide, Time, and I set out at 4.30am, to spend a morning in a secluded hide next to a watering hole. On our way, he stops the vehicle to pick up some crumbly white hyena

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A giraffe in the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, in Zimbabwe.

Blooming Jacaranda trees on the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe.

PHOTOS: PA/THINKSTOCKPHOTOS.

The dining deck at the Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, Zimbabwe.

Cecil Rhode’s grave in Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe.

dung and tells me that during the crisis years, school children would use the calcium-rich faeces as blackboard chalk.

When we arrive, the watering hole is already busy. Giraffe splay their legs and gently bow down to slurp the water, while swarms of quelea “locust birds” blow like gusty clouds from one bush to another. Two cheetah cubs emerge from the long grass, their white Mohican tufts backlit by the morning sun, with their mother in close pursuit.

(a symbol of fertility) and women with surprisingly detailed voluptuous bottoms.

The hills, which formed Zimbabwe’s first national park in 1926, have always held sacred significance for the Ndebele people, and British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, who founded Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe), is buried here.

My last stop is the Somalisa camp on a private concession in Hwange, Zimbabwe’s largest park, which is the size of Switzerland.

We have to work hard for sightings, but it does focus my attention on some of the smaller details. I’m mesmerised by a dung beetle’s determined attempts to push a dung ball up a hill, and I even witness a very unusual kill – an Egyptian cobra pouncing on a small frog.

That night, we sit on a deck next to a watering hole and watch elephants gather for a

Nyala drinking at a watering hole outside Singita Pamushana’s private hide, in Zimbabwe.

All the while we sit quietly, and they never once notice we’re there.

Afterwards, Time takes me to see some of the 80 bushmen painting sites in the surrounding forest. But the most impressive drawings can be found a six-hour drive north-west in the Matobo Hills, a rocky, undulating landscape formed more than 2000 million years ago and strewn with granite boulders.

Built into the rock face on a private concession in the Matobo National Park, Camp Amalinda offers an upmarket take on cave dwellings, with some of the en-suite rooms even featuring ancient art work.

There are more than 300,000 paintings in the area, some extremely well preserved thanks to the dry environment and the location’s inaccessibility, with the oldest estimated to be 20,000 years.

I head to the Nswatugi Cave to see images of rhinos, eland

A cheetah surveying the landscape in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.

An African elephant at the Gonarezhou National Park, in Zimbabwe.

Six thousand-year-old bushmen painting in Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe.

noisy drink just a few metres from our feet.

“Zimbabwe was one of the richest countries in Africa,” says veteran guide Peter. “Now fields lay fallow and people have lost their savings. But we don’t give up.” z Sarah Marshall was a guest of The Ultimate Travel Company

A male dung beetle (Copris pecuarius) rolling a ball of dung with female attached, in Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe.

Sydney Airport reaches Game over looms for World Trade Centre deck record numbers Hungary pinball museum opens to public

Vienna alive with sound of Eurovision

SYDNEY: International passenger numbers through Australia’s busiest airport have hit a record helped by strong growth in travellers from Asia.

International traffic through Sydney Airport was up 2.9 per cent to a record of 4.5 million passengers in the 12 months to April while domestic passenger numbers grew solidly, up 1.7 per cent on a year ago.

The number of foreign travellers passing through Sydney airport grew strongly at 2.1 per cent led by people arriving from the Philippines, India and China.

VIENNA: Conchita Wurst has recorded voiceovers for Vienna’s transport system and gay-themed traffic lights have been installed in the city centre.

It can only mean one thing – Eurovision 2015 is coming to the Austrian capital.

The 60th anniversary bumper edition of the cult music contest runs until May 23 and has caused a surge in holiday booking interest in the host nation.

Holidaylettings.co.uk has reported a 100 per cent increase in searches for rental apartments in the city, while Airbnb predicts 3800 residents will open their homes. AAP

BUDAPEST: The owner of Europe’s largest pinball museum says he will close the facility next month after falling foul of strict regulations on gaming arcades and casinos.

Balazs Palfi, founder of the popular Pbal Gallery, which is housed in the dingy basement of a Budapest apartment building, says tax authorities are investigating him on suspicion of breaking Hungary’s strict rules on revenue from gaming machines.

Palfi’s museum contains over 140 working pinball machines, many of them rare pieces.

Since opening to the public last year it has become a top attraction.

NEW YORK: Testament to the regeneration of New York, 15 years after the 9/11 attacks, is the new observation deck at the World Trade Center, offering spectacular views across the city.

“We are back, 100 per cent,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a special televised broadcast atop the observation deck that covers the 100th, 101st and 102nd floors of the gleaming glass tower.

The observation deck opens to the general public next Friday. The tallest office building in the Western hemisphere, the Center welcomed its first tenants last year.

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Shoot for the moon Thinking about how to best capture a photo of the moon in all it’s rugged texture and mysterious light is as far removed – quite literally – from the skate park in Dubbo, where Coady LoMonaco first got the bug for photography. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent OADY LoMonaco has just finished participating in his second photography exhibition as a Diploma of Photo Imaging student, TAFE Western – Creative Industries.

Called The Butterfly Effect, the exhibition was the only one held outside Sydney as part of the Head On Photo Festival 2015, held at the Fire Station Arts Centre.

To his surprise, when we met there to photograph him there, he discovered a ubiquitous red dot on the wall badge, symbolising his work called Nocturna, had sold.

His development behind the lens has taken him on an usual path beginning with an interest in photography inspired around four years ago in pursuit of his other great passion, skateboarding.

“I’m a skateboarder and photography is entwined with that. I started out just taking snapshots randomly here and there. Photographing skateboarding you’ve got to be quick and get underneath them using fast shutters.”

It was not until he got his first DSLR, a Canon 600D, that LoMonaco discovered the night sky was a subject he found engaging as photographer. “It’s nothing too special just yet. It’s a good little camera, it does what it needs to do.”

By contrast the pace and preparation for shooting the night sky is the proverbial chalk compared to the cheese of skateboarding action photography.

“I like it,” he said, “because there’s a lot more planning and figuring out stuff. You have to set out your scene. You basically visualise what the picture is going to look like in the end. You set up everything, you’re tripod and the rest of it, that takes time then you get your shot.”

Getting your shot can take up to an hour though, for longer exposures.

Discovering the beautiful effects of star trails in photography LoMonaco has followed the traditional route of creating this visually stunning effect with captures the effect of Earth’s rotation, and a new technique in Photoshop.

“There’s two ways you can do it. You can take a photo using a remote and it will take an exposure for an hour, or however long, and because everything else stays still and the Earth is moving the stars will appear to swirl around.

“The other way you can do it is to get a whole bunch of images, say 50-100 and you put them all together in Photoshop. There’s a way you blend them and that’s how it works.

While creating Nocturna the shot of the tree took about 30 seconds to shoot using ambient light to illuminate the trunk.

“That’s not flash. The tree was a long exposure, the light comes from the surrounding light. I do sometimes use a torch, but not for that image,” he said.

The description he submitted to the exhibition to accompany Nocturna read: “Sometimes the most elegant things in life come from a simple spec of light ... I wish to portray this beauty in the night skies that most people tend to take for granted and do not fully appreciate.”

When asked what in the night sky is his favourite to photograph, he replies without hesitation, “the Milky Way.” To photograph the Milky Way in detail however, means reducing light pollution from streetlights and house lights, as much as possible.

“I just go on the outskirts of town. There’s a local hotspot, Mugga Hill up on the Dunedoo road, and a few other places, where it’s dark and you can get away from the lights.”

As far as LoMonaco is aware, he’s the only astrophotographer in Dubbo at the moment but would welcome connecting with like-minded photographers.

“I’m pretty much I’m the only person I know, doing it. There’s a few other people who take storm shots.”

Though he doesn’t know what will happen after his TAFE course finishes at the end of this year, but he’s certain about one thing: “I do have aspirations to be an astro-photographer,” he said.

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Mad Max: Fury Road, with Tom Hardy.

Mad Max makes Fast & Furious look like a Sunday afternoon drive blitzkrieg of propulsive pursuits featuring almost 150 hand-built death machines of every conceivable shape and size.

BY DAMON SMITH

FILM OF THE WEEK MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (MA15+, 120 mins) Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller.

Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh KeaysByrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoe Kravitz, Courtney Eaton, Abbey Lee. Director: George Miller.

FASTEN your seat belts and hold on white-knuckle tight as writer-director George Miller invites you to an orgy of highoctane auto mayhem that makes Fast & Furious 7 look like a sedate Sunday afternoon drive.

Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth instalment of the postapocalyptic franchise, delivers a

These thrillingly choreographed sequences of carmageddon build to a jaw-dropping finale, replete with roofmouthed metronome-like poles that allow road warriors to swoop down and snatch their prey from adjacent vehicles.

If the original Mad Max released in 1979 was soaked in testosterone, Fury Road adds a heady whiff of oestrogen by introducing a badass tribe of warrior women called the Vuvalini, who ride proudly into battle armed with explosivetipped spears.

One prime specimen is Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), the enigmatic driver of a mighty 18-wheeler mobile war rig.

She reports to Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), despotic leader of the Citadel, who is propagating the species in his cruel image using The Wives.

These five enslaved women (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoe Kravitz, Courtney Eaton, Abbey Lee) are impregnated by Immortan Joe to provide him with a viable male heir.

Furiosa kidnaps The Wives and flees across the Wasteland with Immortan Joe and his army in hot pursuit.

Among the chasing horde is

shaven-headed, tattooed acolyte Nux (Nicholas Hoult), who believes that death in battle will grant him entry to the warrior paradise of Valhalla.

As Nux puts the pedal to the metal, his poisoned blood is replenished by a living donor, Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), strapped to the front of the hot rod.

During the chase, Max breaks free from Nux and begrudgingly helps Furiosa and The Wives to evade Immortan Joe’s clutches, bound for a lush oasis known as the Green Place.

Mad Max: Fury Road is a tour-de-force of adrenalinepumping thrills.

Computer trickery is kept to

DVD PREVIEWS

BY SAM STRUCKHOFF

HOME VIEWING PICKS OF THE WEEK Jeff Bridges in “Seventh Son”

Seventh Son (M) – An ancient order of mystical knights once kept the world safe from evil CGI monstrosities, until their numbers dwindled to one. Jeff Bridges stars as the last of the “Spooks”, monster slayers who are all the seventh sons of seventh sons.

Bridges rambles his way to a little farm, where he recruits Tom, youngest of seven brothers (a bland teenage protagonist played by Ben Barnes, who is well into his 30s). Together, they set out on a formulaic adventure to battle a super-witch (Julianne Moore) and her menagerie of monsters.

Much like Moore’s arch villain character, this

Mad Max: Fury Road, with Charlize Theron. PHOTOS: PA/JASIN BOLAND/WARNER BROS.

a bare minimum: stunt drivers actually performed these mind-boggling feats in real vehicles at dizzying speeds.

When director Miller briefly does take his foot off the accelerator, he hopes we’ll be giddy enough on exhaust fumes to care deeply about plot and characterisation. Both sit qui-

fantasy adventure was sealed away, locked in a purgatory by production wizards, until it stirred within its cage and found its way into our realm.

The special effects are impressive, but aging in the barrel has not helped this film ripen.

The Loft (MA15+) – Five wealthy urban professionals share a luxurious loft apartment as their secret clubhouse, available whenever one of them has a rendezvous with a mistress or fling. One day, the guys open the loft to find the handcuffed body of a murdered blonde, totally killing the mood.

The story is told in flashbacks, as the guys (Karl Urban, James Marsden, Eric Stonestreet, Matthias Schoenaerts and Wentworth Miller) recount what happened – in sleazy detail – to a pair of detectives.

Nothing tests the patience more than a movie

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Mad Max: Fury Road, with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

A Royal Night Out, with Bel Powley.

etly in the back seat, waiting for the next rev of a V-8 engine.

Hardy perfects an array of grunts and growls in place of dialogue. He’s a dull boy though next to Theron’s gutsy alpha female, who goes toe-totoe and trades blow for bonecrunching blow with the grizzled anti-hero, channelling her character’s sense of loss into vengeance.

Keays-Byrne takes a leaf out of Hardy’s book from The Dark Knight Rises and dons a nightmarish face mask made of horse teeth.

Miller’s rambunctious ride is heightened by a deafening soundtrack courtesy of Grammy-nominated composer Junkie XL. You’ll feel the teeth rattle in your head as his sonic boom of drums, strings, thrashing electric guitars and a soaring 80-voice choir competes with the crash-bang-wallop of the on-screen carnage. :: NO SWEARING :: NO SEX :: NO VIOLENCE :: RATING: 8.5/10

who penned the original, enforces the message of femme power by contriving a spectacular fall from grace for the Barden Bellas in order that her plucky heroines rediscover their sisterly solidarity.

Beyonce’s anthemic “Run The World (Girls)” is a fitting opener for one medley of redemption, emphasizing that while these girls wanna have fun, they won’t do so at the expense of friendships or their careers.

Cannon pads out her admittedly flimsy premise with parallel romantic subplots and introduces a Latin American exchange student, whose lifeor-death heritage becomes a running joke that limps before the two hours are up.

Thankfully, Rebel Wilson turbo-charges her scenes and is rewarded with the film’s only solo – Pat Benatar’s power ballad “We Belong” – that builds to a rousing call to arms for the broken-hearted.

Three years after all-female group the Barden Bellas triumphed in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, the girls perform for President Obama and his wife.

Fat Amy (Wilson) suffers a wardrobe malfunction during a Miley Cyrus-themed aerial routine and drags the good name of Barden University into the gutter.

In the wake of Muffgate, commentators John Smith (John Michael Higgins) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden (Elizabeth Banks) cast the Bellas into the wilderness and mock Beca (Anna Kendrick) when she claims they can become the first American group to win the World A Cappella Championships.

Beca, Fat Amy, Chloe (Brittany Snow), Stacie (Alexis Knapp), Jessica (Kelley Jakle), Cynthia-Rose (Ester Dean), softly spoken beatboxer Lilly

ALSO RELEASED PITCH PERFECT 2 (M, 115 mins) Comedy/Musical/Romance.

Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Hailee Steinfeld, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Alexis Knapp, Kelley Jakle, Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, Flula Borg, Skylar Astin, Adam DeVine, Ben Platt, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Camp, Katey Sagal. Director: Elizabeth Banks.

LIGHTNING almost strikes twice in the eagerly anticipated sequel to the feel-great comedy Pitch Perfect.

Actress Elizabeth Banks nestles in the director’s chair for this uproarious second outing and she confidently conducts a choir of familiar faces through soaring musical mash-ups and pitch-slapping putdowns.

Screenwriter Kay Cannon,

full of tedious plot twists and set-ups all building to a tragically predictable conclusion. The five dudes are so greasy and unlikable that it’s a struggle to feel for their struggles.

Cut Bank (MA15+) – Tucked away in rural Montana, Dwayne (Liam Hemsworth) wants to get himself and his peppy blond girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) out of town, but witnesses a murder instead. By total coincidence, he had his video camera rolling and pointed in the right direction when the town’s first murder takes place in a canola field.

Well, maybe it wasn’t a coincidence, and maybe it wasn’t a murder – the plot twists itself into knots, but it’s not a tight fit. The movie owes a lot to the Coen brothers, mostly an apology for doing such a poor job of copying “Fargo.”

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Pitch Perfect 2, with Brittany Snow, Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson.

(Hana Mae Lee) and new recruits Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) and Flo (Chrissie Fit) prepare for musical battle.

However, the path to glory in Copenhagen is blocked by welldrilled reigning champions, Das Sound Machine, led by the statuesque Kommissar (Birgitte Hjort Sorensen) and her righthand herr Pieter (Flula Borg).

The Bellas’ make-or-break performance beckons and Beca frets about her song choices.

“You’re the most talented person I know,” gushes Fat Amy soothingly, “and I’ve met three of The Wiggles... intimately.”

Pitch Perfect 2 hits many of the high notes of the original film.

Beca’s romance with boyfriend Jesse (Skylar Astin) is inert in the sequel so the spotlight shifts to Fat Amy’s on-offon-off flirtation with Bumper (Adam DeVine).

Banks and Higgins lasso some of the heartiest guffaws, the latter spewing chauvinism with aplomb as he casually describes the Bellas as “an inspiration to girls all over the country who are too ugly to be cheerleaders”.

Musical sequences are choreographed with verve, including a rousing finale that astutely goes back to acca-basics to tug the heartstrings. :: SWEARING :: NO SEX :: NO VIOLENCE :: RATING: 7/10 A ROYAL NIGHT OUT (M, 97 mins) Comedy/Drama/Romance.

Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Jack Reynor, Rupert Everett, Emily Watson, Jack Laskey, Jack Gordon, Roger Allam, Ruth Sheen. Director: Julian Jarrold.

IN this celebrity-obsessed age of 24-hour social media and omnipresent paparazzi, it’s inconceivable that younger members of the royal family could mingle with us, the unwashed hoi polloi, without attracting attention.

See You in Valhalla (MA15+) – A death in the family reunites a bunch of dysfunctional siblings. At first it’s awkward, then they bicker, fight, laugh, hug and cry. This should sound familiar by now – it’s been the drama-trope of choice for the past year or so.

This time, it’s “Modern Family’s” Sarah Hyland playing the prodigal daughter, returning home for the funeral of her troubled brother. Her father and two living brothers are waiting with their own bundles of issues, and she also must deal with the latent drama of an old boyfriend she left behind.

It’s supposed to be a tearjerker drama, so it’s a bad sign that the only laudable bit is the cartoonish comic relief (Stevie Howey), but kudos to him.

Heirs to the throne would be engulfed by a sea of flashing smart phones, their every word regurgitated and scrutinised in 140 poorly punctuated characters.

Seventy years ago, Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen of England, and her sister Princess Margaret briefly escaped from Buckingham Palace to celebrate VE Day with the teeming crowds outside the royal residence. They mingled with their subjects, completely incognito, as the people of London marked the end of the Second World War with an exuberant evening of revelry.

Screenwriters Trevor De Silva and Kevin Hood use this true event as the starting point for a heart-warming comedy of manners, which propels the two princesses on journeys of self-discovery in a capital awash with carnal desire and potential danger.

A Royal Night Out is frothy fun, embellishing fact with outlandish fiction under the jaunty direction of Julian Jarrold, who previously unbuttoned the stifled emotions of the era in the 2008 remake of Brideshead Revisited.

The film opens with archive footage of Winston Churchill announcing the end of the conflict with Germany.

Jubilant crowds gather outside Buckingham Palace where King George VI (Rupert Everett) is preparing a radio address with encouragement from Queen Elizabeth (Emily Watson).

Their daughters, Princess Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) and Princess Margaret (Bel Powley), yearn to celebrate with the people but the Queen is resistant.

“We’ll be walled up in this mausoleum for the rest of our lives,” despairs Margaret. “I’m completely cheesed!”

Top 10 films at the Aussie box office Week Ending 20.05.2015 1 Mad Max: Fury Road 2 Pitch Perfect 2 3 The Avengers: Age Of Ultron (with Scarlett Johansson, right) 4 A Royal Night Out 5 Unfriended 6 Fast And Furious 7 7 Cinderella 8 The Age Of Adaline 9 Home 10 While We’re Young SOURCE: MPDAA

Pitch Perfect 2, with Rebel Wilson.

Princess Elizabeth persuades her father to let them venture out for one night and the girls excitedly don their frocks, only to discover that their mother has arranged for two soldiers, Captain Pryce (Jack Laskey) and Lieutenant Burridge (Jack Gordon), to chaperone them at all times.

By chance, the princesses elude their escorts and head out into London on their own where Elizabeth finds an unlikely protector: a deserter called Jack (Jack Reynor), who isn’t a fan of people of privilege.

“Family well-off by chance?” he asks, oblivious to his companion’s true identity.

“We manage,” replies Elizabeth tersely.

A Royal Night Out is timed perfectly to coincide with the 70th anniversary of VE Day and an air of wistful nostalgia blows through every frame of Jarrold’s perky picture.

Gadon is luminous in a restrictive role, while Powley has considerably more fun as the rebel, who brandishes her superlative of choice – “wizard!”

– with plummy gusto.

The script predominantly opts for laughter rather than lamentation, and is careful not to offend with a simmering romantic subplot between Elizabeth and Jack.

There’s nothing here that will have the filmmakers entering the Tower Of London through Traitor’s Gate. :: SWEARING :: NO SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 6/10

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BOOKS.

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An adventurous exploration of human anatomy

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK Adventures In Human Being

by Gavin Francis is published in hardback by Profile Books.

THERE’S a doctor whose career has taken him from the foothills of the Himalayas to Antarctica; yet his latest book is not about his own adventures, but those exploring human anatomy.

Adventures in Human Being traverses the body, each chapter focussing on a different part, from the eyes, hands, and pelvis to internal organs, including the heart, liver and lungs.

Stitching classical texts (from the Illiad to Snow White) with medical teachings, it’s a book surreptitiously packed with information.

Though this makes it a mustread for anyone interested in the workings of the vessel we live our lives in (and indeed, makes you acutely aware of your own body), it should be known that it’s not for the faint-hearted – on the chapter about the face, Francis describes dissecting it to reveal ‘delicate fronts of salmon pink laced through buttery subcutaneous fat’.

Though at times toe-curling in its detail for a non-medic, the above quote perfectly demonstrates the skill of Francis’ writing. His passion for uncovering and explaining how the body works is palpable throughout. In describing the workings of the inner ear, he talks of balance as, ‘a portable sea anchor that moors us in the world’, and bands of collagen in the arm are ‘like the quills of a feather’.

The writing makes this a joy to read, but beyond that there is much to learn. I was fascinated by the fact that, ‘before biochemistry labs, the analysis of substances was often left to the tongue’, and that a treatment for vertigo came about through ‘some creative thinking, a garage, and some lengths of plastic hosepipe’.

While Francis is clearly a formidable doctor, it’s his range of experience and ability to effortlessly weave depictions of the body throughout history with the straight science behind it, that makes this such a compelling read.

9/10 Review by Emma Herdman

O FICTION The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl is published in hardback by Harvill Secker.

REMEMBER those episodes of Doctor Who where Charles Dickens met ghosts at Christmas or Agatha Christie got caught up in a murder plot?

The Last Bookaneer is a similar author-meets-genre tale, an exotic hunt for treasure starring

Robert Louis Stevenson.

Matthew Pearl is clearly a bibliophile (previous books: The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens), and it shines through in this piratical tale of people paid to loot manuscripts and smuggle them to foreign publishers.

There are two of these bookaneers left and the book focuses on their wonderfully twisty and duplicitous set-up venturing to a Samoan island, where Stevenson has settled down for the last years of his life and is writing a final masterpiece.

It all plays out as an evocative Polynesian travelogue with all the audacious thievery of a fun heist film, but with defter characterisation and substantially more philosophising on the nature of stories.

7/10 Review by Stephen Wood A Perfect Crime by A Yi is published in hardback by Oneworld Publications.

IT’S an ordinary day in provincial China – except a bored high-school student is planning to murder his only friend. He invites her round to the flat he shares with his aunt, strangles her, stabs her 37 times, stuffs her head-first into the washing machine, and goes on the run.

Easily outsmarting the authorities and evading capture, his lust for danger soon takes hold again. He tips off the police as to his whereabouts, and a game of cat and mouse begins. The police still can’t catch him, so he gives himself up.

As the remorseless student’s trial begins, we slowly learn his psychological back story.

A Perfect Crime is not always a comfortable read, but it is an unlikely page-turner and provides a chilling insight into the mind of a psychopath who sees murder as an intellectual challenge and kills someone merely to relieve the monotony of his existence.

7/10 Review by Catherine Small Hunters In The Dark by Lawrence Osborne is published in hardback by Hogarth.

LAWRENCE Osborne’s new novel has much in common with its predecessor, The Ballad Of A Small Player, as a tale of ghosts and gamblers adrift on the edges of South East Asia.

Both are the stories of characters trying to live out the

Matthew Pearl’s new book is The Last Bookaneer.

romantic dream of Englishmen abroad in the face of modern distractions and sometimes more ancient fears.

In this one, a big win in a small casino sets its hero on his way through Cambodia and into the path of ruthless ex-pats, corrupt police officers and burned-out survivors of that country’s dreadful past.

The poetic descriptions of Cambodian countryside and cities caught between stifling heat and torrential downpours and the ideal England left behind make for an atmospheric read.

The languid plot and Osborne’s relaxed style make this too laid-back to qualify as a thriller, but there’s enough tension as his characters stumble towards their uncertain fates to keep the pages turning.

8/10 Review by Robert Dex The Two Of Us by Andy Jones is published in paperback by Simon & Schuster.

ROMANCE novels are ten-apenny, but what about those that capture the reality of when the “honeymoon period” has died down? Even more, what about when a spanner is thrown in the works and forces the couple to commit to their shoestring of a relationship a lot sooner than they had planned?

This is the topic that Andy Jones has decided to centre his debut novel around.

It charts Fisher and Ivy as they journey through the sometimes muddy waters a relationship brings, marking both the treacherous first arguments and those magical, momentous occasions of pure love.

At the same time, Fisher tries to come to terms with the deteriorating condition of his friend suffering from Huntington’s disease, and attempts to force his head to rule his heart with his work as a director.

Make-up artist Ivy, mean-

while struggles to admit her soon-to-be divorced brother has outstayed his welcome in her small Wimbledon flat.

The book manages to keep a sense of reality throughout, and it’s easy to both laugh and cry at the pair’s tribulations.

Though it may be brutally honest at times, it is a heart-warming novel that offers a reminder on how important all kinds of relationships are in life.

7/10 Review by Rebecca Flitton

O NON-FICTION Run, Ride, Sink Or Swim: A Year In The Exhilarating World Of Women’s Triathlon by Lucy Fry is published in paperback by Faber & Faber.

IN her first ever book, freelance journalist Fry recounts her adventures (and occasional tears and frustrations) as a rookie tri-athlete.

She stars – like many fitness fans before her – as a curious

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newbie tempted by the buzz of a challenge and keen to explore what it is about the sport that gets people so hooked, but is quickly plunging into a whole new world of increasingly complex training and nutrition plans and emotions, as triathlon’s powerful hold intensifies.

Of course, triathlon is the core theme, but this is a story about so much more than swimming, running, cycling and personal bests – it’s about that very human thing of being drawn to a challenge, the joy and pressures of rising to it and lessons learned along the way.

Fry crosses paths with numerous characters, each play-

ing as important a role in her journey as those early-morning rides, from people overcoming extreme physical and mental obstacles to devotees simply trying to balance their triathlon addiction with regular life and relationships.

Fry’s openness, observations and the connections she builds had me gripped. I’m no triathlete (far from it) but I raced through the book, moved and inspired in equal measure, and rooting for her every step of the way.

8/10 Review by Abi Jackson The Worm At The Core: On The Role Of Death In Life by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg

and Tom Pyszczynski is published in hardback by Allen Lane.

EVER thought about your own death? Then, apparently, ‘The Worm at the Core’ is for you.

A 30-year study of human action, reaction and cultural attitudes toward our inevitable fate, it seeks to academically bolster the basic theory that death permeates our entire existence.

Given death’s long-standing connection to life, the authors have heaps to draw on: art and anthropology, psychoanalysis and sociology. At times the range is crippling, little more than a globetrotting tour of death through the ages, from the rituals of Kenyan tribes to Virginia Tech, with (despite assertions to the contrary) an inevitable US focus.

When sources are wedded to strong primary research, though, the book comes alive, particularly in its latter stages as body and soul are carefully delineated and hoary clichés (sex and death) are either debunked or explained.

That said, intentionally or not, the overriding futility of any endeavours directly addressing death – this book included – leaves the most lasting impression.

5/10 Review by Michael Anderson

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managed, restore land and help build soil.

The title, or the idea it suggests, could sound preposterous, but it begins to make sense when one takes a soil’s eye view of our current ecological predicament. Live in the city and it wouldn’t attract a thought.

The concept of land care is explained by Joel Salatin and is used by many Australian farmers. He wrote “Salad Bar Beef” which provides the disciplines for rotational grazing. And later he wrote “Pastured Poultry Profits” which details the use of mobile hen coops which are moved over the grazed areas, after the cattle have been moved on to the next paddock.

Apart from being fed, the poultry scratch the soil and manure is worked into the pasture.

Nature at work.

Just published is “Fat Planet” written by David Lewis and Margaret Leitch. The authors examine the social and psychological causes of the obesity pandemic. Ground-breaking research has highlighted the behaviour of corporations that sell foods high in sugar, fat and salt, and show that these ‘junk’ foods have shockingly similar neurological effects to hard drugs.

The separation and understanding between city people and farmers has moved further as the population ratios move in favour of metropolitan are-

O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Fast And Furry Racers: The Silver Serpent Cup by Jonathan Emmett and Ed Eaves is published in paperback by Oxford University Press.

AT first glance, this paperback for vehicle-obsessed little people is a mash up of Wacky Races and The Fast And The Furious franchise, but it’s definitely its own animal.

From the first page with sketches of all the drivers, including giraffe Heidi Highhorn and octopus Ollie Octolinni, it’s clear that a huge amount of care and attention to detail have gone into creating this delightful tale.

The town of Furryville is all aflutter as it’s hosting the start of The Silver Serpent Cup, a race for all creatures in an array of ingenious looking vehicles that go on land or sea or fly.

The double page spread of all the vehicles lined up will keep children entertained for ages (and keep your eyes peeled for little Max O’Moley...).

The Race will take them 1000 miles to Featherport and along the way croc Al McNasty will live up to his name. A fast-paced joy from start to exciting finish.

8/10 Review by Kate Whiting

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A sky full of sky N the Saturday of January’s long weekend a father and two children were in the bookstore. Having learned that this was their first visit to Dubbo and this far west, I asked had they seen the plains. They left with a brief that it was worth the drive to Narromine and then a short distance towards Trangie.

On the Monday morning they were back in the shop to say how impressed they were with their experience. They were there at sundown – the father said, “It was a sky full of sky.”

Living in the “country” certainly has benefits.

Stories that tell of life on the land are included in a new release by Deb Hunt entitled “Australian Farming Families”.

Eight families involved in several farming activities from across the country are included and they relate the initiatives being taken to reduce the chemical and fertiliser inputs and increase production through water conservation methods.

It is to be hoped that city residents become more familiar with the role country people play in the supply of food and clothing.

Judith Schwartz is the author of “Cows Save the Planet”. It focuses on the way cattle can be managed to improve soil and the book explains “the unmaking of deserts, rethinking climate change, bringing back biodiversity and restoring the nutrients in our food”. She writes that cattle, like all grazing creatures, can, if soundly

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as. A local example is a where a town contractor purchased a farm well out of town – there hasn’t been much rain since that occurred. Recently neighbours were sowing a crop, dust was blowing across the fenceline toward the neighbour’s house and this raised the new landowner’s ire, enough to complain. Perhaps the wind was blowing the wrong way, but certainly he has no idea that farmers have ploughed country to be ready for sowing crops in all types of weather since the year dot.

“Dirt, dust or soil is everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence supporting our feet, our farms and our cities.” So runs the text in David Montgomery’s book “Dirt – the Erosion of Civilizations”.

He writes that the problems of soil degradation and erosion are problems – mostly of our own making and within our power to solve.

Modern cultivation implements are designed to sow seed at ideal depths to achieve the best germination, root access to moisture and plant growth with minimal soil disturbance. From this, soil erosion is minimised and post-harvest stubble reduces erosion. From this, farmers produce grain for the bread consumed universally. The loaf of bread starts well before the baker’s oven.

The close connections be-

From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection tween people and communities is reflected when a few years back an English teacher at a western high school purchased the book “The Six Degrees of Separation”. We were discussing his pleasure of moving to that town, not previously having been past the Blue Mountains. His observation was that communities were so connected, people knew so many others in the area. He was quite sure that once one moved west of the Newell Highway there were only “Two Degrees of Separation”.

The only book currently about Dubbo’s history readily available is Bill Hornadge’s “Dubbo Walkabout”. It steps back in history to Dubbo’s European discovery by John Oxley in 1818, its settlement by Robert Dulhunty in early 1830s and its proclamation as a village in 1849. With various influences, its population grew from 12,000 in 1964 to 42,000 in

` Towns and regional cities grow or decline as they respond to the rise and fall in response to rural incomes... a

2014. Yet the contrast between city and country living remains.

Towns and regional cities grow or decline as they respond to the rise and fall in response to rural incomes. Peter Austen’s book “A Country Calling“ is a realistic report on life in the west which explains the changes over the last 50 years – particularly relating to rural development.

Last week a Sydney couple who have rarely ventured into the countryside purchased Andrew Chapman’s book of photographs titled “Woolsheds” which features a reference to Trilby Station. They were on their way to Louth, with plans to stay at that property where the Murray family provides various accommodation facilities.

Western style B&Bs have become a popular destination for people searching for new experiences. The special nature of country living, the isolation, peace and quietness matches the experiences through the west.

With the choice made to place the Radio Telescope in Parkes and the Siding Spring Observatory at Coonabarabran, it reassures us that there is no limit to the “sky full of sky”.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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A level playing field Irena Farinacci and Jonathan Powyer are two successful sports people who have carved a pathway in their respective pursuits. They also happen to be deaf and are now kept busy inspiring future generations to follow their sporting dreams. WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Kaitlyn Rennie OR most people, it’s hard enough to imagine a world without sound, let alone know how that affects sociability and confidence. Enter sport into the equation and people previously isolated by their hearing impairment can begin to feel included for the first time. On the court or on the field, everyone is the same.

The Active Deaf Kids (ADK) program, an initiative of Deaf Sports Australia, the country’s peak body for deaf sports, is designed to encourage deaf and hard of hearing school children to be active. The program hopes to nurture children’s love of sport, something that can be challenging for deaf children. The program allows deaf children to express themselves through sport and is a great opportunity to introduce them to sports they haven’t tried, and to make friends with other local children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Opportunities for deaf children to participate in sport are significantly less than that of hearing children.

The ADK program was established in 2011 by Deaf Sports Australia, the national peak body for deaf sports. Deaf Sports Australia is the peak body for deaf sport in Australia, was established in 1954 as the Australian Deaf Sports Federation and is affiliated with the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf.

ADK began as a pilot project and demonstrated a clear need for a sporting program specifically for deaf and hard of hearing children around Australia.

The pilot program also found that many school students do not have regular access or knowledge of deaf sporting programs, nor access to athlete role models.

The program is supported by the Australian Sports Commission.

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Irena Farinacci – represented Australia at the Deaflympics and World Deaf Basketball Championships, Active Deaf Kids program mentor How did you get into sports?

I grew up playing sports with my cousins and at school. I found playing sport easier than trying to understand group conversations. From that moment, I wanted to become an elite sportsperson just like my idol Martina Navratilova who won tennis Grand Slam titles many times. Playing sport was also an escape for me from feeling isolated. I was able to immerse myself into sports and do my best every time. Also, the praise I received through achieving my sports goals also helped with my self-esteem.

What helped you along the way to such a successful career?

Given my love of sport, and the barriers I faced when I was younger, I became more determined to set out to achieve becoming a better person through sports participation as well as involvement in sports committees.

By being involved in committees, I also learned skills such as handling meetings, negotiation, fundraising, administration, and so on. Sport at both levels also allowed me to be a person without feeling left out or negative.

In addition, I battled depression, so being in competitive sport helped me to be a better athlete through training, discipline and wellbeing. The achievements that came along with sports participation also made me realise the positive impact (despite the many ups and downs) and I wanted to give back to the young

Christiane Kassab, Wade Miller, Olivia Hall, Garry Everson, Irena Farinacci and Abbey Chatfield at the recent Active Deaf Kids sports clinic in Dubbo.

deaf and hard of hearing kids to encourage them to make a positive impact in their lives.

The pathways available for deaf and hard of hearing sports participants such as the Australian Deaf Games and Deaflympic Games helped to motivate my passion for basketball and aiming higher to become the best I could be. By setting high goals and a tough, disciplined training regime, I was selected to represented Australia at the 1997 and 2005 Deaflympic Games, and at the 2007 World Deaf Basketball Championships.

Why is there a need for this program, in your opinion?

Being deaf or hard of hearing is a challenge for many students, especially when trying to fit into social circles or classes at school. Many of them lack the confidence to express themselves or accept that they have a hearing loss; therefore this leads to feelings of isolation and depression. We all know that depression can be detrimental to our health, which often leads to having a sedentary lifestyle which then also leads to obesity through bad food choices.

Sports is the best vehicle in helping to break down these barriers and the Active Deaf Kids program does that through multi-sports clinics and bringing many deaf and hard of hearing students together.

I found through my experiences with sports participation, my confidence increased and I met many new friends which helped me feel less isolated.

Many deaf and hard of hearing students are also not aware of the additional pathways that are available to them such as the Australian Deaf Games, Asia Pacific Games for the Deaf and Deaflympic Games.

How did you get involved?

I became involved with deaf sports programs after

Many deaf and hard of hearing students are also not aware of the additional pathways that are available to them such as the Australian Deaf Games, Asia Pacific Games for the Deaf and Deaflympic Games. – World Deaf Basketball Champion Irena Farinacci

I completed school. I contacted the Victorian Deaf Society for more information about sports programs for deaf and hard of hearing people, which then led me to Deaf Sports Recreation Victoria. From that point onwards, I became involved in sports with many other deaf and hard of hearing peers which opened my eyes even further.

Since inception four years ago, how has the program been received?

The program has received positive feedback and most of it indicated the strong need to continue this type of program across the country, particularly in regional areas. We have reached over 2000 deaf and hard of hearing students to date, as well as provided role models including our ADK ambassador JamieLee Lewis who is also hard of hearing herself. She is the daughter of Queensland’s legendary rugby league champion, Wally Lewis. Coaches also have the opportunity to learn to work with deaf and hard of hearing students through multi sports clinics.

In terms of participation, what was the response in Dubbo?

Given it was the first time we held the ADK Multi Sports Clinic in Dubbo, we had over 15 students participate which was great. They are hopeful of many more clinics to come.

What is your motivation in terms of giving back to the sporting community?

My motivation stems from the experiences I felt when I was younger and isolated. I found that through sports, the isolation was greatly reduced. I also learned to be confident as a person through sport and I want to be able to give the young deaf and hard of hearing kids the same opportunity so that they can become more confident in themselves as well.

What are the benefits for the kids?

The benefits are wide-ranging. They get to meet other like-minded kids, try new skills, form new friendships and perhaps choose some sports which they could become involved on a long-term basis.

I understand that many children with hearing problems don’t tend to get involved in sports. Does confidence play a big part in participation?

Yes it does. I believe that the mainstream community think that having a hearing impairment is a bad thing which can affect the child’s self-esteem. Also,

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 22.05.2015 to Sunday 24.05.2015 a lot of people are not educated on how to communicate with people who have varying levels of hearing losses. Sports is a great way to bring deaf and hard of hearing people together as this does not necessarily involve lengthy conversations, just getting together to play sport and have fun.

Has the program opened doors for sporting newcomers who may not have realised their own potential otherwise?

Yes it has. I have seen many kids realise their potential and aim to become better athletes on the pathways that become available to them.

What are the rewards for you personally in seeing children reach their sporting goals?

It feels enriching knowing that I have somehow helped to make a positive impact on their lives. I always remember the smiles they have on their faces when they leave the clinics and wanting more. I feel good knowing they have walked away not feeling alone and having learned a few things through the program. This is why I love my job. » For more information about the Active Deaf Kids program, visit www.activedeafkids.org. au

Communication is a bit hard, particularly poor communication, but I use the entire referee signal. - Jonathan Powyer – the first deaf person to become a Level 4 touch referee.

Jonathan Powyer is the first deaf person to become a Level 4 touch referee At 36, Dubbo’s Jonathan Powyer has scaled the heights of his chosen sport. He plays touch football for the deaf national touch football and recently became the first person to become a Level 4 touch referee. Sport has always featured in his life and over the years, he has played rugby league, volleyball, netball and indoor touch. He’s been a referee for three years now and really enjoys the challenge. Not letting his hearing impairment get in the way of his skills, Powyer is a force on the field, using all his visual skills to watch the ball and player movements.

Although he loves what he does, Powyer said it comes with its challenges.

“Communication is a bit hard, particularly poor communication, but I use the entire referee signal,” he told Weekender.

On achieving Level 4 status as a touch referee, Powyer admits to being ‘shocked’ although ‘I did all the hard work to goal for level 4.’

He also hopes to continue his progress up the rankings of touch refereeing.

“I’d love to try for Level 5, the boys have been pushing me to do it.”

Oh yeah, it’s raining!

Mum’s sure to pick up her coffee on the way to daycare, and if I pull this cute face I’ll get my hot chocolate. Score!

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Official Opening of the Dubbo Show

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE official opening of the 142nd Orana Mutual Dubbo Show was held on Saturday, May 16, at 3pm.

Prior to the opening, members of the Dubbo Show society held a lunch for members of the community to meet the showgirl entrants, and the Show Society volunteers who help make the Dubbo Show happen each year.

Refreshments were provided and was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

Jane Diffey, Mathew Dickerson, Kate Warren and Kennedy Tourle

Les Clarke, Tim O’Brien and Troy Grant

Margaret McManus, Patricia Warrell and Lorna White

Graeme Board, Corrina Board, James Parnaby and Pip Job

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Legacy and the Ladies Probus

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE members of the Dubbo Macquarie Ladies Probus held their meeting on Tuesday, May 12, welcoming guest speaker Maurice Campbell.

Maurice is the chairman of Legacy in Dubbo, which provides ongoing support of widows of war and their dependants. He chose to speak to the ladies about the acts of remembrance and other war related topics, as well as the role of Legacy in Dubbo.

The ladies enjoyed morning tea and a hot drink, while attending their meeting.

Vera Jenkins, Dot Hattenfels, Jean Fields, Jill Irving and Pam Goodall

Back, Margaret Weber, front, Maurice Campbell and Dorothy Logue

Liz Lamble, Elizabeth Stanford and Jan Bennett

Joan Scott, Bessie Bewgalss and Babette Davis

Willa Hagarty, Peg O’Brien and Mollie McGuinn

Healthy Harold meets West Rotary

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE members of the Rotary Club of Dubbo West had a very special guest on Wednesday, May 13.

The members were excited to meet Healthy Harold, and CEO of Life Education, Jay Bacik. Healthy Harold visits 300,000 kids per annum, in 1400 schools in 13 countries.

Jay gave an animated presentation about the work of Life Education, including the ICE epidemic.

Jay Bacik, Gareth Howells, Harold Giraffe, Emma Howard and Lance Murphy

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Information night at Break Thru

BY KAITLYN RENNIE FAMILIES of clients at Break Thru People Solutions had the opportunity to talk to the staff and find out more about the programs people participate in on Wednesday, May 13.

Each program had a presentation explaining what they do and the importance of the program, allowing for any questions to be asked.

Break Thru People Solutions is a leading provider of employment, mental health, disability and training services, creating self-sustaining futures for the clients.

The aim is to improve the services through feedback provided by families.

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Celebrating the Seekers

BY KAITLYN RENNIE A celebration of The Seekers’ wonderful career, featuring Adelaide’s vocal group, The Beggars was staged at the Dubbo Regional Theatre on Friday, May 15.

The theatre was full with fans of The Seekers’ music, looking forward to seeing the modern band that is often compared to the original.

Since 2006, The Beggars have made country folk and pop music together, with a focus on the power of vocal harmony. Their songs have a clear Australian acoustic sound, and can often be seen on the Australian and European touring circuits.

Anne Wilson and Marg Rootes

Margaret and John Kelly with Bert Barwick

Alison Hume and Margaret Johnston

Marc Cottrell-Dormer, Gary and Bev Hayton

Bucky Tink and Karen Shearwood

Rosie Gibson and Lynne Shirlaw

Carol Boardley and Jill Rohr

Megan and Toni Hingham

Pam and Neville Floyd

Judy Pavey, Evan Elliott and Betty Elliott

Jean Richardson, Shirely Heller and Pat Sorensen

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Veldt is a new dining experience

BY KAITLYN RENNIE DUBBO’S newest dining experience has arrived! Veldt Restaurant, located on Bultje St, underneath the Quest Hotel, offers a contemporary Australian menu.

The restaurant celebrated its opening on Friday, May 15, with Dubbo Mayor Mathew Dickerson, Member for Dubbo Troy Grant and their partners attending.

The restaurant is currently open for breakfast and dinner, while thoughts of opening for lunch are being considered.

The new owners are looking forward to the exciting times ahead.

Troy and Toni Grant, Natalie Myers and John Morris

Kei Ota, Marilyn and Arnie Gould

Jody Barnes, Aaron McDonnell and Trish Morris

Andrew and Yvette McDonald

Katrina Dickerson, Natalie Myers and Mathew Dickerson

Mark Perry and Alyssa Reynolds

Rob Atkins, Hayley Atkins and Natalie Myers

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear New Sydney Wind Quintet ENJOY a concert of the very best music for wind instruments performed by an outstanding ensemble. The New Sydney Wind Quintet (pictured) was formed in 2004 and performs throughout Australia and Asia, as well as making regular appearances for the ABC and Musica Viva. Recognised as Australia’s leading wind quintet, the players are all members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and soughtafter teachers at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In addition to playing the standards of wind quintet repertoire by composers such as Mozart, Neilsen and Ravel, the quintet are well-regarded champions of Australian music.

Their technical accuracy and imaginative musicality is demonstrated on a number of recordings, including their critically acclaimed CD, Quintopia. Appearing at the Macquarie Conservatorium at 7.30pm on Friday, May 22. For interested participants, there will also be a schools concert Mother Goose meets Peter and the Wolf for children K-6 (families also welcome) at 10.30am on Friday, May 22.

A tribute to Cash Monroe Presley THE King said, “Show me the Cash” so we did!

A tribute to Johnny Cash, Marilyn Monroe and the King Himself: Elvis Presley. When Mark Caliguri and Joanne Evangelia portray these three prodigies of the legendary Sun Records recording sessions, it’s a recipe of dynamic showmanship. See them live at the Entertainment Lounge, Dubbo RSL Club from 11.30am on Sunday, May 24.

Mueva Los Heusos by the Australian Army Band THE Australian Army Band Kapooka has chosen a program of driving rhythms and fast tempos designed to get you ‘shaking your bones’ as they highlight popular dance music from the swing era, through to rock, pop and disco.

The band is based just outside Wagga Wagga and although they are primarily employed as a marching band at the weekly Army Recruit Training Centre march out parades at Kapooka, they are equally at home on stage, performing with some of Australia’s biggest names, Marina Prior, Guy Sebastian, Hugh Jackman.

In Dubbo, the band will be joined by ballroom dancers Joel Tongue and Cassandra Donnelly, both Australian DanceSport national champions. The concert will be held at Dubbo Regional Theatre from 7.30pm on Tuesday, May 26.

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A day for family historians with lots of tips and help researching your family history. Get started with Ancestry.com and find treasures in Trove. No bookings are required for this all-day event at Dubbo Branch Library on Monday, May 25.

FREE Legal Aid workshops about sexting, cyberbullying and privacy laws will be held at Dubbo Branch Library on Tuesday, May 26. Separate workshops are being held simultaneously for parents and young people, designed to help young people and their families to understand their responsibilities, know

their rights and know where to go if they need help. Contact the library for times and bookings.

National Simultaneous Storytime NATIONAL Simultaneous Storytime is an annual campaign that aims to encourage more young Australians to read and enjoy books. Now in its 15th suc-

cessful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy using an Australian children’s book. Come and take part in National Simultaneous Storytime and listen to ‘The Brothers Quibble’ by Aaron Blabey. To be held at Dubbo Branch Library from 11am on Wednesday, May 27. Contact Lindy Allan on 6801 4510 for further information.

do Yellow for Max DUBBO Rhinos Rugby Club are holding a fundraiser on Saturday, May 23 for local boy Max McIntyre – Yellow for Max. The Rhinos will be wearing a one-off jersey designed for Max which will be auctioned off that night at the Westside Hotel with live music by Paul ‘Irish’ McMillan to follow.

The day will also be a family day featuring free face painting and a jumping

castle for kids. The curtain-raiser for the main game and grand final rematch between Rhinos and Yeoval will be a future Mark Melville Cup game between the Rhinos under 7s and the Roos under 7s. The action begins at 12.45pm with a women’s rugby gala game.

Ten Pin Bowling THE good people at Make-A-Wish Australia’s Dubbo branch will be hosting a

family ten pin bowling evening at Dubbo Ten Pin Bowl on Saturday, June 13.

The fun begins at 5pm and includes two games of bowls and a light supper.

There will also be face painting, games, raffles, prizes and heaps of fun! Contact Shannon McDonagh on 0415 623 207 or Sharyn Hunter on 0427 843 246 for more information.

Proceeds will go towards helping grant wishes for children with lifethreatening medical conditions.

IDAHOT Prom

sented every Monday by the Wellington Buddhist Centre at the old Pipe Band Hall in Darling St from 1pm to 2pm.

Cost is by donation.

Please phone 6845 4661 or visit www.tharpachoeling.org for more information.

Stepping Stones

TO celebrate the international day against homophobia and biphobia, there will be an all-ages prom held at the Quality Inn, Dubbo from 6pm on Saturday, May 23.

The theme is famous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex characters and/or celebrities. RSVP to Nicholas Steepe on 0423 710 901 or 5852 1900.

etc.

Bubble soccer AFTER running bubble soccer as a funfilled recreational activity for the past 12 months, Dubbo Sportsworld soccer coordinator Wayne Burge has decided now is the time to introduce a regular 3 on 3 bubble soccer competitions to

be held on Wednesday evenings, with games commencing from 6pm. The competition begins this week.

Meditation: The Path to Healing BEGINNER meditation classes are pre-

JOIN the staff and friends of Stepping Stones Childcare Centre for their Biggest Morning Tea at 10am on Thursday, May 28. Munch on some treats, enjoy a cuppa and support the Cancer Council in the process!

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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 Ɵ ů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌ ǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵ ů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Į ƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

SHOPPING DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES

Open Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 3pm ŶƟ ƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

COFFEE & MEALS OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵ ů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ Ɵ ŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

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 ďĂŐƵĞƩ ĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮ ƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ Homemade pastas ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ Žī ĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ůů ĚŝƐŚĞƐ ĂƌĞ ŵĂĚĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌĞƐŚĞƐƚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ƚŽ ĞŶƐƵƌĞ ƚŚĞ Į ŶĞƐƚ Ň ĂǀŽƵƌƐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJ ŵĞĂů͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟ ŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE

Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-4pm 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽī ĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY

Open Saturday and Sunday

ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽī ĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

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 Žī ĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

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 ƐƚĂƟ ŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

Open Saturday 9am to 12pm. ŝƐƟ ŶĐƟ ǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟ ǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌ Ɛ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

CLUB DUBBO

&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

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday 8am to 10pm.

YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

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.

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Friday, May 22 The Crazy Ones

MOVIE: Moulin Rouge!

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

ELEVEN, 9pm

SBS ONE, 9.45pm, M (2001)

ABC, 8.30pm

Many will find it slightly macabre or unnerving to watch a series starring the late Robin Williams before his untimely death, especially since it only managed to clock up one season before being cancelled.

Sure, some fans might enjoy watching the revered comedian in one of his final roles, but the comedy itself is sadly nothing to write home about. From the usually golden hands of David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal), it stars Williams as Simon Roberts, the unpredictable owner of an ad agency, with Sarah Michelle Gellar as his daughter and work colleague, Sydney.

MGM shakes hands with MTV in Baz Luhrmann’s lavish romantic musical – an aurally and visually eclectic assault on the senses – set in Paris on the cusp of the 20th century. Idealist poet Christian (Ewan McGregor), transfixed by the bohemian wonder of an underground Montmartre nightclub, befriends painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo) and writes a play that thrusts him into a dizzying romantic dilemma with the club’s star attraction, Satine (Nicole Kidman). The audacious kaleidoscope of colours, costumes and sounds makes this an unforgettable, euphoric joyride.

There mightn’t be anything more ore enticing than tonight’s episode of this fun, flirty irty and proudly local crime-drama, titled “Murder der and Mozzarella”. It’s oozing with ith promise. Phryne (Essie Davis, right) investigates the tasty and d dark world of Italian restaurants ts when bad blood threatens to boil over after the death of a matriarch, Nonna Luisa. Soon, fearless and fabulous Phryne suspects a secret book of delicious recipes may be linked, d, along with a long-running war on the docks over canned produce. e.

Meanwhile, a suave Italian headwaiter is understandably taken by Phryne’s charms.

ABC

PRIME7

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 9: Creativity.

(R, CC) 11.30 Divine Women. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 1.55 Rake. (M, R, CC) 2.50 Agatha Christie’s Poirot.

(PG, R, CC) A Belgian detective investigates crimes.

4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) Quiz show.

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: Alone With A Stranger. (M, R, CC) (2001) A woman deals with a murderous twin. William R. Moses, Priscilla Barnes.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

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.

11.30 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) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Entertainment Tonight.

(R, CC) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(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 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, 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 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Eurovision Song Contest.

(PG, CC) 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 Inspector Rex. (PG, R) 4.25 Coast: The Riddle Of The Tides. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the team set up for a busy day at Exeter Cathedral.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Still Open All Hours.

(PG, CC) (Series return) Granville is forced into taking extra security precautions for the shop’s takings. Eric suffers a curious injury.

8.30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. (M, CC) Phryne investigates the world of Italian restaurants, after old grudges are stirred up by the death of a matriarch.

9.30 Janet King. (M, R, CC) After her maternity leave, Senior Crown Prosecutor Janet King returns to work tackling two tough cases. One involves a photographer accused of grooming a young girl and, the other, a Police Assistant Commissioner who admitted to giving his terminally ill wife a morphine overdose.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program.

11.00 The Business. (R, CC) 11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Pete visit the iconic Seidler House in the Southern Highlands. Tara and Adam team up for two massive declutters. Ed has healthy dishes packed with flavour.

Dr Harry meets a miniature pig named Coco and a shadow-chasing border collie.

8.30 MOVIE: Sweet Home Alabama. (PG, R, CC) (2002) A New York socialite returns to Alabama to divorce the man she married, and left behind, years earlier. Though she is determined to end her contentious marriage and move on with her life, she soon realises putting her past to rest may be far more difficult than she ever imagined. Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Candice Bergen.

10.40 House Rules. (PG, R, CC) It is judgement day in South Australia as the renovations are unveiled and the teams race against the clock to finish their zones. Hosted by Johanna Griggs.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 11. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Parramatta Eels. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

10.00 MOVIE: Hostage.

(M, R, CC) (2005) A smalltown sheriff is forced to confronts his former life as a failed hostage negotiator after a wealthy man’s family is held hostage by teenagers in their home. However, the situation becomes more complicated after it becomes clear that the man has been laundering money for a criminal syndicate. Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jonathan Tucker.

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) Miguel meets up with MasterChef Australia judge and chef George Calombaris.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with singer Kylie Minogue, and comedians Simon Pegg and Michael McIntyre. The lead singer of the Killers, Brandon Flowers, performs his single I Can Change.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Five comedians compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) A husband-and-wife team enter the shark tank, seeking investment from the entrepreneurs.

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 tackles popular recipes to create the perfect version of the dishes. After stops in Connecticut and New York, he heads back to his lab to attempt to create the ultimate hamburger.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Eurovision Song Contest. (PG, CC) Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang head to Vienna, in Austria, to provide commentary on the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest.

The first semi-final features artists competing for a chance to proceed to the final 25.

9.45 MOVIE: Moulin Rouge!

(M, R, CC) (2001) A young wannabe bohemian poet, living in 1899 Paris, falls for a beautiful courtesan who is coveted by a jealous duke. Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo.

12.20 Home Shopping.

12.30 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.30 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Dark City.

(M, R, CC) (1998) A man loses his memory. Rufus Sewell.

4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Good Wife. (M, R, CC) A police officer ends up in Alicia’s sights after he makes the mistake of targeting her son.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.05 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 13.

1.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) 2.25 MOVIE: Secret Sunshine.

(M, R) (2007) A woman’s life is thrown into turmoil by tragedy. Do-Yeon Jeon.

5.00 Korean News.

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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Friday, May 22 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.40pm Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) Action.

Chris Pine, Keira Knightley.

(M) Premiere

7.30pm Arrow. Oliver returns to Starling City. (M) FOX8

7.30pm JFK. A look at the life of John F. Kennedy.

(PG) History

7.50pm Football. AFL. Round 8. Geelong Cats v Carlton. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. Fox Footy

8.30pm They Came Together (2014) Comedy.

Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler.

The owner of a candy shop and a corporate stooge, sent to shut down her shop, begin an unlikely romance.

(MA15+) Premiere

7.30pm Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Things get down and dirty for Kim and Khloe when they find themselves in a mud wrestling match. (M) E! 8.30pm Max Richter Recomposing Vivaldi. Arts

8.30pm Rock Legends.

Explores the lives of Velvet Underground members and the band’s lasting influence on pop culture. (PG) Biography 11.30pm Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? (M) Discovery

8.00pm Cricket. First Test.

England v New Zealand.

Day two. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London. Fox Sports 3 9.30pm Tennis.

WTA Tour. Nuremberg Cup. Semi-final. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Coyote Ugly (2000) Drama. Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia. (PG) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 Grandpa In My Pocket. 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) 8.35 The Midwives. (PG, R, CC) 9.35 The Mega Brothel. (MA15+, CC) 10.25 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 11.10 Weight Loss Ward. (M, R, CC) 11.55 Daddy Daycare. (M, R, CC) 12.45 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 1.10 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 News Update. (R) 1.55 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. 9.10 Corneil And Bernie. (R, CC) 9.25 Oggy And The Cockroaches. (R, CC) 9.30 Move It Mob Style. (R, CC) 10.00 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 10.20 What I Wrote. (R, CC) 10.25 A Journey Through Asian Art. (R, CC) 10.35 The Art Of Australia. (PG, R, CC) 11.35 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 Heartland. (R, CC) 12.45 Round The Twist. (R, CC) 1.10 Ocean Girl.

(R, CC) 1.35 Bindi’s Bootcamp. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur. (R) 2.25 Pearlie.

(R, CC) 2.40 Hairy Legs. (CC) 2.50 Tashi. (R, CC) 3.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 3.50 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Grojband. (R, CC) 5.10 Doodles. 5.20 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 5.50 The Next Step. (CC) 6.15 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Heartland.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (CC) 8.55 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 Naruto. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.45 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 10.10 Close.

Stephen Amell stars in Arrow

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 DaVincibles. (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 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.15 Pie In The Sky. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Storage Hoarders.

Presented by Aggie MacKenzie.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Presented by Alistair Appleton.

9.30 House Wreck Rescue.

(PG) Hosted by Gary McCausland.

10.30 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG) 11.00 Best Houses Australia. (R) 11.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 12.30 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

(R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Handy Manny. (R) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (R) 8.30 Doc McStuffins. (R) 9.00 NBC Today.

(R, CC) 11.00 Motor Mate. (R) 1.00 Detroit Gang Squad. (M, R) 2.00 Big Easy Justice. (M) 3.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 4.00 Meat Men. (PG, R) 5.00 Turtleman.

(PG, R) 6.00 MythBusters: Aeroplane Special – Talked In To Land, Parachute Pandemonium. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the big match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 8. Geelong v Carlton. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 MOVIE: John Carpenter’s Ghosts Of Mars.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2001) Natasha Henstridge.

1.00 Detroit Gang Squad.

(M, R) 2.00 Scare Tactics. (M, R) 3.00 Big Easy Justice. (M, R) 4.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 5.00 Meat Men. (PG, R)

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. (R) 6.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. (C, CC) 8.00 Pyramid. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 9.00 Magical Tales. (P, 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 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Tom And Jerry.

(R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright. (R) (2013) Isabella Acres. 7.30 MOVIE: Shrek. (PG, R, CC) (2001) Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy.

9.20 MOVIE: The Green Hornet. (M, R, CC) (2011) 11.40 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.10 MAD. (M) 12.30 Regular Show. (M, R) 1.00 Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. (PG, R) 1.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. (R) 3.00 TMZ. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (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 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Supernanny USA. (PG, R) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 New Style Direct. 9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: The Iron Maiden. (R, CC) (1962) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 Tigers About The House. (PG, 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 and the team head to Wales.

8.30 MOVIE: The Untouchables. (M, R, CC) (1987) A Treasury Agent sets out to catch Al Capone. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery.

11.00 MOVIE: Armored.

(M, R, CC) (2009) 1.00 MOVIE: Rasputin: The Mad Monk. (M, R, CC) (1966) Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley.

2.45 MOVIE: Victoria The Great.

(R) (1937) Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook. 4.50 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 5.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. Replay. 10.00 City Fringe. (PG, R) 11.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 12.00 The Glades. (M, R) 1.00 Rush. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Black Ops. (M, R) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 ET’s Fishing Classics. (R, CC) 4.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 5.00 Fishing Edge. (R) 5.30 iFish.

(R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 World’s Toughest Trucker. (PG, R) The truckers take on the BR163 road.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Join dedicated police officers as they patrol the streets of big cities across the US. 9.30 MOVIE: A Certain Justice. (AV15+) (2014) A man rescues a prostitute from some pimps. Dolph Lundgren, Cung Le. 11.35 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.35 Home Shopping.

2.05 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Middle East. (M, R) 4.00 Sport Science. (PG, R)

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. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Taxi. (PG, R) 12.00 Medium. (M, R) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (M, 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) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 New Girl. (PG, R) 9.00 The Crazy Ones. (M) (New Series) Follows the adventures of a group of ad executives.

9.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) 10.10 Sex And The City. (M, R, CC) 10.40 Sex And The City. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.10 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.40 Wonderland. (M, R, CC) 12.40 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.05 Judging Amy. (M, R) 2.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Medium. (M, R) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

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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) 4.45 Vs Arashi.

(R) 5.35 Massive Moves. (R, CC) 6.00 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Daily highlights.

6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment: Rock ‘N’ Roll Drums. (CC) (New Series) Presented by Tim Ferriss.

8.30 Geeks. (PG) Eight nerds head to Malia.

9.30 Eurovision Song Contest.

(PG, R, CC) Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang head to Vienna.

11.45 Conchita’s Way To Eurovision. (M, R) 1.05 Friday Feed. (R) 1.40 PopAsia. (PG) 3.40 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 Around The Campfire. 10.30 Kriol Kitchen.

11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 Burned Bridge.

1.30 Kings Seal. 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 Kriol Kitchen.

7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Rose Against The Odds.

(PG) 8.30 I Heart My People.

(PG) Narrated by Aaron Pedersen.

9.00 Go Girls. (M) Britta suffers a devastating loss.

10.00 By The Rapids. (PG) 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 12.00 Away From Country. (PG) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2.30 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Football.

2011 Lightning Cup. Warren Creek v Plenty Hwy. 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) 7.30 News Special: Getting A Grip On Drought. (CC) 8.00 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. 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. 5.00 BBC World News.

5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

ABC NEWS

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Saturday, May 23 Live At The Apollo

MOVIE: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

ABC2, 9.20pm The Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in West London has had many a star tread its boards since it opened in 1932 and this long-running comedy series brings us the best of the best.

Each week, some of the UK’s best gather to make us laugh and they never disappoint. You don’t need to have heard their names to guarantee a chuckle, giggle or outright guffaw, but when the line-up includes the likes of Lee Nelson, Paul Chowdhry, Stewart Francis and Danny Bhoy, among others, as it does tonight, it won’t take long before you’re clutching your sides in hooting hysteria.

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SBS ONE, 9.45pm, M (1975) An ode to deviants and drag queens everywhere, Richard O’Brien’s film adaptation of his ludicrous stage show (in which he appears as RiffRaff) retains its sheen, but has lost much of its shock power. By liberally mixing endless homages to ’50s horror films, old-time rock ’n’ roll tunes with a twist and deliberately bad acting, a bona fide cult classic was born. Big, noisy, campy fun, to be enjoyed with a group of likeminded people. The cast features Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf and Tim Curry who steals the show as Dr Frank-N-Furter.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 For The Love Of Cars.

(PG, R, CC) 12.55 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona heads to Exeter Cathedral.

1.55 The Restaurant Inspector. (R, CC) 2.40 Nigellissima. (R, CC) 3.10 River Cottage Veg Every Day. (R, CC) 4.00 Still Open All Hours.

(PG, R, CC) Eric suffers a curious injury.

4.30 Saturday Landline.

(R, CC) 5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A teenager is attacked while eloping.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 World’s Strictest Parents.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Winnie The Pooh.

(CC) (2011) Winnie The Pooh believes Christopher Robin is kidnapped. Jim Cummings.

2.30 MOVIE: Freefall: Flight 174. (PG, R, CC) (1995) An airliner loses both engines. William Devane, Shelley Hack.

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 Food CIA. (PG, CC) 12.30 Australian Geographic Adventures. (CC) 1.00 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 1.30 The Making Of Woman In Gold. (PG, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Loch Ness.

(R, CC) (1996) A scientist investigates the Loch Ness monster. Ted Danson.

4.00 Deep Water. (CC) 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 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday 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 The Talk. (PG, 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 Summer Night Concert.

(R) 3.40 Hopper Stories. (R) 3.45 Contact. (PG, R, CC) 4.20 Tim Marlow’s Virtual Gallery. (R) 4.25 The Century Of Le Courbusier. (CC) 5.25 Who Do You Think You Are? Alan Cumming.

(PG, R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Provides down-toearth advice for the home gardener from host Costa Georgiadis and his team of experts.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) A murder at the local army barracks leads Father Brown to investigate a 13-year-old case.

8.20 DCI Banks. (PG, CC) After Annie discovers that Martin Harford’s confession is missing, Helen believes she has the evidence she needs.

9.05 Scott & Bailey. (M, R, CC) Scott and Bailey break their four suspects’ silence and discover the truth.

Rachel swoons over Sean.

9.55 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) Hosted by Charlie Pickering.

10.25 Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey. (PG, R, CC) Having discovered the joys of yoga, Judith chats with university lecturer Phil Stevens and the founder of Shadow Yoga.

10.55 The Moodys. (M, R, CC) (Final) The wedding day arrives.

11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Jurassic Park. (PG, R, CC) (1993) Two dinosaur experts are invited by an eccentric millionaire to preview his new amusement park which features real life dinosaurs. However, after a major power failure occurs, the creatures break loose and the visitors, including the owner’s two grandkids, go on the run.

Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum.

9.30 Miniseries: Catching Milat. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

After the bodies of backpackers are discovered in Belanglo State Forest, the New South Wales police form a task force to search for the killer.

11.20 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) Murray goes on the warpath after Beverly makes the mistake of replacing his favourite chair.

11.50 Dual Suspects: Hollywood Homicide.

(M, R, CC) Documents the investigation into the murder of popular Swiss society photographer Roland Kuster.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: The Bucket List.

(PG, R, CC) (2007) After a corporate mogul and a mechanic wind up in the same hospital room, the two terminally ill men decide to bust out of the cancer ward and live their remaining days to the fullest. Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes.

9.00 MOVIE: Man On Fire.

(M, R, CC) (2004) A jaded former assassin working as a bodyguard in Mexico seeks revenge on the gang who kidnapped the child he was hired to protect.

Denzel Washington, Radha Mitchell, Dakota Fanning.

6.00 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda 2.

(PG, R, CC) (2011) A panda and his friends fight a villainous peacock that intends to take over China with the aid of a secret weapon. Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman.

7.45 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Bondibased vet Dr Chris Brown travels to the Cook Islands, to work with a clinic in Rarotonga. He soon learns how hard it is looking after injured animals with only basic facilities and limited supplies.

8.45 MOVIE: The Internship.

(M, CC) (2013) Two salesmen, feeling lost in the new digital workplace, try to prove they are not obsolete by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google. However, they face some serious competition in the form of a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses. Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Josh Gad. 11.10 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Five comedians compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Eurovision Song Contest. (PG, R, CC) Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang head to Vienna, in Austria, to provide commentary on the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest.

The second semi-final features artists competing for a chance to proceed to the final 25.

9.45 MOVIE: The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

(M, R, CC) (1975) After becoming lost in the rain, a newly engaged couple seek refuge in a bizarre castle owned by a mad, transvestite doctor. Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick.

11.35 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 14.

Treviso to Valdobbiadene.

59.4km individual time trial. From Italy. Hosted

by Michael Tomalaris and Henk Vogels with commentary from Matt Keenan and David McKenzie.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.50 Home Shopping.

12.00 MOVIE: Pride And Glory.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2008) Edward Norton.

2.30 MOVIE: Every Little Step.

(M, R, CC) (2008) Bob Avian.

4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

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12.10 48 Hours: The Millionaire, The Model And The Hitman. (M, R) The story of millionaire Dino Guglielmelli.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

1.30 MOVIE: About Her Brother. (PG, R) (2010) Ryô Kase.

3.45 Wellington Bomber.

(R, CC) A look at the building of bomber planes.

4.55 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey Bitesize.

5.00 Eurovision Song Contest. (CC)

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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Saturday, May 23 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

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6.25pm The Heat (2013) Comedy. Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy. An FBI agent and a cop bring down a drug lord. (M) Comedy

6.30pm Hart Of Dixie.

Shelby gets sick before BlueBell’s talent show.

(M) FOX8

7.30pm A Great Welsh Adventure. Exiled Welshman Griff Rhys Jones goes back to his roots to explore his homeland. (G) History

7.20pm Football. AFL. Round 8. Hawthorn v Sydney.

From the MCG. Fox Footy

8.30pm Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie (2014) Comedy. Brendan O’Carroll.

(M) Premiere

7.35pm Grey’s Anatomy.

The doctors of Seattle Grace recall the terrible events at the site of the plane crash.

(M) SoHo

8.30pm Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2014) Sci-fi.

Gary Oldman, Keri Russell.

Human survivors fight an ape empire. (M) Action

9.30pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

(PG) E!

ABC2/ABC KIDS

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.00 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5.

(R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 Grandpa In My Pocket. 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. (CC) (Final) 9.20 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 10.05 The IT Crowd. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Louie. (PG, CC) 10.55 Louie.

(M, CC) 11.15 Portlandia. (PG, R, CC) 11.40 Archer. (M, R, CC) 2.05 News Update. (R) 2.10 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) 5.05 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) (Final) 5.20 Waybuloo. (R, CC) (Final) 5.40 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.20 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 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: Revenge Of The Island. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.50 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.10 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 11.35 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.25 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Grojband.

(R, CC) 2.20 Spectacular SpiderMan. (R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Wacky World Beaters.

(R, CC) 3.40 Studio 3. 3.45 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 4.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) 4.40 Detentionaire. (R, CC) 5.30 Operation Ouch! (R) 6.00 Mr Stink.

(R, CC) 7.00 Heartland. (R, CC) 7.45 My Great Big Adventure. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 10.25 Degrassi. (R, CC) 10.50 Close.

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 Creek To Coast.

(CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender.

(R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 Coxy’s Big Break. (CC) 2.30 SA Life. (R) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 10. 5.00 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) 5.30 Life On The Edge. (PG) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 Cities Of The Underworld: Scotland’s Sin City – Edinburgh.

(PG, R) Host Eric Geller looks at Edinburgh.

8.30 Taggart. (M, CC) A research student is found dead.

10.00 Wire In The Blood. (AV15+) Dr Green investigates some mysterious deaths.

12.00 Four Rooms. (PG, R) 1.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 3.30 The Kitchen Job. (PG, R) 4.30 Country Calendar. (PG, R) 5.00 Animal Academy. (PG, R) 5.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC)

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. Di Candilo Steel City Silver Cup. 11.00 Zoom TV. (PG) 11.30 Timbersports. 2014 World Championships. Team relay event. Highlights. 12.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 1.00 North Woods Law. (PG, R) 2.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 8. GWS v Adelaide. 5.00 Athletics. Wings for Life World Run. 6.00 Turtleman. (PG, R) Ernie Brown Jr deals with a furry intruder.

6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the big match.

7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 8. Hawthorn v Sydney. From the MCG. 10.30 MOVIE: Coming To America. (M, R, CC) (1988) Eddie Murphy.

1.00 MOVIE: Gone Baby Gone.

(M, R, CC) (2007) 3.30 Athletics. Wings for Life World Run. 4.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7.30pm Treehouse Masters.

(PG) Discovery 8.30pm King Of Thrones.

A couple in the middle of renovating their home need a bathroom for their basement recreation room. (PG) Discovery

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (PG, 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) 3.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG, R) 3.30 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 5.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Yogi Bear. (R) (2010) 7.40 MOVIE: Escape From Planet Earth. (PG) (2013) Brendan Fraser.

9.40 MOVIE: Rush Hour 2.

(M, R, CC) (2001) Jackie Chan.

11.40 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.40 MOVIE: The Virginity Hit. (MA15+) (2010) Matt Bennett.

2.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (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 MOVIE: The Iron Maiden.

(R, CC) (1962) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 Destination WA. (PG, CC) 9.00 MOVIE: The Sound Barrier. (PG, R, CC) (1952) 11.20 MOVIE: I’ll Take Sweden. (R) (1965) 1.20 Postcards.

(CC) 1.50 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen.

2.20 MOVIE: Kim. (R, CC) (1950) Errol Flynn. 4.40 MOVIE: On The Beach. (PG, R) (1959) Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) The team investigates after the sister of a famous Cuban singer is found murdered.

10.30 The Mentalist. (M, R, CC) Jane pursues another suspect.

11.20 Golden Boy. (M, R, CC) A star basketball player is murdered.

12.20 MOVIE: Orders To Kill.

(PG, R, CC) (1958) Eddie Albert.

2.25 MOVIE: Kim. (R, CC) (1950) Errol Flynn.

4.30 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 5.30 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R)

8.00pm Tennis.

WTA Tour. Eurosport 8.00pm Cricket. Test Match.

England v New Zealand. Day 3.

From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London. Fox Sports 4

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Netball.

ANZ Championship. Round 12.

Melbourne Vixens v West Coast Fever. Replay. 10.00 Garage Gold. (R) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (PG, R) 11.00 4WD Touring Australia. 12.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. Replay.

1.00 World’s Toughest Trucker.

(PG, R) 2.00 Motor Racing. Dunlop V8 Supercar Series. Round 3. 3.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.00 Merv Hughes Fishing. 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 5.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) A conspiracy theorist is murdered.

9.30 Blue Bloods. (M, R, CC) Danny investigates a student’s death.

10.30 Ross Kemp: Middle East.

(M, R) Part 2 of 2.

11.30 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.00 The Killing. (M, R) 1.00 48 Hours: Who Killed Amy Gellert? (M) 2.00 NYC 22. (M, R) 3.00 Cops.

(PG, R) 4.00 GT Academy. (R) 4.30 GT Academy. (PG, R) 5.00 GT Academy. (R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 4.20 MasterChef Australia. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Debra is upset with Ray. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (R, CC) Guests include Kylie Minogue, Simon Pegg, Michael McIntyre and Brandon Flowers.

9.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R, CC) A famous artist visits Charlotte’s gallery and invites her to his Connecticut home.

10.00 Sex And The City.

(M, R, CC) Carrie has a photo session to promote her book.

11.05 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie worries about her relationship.

11.35 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.05 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

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 Mysterious Cities Of Gold.

(PG, R) 2.00 Kung Fu Changed My Life. (PG, R) 3.00 American Ninja Warrior. (PG, R) 4.00 Monster Moves. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Departures. (PG, R) 6.00 Cycling.

(CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia.

Daily highlights. From Italy.

6.30 Heston’s Feasts. (R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers: South Africa. (PG, R, CC) Presented by Charley Boorman.

9.30 Eurovision Song Contest.

(PG, R, CC) Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang head to Vienna.

11.45 MOVIE: Lasting. (MA15+) (2013) 1.25 MOVIE: The Desert Within. (MA15+, R) (2008) 3.30 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 Kriol Kitchen. 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review.

12.30 Football. NEAFL. 2.45 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. Current affairs show.

7.00 Lurujarri Dreaming.

7.30 Roots Music. (PG) 8.30 NITV On The Road: Yabun.

9.30 Marley Africa Road Trip.

(PG) 10.30 The Blues: The Road To Memphis. (PG) The story behind blues music.

12.00 Volumz. (PG) Music program featuring interviews.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 News Special: Getting A Grip On Drought. (R, CC) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 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 News. (CC) 6.30 Foreign Correspondent. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (R, 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 Big Ideas. (PG, R) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 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 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 2305

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Sunday, May 24 MOVIE: Bowling For Columbine ABC2, 8.30pm, M (2002) Michael Moore is behind this profoundly disturbing documentary, unearthing the awful truth behind one of the most serious social issues affecting the US: guns. Moore’s revelatory findings pack enough heat to leave you moved beyond words.

Using the Columbine High School massacre as a focal point of his research, the tubby everyman traces America’s firearm follies through alarming facts and figures, scrutinising the media, corporations, politicians and various celebrities (including a surprisingly articulate rocker Marilyn Manson). One of the most important films in decades..

ABC

MOVIE: Seven Pounds

Miniseries: Mapp & Lucia

GEM, 8.30pm, M (2008)

ABC, 7.40pm m

Director Gabriele Muccino and Will Smith (and much of the same crew) again join forces after The Pursuit of Happyness with a moving tale of a man trying to make amends for past wrongs. Smith plays Tim Thomas, who causes a car accident that kills his fiancée and six other people.

Trying to make amends, he adopts the identity of his brother to help seven strangers (including Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson and Judyann Elder) by donating several organs. Initially confusing, the emotional ending nicely ties up any loose ends to produce a wellrounded, emotional tearjerker. Bring the tissues.

Adapted by Steve Pemberton from E.F. Benson’s collection off novels, this enjoyable three-part series takes aim at the pretentious behaviour that hat often accompanies people embedded bedded in small towns. Mapp & ts from a splendid ensemble Lucia benefits cast of eccentric ntric characters but the performances ces of Miranda Richardson (right) and Anna Chancellor in the titular roles alone offer more than enough to make it welll worth watching. Vying for social supremacy emacy in the quirky English town wn of Tilling, their entertaining g exchanges make for compelling ompelling viewing in a 1930s world seemingly based on pettiness and nd gossip.

PRIME7

WIN

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 Malala: Life After The Taliban. (PG, R, CC) 2.35 Norman Mailer: The American. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House? Nelson Grange. (R, CC) 4.30 Country House Rescue.

(R, CC) 5.15 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

11.00 Camp. (PG, CC) As a record-breaking heat wave descends on Camp Little Otter, everyone tries their best to keep cool.

12.00 To Be Advised.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike checks out the hot spots of Alexandria. Lisa catches up with House Rules contestants, Steve and Tiana.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 The Checkout.

(PG, R, CC) An irreverent and entertaining look at consumer affairs.

6.30 Compass: Whatever Happened To The Maharishi? (CC) A look back at some of the religious and social movements continues with a focus on Indian guru, Maharishi Yogi.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Miniseries: Mapp & Lucia. (PG, CC) Part 1 of 3.

Over the course of a summer, two women jockey for social supremacy in a quaint, English town.

8.40 Poldark. (PG, CC) Mark’s growing suspicion that Dwight and Keren are having an affair, triggers a chain of events which could have tragic consequences.

9.40 Top Of The Lake. (M, CC) Robin and Al find Zanic dead, his house ransacked and a suicide note pinned to the table.

10.40 Miniseries: Devil’s Dust.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Documents the struggle to bring manufacturer James Hardie to justice, in the issue of asbestos-related illness.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 House Rules. (PG, CC) After a week of tears and tested relationships, judgement day arrives for the most emotional renovation so far. Hosted

by Johanna Griggs.

8.50 Miniseries: Catching Milat. (M, CC) Part 1 of 2.

After the bodies of backpackers are discovered in Belanglo State Forest, the New South Wales police form a task force to search for the killer.

With the help of forensic evidence and tip-offs from the public they eventually arrest Ivan Milat.

10.50 Castle. (M, R, CC) Castle and Beckett try to come to terms with the consequences of her recent career and relationship decisions, against the backdrop of a high-stakes investigation involving the theft of codes. The appearance of Alexis’ new free-spirited boyfriend has Castle on edge.

11.45 Cougar Town. (PG, CC) Ellie helps Andy get revenge after loses his mayorship. Grayson fills in as a music teacher.

12.10 Junior Doctors: Your Life In Their Hands.

(M, R, CC) 1.10 Celebrity: Dominick Dunne. (M, R, CC) 2.50 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) 3.50 Top Of The Lake.

(M, R, CC) 5.00 Best Of Collectors. (R, CC) 5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

12.15 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) Hosted by Ken Sutcliffe.

NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Hosted

by Tim Faulkner.

Reno Rumble. (PG, R, CC) A decision made by team captains Michelle and Steve fails to impress the judges.

Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 11. Canberra Raiders v Canterbury Bulldogs.

From GIO Stadium, Canberra.

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, 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 Let’s Do Coffee. (PG, CC) 1.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 2.00 iFish. (R, CC) Hosted by Paul Worsteling.

3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew Bolt.

4.00 RPM. (CC) Hosted by Matt White.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Eurovision Song Contest. (CC) 8.45 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) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 UEFA Champions League Magazine. (CC) 4.30 World Of Cycling.

(CC) Hosted by Michael Tomalaris.

5.00 The Bike Lane. (CC) (New Series) 5.30 The Hollywood War: The Case Of The Century. (PG, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Reno Rumble. (PG, CC) With the Red Backs struggling, the Blue Tongues are frustrated when they can not find what they are looking for to give their bathroom the winning edge. Afterwards, the 72-hour challenge culminates in another elimination as the teams meet host Scott Cam to find out their scores.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

9.30 MOVIE: Horrible Bosses.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2011) Three friends conspire to murder their bosses, who they are convinced are standing in the way of their happiness.

In order to avoid suspicion by the authorities, they agree to “swap” targets so as to ensure it seems none of them have the motive for committing the crimes.

Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis.

11.30 The Following. (AV15+, CC) As Joe grows accustomed to his surroundings, he establishes a plan of his own. Emma realises she is in dangerous company.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Claire and Phil decide to spy on Luke and Manny as they are hanging out with a questionable friend. A furious Gloria is upset with Jay because she thinks he has been dreaming about other woman. Mitch finds out Cam has been using him as an excuse to avoid attending a party.

7.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) (Final) After being detained in Seattle on a business trip, Phil attends Alex’s graduation party via Skype.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) Maggie Beer returns to the MasterChef kitchen as the 19 contestants face another mystery box challenge.

9.10 The Odd Couple. (PG, CC) Oscar and Dani become stuck on the subway. Felix takes over at his yoga class.

9.40 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Race 6. Monaco Grand Prix. From Circuit de Monaco. Commentary from Matt White and Alan Jones.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Eurovision Song Contest. (R, CC) Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang provide commentary on the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest from Vienna, Austria.

Australia competed for the first time this year, with Guy Sebastian singing Tonight Again in the hope of winning the prestigious competition.

11.30 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 15.

Marostica to Madonna di Campiglio. 165km high mountain stage. From Italy. Hosted by Michael Tomalaris and Henk Vogels, with commentary from Matt Keenan and David McKenzie.

12.30 Almost Human. (M, CC) 1.30 Anger Management.

(M, CC) 2.00 The Strip. (M, R, CC) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) News and current affairs program.

4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.00 48 Hours: Fall From Grace. (M, R) A look at the death of Bethany Deaton.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show.

1.30 MOVIE: Gomorrah.

(AV15+, R) (2008) The story of Italy’s crime families. Gianfelice Imparato.

3.55 Snow In Paradise.

4.05 Atanasoff: The Father Of The Computer.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

11.00 1.00 1.30

3.30

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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GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

8.30pm Fury (2014) War. Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf.

(MA15+) Premiere

6.00pm Cougar Town. (M) SoHo

6.30pm World’s Wildest Police Videos.

(M) Crime & Investigation

4.30pm Football. AFL. Round 8. Port Adelaide v Richmond. From Adelaide Oval. Fox Footy

10.35pm The Day After Tomorrow (2004) Sci-fi. Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum.

A climatologist must try to save the world after a sudden ice age engulfs the Earth. (M) Action 10.50pm Deliver Us From Evil (2014) Horror. Eric Bana, Olivia Munn. A police officer joins forces with a priest to combat crime. (MA15+) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train.

(R) 3.20 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Rabbit And Squirrel Adv. (R) 5.20 Octonauts And The Amazon Adventure. (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. (PG, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Bowling For Columbine.

(M, R, CC) (2002) 10.25 The Mega Brothel. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.15 Tattoo Tales. (M, R, CC) (Final) 11.45 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends.

(M, R, CC) 12.35 Woody Allen: A Documentary. (M, R, CC) 1.55 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. (PG, R, CC) 2.25 News Update. (R) 2.30 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) 5.05 Louie. (R, CC) 5.15 Iconicles. (R, CC) 5.40 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 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) 8.55 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama: Revenge Of The Island.

(R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.15 Slugterra. (PG, R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.50 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.10 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 11.35 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Mortified.

(R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep.

(R) 12.30 The Next Step. (R, CC) 2.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (R, CC) 2.45 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 3.15 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 4.20 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. (R, CC) 4.30 Roy. (R, CC) 5.00 Studio 3. 5.05 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 5.30 Bushwhacked!

(R, CC) 6.00 Gangsta Granny. (CC) 7.10 Heartland. (R, CC) 7.55 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 8.25 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 8.55 Splatalot.

(R, CC) 9.20 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.25 Rage. (PG, R) 2.00 Close.

7.00pm Mike & Molly.

After Molly leaves town for a teachers’ conference, a distracted Mike goes on a junkfood binge to cope. (M) TV1 8.30pm A Place To Call Home. Anna reveals her secret to Gino. (PG) SoHo

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 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) 1.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 3.30 Life Inside The Markets. (PG) 4.00 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 4.30 Four Rooms. (PG, R) 5.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) Teams visit the Staffordshire County Showground.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Alistair Appleton heads to Cumbria.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. Nick Knowles heads to Bristol.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

Presented by Gary Takle.

11.00 Mighty Ships: Oasis Of The Seas. (R, CC) A tour of the MS Oasis of the Seas.

12.00 Four Rooms. (PG, R) 1.00 Neighbours At War. (MA15+, R) 1.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 2.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Downsize My Pet. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

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 Lights Out. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Triathlon. Ironman 70.3 Busselton.

1.00 Footy Flashbacks. (CC) 2.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 3.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 8.

Melbourne v Western Bulldogs.

From the MCG. 6.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) Jerry yearns for a massage from his new girlfriend.

7.00 MOVIE: Men In Black.

(PG, R, CC) (1997) Tommy Lee Jones.

9.00 MOVIE: Men In Black II. (PG, R, CC) (2002) A secret agent enlists his former partner. Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith.

10.45 MOVIE: Cloverfield.

(M, R, CC) (2008) A monstrous creature attacks New York City.

Mike Vogel.

12.30 MOVIE: Arctic Predator.

(M, R, CC) (2010) Erbi Ago. 2.30 Repo Games. (MA15+, R) 3.30 Repo Games. (M, R) 4.00 Pimp My Ride. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R)

7.30pm The Secret Life Of Dogs. A celebration of man’s best friend. (G) Animal Planet 7.30pm Tony Robinson’s Tour Of Duty. Dunedin locals show off memorabilia. (PG) History

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (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. (PG, R) 11.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob SquarePants. (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 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG) 6.00 MOVIE: Cats & Dogs.

(PG, R, CC) (2001) 7.40 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) The gang gathers for Thanksgiving.

8.40 Gotham. (M, CC) Gordon is reassigned to Arkham Asylum.

9.40 Arrow. (M, CC) Oliver heads to Corto Maltese.

11.40 The Originals. (AV15+) 12.40 Nikita. (AV15+, R, CC) 1.30 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 2.30 The Batman. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (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. (PG, R, CC) 6.45 MOVIE: Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (PG, R, CC) (1966) 8.30 Danoz.

9.30 MOVIE: Law And Disorder.

(R, CC) (1958) 11.00 MOVIE: Our Miss Fred. (PG, R, CC) (1972) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Splendour In The Grass. (PG, R, CC) (1961) 4.00 MOVIE: Blood Alley.

(PG, R, CC) (1955) John Wayne.

6.30 River Cottage: Christmas Special. (PG) Hugh hosts a full-on festive feast.

7.30 World’s Most Pampered Pets. (PG) A look at glamorous pets.

8.30 MOVIE: Seven Pounds.

(M, R, CC) (2008) An engineer with a fateful secret sets out to change the lives of seven strangers.

Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson.

11.00 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Weekend Aristocrats.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Danoz Direct.

3.00 Global Shop.

4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway.

(PG, R, CC)

8.00pm Motor Racing.

World Rally Championship.

Rally Portugal. Stage 3.

Fox Sports 1 10.30pm Cycling.

Giro d’Italia. Stage 15.

Valdengo to Montecampione.

225 km mountain stage.

Eurosport

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 9.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 4WD Touring Australia. (R) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 13. Adelaide Thunderbirds v West Coast Fever. 2.00 Car Torque.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 3.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 The Greatest Wildlife Show On Earth. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 What’s Up Downunder?

(R, CC) 5.30 iFish. (CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) Follows cops on the Gold Coast.

9.00 Territory Cops. (PG, R, CC) A look at the Northern Territory Police.

9.30 MOVIE: The Patriot.

(AV15+, R) (2000) A plantation owner joins the War Of Independence.

Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger.

12.50 Sons Of Anarchy. (AV15+, R) 1.50 RPM. (R, CC) 2.55 NYC 22. (M, R) 4.00 Black Ops. (M, R) 5.00 48 Hours. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (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. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 8.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Homer is hypnotised during a show.

8.30 MOVIE: The Beautician And The Beast. (PG, R) (1997) An ambitious beautician falls for her boss. Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton.

10.40 Californication. (MA15+) 11.20 Nurse Jackie. (MA15+, R) 12.00 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (New Series) 1.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 2.30 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 4.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 5.00 Shopping.

Courtney Cox stars in Cougar Town

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 Mysterious Cities Of Gold.

(PG, R) 2.05 Foodie Planet. (PG, R) 3.00 Bunk. (PG, R) (Final) 3.30 Eurovision Quiz Contest 2014. (R) 5.05 Vs Arashi. (R) 6.00 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Daily highlights.

6.30 The Bike Lane. (CC) 7.05 Benidorm Bastards.

(PG, R) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) The boys vie for new consoles.

9.00 The Birthday Boys. (M) Sketch comedy series.

9.30 Housos. (MA15+, R, CC) Franky searches for a jumping castle.

10.00 Pizza. (M, R, CC) (Final) 10.30 The Perfect Vagina. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.30 Eurovision Song Contest. (R, CC) 3.30 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.

Grand Final. Melbourne Victory v Sydney FC. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater.

(PG) 1.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 2.30 Unearthed.

2.45 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.45 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 4.45 The Black Olive. 4.50 Custodians. 5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Jess Mauboy’s Road To Eurovision. (PG, CC) 7.00 Native Planet. Hosted by Simon Baker.

8.00 The Deerskins. (PG) 8.30 Born To Run. A look at Jamaican athletics.

9.30 MOVIE: Rabbit-Proof Fence. (PG) (2002) Three Aboriginal girls trek across the Outback. Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury.

11.00 Sitting Bull: A Stone In My Heart. (PG) 12.00 Volumz. (PG)

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They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

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1. Omnipresent (10) 2. Sorcery (5) 3. Tip (4) 4. Gratitude (6) 5. Part (8) 6. Routine (7) 11. All (10) 13. Indecent (8) 14. Tasteless (7) 16. Encroach (6) 17. Clump (5) 20. Stack (4)

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CRYPTO-QUOTE >> AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW: One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each week the code letters are different.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) A few chance comments by friends have set you thinking of pastures new.

Perhaps it is possible to make more of your talents and contacts? At times you feel excited, at other times there are doubts. Take a practical look at the whole situation. As long as you stay realistic and within budget there should be few worries in the longer term. A romantic relationship is strengthened as you share thoughts and hopes for the future. Finding new things to do together adds to this.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Bring forward things that you can make progress on rather than worry about what you can’t move along with. Everything has its time and place. If in doubt about the timing of an event, step back and give yourself a chance to think. If you don’t ask for what you want then you may never get it. On the other hand, asking for too much too soon could put someone off. It’s a sticky question but don’t get bogged down with it.

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Perhaps they need action but perhaps you just need to let go. In some situations there is a time when you have to decide that your best has been done and no further progress can be made. This is not a time to feel that you have failed. It is a time to realise that you can be more of an asset elsewhere.

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) There is a

lovely warmth about you this week.

It not only makes you feel good but has the potential to inspire others.

As people are drawn to you there is the potential to generate some extra cash. This can be just the right time as young people could be draining resources. Finding a balance between work and home could be difficult. Spend some quality, quiet time with a loved one and explain your schedule. Don’t automatically think that it will be a problem as others are very supportive.

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Someone quite exciting could try to lead you astray this week.

Trust your instincts. A simple approach is going to be the best. Healthwise you may be concerned about a friend or relative. Your own needs are rather more spiritual and may need the input of someone older and wiser. Small problems sorted out now will stay small. Going along with a long-running situation causes very little stress and gives you time to work out a plan.

people increase your finances and bring some fun into the everyday.

Someone who you dismissed as a waste of time shows that they have hidden talents. A love interest seems to be going really well. However, you may decide that it is not for the long term. That doesn’t mean that their company is not both enjoyable and a great deal of fun. Partnerships that may have been a little sluggish get moving again. One in particular starts to take on a more serious note.

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of growth this week shows more potential for the longer term rather than quick results. That needs a bit of patience just at a time when you are keen to get moving. However, as others see your ability to stay in control and remain enthusiastic, they also will learn something.

Romantically it is necessary to show your feelings a little more than usual. Someone who needs reassurance will be looking in your direction. Perhaps all that they need at this time is for you to listen.

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is a forward-looking time when it is possible to chance several areas of your life. Be inquisitive about everything and everyone and it is surprising what comes up. Plans that you made for a break some time ago may need changing and it is better to do this sooner rather than later. The time seems right to start something new. Rather than putting your trust in others, trust yourself. Quite often you underestimate both your talents and your potential for leadership.

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Aussie actress Jacki Weaver (above) who turns 68. Working with a partner can really see you streaking ahead now. The winter months ahead in particular bring many growth spurts. That said, it is even more important to look after your health and wellbeing, Gemini.

What others see as a cool approach this week could be down to a disappointment. As you cannot always please others, so they can sometimes fail to please you. Although you prefer to demand high standards, this can sometimes make your life more difficult. It is easy to get used to someone else dealing with things in our life. What is needed from you now is a show of independence. This will bring you more respect that you can know.

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Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! By improving your knowledge in the months ahead you also improve your opportunities. With the kind of practical intelligence that you are blessed with, some plans are more than viable. Gemini, be open-minded.

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Someone close who seems to be nagging is probably only trying to help. Be tactful but don’t waste their time by just being polite. A colleague or neighbour who thinks that you can do a job better than someone else could be right. Do you have enough confidence to tackle it? Remember that fortune favours the brave. When it comes to a proposition, look at the long-term possibilities. Would you be so keen six months down the line if no progress had been made?

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Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Gemini, in a year when boundaries need pushing back, you can be in the forefront. Although you often do not value your own opinions and ideals, you are so wrong. Where leadership is needed, be ready to step forward.

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new friend can be very beneficial to you in the future. Just now, though, you may feel that you do not have time for them. Arranging something for the future means that there is time to consider the options. Just saying ‘no’ could be an opportunity lost. Do you have a super plan?

Does it mean blowing a hole in your finances? Think again. There is some muddled thinking around and the potential for a big mistake. Look at arrangements carefully before getting involved. Check insurance details and update as necessary.

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ing last-minute meetings and invitations can be quite a gift to you this week. Usually a quieter time, some developments may catch you unawares.

So forewarned you are! Keep that sunny smile and a helpful attitude. Refuse to panic, safe in the knowledge that you can cope with anything. It is very comforting to others. What a mixed bag of a week! One day you pull a cream bun out of the bag and another a hissing snake. Still, you never wanted a boring life, did you?

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Taking a personal situation too lightly could see you having to defend your position, Gemini. Although needing to pay attention to work matters, also keep an eye on what is happening at home. Work and life balance is very important.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Chances come quickly and you need to be ready and organised when they do. Gemini, you can be a little bit too relaxed at times. Actively seek progress and make the most of those amazing charms. You do know how.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! This is a time when you will need to make your own opportunities, Gemini.

Your chances of success are best if you can work with others on a common goal.

Spend more time with younger people and realise what fun they can be.

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Chiropractors Can Get Your Happy Back Spinal Health Week 2015 runs from May 25 to 31 and this year the chiropractors at Carter Chiropractic and Dubbo Acupuncture are encouraging you to “Get Your Happy Back”.

“Every day more and more Australians experience disabling low back pain, neck pain and headaches, limiting their ability to work and engage in an active healthy life,” said chiropractor Dr. Adam Carter.

“Most musculoskeletal aches come from the habits we’ve adopted from our everyday tasks. When our joints are compromised from repetitive, incorrect movement or adopting a sedentary posture, it causes biomechanical maladaptation through our daily routine.

Poor posture increases the pressure

other areas of your body which can then lead to lower back pain, neck pain, headaches and fatigue,” said chiropractor, Dr. Li-Jen Wong.

Lower back pain is a growing problem and now ranks second in Australasia and seventh in the world according to the World Health Organisation’s latest Global Burden of Disease study. Neck pain is also problematic ranking ninth in Australasia and 21st in the world.

Chiropractic care focuses on restoring proper biomechanics between body structure (primarily the spine and pelvis) and function (as coordinated by the nervous system) and how this relationship can restore and maintain health to prevent from compromising

your daily activities.

Australian chiropractors are government registered and regulated health professionals. Through their extensive five-year university training, chiropractors are uniquely positioned to help Australians improve quality of life through measurement in their activities of daily living. Chiropractors are required to adhere to strict and extensive educational requirements and standards to become registered health professionals in Australia.

During Spinal Health Week 2015 make an appointment at Carter Chiropractic and Dubbo Acupuncture for a spinal

health check-up and discover what steps you can take to improve your heath and wellbeing and Get Your Happy Back.

You can also visit www.spinalhealthweek. com.au to learn more about chiropractic care and Spinal Health Week 2015.

Spinal Health Week 2015 is a national initiative of the Chiropractors’ Association Australia (CAA).

GET YOUR HAPPY BACK Call Carter Chiropractic to book in for a spinal screening!

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