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Feeding the machine HERE’S something to be said about living a real, simple life.

Consciously seeking as it were, fewer choices.

Imagine for example, a world without 50 shades of butter, or not having to choose just one of them, or, better yet, having the time available to dedicate research into unpronounceable ingredients to make an informed choice, beyond the fall backs of ‘price’, ‘diesel miles’ or ‘is it Australian made’.

The rise of the Palaeolithic diet – food fit for a caveman (or, for lack of political correctness in the stone-age that probably should read, ‘food fit for a non gender specific cave dweller’), it is a sign of our complex Time.

Faced with the rush of modernity and a technological revolution, which frankly is storming the Bastille of our traditional ways of thinking – like Airbnb and Uber – and undoing it all faster than we can say, ‘No Trump for President’ – it is only natural, we look back.

This makes the palaeo diet seem extreme; considering the trend does not just turn back the clock on our food by 100 or so years, to source healthier options; it’s gone pretty much back to the dawn of time, when walking upright was the latest trend and you ate what you sourced with your bare hands, or you starved and died, and there was no in between.

It’s a complete one-eighty on the situation we face today, where there is no risk of starvation, in the true sense of the word.

There’s plenty to eat, even if technically its not “food” and we’re starving our bodies of a sufficient supply to serve the complex combinations of vitamins and minerals our bodies need to be healthy and survive.

Our age of plenty and abundance is probably a cave dwellers dream. Imagine him or her lying back on their rock couch, watching the latest charcoal painting on the wall; ever aware of that familiar, empty knot in their stomach, then planning a “food shop” by locating the nearest stand of trees to fashion a spear, smash some rocks to make a spearhead, wind thread made from a marsupial’s tail which you have to catch first, learn how to tie knots for the first time in human history to build their tool, track a wild animal for days, kill it then carry it home for miles, at the risk of being some other creature’s dinner; when he or she, if alive today, could just call out for pizza with their biggest exertion being to reach for the mobile phone and select Dominoes from speed dial.

Today, we don’t worry in our First World list of concerns, that we might starve and die; but we worry, we might eat too much and of the wrong things, then die.

Not necessarily from the consumption of the amounts of food, but the underlying problems modern, processed, industrialised, commercialised and share market driven food is causing.

Diabetes, heart disease and arthritis are ingredients of the contemporary food chain.

As illogical as Donald Trump being president of the USA or eating off meat, because we know they’ll both make us very ill, food today is making Australians sick.

Walking time bombs, with man boobs, muffin tops and beer guts.

These are body-shaming phrases, which are

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indeed cruel and unusual, but they are new concepts, born from the linguistics of a modern day, First World, disease.

Dubbo has one of the highest rates of obesity in Australia.

Eight out of 10 adults present as obese and while the City may be fit for the future the population most certainly isn’t.

There are several articles in this week’s edition, which draw attention to this contentious issue, (see Lisa Minner’s profile on Commando Steve, my 2x2 with Paul Roos and Adam MacDougall on The Man Challenge and a news article featuring obesity expert, Prof. Ian Caterson).

Obesity is contentious because while the medial industry is preparing to act, they are still deciding the best way to tackle a problem, which is not just here; it’s already an epidemic.

Socioeconomic factors play a big part and while corporate food producers simply by nature of their business models, can not possibly hope to genuinely act fast enough to address their role in correcting their food wrongs; policy makers can certainly consider the broad reaching knock on effects when addressing poverty, or living below what used to be fittingly called ‘the bread line’.

Healthy food choices cost money. Without money, you are then limited to stretch your dollar across a broad choice but stuck at the Obesity is bottom end of the health contentious spectrum.

Fried fast food, over because while processed meats, packaged cereals are a chem- the medial ical experiments to feed industry is the family and exacerbate the pressures of liv- preparing to ing poor, often already act, they are a struggle due to poor mental health, unem- still deciding ployment, vulnerabil- the best way ity to exploitation and to tackle a simple things like the ability to concentrate problem, or feel happy and con- which is not fident within yourself, because your brain is in just here; it’s constant battle with in- already an gested toxins.

In the long term, the epidemic. health bill for governments racks up en par with the profits supermarket chains post, to cater for the fall out of appalling diets to treat the heart disease, the diabetes, the cancers.

While the solutions are as complex as our body’s needs, and getting back to the basics is great start, tackling obesity, particularly for Dubbo, will take a community effort, to fight it on all sides, through health education yes, but also addressing the real capacity for people to rise out of poverty and put real food within their reach. Supermarket chains clearly have a role to play in the feeding of the masses and instead of posting billion dollar profits would do well to make the best food affordable and give people a real choice, if right now all they can afford doesn’t even pass as food at all.

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Counselling service cuts and expansion an opportunity to do more

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

ESS than three months on from a Federal Government announcement that will see free rural financial counselling services across the country forced to reform, the head of the current Central West service is optimistic the changes will provide opportunities for them to do more.

The changes have come from a Commonwealth directed review of the Rural Financial Counselling Service (RFCS) in May 2014, that assessed the agricultural and fisheries sectors’ need for the service, the effectiveness and efficiency of the program and its future role.

The RFCS has been providing free advice to farmers and small rural businesses in severe financial distress since 1986.

While the government agreed with the majority of the review’s 33 recommendations either in full or in part, including ongoing support for the program, two of those recommendations rejected included a 20 percent reduction in funding and mandating single state providers.

Yet, Rural Financial Counselling Service NSW Central West Inc. (RFCS-CW) chief executive officer, Jeff Caldbeck says the position they’re now in after a boundary extension is they’re now working out how to service over half of the State with less than half their former budget.

While offices will close and staffing numbers reduced over coming months, Caldbeck says as of April 1, when the changes kick in with a range of Commonwealth and State funding sources of varying timeframes, they’ll initially start with 13 counsellors – a reduction of four positions.

“The funding arrangement is predominantly based on the number of farmers in each area.

“Initially the National Rural Advisory Council report identified there should be a change in the funding regime and the Government agreed to that...that they would fund based on the number of farmers.

“There’s a small percentage of weighting based on hardship and debt ratios but 80 percent of the funding would be based on the number of farming enterprises.

“Obviously the western area is always going to have a lesser number of farming enterprises because of the size of the properties compared to say the North Coast.”

While RFCS-CW has always had an active client load, in the 10 years Caldbeck’s been with the service he’s

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Jeff Caldbeck, CEO Rural Financial Counselling Service NSW Central West Inc. PHOTO: KIM V. GOLDSMITH

seen obvious spikes in demand due to drought and natural disasters.

He sees contestable funding being made available to the counselling services as a potential source of funding to help deal with these spikes in demand when things such as floods hit the region, but that financial model won’t be without its problems due to the time it takes to train counsellors and integrate them into communities.

Hubs are being developed at Dubbo, Bourke and Forbes, and with State funding a full-time counsellor will be based at Broken Hill and a coordinator appointed to help manage what will cover 52 percent of NSW. Cowra, Lake Cargelligo, West Wyalong and Coonabarabran are four existing offices that will be closed by their respective services because the newly extended Central Region service won’t be able to service them.

Coonamble, Orange and Parkes of-

fices will also close while the Mudgee, Walgett, Gilgandra and Tottenham offices will remain open for a transitional period until the new Central Region RFCS fully adopts a model of service delivery where fewer counsellors are able to service a greater area with the help of technology.

“Moving forward the adoption of technology means you can probably do more for a lot more people, if we can get people to adopt it with us.

“For example, I’d like to instigate during times of emergencies – things like floods and fires when there’s a natural disaster declaration – the ability for farmers to be able to ring in on a hotline at night to get their questions answered immediately.

“We now also have a lot of social media so we’re faced with wanting to see more adoption of that and video conferencing, so we can Skype with clients.

“The issue in our area is the tyranny

` Moving forward the adoption of technology means you can probably do more for a lot more people, if we can get people to adopt it with us.”

– Jeff Caldbeck, RFCS-CW CEO

of distance is prevailing...meaning if a counsellor has to travel three hours to see a client and three hours back after spending three hours with a client, that’s a nine-hour day with just one client.

“There’s no begrudging that but if we could Skype for three hours then there’s six hours still available.”

Caldbeck says the future of the service is dependent on adopting technology and he’s hopeful the rollout of NBN satellite services will make this process easier across the western reaches of the organisation’s footprint.

From April 1 a new 1800 number will also be introduced that will enable the service to utilise Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology to connect callers from across the State with counsellors in the field.

“We’re trying to adopt as much new technology as possible to ensure no one misses out.

“We’ve got to address the way we’ve traditionally done business and this is by necessity the opportunity to look at creating a better service delivery over a larger area.

“There won’t be a lack of service delivery as we’ll be pushing to make sure people are serviced.”

The RFCS number as of April 1 is 1800 940 404.

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Obesity weighs on minds of health professionals

BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY JOURNALIST

XPERT on obesity, Professor Ian Caterson, director at The Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders, at the University of Sydney, visited Dubbo this week to address participants in the Dubbo Region Obesity Project (DROP Study), and, to attend a grand rounds at the Dubbo Base Hospital.

The DROP study is a collaboration between the University of Sydney’s School of Rural Health in Dubbo, the Western NSW Medicare Local / Western NSW Primary Health Network, GPs, obesity specialists, nutrition and physical activity experts, health psychologists and the wider healthcare community.

In part, the study was formed in response to the statistic that the number of obese residents in Dubbo – eight out of 10 adults – represents the highest in New South Wales.

“It’s one of the high one’s throughout Australia. Interestingly enough they’re rural areas and the difficulty with rural areas is the usual management side, of things; it is difficult to do,” Caterson told Dubbo Weekender.

“On a day like today, it’s hard to get out and do your one hour’s walk, isn’t it?” he said, in reference to the 40 degree heat on Wednesday, February 24.

Economics also plays a role.

“There is a socio-economic gradient. Certainly in poor-

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Professor Ian Caterson, director at The Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders, at the University of Sydney, addresses doctors during a grand rounds at the Dubbo Base Hospital.

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er parts, – in part – that is because of the type of work, the cost of food and the availability of food.

“If you look at the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney where they’re educated, wealthy; there’s much less obesity and people overweight than in Dubbo. That’s in the sense, probably because they have the money, the time and they’ve thought it through.

“So in the Eastern Suburbs you’ve got lots of money to buy things you want to eat, the right things to want to eat. If you don’t have the money and you’re trying to feed your five kids, it’s not so easy,” Caterson said.

Nationally, the effects of obesity are widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading health concerns.

The obesity problem in Dubbo, needs to be addressed through a cohesive, holistic approach, Caterson said.

“The health system needs to

start integrating – because obesity underlies diabetes, sleep apnoea, arthritis, a whole range of things – but if we could all get together, and say, ok, as part of all this, we’re going to manage obesity – which will help the diabetes, which will help the arthritis – then we can get the system to do better.

“Similarly GPs are in between and they have a really important role to play and that’s where the DROP Study program is sparking interesting and involvement, and for them, finding things in your local community here, which will help them help people who are looking to trim a bit of weight off,” Cater-

son said.

Professionals involved in the DROP Study have undertaken a range of activities.

“Just like the routine measurement of blood pressures, we are working towards routinely measuring people’s weight, height and waist circumference during consultations,” said DROP Study lead researcher, Dr Ai-Vee Chua.

“We will be helping those of our patients who are interested to do so with plans for healthy eating, physical activity and maintaining motivation. On a wider scale, we hope to be able to develop and implement strategies for health and wellbeing

that are relevant to our local communities,” Chua said.

The collaboration has tackled issues such as health behaviour change, how to help patients with motivation, practical tips for healthy eating and recommendations from the national physical activity guidelines.

“The DROP Study has provided some additional tools to help make it easier for our local healthcare professionals and their teams to effectively assist people with tackling the sensitive and often difficult issue of weight management,” Chua said.

Incidences of obesity, are however, on the rise.

“It’s been a gradual change over years and we’re still increasing in weight, but there is an increase in awareness that we need to do something but we haven’t quite grappled with the fact of what we need to do.

“People are still looking for magic, just like dropping your cholesterol with a tablet, but in their individual weights more and more people are facing up to their weight and making changes,” Caterson said.

` It’s been a gradual change over years and we’re still increasing in weight, but there is an increase in awareness that we need to do something but we haven’t quite grappled with the fact of what we need to do. - Professor Ian Caterson

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The week’s top stories from around the region

Good intentions don’t guarantee good outcomes diet largely containing processed foods.

That’s not to mention all the chemicals we seem to add to our food supply these days, where people need all sorts of hazard suits to apply these sprays, yet we happily consume it through our mouths.

Meantime, while we’re eating ourselves to death, let’s be thankful the NSW government is the first in almost living memory to actually build a crazy number of new hospitals around the place, with news this week that planning for Mudgee’s new hospital is progressing well.

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNLIAST

HEN I was a kid I liked nothing more than playing with fireworks, rockets and generally shooting holes in objects and blowing things up.

While myself and my mates had a few close scrapes I’ve generally held the view that many of the rules and regulations which have increasingly been put in place to keep up safe have taken away a lot of the fun in life.

But pipe bombs, by their very nature of being a metal tube, are very dangerous items indeed.

Don’t take my word for it... powders While we’re on police issues, I see we no longer have any need to fear because a new ‘non-vigilante’ group has formed in Dubbo, with the stated aim of providing additional eyes and ears on the street to help out our outnumbered police.

I can understand the motivation to get involved.

I’ve gotten involved on numerous occasions and while I believed my intentions were noble, this involvement never worked out too well – for me.

I well remember a knock on the door at 9:30 one evening, opening it to find some police who wanted to question me for attempting to take matters into my own hands.

I hadn’t done anything illegal, but trying to resolve issues yourself can lead to unfortunate situations.

Like the incident in Wellington years ago when a few civilians were patrolling with police and, after they’d arrested an alleged offender, one of the civilians wanted to fight the bloke and ended up getting bashed, and so the story came out and resulted in serious court action, and not against the alleged offender.

Suppose someone on one of these evening patrols is staring into the darkness looking for thieves so intently that they run over a little kid because they’re not watching the road? Who would know where that would end?

I’m all in favour of people supporting police by reporting suspicious activity but there is a line that has to be drawn these days.

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Dob in a dealer IT’S great to see the Dob in a Dealer program, which began in Wellington last year after locals stood up against ICE dealers, is being rolled out nationally.

No dealer can be immune in their own community, the gossip is out there.

I was at a drug bust in Narromine years ago and it had been a six month long undercover investigation, all highly top-secret squirrel.

We walked in to a local shop to get a feed and a lady asked what we were doing in town.

When I said the name of the bloke

Why are we using glyphosate?

Western NSW Local Health District chief executive, Scott McLachlan, and Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier, Troy Grant met this week to discuss the development of Mudgee Hospital.

who’d been raided, she said, ‘Oh, they busted his meth lab’.

There really is no substitute for local knowledge, but bear in mind the cops need to satisfy the courts’ overwhelming need for evidence just to get a search warrant, and that often involves scarce out of town undercover operatives coming from another area, getting into the local scene and making some recorded buys – that doesn’t come cheap or easy, and it often takes time to act on information.

But well done Wubbo, Wubbington or Dubbington – seeing as we’re soon to be one, Dubbo had better grab a bit of the credit due to you.

See how DCC has steered the acknowledged mind-set to focus on Dubbington?

Car thieves busy IN Dubbo we’re seeing plenty of cars stolen and torched in recent times and from my experience, it’s probably a crime wave being caused by a very few individuals who are possibly on bail for other offences, and guilty of many more we don’t know about.

Across the state the police focus on motor vehicles has been to curb the amount of road smashes, fatalities from police pursuits and generally a road toll that has skyrocketed in recent times despite all the education and proactivity in recent years aimed at driving it down.

Every place goes through these localised crime spikes and we need to calm down, help the police with any information and heavily scrutinise the local court proceedings so we know the small group of people generally causing these problems aren’t given a green light despite repeat offences.

Thumbsup to Jetgo and Spanline A COUPLE of nice little tidbits before we get back to the grind of the bad-news cycle we perpetually seem to live in these days, even though ISIS apparently isn’t going to take over the world this year after all.

Thumbs up to Jetgo, what an amazingly pleasant organisation it is to deal with.

Every interaction I’ve had, including a flight to Brisbane, has been amazing; what a great asset for our city.

I had to book some Jetgo tickets to fly one of the world’s leading aquaponics’ experts to a workshop I’m helping organise in Narromine next Monday for Landcare Group Macquarie 2100.

I’ve also had to organise some material to build the system which is going to be installed at Timbrebongie house for the use and enjoyment of the aged care residents.

I needed a sheet of polystyrene and couldn’t find any at outlets in Narromine or Dubbo so called into Picton Brothers Spanline where they not only cut me a piece to measure, but refused to take any money for it as it’s a community project.

Well done Luke Donnelly, great service and fantastic to see you’re putting back into community projects.

Community projects This aquaponics project is also going to benefit Narromine High School. Students studying agriculture were keen to build a system, now they’ll not only have one of the best in the world teaching them how it all works and free of charge, they’ll actually get to build the Timbrebongie system on the day.

So this is a great example of positive community outcomes across the board; from Trangie’s Ben Smith who’s donating a clean IBC ‘shuttle’ to serve as the fish tank, the aged residents will get to grow their own fish and veges with no expense and minimum labour, and the ag students will get a master class and set up something for following classes of students when it comes to sustainable production.

Processed food dilemma IF everyone had access to such clean fresh food maybe it would start winding back the chronic health problems which have coincidentally hit western humanity at the same time we began eating a

I SEE Dubbo City Council are still going to use glyphosate to clean up weeds around town, even though the World Health Organisation (WHO) last year ruled that chemical was probably a contributor to cancer in humans.

This is extraordinarily concerning, because Round-Up, the chemical which uses glyphosate as an active ingredient, has become probably the most widelyused weed control system in much of the world.

I started seeing concerns about RoundUp years ago and even now plenty of people want to fight you for daring to criticise it, but we need to use real independent science to gauge the risk of toxic chemical use, and not rely on the paid corporate science supplied by the people making all the money from selling the products.

It’s also a concern that the potential effects of chemical cocktails, where more than one type is used, are poorly understood, and the toxicity potential of thousands of those combinations is mindboggling.

Ring road plans I SEE DCC is finally looking at a potential ring-road as something which could be of use to the city.

I think all councillors and staff should have to drive a B-Double through the alleged highways which run through our city, at peak hour, and then tell us if the current situation is good enough.

If we have our civic leaders telling government we won’t need a ring-road until 2035, well guess what – we won’t get one then, but the State and Feds may start considering the issue.

We need to push hard to get some of the state’s impending $6 billion dollars from the sale of the poles and wires and get Dubbo’s name out in front to be on the list for major bypasses.

I have a lot of skin in the game here, both as a former truck driver and as someone who has a block of land near where any potential bypass may be built, but a great idea is a great idea.

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SEVEN DAYS

Friday 26.02.2016 to Sunday 28.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender cially and climate-wise, each year.

Congratulations to new chair Tim Carroll, a Cudal mixed farmer who’s focussing on working out ways for younger people to get on the land.

This has been a creeping, sleeping problem which has seemed so intractable that policy makers and everyone else has left it in the ‘too hard basket’, but there’s plenty of seriously smart and passionate people working on potential solutions at the moment.

Without young people on the land, smaller communities break down socially, as well as economically and environmentally, so this isn’t just a ‘cocky’ problem, if the drift away from family farms continues we’ll end up with a few corporates employing as few workers as they can, and imagine if it gets to the fly-in, fly-out stage, where no-one works where they live.

Congrats also to vice chair, Jo Newton, a genetic researcher who grew up in the city, I’m working on a project with her and she’s as passionate as anyone I’ve ever met when it comes to the land.

It’d be great if she could genetically ‘enhance’ everyone in the cities so they understand how important it is to have a vibrant and profitable regional Australia.

To that end, it’s great to see NSW Farmers basing its first Young Farmers Project Officer in Dubbo, it’s great to have someone with a dedicated focus on the sorts of issues that were raised at the conference, rather than swallowed up in general farmer business.

Now onto the current climate, how’s this heat wave weather at the moment?

Some of our brightest young farmers will no doubt be attending the acronym-heavy CCRSPI (Climate Change Re-

and events have to be in the public domain and others are just spam.

One which caught my eye was Dubbo City Council’s ‘Planning for the future of the CBD’ press release.

This is about ‘four specific action areas in the Dubbo Central Business District Precincts Plan which is now in the final stages of development’.

The draft plan includes four implementation programs: establishing an Ignite Placemaking Program to implement many of the community’s bright ideas, a fast track approvals program to cut unnecessary red-tape, infrastructure improvements and development incentives to make things easier.

I think it’s a great idea to collate the community feedback from the Ignite consultations but we should already be cutting unnecessary red-tape and encouraging positive development, it’s sad to think council needs to be told to do that when the ratepayers have been paying them to make that happen already.

One major concern I have is that the US term ‘precinct’ has been dusted off for this plan – the last time I remember precinct being used was for council’s Camp Road Tourism Precinct strategy which has been an unmitigated disaster and debacle all rolled up into one.

Ok, that’s a bit tongue in cheek, but at least it sounds like city hall is trying to listen, let’s hope positive things come of this.

NSW Young Farmers in Dubbo A CHANGE of pace and it was great to see the NSW Young Farmers in Dubbo because farmers have to be at the forefront on working out how to survive in a world which seems to get tougher, finan-

to fly back to Australia, what a cowardly excuse for an alleged man.

My reading of the situation is that he’s made many Catholics (like me) wonder what the hell they’re doing sticking by the church.

Whether he’s guilty of any of the alleged offences or systemic cover-ups, he is a piece of garbage pretending to be a human and history will judge him harshly.

Get on your bike and get back here you gutless wonder.

Speaking of bikes, from tykes to bikes...

Newly elected NSW Young Farmers chair, Tim Carroll, and vice chair, Jo Newton was voted into office during the NSW Young Farmers annual conference in Dubbo, last week.

search Strategy for Primary Industries) Conference slated to be held in Sydney in April.

You know, having done so many stories on Peter Andrews and his Natural Sequence Farming system over the years, I know it works, I know it would rehydrate the nation’s soils, I know a bountiful abundance of plants and biodiversity would act as an air conditioner on a landscape scale – so why, when all the international science is finally in telling us that it works, are we not just doing it.

Is it because it’s pretty cheap and there are no corporate sales to be had?

Yep, that’s why: so instead we’ll fry.

Speaking of rhymes: Pell, Pell, is he guilty as hell?

What a crock of crap that he’s too sick

DUBBO has made great strides in recent times when it comes to cycling paths but it’s a vexed issue when it comes to the behaviour of people.

I’m a keen cyclist, though fallen at the moment (not literally) and have a strong belief that the sport/recreation/transportation aspects are amazing for all sorts of reasons.

But people on both sides of equation spoil things for everyone.

I’ve been riding on our roads and called down the wrath of the city’s latest vigilante group to enact mayhem on the person of some particular drivers, the ones who were born missing any shred of consideration in their gene pool.

I’ve also been hugely annoyed at idiot cyclists riding on the road-side of the Dubbo cycling paths two or three abreast, yarning like they don’t have a care in the world.

The only reason you don’t have a care in the world is because motorists like me have resisted the primal urge to give you a jolting reason to worry about your behaviour.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 26.02.2016 to Sunday 28.02.2016 So to all the idiots who drive cars and ride bikes, thanks – you’re the ones who’ve caused the new nanny state laws to be even brought into consideration.

Wellington man lit fires SPEAKING of alleged idiots, a 46 year-old Wellington Rural Fire Service volunteer has been arrested for allegedly lighting fires.

This is an age-old syndrome, where some people love the egotistical aspect of uniforms and get off on responding to emergencies.

I remember a fire captain in Victoria years ago was regarded as something of a local hero because he’d done up a series of ‘bushfire threat plans’ and seemed to have second sight because they were all needed over a couple of seasons.

Community acclaim diminished somewhat when he was charged with starting all those fires in the first place.

Old mate from “Wello” has been charged with lighting two fires, one last December and more recently, a blaze at ‘The Falls’ last Sunday.

If we used Peter Andrews’ landscape management techniques to rehydrate the country, the land would be so moist that fires would find it much more difficult, if not impossible, to get a foothold.

Solar Irrigation Field Day While I‘m on the subject of wet, a huge thanks to the Lower Macquarie Groundwater Irrigators Association (LMGIA) for chipping in to pay the costs to stage a solar irrigation field day on two Narromine properties next month.

Pumping water is a huge impost thanks to high power or fuel costs these days and because of that there are plenty of shysters getting in on the act, trying to sell farmers overpriced or underperforming solar pumping systems – think pink batts rip-offs.

This field day will enable farmers to talk to two locals who’ve already done the research hard yards, so they can find out information first hand from people not trying to sell them anything.

Experts from all sorts of government agencies will also be there to provide advice along with NSW Farmers reps.

AMIDST all the bad, there’s always good news Well, good for some anyway.

St Vincent de Paul Society is currently demolishing the old housing on the corner of Brisbane and McLeay Streets at the old St Faith’s site to build affordable accommodation for seniors.

This is a huge bugbear of mine, and I think we have so much red tape at all levels of government which is making aged care housing ridiculously expensive.

This development is incredibly central, and it’s great to see the old A-Frame church will be kept as a community centre.

So this is a great move and long overdue for Dubbo.

The tinge of sadness for me is that I used to rent that house which had 21 bedrooms and nine bathrooms, and we often had up to 15 people living there, so it was party central.

Lucky they’re knocking it down because believe me, the seniors wouldn’t want to hear those walls talk.

I’M getting sick of all the amalga-

mation talk, it’s like an election, you just can’t wait for it to be done and dusted.

Negative gearing: despite the protests from the industries which make bucketloads of money from this, it has to go, along with all the perks for the superwealth from superannuation scams and tax avoidance and profit-shifting from multinationals.

GREAT to see celebrity Indigenous chef Mark ‘The Black’ Olive will be back in town come August.

I did a yarn with him a lot of years ago when he cooked some native delicacies

for a group of students at Delroy Campus and he really is a living national treasure.

He’ll be a guest for TAFE Western’s Bangamalanha Conference.

We currently see less than 100 distinct food groups on our supermarket shelves and, as evidenced by the obesity epidemic and other rising chronic health problems, we’re pretty much eating ourselves sick.

Australia boasts something like 6000 distinct food groups, so it would be a huge benefit to the nation in all sorts of ways if we could take a leaf out of the Black Olive’s cookbook.

The sheer amount of positive and

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worthwhile jobs which could be unlocked in Aboriginal communities across Australia would be mind-blowing all by itself.

But instead we’ll just keep going with the same top-down bureaucratic programs which haven’t worked year after year blah blah blah. z China trade day z Mark the black olive z Pilcher’s reserve lock-up z Architects outback, western program, not that much more expensive z Alcohol lock-out program

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NEWS.

Friday 26.02.2016 to Sunday 28.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Biting at the of Chinese regi HOPPING, for fashion in particular, is high on the list of things to do in Australia for Chinese tourists according to a statement by the National Retail Association (NRA) based on Australian Retail Index figures showing sales were up 6.88 per cent during the recent Chinese New Year celebrations compared to the same week in 2015 when the important Chinese calendar event fell at a later date.

NRA chief executive Trevor Evans said retailers were in a unique position to gain a greater slice of the tourism pie as travellers from China flock to Australia.

Around 10,000 international visitors a year come to Dubbo, directly contributing approximately $10M annually according to Natasha Comber, manager City Development and Communications, Dubbo City Council.

“Around 80 per cent of that market is leisure.

The Chinese market does not list in the top five international markets for the City, so unfortunately

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Wujiang delegates, Shen Zhensong, Xuan Jianguo, Zhang Ming, front row, interpreter Jessica Zeng, Han Meiling and Zhang Ming. PHOTO: DCC SISTER CITIES

The inaugural Chinese Tour Group. “Feedback from the client was very positive and we are hoping to do more with them in the future. This project, and its success clearly demonstrated Dubbo has the product to meet the needs of the market – and through effective collaboration, and effective marketing there will certainly be opportunity to grow this market.” – Natasha Comber, manager City Development and Communications, DCC. PHOTO: DUBBO CITY COUNCIL

I don’t have the percentage of the market, but it would be less than 5 per cent,” she said.

Ranking as the highest overall spenders among inbound tourists to Australia, averaging $8,616 per person – an increase of 17.0 per cent – Chinese visitors on average visit Australia for six weeks.

Accordingly, Dubbo City Council does have a strategy to capture a slice of the lucrative market.

“The City’s Economic Development Strategy identifies Tourism Destination Development as one of the key steps to economic growth. Within this area there are actions regarding pursuing opportunities for growth.

“Whilst it is a small market the potential to increase our Chinese tourism market is recognised

by Council, Inland NSW (our Regional Tourism Organisation) and many local operators,” said Comber.

“It is still only early days, but actions undertaken to realise this potential include a translated city website and translated information through the Visitor Information Centre, partnerships with local operators to develop tour product specifically

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lion’s share onal tourism Chinese visitors now account for 22 per cent of all inbound tourism expenditure in Australia as its emerging middle class seek new ways to part with their hard earned yuan. While coastal cities capture the biggest share, Dubbo and regional centres are getting organised to open the door to more Chinese tourists, and develop business partnerships as well. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley

The inaugural Chinese Tour Group, organised by the Dubbo City Council, visit a canola field on the Dubbo Town and Country Tours bus. PHOTO: SUPPLIED BY BRON POWELL.

for Chinese visitors via corporate clients, and, supporting local operators in understanding needs of Chinese visitors.

“Retailers who’ve adapted their offerings to appeal to visiting consumers by hiring bi-lingual staff, offering better sales, and of course, catering to important dates such as the Chinese Lunar New Year, will stay ahead of the game,” Evans said.

Surveys cited by the NRA suggested however that while Chinese tourists give glowing feedback on Australia’s friendliness, environment, attractions and safety, they are yet to be as impressed with its shopping and value for money.

As Australia’s Gold Winner for Unique Accommodation, the Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s Zoofari is a perfect offering for the Chinese market.

“Visitation to Taronga Western Plains Zoo is largely domestic driven,” said Taronga Western Plains Zoo director, Matthew Fuller. “International visitation to the Zoo is less than 2 per cent, with the Chinese market being part of this.

“We have been and are proactive in exploring opportunities with niche group markets in China.

We’ve had success with this strategy in the last 12 months, which has involved tailoring Zoo products that have high appeal to Chinese groups, namely our overnight experiences, and pairing them with other key products in the Zoo and in the region.

“We’ve had greatest success when we’ve worked cooperatively with other compelling products both in the region and in Sydney, to package a range of authentic Australian experiences,” he said.

In August 2015, in partnership with Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Council’s City Development team successfully developed, hosted and coordinated local operators to deliver the inaugural Chinese Tour Group through a corporate Sydney client.

“The group of 12 adults and six children enjoyed golf, a Chinese banquet, Taronga Western Plans Zoo, Dubbo Town and Country Tours, Dubbo Regional Botanical Gardens, Western Plains Cultural Centre, First Lesson Cultural Tours, Trike Adventures and visited the Visitor Information Centre,” said Comber.

“Feedback from the client was very positive and we are hoping to do more with them in the future.

This project, and its success clearly demonstrated Dubbo has the product to meet the needs of the market – and through effective collaboration, and

effective marketing there will certainly be opportunity to grow this market,” she said.

“In the coming months we will be looking to work with Destination NSW to deliver export ready training to local operators which will assist them in understanding needs of various markets including tour groups and international markets such as the Chinese.”

The Dubbo City Council Sister City Committee is already well versed in dealing with welcoming Chinese visitors.

“The Dubbo Sister City relationship with Wujiang is currently very much focused on building friendships and breaking down cultural barriers between our cities and the eastern and western cultures,” said Kylie Sutherland, Sister Cities Officer, Dubbo City Council.

School students and their chaperones experience the City’s unique relaxed country life style where they revel in the wide open spaces, clear blue skies and clean green environment.

Sutherland said the Chinese visitors participate in rural activities, horse racing, visits to local farms and seeing the native animals.

“They enjoy the clean air and blue sky with white clouds. They also comment on how clean our cities are,” she said.

“They do enjoy shopping and come prepared to purchase particular products such as fish oil and health tablets, baby formula, cosmetics, powdered milk, chocolate, lanolin, sheep skin products, and expensive designer label imported products. They like clean green products produced in Australia.”

For local businesses in food and beverage, online retail, agribusiness or services such as tourism and who are looking outward to China to answer the demand on Chinese soil, for Australian goods and services, a China Trade Forum: Don’t Miss the Slow Boat to China, will be hosted by the NSW Business Chamber in Dubbo on March 1.

“We all know there is opportunity in exporting to China, but for many small and medium-sized businesses taking the first steps to establishing a successful export business can be extremely daunting,” said NSW Business Chamber Central West Orana regional manager, Vicki Seccombe.

“Our international trade experts will clarify where the demand is coming from, and offer practical, success-based solutions to help your business

make the most of the opportunities in China.

“The event aims to help local businesses understand the fast-changing landscape of regulations, e-commerce platforms and free trade zones in China, and how to use them to your advantage. Our trade experts will also provide valuable information about existing funding options available to export businesses and other support services NSW Business Chamber’s partners can offer to make accessing China even easier,” she said.

NSW Business Chamber recently launched the “Export Growth China” program which has a purpose-built showroom in the heart of Shanghai’s international trade district and provides real-time feedback on potential sales leads, and matches program participants with potential Chinese buyers and business partners.

“In just a few months, the Export Growth China program has already helped numerous Australian businesses secure trade deals, including SMEs such as Nova Spring Water who had never exported to any country before but secured their first order of a 40 foot container,” Seccombe said. z Dubbo Tourism Data http://www.dubbo.com.au/InvestInDubbo/Data%20 Centre/tourism z Chinese tour packages flipbook https://issuu.com/dubbocouncil/docs/dubbo_chinese_package_flip-book Translated website http://www.dubbo.com.au/chineselanguageversion z Dubbo Sister Cities Program Students and chaperones are currently being sought to participate in the 2016 student exchange programs to China and Japan. http://www.dubbo.nsw.gov.au/CommunityServices/ sister-cities z China Trade Forum: Don’t miss the slow boat to China Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 1:30pm-4:30pm, Western Plains Taronga Zoo, Obley Road, Dubbo. To register, visit https://events.nswbc.com.au/Detail/ EVE1604589. z Export Growth China www.exportgrowth.com.au or call 1800 505 529.

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Friday 26.02.2016 to Sunday 28.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Paul Roos and Adam MacDougall: Tackling men’s health, 10 minutes a day When Paul Roos, Australian Sports Coach of the Year, former 365-match AFL superstar and Australian Hall of Fame member, teamed up with two-time NRL premiership winner with the Newcastle Knights, and NRL representative for NSW and Australia, Adam MacDougall; and became an ambassador for The Man Challenge, neither could expect the impact the 10-week program would have on helping blokes lose weight or make lasting healthy changes to their lives.

Born from a personal tragedy for MacDougall, the pair passionately advocates the program’s simplicity and no-fuss approach to helping guys get, and stay, healthy.

The next round of The Man Challenge starts on March 6. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley Paul Roos: WITH Adam putting The Man Challenge together there’s a recognition that it is difficult for people to stay on these ultra strict diets and to change their lives so dramatically.

It’s a lot harder going to the gym, spending two hours going to and from, or getting on a bike and go riding for three hours or even playing golf for four hours. Anyone can put aside 10 minutes.

It’s more about stripping away the excuses like ‘I haven’t got the time’ or ‘I love the beer too much’ and that’s why I think it’s so good because anyone can do it.

It actually fits with my views anyway.

I was working for the Swans Academy and instead of a weights program we’d just add a ten-minute body weight circuit at the end of our training sessions.

It involved push-ups and sit ups and dips on a bench and really all the things Adam’s integrated, so it really wasn’t much of a shift for me. It was really consistent with what I’d known and what I believe in.

You can do the exercise at home.

The ten-minute workout is all about the body weight, the push ups, sit ups, star jumps, ‘burpees’, on the end of the bed you can do your dips, or a chair. If you want to modify them, you can add some weights. Really, the basic model is you’re able to do it at home, at work, in a hotel room, etc, etc.

I’m passionate about keeping fit, but certainly not to any great extreme.

There have been things that I’ve tried – to lose a bit of weight at times – and I’m lucky I can get into a bit of a habit but that can be difficult, even in the industry that we’re in.

What I’ve found was, if I cut one thing out a day, which is a little like Ad-

am’s philosophy, and that might be just one coffee or a bit of chocolate, I was amazed at how successful it was.

There’s a lot of talk about different diets, either praise for it, or criticism of it from different circles, but what I do find is that for people it’s such an extreme change from what they’re used to doing, so they either can’t complete it or they get to the end and go, ‘well, I’ve finished that’; then go and get the burgers or the pizza and a week after their diet they’ve put back on four kilos.

With Adam and the Man Shake and the bar, you might have a shake for breakfast or lunch and instead of having a large pizza for dinner you might have a small one, or a man shake and a salad.

He’ll send through an eating plan.

Once you finish, some of the habits you’re going to form are hopefully lasting and become long-term habits.

Everyone’s going to go through self doubt so I’ll be getting on there and giving a bit of advice and a little bit of encouragement, with videos, etc.

When his mate passed away I think that was the start of his journey. He started to think about it. We’re all getting older, I’m 52, I think Adam’s 48, so we’re all getting to that stage where you think about your family and you think about what you want to do with them and you want to be around to enjoy them and there’s no doubt that was a big part of his journey and a driver for what he’s doing now.

I think it’s really about creating sustainable habits. I think that’s why I love what Adam’s doing and getting involved. In the first one we did last year, the average weight loss was 10 kilograms, so you can do it, it’s already been shown people can do it, and its important to let people know 10 minutes is go-

ing to work, it will make a difference and hopefully they’ll keep on living a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.

Adam MacDougall: I UNFORTUNATELY lost my best friend through a heart attack. He was just over 40 and had three beautiful girls who were all under the age of six at the time.

Like most average Aussies he was carrying a little extra weight and was a little unfit as a result of being busy and not finding the time to exercise and look after himself.

It was a little bit too hard to exercise because he thought he had to go to the gym or spend hours training or running or starve himself on some fad diet or give up the beers and burgers so

there was no motivation for him to really start. Unfortunately he never got tomorrow for when he was going to start his diet.

I was inspired because I realised it was a problem for most guys because they don’t understand it doesn’t need to be that hard. I wanted to help guys and educate them that they can get fit and healthy, they don’t have to spend hours in the gym or give up their favourite things, there’s a smarter way to do it and there is a lot of crap out there about health and fitness.

You’ve just got to watch some of these reality TV shows where they’re trying to get fit, and they’re exercising five hours a day, and they’re breaking down injured, they’re grumpy and not happy, and it’s a lot of misinformation, it’s sil-

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Adam MacDougall and Paul Roos practice what they preach to inspire men to get healthy, 10 minutes a day.

ly, it’s de-motivating and uninspiring to make the average person want to do it.

Fitness and getting healthy shouldn’t be something we dread but it’s being made that way because there’s a lot of misinformation.

Paul’s great for us, because he’s trusted and obviously very well known. I wanted someone who understood the mind and how to motivate people and there’s none better in the business than Paul Roos.

His main role is to keep guys motivated and on track, and help them stay on course to achieving their goal.

All the people who are involved in the program are genuinely passionate about helping people.

This is a social change project for us.

We’re really on a mission to help people.

It’s a social business. We want to make a change. There’s nothing more rewarding than that. What I do now – helping guys get healthy – I’m more passionate about it than I was playing rugby league. I can see that in Paul. He’s really passionate about helping people to reach their potential.

There’s misrepresentation that it’s hard to be fit and healthy. It doesn’t have to be. It’s the little things that really add up to get big results, like having a good breakfast, making sure you move enough during the day, drinking enough water, having something green on your plate as much as you can. It’s about being sensible not being extreme.

There is a culture in Australia where we like to enjoy ourselves. Why would you want to go on a diet if you can’t have

what you want? The ‘all or nothing’ idea that’s out there is absurd.

Our accredited dietician has allowed beer as a reward for guys, because we know guys are competitive and they want to have some reward. She’s worked out how many beers you earn if you do certain activities.

Life’s to be lived. That’s one of the functions of the program. We’ve made it a game for the guys. It’s pretty cool.

Guys should have a couple of beers if they’ve earned it. Life’s to be enjoyed.

You don’t want to be a monk.

The results speak for themselves. We had over 3,500 guys in the first round they lost just under 10 kilos each on average in 10 weeks with 10 minutes a day. It’s mind blowing. We had one guy from Tasmania lost 38 kilos. He couldn’t

believe it was so easy.

While it’s targeted at men there’s no reason why the whole family can’t follow the same meal program. We had a lot of guys do the exercise with their wives and their kids in the lounge room.

I know for me personally I don’t want to go to a gym and be next to a 20 yearold flexing his muscles. It’s not very good for the ego. I want to be able to do something with my young family just be turning on my mobile phone or flicking on the computer and be exercising in my own lounge room or back yard.

I’m trying to remove all the excuses for guys.

You’ve got nothing to lose but the weight around your waist. Get rid of the excuses and give it a go.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 26.02.2016 to Sunday 28.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident and former journalist.

A willing narrator and a false tale in a sorry story HE temptation would be to trot this out as if it was true and then reveal it’s not.

But SMH columnist, Paul Sheehan beat me to it.

On Monday Sheehan wrote a shocking column about the unsolved pack-rape of a nurse in Sydney; it had everything his worldview craved: brutal “Arabic” assailants, a gritty white Aussie heroine let down by the system, an indifferent police force and a cult of political correctness which would hide the truth were it not for fearless crusaders like him.

But by Thursday he admitted it was not true.

It seems his source – “Louise” – has turned out to be an unstable fantasist and the highly disturbing episode she related most likely never happened.

Thought Sheehan only hinted at it in his correction three days later, it looks like the police took exception to one more ill-informed media whinger and looked into the matter themselves.

Sheehan’s recount of the incident as told by “Louise” is harrowing and we have no need to relive it here, except to say it involved severe violence, teeth knocked out and a serious knife wound to the neck.

Sheehan – who you could imagine flaying an ideological adversary for similar slapdash reporting and taking fabrication as fact – said he checked her background via Google and didn’t find much to put him off.

How about the allegation that when she went to the police to report her ordeal, she

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was supposedly told that since it happened six months prior, and had little by way of evidence to support it would not proceed any further?

I’m no expert but I can’t imagine police anywhere brushing off a report in that category of seriousness: sexual assault with extreme aggravating factors including grievous bodily harm.

Cold case murders stay on the books for decades and are regularly solved to this day.

The parallels with the Bilal Skaf rape spree was cited by Sheehan as a factor in his publishing the story, but the fact that the revolting crimes of Skaf and his conspirators were pursued with such vigour by police should cast doubt on a claim that when presented with allegations arguably even more horrendous than Skaf’s crimes, the police were indifferent.

To his credit Sheehan published his correction/retraction a few days later, and though he offered plenty of personal excuses, he largely took it on the chin and apologised to police.

Trouble is, the reader who trawled through the alarming details of his column on Monday but didn’t happen to read Thursday’s edition is left with the horrendous scenario as something akin to fact.

And Monday’s paper might still lie around on coffee tables, in office tearooms and so forth, embossed with the credibility of longestablished mainstream media, relating a terrible tale that is more than likely not true.

` I’m no expert but I can’t imagine police anywhere brushing off a report in that category of seriousness: sexual assault with extreme aggravating factors including grievous bodily harm.

But it is worse than that.

In his follow-up column Sheehan also suggests “Louise” is associated with, or at least sympathetic to, the Reclaim Australia movement, whose anti-Muslim protests have been well-publicised.

Imagine how clips of Sheehan’s original fairytale will ricochet around the world online, eagerly snapped up by the racist and Islamophobic websites: lifted from a highlyrespected Australian metropolitan newspaper and written by one of its most regular columnists.

I don’t want to draw all manner of conclusions from one cock-up by one columnist whose areas of interest follow a pretty wellworn track and whose contribution for his employer often leaves one wondering why, if the SMH is looking to sustain itself in the online era, it continues to present his bilious offerings so often.

The episode does draw attention to the love-hate relationship Australia’s media audience has with cranky old men and their flabbergasted anger: whether as columnists, popular talkback hosts or influential news editors.

It seems our loudest voices and most influential opinion leaders are often a particular variety of surly traditionalist, inevitably irate that their forlorn warning about “the direction we’re heading” goes unheeded.

Unfortunately it doesn’t.

Being ‘as dumb as a dodo’ might not be such a bad thing: study

2016 DODO LIFE

WASHINGTON: The dodo is an extinct flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity.

But it turns out that the dodo was no bird brain, but instead a reasonably brainy bird.

Scientists said on Wednesday they figured out the dodo’s brain size and structure based on an analysis of a well-preserved skull from a museum collection.

They determined its brain was not unusually small but rather

completely in proportion to its body size.

They also found the dodo may have had a better sense of smell than most birds, with an enlarged olfactory region of the brain. This trait, unusual for birds, probably let it sniff out ripe fruit to eat.

The research suggests the dodo, rather than being stupid, boasted at least the same intelligence as its fellow members of the pigeon and dove family.

“If we take brain size – or rather,

volume, as we measured here – as a proxy for intelligence, then the dodo was as smart as a common pigeon,” palaeontologist Eugenia Gold of Stony Brook University in New York state said. “Common pigeons are actually smarter than they get credit for, as they were trained as message carriers during the world wars.”

The dodo lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. The weird-looking, ground-nesting bird had a pointed beak and rounded

head, stood about 1 metre tall and weighed up to about 23kg.

Driven into extinction largely by human hunting, the last dodo was seen in 1662.

Gold said dodos exhibited no fear of humans when people reached Mauritius in the 1500s.

“Why would they fear something they’ve never seen? They had no natural predators on the islands before humans arrived,” Eugenia Gold pointed out.

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Roar Festival: RAW on Safe fun for ROAR local families Roar Festival organising committee member and mother of three, Paula Anderson talks about what she expects from a festival-type event.

Q: As the parent of young people, how much energy do you see your kids putting into trying to find these type of festival events?

A: They’re always talking about it and the big festivals are always known about. They plan everything – what they’re wearing, who’s taking them, where they’re staying…

I’m just excited that Dubbo’s having one so they don’t have to travel all that distance.

Q: How much do you want to know about the sort of fun they’re having?

A: I want to know that they’re safe, that someone responsible is there who can look after them. I want to know that it’s legal and that all the right council approvals have been granted and police are involved; that everyone has made the best effort for them to be not only safe but have as much fun as possible.

Q: You’re involved in the organisation of Roar Festival. What do you think other parents are going to want to know about it?

A: As well as the approvals and police presence, we’ll have sectioned off drinking areas and ID will be required. There’ll be a drop-off and pick-up area too.

There’s affordable food and there’ll be a variety of things for them to look at and do besides the music on the stages.

Q: If kids do get into trouble on the day, what sort of services will be there to support them?

A: There’ll be security guards walking around all the time and there’ll be a first aid area and police. There’ll be plenty of help there if needed. If you are really worried about your child, we’d also love some volunteers on the day - we’ll give you a job.

Q: Safety is obviously a big issue for parents, but affordability is another thing. Festivals do have a reputation for being quite expensive.

A: Yes, they do…once you get in there you can’t get out and you’re stuck with what’s there.

We’re trying to make it as affordable as possible by approaching PCYC and football clubs to help with food. With volunteers we won’t have to pay wages, so it helps keep the costs down for food and drinks. We’ll also be working on a token system rather than everyone having to wander around with cash.

Q: There’ll be some parents who will probably come along as well, so what else is on offer beside the music?

A: It’s a creative day. There’ll be some big puppets, body painting and performance, a slingshot ride and an autograph wall to mark that you were there for the first Roar Festival.

We’ve got a range of artists working with us to make this a really fun, creative event.

ROARman rips up Dubbo ROAR Festival’s super hero, ROARman will be out and about starting this weekend.

Find him around town and have him photobomb your social pics in Dubbo Photo News. You’ll also find more ROARman adventures on ROAR Festival’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube accounts.

Let’s get this party started ROAR Festival have put together playlists from our lineup of artists on both Soundcloud and Spotify. They’ll be updated over coming weeks so there’s no excuse not to get the ROAR party started early.

Supporting local talent The ROAR DJ Comp is attracting a lot of attention and is a great opportunity for local DJs to mix their stuff and to work with the globe-trotting, Zac Waters (who is also in the lineup). Two lucky DJs will also hit the stage at ROAR Festival after working with Zac for the week leading up to the festival. Details are on the website.

More than just music ROAR Festival is about having fun and that will mean more than just music. There’ll be artworks, face painting, performance and projections, bubbles and balls, slingshots and more.

We know it will go off with a bang.

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OPALS basketballer, Liz Cambage, expressed her disgust when a teammate posted a picture of herself in black face for a fancy dress party. Cambage then astonishingly came under attack from ‘white males’ for being a ‘sook’ and not being able to take a joke, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Ah, yes.

White people; the gatekeepers of what is racist, what is not.

Big Sigh, CEO of the Bad Apples music label in Australia said it perfectly: ‘My approach to blackface punishment is like the parents who make their kids smoke a pack of cigarettes. You gotta wear blackface EVERYWHERE’ he tweeted. Maybe when people confront why they only use it for dressup, they might realise why it’s deeply offensive.

Newtown Blurs Lines STUDENTS at the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts recently won a petition regarding their uniform. Blurring the lines around gender identity, the school will now allow boys and girls to wear which ever uniform they choose, regardless of their gender identity.

Previously students had to seek the support of their parents and a psychologist in order to dress in the manner

which best reflected who they felt themselves to be. Newtown High continues to prove itself to be a champion of student rights, of open minded practices.

Safe Schools Coalition BACK in the day when he was merely lurking in the shadows, plotting the downfall of Abbott, Turnbull positioned himself as the LGBTI community ally of the Liberal party. Turns out Turnbull may be a turncoat in regards to the LGBTI community.

The PM has launched an investigation into a government-funded program called The Safe Schools Coalition Australia, which works within schools to educate staff on the facts of our LGBTI youth to create a safer environment.

It’s a staff based program (disclaimer, I support Safe Schools and have invited them to present in high schools in

my area). Cory Bernardi, known for his homophobic beliefs, argues that it’s indoctrinating children.

It might help if Turnbull and Bernardi got a clue about this anti bullying program, focussed on empowering staff, aimed at protecting youth who are eight times more likely to complete suicide, and raising awareness.

Thank you, Ms Lee LAST week novelist Harper Lee passed away at the age of 89. Her most beloved novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, was quoted endlessly in the media and online as people shared what the author and her work meant to them.

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Greg Smart

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

Economic repair agenda HAT word reform is back in the news.

This time last year, the then Treasurer, Joe Hockey, and Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, wanted a national conversation about reform. We had an economic emergency that needed urgent repair. The Table was wheeled out and everything was placed upon it, but then repair measures were taken off The Table. The result - a dull, boring politically expedient budget, offering no solutions to the supposed budget emergency or structural deficit.

Whilst some of the players aren’t at the Table anymore, the push for tax reform is again newsworthy.

Treasurer, Scott Morrison, indicated his major goal is to reduce expenditure and taxation at the same time, much like lowering both sides of a seesaw simultaneously. He has promised the upcoming Budget will deliver some tax relief, but has so far been very vague on the details.

The only detail confirmed is there will be no alterations to the GST. An increase from the current 10 per cent, to either 12 per cent or 15 per cent, offset by a reduction in income tax, was proposed as a method of increasing government revenue.

This would put us in line with countries such as New Zealand (15 per cent), and India (15 per cent), but well below the United Kingdom (20 per cent), and Sweden, Norway and Demark (25 per cent).

The Australian Council of Social Services identifies the GST as a regressive tax, meaning it applies uniformly to all consumers and therefore takes a higher proportion of low earners incomes, as compared to higher income earners.

The early resolve of this government has already been tested and failed. A change would not have played well at the next election and spooked working families, so this area of economic repair has already been deemed out of bounds.

It is too much of a hard sell, much like changes to negative gearing.

Opposition leader, Bill Shorten, touched the third rail of politics a fortnight ago when he announced a Labor government would only allow negative gearing on newly built properties. This immediately brought a threat from vested interests to mount a publicity cam-

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paign, à la the anti-mining tax campaign, when the mining super profits tax was proposed.

Treasurer, Scott Morrison, took to the airwaves denouncing the Labor proposal as a threat to “mum and dad” investors just trying to put a little aside for their retirement in an effort to reduce their “burden” on the welfare system.

More recently he claimed that under

` Treasurer, Scott Morrison, indicated his major goal is to reduce expenditure and taxation at the same time, much like lowering both sides of a seesaw simultaneously.

Labor’s plan we would end up with the real estate equivalent of the new and used car market, claiming “for everyone else who owns property, the minute you put your key in the front door, your house turns from a new house to an old house, and it’s a bit like driving the new car off the lot in terms of what it means for your assets. So, I don’t think they’ve (Labor) thought it through.”

Putting aside that houses don’t devalue when they age, and there is not a class of real estate agents called, “Used Property Sales Representatives,” negative gearing in Australia deserves proper scrutiny.

With over 1.2 million taxpayers owning a negatively geared property, the drain on the budget is estimated to cost the public purse $4 billion dollars per year.

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2. MOVIES: Which one of the Seven Dwarfs wears glasses in Disney’s “Snow White” animated film?

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5. TECHNOLOGY: What search engine did Microsoft launch in 2009?

6. BUSINESS: What does the “B.F.” stand for in “B.F. Goodrich”?

should be to stimulate the economy through business activity, i.e. in construction, wages, small business, and infrastructure.

This has a flow on effect to tax revenue, via income tax, and boosting the gross domestic product, as wage earners spend. Construction of houses creates a demand for tradespeople, stimulates demand for training, helps overcome the current skills shortage and generates employment with all the benefits that brings.

On an existing dwelling, none of the above applies. Real estate agents make money on property management or when the property is sold. Because the property owner banks on the inevitable future capital gains, housing prices are driven up, pricing both first home buyers and renters out of the market. Negative gearing is a huge tax spend which subsidises investments designed to loose money – a nonsensical market distorting arrangement if ever there was one.

There is too much partisanship in parliament preventing any wholesale changes.

The major parties will do the maximum damage to the competition, but the bare minimum required to stay in power. The rate of reform is being outpaced by retreating glaciers.

Long term strategic planning for the benefit of all Australians doesn’t fit the rationale of three year election cycles, so a leadership vacuum forms. I find it incredibly disheartening that the ‘big picture’ of our nation never enters the political forum.

The big picture – we have a geographically huge landmass populated by 24 million rapidly aging people. Aging people are entitled to health care, young people are entitled to education and we all expect government services.

Scare water resources and an arid climate push the bulk of the population to the boundaries. Living around the edge of the continent means expensive long distance transport and utilities infrastructure. An aging population means lower income tax receipts. Government has both a revenue and expenditure problem.

We need a quantum shift away from the partisan “argy bargy” about what is on or off The Table, or reform will just become a byword for political inertia.

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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...

Sally Bryant

The scent of my neighbours...

GOT home quite late last night, after what had been a long, long day with a very early start. I’m on earlies just now, so I had driven away that morning in the moonlight. Yesterday ended up being a bit more protracted than normal, so by the time I got home it was almost as though the day had doubled back over to meet itself. My front garden was bathed in that same eerie glow as it had been so much earlier that day.

Early summer mornings and late summer evenings have a ‘samebutdifferent’ feeling about them just now. The morning is cool and cheeky, and the evening is warm, sometimes even still quite hot, and lazy. But they’re both stretched and easy.

Sigh. (I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, maybe once or twice, but I bloody love summer).

Warm summer evenings; there’s a reason why there are so many songs about them...

I had been playing duck and dive with the moon yesterday evening, all the way home to the little cottage on the side of the hill. It was just hanging there on the horizon as I left Dubbo; it didn’t even register while I was still in the glare of the city lights, but as the streetlights thinned to nothing along the highway I was gradually became more and more aware of this presence looming over my left-hand field of vision. It’s like when that really large but very shy and silent kid at primary school is ever present at your elbow.

You know the kid; the dreamy one, the one who might almost be thought to be developmentally delayed, they’re just a bit different. You know how they appear next to you? And just loom? That kid.

Anyway, after a long and sleepy trip home, the moon and I arrived at my front gate. I’d had the air condooly on, all the way home, and I was almost surprised to step out of the car and into a still warm evening. And as I went through the garden, there were little eddies of cool air

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around my ankles. As I passed through the long grass (should trim it back; bit of a haven for snakes, that) past my rose bushes (need feeding, definitely need feeding if I’m to get another blush of flowers this season) and up my steps. The front verandah is concrete and the huge mass holds the heat from the day.

I open my screen door, and just as I put the key in my wooden front door, I get strong sense of my “neighbours”. Like a feeling that they’re right there, with me.

It takes me a moment or two, in my befuddled state, to work out what is going on. Whaaaaa?

And then I realise, it’s a tang of warm and woolly merino ewe that I’m getting.

A smell so engrained it’s almost a taste.

And it’s there, in that little space between the screen door, which has cooled down and the wooden door which is still warm.

It’s mostly the warm lanolin of the wool, but I sort of feel as though I can feel their warm sheepy breath on me as I go inside the cool of the house. (To my clean floorboards, my polished furniture, my kitchen table cleared of detritus. God bless the house fairy who has been to my place today.)

The ewes are in the late February rotation of their peregrinations around the farm. I have missed them in the past few weeks, as they’ve been off in other paddocks far away. And it was with a sense of real pleasure that I had noticed on the weekend that they had returned to what I think of as their “home paddock”. I have no idea if that’s what they think of this part of the farm, but it’s here that I love to see them.

It’s not as thought I consciously miss them when they’re away, doing other things. Life mooches on. There’s plenty of other activity in and around my garden.

The Willy Wagtails, the juvenile Magpies, the other (unidentified, I’m no twitcher) birds that cruise around; the big bush spiders that have stretched their steel haw-

` So I gently nudge the car through their midst on my way out to the tar, trying to move between them without hurting them but hopefully with the least disturbance to their beauty sleep.

sers between my verandah posts, the arrogant obese goanna who has so far stayed outside the garden fence. So far. And then there are the rams, who laze around the ram paddock over the fence, chewing their cuds, belching and farting and scratching their parts. Like the blokes they are.

They’re never far away. I swear I’ve heard them, late at night, from the quiet of my bedroom. It’s not like I’m short of company.

But it’s not the same, somehow, not the same as these ewes. Every time they come home, there’s a sense of comfort in their presence and I unconsciously find myself engaged in what they’re doing, what’s happening in their world.

They love a nice clean surface to camp on, these girls, and I often find them all up the hill, asleep on the road near the cattle grid when I leave early in the morning.

So I gently nudge the car through their midst on my way out to the tar, trying to move between them without hurting them but hopefully with the least disturbance to their beauty sleep. And then the same thing happens in reverse in the late afternoons, but by this time they are seeking the cool shade of the trees further down the hill around my house. So I try to slip back into their landscape with the least fuss possible. I don’t want to disturb the natural rhythms of their life.

And living alongside them is a bit like living by the ocean. They move together, like a wave of wool and following the compulsion of nature in the same way that the moon pulls the water. They graze across the paddock, moving as one organism and with one purpose. At some unspoken signal, at about four in the afternoon, they’ll string out down the hill toward the dam.

Like Patsy and Edina on a mission for a bottle of “Bolly, Darling”.

And some evenings, I’ll sit on the verandah with a glass of wine, they’ll hang in a group under the cedar trees and we’ll silently commune.

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WHAT I DO KNOW.

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Trainer, Steve ‘Commando’ Willis will be back in Dubbo this Saturday putting Dubbo folk through their paces at Sir Roden Cutler Park. He’s a national celebrity and author with a military and personal training, background. He’s been inspiring people and changing lives with his ‘no excuses’ philosophy on Australia’s “The Biggest Loser” since 2007 and is married to fitness guru Michelle Bridges. But who is the man behind this tough physical exterior? Steve Willis is an articulate and thoughtful man who believes there’s a lot more to fitness than just pumping iron. Steve spoke to Dubbo Weekender about some of the wisdom he’s acquired on his journey so far and his belief that service and social interconnectedness are essential ingredients in creating a balanced society, body and mind. AS TOLD TO Lisa Minner

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ommand What were your aspirations when you finished school?

I always wanted to be a builder, but apprenticeships were pretty hard to come by in the mid ‘90s and I thought I’d join the army and gain my apprenticeship that way, but once I joined the army and went off to Wagga Wagga some of the directive staff, pretty much said there’s no point being in the army unless you’re in infantry. Being 18 and quite young and impressionable, I found myself on that path. I finished at Wagga Wagga and then went to Singleton to the school of infantry.

From there I was posted to a unit at Holsworthy in Sydney which is where I spent a decade training and being deployed overseas; the full gamut. The unit I was with went through a role change while I was there and is now known as the Second Commando Regiment and they’ve had quite a few runs on the board when it comes to deployments, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. I helped stand up Tactical Assault Group East (TAG-E) and had that role for a number of years then left the army in 2004. It was a time when some of the companies in our unit were deploying over to Afghanistan and I lost a few mates during that time. I think those years in the military put me in good stead for where I find myself today.

So what did that lifestyle teach you about yourself?

A lot of what I find myself doing now, as I get older and having had more life experience, is asking myself why? What’s my purpose, what makes me tick? I believe if you don’t have an understanding of your ‘why’ or aren’t prepared to scratch the surface – you’ll always be chasing your tail and the ability to maintain that level of discipline and motivation, especially intrinsic, is diminished.

In the military, it’s spoken about but not really highlighted. So, what the military is about as a collective group – your mission – is addressed but as an individual unless you’re making the connection for yourself, when you leave the military you could find yourself disconnected from society. When you lose that purpose and when you have followed it for such a long time, people become a bit institutionalised. There’s an aspect of military life, especially being a front line soldier, which enables you to remove emotion from action. Hence, you may remove a lot of your ‘emotional being’ from as early as your late teens and then you turn 40 and you get a big slap in the face because children and partners expect more of you on that front. But because you’ve never had to grow your emotional side, it can make you feel quite inept, almost a fake and you just don’t know how to address it.

I find a lot of people who chase this elusive path to success, and succeed because they’re prepared to face their fears and admit to being scared. It really is the only way you grow, you can walk the easy path but a lot of the time the things on that easy path help you to suppress the things you should be dealing with.

So people’s habits or addictive behaviours become comforts to them and in the process

stop them from moving forward toward real success?

Yes, for example the industry I work in; take food. It can be a means of helping people ignore the real issues at hand and can be their undoing. Food, alcohol, drugs, all of those things. In fact the other day I posted a great video on my FB page about how we perceive addictions. The thought is that addictions aren’t what we believed they were. Addiction comes about because we are broken in some way; our social setting. A lot of the studies have been done based around rats with cocaine or heroin-laced water. They placed one rat in a cage with access to the drugs and they indulge in them often, then researchers decided to create a flourishing environment where they put a whole heap of rats in the cage and gave them everything a rat could want and funnily enough when they had that flourishing social environment, the majority of the time, the rat would go for the plain water, not the heroinlaced water.

Their needs were being met and that’s something I have really been focusing on having experienced a lot of things in my own life, the hardship and the discipline and asking those questions of myself. Why? Why have I been through this and what can I learn from this to be a better person and to be of greater service to others. A lot of it is trying not to look at it from a superficial level, but really get down to the nitty gritty of a situation.

How do you transfer that thinking into ways you can help others?

A lot of it is in the simple details and I address that when I am training people or when we are doing more complex exercises and they’re scratching their heads and getting disappointed with themselves. It’s in their fundamental movements at a foundational level, that something isn’t working as it should. So we break it down and as we build it back up and get to the top the more complex movements come together.

A lot of people who aren’t very physical just have to switch their heads off and get out and do something and it’s amazing how just by exerting energy you’ll feel better. I call it digging holes, like a lot of us could probably go out into the bush with a pick and a shovel and dig some holes for a week and it’s amazing what we’d learn about ourselves and how we would have that sense of accomplishment but then a lot of us would ask why am I digging these holes, and asking if there was a reason to be digging them and trying to justify it in our minds, and if couldn’t, we’d stop digging.

So that’s the same with exercising, finding a reason to do it so that when it gets hard you’ll stick with it?

The reasons you do it don’t have to mean a thing to anyone else, it just has to mean something to you and the only way that’ll happen is by finding it.

It’s hard and it can be hard to do on your own.

A lot of people can feel quite isolated and contained within their own four walls – that being their head – and a lot of times if they could just

take that first step and get out of themselves and over fear and maybe engage a good group of people who are already walking that path, or a trainer. Even myself or my online program, I know it works, the foundation and the framework are there but it’s their engagement and willingness to commit. It’s like allowing the process to wash over them without questioning the detail.

I guess with me what’s helped is that I have always been quite philosophical and I love how if you read an inspiring quote, how different people will interpret it. There are such differences in interpretations, it’s not just read it and allow it to sink in through your knowledge and education – that helps inform us – but then it’s going out and putting it in to practice as an action and then we can make up our minds about whether it works for us or not.

Do you feel like you’re living the dream?

Absolutely; I have distilled my purpose into making myself the best I can be so I can be of greater service to others. And that greater service points to the whole social aspect and our interconnectedness as human beings. A lot of issues in society, are ‘our’ issues, they’re not just in the hands of the person on the street corner addicted to drugs or the alcoholic or the homeless or people dealing with problems within their homes. We are all responsible for these issues as one and we need to address that.

The best quote I think I heard at a dinner I recently attended was, ‘For Australia as a nation to reach its potential, every person within Australia needs to reach theirs.’

It can be hard to live that because it requires of us to stop thinking about ‘I’. At the end of the day there is nothing in ‘I’, nothing exists of itself, we all need one another.

This will be your third visit training with the good folk of Dubbo, what do you love about coming out to regional areas?

I love being out in front and just helping, inspiring and motivating and showing everyone there are people like myself who care and want the best for them. How many people, not just in Dubbo, are toiling day in and day out who would love the opportunity to come together in a training session and see just how far they’ve come and celebrate together with other like-minded individuals. I’d do it every day of the week if I could.

A lot of what I’ve learned in life or some of the key things to take away are to keep it simple.

And the relative aspect; so things are relative to a person both physically and mentally. My visit to Dubbo? There might be a lot of fear around it for some people, coming over to say hello or even participating in the session but I am all about the inclusiveness of it, allow that fear to pass through you because on the other side of fear is courage.

Once you feel what courage is like, you’ll build a habit around it. It’s the same with pain and suffering – on the other side of those is wisdom.

We’ve got to get outside our comfort zones and experience new things. z To participate in Commando Steve’s training session tomorrow (Saturday), contact Rod Fardell, Body options on 0439845513.

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Steve Marchant and David Challinor, owners of the Centennial Hotel in Gulgong.

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A century on at the Centennial Gulgong’s oldest hotel

It’s Gulgong’s oldest hotel and owners David Challinor and Steve Marchant love their pub and the patrons and who frequent it. Harking back to the gold mining days, the pub has stood the test of time and has adapted to meet the needs of a quaint town who’s history saw it stamped on the original ten dollar note.

While they can no longer claim that fame, The Centennial still holds it’s own. Dubbo Weekender dropped by to take in a bit of Gulgong’s pioneering history. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner

AVID Challinor bought The Centennial Hotel freehold in Gulgong 28 years ago and while the pub has been leased out a few of times, he’s glad to be back reigning over a place he loves. He and his business partner Steve Marchant have been back in the saddle for three years now and they love what they do.

David said he and Steve were drawn to the hotel and the town for a lot of reasons. They loved Gulgong, all the rooms in the pub had ensuites – which is unusual for a pub of its age – and the place

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had a ‘comfortable feel’ about it.

Prior to Gulgong, David and Steve had a pub in Bathurst; The Tourist Hotel, and before that a pub in Sydney; The Rozelle Hotel.

“My business partner Steve runs the kitchen and restaurant, we seat about 65 people and we specialise in fresh seafood on the weekends. There’s four pubs in town so we all try to create a different niche, do something different to each other,” he said.

“Every January we have a folk festival, it’s been going for around 30 years, it’s a wonderful time.

“We have traditional folk as

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Earlier incarnations of The Centennial Hotel; Rossiter’s Hotel and Naughton’s Centennial Hotel.

well as modern and every Thursday we have a folk session out the back of the pub. We get around 60 people all with their own instruments and playing their own stuff. Banjos, guitars, Scottish bagpipes, tin whistles; all sort of instruments.

“I play nothing, I have no talent in that area, but I love watching it all,” David said.

The folk nights also see Gulgong’s local poets get to recite some of their work.

“As soon as someone stops playing, a poet will get up and do their thing,” he said.

June long weekend sees the hotel (and the town) filled for the Henry Lawson Festival and coming up in April there will be ‘Clay Gulgong’, a ceramics festival running from April 17 to 23.

“Potters are coming from all over the world and I believe the town’s totally booked out, we had one here around three years ago and this one’s going to be even bigger.”

David said because Gulgong was featured on the first ten dollar note, and the town still hangs on to the fame it bought the town, Gulgong decided to recently host a ten dollar day weekend.

“We celebrated the 50 years of decimal currency in Australia and Gulgong featuring on the ten dollar note. We all had ten dollar deals, meals and ten dollar beer jugs, everything was ten dollars,” he said.

“We did feel a bit ripped off when Gulgong was removed from the new ten dollar note, absolutely, but we can still claim that we were the only town ever featured on any currency.”

The hotel has a rich history and David is fasci-

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Fiona Mobbs is a cleaner at the Centennial Hotel. When asked what she loves about the pub, Steve calls out, ‘The Boss!’

nated by it. He has a folder with photos and snippets from the past.

“It was built in 1872 by a chap called Rossiter, it was called Rossiter’s Hotel for many, many years, and then someone called Naughton bought it and then it was called Naughton’s Centennial Hotel for a long time, up until about 1942, I think.”

Terry Gorrie has been drinking at the Centennial Hotel ‘too long’ according to him.

“I was born in Gulgong and went away to work for a few years and came back in 1988 and I’ve been drinking here ever since.

It’s the best pub in town (but I do visit the four of them!); this one suits me fine. I like the friendliness, the staff and the meals are great. I haven’t had to try the accommodation yet but I believe that’s excellent, too,” he said.

“They pour a pretty good schooner of Four X Gold or anything liquid.”

David said in the late 1800s the brick facade of the building replaced the original weatherboard exterior of the single story hotel. He said everything is in the exact same position, including the front doors on the corner.

He said the current front bar was originally much smaller and a series of small rooms made up the entire building. In modern times those rooms have had walls knocked out to cre-

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` He asked me which one and I said the Centennial and he looked at me a bit weird and said there’s no Centennial in Gulgong and I said ‘Yeah there is’, and he said “There’s only four pubs in Gulgong; The Prince of Wales, The Post Office, The Commercial and Dooley’s.”

All four of Gulgong’s pubs. Photos taken by local high school students.

ate a larger and more open, patron-friendly space.

As far as pub yarns go, David said there was a publican called Tom McMillan who held the reigns when the song ‘Tom Dooley’ was popular in the ‘50s.

“They had a noose hanging out the front of the pub and it became known as Dooley’s. “He was a very popular character and businessman, apparently, and his story goes that when the first Sputnik went over they couldn’t see anything in Australia except the lights of Dooley’s. He used to trade a ‘bit out of hours at times’ but he’s still very well remembered in the town.”

David said when he bought the pub he was still living over in Bathurst. He told the cigarette rep he was leaving Bathurst and buying a pub in Gulgong and the rep said he knew the town well.

“He asked me which one and I said the Centennial and he looked at me a bit weird and said there’s no Centennial in Gulgong and I said, ‘Yeah there is’, and he said “There’s only four pubs in Gulgong; The Prince of Wales, The Post Office, The Commercial and Dooley’s’. David said a lot of older Gulgong folk still call it Dooley’s.

The publican said his own family has a bit of a notorious past and while it’s not in anyway linked to his own life at the Centennial, his great uncle from Mel-

bourne was the infamous gangster, drug dealer, illegal bookmaker, cocaine dealer and runner of brothels; Squizzy Taylor.

Taylor was said to be involved in a bank robbery where the manager of the bank was murdered in 1923.

“He was apparently a top ‘crim’ in his time, the 1920s; a big man of the underworld who was eventually shot and killed in 1927 but we had never found out about that because my grandmother said she had no relatives, so my ex-wife went onto ancestry.com and looked up my grandmother and found out she was Squizzy’s sister and found out my grandmother had actually lied about her life the whole way through. Turns out they’d shot through from Melbourne to get away from Squizzy and his lifestyle and denied any family.”

David said he’s glad he had no part in that lifestyle and insists he has no latent criminal genes from Squizzy’s side of the family.

“No, nothing, I don’t even get speeding tickets,” he said with a laugh.

The Centennial Hotel in a prior life as Naughton’s Centennial Hotel.

Roy Lloyd, maintenance man and barrel repairer has been working at the Centennial for three and half years.

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The sex appeal of good money management

Good money management the ultimate aphrodisiac SENSIBLE saving and spending habits could be the X-factor that can supersize your sex appeal, according to insights uncovered by industry super fund−owned bank, ME. ‘Good saving and spending habits’ are qualities 62 per cent of women and 57 per cent of men rate as important when it comes to dating, romance and relationships, according to a ME survey of over 1,000 Australians.

‘Good savings and spending habits’ was rated more important than career prospects (43 per cent) or net worth (27 per cent) of a date or partner.

ME Head of deposits and transactional banking, Nic Emery, said our preference for ‘sensible saving and spending habits’ in a partner makes perfect sense.

“Being part of a couple typically means working towards shared goals like buying a home, raising a family, and eventually, enjoying a decent retirement – aspirations that all hinge on responsible money management,” he said.

“Instead of blowing the budget on expensive dates, show your date or partner that you know how to manage your money while still being romantic.”

Money modesty outweighs sizzling good looks ‘SHOWING off or boasting about money’ could be a sure way to kill any romantic appeal, according to ME’s findings.

Around 64 per cent reported ‘money modesty’ as important – even more than ‘physical appearance’ (61 per cent) when it comes to dating, romance and relationships.

However, romantic appeal also requires a balancing act. Around 54 per cent of women and 45 per cent of men also say it’s important that their date or partner is ‘not too tight with money’.

When it comes to dating, romance and relationships, how important to you are the following?

Man pays on the first date

The net worth of your date/part ner (e.g. income, assets, property)

The career prosp ects of your date/p artner

That your date/partn er has good savings and spending habits

That your date/partn er is not too tight with money

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Paying for the first date WOMEN want equal pay, but do they still want old-fashioned chivalry such as paying for the first date?

According to ME’s findings, more men (41 per cent) said it was important to pay for the first date compared to women (36 per cent).

Overall, 38 per cent of Aussies say it’s important that the man pays for the first date.

Around a quarter of us (24 per cent) sit on the fence and 38 per cent did not consider it important at all.

About the survey: Survey conducted via i-View Research using an online survey method. Survey completed by more than 1,000 Australian adults.

` Instead of blowing the budget on expensive dates, show your date or partner that you know how to manage your money while still being romantic

How important to you is….that the man pays on the first date?

Total Male Female Not Important 38% 35% 42% Neutral 24% 25% 22% Important 38% 41% 36% How important to you is…the net worth of your date/partner? (e.g. income, assets, property) Total Male Female Not Important 50% 51% 50% Neutral 23% 25% 21% Important 27% 24% 29% How important to you is… that your date/ partner has good savings and spending habits Total Male Female Not Important 21% 23% 20% Neutral 19% 21% 18% Important 60% 57% 62% How important to you is…that your date/partner is not too tight with money?

Total Male Female Not Important 24% 28% 21% Neutral 26% 27% 24% Important 50% 45% 54%

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Biosecurity extension program enters new phase OLLOWING a successful three-year pilot, Australia’s Livestock Biosecurity Network (LBN) is seeking new partners to ensure the beef cattle industry is prepared for potential pest, weed and disease outbreaks.

LBN was established in 2013 as an independent industry initiative funded by the Cattle Council of Australia, Sheepmeat Council of Australia and WoolProducers Australia, to provide producers with practical information about implementing on-farm measures to manage biosecurity risks and protect animal health and productivity.

In a formal review of its performance during the latter stages of the pilot period, consultants GHD and the Haines Centre for Strategic Management found LBN’s activities have delivered a return on investment to industry of $7 for every dollar expended.

The review found LBN has increased the likelihood of producers implementing new biosecurity measures to protect their farm businesses and the industry at large by raising awareness of biosecurity risks and developing and implementing biosecurity plans.

“As pioneers in the field of industry-funded biosecurity extension and awareness, LBN has succeeded in put-

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ting biosecurity on the national agenda,” LBN chairman, David Palmer, said.

“To ensure LBN’s vital contribution continues, we are now seeking new sources of industry funding to supplement the ongoing financial backing of our majority shareholder, the Cattle Council of Australia.

“While WoolProducers Australia and the Sheepmeat Council of Australia remain committed to all aspects of the nation’s biosecurity programs, they have decided that it is time for LBN to stand on its own following the completion of the pilot period in June 2016.”

Over coming months LBN will be meeting with industry stakeholders to negotiate new funding arrangements, as well as potential structural changes to ensure LBN’s activities remain effective into the future.

LBN is currently staffed by a team of regional officers based in each state, who work closely with farming networks around Australia to provide producers and industry with the tools and information they need to protect the health and productivity of their livestock.

More information about LBN is available at www.lbn.org.au

New chair for NSW Young

BUSINESS IN BRIEF Farmers NSW Farmers has welcomed Cudal farmer Tim Carroll as the new chair of NSW Young Farmers.

The young farmers group held their annual conference in Dubbo last week, electing a diverse new committee made of young food and fibre producers, a researcher, a student and a policy officer from the Department of Agriculture and Resources.

“The committee really is great mix of young people involved in agriculture and we are looking forward to progressing issues facing young farmers and promoting the wonderful world of farming,” Tim said.

A mixed farmer and farm contractor, Tim has been a strong advocate for young farmer finance schemes to support the next generation of farmers.

“I have begged, borrowed and worked hard to get my hands on a block of land so I know how hard it is to get into producing food and fibre,” Tim said.

“But there are government funding opportunities out there now that can assist. You won’t get the money to buy the farm, but things like the farm innovation fund can help with the adoption of new technology to improve efficiencies on the farm.”

“We have to worker smarter not harder and I think an important role for NSW Young Farmers is to increase awareness of these funding opportunities.”

Tim played a vital role in NSW Farmers advocacy for a young farmer finance scheme and has welcomed the appointment of a young farmer finance officer within the Department of Primary industries.

“We were pleased that Deputy Premier Troy Grant announced the appointment at our conference. It will be an important support role for the next generation of farmers.”

Genetics researcher Jo Newton will continue as vice chair of NSW Young Farmers. The other Young Farmers committee members are Martin Murray (Moree), Felicity McLeod (Wentworth/ Lightening Ridge) Laura Bruce (Wagg Wagga), James Kanaley (Junee), Laura Phelps (Canberra), and Brendon Mansbridge (Eugowra)

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Small business accountant Business in v. Harry Houdini – who has changing times with Phil Comerford, more tricks?

Scolari Comerford Dubbo EING a small business accountant, like any profession or job, certainly has its ups and downs. Things may be changing slightly as to perceptions these days (and maybe not!), but I can remember telling people who asked at parties just after I qualified that I was a part time clown just to see their reaction. Certainly it generated more conversation than the alternative, but when I came clean after a minute or so it certainly had broken the ice.

For those who are thinking of becoming an accountant, or for those that aren’t sure, here are some things that can make an accountant’s life far more exciting than most would imagine.

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1. Thinking outside the square IF ever there was an occupation where thinking outside the square was required, this one is it. Problem solving with a “what if?” attitude is a must. It’s very rare that something cannot be fixed or changed when you’re prepared to consider all options; even making an improvement is better than coming up with no solution whatsoever.

Imagine asking a builder who usually takes seven weeks to build a house if it could be done in two weeks. If the immediate answer was “it can’t be done”, would that answer change if the builder was repeatedly asked the same question over time?

Chances are, the builder would

start questioning in their own mind if it were possible, and ultimately it’s quite possible that the builder could come up with some improvements and that a number of days could be sliced off construction time.

As a business advisor we need to also be like a business coach and challenge our clients in a never-ending quest for efficiencies and business growth.

To be the trusted advisor, you need to ask questions and continue to listen to the answers to solve a problem.

2. Keeping up to date and offering services clients want/need SMALL business accounting services have changed dramatically over the past five years or so. A business owner in 2016 needs more than year-end financial statements and a tax return. With the advent of cloud accounting, today’s accounting firms need to be offering as a minimum: z Cash flow forecasts and/or 3 way budgets; z Business planning; z Business coaching & monitoring (monthly or quarterly meetings to go through targets and business performance); z Business benchmarking (to highlight where a business might need to correct or exceed given industry averages); z Virtual CFO; z Self-managed superannuation funds;

z Tax planning and tax minimisation strategies; z Refinancing proposals (banks, investors); z Forensic accounting; z Business Valuation and preparing businesses for sale to achieve maximum value.

3. Creating, analysing and checking a plan’s progress MANY business owners are looking to partner with their business advisors to set targets, design a business plan and then have either monthly or quarterly meetings to discuss the progress.

This means that not only should you have a business plan for your own accounting firm (practice what you preach!) but also possess the skills to help clients with theirs.

We have found that a onepage strategic plan works best; one that can be easily put onto A3 and laminated so it can be rolled up and referred to whether at work, on a plane or at a coffee shop.

All plans should make reference to a 3-way budget.

A typical business planning and monitoring package offered by an accounting firm will include: z Setting up a balance sheet, profit & loss and cash flow forecast (also known as a 3-way budget); z Assistance formulating a one-page strategic plan (or

business plan) that incorporates the budget numbers, strategies and goals; z Setting up of critical key performance indicators; z Quarterly (monthly optional) to discuss the numbers and strategic plan’s progress.

4. Access to contacts and knowledge AS your practice continues to grow, what you will find is that you get access to many really interesting entrepreneurs and discover how they operate successfully. This know-how can then be transferred to other business owners who become your clients. Of course, the strictest confidentiality must be followed, but some of the operational methods can be successfully reproduced in any type of business.

When you feel the time is right you can also provide introductions to businesses that might be able to do business with one another. This is a very rewarding part of the job.

5. Being accessible and caring about your client WHETHER you’re a firm of accountants here or on the other side of the country, technology these days makes it a must that you are accessible and able to get back to clients as quickly as possible.

People don’t like to be left

waiting for hours on end to be called or emailed back. It can be like waiting for a train – it makes you wonder if it will ever turn up. We believe that if you can return contact to the client in a very prompt manner then there is a wonderful opportunity to pick up business from those accounting firms that don’t do this well.

6. Fixed price quoting SMALL business accountants stopped charging by the hour five years ago. Clients want fixed pricing and no surprises.

They also want to know that a simple five minute phone call won’t be charged. The modern advisor realises that inviting communication of this type, without charge, not only increases contact with the clients (improving the chances they will stay with you) but also lead to more exciting projects with the clients that can be quoted separately.

Conclusion WHILST the accounting profession can be considered to be very uninspiring, like most things, it is what you make of it.

If you’re just thinking of being a run-of-the-mill advisor then yes, it will be extremely boring. If you’re thinking of being a Harry Houdini type, then you may just find you have more tricks than he does!

Life will never be dull.

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Historic medicinal cannabis legislation passes Parliament N Wednesday, February 24, Parliament passed the Turnbull Government’s historic legislation delivering the “missing piece” for Australian patients and their doctors to access a safe, legal and reliable supply of medicinal cannabis products for the management of painful and chronic conditions.

Minister for Health Sussan Ley thanked her parliamentary colleagues from across both chambers and the political spectrum for the fast passage of the Government’s legislation in a bi-partisan fashion.

Ley also thanked the Department of Health, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), State and Territory Governments, and patient representatives for their constructive consultation on the legislation prior to its introduction into Parliament, which ensured it passed quickly without amendment.

“This is an historic day for Australia and the many advocates who have fought long and hard to challenge the stigma around medicinal cannabis products so genuine patients are no longer treated as criminals,” Ley said.

“This is the missing piece in a patient’s treatment journey and will now see seamless access to locally-produced medicinal cannabis products from farm to pharmacy.

“I would particularly like to acknowledge the many patient advocates who have played a tremendous and tireless role in bringing this important issue to the attention of the nation.

“Today’s outcome is a demonstration of this Parliament’s commitment to not only ensure we get access to a safe, legal and reliable supply of medicinal cannabis products for Australian patients, but we also get it right.”

The passing of amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act will, for the first time, provide a pathway of legally-grown cannabis for the manufacture of suitable medicinal cannabis products in Australia.

“A national regulator will allow the Government to closely track the development of cannabis products for medicinal use from cultivation to supply and curtail any attempts by criminals to get involved,” Ley said.

“The legislation also ensures Australia

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Experts welcome first in class for heart failure

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A NEW type of medicine that treats a common form of life threatening heart failure has been approved for use in Australia as medical experts warn of an epidemic of heart failure among Australia’s ageing population.

Known as Entresto® (sacubitril/valsartan), the medicine targets two naturally occurring hormone systems that can cause blood vessel constriction and fluid retention, which in turn limits the heart’s ability to pump oxygen-rich blood throughout the body.

meets all of its international obligations under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.”

It is recognised that, while there are existing mechanisms by which medicinal cannabis products from overseas can be accessed under Australian law, limited supplies and export barriers in other countries have made this difficult.

Under this scheme, a patient with a valid prescription can possess and use a medicinal cannabis product manufactured from cannabis plants legally cultivated in Australia, where the supply is appropriately authorised under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and relevant state and territory legislation.

` This will simplify arrangements around the legal possession of medicinal cannabis products, placing them in the same category as restricted medicines such as morphine, rather than an illicit drug.

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A submission to include the medicine on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme will be considered by the Government’s expert advisory committee next month.

Doctors can now prescribe the new therapy to eligible patients at a cost of approximately $230 per monthly pack.

Heart failure occurs when the

To support this, Ley also announced the Department of Health, in conjunction with the TGA, was currently well-advanced in having cannabis for medicinal purposes considered for down-scheduling to Schedule 8 of the Poisons Schedule.

“This will simplify arrangements around the legal possession of medicinal cannabis products, placing them in the same category as restricted medicines such as morphine, rather than an illicit drug. This will in turn reduce any barriers to access, no matter what state a patient lives in,” Ley said.

The TGA undertook public consultation on down-scheduling cannabis for medicinal purposes in January 2016, with an interim decision due in March 2016. Further consultation will then follow.

Ley also announced an independent Advisory Committee would be established to oversee the next stage of the rollout of the national regulator now legislation has passed.

Ley reminded Australians today’s announcement did not relate to the decriminalisation of cannabis for general cultivation or recreational use, which remained a law enforcement issue for individual states and territories.

heart is no longer able to pump a sufficient volume of blood around the body due to an injury or damage to the heart muscle. This can occur following a heart attack or other illness affecting the heart, or as a result of poorly controlled diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure or coronary artery disease.

Medical experts estimate that heart failure now affects nearly half-a-million Australians – half of whom live with a form of the disease where the heart’s ability to contract is significantly weakened. Known as systolic heart failure, this form of the disease can be treated by Entresto.

“Heart failure is a very serious and very common illness. One-

in-four people die within a year of being diagnosed with systolic heart failure,” said Professor Andrew Sindone, a heart failure specialist from Sydney.

“It also has a debilitating impact on everyday life. When the heart doesn’t pump enough blood around the body people experience fatigue, shortness of breath, and have difficulty walking or climbing stairs,” he said.

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Let’s talk tinnitus

BY ABI JACKSON MANY of us will have experienced the sensation of hearing sounds that seem to be coming from nowhere other than deep inside our own heads and ears – perhaps a high-pitched ringing, or hissing sound.

Thankfully for most of us, these sounds will be nothing more than a mild and temporary irritation – but for some people, tinnitus can become a significant problem.

CAN’T SWITCH IT OFF Not everybody who experiences tinnitus will be severely affected, but in some cases, the relentless noise can have a big impact on quality of life and psychological wellbeing, causing distress and difficulty sleeping and concentrating, in turn affecting work and relationships and, as the British Tinnitus Association (BTA) points out, can be linked with anxiety and depression.

However, while there’s currently no cure, Tony Kay, a head of Audiology Services and member of BTA’s Professional Advisers’ Committee, is keen to highlight that support is out there – and there is hope.

“The first thing is not to be alarmed, but if you think you may have tinnitus, you should see your doctor, who will check your ears and offer general advice. You may also get referred to a tinnitus clinic,” he explains.

“It’s also important to clarify that while tinnitus is not curable in most, it does tend to get less annoying over time for the majority. Anybody with tinnitus that is troublesome should seek a referral to a tinnitus clinic via their GP.” BETTER WITH TIME Often, when ‘hidden’ problems are causing us distress, the simple step of talking to a doctor, or anybody with an understanding of your problem, and having it openly acknowledged that it’s getting you down can be a massive weight off the shoulders.

Kay notes that a number of things can really help with managing tinnitus.

“In the vast majority of cases, tinnitus is managed rather than cured, and modern therapies are effective for most,” he explains. “Using background noise to reduce the intrusiveness of tinnitus, relaxation, keeping active and socialising may improve things.

“Studies have shown that over time, tinnitus becomes less intrusive as the brain loses interest in it; this process is

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH Healthy bodies don’t need supplements

BY KEITH ROACH, M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: After viewing an infomercial that praised the benefits of probiotics, I would like to know what you think. Probiotics have been prescribed when one is taking antibiotics to replenish the good bacteria that is lost.

When taking no medication, I found that when I took one capsule (30 billion live cultures per capsule/10 probiotic strains) on a daily basis, I would get gas and diarrhoea; therefore, I

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called habituation.”

WHAT CAUSES TINNITUS? Tinnitus is actually considered a symptom, rather than a single disease, “related to changes in activity or connectivity within the hearing system and brain”.

Although often seen as something that affects older people, anybody can experience tinnitus, even children.

However, it’s far more common in older age groups, affecting around 10 per cent of adults. “The prevalence of tinnitus generally increases with age, affecting males and females more or less equally. The main risk factor is hearing loss,” adds Kay. “Exposure to loud noise, ear infections, certain medica-

tions, stress and head injuries are some of the other risk factors.”

Where infections, or blockages with wax, are involved, treating these can relieve tinnitus. The link with stress is more complex, but it’s generally recognised that stress and anxiety may act as a ‘trigger’, or make people more acutely aware of tinnitus – a pattern that’s seen across a range of health issues.

Exposure to loud noise, however, is a major factor – and one we can all try to prevent, by being aware of what amounts to ‘dangerous’ noise levels and taking steps to protect our hearing, by using ear guards and earplugs. This can be particularly important for people who regularly work in noisy envi-

ronments, but is something everybody should be aware of, as even the volumes of our TVs, and listening to music with headphones, could be putting us at risk of hearing loss and tinnitus.

PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE “Prevention is better than cure, so being ‘sound aware’ should be your aim,” stresses Kay. “We’re not saying avoid – just be more aware of the potential hazards of loud noise. Our ears tend to be tough in most cases, but we only have one pair, so looking after them will enable us to go on enjoying music for a long time.

“Don’t turn it off but turn it down and protect, is the general rule of thumb.”

stopped taking them. I thought that this was the exact opposite reaction that should have occurred. Please write about the pros and cons and the reasons/necessity for taking probiotics on a daily basis. – D.A.M. ANSWER: Probiotics are microorganisms, usually bacteria or yeast, that have beneficial properties. There is at least some evidence to support the use of probiotics for inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis), colon inflammation from radiation, irritable bowel syndrome and other diseases of the GI tract.

However, with a few exceptions, there is very little evidence that taking anything (prescription or supplement) is of benefit to people who are healthy with no symptoms. Probiotics haven’t been shown to benefit healthy people.

Any treatment can have side effects.

While there may be some benefits, such as preventing antibiotics-associat-

ed diarrhoea, I hesitate before recommending any treatment to a healthy, asymptomatic person.

DEAR DR. ROACH: Does high blood pressure cause irregular or abnormal heart rhythms? – P.K.S. ANSWER: Not usually. In some people with very longstanding high blood pressure, the heart can become dilated – blown up like a balloon to much more than its normal size. When the heart, particularly the atria (the top chambers), becomes dilated like that, it makes atrial fibrillation more likely.

High blood pressure is very common.

Irregular heartbeats are universal – we all have some every day. It is human nature to associate one problem with another, since they are both related to the heart. However, it’s more likely that the everyday irregularities you may have had without noticing take on new significance with a diagnosis of high blood pressure.

That being said, since it is possible they are related, it’s certainly worth an EKG next time you see your internist or cardiologist to make sure you don’t have a dangerous heart rhythm. Sometimes doctors order 24-hour (or longer) EKGs for use at home, which can be correlated with any symptoms of heart irregularities.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have lowerback ache and have been seeing a chiropractor, which helps a little. Would yoga help? – A. ANSWER: Yoga does help many people with back pain, but it’s important to find an instructor with experience with beginners and in using yoga specifically for back pain. Similarly, tai chi and Pilates exercises have been shown to be useful treatments for back pain.

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BY GABRIELLE FAGAN DECOR never stands still. It takes new directions each year, which may be major turns, or simply a variation on a theme, but will have an impact on our homes nonetheless.

Here are four trends which could shake things up this year...

DRAMATIC DECOR Dramatic decor rules the roost in 2016, so bin the beige and make a statement, by painting an entire wall a rich dark colour, or investing in a few bold pieces of furniture.

“This trend is all about not shying away from the bold and gives us an opportunity to inject some life into our homes,” says interior stylist Kristen Grove. “There’s a huge misconception that dramatic colour makes a small space feel even tinier, but the reality is, it can make a room feel grander.

“However, natural light plays a huge part – there isn’t a lamp in the world that can light up a room like nature – so painting a room a dark colour with no windows is possible but risky. You don’t want to leave a space feeling depressed.

“Get the balance right, and working dramatic style into a room can instantly add glamour and sophistication.”

DECOR TIP: For a colour scheme, think deep Georgian blue, charcoal grey and berry red shades. Create areas of contrast to bring more drama into the room, by teaming bold decor with bright white finishes.

SHAPE UP Geometric shapes, patterns and textures are perfect for a modern minimalistic makeover – just make sure you get your style sums right and avoid too many clashes.

“The geometric trend is the perfect way to give your interior a contemporary look and can be made up of lines, and shapes such as squares, triangles and hexagons, which are repeated or tessellated in a symmetrical layout. This style can give rooms an illusion of space and add depth and interest,” says Robin Auld, head of marketing at a tiling company.

“Try combining different colours and scales of one or – at most – two shapes, to keep the look fresh and to create a unique interior.”

DECOR TIP: Layout is key when it comes to the geometric look. Make one piece, perhaps a wall or rug, in a geometric print a focal point. Hexagonals are this year’s favourite shape and graphic hexagonal tiles, in an unusual honeycomb pattern, can create an eye-catching floor or

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN Heart-shaped treats are for the birds

BY DONNA ERICKSON GIVE a little heart or two, or even three, to your backyard feathered friends with this birdseed treat shaped with cookie cutters. An ideal kitchen craft to enjoy with preschoolers when the big kids are off at school, it’s also super-fun for older kids to do with the whole family on a weekend afternoon.

Pick up a bag of birdseed, packets of unflavoured gelatin and dig through your cupboards for cookie cutters, then you’re all set to go.

splashback, especially if teamed with a bold colour.

CARNIVAL FEVER Rock the Rio trend with sultry patterns, tropical greenery and hot good looks – it’s time for a style samba.

“This is a flamboyant look that tastefully shouts fun and conjures a setting which feels gloriously drenched in sunshine,” says Tamara Kelly, shopping editor at inspiration interiors site Housetohome. co.uk.

“Beach-beautiful ‘Natural Carnival’ encapsulates the appeal of Brazil’s golden beaches, green mountains and jungles full of flowers, exotic birds and animals. Vital ingredients are bright, brilliant colours, teamed with tropical-inspired leaf patterns, animal and bird prints, and just for fun, a few parrot or flamingo ornaments.

It’s perfect for summer and would work brilliantly in an open-plan kitchen and living space, which leads to a garden.”

DECOR TIP: Team key colours – lime and jungle greens, sea blues, burnt orange, sunshine yellow and hot pinks – with white or warm wood tones, sleek contemporary shapes and leaf and animalpattern prints.

MATERIAL STYLE Natural materials and contrast in tone and texture are the order of the day for successful interiors, predicts Kelly Hoppen.

“The days of fad trends are long gone, thank goodness, and today, it’s all about how we live in our spaces, which we now take seriously,” says the interior designer. “It’s increasingly recognised that we should aim for interior design which fits us like a Savile Row suit, perfectly madeto-measure to suit our needs.

“The trends I see coming and staying are more eclectic than ever, with a lot of thought behind them. Wood, ceramic and stone are the most important elements in a home, as they’re a great starting point to build on, and to be successfully on-trend, it’s essential to get the right balance of each.

“Mix and match a pale wood – grey, taupe blonde and white woods, rather than black, will be fashion leaders – with a darker stone in flowing lines, and pair with ceramic to give an illusion of length and height. The four ‘hot’ metals this year will be bronze, nickel, rose gold and beaten black metal.”

DECOR TIPS: Colour used halfway up a wall, leaving the upper space neutral, will be increasingly popular. Black and white flooring and vintage tiles are going to have a huge comeback, especially when mixed with marble; the combination of textures gives an unexpected edge.

COOKIE CUTTER BIRDSEED TREATS (Makes 4-6 bird treats.)

2 envelopes (7 grams each) unflavoured gelatine 1/2 cup boiling water 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups birdseed Baking sheet lined with parchment or waxed paper 4-6 heart-shaped cookie cutters, roughly 7.5cm by 10cm 2 straws, cut into 7-8cm pieces String or twine 1. In a large bowl, an adult should pour the boiling water into the gelatine. Stir until dissolved, and then add 1 1/2 cups birdseed. Stir until birdseed is coated, adding more seed if mixture is too watery.

2. Meanwhile, arrange the cookie cutters on the lined baking sheet.

3. Spoon the mixture into the cookie

Bed frame and matching bedside table

Paint by Earthborn from the Claypaint range Reading Room blue and the Lido, image shot and styled by HousetoHome.co.uk.

cutters. Press down with the back of a spoon, or compact the mixture with fingers using a piece of waxed paper between fingers and the mixture.

4. Insert a straw piece into each shape to create a hole for hanging, and leave in place.

5. Set the baking sheet of filled cookie cutters in the refrigerator for two hours. Remove and let stand in a dry room overnight or until hard, turning the filled cookie cutters occasionally.

6. Carefully pop each treat out of its cookie cutter. Remove straws, thread string or twine through the holes, and hang from a tree branch, fence or deck railing.

TIP: Extra birdseed in your bag? Take a pine cone, roll it around in peanut butter until it’s completely covered, then roll it once more in birdseed. Tie a string around it and hang it outside.

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An interior designed by Kelly Hoppen which features a solid bronze side table

Hexagon rustic travertine tiles

Victorian Chequer Tiles

NOW HERE’S A TIP

BY JOANN DERSON * “Save old greeting cards for children or grandchildren to use for arts and crafts material. They can cut out the pictures on the fronts, and reuse them to make drawings or other projects. They can even make a whole new card!”

– contributed by T.I. * “I do love my hot tea, but I like it light. I find that I can get two uses out of my tea bags. It helps me stretch my dollars at the grocery store too.” – contributed by M.W. * Are you looking for something a bit different to decorate your outdoors? Put this on your wish list: glow-in-the-dark paint. Use it to paint stones or other garden borders, and come evening you’ll have a lovely, artistic yard!

* “If you have small toys that you no longer need, consider donating those in good shape to local day-care facilities. Call first to see if the centre takes donations and what specifically it might need. The kids at my daughter’s day care really love the play kitchen, and can’t seem to keep those teacups and saucers in the play area.

When we got rid of our daughter’s play kitchen, we donated all the food and accessories to the kids at the school, and they LOVED it!” – contributed by A.A. * When you need to hang something like, say, a frame, use this trick to get your nails in just the right place. Use a dab of toothpaste on the back of the frame where the nails should be.

Press against the wall. The toothpaste will leave behind a superb guide, which can be wiped right off the wall after the nail is in. Hang and admire! * Like to play games on your smartphone? Put it on aeroplane mode for less annoying ads! Just make sure it’s a game you can play “offline”.

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One ‘el of a healthy treat Blogger and cookbook creator Ella Woodward has used food to help her through a debilitating illness.

BY KEELEY BOLGER AFTER a whirlwind year, which saw her first book become the UK’s biggest-selling debut cookbook of all time, health blogger Ella Woodward could be forgiven for having a bit of time off.

But this 24-year-old isn’t one for thumb-twiddling. Her follow-up book – Deliciously Ella Every Day – has just hit the shelves (and a third is already in the pipeline), plus there’s a new venture – a deli in her home town of London, which she runs with her fiance – and cookery classes to teach, a new modelling campaign, and her ongoing training to become a nutritionist.

“It’s good,” she says with a laugh.

“There’s a lot going on, but it feels like a really exciting time.”

Another of those exciting things is her forthcoming marriage to Matthew Mills, the son of a British politician. They got together last year, and enjoy a happy working relationship as well as romantic one.

“It is really nice,” says Woodward,

“There’s so much guilt associated with food... Eating perfectly is what makes you happiest” of teaming up with her beau for The Mae Deli, “because up until now, everything I’ve done, I’ve worked on my own. I do love it, and I’ve got girls in the office who help me, but it is all me.

“With everything that has happened with Deliciously Ella, it’s been amazing, and obviously all your friends and family will be excited for you, but I don’t know if it’s quite the same. There’s something nice about when you start something together, when you share in the excitement.

“We’re both really excited by the same things, and you’ve got someone to bounce ideas off all the time.”

She says they’re planning to have a “really small wedding” later this year. “It’s another thing to plan, but a nice thing...”

Much as they’ll give the cooking a wide berth on the big day, crossover was an inevitability.

“We were doing recipes recently

KITCHEN DIVA Give your heart some love

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS HEART disease is often described as the silent disease because it can develop over many years before it shows any symptoms.

Heart disease can include many conditions. Among them are congestive heart failure, stroke, congenital heart defects and coronary heart disease, which includes heart attack and angina.

Among the risk factors that can lead to heart disease are high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.

Healthy lifestyles are important for heart health for people of all ages. Im-

for the deli and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this one could be our wedding cake’, and I was so excited by it,” she reveals with a laugh.

Like her deli, books – and presumably her wedding cake too – Woodward has built her reputation on the idea that, with a few clever ingredient swaps, healthy eating needn’t mean fussy and boring eating.

It’s been a steep learning curve for the former ‘sugar monster’. Indeed, just five years ago, Woodward radically changed her diet when her health was on the wane, leaving the then 19-year-old model and history of art student bed-ridden for up to 16 hours a day, unable to risk a short stroll without suffering heavy heart palpitations and chronic pain.

Eventually diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS), a potentially debilitating condition which affects the autonomic nervous system, she found that traditional treatments only went so far, and so she looked to her diet for answers.

She admits she’d rarely cooked before that point, but gradually, she overhauled her diet, cutting out meat, dairy, sugar and processed food. Soon she felt much better, and began documenting her culinary experiments on her blog.

Today, her subscribers are in excess of 60,000, in addition to her 715k Instagram followers and 85k Twitter fans. And much as the regime works well for her and her devotees, she is keen to avoid guiltmongering others into following her food path.

“I don’t particularly like the concept of a guilty pleasure,” says Woodward. “Be forgiving of yourself.

“I think people want to ‘eat perfectly’, and that doesn’t exist. Eating perfectly is what makes you happiest, and that might be eating a smoothie for breakfast but having a pizza with your girlfriends for dinner – that’s fine.

“As long as you don’t wake up the next day and make yourself feel guilty about it. There’s so much guilt associated with food.”

If you want to try rustling up some healthy – and guilt-free – treats for you and your loved one, here are three lovely new recipes from Deliciously Ella Every Day... plementing the following healthy habits will help prevent or delay the onset of heart disease and the risk factors associated with it: * Consume a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains and high-fibre foods. Fruits and vegetables may help you control your weight and your blood pressure. Soluble fibre helps control cholesterol, and insoluble fibre has been shown to decrease the progression of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals. * Limit fat to no more than 20 per cent to 35 per cent of total calories. The average man should consume about 2000 calories (8368 kilojoules) per day, the average woman around 1500 (6276 kilojoules). If 30 per cent of the calories came from fat, total fat should be no more than 67 grams, and saturated fat should be less than 22 grams. Of course,

Ella Woodward.

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you don’t need any saturated fat, so less is better. * Sodium can contribute to high blood pressure. Aim to eat less than 2300 milligrams of sodium per day. If you’re at risk for high blood pressure, your goal should be to consume 1500 milligrams or less per day. * Eat fish, especially oily fish, such as salmon, trout and herring, at least twice per week. Oily fish contribute omega-3 fatty acids, which are associated with a reduced risk of death from coronary artery disease. * Get plenty of physical activity. Moderate exercise, like a brisk walk, should make you feel slightly out of breath. If you don’t have 30 minutes, you can do it in 10-minute increments and still enjoy the health benefits.

My recipe for Cajun Pan-Fried Trout with Collard Greens is a great way to in-

corporate an oily fish and hearty greens into your healthy heart diet.

CAJUN PAN-FRIED TROUT WITH COLLARD GREENS If you can’t find frozen collard greens, you can substitute frozen mustard, kale or turnip greens, as desired.

2 1/2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning, divided use 2 1/2 teaspoons light brown sugar, divided use 1 1/2 teaspoons poultry seasoning, divided use 4 110-to-140-gram trout fillets, pin bones removed, patted dry 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided use 2 stalks celery, finely chopped 5 green onions, sliced (white and green parts separated) 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 2 (425g) cans pinto beans, drained

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THE PERFECT GARDEN FRY-UP (Serves 1) 2tbsp olive oil 1/2tsp cayenne pepper 1tsp dried oregano 1tsp dried thyme 2 garlic cloves, crushed Salt and pepper 6 chestnut mushrooms, very finely sliced 10 cherry tomatoes (halved or quartered if large) Juice of 1 lemon 50g spinach 1/2 avocado

Pour the olive oil into a frying pan and add the cayenne pepper, oregano, thyme, garlic, salt and pepper.

Let it heat and develop its fragrance for two minutes.

Add the mushrooms, tomatoes and half the lemon juice and let everything cook for about three minutes, at which point the veg should have softened.

Stir in the spinach and let it wilt for another minute or so.

Pile the vegetables from the pan on to a plate – or a piece of toast – and slice the avocado on top.

Drizzle the remaining lemon juice over the avocado and sprinkle with a little salt and pepper to serve. and rinsed 1 (425g) can no-salt-added diced tomatoes 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 cups frozen collard greens (about 225g) 1/2 tablespoon Louisiana-style green hot sauce Lemon wedges, for serving 1. Mix together 1 1/2 teaspoons each Cajun seasoning and brown sugar and 1/2 teaspoon poultry season. Sprinkle mixture on the flesh side of each fish fillet, and set fish aside in the refrigerator.

2. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.

Add celery and green-onion whites and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, 4 to 5 minutes. Add garlic and remaining 1 teaspoon each Cajun seasoning, brown sugar and poultry seasoning. Cook, stirring, 30 seconds. Add the beans, toma-

CHOCOLATE GANACHE CAKE (Makes 1 cake) For the cake: Coconut oil, for the tin 3 avocados 7tbsp almond butter 8tbsp raw cacao powder, plus more to dust (optional) 11tbsp maple syrup 140g ground almonds 3tbsp chia seeds For the frosting: 4tbsp coconut oil 4tbsp raw cacao powder 4tbsp maple syrup Preheat the oven to 180C (fan 160C). Oil a 20cm cake tin with coconut oil. (I don’t line it with baking parchment as my ‘tin’ is made from silicone. If yours isn’t, you might want to.)

Scoop the avocado flesh out of the skins; discard the stones.

Add the avocados to a food processor with all the other ingredients and blend until smooth. Scrape the batter into the prepared tin and level the top.

Bake for 30 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool and bind together for at least 20 minutes before turning out of the tin.

Sift over a little more cacao powder, if you like, to serve, as we did for the photo, or make the frosting. For the frosting, warm the coconut oil in a small saucepan just until it melts. Stir in all the other ingredients until you have a smooth, glossy glaze. Use it to frost the top of the cold cake, then leave to set.

This cake is perfect just as it is, frosted or not, but you could add a scoop of coconut ice cream to each slice if you want.

toes and salt, and 3/4 cup water.

3. Bring the mixture to a simmer, and cook until the liquid is slightly reduced, 10 to 12 minutes. Stir in collard greens and cook until tender, about 5 minutes.

Add green onion tops and a few dashes of hot sauce.

4. Heat 1/2 tablespoon olive oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat; add 2 of the fish fillets, seasoned-side down, and cook, undisturbed, until the skin has turned a dark reddish-brown colour on the bottom, 3 to 4 minutes. Carefully turn the fillets and cook until flesh turns from clear and translucent to white and firm, about 1 more minute. Transfer fillet to a plate and cover loosely with foil. Repeat with the remaining 1/2 tablespoon olive oil and 2 fish fillets. Serve with bean and collard green mixture, and lemon wedges.

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CHICKPEA, QUINOA AND TURMERIC CURRY (Serves 6) 500g new potatoes, halved 3 garlic cloves, crushed 3tsp ground turmeric 1tsp ground coriander 1tsp chilli flakes or powder 1tsp ground ginger 400g can of coconut milk 1tbsp tomato puree 400g can of chopped tomatoes Salt and pepper 180g quinoa 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed 150g spinach Place the potatoes in a pan of cold water and bring to the boil, then let them cook for about 25 minutes, until you can easily stick a knife through them. Drain them well.

Place the potatoes in a large pan and add the garlic, turmeric, coriander, chilli, ginger, coconut milk, tomato puree and tomatoes. Bring to the boil, season with salt and pepper, then add the quinoa with a mug of just-boiled water (300ml).

Reduce the heat to a simmer, place the lid on and allow to cook. Over the next 30 minutes, stir every five minutes or so, to make sure nothing sticks to the bottom. (This is quite a long cooking time, but this is how long quinoa takes to cook in all these ingredients, rather than just in water.)

Halfway through cooking, add the chickpeas. When there are just five minutes left, add the spinach and stir it in until it wilts. Once the quinoa has cooked and is fluffy, not crunchy, it’s ready.

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Afar and away in East Africa

BY SARAH MARSHALL IT’S hard to imagine what the world might look like following the collapse of humanity.

For astronaut George Taylor, Charlton Heston’s character in 1968 film Planet of the Apes, it looked very much like this.

Surging skyward from millennia-old riverbeds parched crisp by the sun, hundreds of steaming fumaroles and limestone chimneys served as a fitting backdrop for the post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.

As I weave through spiralling calcareous sculptures silhouetted by a jaundiced bitter yellow sunset, a mosaic of salt flats pops and crunches underfoot. On the horizon, a woman cloaked in billowing purple silks navigates a herd of goats and donkeys through a dusty haze.

There’s no sign of Taylor’s forlorn Statue of Liberty submerged in the sand, but I share the same sense of discovering a forgotten civilization from a lost period in time.

I’m standing on the flamingostreaked shores of Lake Abbe in Djibouti, a small country in the Horn of Africa, bordering Ethiopia, Somaliland and Eritrea.

A charred, volcanic wasteland, it sits in the centre of the Afar Triangle, where three pieces of the Earth’s crust are slowly shifting apart, and forms part of the Great Rift Valley, a continuous 6400km geographic trench that’s visible from space.

Aside from a brief flirtation with Hollywood, the only international interest in Djibouti has been a military one. The former French colony provides a safe and stable base from which to monitor a volatile region, where civil war is raging 20 miles across the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in Yemen, and the threat of Somali pirates still hangs over the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Proximity to war zones, poor infrastructure (there are few roads and no hot water in the entire country) and a population that swings between inquisitive and inhospitable, hardly provide the platform for a thriving tourist industry.

Yet the opportunity to explore Dali-esque landscapes plucked straight from the pages of National Geographic is too good for adventurous travellers to turn down. I’ve joined Explore Worldwide’s first escorted tour through the region and it’s completely sold out.

Travelling in a convoy of 4WDs, we thump and bump over rocky, arid terrain, through deserts dotted with thorny acacia bushes and little else. It’s a hostile environment, and inhabitants are suitably abrasive.

As we approach a nomadic settlement of huts built from sun-

First world problems in business class

BY ALISON GODFREY SYDNEY: So you’re flying business class.

It’s better than economy but you feel like the middle child.

bleached branches, our drivers speed up. Unruly children from the Afar tribe chase the vehicles, some throwing stones, others cheekily poking out brilliant pink tongues from jet black faces, while their shy Muslim mothers hide beneath a swirling mass of colourful fabrics.

Even as I raise my camera, our driver, Ermi, shakes his head.

“They won’t like it,” he says, as another rock bounces off the bonnet.

It’s easy to understand why local people are so suspicious; up until now, few tourists have bothered to come this far. It’s more common for foreigners to congregate in coastal areas, attracted by pristine coral reefs and the opportunity to swim with juvenile whale sharks.

Jason Shrewsbury from local operator Dolphin Services offers to take me out on a skiff boat in search of the gentle sea giants. Originally employed at the American military base, the blond, 20-something dive instructor developed a passion for the marine world while stationed here.

“These days, everyone stays in their bases,” he laments as we leave the busy port of capital Djibouti City, which is choked with liners transporting goods to neighbouring Ethiopia. “But the best part of Djibouti really is underwater.”

From November to January, whale sharks feed in these clear, warm waters and tourists have the chance to snorkel alongside them.

As soon as we catch sight of a polkadotted creature, I dive in and, like a bunny in a juggernaut’s headlights, find myself staring into a gaping, metre-wide, pillar-box mouth.

More interested in measly krill than a meaty human, the largest fish in the sea glides past and disappears into the inky depths as I frantically struggle – and never succeed – to catch up.

After an hour spent swimming along the coast, where butterfly fish and manta rays lurk beneath table coral big enough to host a deep sea banquet, I agree with Jason about Djibouti’s marine merits.

It would, though, be unfair to dismiss the rest of the country.

The rubbish-strewn Yemeni refugee camps surrounding Djibouti City don’t make for comfortable sightseeing material, yet they give a sobering insight into a detached, troubled world often only viewed through TV screens. (Last year, footballer David Beckham came here as part of his project 7: The David Beckham Unicef Fund.)

At times life feels almost as worthless as the plastic bags rolling like tumbleweed in the dust, and there’s an unavoidable sadness about Djibouti, a sense it’s been abandoned.

But beyond the rusting water can-

You’re not the smallest player on the plane, but you’re certainly not the largest.

Business class is fantastic.

Certainly better than economy, also known as cattle class. But there are just a few things you want more of.

Here are the top first world problems overheard on one re-

isters left here by aid workers and bottle tops moulded into the mud, is a geological wonder world comparable to nowhere else on earth.

From the petrified Day Forest National Park in the Goda Mountains, to the lowest point in Africa, the vividly turquoise and heavily saline Lake Assal, there’s a wealth of natural attractions.

With a bit of love, it could have so much potential.

The Ethiopian government and their Chinese investors clearly think so, and have spent several billion dollars on a train line to link Addis Ababa with the port in Djibouti City, one of Africa’s most important trade routes.

Our journey to Djibouti also started in the Ethiopian capital, and Explore’s decision to combine the two countries in an itinerary is wise.

With tribal groups spilling across the border, there are clear cultural similarities and a trade dependency means fortunes are inextricably linked.

In contrast to its stagnant neighbour, Ethiopia is developing at an accelerating pace. In the last few years, several thousand kilometres of road have been asphalted, and while driving across the country, we share carriageways with wooden carts piled high with hay bales and women in burkas riding horse back.

The famine-ridden Band Aid years have been consigned to the past and a new picture of progress is emerging.

Bucking perceived stereotypes, Ethiopia can be remarkably green (and cold) as I discover on a trek through the Bale Mountains in search of endangered nyala, giant mole rats and Ethiopian wolves.

Condensation rises from ponds and thick clouds suffocate the basalt landscape as we race to beat falling darkness and plummeting mercury levels.

But perhaps most remarkable of all is the degree of religious harmony, with Muslims and Christians coexisting peacefully. The medieval walled city of Harar even earned UNESCO status for being “a city of tolerance, peace and diversity”.

A high percentage of the population is addicted to chewing khat, and as I sidestep over men sprawled supine in the street, one with a bunch of hibiscus flowers wedged into his hair with an afro comb, I wonder how much the natural stimulant is responsible for the laidback, carefree vibe.

Regardless of religion or ethnic grouping, the people here share a sense of national pride. That’s one “good” they might want to consider exporting to Djibouti. :: Sarah Marshall was a guest of Explore.

cent business class flight to Los Angeles.

1. Why have my pyjamas not arrived yet? When will they bring them out?

2. I wish my massage chair was stronger.

3. If only they had Dom Perignon champagne.

4. The mattress on my fully-

reclining chair just isn’t thick enough.

5. My TV screen is too far away, I need my glasses.

6. There are too many drinks on my table, I can’t get out to go to the toilet.

7. My clothes got wet by the sensor tap in the toilet.

8. My water bottle has fallen

down the side of my seat and stopped it from reclining fully flat.

9. Why don’t they have smaller pyjamas?

If these are the worst complaints that business class passengers have, it’s definitely worth the upgrade.

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If you’re not ready Anna Hope, you’re seriously missing out

of the novel; multidimensional and resilient, she makes the ideal feminist heroine for the modernday reader.

Sam Baker manages to masterfully unravel a story of trauma, abuse, and devastation to expose the need to confront painful truths in order to rebuild and survive.

8/10 (Review by Erin Bateman)

BY KATE WHITING BOOK OF THE WEEK The Ballroom by Anna Hope is published in hardback by Doubleday.

AN asylum on the Yorkshire Moors in the first decades of the twentieth century is the setting for Anna Hope’s magnificent second novel, The Ballroom, the follow-up to her impressive debut of last year, Wake.

Segregation, discipline and restraint are the order of the day for residents at Sharston Asylum. In the women’s building, newcomer Ella has to adjust to the strict confinement of daily life as she dreams of escape.

But there are only three ways out: sanity, escape or death.

Across the way, the men fare only slightly better, allowed outside to dig graves or work the land. But for John, it’s a respite from his past.

Only on Fridays do the two halves meet for a dance in the institution’s ballroom, led by second assistant medical office and chief bandsman, Dr Charles Fuller. A student of eugenics, he disapproves of the move towards sterilization of the working classes and infirm, seeing, instead, music as a way of betterment, and he hopes to prove his theory with one of his patients: John Mulligan.

Anna Hope has proven once again that she is a luminary in historical fiction. Writing history from the margins, the personal stories behind the era, she delivers profound, poignant narratives that stir the emotions.

Taut from the outset, Hope’s narrative conjures the desperation and tension within the asylum as well as drawing three complicated and nuanced characters and weaving them together in a compelling and masterful way.

The love story is simply magnificent, but it is the backdrop to it all that is so fascinating.

If you thought Anna Hope’s debut was good, this one is even better. And if you haven’t read either, you’re seriously missing out.

9/10 (Review by Jade Craddock)

Anna Hope’s second novel is even better than her impressive first.

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FICTION The Woman Who Ran by Sam Baker is published in paperback by HarperCollins.

WHEN Helen Graham arrives in a remote Yorkshire village as the new tenant of dilapidated Wildfell estate, she immediately provokes suspicion amongst her inquisitive neighbours, especially retired journalist Gil Markham.

It’s when Gil discovers that Helen is wanted by French police in connection to a house fire in Paris that is believed to have killed her husband, his interest turns into obsession.

All Helen remembers is waking up in the flame-engulfed apartment, naked and bewildered, so she struggles to answer her own questions, let alone those of an intrusive journalist. Between Gil and Helen’s individual narratives, the fragments of Helen’s memory are slowly pieced together, revealing a brutal and shocking truth.

The Woman Who Ran is a clever modernisation of Anne Bronte’s feminist classic The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, that is intriguing to start and utterly gripping towards the end. Helen is without a doubt the standout feature

The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin is published in hardback by Mantle.

EVER since he could speak, Janie’s son, Noah, has been asking for his other mother. Now four years old, Noah’s imaginative leaps have become progressively worse. After the latest psychologist offers a discomforting diagnosis, Janie seeks out alternative help.

Dr Jerome Anderson walked away from a prestigious university medical residency to turn his attentions to the phenomenon of reincarnation. Now fighting primary progressive aphasia, he decides to take up the baton for his life’s work once more. Time is against him though, as is finding a relevant case study, until Janie gets in touch. Finding the truth about Noah’s past could be both Anderson and Janie’s salvation, but it does not come without pitfalls.

Sharon Guskin’s debut is an incredible Russian doll of a novel, beginning as a seemingly ordinary story of maternal struggle, it soon unfurls into a fascinating tour of reincarnation, a compelling murder mystery, and an examination of the familial bond.

But don’t be put off by the foray into the preternatural if it’s not your thing, because, like Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, at its core it really is just superb fiction.

And despite its title, this is one book you won’t forget in a hurry.

8/10 (Review by Jade Craddock) A Summer At Sea by Katie Fforde is published in hardback by Century.

BESTSELLING author Katie Fforde returns with a new romantic novel. Thirty-something Emily Bailey is single and loves being a

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 26.02.2016 to Sunday 28.02.2016 midwife. As an advocate of home births, she often comes up against those who feel it is dangerous. She becomes disillusioned by the negativity as well as the financial cuts to her maternity unit.

With Emily at the end of her tether, a solution from her university friend Rebecca appears to be the answer. Heavily pregnant Rebecca owns a boat catering to holidaymakers off the Scottish coast, and desperately needs a cook for the summer.

Despite having no experience of working on a boat, Emily believes a change in scenery will get her life back on track.

During her stint on the boat, she forms new friendships, and even becomes attracted to her boss’s brother-in-law. But the summer is about to end, so what will happen when Emily goes home? Another lovely read.

7/10 (Review by Julie Cheng) NON-FICTION When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is published in hardback by Bodley Head.

THE line between life and death has never been explored quite so personally as in Paul Kalanithi’s wrenching memoir. Its opening casts the shadow: Paul and wife Lucy, clutching one another on a hospital bed following his diagnosis with terminal lung cancer at 36.

In lucid prose, Paul explains his shift from English degree to neurosurgery – a conscious search for life’s meaning, an irony not lost on him – and subsequent

lessons learned either side of the doctor/patient divide.

The life of a junior neurosurgeon is gripping and relentless: Paul struggles with the pastoral more than the procedural, gradually accepting his primary role of helping patients and families to acknowledge their circumstances; to face their own shadows.

When his illness catches up with him, Paul explores his condition and altered self-definition with impossible grace – is he a doctor? husband? – probing until the last. The final pages, from Paul and then Lucy, are moving, humble, and impossible to ignore.

7/10 (Review by Michael Anderson)

society debutantes and ordinary servicemen and women brought together in what is now a nondescript suburb of Milton Keynes.

The story is not told through Alan Turing-tinted glasses, introducing a wide range of people working at the Park and also those living around it, who were totally kept in the dark, including some who thought it was a special lunatic asylum. This isn’t a book for someone wanting an in-depth history of Enigma code-breaking or Turing’s disgraceful post-war treatment, but is a tactile dipin-and-out primer on a fascinating time and place in British history.

7/10 (Review by David Wilcock)

Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives

by Sinclair McKay and Bletchley Park is published in hardback by Aurum Press.

JOE Public gets a whistle-stop tour behind the scenes of Britain’s Second World War code-breaking nerve centre in this official history.

It is less an examination of the Top Secret work than an introduction to the place and the people who made the magic happen, and how they lived their covert lives. It takes in the transformation of the Park from pre-war society destination to a vital espionage hub wreathed in secrecy (which carried on for decades) as it broke Axis codes and played a vital role in Allied victory.

The book is at its best when it describes the human collision of Oxbridge classicists, introverted mathematicians,

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK A Beginner’s Guide To Bear Spotting by Michelle Robinson and David Roberts is published in hardback by Bloomsbury.

IT’S very unlikely any of us in this country will ever get up close and personal with a bear in the wild... but that’s exactly what children’s books are all about – to transcend the stuffy, grown-up boundaries of possibility and fire little imaginations. And A Beginner’s Guide To Bear Spotting does that in spades.

From the pen and pencil of awardwinning author-illustrator team Michelle Robinson and David Roberts (There’s A Lion In My Cornflakes and Mouse Noses On Toast, respectively), this autumn-hued volume is a visual delight.

“Going for a walk in BEAR country?”

The power of the brain D ESCRIBED as ‘a guided tour’, “The Human Brain” has been written by Susan Greenfield. She notes that even for those who have dedicated a lifetime to its study, the brain remains a tantalising mystery.

Still, she explores the roles of different regions of the brain and explains how it continuously changes as a result of experience to provide the essence of who we are as individuals.

In the “Emotional Life of the Brain” by Richard Davidson, we read about understanding our emotions, why each one of us responds so differently to the same events experienced in life, and what we can do to change and improve our emotional lives. The author helps us identify our own emotional ‘style’ and explains the chemistry that underlies it. He gives us a new model of the emotional brain and deepens our understanding of the mind-body connection – as well as conditions like autism and depression. A key chapter deals with the mind-brain-body connection and how emotional style influences health.

Dan Hurley is the author of “Smarter” which deals with the new science of building brain power. Apparently there has been a conception that our intelligence is fixed – you are either born clever or not and there is nothing you can do about it.

Hurley maintains that this idea is wrong and sets out how IQ works (and often doesn’t). He discusses the views on pills, super foods and fitness, learning a language or an instrument and do they work? He puts the sci-

ence to the test and provides insight for those who want to better their own thinking and even stave off the decline of advancing years.

Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do fools fall in love? These questions and many others are discussed in Steven Pinker’s “How the Mind Works”. It explores aspects of human life, showing how our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by computation. One commentator notes that the book is a “witty and popular science that you enjoy reading for the writing as well as for the science”. It will change the way your mind works.

Dr Chris O’Brien’s memoir is a remarkable example of a battle with cancer. As a brain surgeon he was well aware of the risks involved when he decided to undergo the surgery that enabled him to live nearly two more years. Now his widow has her story “This Is Gail”

which relates her life with and after Chris O’Brien. One of her achievements is to continue the development of the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse at RPA hospital.

Norman Doidge is a highly respected writer and, as an MD, has compiled “stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science” in “The Brain That Changes Itself”. Oliver Sacks has reviewed the book and comments that it is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, a woman labelled ‘retarded’ who cured her deficits with brain exercises and now cures others, blind people who learn to see, learning disorders cured, IQs raised, ageing brains rejuvenated, stroke patients recovering their faculties, children with cerebral palsy learning to move more gracefully, entrenched depression and anxiety disappearing, and lifelong character traits changed.

Doidge tells of people of average intelligence who, with brain exercises, improve their cognition and perception, develop

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it asks the reader and our proxy, a genderless, nameless child in a blue balaclava with a huge backpack. “You’d better make sure you know your bears.”

So we’re introduced to a black bear and a brown bear (sketched simply on graph paper) – and the child’s little blue soft toy bear. We (and child) set off through the forest – and oh, bump into both types (“This must be your LUCKY DAY.”) How to defend ourselves? Hmm... By turns funny and sweet, it’s a real pleasure to devour – there are bound to be more awards on the horizon for this pair.

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection their muscle strength or learn to play musical instruments – simply by imagining doing so.

In his second book, “The Brain’s Way of Healing”, Doidge writes on the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing.

For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain’s complexity was that, compared with other organs, it was fixed and un-regenerative – unable to recover from damage or illness.

This book challenges that belief, showing how the amazing process of neuro-plastic healing, really works.

When it is understood, it is often possible to radically improve and even cure, many conditions thought to be irreversible. Doidge introduced us to patients who have alleviated years of chronic pain, children on the autistic spectrum or with ADD or learning disorders, who have used neuro-plastic techniques to complete a normal education and become independent. Sufferers with symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, brain injuries and cerebral palsy have seen their conditions radically diminish; and we learn how to lower risks of dementia by 60 per cent. Through these astonishing stories the book explains how mind, brain and body, and

the energies around us work together in health and healing.

Daniel Klein collects some wisdom of the great philosophers in his book “Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It”. In his eightieth year, he relates how during his time as a young college student studying philosophy, he filled a notebook with short quotes from the world’s greatest thinkers, ranging from Epicurus to Emerson, and Marcus Aurelius to Peter Singer, hoping to find some guidance on how to live the best life he could.

In the book he revisits that wisdom of philosophical gems.

One example comes from Machiavelli (1469-1527) who wrote: “A man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good.” Klein responds to this by writing, “When I am feeling bad about not being good. It is always invigorating to take a deep swig of Machiavelli, The Ethics of Bad.” In his famous essay “The Prince”, Machiavelli laid out a detailed strategy for getting ahead in the world.

The decisions we make about life are determined by the way we think – the brain and its composition has that influence.

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Adam Brand: Good year to be an outlaw It’s practically an Australian right of passage that a handful of mates would bundle themselves together into a car and head out on a road trip for the time of their lives but just like petrol, you can’t go anywhere without a playlist. So when the “gang” of buddies who call themselves The Outlaws got to thinking about a soundtrack for their road trippin’ lives, it made perfect sense to write, sing and record an album of songs themselves, then use the road trip to take it all on a national tour. Frontman and country music king, Adam Brand gave DUBBO WEEKENDER a bit of an idea of what audiences can expect when The Outlaws ride into town on March 17.

It is a boy’s road trip for sure, that’s exactly what it is. The music is the soundtrack for that road trip. That’s really how we put the album together.

Let’s think of all our favourite songs, all the songs we love to party too, and all our favourite songs that we would put in our epic playlist if we were going on a road trip. That’s how we chose the songs.

Touring can be hard work, but the thing about this is that we’re great mates. That’s the foundation of this band. If you added up all the gigs, all the shows that we’ve done between us, it would probably come to 15,000 between us. When you’ve done so much touring over the years you can sometimes get a bit blasé and take it for granted, but doing this, because it’s so unique, and it’s so different and we’re doing it as all mates, it’s like we’re popping out of our skin. It’s like it’s our very

first tour.

What’s its done is give us back that naïve, you beauty feeling so yes, it gets tiring, but we’re just having too much fun as mates doing something different. What you’re seeing on social media, and all the talking about how much fun it is, it actually is. We get back after each week of shows, we’re exhausted but we can’t wait to get back out again.

Because we’re just good mates, this show has just got this extra feeling of wow, what’s going to happen next because we’re all playing pranks on each other, we’re all having fun. Even off stage it doesn’t stop. You’ll watch our social media; you just don’t know what we’re going to do next. There’s just that element of surprise and unexpected happenings all the time and that’s what’s capturing people’s imagination and making it even more fun for us.

Drew McAlister? Big man. Six foot four. A powerhouse; one of the best

voices in Australia, very solid guy. Great mate.

Travis Collins: the young gun. He plays that guitar like it’s a six-gun shooter. He’s on the edge of becoming a superstar. Just believe in him.

Matt Cornell? Matt’s the guy you want him in your corner. When anything happens, you want Matt in your corner. He’s Mr Reliable. He’s always there. He’s super organised and he’s played in so many bands. He’s played with the Baby Animals; he’s played with Richard Clapton. He’s done so much stuff over the years.

Mike Carr. He’s the oldest of the group but he’s the one you’ve got to watch. He sits at the back there playing his piano but you never know what he’s going to come out with, you never know what he’s going to do. He is trouble with a capital T; you just don’t see it coming.

Keep your eye on him.

Adam Brand? He’s the cheeky monkey, running around, and you also don’t know what I’m going to do next either. If you know the energiser bunny, I’m kind of like that. Because I’m not playing guitar I’ve got both hands free to just cause trouble. Australia shouldn’t worry though. Just come along to the show and hang on for the ride.

They’re all our favourite songs, I also do some of my songs, “Get Loud”, “Hell of a Ride”, things like that. We also go off a little bit into the fellas stories; have a little bit of a chat with them, there’s some surprises.

The show is fairly weighted with big Australian anthems as well, it’s so much fun, you’ve got five guys all singing every song together and then it’s contagious and the crowd start singing.

That’s the uniqueness of the band as well; five singers on stage; we’re a gang of singers. We’re the Outlaws.

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A feast of music, poetry and drama

BY VIVIENNE WINTHER DIRECTOR MACQUARIE CONSERVATORIUM UM

ARIN SCHAUPP is one of Australia’s most successful classical guitarists, and has also acted in her own one-woman show for Australian festivals and the Edinburgh Fringe. Tama Matheson is an actor who has appeared in TV shows Eastenders and Heartbeat, while playing major Shakespeare roles on stage, and establishing himself as a sought-after director and writer. With an overflow of talent between them, together they combine Lord Byron’s epic poem Don Juan and the dramatic story of the great poet’s life with evocative Spanish guitar music, in a striking music theatre performance coming to Dubbo this March.

How did this partnership come about?

Karin Schaupp (KS): I saw Tama perform with a music ensemble in Brisbane, the “Camerata of St John”, in a show he wrote about the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and he played Bach – it was absolutely brilliant.

So I approached him to talk about working together.

We had a couple of long meetings over coffee, threw around ideas and came up with Don Juan.

Tama Matheson (TM): It was a real thrill to have an artist like Karin approach me and suggest we do some work together, it was totally unexpected.

What brought you to Lord Byron’s poem Don Juan as the focus of your show?

KS: It was Tama’s idea. We were considering how the guitar would be relevant and contribute something to the storytelling, so a Spanish theme was one possibility. Originally Tama had been interested in the Don Quixote story, but we found out that a guitar quartet had created a concert based on that story.

So Don Juan was probably the second major idea we looked at, and I’m really happy we went with this. The Don Juan and Byron characters, the poem itself, the way Tama has put it all together, it’s very original, and totally entertaining. Tama really inhabits the role of Lord Byron.

TM: Literature was one of my main studies so it was a delight to choose a great classic like Byron’s Don Juan poem for this show. Once we had settled on it, I realised that as well as being a great poem in itself, I could use it to tell the story of Byron’s life, as many episodes in the poem are clearly autobiographical.

Reading the Don Juan poem again, I couldn’t believe how easy it was to read, and how hilarious it was. The poem is very irreverent, scandalous and cheeky, so combined with the life of Byron, which is all of those things as well, I felt the show could be a winner!

Have you worked on other theatre projects, Karin?

KS: I’ve done a one-woman show, called “Lotte’s Gift”, written for me by David Williamson, the great Australian playwright. That was a pretty big thing to do as my first foray into theatre, it was a steep learning curve! It’s the story of my grandmother, and I play both her and myself, and play guitar as well. I’ve done about 160 performances of it in Australia and overseas. But Don Juan is the first time I’ve worked on stage with an actor. I have a few cameo moments of acting in this show, but mostly I’m doing the music. I play while Tama speaks, in the poetic moments, and I find it’s really like accompanying a singer. Tama is very musical, so for me Don Juan feels like a musical collaboration.

Tama, have you worked on other music projects?

TM: The rest of my family are all professional musicians: my father is a conductor, my mother is an opera singer and my brother is a pianist, so it’s no accident that a lot of my theatre work is connected to music.

I’ve created and performed in several shows with orchestras and other music ensembles where I’ve combined words with music. I did a Midsummer’s Night Dream with all of the Shakespeare play and all of Mendelssohn’s music for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. With the “Camerata of St John”, I first did a show about the composer Benjamin Britten, then the Bach show, and also one about Tchaikovsky. So yes, I’m very comfortable working with music.

What role does the music play in the show, Karin?

KS: I had free rein to choose the music. We had a shortlist of pieces we wanted to use, and then we found moments in the show where music would work well.

The music is used in different ways: it accompanies, it stands alone, it reflects on what’s just happened, or it sparks the next thing. When the music and the spoken word are combined, the music goes along underneath,

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Reading the Don Juan poem again, I couldn’t believe how easy it was to read, and how hilarious it was. The poem is very irreverent, scandalous and cheeky, so combined with the life of Byron, which is all of those things as well, I felt the show could be a winner! – Tama Matheson Tama Matheson and Karin Schaupp in Don Juan.

but also beyond the words, to what can’t be said. It’s a very expressive combination.

As the writer, Tama, how did you combine the different elements of the show?

TM: First of all, I read a life of Byron and the Don Juan poem in conjunction, to see the parallels between them. I then did more of my own research on Byron, to find episodes in his life that were reflected in the poem, and I concentrated on those parts of the poem for the play, so they could represent Byron’s life. You get a full picture of Byron by using the poem as a jumping off point.

How is this show different for you as a performer?

TM: Usually I’ve had several musicians involved in this sort of thing. In this, there are only the two of us on stage the whole time, so everything is just a little more on show. But the main difference for me is that Karin moves easily between the roles of musician and actor, so in this show, I do so much more with her as a performer, as an actor, than I’ve done with musicians in other shows. Her versatility was something very unusual to work with, and adds so much to the show.

KS: I find it challenging but fun. It’s great to have my own acting scenes, to play around with humour, move around the stage, that’s all very different to the stand-

ard classical guitar recital – sometimes I’m a bit out of breath when I get back to my seat to play the next piece of music!

How have audiences responded to your show?

TM: I’ve been surprised by the strong response of the audience to the poetry. There seems to be a real hunger for this type of very rich text, the beautiful writing of Byron, in which the words themselves are such a pleasure. Then you have the music, it elevates the words even further. The result is something almost magical; the combination of classical literature and classical music gives the audience a very fulfilling experience.

KS: It’s been interesting to find out that people really want to see more of this kind of performance, a mix of drama, poetry and music. It’s a show that attracts people who like classical music, theatre, and literature.

It’s exciting to see these art-forms combined and their audiences brought together. z Don’t miss Karin Schaupp and Tama Matheson in “Don Juan” 7.30pm, Friday, March 18, at Macquarie Conservatorium Dubbo; with a masterclass for guitarists at 4.30pm before the show. Visit www.macqcon.org.au for more info and bookings.

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SECOND MAJOR DRAW NIGHT NEXT WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH 10 Key Draws Raffle tickets on sale from 5pm

SHOW LUNCHEON

CARTER EDWARDS 8 MARCH

ROCK AROUND THE WORLD SHOW

Tuesday 15 March Doors Open 10.00am Members $30 Non-Members $35 Bookings with the Events Centre 6882 4411

THEATRETTE SHOWTIMES 2PM & 7PM ALL TICKETS $15

ADAM BRAND & THE OUTLAWS

17 MARCH – AUDITORIUM SHOWTIME 8PM | ALL AGES SHOW ADULTS $35 CHILD $15

THE WIGGLES “WIGGLE TOWN TOUR” 16 APRIL SHOWTIME 12 NOON BOOK ONLINE OR CLUB RECEPTION Dubbo RSL supports the responsible service of alcohol and the responsible conduct of gambling THINK! About your choices call gambling help 1800 858 858 LTPS/15/09927 *Conditions apply | Phone: 6882 4411 | dubborsl.com.au

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Seven Soprano’s singing sensations

BY HAYLEY FERRIS LOCAL opera fans gathered at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre on Saturday, February 20, to see the Seven Soprano’s perform live. After a few drinks, nibbles and mingling in the foyer, guests took their seats for a great show.

Ian and Betty O’Connor from Collie

Brenda Harper

Pat Doherty and Jo Ivey

Christine and Ken Borchardtv

Jenny Rodwell, Regina Harris and May Chandler

Jan and John Pilling and Margaret McWhirter

Gail Colahan, Jenny Heather and Elaine Drummond

Clive and Charmaine Sefton

Until the end of February Only off full price stock …. Not on items already marked down!

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29 Talbragar Street, Dubbo Phone 6882 9528 Open Mon – Fri 9 – 5ish • Saturdays 9 - 12ish (No exchange or returns on SALE items… so PLEASE purchase carefully!)

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Pianist Daniel De Borah wows audience

BY CHERYL HUSBAND DUBBO has been graced with a most magnificent pianist, Daniel de Borah on Friday, February 19, at the Macquarie Conservatorium of Music. Daniel has played ALL around the world with orchestras and enjoys coming visiting country areas to entertain with sets of romantic and virtuosic theme and variations by Schumann and Brahms, as well as Prokofievâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brilliant and dramatic Romeo and Juliet suite.

Everyone who attended enjoyed a most magnificent night of fabulous music.

Lydia Bizabishaka, Madelyn and Annette Fardell

Michael and Lynette Harrison and John Mason

Jan and Andrew Robinson with Rhonda Rugendykev

Helen Harvey with Noni Nixon

Scott Lincoln with Lea-Anne Whalan

Howard and Ro Evans

Cynthia and Pat Foley

Daniel de Borah

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Madhatter’s at the Dubbo Golf Club

BY CHERYL HUSBAND MUSIC made the night for patrons at the Dubbo Golf Club on Friday, February 19, when fabulous local band, Madhatter’s, took to the microphone. They have a fantastic sound; easy listen music and great to dance to if you like to “cut a rug”.

Local band Madhatter’s

Warwick Harper with Mark Gavel

Girlfriends on a girl’s night out

Sheridan Granger and Nick Falcioni

Jennifer and Allen Londow

Susan Nott, Maureen Willis and Owen Nott

Nell, with Taylor Giddings and Kayla and Dylan Ney

Clancy, Maddie and Polly Simmons with Joseph Pay

Maddi with her grandpa, Ray Core

Greg Dunn, Paul Friend and Tim Hibbard

Maddi Montague with her family and friends celebrating her 18th birthday

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Gold the Ultimate ABBA Tribute

BY CHERYL HUSBAND THE 40th Anniversary of Dancing Queen, one of Abba’s signature songs, was celebrated with a huge audience which gathered for a fantastic night of brilliant music from the ‘70’s, on Friday, February 19 at the DRTCC. Remembering back to when ABBA first appeared on the music scene you didn’t tell anyone if you liked ABBA it was a big secret. Dubbo is blessed with being able to draw worldwide entertainers for fabulous nights of music and entertainment.

Ken McAnnally, Gloria and Barry Young, Jane Russ and Annemieke Neville

Lorretta McDonald, Debbie Rowans and Jenny Stevenson.

Elaine Stranford, Desurae Archer and Annemieke Neville

Margaret and Anne Foley

Betty Harper with Judy Brain

Marian Geerdink with Karen Hocking

Jan and Geoff Attwell

Reg Irland(snr) , Bronwyn Pearson with Reg Irland, Jnr

Brenda and Alice Wheatley

Greg and Rhonda Matthews with Gary Pierpiont

Lyn Croxon, Maryanne Podham, Cathy Maginnis with Corrine Martin

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear MEGA superstar from the ‘70s and ‘80s who cast his spell over adoring crowds by the tens of thousands is headed our way later this month with a show called Trilogy of Rock.

He is none other than, Jon English and together with his band of talented muso’s he’ll treat audiences with tunes by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Queen, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Eagles, Billy Joel, The Easybeats, The Doors, Deep Purple, Simon and Garfunkel, Tina Turner, The Kinks, The Mamas and the Papas and David Bowie and naturally, himself.

Saturday, February 27, 2016, 8pm, Dubbo Regional Theatre.

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ANADIAN folk band, Vishten, New Zealand born and Australian bred, Rob Longstaff, and a local songster, 16 year-old, Noah Dorin, will take centre stage at the Toongi Hall as part of the Festival of Small Halls, a series of tours that takes the best folk and contemporary acoustic artists to tiny halls in communities all over Australia.

Festival of Small Halls audiences can expect a beautiful night of original music, as well as a chance to catch up with their families and friends during a supper break, where cake and tea are served. It’s an all ages event and all are welcome.

Get along to the Festival of Small Halls event at Toongi Hall, Friday, March 11, 2016.

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EAD down to the Western Plains Cultural Centre for the Twilight Handmade Art Markets where you’ll find gifts and novelties designed and created by some of the region’s most gifted artisans.

All stallholders will be selling products made by locals and sold by locals, so you will be supporting the local economy as well as purchasing truly unique products.

Enjoy great stalls, live music and activities in a beautiful location on the lawn. Saturday, February 27, 2016. 4pm – 8pm.

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TARDUST circus, Australia’s largest animal circus, has rolled into town. Operated by Janice and Lindsay Lennon, along with five brothers and sisters from the West circus family, their partners and children. The circus has performing animals including African lions, mischievous monkeys, five magnificent liberty horses as well as miniature trick ponies.

You’ll see a large flying trapeze troupe, a spectacular ten-person Hungarian trained teeterboard (springboard) act, and dynamic aerialists high above your head, acrobatic comedy and crazy clowns. The sensational flying trapeze artist has just joined the circus from New York, and presents unbelievable tricks high in the air. Tickets start at $25, children under two are free. In Dubbo until Sunday, February 28, 2016.

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LIVE satellite presentation presented by the Sydney Opera House called “All About Women” streamed across Australia and New Zealand, and Dubbo. The event begins with a panel of high calibre women from the USA asking ‘What needs to change?’ what they would do if they had the power to make things change overnight. Following the panel is Orange is the New Black, a talk with the real life Piper Kerman on what she’s learnt about women during her incarceration and the lessons she carries with her now as an advocate for the rights of prisoners.

All About Women is presented as part of the Sydney Opera House’s annual talks program Ideas at the House.

Dubbo Regional Theatre, Sunday, March 6, 12 noon.

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ROM the oldest culture on earth comes the freshest and funniest stand-up comedy around.

It’s the all-original Aboriginal Comedy Allstars showcase - featuring four of the brightest comedy stars under the Milky Way. It doesn’t get more Aussie than this!

The Aboriginal Comedy Allstars is cheeky, playful, irreverent and hilarious.

An utterly unique comedy experience - great big belly laughs from the heart of the wide, brown land.

Warning: Contains strong language and adult concepts. Recommended for 16 years, and older. Dubbo Regional Theatre, Saturday, March 5, 8pm.

terweave poetry, drama and music into a unique semistaged performance. The evocative Spanish guitar music of Turina, Pujol, and Tarrega transports the audience to the worlds of Byron and Don Juan. A formidable duo, Matheson and Schaupp create a colourful tapestry of beautifully crafted words and virtuosic music of the highest calibre, in this passionate and intriguing theatrical event. Macquarie Conservatorium, Friday, March 18, 7.30pm.

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ON Juan is a feast of music and adventure, exploring the life of one of the most magnetic and seductive heroes in western literature, and that of his equally charismatic creator, Lord Byron. Actor, writer and director Tama Matheson and acclaimed guitarist and actor Karin Schaupp in-

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OPEN WEEKENDER COFFEE & MEALS

ƌŽƉ ŝŶ ƚŽ KůĚ ƵďďŽ 'ĂŽů ĨŽƌ ƐŽŵĞ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ĨƵŶ͘

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT Open Monday to Saturday from 6pm ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ ĐƵŝƐŝŶĞ ƵƐŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ͘ &Ƶůů Ăƌ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ZŽďĞƌƚ KĂƚůĞLJ tŝŶĞƐ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ /ŶŶ ƵďďŽ /ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů Newell Highway (next to the golf course), 6882 4777.

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL

VELDT RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ dƵĞƐĚĂLJ ƚŽ &ƌŝĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϳĂŵ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ͘ Open for dinner Monday to Saturday Under Quest Serviced Apartments ŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ DĞŶƵ 22 Bultje St, 6882 0926

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

TED’S TAKEAWAY

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

CLUB DUBBO

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϱĂŵͲ ϭƉŵ͘ EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

GROCERIES DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϲĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10

IGA WEST DUBBO

&Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴĂŵͲϰƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϲƉŵ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ ĂŶĚ ĞƌŶĂƌĚŝ͛Ɛ ^hW /' ͘ ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ͕ ŚŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ ƉĂƐƚĂƐ͕ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

SPORTIES

OLD DUBBO GAOL

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϱƉŵ >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

THE GRAPEVINE

RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB

^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ 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 ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

GYMS KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ͘KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

THE PARTY STOP KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ͕ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

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Friday, February 26 MOVIE: Shanghai Knights 7MATE, 8.30pm, M (2003)

In a welcome sequel to Shanghai Noon, Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson return as Chon Wang and Roy O’Bannon.

This time it’s destination London (with all British stereotypes accounted for) to track down the man who killed Chon’s dad, aided by his equally lethal sister (Fann Wong).

Of course, there’s a villainous aristocrat (The Wire’s Aidan Gillen) and his right-hand man (Donnie Yen) to deal with, which the unlikely heroes do in typically unorthodox style. Incorporating sly literary and film references and affording Chan ample time to kick some 19th-century butt, this is one of his better Hollywood outings to date.

ABC

MOVIE: Conan The Barbarian

MOVIE: Talladega Nights: hts: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby y

Here’s the chance to return to where it all began for buffed action starturned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger with this violent piece of fluff based on Robert E. Howard’s fantasy novels. Arnie is the hulking hero, raised in slavery and trained as a warrior, who gains the chance to exact revenge on those responsible for the death of his parents. James Earl Jones and Max von Sydow tag along among a cast of stuntmen (including action veteran Sven-Ole Thorsen from Gladiator) and budget glamour girls (like exercise video stalwart Sandahl Bergman).

B-movie crud at its finest.

Doing for NASCAR what he did d for broadcasters in Anchorman, Willl Ferrell (pictured) gets more mileage out ut of playing another ego-driven buffoon ffoon in this goofy satire. Ferrell is gifted American merican petrol-head Ricky Bobby, who must contend with being knocked off ff his perch by an effeminate French Formula ula One star (Sacha Baron Cohen) while hiss long-time buddy and racing partner (John n C. Reilly) steals both his wife and his spott as No. 1 driver for the team. Ferrell doesn’t sn’t quite conjure up Ron Burgundy-calibre bre hilarity with this project, but there’s here’s plenty of juice in the performances of Reilly and Baron Cohen.

ONE, 9.30pm, MA15+ (1982)

PRIME7

7MATE, 6.15pm, PG (2006)

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Catalyst. (R, CC) 11.00 Hello Birdy. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Crownies. (M, R, CC) 1.55 Antiques Roadshow.

(PG, R, CC) 2.50 The Cook And The Chef.

(R, CC) 3.20 The Bill. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Murder, She Wrote.

(PG, R, CC) The owner of a gridiron team is murdered.

5.00 ABC News: Early Edition.

(CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) Presented

by John Barron.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

(CC) 12.00 MOVIE: The Making Of A Hollywood Madam.

(M, R, CC) (1996) A doctor becomes implicated in his daughter’s misdeeds after it is revealed she is a Hollywood madam. Michael Gross, Cindy Pickett.

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 Seven News At 4. (CC) 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Today Extra. (PG, CC) Presented by David Campbell and Sonia Kruger.

11.30 Morning 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) Hosted by Mario Lopez.

2.30 Alive And Cooking. (CC) Hosted by James Reeson.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 Afternoon News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 7.00 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Talk. (CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (M, CC) 1.00 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Entertainment Tonight.

(CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 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 Yoko Ono: War Is Over! (If You Want It) 2.30 Colour Theory. (PG, R, CC) 3.05 Subconscious Password.

(PG, R) 3.15 SBS Flashback. (PG, R) 3.30 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita. (R, CC) 4.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the team pay a visit to Kirby Hall, in Northamptonshire, where they examine all manner of curios.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) The best analysis of local, national and international events from an Australian perspective.

8.00 Griff’s Great Britain: Moors. (CC) Presenter Griff Rhys Jones explores the pleasures and perils of Dartmoor National Park.

8.30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, CC) A jockey dies the morning after a big win. Dr Blake’s long-dead wife makes an unexpected reappearance.

9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) After two women are shot in a basement, Nikki and Jack learn one of the victims was killed by a controlled sedative.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program.

11.05 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

11.20 It’s A Date. (M, R, CC) A look into the world of dating.

11.50 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

(CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh, Adam, Jason and Tara team up to help a couple take the stress out of selling their home. Fast Ed heads to Vietnam for a culinary adventure.

8.30 MOVIE: The Proposal.

(PG, R, CC) (2009) After being threatened with deportation, a highpowered Canadian editor gets engaged to her assistant in order to get a green card so she can continue working in the US. Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen.

10.45 Wanted. (M, R, CC) Chelsea and Lola find themselves stranded in the middle of the bush after a breakdown.

11.45 The Goldbergs. (M, R, CC) Adam befriends their new neighbours, the Kremps, after, Beverly extends multiple invitations for a barbecue that Virginia Kremp hesitates to accept.

Barry and Erica battle for control of the family’s one telephone line.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Ultimate Airport Dubai.

(CC) Take a behind-thescenes look at Dubai International Airport, its three terminals and 60,000 staff, who are working hard to keep the passengers and planes safe, secure and on schedule.

8.40 MOVIE: Catch Me If You Can. (M, R, CC) (2002) Based on a true story. An agent working for the bank fraud department of the FBI spends years chasing a young con man who amasses millions in fraudulent cheques by posing as a doctor, a Pan Am pilot, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor, all before he was 19. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken.

11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez.

6.00 Family Feud. (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 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (CC) Lifestyle program, hosted

by Amanda Keller. Barry Du Bois turns bare garden walls into something special. Chef Miguel Maestre goes head to head with a teenage dessert blogger. Landscape designer Jamie Durie transforms an alligator enclosure into a terrifying garden makeover.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton showcases his sense of humour as he chats with English actors Ralph Fiennes, Tracey Ullman and James Nesbitt. Music is provided by English singersongwriter James Bay. 9.30 To Be Advised.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

6.00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road. (R, CC) Poh heads to Singapore where she meets expat Antonia Kidman and chefs Andre Chiang and Janice Wong.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 MythBusters. (PG, CC) Adam and Jamie challenge some tall tales and myths which appear in popular video games.

8.30 Neil Oliver: Sacred Wonders Of Britain.

(PG, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

Scottish archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver goes on a journey to reveal the sacred face of Britain. He concludes by examining the creation of saints, discovers the traditional resting place of Macbeth as well as discovering how St Columba sanctified the island.

9.30 MOVIE: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

(M, R, CC) (2000) The rebellious daughter of a Qing Dynasty official steals the sword of a legendary fighter. Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh.

11.40 The Late Feed. Marc Fennell, Patrick Abboud and Jeanette Francis discuss the latest in news, technology and culture.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Stigmata.

(MA15+, R, CC) (1999) 3.30 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, CC) Comedian Stephen Colbert interviews a variety of guests from the worlds of film, politics, business and music.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.15 MOVIE: 2 Plus 2.

(MA15+, R) (2012) A couple become swingers. Adrián Suar.

2.10 Shameless. (MA15+, R, CC) (Final) 3.05 Gasland. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, February 26 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.05pm Noah (2014) Action.

Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly. A man experiences visions of an apocalyptic flood.

(M) Action

7.30pm BBQ Pitmasters.

(PG) A&E

8.30pm Inside The Tower Of London. The Tower of London is one of the world’s most famous buildings. (PG) History

7.00pm Football. NAB Challenge. Geelong v Collingwood. Fox Footy

7.30pm Home (2015) Animation. Jim Parsons, Rihanna. (PG) Family 8.30pm Last Knights (2015) Action. Morgan Freeman, Clive Owen. A fallen warrior rises again to avenge the death of his master. (MA15+) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs.

2.40 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.10 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Little Princess. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Curious George. (R, CC) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.35 Hey Duggee.

(R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 6.00 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.15 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Doctor Who: Confidential. (R, CC) 8.30 The Boarding School Bomber.

(M, R, CC) 9.30 Her Majesty’s Prison. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.15 Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 11.00 Meet The Elephant Man. (PG, R, CC) 12.05 My Mum Is Obsessed. (M, R, CC) 12.55 Meet The Young Americans.

(PG, R, CC) 1.45 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 2.35 News Update. (R) 2.40 Close. 5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.10 Abney & Teal.

(R, CC) 5.25 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.35 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.45 Dance With The Elements. (R, CC) 10.55 Places To Dance. (R, CC) 11.00 Move It Mob Style. (R, CC) 11.30 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 12.40 The Legend Of Dick And Dom. (R, CC) 1.10 Heart And Soul.

(R, CC) 1.35 Castaway. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur. (R) 2.25 Vic The Viking.

(R, CC) 2.40 Pearlie. (R, CC) 2.50 Masha And The Bear. (R, CC) 3.00 Horrible Science. (R, CC) 3.25 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 3.30 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 3.45 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 3.55 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.20 Thunderbirds Are Go. (CC) 4.40 Studio 3. 4.45 Adv Time.

(R) 5.10 Slugterra. (R, CC) 5.30 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 5.40 News On 3. (CC) 5.50 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 6.20 Dance Academy.

(R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 7.30 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 8.00 Adv Time.

(R) 8.20 Kobushi. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 8.55 Trop Jr. 9.00 Heartland. 9.45 K-On! (CC) 10.05 Lanfeust Quest. (R, CC) 10.30 Ouran High School Host Club. (PG, R, CC) 10.55 Close.

8.30pm Sons Of Anarchy.

Jax struggles with recent revelations surrounding Tara’s death. (MA15+) FX 9.30pm Human Target.

Bodyguard Christopher Chance protects an engineer who designed California’s first bullet train. (M) FX

9.30pm Selling Houses Australia: Social Edition.

Lifestyle Home 9.30pm Vampires In Venice.

Evidence exists that vampires once roamed the streets of Venice. (PG) History

7.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 1. Brumbies v Hurricanes. Fox Sports 2 7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 21. Western Sydney Wanderers v Perth Glory. Fox Sports 4 Charlie Hunnam stars in Sons of Anarchy.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 ZooMoo Lost. (C) 7.30 Sally Bollywood.

(C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. (P) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away: The Early Years. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 NBC Today. (R) 12.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Better Homes. (R, CC) 2.00 Australia’s Best Houses. (PG, R) 2.30 Dealers. (PG) 3.30 Property Ladder. (PG, R) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Indian Doctor.

(PG, R) A doctor from India replaces the local physician.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

City families move to the country.

9.30 The House That 100K Built. Presented by Kieran Long and Piers Taylor.

10.45 Front Of House. (R) 11.15 Best Houses Australia. (R) 11.45 Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.45 Homes Under The Hammer.

(R) 1.45 Property Ladder. (PG, R) 2.45 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is. (PG, R) 3.45 Escape To The Country. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. (R, CC) 8.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 9.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) 10.00 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 11.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 12.00 Ultimate Factories. (R) 1.00 Alaska Wing Men. (PG, R) 2.15 Gator Boys.

(PG, R) 4.15 Selling Big. (PG, R) 4.45 American Restoration. (PG, R) 6.15 MOVIE: Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby. (PG, R, CC) (2006) A NASCAR champion faces competition. Will Ferrell.

8.30 MOVIE: Shanghai Knights. (M, R, CC) (2003) An ex-imperial guard and his cowboy friend travel to England to find the murderer of his father.

Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Donnie Yen. 11.00 MOVIE: Brüno.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2009) 12.40 Jail. (MA15+) 1.00 Ultimate Factories: Aston Martin. (R) 2.00 Alaska Wing Men: Deadly Descent. (PG, R) 3.00 Gator Boys. (PG, R) 5.00 Inside West Coast Customs.

(PG, R)

GO! 6.00 Sooty. (R) 6.30 PAW Patrol.

(R, CC) 7.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 7.30 Move It. (C, CC) 8.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Wild Kratts.

(R) 9.00 Magical Tales. (P, R, CC) 9.30 Little Charmers. (R) 10.00 SpongeBob. (R) 10.30 PAW Patrol.

(R, CC) 11.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 11.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 12.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 12.30 Batman. (PG, R) 1.00 Sooty. (R) 1.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 SpongeBob. (R) 3.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10.

(PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Valiant. (R) (2005) 7.30 MOVIE: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. (PG, R) (1986) 9.40 MOVIE: 21 Jump Street. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) Channing Tatum. 11.50 Clipped. (PG, R, CC) 12.20 The Originals. (MA15+, R) 1.20 GO Surround Sound. (R, CC) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 Wild Kratts.

(R) 2.30 Batman. (PG, R) 3.00 Little Charmers. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 4.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Secret Dealers.

(PG, R, CC) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 New Style Direct. 9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz. 10.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (R) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Tigers About The House. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Raising The Wind. (R, CC) (1961) 2.50 Come Dine With Me UK. 3.20 Blue Planet: A Natural History Of The Oceans. (R) 4.30 Ellen DeGeneres. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Walking The Nile.

(PG, R, CC) Part 4 of 4.

9.00 MOVIE: Contact.

(M, R, CC) (1997) A radio astronomer, deciphering signals from space, detects a cryptic signal from an alien intelligence. Jodie Foster, James Woods, Matthew McConaughey.

12.00 MOVIE: 2001: A Space Odyssey. (R) (1968) Keir Dullea.

2.45 MOVIE: My Brother Jonathan. (R, CC) (1948) 4.45 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 What’s Up! Downunder. (R, CC) 8.30 Operation Repo. (PG) 9.00 Epic Meal Empire. (PG, R) 10.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 11.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 12.00 Matlock. (M, R) 1.00 Nash Bridges. (M, R) 2.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. (PG, R) 3.00 Jake And The Fatman. (PG, R) 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R, CC) Follows officers on patrol in the US. 8.30 48 Hours: The Pact.

(M, R, CC) Examines an unsolved murder from 1969 which continues to haunt a Massachusetts community.

9.30 MOVIE: Conan The Barbarian. (MA15+, R) (1982) A barbarian seeks revenge on a cult leader.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones.

12.10 Home Shopping.

2.05 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 3.00 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Jake And The Fatman. (PG, R) 5.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Crocamole. (P, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel.

(PG, R) 11.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 12.00 Judging Amy. (M, R) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Infomercials.

(PG, R) 2.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R) 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.05 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Love Island. (M) Hopeful singles look for love.

9.30 Bondi Ink Tattoo. (PG, R) Takes a look inside a Bondi tattoo parlour.

10.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) 11.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.50 Frasier.

(PG, R) 2.00 JAG. (PG, R) 3.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 4.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 5.00 The King Of Queens. (PG, R)

SBS 2 6.00 Indonesian News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Bosnian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Urdu News. 1.30 Tamil News.

2.00 Thai News. 2.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 3.00 Bangla News. 3.30 Armenian News. 4.00 The Feed. (R) 4.30 Dara Ó Briain: School Of Hard Sums. (R, CC) 5.25 Urban Freestyler. (R) 5.30 House Hazards. (PG) 6.00 None Of The Above. (PG) 6.30 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 7.25 Soccer. A-League.

Round 21. Western Sydney Wanderers v Perth Glory.

From Pirtek Stadium, Sydney.

10.00 MOVIE: Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno.

(MA15+) (2014) A former assassin battles a rebel.

Takeru Satô.

12.30 Space Dandy. (PG) 1.30 PopAsia. (PG) 3.35 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News.

5.30 Indonesian News.

NITV 6.00 Waabiny Time. 6.30 Bizou.

7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bushwhacked! 8.00 Mugu Kids.

8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Mugu Kids.

9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 A War Of Hope. (PG) 12.00 UnderExposed.

12.30 Toonooba Voices. 1.00 MOVIE: Wrong Side Of The Road. (M) (1980) 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Move It Mob Style. 4.00 Tipi Tales. 4.30 Bushwhacked! 5.00 Go Lingo.

5.30 The Deerskins. (PG) 6.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 6.30 UnderExposed.

7.00 Ngurra.

7.20 NITV News Mini-Bulletin.

7.30 Saving Tuna.

8.30 Arctic Air. (M) The adventures of a maverick airline.

9.30 Chappelle’s Show. Sketch comedy.

10.00 Boxing For Palm Island.

(CC) Part 1 of 2.

10.30 Colour Me. 11.30 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. (PG) 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

5.00 Bush Bands Bash.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 ABC News. (CC) 1.00 ABC News With Capital Hill. (CC) 2.00 ABC News. (CC) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 ABC News With The Business. 5.00 ABC News With Grandstand. 6.00 ABC News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Evenings With Grandstand. (CC) 8.00 ABC News Evenings With The Business. (CC) 9.00 Planet America. 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 ABC News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 ABC News.

12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC Impact. 1.30 Lateline. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. (R) 3.30 7.30. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 BBC Focus On Africa.

5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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Saturday, February 27 MOVIE: Vertical Limit

Ripper Street

MOVIE: Juno

This white-knuckle adventure opens with a sensationally filmed rockclimbing tragedy that befalls the Garrett family. Afterwards, siblings Peter (Chris O’Donnell) and Annie (Robin Tunney) go their separate ways. Three years on, Peter must face his fears after Annie is trapped in an avalanche while helping a publicityhungry tycoon (Bill Paxton) climb the world’s second highest mountain, K2. New Zealand director Martin Campbell (The Mask of Zorro) gets full value out of the death-defying stuntwork and elaborate special effects. Snowbound action at its peak.

He might have held his reign of terror in London’s Whitechapel district way back in 1888, but serial woman killer Jack the Ripper’s legendary status lives on. In this British drama, which begins about six months after the final murder, a hopeful police team, led by Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (a delectable Matthew Macfadyen), try to keep order and return East London to a state of normality, but it’s easier said than done with an influx of copycat killers on the loose. Tonight, in “Ashes And Diamonds”, a clairvoyant is found dead and the autopsy reveals poison in the victim’s body. Drake (Jerome Flynn) investigates and the probe takes the team into a world of charlatans.

d comedies The trend of pregnancy-themed d with this (Knocked Up, Waitress) continued matic joy from smart-mouthed bundle of cinematic he Airr). When director Jason Reitman (Up in the n Page, Whip 16-year-old Juno McGuff (Ellen iend Paulie It) (pictured) enlists her best friend (Arrested Development’s Michael Cera) to r, little become her first sexual partner, does she consider the outcome..

Pregnant, Juno decides to offerr the baby up for adoption – the prospective parents are the d Lorings, wonderfully portrayed

by Jennifer Garner and Cera’s Arrested dad Jason Bateman. The he d script, bursting with wit, earned Diablo Cody Oscar gold. Juno iss a class act all the way.

7MATE, 8.30pm, M (2000)

ABC

ONE, 9.30pm

PRIME7

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

11.30 How Not To Behave.

(PG, R, CC) Gretel and Matt take a look at parenting.

12.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the team pay a visit to Kirby Hall, in Northamptonshire, where they examine all manner of curios.

1.00 Griff’s Great Britain: Moors. (R, CC) Presenter Griff Rhys Jones explores the pleasures and perils of Dartmoor National Park.

1.30 Golf. (CC) Australian Ladies Masters. Round 3.

From Royal Pines Resort, Queensland.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 I Dream Of Jeannie.

(R, CC) 12.30 Bewitched. (R, CC) Phyllis gets jealous of Endora.

1.00 Who’s The Boss?

(PG, R, CC) Mona starts dating someone from school.

1.30 MOVIE: Super Buddies.

(2013) Trey Loney.

3.30 Nabbed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) 5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 One Plus One. (PG, R, CC) Jane interviews former US Navy medic, author, actor and transgender activist, Calpernia Addams.

6.10 Restoration Man. (CC) George meets a couple who are transforming a brick water tower into a five-storey family home.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Death In Paradise.

(PG, CC) The president of the heritage society dies during a re-enactment of the French invasion of the island.

8.30 Cuffs. (M, CC) Carl and Felix investigate a spate of muggings involving private school students.

9.30 Jack Irish. (M, R, CC) A determined Jack sets out to discover who framed him for the murder of an ex-con.

10.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) UK-based panel show featuring host Adam Hills taking an offbeat look at the events of the week.

11.15 Black Comedy. (M, R, CC) Meet a mad driving instructor and Uncle Doctor, an unconventional medico.

11.45 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Despicable Me. (PG, R, CC) (2010) After his rival steals an invention which is the key to his latest scheme, a supervillain adopts three adorable orphans to reclaim his prize and shrink the moon. However, he is surprised to find himself developing feelings for the outcasts despite his intentions. Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand.

8.50 MOVIE: 47 Ronin.

(M, R, CC) (2013) An outcast joins a band of masterless samurai to seek revenge on a ruthless shogun for the dishonour he did to their master. However, they discover they face the forces of the supernatural.

Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kou Shibasaki.

11.20 To Be Advised.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

SBS, 8.30pm, M (2007)

WIN 6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday.

(PG, CC) The Middle. (PG, R, CC) Clipped. (PG, R, CC) A barber hopes to become a baseball player.

Party Of Five. (PG, R, CC) Charlie takes Claudia to Mexico.

MOVIE: Message In A Bottle. (PG, R, CC) (1999) A woman finds a letter in a bottle. Kevin Costner.

Getaway. (PG, CC) Lauren takes a bike tour around Melbourne.

News: First At Five. (CC) Fishing Australia. (CC)

TEN

SBS

6.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 6.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.00 iFish. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday.

(PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room. (R, CC) 12.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (CC) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 2.00 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (R, CC) 2.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 3.00 Jamie & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club. (R, CC) 4.00 iFish. (R, CC) 4.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 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 Figure Skating.

(CC) Four Continents Championships. Men’s, pairs and ladies’ program.

Highlights.

3.35 Massive Moves. (R, CC) 4.25 Finding Babylon’s Hanging Garden. (R, CC) 5.25 Who Do You Think You Are? John Bishop. (R, CC)

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 Australia’s Got Talent.

(PG, R, CC) In the last of the audition rounds before the semi-finals, a mix of the weird and the wonderful perform.

8.15 Australia’s Got Talent.

(PG, R, CC) In the first of the semi-finals, the best acts return to impress the panel with their performances.

Hosted by Dave Hughes, with judges including Kelly Osbourne, Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Eddie Perfect and Sophie Monk.

9.30 MOVIE: Killers. (M, R, CC) (2010) After a government assassin meets the woman of his dreams he decides to get married and gives up his dangerous lifestyle.

However, the couple discover their neighbours have been contracted to kill them. Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Selleck.

11.30 MOVIE: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. (AV15+, R, CC) (2009) After discovering their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, the MacManus brothers return to Boston.

Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly.

6.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals.

(R, CC) Jamie sets out to create a whole new selection of meals which can be completed in just 15 minutes.

6.30 MOVIE: Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters.

(PG, R, CC) (2013) The son of Poseidon and his friends embark on a quest to the Sea Of Monsters to find the mythical Golden Fleece, in order to heal a magical dying tree whose powers have been keeping Camp Half-Blood safe.

Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Stanley Tucci.

8.35 MOVIE: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. (M, CC) (2014) After a young CIA analyst uncovers a scheme by a Russian oligarch to collapse the US economy and spark global chaos, he realises he may be the only person able to stop the madman. Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley.

10.40 MOVIE: G.I. Joe: Retaliation. (M, R, CC) (2013) An elite military unit is attacked by the authorities after they are framed for a crime they did not commit. Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Adrianne Palicki.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Coasts Of Ireland: The Wild West. (CC) Part 3 of 5. From the traditional pubs in Dublin to the dolphin of Dingle Harbour, the Connemara horses, Rathlin Island and the Titanic’s sister ship in Belfast, take a tour of some of the highlights of Ireland.

8.30 MOVIE: Juno. (M, R, CC) (2007) Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, a quirky teenager decides to place the baby with a seemingly happy couple who are looking to adopt. However, cracks soon begin to appear in the adoptive parents’ relationship, threatening to throw her plans into doubt. Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner.

10.15 RocKwiz. (M, R, CC) Special guests include Dave Faulkner, Courtney Barnett and Bob Evans.

11.15 Miniseries: 37 Days.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

Follows the catastrophic chain of events from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, to the declaration of war between Britain and Germany on August 4.

1.45 MOVIE: Amityville 2.

(M, R) (1982) James Olson.

3.35 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (PG) A famous actor joins the team.

4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) Sonny tries to find Matt a girlfriend.

5.30 Fishing Australia. (R)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program featuring a large congregation, Christian music with a choir, and guests who speak about how God and their faith have changed their lives.

12.20 Miniseries: 37 Days.

(PG, R, CC) 1.30 Miniseries: 37 Days.

(M, R, CC) 2.40 The Staircase 2. (M, R, CC) 4.50 MeTube: August Sings Carmen “Habanera”. (M, R) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News. 5.45 France 24 Feature.

12.00 12.30 1.00 2.00

4.30 5.00 5.30

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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6.30pm Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) Comedy. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson. (M) Premiere

7.00pm Fail Army. The best YouTube clips of the week of people failing at life. (M) FOX8

7.30pm Universal Orlando: Behind The Scenes. Opened in 1990 and now approaching its 25-year anniversary, Universal Orlando’s full story has yet to be told. (PG) TLC

12.00pm Basketball. NBA. Chicago Bulls v Atlanta Hawks.

ESPN

8.30pm The Longest Ride (2015) Romance. Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson. A couple find inspiration in the marriage of an elderly man.

(M) Premiere

7.30pm The Shannara Chronicles. (M) SyFy 8.30pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Hosted by Drew Carey. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

8.30pm American Sniper (2014) Action. Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller. A Navy SEAL struggles to leave the war behind him. (MA15+) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 3.55 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Little Princess. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Curious George. (R, CC) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.35 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 6.00 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.15 Peter Rabbit.

(R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) 8.45 Mock The Week Looks Back At. (M, R, CC) 9.15 Comedy Up Late. (M, R, CC) 9.50 Live At The Apollo. (PG, R, CC) 10.35 Inside Amy Schumer. (M, R, CC) 11.00 Extras: Xmas Special. (M, R, CC) 12.20 Peep Show. (M, R, CC) 12.45 The Incredible Mr Goodwin. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Mock The Week. (M, R, CC) 2.05 Kroll Show. (M, R, CC) 2.25 News Update. (R) 2.30 Close.

5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.10 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 5.25 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.35 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 6.10 Hairy Legs. (R, CC) 6.20 Tashi.

(R, CC) 6.35 Arthur. (R, CC) 7.00 Odd Squad. (R) 7.20 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Endangered Species.

(R, CC) 8.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.35 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (R, CC) 10.15 Adv Time. (R) 11.00 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 11.10 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 11.35 Life With Boys.

(R, CC) 11.55 A Gurls Wurld. (R, CC) 12.20 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk.

(R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis.

(R) 3.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.25 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R, CC) 4.50 The Amazing Extraordinary Friends.

(R) (Final) 5.15 Spooksville. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 World’s End. (R, CC) 6.10 Thunderbirds Are Go. (R, CC) 6.35 Rocket’s Island. (Final) 7.05 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.30 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 8.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Heartland.

9.45 Close.

7.30pm Wives With Knives.

(M) Crime & Investigation 9.30pm What On Earth?.

The Eye of the Sahara is a 40km structure. (PG) Discovery Science

4.30pm Football. NAB Challenge. Richmond v Hawthorn. Fox Footy 5.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 1. Crusaders v Chiefs. Fox Sports 2

Scott Eastwood stars in The Longest Ride.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (CC) 9.30 Austin & Ally. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. (R) 11.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 12.30 WA Weekender.

(CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 2.00 Horse Racing. Blue Diamond Stakes. Featuring the Group 1 $1,500,000 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m). 5.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (R) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

City families move to the country.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. (R) Presented by Nick Knowles.

10.30 Storage Hoarders. 11.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. (R) 1.00 Great South East. (R, CC) 1.30 Creek To Coast. (R, CC) 2.00 Queensland Weekender. (R, CC) 2.30 WA Weekender. (R, CC) 3.00 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 3.30 This Rugged Coast. (R) 4.30 MOVIE: The Gay Falcon. (PG, R) (1941)

7MATE 6.00 A Football Life. (PG, R) 7.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. (R) 8.00 Shopping.

(R) 9.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 9.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG) 10.30 Just 2 Wheelz. (PG) 11.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder.

Watsons Express Transport 12th Annual Sprintcar Muster. 12.00 Motor Racing. Ultimate Sprintcar Championship. 12.30 Construction Zone. (PG, R) 1.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 2.00 Bigfoot Files. (PG, R) 5.00 Catching Hell. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Eight Below.

(PG, R, CC) (2006) Paul Walker.

8.30 MOVIE: Vertical Limit. (M, R, CC) (2000) A photographer sets out to rescue his sister and two others trapped on K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain. Chris O’Donnell, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn.

11.05 MOVIE: 30 Days Of Night.

(MA15+, R) (2007) Vampires descend on an Alaskan town. Josh Hartnett.

1.30 Bigfoot Files. (PG, R) 4.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping. (R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 7.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 8.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball.

(R) 9.00 Adv Time. (PG, R) 9.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 2.30 Little Charmers. (R) 3.00 Rabbids. (PG, R) 3.30 Sonic Boom.

(PG, R) 4.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 The Tom And Jerry Show. (R) 6.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Superman IV: The Quest For Peace.

(PG, R, CC) (1987) 8.30 MOVIE: Batman & Robin.

(PG, R, CC) (1997) 11.00 MOVIE: Catwoman. (M, R, CC) (2004) 1.00 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Little Charmers. (R) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers.

(PG, R) 4.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Raising The Wind. (R, CC) (1961) 7.50 River Cottage Bites. (R) 8.00 Danoz.

8.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 9.00 MOVIE: Pacific Destiny. (R, CC) (1956) 11.00 Walking The Nile. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Postcards. (R, CC) 12.30 MOVIE: Betrayed. (PG, R) (1954) 2.45 Celtic Thunder: Legacy.

3.45 MOVIE: Red River. (R) (1948) John Wayne.

6.30 Heartbeat. (PG, R) Greengrass, David and Gina befriend a musician.

8.45 Agatha Christie’s Marple. (M, R) Miss Marple investigates when one of her old friends, Father Gorman, is murdered.

10.45 Dalziel And Pascoe.

(M, R) A long-lost heir is murdered.

11.55 MOVIE: Betrayed. (PG, R) (1954) A double agent threatens a resistance group. Clark Gable.

1.55 MOVIE: Any Wednesday.

(PG, R, CC) (1966) Jane Fonda.

4.00 MOVIE: Floating Dutchman. (PG, R, CC) (1952) Dermot Walsh.

5.30 Postcards. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Star Trek: Voyager. (PG, R) 9.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 10.00 World Sport.

(R) 10.30 Whacked Out Sports.

(PG) 11.30 Rugby Union. World Sevens Series. Dubai. Highlights.

12.00 Rugby Union. World Sevens Series. Cape Town. Highlights.

12.30 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. 2.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 3.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 3.30 World’s Busiest. (R) 4.30 David Attenborough’s Africa. (R, CC) 5.30 Meerkats: Secrets Of An Animal Superstar. (R, CC) 6.30 Monster Jam. Highlights of monster truck racing.

7.30 Black Gold. (PG, R) 8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) A hacker takes control of all networked medical devices at a Dallas hospital and threatens to kill patients.

9.30 Ripper Street. (M) A clairvoyant is found dead.

10.35 Rush. (M) 11.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 1.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.30 World’s Busiest. (R) 3.30 World’s Busiest. (PG, R) 4.30 Black Gold.

(PG, R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports.

(PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 7.30 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Totally Wild.

(C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 Neighbours.

(R, CC) 2.05 Glee. (PG, R) 4.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Cheers.

(PG, R) 6.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) A grumpy doctor treats patients.

6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) The misadventures of a sportswriter.

7.30 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) 8.00 Cristela. (PG) Cristela plans a Halloween party.

However, Natalia voices her dislike for the holiday.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Celebrity guests include Cheryl Cole, Don Johnson, John Bishop, Brendan O’Carroll and Chrissie Hynde.

9.30 To Be Advised.

10.30 The Loop. (PG, R) 1.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 1.40 Neighbours. (R, CC) 4.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Pokemon XY. (R)

SBS 2 6.00 Indonesian News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese 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. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 21. Western Sydney Wanderers v Perth Glory. Replay. 3.00 Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers: South Africa. (PG, R, CC) 3.55 The Brain: China. (R) 5.35 MOVIE: Ponyo. (R, CC) (2008) 7.30 If You Are The One Australia Special. (R) 9.25 Bear Grylls’ Mission Survive. (M, R, CC) Tensions reach boiling point.

9.55 Commando School: Crash Week. (M, R, CC) 10.50 MOVIE: The Sorcerer And The White Snake.

(M, R) (2011) 12.45 MOVIE: Let The Bullets Fly. (AV15+, R) (2010) Chow YunFat, Carina Lau, Jiang Wen. 3.10 MOVIE: The Promise. (M, R) (2005) 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

NITV 6.00 Tipi Tales. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style.

7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Go Lingo.

9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 I Live, I Breathe, I Surf. 11.00 Saving Tuna. 12.00 UnderExposed. 12.30 The Long Walk: 10 Years. (PG) 1.00 From The Western Frontier. 1.30 Aunty Moves In. 2.00 Colour Me. 3.00 Surviving. 3.30 Desperate Measures. 4.00 Our Footprint.

4.30 Around The Campfire. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 Ngarritj.

6.00 Innocence Betrayed. (PG) 7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Native Planet. Hosted by Simon Baker.

8.30 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. (PG) Ernie Dingo discovers the Arrernte language.

9.00 Characters Of Broome.

9.30 MOVIE: Black And White.

(M) (2002) Based on a true story. Robert Carlyle, David Ngoombujarra.

11.15 Destiny In The Dirt.

11.30 Unearthed.

12.00 Volumz. (PG) 4.00 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival. 5.00 NITV On The Road: Boomerang Festival.

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 ABC News. (CC) 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 ABC News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 ABC News. 1.30 Planet America. (R) 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 ABC News. (CC) 3.30 Tonic. 4.00 ABC News. 4.30 The Drum Weekly. 5.00 ABC News. 5.30 One Plus One. (CC) 6.00 ABC News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 One Plus One. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 ABC News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.00 ABC News. (CC) 10.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.00 ABC News. 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC World News. 1.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Landline. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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Sunday, February 28 The X-Files

Joanna Lumley’s Nile

MOVIE: Shark Tale

TEN, 8.30pm

ABC, 9.30pm

GO!, 6.30pm, G (2004)

It was a long time between drinks for this hit sci-fi series, but all good things (or mediocre things, depending who you ask) must come to an end, and the six-episode resurrection wraps up tonight in what will likely be that last time we see agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson). Fox Mulder seems to have lightened up quite a bit over the years, which isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but he’s going to have to be on his game this week as people across the US begin falling gravely ill and panic spreads across the country. For them to stop the disease, Scully is going to have to look inside herself to find the cure.

She may well always be remembered as her larger-than-life, tipsy and often inappropriate character from Absolutely Fabulous, but there’s more to Joanna Lumley than acting. Clearly very different to Patsy, Lumley has a thirst for knowledge and a love of travel, having hosted other documentary-style specials such as Joanna Lumley’s Ark and Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure. This time around the charming and rather humorous presenter is adventuring along the great Nile river. Tonight, she heads south into the remote deserts of Northern Sudan and examines the treasures of Nubia, an ancient kingdom of Africa.

The makers of Shrek head to the ocean to deliver some top laughs in a fishy tale that pokes fun at mobster films. Will Smith voices Oscar, a little fish who becomes a celebrity when he falsely earns the reputation of shark slayer. Boss shark Don Lino (Robert De Niro) vows revenge on him. Completing a top-drawer voice cast are Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Renee Zellweger and Martin Scorsese. As with Shrek, the jokes, in-jokes, puns and movie parodies (of gangster films in particular) come thick and fast and provide many laughout-loud moments. One for all the family to enjoy.

ABC 6.00 7.00 9.00 10.00 10.30

Rage. (PG, CC) Weekend Breakfast. (CC) Insiders. (CC) Offsiders. (CC) Australia Wide. (R, CC) Stories from around Australia.

The World This Week.

(R, CC) Presented by Beverley O’Connor.

Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) Sally heads to Dunblane Cathedral.

Landline. (CC) Presented

by Pip Courtney.

The Mix. (R, CC) Hosted

by James Valentine.

Golf. (CC) Australian Ladies Masters. Final round. From Royal Pines Resort, Queensland.

PRIME7

WIN

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.

12.00 Lyndey Milan’s Summer Baking Secrets. (CC) Australian TV personality Lyndey Milan reveals the secrets to baking.

12.30 To Be Advised.

4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Fast Ed and Karen head to WA. 5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike explores Byron Bay’s newest resort.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 Australian Story: True Grit Pt 1. (R, CC) A look at the private life of David Pocock.

6.30 Compass: Pope Francis The Sinner Pt 1. (PG, CC) (Series return) A look at the life of Pope Francis.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.40 Doc Martin. (PG, CC) Mrs Tishell is surprised when her husband, Clive, returns and tells her he wants to give things another go.

8.30 Call The Midwife.

(PG, CC) (Series return) A chance encounter with an impoverished child gives Trixie a glimpse of the darker side of life.

9.30 Joanna Lumley’s Nile.

(CC) Part 2 of 4. Joanna Lumley continues her epic adventure along the length of the Nile river.

10.20 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program, featuring guests Chloe Hilliard and Andrew Denton.

10.50 Redfern Now. (PG, R, CC) An Aboriginal teen wins a scholarship.

11.45 William Yang’s Friends Of Dorothy. (M, R, CC) A look at the story of William Yang.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 My Kitchen Rules.

(PG, CC) A Queensland stepmother and stepdaughter team attempt to impress their fellow diners and judges Colin Fassnidge and Rachel Khoo in the next instant restaurant.

8.30 Sunday Night. (CC) (Series return) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

9.30 The Blacklist. (M, CC) (Series return) While Red creates a crime scene to retrieve his care package, friends of the truth rally around Liz, whose life is in grave danger now that she’s in custody.

10.30 The Blacklist. (M, CC) As The Cabal prepares to assassinate Liz, Red calls upon the taskforce to combine efforts to outmanoeuvre The Cabal to exonerate her. Red delivers a final ultimatum.

11.30 Royal Pains. (M, CC) (Series return) After Boris buys Hamptons Heritage, HankMed turns a new page. Hank helps a TV host who is throwing a party at the Newberg house. Evan and Paige discover that they may be having a baby.

12.45 MOVIE: The Trip.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2010) 2.35 A Quiet Word With…

Simon Pegg And Nick Frost. (M, R, CC) 3.20 Call The Midwife.

(PG, R, CC) 4.20 Joanna Lumley’s Nile.

(R, CC) 5.10 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC)

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.30 Sunrise. (CC) David Koch and Samantha Armytage present the news, sport and weather, with business and finance updates.

11.00 11.30 12.00 1.00 1.30

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) The Conversation With Alex Malley. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) (Series return) The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (CC) Hosted by Tim Faulkner.

MOVIE: Thunderstruck.

(PG, R, CC) (2012) Kevin Durant.

Ironman. (CC) Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Series. Round 6.

Wildlife Man: Shark Rider. (PG, CC) David Ireland travels to French Polynesia.

News: First At Five. (CC) Customs. (PG, R, CC)

TEN

SBS

6.00 Creflo. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Animal Extra. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

(PG, CC) 11.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 1.00 Bondi Rescue Cairns To Cape Adventure.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Car Torque. (R, CC) 4.00 iFish. (R, CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 7.30 Italian News.

8.10 Filipino News.

8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News.

11.00 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The World Game. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Cycling. (CC) New Zealand Cycle Classic.

5.00 Trawlermen. (PG, R, CC) The New Dawn’s crew find a problem.

5.30 Tony Robinson’s WWI. (PG, R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 60 Minutes. (CC) Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

8.00 Australia’s Got Talent.

(PG, CC) In the second of the semi-finals, the best acts return to impress the panel with their performances. Hosted by Dave Hughes, with judges including Kelly Osbourne, Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Eddie Perfect and Sophie Monk.

9.15 The Amazing Noughties.

(M, CC) Part 2 of 4. A continued look back at the events and personalities of the “noughties”, the decade from 2000 to 2010, from Australia and overseas in the fields of TV, movies, music, pop culture, sport and politics.

10.15 Nairobi: Terror In The Mall. (MA15+, CC) Documents a terrorist attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in September of 2013.

11.15 CSI: NY. (M, R, CC) A successful businessman is murdered in a Brooklyn housing project, while attending a birthday party.

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.

6.30 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (PG, CC) Two of the celebrities are tasked with remembering a series of items moving past them on a conveyor belt.

8.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) After Gloria is selected for jury duty, Jay is not happy at having to help out at Joe’s preschool in her stead.

8.30 The X-Files. (M, CC) (Final) As people across the country start falling gravely ill, Scully finds herself looking within to find a cure. Mulder confronts the person he believes is responsible for what is happening.

9.30 Limitless. (M, CC) Brian embarks on his first field assignment when he lends his skills to a unit hunting serial killers.

10.30 To Be Advised.

11.30 48 Hours: Murder In Aspen. (M, R, CC) A member of Aspen “royalty” is slain in her sleep.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Jungle Atlantis: Angkor Wat’s Hidden Megacity.

(PG, R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Follow experts as they set out to learn more about Angkor and the people who called it home. The capital of the Khmer Empire, the lost metropolis which was located near the vast temple complex of Angkor Wat, was devoured by the jungle around 600 years ago.

8.35 Gayby Baby. (PG, CC) Follows four children, Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham, whose parents happen to be gay, as they wrestle with the challenges of oncoming adolescence and the issue of marriage equality.

9.30 Monty Python: The Meaning Of Live.

(MA15+, R, CC) A look at the humour and chaos that went into bringing the Flying Circus to the stage at The O2 in London. Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam offer unique insights, as they look back at the story of Monty Python.

12.10 Person Of Interest.

(MA15+, R, CC) 1.05 V.I.P. (M) Tasha makes a shocking discovery.

2.00 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (PG) 3.00 20/20. (CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

12.00 Monty Python’s Best Bits (Mostly) (PG, R, CC) 12.35 MOVIE: Till Faith Do Us Part. (M, R, CC) (2010) 2.15 MOVIE: When We Leave. (MA15+, R) (2010) 4.25 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia.

(R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

10.30 11.30 12.00 2.00 4.00

5.00 5.30

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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6.10pm X-Men: First Class (2011) Action. James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence. A group of mutants match wits with a former Nazi. (M) Action

7.00pm It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Frank decides to retire. (M) Comedy Channel

6.30pm A Place In The Sun: Summer Sun. (PG) Lifestyle Home

2.00pm Football. NAB Challenge. Carlton v Essendon.

Fox Footy

7.30pm Modern Family.

A peeping Tom spies on a sunbathing Gloria. (M) FOX8

7.30pm Beethoven: Missa Solemnis. Following tradition, the 1997 Proms open with Beethoven’s masterpiece, <I>Missa Solemnis</I>.

Foxtel Arts

4.00pm Golf. European PGA Tour. Perth International. Final round. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Birdman (2014) Comedy. Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis. (MA15+) Masterpiece

8.00pm Fresh Off The Boat.

(PG) FOX

10.45pm Shakespeare In Love (1998) Romance. Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow. A young playwright meets his ideal woman. (M) Romance

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 3.10 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) (Final) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Little Princess. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) (Final) 5.00 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.20 Octonauts And The Amazon Adventure. (CC) 5.50 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 6.00 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.15 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Build A New Life In The Country. (PG, R, CC) 8.20 Dream Build. (R, CC) 8.30 The Warehouse Comedy Festival. (M, R, CC) 9.00 Funny As. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.35 Bodyshockers. (M, R, CC) 11.35 Louis Theroux’s LA Stories. (M, R, CC) 12.35 Buzzcocks. (M, R, CC) 1.10 Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures.

(PG, R, CC) 1.55 Swamp Brothers.

(PG, R) 2.20 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 2.50 News Update. (R) 2.55 Close.

5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.10 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.20 Bert And Ernie. (CC) 5.25 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.35 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.35 Arthur. (R, CC) 7.00 Odd Squad. (R) 7.20 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion.

(R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants.

(R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 8.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 9.00 Grojband. (R, CC) 9.20 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.35 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (R, CC) 10.15 Adv Time. 11.00 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 11.10 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 11.35 Life With Boys.

(R, CC) 11.55 A Gurls Wurld. (R, CC) (Final) 12.20 Nowhere Boys.

(PG, R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis.

(R) 3.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.25 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R, CC) 4.50 Strange Hill High. (R, CC) 5.15 Roy. (R) 5.45 Secret Life Of Boys. (R, CC) 6.10 Thunderbirds Are Go. (R, CC) 6.35 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.30 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 8.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 8.20 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (R, CC) 8.40 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Heartland. (PG) 9.45 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.55 Rage. (PG, R) 2.25 Close.

8.30pm The Secret Life Of Four Year Olds. (PG) Lifestyle

8.30pm Alpine Skiing.

World Cup. Women’s Super Combined. Super Giant.

Eurosport Sofia Vergara stars in Modern Family.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping.

(R) 9.30 Australia’s Best Houses.

(PG, R) 10.00 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (R) 1.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.30 Original Features. (R) 3.30 Storage Hoarders. (R) 4.30 World’s Strictest Parents. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 The Border. (PG) 6.30 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 House Wreck Rescue.

Tim converts a former wheelwright’s workshop.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Prospective buyers find their dream home.

9.30 Escape To The Continent.

A look at homes in MidiPyrenees, France.

10.45 Best Houses Australia. (R) 11.15 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 12.15 World’s Strictest Parents. (PG, R, CC) 1.15 House Wreck Rescue.

(R) 2.15 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.15 Escape To The Continent. (R) 4.30 MOVIE: The Falcon And The Co-Eds. (PG, R) (1943) Tom Conway.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Shopping. (R) 9.30 Timbersports.

Champions Trophy 2015.

Qualifying round. Highlights.

10.00 Danger: Diggers At Work.

(PG, R) 11.00 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) 11.30 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 12.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 1.30 Fishing Western Australia. (PG) 2.00 Auction Kings. (PG, R) 3.30 Forbidden Cargo. (PG, R) 4.30 Goldfathers. (PG, R) 5.30 Ice Road Truckers. (PG, R) 6.30 MythBusters: Poop Hits The Fan/Cold Feet.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: First Blood.

(M, R, CC) (1982) A Vietnam War veteran is pushed to the brink. Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna.

10.30 MOVIE: Sniper: Legacy.

(MA15+, CC) (2014) 12.35 World’s Worst Tenants. (M, R) 1.00 Ice Road Truckers. (PG, R) 2.00 Goldfathers. (PG, R) 3.00 Danger: Diggers At Work. (PG, R) 4.00 Campmeeting. (PG) (New Series) 5.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 8.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball.

(R) 9.00 Adv Time. (PG, R) 9.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman.

(PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 11.30 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 12.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 Little Charmers. (R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 4.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 4.30 Power Rangers Dino Super Charge. (PG) (New Series) 5.00 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 6.00 The Looney Tunes Show. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: Shark Tale. (R) (2004) 8.30 MOVIE: The Matrix Reloaded. (M, R, CC) (2003) 11.00 Troy. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 The Cube. (PG) 2.00 Little Charmers.

(R) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 The Looney Tunes Show. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 4.30 Wild Kratts.

(R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: Brighton Rock. (PG, R, CC) (1947) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.00 Heartbeat. (PG, R) 12.00 Our Town Queensland.

(CC) 12.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Gunfight At Comanche Creek. (PG, R, CC) (1963) 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Semifinal. Decider. 5.00 Absolutely Fabulous. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 6.30 Are You Being Served?

(PG, R) The firm switches off the heat in the store.

7.10 As Time Goes By. (PG, R) Lionel and Jean take a trip.

8.30 MOVIE: Chocolat.

(M, R, CC) (2000) A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village. Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Victoire Thivisol.

11.00 Unforgettable. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Missing. (M) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Danoz Direct.

3.00 New Style Direct.

3.30 Global Shop.

4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway.

(PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Replay.

10.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 10.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (R, CC) 11.00 Fishing Edge. 11.30 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 12.00 Black Gold. (PG, R) 1.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.00 4WD Touring Australia. (R) 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 4.00 World Sport. (R) 4.30 Megafactories. (R) 5.30 Adventure Angler. (R) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) The team enlists the help of a musician.

8.30 David Attenborough’s Africa: Cape. (R, CC) Hosted by Sir David Attenborough.

9.30 MOVIE: Changing Lanes.

(M, R) (2002) Ben Affleck.

11.30 World Sport.

12.00 Meerkats: Secrets Of An Animal Superstar. (R, CC) 1.00 Black Gold. (PG, R) 3.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 4.00 River To Reef. (PG, R) 4.30 Temporary Australians.

(PG, R) 5.00 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports.

(PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 11.00 Infomercials.

(PG, R) 11.30 Mork & Mindy. (R) 12.00 Family Ties. (PG, R) 1.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 2.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(PG, R, CC) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 MOVIE: Nacho Libre.

(PG, R, CC) (2006) Jack Black.

9.30 Get Me Out Of Here!

NOW! (M) Hosted by Joel Creasey and Heather Maltman.

10.30 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) 11.00 Rules Of Engagement.

(M, R, CC) 11.30 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 2.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 3.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

(R) 4.30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. (PG, R) 5.30 Mork & Mindy.

(R)

SBS 2 6.00 Indonesian News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia.

(PG) 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 MOVIE: Ponyo. (R, CC) (2008) 2.55 Dressed Up For. (PG, R) 4.55 We Are Young.

6.00 The Brain: China.

7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 Fameless. (PG) (New Series) A look at the lengths people will go to for fame.

8.55 Drunk History. (MA15+, R) Hosted by Derek Waters.

9.20 South Park. (MA, R, CC) Cartman misunderstands an announcement.

9.50 Uncle. (M, CC) Andy tries to prove his maturity.

10.25 A Lady’s Guide To Brothels. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.35 Sex: An Unnatural History.

(MA15+, R, CC) 12.05 In Her Skin.

(PG) 1.50 MOVIE: Optical Illusions.

(M, R) (2009) 3.45 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

NITV 6.00 Tipi Tales. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style.

7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids.

8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Move It Mob Style.

10.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 21. Western Sydney Wanderers v Perth Glory. 12.00 The Medicine Line. 12.30 Contrary Warrior.

(PG) 1.30 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. (PG) 2.00 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 2.30 Away From Country. (PG) 3.30 Inside Out: Indigenous Imprisonment.

4.00 Native Planet. 5.00 Te Kaea.

5.30 Keeper.

6.00 Seeking Salvation.

7.00 Jila: Painted Waters Of The Great Sandy.

The Ngurrara people want to claim their Native Title.

7.30 Standing On Sacred Ground: Profit And Loss.

(PG) 8.30 The Last Leader Of The Crocodile Islands. (PG) 9.30 MOVIE: Harlem Nights.

(M, CC) (1989) A casino owner conflicts with corrupt cops. Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor.

11.30 Kids To Coast.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 ABC News. (CC) 11.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 ABC News. (CC) 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 1.00 ABC News. 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 ABC News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (CC) 4.00 ABC News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 ABC News. 5.30 Tonic. (R) 6.00 ABC News. (CC) 6.30 Back Roads. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 News Update. 7.05 IQ2. (CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News.

(CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 ABC News. (CC) 10.30 Planet America. 11.00 ABC News. 11.30 Conflict Zone. 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 BBC World News. 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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LAFF-A-DAY SNOWFLAKES There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Place the numbers 1 to 6 around each of them. No number can be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle.

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About to CRYPTIC 20. take part and CLUES respond to 5 6 7 stimulus (5) 21. A looser varieACROSS ty of pressurised 1. Related to a monarch almost container (7) 10 22. Cultured (4) European press 3. The main skill boss (8) required for ocean-going ves- 23 and 19 Down.

Sweet fall from sels (8) the fruit-tree (4-4) 9. A passage 12 from obsolete DOWN religious pam1. One means phlet (7) to hybridise the 10. A deceptive act put right in a flowers (8) 2 and 15 Across. second (5) No position for 18 11. Making the those who go to pitch too long, extremes (2,3,6) but inflicting 4. Records a defeat (12) variety of trees 13. Still existing as an inclusion in round the north rewritten text (6) (6) 5. Were they 15. See 2 Down.

23 17. Just the imple- sensitive enough to make early ment for a joint radio crystal DUAL CROSSWORD 18,973 operation (7-5)

clear? (4-8) 6. Crooked dealing could be properly arranged (7) 7 and 18 Down.

Obtain a publication and enter into dispute (4,5) 8. By which the choice of actors are made? (7-5) 12. Stone merchant (8) 14. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard work to drag wearily round Virginia (7) 16. Employ one to go into battle (6) 18. See 7 Down.

19. See 23 Across.

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1. Powder (4) 3. Retain (8) 9. Drunk (7) 10. Lid (5) 11. Negligence (12) 13. Cower (6) 15. Filched (6) 17. Fearful (12) 20. Milk vessel (5) 21. Curl (7) 22. Pestered (8) 23. Teem (4)

>> The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

DOWN 1. Titbit (8) 2. Sweeten (5) 4. Oppose (6) 5. The best (6,2,4) 6. Update (7) 7. Merit (4) 8. Pugnacity (12) 12. Creator (8) 14. Confine (7) 16. Fee (6) 18. Ice-house (5) 19. Blackleg (4)

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PRINCE VALIANT

CALIFORNIAN CROSSWORD

by Murphy & Gianni

From the pages of America’s most popular newspapers

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POINT TAKEN

by Paul Dorin JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS by Dave T. Phipps

1. Cookie container 4. Acknowledge 8. Work units 12. – Khan 13. Part of N.B. 14. Panorama 15. Acted as a gobetween 17. Sicilian volcano 18. Data 19. Armada 20. Propaganda pamphlet 22. Unctuous 24. Solemn pledge 25. Haphazardly 29. Cravat 30. Square dance group 31. Ostrich’s cousin 32. Chess climaxes 34. Finished 35. Addict 36. Small lizard 37. Characteristic 40. Antitoxins

21. Reason for a tarp 22. Playful water critter 23. Enrages 25. Pinnacle 26. Strayed 27. Portent 28. Gloom 30. Brewer’s oven 33. Culpable 34. Gumbo need DOWN 36. Capture 1. Predicament 37. Danson and 2. Life time?

Koppel 3. Shone brightly 38. Bar 4. Sternward 39. Geometry 5. Kill a bill calculation 6. Inseparable 40. Use a tea7. Marry spoon 8. Novelist Waugh 42. Witnessed 9. Ceremony 43. “Entourage” 10. Actor Hackman role 44. Mess up 11. Hit a fly 45. Rotation dura16. Foot fraction tion 19. Level 20. Schlep 160201 41. Count counterpart 42. Fully filled 46. Regimen 47. N. Mex. neighbour 48. Historic time 49. Do in 50. Electrician’s supply 51. Parched

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STRANGE BUT TRUE

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the movie.

z It was American journalist and poet Max Eastman who made the following sage observation: “People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favour of the status quo.” z Half of the names of the US states are derived from the languages of that continent’s native peoples. z The declarations that the physical book is dead have been overstated (as I’ve always maintained). In a recent survey of college students, 72 per cent of respondents made known their preference for print textbooks over ebooks; only 27 per cent of this youthful, techsavvy demographic said they preferred the electronic version. z Those who study such things report that beloved British author Charles Dickens was adamant that he always sleep with his head pointing north. He even carried a compass with him everywhere to ensure proper positioning. z If you’re a fan of James Bond, you

by Samantha Weaver may be surprised to learn that Ian Fleming, the creator of that notorious character, also wrote the beloved children’s book “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang”, based on bedtime stories the author made up for his young son. z If you’re traveling in China and propose a toast in someone’s honour, be sure you’re holding the glass with both hands; only rude people – and unenlightened foreigners – use just one hand. z Clyde Barrow was already a notorious criminal when he wrote a letter to Henry Ford in 1934 complimenting him on the “dandy” automobile he’d made.

The Ford V-8 was Barrow’s preferred getaway car. Just a month later, Bonnie and Clyde were killed in a stolen Ford Deluxe V-8 in a shootout with police.

Thought for the Day: “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

– Steve Biko

by Henry Boltinoff

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YOUR STARS ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) There could hardly be a better start to the week with forward-looking Saturn and benign Venus bringing good news. Expect shifts in your working life that have been long looked forward to, perhaps a promotion or the chance to really show your talents.

Put yourself forward, gain as much knowledge as possible and prepare to be charming. Mixed fortunes recently shouldn’t dent your confidence now.

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) Passions may have peaked, but that doesn’t mean a boring week, far from it! Strong emotions that have cooled bring a certain amount of peace and even contentment.

All may not be rosy in the garden, but there are plenty of blooms that please the eye. Sparks between you and a colleague raise a smile. You can be a bit of a pleasure seeker now. Taking extra time with family and friends makes bonds stronger.

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messenger service will help you, but only if you help yourself too. Love is waiting for a move from you, possibly at the weekend. Perhaps, though, you are avoiding making a decision? If unsure, turn the next page. It may be time for plan B in your love life. There is nothing wrong with changing your mind, but make it a fair exchange.

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Begin the week with optimism. You feel special and, of course, you are! More control over your life and a feeling that fate is on your side give you confidence. Of course, making

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) A strong and loving family time is on the horizon, when the chance to help someone close brings its own reward. There is an almost dreamy atmosphere at the weekend. Plan to be with those who share your thoughts for the future. This is not a bad time for personal proposals but, with Neptune in the mix, make your intentions clear. Unusually, intuition can help you out at work this week. Tune in to how your boss and colleagues are feeling.

CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Be a little more prepared to spread your wings this week. Using your talents and building on them can bring rewards. Meeting someone new through a friend or colleague provides a chance to be spontaneous.

When at your most relaxed and natural, you are a delight to be with. A little bit of jealousy could creep into a relationship when you are paid attention by someone new. Give reassurance, but don’t make too much of it.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Arm yourself with the right questions before getting into any discussions this week. Mercury’s

SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) Had an awkward few days, Scorpio? Despite your best efforts and the might of Mars, perhaps things have been less than smooth. This week sees a shift away from sullen silences and prickly encounters. By mid-week you should be planning something special for the weekend.

Visiting calm and soothing places is your reward for being brave. Choose your company carefully.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Given that it is a leap year, there are always surprises. The best news is, they are usually good ones! In your case, someone who has been slow to respond seems to have woken up. This can mean a romantic link as much as money coming into the business side. Do you feel like putting some effort into comforts at home? Is the nesting instinct kicking in early? There are bargains to be had for early birds.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) Are you having trouble getting your message across? Does someone seem determined to misunderstand? It may not be their fault, with Mercury the messenger being in a bit of a strop. Leap a few days ahead to see things calm down.

AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) Some peothe most of this time means getting out and making an impression on those who matter to you. A career boost comes through a personal attachment. This may be someone who is far away and who you see infrequently.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) In a leap year, such as this, there are always surprises in store. With both Venus and Saturn on your tail, romance intensifies. Those who are not in a relationship or who want to develop an existing one, stay tuned! The hints may be subtle, but someone wants to move things along. Really listen to their words. Romantic links are strengthened, however, if you are in a relationship that is far from ideal, start making changes.

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ple and situations can be really awkward, can’t they? Still, as this week begins, the leap year sees you bounding ahead. Be at your charming best even when you feel provoked. Getting cross will upset you more than just going with the flow.

Believe it when someone shows you what effect you have on them. Be ready for romance at the weekend.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Are you feeling better? Some sharp words seem to have drifted your way in recent days. Mercury the messenger has had the jitters. Take nothing as decided until after mid-week.

Folk are changeable at the moment. Do you know that? Relax, Pisces. There is no need to try and please everyone. A few days, or even hours, doing something that you really enjoy revitalises your perspective on life.

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! It may not be a time of great revelations for you, Pisces, but plans already in the pipeline really progress. Those who are starting on something new must show determination and grit to get things moving.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! If you want something now, Pisces, show that you mean business! Be it at home or work, determination is what will win the day. Whatever you do, avoid being slow to react to opportunities. There is competition about!

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! This time confirms some of your long-held beliefs. As your year progresses, however, certain others are challenged. The trick is in knowing who is on your side and who has a negative attitude.

That you don’t need, Pisces!

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Over the past months, Pisces, you seem to have picked up on some strange ideas. Chat to a number of people in your life who know you and what you need. We all lose our way sometimes.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Pisces, knowing what you want to do is fine, but a little guidance would not go amiss. Getting ahead now means not taking advice as criticism. Luckily, others are more than willing to help!

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Waiting for life to come to you could see you waiting a long time, Pisces. It is not lack of effort but lack of confidence that’s stopping you. Whatever you do, get out and do it!

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You like to do things as part of a partnership, Pisces. That’s fine. Mix that up a little more with projects that you do alone and it will really boost your confidence. Use those talents to the full.

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests Mega Maze

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This week's Snowflakes

This week's Californian

This week's Sudoku

This week's Go Figure!

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1. Antarctica. 2. Doc. 3. nors (‘74). 13. “Bad Moon Down: 1 Anemones; 2 In Sinitta, in 1985 and 1987.

Rising”, by Creedence the; 4 Enters; 5 Cat’s-whisk- She was the first artist ever Clearwater Revival in 1969. ers; 6 Aligned; 7 Take; 8 signed by Simon Cowell (of The song has been used in Casting-votes; 12 Jeweller; 14 “Britain’s Got Talent” and a number of films, including Travail; 16 Engage; 18 Issue; “American Idol” fame). 4.

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London”, “Blade” and “The QUICK SOLUTIONS 5. Bing.com. 6. Benjamin Big Chill”. Aussie band The Across: 1 Dust; 3 Preserve; Franklin Goodrich, compa- Reels, which had its origins 9 Legless; 10 Cover; 11 ny founder. 7. Dalai Lama, in Dubbo, covered the song Carelessness; 13 Cringe; 15 XIV. 8. Joe DiMaggio. 9. successfully in the 1980s.

Stolen; 17 Apprehensive; 20 Churn; 21 Ringlet; 22 Badgered; 23 Pour.

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