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Local fighting champ pays tribute to Ali’s last bout

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Violence is the new black

NE of the more disturbing articles in this week’s issue of Dubbo Weekender is about a new advertising campaign in support of NSW Ambulance Triple Zero (000) call takers, which requests the general public stop abusing them when phoning for an ambulance.

They state that while it’s understandable people ring for an ambo most likely in a situation which is frightening, emotionally charged and urgent, it’s still not an excuse to threaten to harm a call taker or hurl verbal insults.

They also point out that their youngest caller - around four years-old - has been a stand out for politeness and the ability to follow instructions but it’s the adults who are having a hard time operating calmly under duress and behaving very badly.

That threatening physical violence is at all an option in a social situation while talking to the only person who can help them in a crisis, is evidence some in Australian society have come far since the invention of speech and social etiquette.

Just this week a police woman was injured in Dubbo attending to a domestic violence dispute sufficiently to force her off work for a few days to manage her recovery and no doubt the anxiety which comes with her role as law enforcer which asks she walk into any situation where physical abuse toward her, or worse, could be an outcome.

A few years back the Dubbo Hospital began adorning its halls with notices advising patients and visitors that verbal and physical abuse of doctors and nurses would not be tolerated or accepted.

The fact this has to be explained at all alongside the ‘wash your hands after using the bathroom’ posters, is farcical. On the evolutionary timeline from swamp to now, the swamp is looking pretty appealing.

Violence and foul language in our society is on the rise in a benign way, served largely as entertainment, which tags it as ‘normal’.

In the behaviour crisis which is leaving many schools in a wretched state of bedlam, forcing teachers out of their chosen profession, or to think twice about where and who they teach to avoid physical and verbal abuse from students - behaving and speaking badly could easily be classified as a pandemic of our time.

Everybody’s got rights and in a wave of self entitlement those rights appear to include total rejection of civility, respect for elders, property or self.

What was cringeworthy 20 years ago is doormat ordinary today.

Community advocates who were opposed to the building of Centrelink next to Dubbo Public School, concerned about excessive use of inappropriate language near children in an attempt to protect them, plus well documented anti-social behaviour which frequently spilled onto the footpath at it’s previous location and something a shiney new building was unlikely to remedy, weren’t far off the money given the police are called to attend some alterca-

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tion or another, on a semi regular basis and though contentious at the time because security guards were proposed as a six month appeasement measure at a cost - they have been posted full time there for the past two years at least, as bastions of good behaviour.

Challenging the Ombudsman with their issues over bad language and behaviour, that elevated personage told the concerned citizens something to the effect of ‘oh get over it, that’s the way the world is today’.

The thing is whose world was the Ombudsman talking about?

Is it the people who are asking politely or demanding of our society’s leaders that good standards of behaviour be the norm rather than the anomaly? Or does the world belong now to people who couldn’t give a damn about anyone or anything.

It used to be that expletives were not allowed in popular culture, then the ‘bleep’ buzzer became the novelty insert for comedic effect, then slowly swearing was drip fed to audiences to now when the F bomb is used to replace any possible creative alternative adjective, noun, pronoun or verb. On this exponential curve it can be argued that before too long only four or five words will actually be required to communicate anything - not at length or with too much depth but points will be made.

Once language is saturated to this point, perhaps the pendulum will swing the other way.

Speech therapists will enjoy a resurgence because language in all it’s splendour will be trending again and new ways of expressing anger, frustration and abusive feelings will follow an imaginative alternative path, rising up out of the gutter in a renaissance of self discipline and respect.

Before that happens though the swing must rest at the top of the arc which TV shows like the Game of Thrones are exploring with the use of the C word given the F bomb is losing its oomph.

I don’t know anyone who uses that word in their day to day life, so it’s not a reflection of a world I’m familiar with but the GAT scriptwriters skilled at period soap opera storytelling are a litmus that popular culture is fast running out of options to shock and offend - the foundation of any contemporary entertainment.

It may be there are plenty of other issues in our community, society, country and the world, far more important than the effects of bad behaviour but when people who choose to serve our community are suffering at the hands of others whose ability to behave or speak politely is naught, yet celebrated and endorsed by popular culture - now constantly just one app away and which reinforces their sense of entitlement to be belligerent, rude, offensive, violent, aggressive, hostile, antagonistic, pugnacious, combative, bellicose or threatening - it is a sorry indictment on what we as a society today deem normal and what the adults of this generation are teaching the adults of tomorrow. Since when did please or thank you become a dirty word.

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Heavy duty chopper flies into Dubbo Airport for well-earned R&R

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

LENTY of helicopters fly through Dubbo to refuel but it’s not often one of the biggest choppers in the world stops in to say g’day.

Made famous during the Vietnam war, the Chinook series of twin rotor heavy-lift helicopters has been as durably iconic as the Coke bottle and Harley Davidson V-Twin engine.

I was in a meeting when I heard it fly over on its way into Dubbo and it was all I could do to remain polite and not run out to have a look – and it certainly generated plenty of interest amongst the city’s aviation fraternity.

“The Chinook creates a lot of interest and we’re more than happy to take people through it if the airport authorities allow it, we are on a bit of a show-andtell when we’re in Melbourne, there’s various people that are quite interested in looking at this type of aircraft”, pilot Ross Robertson of Columbia Helicopters said.

Robertson said they called in for fuel and a good night’s sleep during a fourday trek from Papua new guinea to Melbourne.

“We’ll be loading it in the hold of a ship from Melbourne so we’re headed there – we’ve come down from PNG over the last three or four days – we flew it into new Guinea by a big Antonov because the customer wanted it there straight away so we had to break it down,” Robertson said. “It’s been in PNG for a six month contract.”

Columbia Helicopters not only specialises in heavy lift chopper work, it actually owns the manufacturing and licensing rights for what used to be known as Boeing-Vertol Chinooks, from their home base in Porland Oregon USA. “Columbia Helicopters are actually now the manufacturers of this aircraft and they’re the licensed operator so this is actually a Columbia 234 Chinook, it was originally a Boeing-Vertol 234,” he said.

“This aircraft was built in ’83 or ’84 and it’s basically done about 16,000 hours, we operate a really massive maintenance facility, the company’s driven by maintenance so we have a philosophy that it’s the best way to operate the aircraft.

“We’re burning about 1500 to 1600 litres an hour of jet fuel and that would be seven to eight 200 litre drums, depending on altitude and how hard we’re working it but it’s all relative, I mean, there’s a lot of horsepower there, it takes a lot of energy to make that horsepower,” he said.

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The aircraft boasts a bit over 4,500 horsepower per engine and has a very high cruise speed, It’s VNE, or never-exceed speed is 148 knots, but Columbia has a VNE of 120 knots, with standard operating policy to cruise between so pilots generally cruise their Chinooks between 110 and 120 knots – it’s all about looking after very expensive equipment and not flogging it to an early death.

120 knots equals 222 kilometres per hour, so it’s a quick way to get anywhere

especially when you don’t need a runway and circuits and you can steer in a direct line.

This model has long range fuel tanks and can stay in the air for 460 nautical miles, or 851 kilometres, a huge range for a chopper, and with Melbourne just 702ks from Dubbo in a straight line, this giant helicopter can easily make that in one go with a considerable safety margin.

In PNG the company was working at

` The weather is a constant enemy – It’s been estimated that there are still around 500 World War II aircraft missing in PNG with full crews, and many of these crashes were on account of the mountainous terrain and treacherous weather rather than enemy action.

delivering heavy loads sometimes exceeding 11 tonnes to remote drilling sites at altitudes of almost 3,000 metres and as well as the thin air taxing the lift capacity, the weather is a constant enemy – It’s been estimated that there are still around 500 World War II aircraft missing in PNG with full crews, and many of these crashes were on account of the mountainous terrain and treacherous weather rather than enemy action.

“PNG weather and terrain, it makes you very aware, you’ve got to be on to it as far as the weather goes, you always fly with, you never put yourself in a position where you haven’t got an outroute”, he said.

“We were operating into a rig site that’s really weather-affected so we had weather windows that kind of come and go, we know where those weather windows will be and then we operated accordingly and we had to be right on to it basically.”

Bearing in mind these trips weren’t in an empty chopper, in ideal conditions this model Chinook weighs almost 10 tonnes and can lift at least its’ own bodyweight – add in high altitudes where rotor driven aircraft generally lose efficiency the higher they climb.

And they sling their loads on a ‘longline’, so 10 tonnes hanging pendulumlike on an 80 metre cable just adds to the difficulties and dangers.

“I guess it‘s a skill-set, just like instrument flying, long-lining is just another skill-set that you can learn,” Robertson said.

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Local fighting champ pays tribute to Ali’s last bout

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

UHAMMAD Ali was a giant among men, even having a song written about his legendary boxing prowess.

‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, the hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see’, the song was titled ‘Black Superman – catch me if you can’.

His story was felt around the world, the black American Muslim convert captivated a large and inclusive audience, many of whom had never followed the sport of boxing.

Dubbo’s John Hallford has world kickboxing titles to his credit, the ISKA Middleweight title where he fought at 74 kg in a 75kg division and also had a handful of professional boxing bouts although he was predominantly a kick-fighter – he’s a huge fan.

“Muhammad Ali was the greatest I think in all facets of fighting whether it’s boxing, Muay Thai, MMA, UFC, kickboxing or whatever, he’s the biggest name and one of the nicest blokes to go along with it,” Mr Hallford said.

“He was a role model, obviously he was a bit before my era but I’ve got his tapes and I used to study his tapes and he was certainly a role model to every professional fighter, it wouldn’t matter

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what style or what sort of fighting, he was just a superstar in the fight game.

“The most impressive thing for me is that probably that every time he got beaten and the best fighters get beaten obviously, but when he got beaten he rematched the person that beat him and he’d always win the rematch and I think for a fighter, to have that mental capability to jump back in the ring with someone who’s just beat you up and reverse that, I think it’s just a credit to him and it just shows his mental and physical attributes,” he said.

Ali was a controversial figure inside the ring, but also outside as a black man speaking out on an enormous public stage from the heart of an America where mainstream views were based around middle-class white society.

He converted to Islam after winning his first world title in the mid-1960s and changed his name from Cassius Clay and was a central figure in the massive civil rights movement.

He was convicted (overturned years later) when he refused to be conscripted into the US Army to fight in the Vietnam war, a conflict many believed was a white man’s’ war where young black men were sent to die.

John Hallford said Ali’s multi-dimensioned character added to the legend and his popular, and enduring, appeal to millions outside the fight game.

“Obviously there are a lot of fight-

ers who are big in America and a lot of fighters who are big in Germany or other countries but Muhammad Ali was big in every country and he stood for everyone, it wasn’t just one religion or it wasn’t just one race of people,” Hallford said.

“He made boxing what it is to this day and all these fighters like Floyd Mayweather and Oscar de Lahoya and all these big names in my era, can thank Muhammad Ali. “To go to jail for something you don’t believe in, and you know, there’s arguments for both sides of what happened there, but he’d do anything when he believed it was right, he’d stay tough,” he said.

He says the emotion surrounding news of Ali’s death is less an outpouring of grief, but rather one of respect, mingled with a common relief he’s no longer suffering.

“He was physically and mentally a superstar and I think it’s been 30 years now he’s had Parkinson’s Disease and I think that fight would have been a lot harder than the fights he had in the ring,” Hallford said.

“He could control the fights in the ring in respect to how you train and how you prepare yourself mentally but when you get sick like that it’s uncontrollable, it’s out of your hands and he fought it for so many years.”

In his room surrounded by world title belts and other mementos of his world

champion kickboxing career, Hallford has one piece showing Sugar Ray Leonard and a few relating to Muhammad Ali. “I’ve only ever collected memorabilia of two fighters and I love a lot of fighters and they’re the only ones I’ve got,” he said Despite being in the international spotlight as a top boxer for so long, he’s amazed Ali was able to keep on his game and at the same time push for a better world by advocating for big picture issues “Super hard, mental toughness is one of the biggest aspects of the sport - I think you can train and be super fit and you can have super talent but if you’re not mentally prepared when you fight the top class fighters you just can’t beat them because they’ve got all the pieces of the puzzle in regard to fitness, style and mental strength,” Mr Hallford said.

“Mentally you have to be fitter, it’s like 50 to 60 percent of your total package when it comes to fighting.

“He used to have his way of talking leading up to fights but while he talked the talk he could walk the walk and when he said he was going to do something it almost always happened, so he could back it up where a lot of people, and there are a few boxers, who talk the talk but they can’t back it up,” he said.

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000 BAD NEWS WHEN a regional emergency call centre has to help launch a statewide campaign asking people not to abuse staff, you know there’s a major problem in society.

Yet this was the case at the city’s Ambulance control centre this week, where issues of abuse were highlighted in a bid to try and get those people to stop the harassment.

The operators are working hard to ensure they save as many lives as possible and create the best outcomes for people in this region who need emergency help, it’s a stressful job at the best of times so could all those idiots doing this just cut it out.

ROAD TOLL AND TOLL ON TOP COP DEPUTY commissioner Catherine Burn was in town to launch a campaign aimed at cutting the number of lives lost on regional roads thanks to road smashes, which police say were preventable in many instances and the fault of motorists engaging in foolish or unthinking behavior.

I’m concerned about a seeming correlation in a spike of motor vehicle accidents and a spike in the number of random breath tests highway patrol officers have been tasked to perform in the past 12 months – common sense dictates that if they’re being told by the police bureaucracy to be in various locations for RBTs, it must take away from their time on the road to actually get that presence out there.

I’m waiting for some data on this but while the police have rightly asked the community to engage their brains before engaging the gears in their cars, that onus of mutual responsibility cuts both ways, and having highway cars on patrol is a proven deterrent.

I’ve never been a fan of roadside cameras but driving to Mudgee on a very wet Saturday I decided to go through Wellington because the roads are better (there’s a practical example of a motorist engaging his brain before getting behind the wheel) and I saw a camera car between Wongarbon and Geurie and then another setting up just this side of Wello, and that heavy presence really does stop and make you think.

Back to deputy commissioner Burn and I see the metro media was after her during her Dubbo visit to question her on decisions she made during the Martin Place siege.

She’s been in the wars, having recently survived a scandal where top police were bugged by a specialist unit she was running – it can be a hard life when you’re so close to the top.

Member for Dubbo Troy Grant, Narromine Mayor Bill McAnally and Orana Aquatic Swimming Club Members who were successful with their application under the NSW Government’s Local Sport grant program.

RAINY DAYS THE widespread rain has been a godsend to farmers, setting them up for what could be an amazing season.

The problem is the lack of consistent rain in the past decade, where we often have extended dry times during the year where crops are stressed, reducing yields, and then just when it looks like some rain at the back end will redeem the situation, the downpours just don’t stop, so it’s really becoming a case in south east Australia of the worst of both worlds.

Let’s hope we can fill the dams with this rain, for Burrendong to get some decent inflows we need a lot of rain in a small area around Bathurst and for that water to run off.

Much of the reason water doesn’t run off anymore is because improved land management practices have seen far more ground cover on far more properties for a far longer period of time, and while that stores more moisture on farm, it doesn’t help the situation downstream, so it can be a two-edged sword.

POTHOLE DISGRACE I DROVE back from Mudgee and had a bad experience on the far side of Mugga Hill, when a four wheel drive decided to pass me as a slowed down because there was some roadwork mesh on both sides of the Golden Highway.

While I was concentrating on holding a straight course, it made it impossible for me to swerve when I saw four large and sharp potholes strung across the middle of the road.

I couldn’t believe there was no appropriate signage for this road hazard, it really hammered the front of my car and I not only lost a hubcap, I’ve since noticed my right front wheel was actually buckled by the impact.

It’s just luck that no-one has been forced out of control and into oncoming traffic – this sort of stuff just isn’t good enough, yet the RMS gleefully comes down on any private individuals when it gets the chance.

SOS TO SES OUR region has thankfully been spared the worst of the crazy weather in the past week but local State Emergency Services crews have been frantical-

ly busy, the volunteers responding to leaky roofs, fallen trees and blocked drains.

Throw in two flood rescues and it makes for a busy time, especially considering the SES crews give up their own time and don’t get paid for helping others in the community.

In addition, local members were tasked across the state to help out in severely affected communities such as Bega and Merimbula on the state’s south coast.

COAL VOIDS WE’LL need more than the SES and paramedics to clean up the mess left behind by so many coal mines, where the huge pits they were meant to have paid for in advance to be rehabili-

tated apparently never will be cleaned up.

We subsidise this industry in all sorts of ways denied by the industry, they virtually rape the country, often send the profits overseas without paying tax and then leave us with the mess, not to mention the communities they displace and the nearby areas they render unlivable.

I’m all for mining when it works socially, environmentally and economically, but in so many cases this hasn’t been happening.

We need a Royal Commission into this mess and get to the bottom, clearly and concisely, as to how we can see profits redistributed back to Aussies and also ensure the voids are cleaned up and rehabilitated, if that’s even possible – unless, that is, we as a state enjoy having a combined toxic hole bigger than Sydney Harbour in our midst.

TRANSPORT VOIDS ONE void which will hopefully be filled in the future is the one which makes it tough for senior citizens to get around in regional NSW. A parliamentary inquiry looking at access to transport for seniors is underway and trying to find ways where the issue “might be overcome in an equitable way.”

The inquiry came about after a request from Dubbo MP Troy Grant who asked for these issues to be put under the microscope.

The committee will receive submissions until July 21, so you’ve got just six weeks to put your ideas or experiences forward.

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Friday 10.06.2016 to Sunday 12.06.2016 | Dubbo Weekender people believe actually rests within the western plains of NSW, but that’s another matter for another day.

It seems the town’s Urban Street Renewal Program for 2015/16 is “nearing completion,” a job lot which “included the replacement of unserviceable footpaths, kerb and gutter renewal and sealing of road shoulders as well as resurfacing of existing street pavements.”

If only they’d helped the RMS fill in those dangerous bloody potholes near Mugga Hill.

VOLUNTARY AMALGAMATION

The principal violinist of the Australian Opera and ballet Orchestra will perform at a Dubbo concert this Sunday at 4pm, at St Mary’s School Hall (June 12).

Also performing will be a former Irish Chamber Orchestra member along with violin students from Sydney, Newcastle and Dubbo.

creation of a new council encompassing Wellington and Dubbo, not least for the way in which the elected councilors were summarily sacked.

Then the volunteer committees were told they weren’t wanted, after investing much time to make our city a better place.

But against that backdrop,

the routine of both councils, now one indissoluble entity, seems to be poking along pretty much as normal, although with the rains in the past 10 days you could be forgiven for thinking the sky had fallen in.

Anyway, the main council news from Western Plains Regional Council is from Wellington, a town which not many

BUSINESS is hoping to gain advantage and not go backwards in any fallout from the council marriage ceremony, with the Chambers of Commerce from Wellington and Dubbo holding a joint meeting at Wello’s Cow and calf, “rather than meeting at the 25km mark on the Mitchell Highway halfway between Dubbo and Wellington with a rug and thermos on the side of the road.”

I actually think that would have been a great media photo opportunity, now gone begging, but surely a Geurie venue would have helped that centre – maybe next time.

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in light of the forced council amalgamation.

The regional business chamber claims it as a “great opportunity for collaboration and it highlights that our local business chambers are leading the way during this time to achieve the best outcomes for their members and the local business community.”

That’s pretty much spot on, it doesn’t matter what anyone’s personal views are, those who jump on the new state of affairs with glee and gusto will be the major beneficiaries.

WPRC also held its first extraordinary meeting this week, again at Wello, to discuss some tenders and such matters.

I’ve been to plenty of extraordinary council meetings in the past and am yet to find one which is actually anything out of the ordinary.

The WPRC operational plan is now on public display. $1.9 million has been allocated to the extension towards the east of Boundary Road.

Joining this up with Sheraton Road to ease the congestion at the highway roundabout at school times would be probably the highest priority for expenditure amongst a huge numbers of motorists who have to battle it on a twice daily basis, with traffic made all the worse by council’s last minute concession to allow an entry near Bunnings well after the initial approv-

als had been given with only a Mitchell Hwy entry point.

It’s happening at last, but it’s way, way overdue and the people who have been stalling it in favor of spending ridiculous millions on hot tarring the dead end of Jannali Road can thank their lucky stars there have been no serious accidents caused by the congestion.

HOLLOW, BUT IN A GOOD WAY WITH the launch of consultation into both the biodiversity and biosecurity acts at almost the same time, there’s so much information floating around that it’s a bit overwhelming, and the agencies running the show are struggling to keep up with things.

For many people it’s a time to think global, but act local, and sometimes just continuing to do positive things in your backyard can be the best medicine while the big picture stuff sorts itself out.

On June 23 the Central West Council’s Environment and Waterways Alliance will be staging a “Hollows for habitat” forum at Dubbo’s zoo.

We have lost so much habitat, but now experts are finding that chain-sawing artificial hollows into trees can create some amazing refuges for wildlife who would otherwise be considered homeless.

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This is a major yet pretty much under-the-radar issue for most people, but it’s a strategy where we can make a huge difference locally and it won’t break the bank – imagine if on every farm and reserve we made one of these, if a lot of individuals played their part.

TV commentator Dr Keith Suter will present “Thinking globally, acting locally, responding personally.�

Contact Mick Callan on 0400 968 201 to reserve your place at this free event.

SHORT, SHARP, BRIEF AND SOMETIMES INTERESTING THE principal violinist of the Australian Opera and ballet Orchestra will perform at a Dubbo concert this Sunday at 4pm, at St Mary’s School Hall (June 12).

Also performing will be a former Irish Chamber Orchestra member along with violin students from Sydney, Newcastle and Dubbo.

Dubbo Suzuki has organized the Winter Workshop which will also feature tutors over three days for a Suzuki method based workshop.

More information from Alison Williams on 0412 338 319.

If the kids are cold and the power bills are out of control, whack them into a sleeping bag under the doona and give them

As part of TAFE Western’s Outbound Mobility Program, students from Orange, Dubbo, Cowra and other small western NSW towns took up five-day residencies at Shanghai Redleaf Women’s Hospital and American-Sino Obstetrician, Gynecology and Pediatrics Services in China and have recently returned.

a hot water bottle, it’s a cheap but effective way of keeping them very warm all night.

There’s a crackdown on people grabbing firewood from reserves, which is illegal, so any other warming strategies should be warmly welcomed in from out in the cold.

Narromine will play host to

the Melbourne Cup as it tours around the nation this year, I personally can’t think of anything less interesting but diversity in this world is a great thing.

Rural doctors are calling on all sides of politics to support a rural rescue package, but it’s tough to get any issue highlighted in this most boring of election

campaigns – where’s Australia’s answer to Bernie Sanders when you need him, or her.

Hopefully Myer will keep its major presence in Dubbo, but there were shivers through the community when the company announced it would close its Wollongong and Orange stores.

It really underpins Macquarie St and it wouldn’t be a good look for our struggling CBD if it shut up shop.

Good luck to all the performers at the Dubbo Eisteddfod, and for anyone looking for performing arts, check out the huge number of great shows coming up at the tiered theatre.

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When one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of mining equipment was handed over to Western TAFE in Dubbo it demonstrated better than any platitudes or announcement how industry and educators must work together to ensure not only that people are being skilled to be the employees of the future, but also that the next generation of workers should also be jobready as soon as they walk in the door.

The employer-employee compact is a complex minefield at the best of times with good and bad behavior on both sides of the equation, but underpinning the economy is how state and federal government settings work to ensure that the correct number of people are being trained to do the right jobs into the future.

With a rapidly changing global, digital economy, public policy makers and educational providers have to be agile, reactive and visionary just to keep up. WORDS John Ryan ATE BAXTER has served many years as the Institute Director for TAFE Western, responsible for the organisation over a huge region which encompasses 24 college locations as well as numerous alternate access points to engage in various training courses.

She says the gift of mining plant and vehicles is a huge boost.

“In all our trade training areas it’s really important that our students whether they’re apprentices or people trying to enter an industry get hands-on practice in that particular trade area … so an event like today is a good opportunity for us to acknowledge a very generous donation from one of our partners which will actually allow our students to have that practical hands-on experience of vehicles that have been used in the industry, which when they’re out in the industry they’ll be actually servicing as well,”Baxter said.

“One of the things at TAFE Western we’re very keen to do is working in partnership, whether it be with industry groups or with community to make sure that the training we’re offering is relevant, appropriate for what the industry wants and also meets the needs of the community, particularly for the young people who are coming into careers, that

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they’re getting hands-on and real life experience.

“One of the things TAFE Western does is that we have a very broad scope in our training so it’s not just the trade training, we deliver people who are skilled in a whole range of areas such as health, business skills, management skills, hospitality skills, we see that it’s very essential that all of our communities have access to those skilled workers,” she said.

Elliot Willemsen-Bell is Evolution Mining’s senior community relations advisor and believes gifting the plant rather than selling at auction is a win-won.

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training’s going to be so when they walk out with their qualifications they’re job-ready and we know that they have experience working on the machinery that we use on site”, Mr Willemsen-Bell said.

“TAFE Western does a really good job of training up the guys and making them job-ready and if we can give them the opportunity to work on actual vehicles in their training, actual vehicles that have been used in and continue to be used in the industry then a lot of that extra training that you may have to do on-site, that’s already been done and the guys can slot right into the role

“For Evolution’s Cowal Gold operation we’re looking at what the next chapter is going to be and we’re looking at how we can extend the mine’s life and how we can grow, now it’s not just about growing the asset it’s about growing the workforce as well and making sure that we do have that next generation ready to come through,” he said.

Baxter says the widespread nature of TAFE and its reach to the more remote centres provides a core belief from community that the organisation is in it for the duration.

“If you look at a facility like the one we’re standing in here now, it’s a state of the art for automotive and heavy vehicle training – obviously we can’t replicate that at 24 locations across western NSW and not that we would want to, but by having this facility here we can run programs in such a way that people living in the smaller communities can actually come into this facility to get their specialist training so what we try to do out in the smaller communities is to run the entry level training so that people have some background before they enter into these sorts of facilities to do specialist training,” Mrs Baxter said.

“The majority of our employers and certainly the majority of our students

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3D printing ONE area Australia is lagging behind is in the training of people with the skills to enter the emerging 3D Printing industry.

The scale of change is intensifying – three years ago a professor in southern California 3D printed a two story concrete house in just 24 hours and last year a Chinese researcher printed a dozen homes in a single day.

The International space station has had a 3D printer for the past two years which means it doesn’t have to carry nearly the number of spare parts, as many replacement items can be printed in situ.

Meantime, most Australians haven’t given much attention to this topic and the federal government doesn’t seem to have a plan.

Luckily, vocational training organisations are keeping a close eye on this evolving discipline, but massive public funding will be needed to help us catch up.

VERTO CEO Ron Maxwell was staggered at China’s progress in this field after a recent visit.

“When I was recently in China one of the schools that I was at there had a 3D Printing facility where they’re training students in this technology now and the things that came from the printer were staggering, they had a model of a heart so you can produce a 3D image of a heart so this works towards training medical students and so forth, but the thing that really irked me was the trainer pointed out that this was an Australian invention and here he is showing an Australian what this stuff can do so those guys have really got hold of that and see that as part of the future and they’re setting up colleges now specialising in that area,” he said.

“That irks me a little because it was an Australian invention that had to be taken overseas because it couldn’t gain investment so hats off to Malcolm Turnbull for saying that we’re going to invest in this stuff in the future, it’s a shame it wasn’t done a few years ago.”

That’s another amazing technological development that our clever nation let go, but it begs the pressing question of who will train the trainers so they can train the future workers we’ll need to actually run the 3D printers.

Ron Maxwell believes it will have to be a public organisation and there will have to be solid government support.

“Really it’s probably going to take someone like a TAFE institute because of the substantial investment in infrastructure that’s needed,” Maxwell said, pointing out that his company can work up programs with partners as long as there are ways to access the actual 3D printing machines themselves.

“This is something that VERTO can certainly do but how we do a lot of our training is actually partnering with industry so we’re actually using their infrastructure to train our students with the most up-to-date equipment and the most up-to-date methods,” Maxwell said.

“So once they’re accredited and they go out in the workplace then the employer knows that this particular student has gone through and been trained with the latest techniques, with the latest technology.

“With 3D Printing it’s still emerging, it’s still emerging in Australia so that’s something that Australia really needs to take hold of and education providers need to take a hold of because when it starts to fly,, it’ll happen very quickly and the last thing you want is a whole lot of skill shortages – China seems to be on the front foot with that,” he said.

Western TAFE”s Institute director Kate Baxter said training in the area of 3D printing is starting to happen.

“We look at those emerging industries, we talk to our partners about how they’re using that technology and we have started doing some training around 3D printing, how to use it, what applications it has in industry, to a certain extent we’re going to be guided by industry and how they’re using it and we want to make sure that our students know how to apply that technology within whatever industry they’re going to enter work, actually have these skills,” Baxter said, explaining that separate TAFE units are driven in part by the specialist staff within them.

“We deliver through sections that are headed up by head teachers who are actually very current in their industry, so from that point of view they’re very abreast of what’s going on and we encourage our staff to make sure they keep those connections with industry either through having some work experience in the industry, employing part-time teachers to work for us who also work in the industry or more generally just keeping up with the trends or developments in areas of industry.”

“Because what we know is that a lot of industries have shifted over the last 10 or 15 years with the use of technology which is really significant in most industries now – we want to make sure our Kate Baxter has served students, when they’re ready, many years as the Institute to go out too,” she said.

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are more than happy with the training they get from TAFE and I think one of the interesting things in the broader community at the moment – there’s been a lot of discussion about other providers who aren’t TAFE and some of the issues they’ve produced for individuals and many communities and many people see that actually TAFE is someone that you can rely on and TAFE has a presence in communities, we don’t just come in and out of communities we’re here for the long haul, we’ve been here for a long time and our staff, whether they be our teachers or our support staff, we live in these communities and we’re very committed to these communities and I think that our communities really appreciate that.

“I think the (TAFE) brand is perceived very well and that shows that people have a very strong appreciation of the brand , it’s a state-based brand so that people know right across NSW the consistency of training but TAFE NSW is also an internationally recognised brand as well, we’re seeing some of that here in this institute at the moment in terms of interesting international programs,” she said.

For Evolution Mining, it’s all about partnerships to ensure the sustainability of their operations, and the industry at large according to Elliot Willemsen-Bell.

“This is a great opportunity for us to invest and these are machines that otherwise would have been sold and there would’ve been no extra value gained from them but now they’re actually going to have a whole new life training up these students - I think it’s something that Evolution is very aware of, is making sure that we are feeding back into the industry and feeding back into the training to make sure that we do have that next crop of job-ready, ready to hit site,” Willemsen-Bell said.

“Evolution is comparatively new in the industry, the company acquired the goldmine back almost 12 months ago and is starting to look to the future, whether it’s expansion or whatever it is so it’s important that we actually raise our profile so that with these guys when they’re training they know that there are jobs out there and they know the employer and that they’ve already got a bit of insight into what Cowal Gold Operation does , how Evolution operates also a bit of insight into the mining industry as a larger unit across the central west.

“There’s particularly in the gold industry Evolution is a company that’s grown over the last five to six years and it’s really coming into its own at the moment and I think it’s a matter of people looking a bit more widely at the mining industry – the mining industry is huge, it covers coal, it covers iron ore it covers gold it covers all sorts of things,” he said.

He says the background for this actual donation wasn’t driven by management and it wasn’t driven by the corporate office.

Friday 10.06.2016 to Sunday 12.06.2016 | Dubbo Weekender “It was actually one of our guys in the supply department who saw that we had all this surplus stock, surplus equipment and he didn’t want to see it go to scrap or get sold, he thought that it could find a better life and another life actually training up some of the guys that are here at TAFE so it was a really good initiative that came from a guy in the field”, Mr Willemsen-Bell said.

“Evolution is a very open company and management listens to its employees and it makes it so much more rewarding that an idea that someone has, whether they’re in the office or out in the field or in the pit, that idea is given value and is taken seriously and listened.

“The good ideas come from everywhere, not just in the management office, not just in the corporate offices but the guys in the field who are actually doing these things day in, day out and can identify ways of doing things more efficiently, more safely or, in this case, spreading the benefit around into the community,” he said.

ORMER Dubbo local Ron Maxwell cut his teach in education and training, most recently heading up Western college before taking on the job of running VERTO, one of the nation’s major vocational training outfits with its head office based in Bathurst.

He’s travelled the world looking at the best way of providing vocational training across a broad range of industries and says that while Australia is a recognised leader in many fields, the rapidly changing landscape means there are plenty of challenges to ensure we stay the best where we’re at the top, and massive fixes needed to arrest the decline in areas such as falling apprenticeship uptakes across a range of industries.

He remains hugely positive that our nation will continue to grow its $19 billion annual educational export market

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after a recent trip to China.

Coal and mineral exports are the only bigger earner of export income for Australia and VERTO CEO Ron Maxwell says it’s a sector that often flies under the radar, with people generally in disbelief when they realise how much it contributes to the economy in pure financial terms.

“When a lot of people think of education they think of it in a domestic sense only and in the domestic sense it’s quite significant because the funds invested in education and training are very substantial but when you just have a look at the component for international, export, it ranks number three,” Maxwell said.

His organisation has facilities across the nation and specialises in vocational training to get people ready to enter the workforce in areas as diverse as hospitality and aged care.

A recent trip to China opened his eyes to an enormous number of possibilities, with that nation looking to Australia’s expertise in the field.

“China looks upon Australia as having possibly the best vocation training system in the world so we were over there for a number of reasons. One was we were training teachers over there so we did a workshop with about 50 of their teachers and taught them what the Australian standards are, how to implement those, how to engage with students; so we’re doing a number of projects over there with a few different schools,” he said.

“There’s a fundamental shift happening in China at the moment, two years ago the central Chinese government instructed 600 universities to convert to vocational education institutions, that’s massive – what the central government saw was happening was that they were getting an oversupply of university graduates that weren’t getting jobs

The education sector’s quite vast – annually it’s worth about $19 billion to Australia and it’s the third largest export industry - VERTO CEO Ron Maxwell.

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and they were substantially missing out some skills specialty in that vocational area.

“So in terms for VERTO there’s a great opportunity to be over there in the transnational market,” he said.

One major opportunity he identified for regional Australia was in aged care, a problem educators and workplace trainers understand in Australia only too well, with our nation facing an aging crisis on a number of fronts during the next few decades.

“There’s an emerging issue over there that they’re having an aged care crisis as well with an aging population and there’s no explicit standards in aged care over there and there’s very few organisations that offer that and when they do offer it it’s often at the university level rather than being hands-on vocational level.” Mr Maxwell said.

“So we’re assisting a number of colleges over there to transition from that higher level to the vocational level and how to mix in work placements with industry, industry connections and how to establish assessment practices and so forth.

“There’s a number of things that we’re looking at, we’re talking to a number of colleges at the moment to help get them running in aged care but also that they might offer dual qualifications, so offer the Chinese one but also offer the Australian qualification as well and what we’re looking at doing is finalising some partnerships where the students will come out to Australia, do a six month work placement out here in Australia and also we assess them once they come out here,” he said.

Assessment at the dual standard would mean more highly regarded qualifications for students in China’s domestic market, making it easier for them to find jobs according to Maxwell.

He says economic studies show a huge boost to Australia’s economy from international students doing vocational placements in Australia.

“The sector is valued at about $19 billion as far as an export goes, when offshore students come out to Australia and spend time here, they reckon there’s about another $913 million a year in associated benefits to the Australian economy, that’s accommodation, those sorts of things extra travel because their friends might come out from a tourism point of view and that’s growing all the time,” Maxwell said.

He’s glowing about the potential opportunities for regional Australia, cities like Dubbo, to share in the potential bonanza.

“Absolutely because it’s about getting the Australian experience as well, it’s about a whole mixture, there’s also the English language component that the Chinese are looking to improve on, part of that work placement out here but certainly for regional Australia there’s a lot of aged care facilities and the unique experience a regional place would offer them, you can’t replicate that anywhere

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else,” he said.

“Sydney is wonderful and it’s beautiful and everybody loves to go to Sydney but to get that whole Australian experience I think’s really important as well.

“We’ve got arrangements with some centres in metro areas at the moment and one is a Mandarin-speaking centre but we want a wider opportunity with the students and obviously with the numbers that are looking at coming over you’re not going to be able to place them all in metro areas so it’s about finding placements for them around the country,” he said.

But while some industries can expect boom times, he’s concerned other parts of the economy need structural change, with many industries seeing apprentice numbers fall by 15 to 20 percent annually for the past four or five years, and with employer incentives being lost a few years ago he fears the trend will continue.

“The fear is that if we don’t do something about it we’re going to start facing skill shortages in the next few years - the market hasn’t been stimulated for some period of time but unfortunately if something’s not done and those incentives don’t start to lift we all know what impact skill shortages have on the economy as a whole, productivity drops”, Mr Maxwell said.

“Given that apprenticeships and traineeships are a key mechanism for youth employment as well – in the central west there’s 18 percent youth unemployment now that’s three times the national average and in some places in NSW it’s as high as 28 percent so really, something needs to be looked at, we need to invest in apprenticeships and training.

Construction apprenticeship numbers are holding more firm than in other sectors, with the hardest hit traineeships in industries such as retail, hospitality and food, declining dramatically.

He says this can have a drastic flow-on effect, because where once apprentices finish their training many would go out and start their own small businesses and then take on their own apprentices, those numbers are declining because the pipeline of apprentices are not coming through.

Figures on the completions of apprenticeships however are good, there have been federal changes and mechanisms of mentoring to encourage completions plus many people are being interviewed to see if they are suited for the career they’re looking to embark on, to save people wasting time and not following through.

Red tape for apprentices has also been slashed making it easier for employers to hire.

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3D Printing is revolutionising how and what we produce

BY TARA MORELOS CEO DLUX

AT its most basic definition, 3D printing is a general term used to describe technologies that build objects layer-by-layer. Did you know that 3D printing dates back to the 1980s? The first 3D printer was created by Charles Hull, an American engineer, for use in manufacturing and rapid prototyping on a commercial level. However, a lot has changed since the 1984 and 3D printing is now more accessible than ever.

Growing rapidly in the last few years, 3D printing has been adopted by many industries. The area of medicine was quick to recognize the uses of the technology and has produced incredible results from the creation of plastic tracheal splints and limb prosthetics to 3D printed skin and casts.

3D printing offers a range of benefits not least of all its incredible ability to create customizable objects and fittings like no other machine before. Compared to subtractive manufacturing, the process by which 3D objects are constructed by the cutting away of elements from a solid block of material, the 3D printer employs the additive method allowing complex production and far less, if any, wastage than the former.

The material used in the printing

process ranges from plastic and metal to glass and ceramics and this is diversifying with companies already looking at 3D printed food. Natural Machines, a start-up based in Barcelona has used the same technology to create a 3D printer that deploys edible ingredients through stainless steel capsules. This invention is called the ‘Foodini’ and although it is a long way from be a staple item in homes across the world, it is a testament to just how many options a 3D printer can allow.

In a general level, the maker movement has been instrumental in providing pathways for the everyday person to access 3D printing for a range of uses. This movement describes the contemporary trend in which individuals or a group of individuals employ the do-it-yourself (DIY) and/or do-it-with-others (DIWO) approach to ‘making’ with regard to the principles of the Circular Economy.

“THE WORLD HAS FINITE RESOURCES. METALS, GAS, AND OIL ARE NOT LIMITLESS, UNLIKE OUR APPETITE FOR THEM. Our current model of dig, process, use, and chuck is by definition unsustainable. Something must change!

A Circular Economy is an alternative model that anticipates and designs for biological and technical ‘nutrients’ to be continuously re-used at the same quality, dramatically reducing our dependency on sourcing new materials.” (HTTP:// WWW.CIRCULARECONOMYAUSTRALIA.COM/)

The great information highway has allowed creatives and makers to connect and form communities with the intent to exchange ideas and resources. Through social media, crowdsourcing, content rich marketing strategies, online forums, blog and newsletters, and neo-sharing (sharing is the new buying), we have the opportunity for increased audience engagement for education and creative community development.

These exchanges are also found in physical spaces. Think of Maker Spaces as a more egalitarian take on the ‘Men’s Shed’ in that they are literally a space where anyone, regardless of age or sex, can come to use equipment, partake in a workshop, work on a project, or learn new skills.

Makers Spaces provide the scope for collaboration, exchange and learning through project-based discovery through employing the principles of Design Thinking for problem solving and Gamification - learning through play.

Tara Morelos CEO dLux and is committed to ensuring an equal chance for kids from the bush. dLux is a media arts not-for-profit organisation with a strong record of bring emerging digital trends to the bush and engaging communities to learn broader skill bases using art as a first point of contact.

Along with partner organisations such as the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Orana Arts and local Landcare groups, dLux has brought 3D printing workshops to Dubbo and the broader region to raise awareness of this exciting technology.

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YOU The healing power of being heard The tentacles of cancer run deep and wide, and it’s not just those with a diagnosis who need support.

Counsellor and psychotherapist GABRIELLE GAWNE-KELNAR was in Dubbo this week to conduct a National Association of Loss and Grief (NALAG) workshop, and explains the healing power of the simple act of listening.

AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Jen Cowley Tell us a little about what it is that you do.

I’m based in Grafton, and I’m a counsellor and psychotherapist, currently working in my own practice but while I was living in Sydney, I was also working with the Cancer Council NSW running telephone support services. I’m still funded through Cancer Council NSW to see people who are living with cancer – whether that’s for people who have a cancer diagnosis or people who are caring for someone who has cancer, or those who have been bereaved through a cancer-related experience.

Do you have personal experience with living with cancer from any of those perspectives?

Years ago, I was married – we were very young – and my husband became unwell and was diagnosed with leukaemia. It was a huge, vast trip down a road neither of us wanted to go down. It was less than seven months between his diagnosis and when he died. It was a really formative time for me. It stripped me raw. I completely resisted anything about it – it was not supposed to be part of “our story”. He wasn’t going to die – we just completely ruled that out.

So when it happened it was mindblowingly awful and it took a long time to find my way back from that.

But in retrospect, it’s been really formative in terms of being able to come to terms with the reality that life is finite.

You clearly bring that experience to your counselling practice – do you find that the shock and denial you felt is a shared experience?

It certainly can be. Even when people are given a prognosis, or even with a death not related to cancer, or when someone has lived a very long life – it doesn’t matter if death is expected. You still can’t really know how you’ll feel until it happens. There’s always going to be a certain amount of shock and disbelief – being at a loss as to what on earth to do next in a world where that person you love is no longer there.

How do you approach this with people in your counselling practice? Is it a case of simply letting them tell their story?

That’s exactly it. I’m a firm believer in the kinds of counselling that supports the person being the expert on their life.

They know – at some deep level – what is going to help them get through. So we work together to unearth what that might be.

It’s really about listening – listening to them, and letting them listen to themselves, and hear their own thoughts and feelings, and trying to work out togeth-

with cancer to step er where things are at up to some kind of this point. imaginary plate and It’s about helping them be brave on behalf of get to a place, when us all. they’re ready, to look up. We all know we’re You also counsel the And that can be going to die; it’s just families of those living tricky, because peowith cancer. Is that in that some people ple with any kind of some ways more difserious illness want have to face that with ficult than helping those to try to protect their with the diagnosis? a sense of imminence family and friends It’s different and it defrom what they’re repends on the individual. and that can bring a ally feeling – because It depends on how people huge amount of both what they’re really face impending death. feeling is bloody awWe all know we’re go- clarity and pain. ful and it’s scary and ing to die; it’s just that isolating and it can some people have to face that with a be really confronting.

Sometimes peosense of imminence and that can bring ple just want to protect their loved ones, a huge amount of both clarity and pain, who at the same time are trying to probecause you’re losing everything that tect the person at the centre of the storm you know thus far about your physical – they don’t want to show how scary it world. can be as a carer.

For people who are watching this hapIn some ways, not revealing these vulpen is extraordinarily hard – watching nerabilities to each other is keeping us the progression of the illness, the death a little bit distant, right at a time when and then being in that terrible void when someone isn’t there now… and it would be so great to have that deep closeness. they’re not there the next week, or the Do you ever see people whose isolaweek after. tion is compounded by having one of You must have had some privileged the many rare forms of cancer – one moments, being privy to the thoughts that isn’t well known? of those facing imminent death.

There are as many different journeys It’s an amazing privilege. It’s sometimes felt to me – and this sounds a lit- as there are cancers, but yes, it can be enormously helpful to talk to people tle kitschy – but it’s like joining around who are walking a similar path and hava campfire of elders; people who are so ing the same experience. I’ve certainly much more advanced along life’s journey than I am. It’s a privilege to have a heard that frustration from people who are living with a cancer that isn’t one glimpse of that, and being privy to the of the “big” ones and it is difficult for sometimes incredible courage it takes them because they’re wondering what to accept where they are along that kind of funding, research, hope is there? journey.

So yes, there can be that added edge for You mention courage. We always talk about people who have cancer as those on the rare cancer journey. being “brave and courageous” – but We’ve had a massive push in recent is that in some ways placing an unfair times for the establishment of a cancer expectation? Do we sometimes rob centre here in Dubbo, and for some people of being able to express their time a similar push for palliative care fear and sadness and anger? services. How do you think regional Australia is faring in terms of access to That’s an extraordinarily good quessupport for those living with cancer? tion and a good point you make. At times there’s an expectation on people It is such a different equation in reto be brave and positive – “positive” is gional Australia. I moved back to a reanother word we use all the time. Somegional area more than 12 months ago, times this can be unfairly linked to the and I’m still astonished by how different progress of the cancer – if you’re doit makes a person’s cancer journey. It’s ing well, perhaps you’ve been positive a huge thing to have to go to a local serenough; if you’re not doing well, then vice, but it’s absolutely massive to have perhaps you could be more positive and to go and engage with all the tests and somehow talk yourself along. anxieties and all the pain – physical and It gets twisted into this strange reemotional – and then to have to travel sponsibility for the way your cancer is a long way to do that, and be isolated travelling – we don’t do that to diabetes from your family, your community… or myopia or any other illness.

Then asking yourself, “Am I getting the We tend to ask people who are living right treatment? Can I afford that treat-

ment, and the travel to get it?”

It’s absolutely crucial to have local support services.

Cancer Australia says something like 130,000 in Australia will be diagnosed this year with cancer, and then when you think of the number of people affected in terms of family and so on – having services available is vital.

A cancer centre for Dubbo would have a huge impact on so many lives.

What can the rest of us do to help people who are living with cancer, and their families? What do you say when you don’t know what to say?

It’s a really good question. Sometimes it’s best just to actually say that: “I don’t know what to say, but I’m here.” That human admission of wanting to say something but not knowing what to say.

I still have a note that one of my friends wrote to me one night when my late husband was in intensive care. It was just a simple note scrawled in pencil saying, “There’s nothing in my pencil tonight.”

And it meant the world to me – just to know that someone was there, even though they had no clue what to say.

Listening is so under-rated. It’s so powerful just to be heard. It’s such a rare experience to be heard and also to be close enough to someone to just really hear what another person is going through. To sit with them in that dark place they’re in and not have to say anything. Just listen.

What are some of the things people say that, even with the very best intentions, can actually be the most harmful or hurtful?

What springs to mind is the temptation to try to pep someone up – to say, “Look, you’ll be fine. It’ll be okay. Don’t think about the bad things. Cheer up.”

That can be really counterproductive because it doesn’t allow the person the space they need for what they’re actually feeling. It’s really important to give space to what is rather than try to force what isn’t.

The same goes for grief. People very quickly stop talking about the person who has died, and they forget that it’s okay to say their name. They don’t want to mention that person’s name in case it upsets someone.

That leaves the person who is grieving in the position where they then feel they don’t have permission to speak that person’s name either.

You start looking around and seeking permission: “Is it okay if I speak their name? Am I boring people? Are they completely over it?”

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 10.06.2016 to Sunday 12.06.2016 That can be isolating for those who are grieving.

Do you counsel children?

I don’t, but I’m hoping to move into counselling young people more.

Children and young people can teach us so much about honesty. They haven’t yet learned how to do the social nicety thing – to wrap everything up into neat little packages.

They just live it – they allow feelings as they arise, and they do something with those feelings, and that’s a wonderful thing to be able to act on their grief, which they do through play, or drawing or whatever.

And that can be equally therapeutic for grieving adults.

When you say grief, you’re not just talking about bereavement, are you?

No – there are many forms of loss over which people grieve. I see people who grieve the loss of their health, and that’s often accompanied by real changes in identity and the loss of particular roles you might have had previously.

If you could give one message about talking to people with cancer, or to those dealing with cancer themselves, what would it be?

Good question. I guess what comes to mind is again, that whole thing about listening.

Just be there to listen to how things are today – allow a connection with that person to just happen, and just let them be and say what they need to say.

And to people with a cancer diagnosis?

To people who are living with cancer, I’d say a similar thing – listen to yourself. It’s a unique experience you’re going through. There’s no-one else on the planet who is going to know exactly what your experience is. There are parallels and it’s important to check in with that, and learn from that and that will help others too, but to listen to yourself is a real gift.

Check in with yourself and ask, “How am I travelling today? What small thing can I do to look after myself right now?”

That might be a cuppa or a book or whatever – but ask yourself what do you need right now to make today a better place to be in. z If you, or someone you love, needs someone to talk to or is suffering through loss and grief of any kind and needs a helping hand, contact the National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG) at their centre at Welchman Street in Dubbo, or go to the website, www.nalag.org.au for information on how to reach out for help.

We tend to ask people who are living with cancer to step up to some kind of imaginary plate and be brave on behalf of us all.

Counsellor and psychotherapist Gabrielle Gawne-Kelnar

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FEATURE.

Friday 10.06.2016 to Sunday 12.06.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Deputy Premier Troy Grant has initiated a parliamentary inquiry into the transport needs of rural and regional NSW. Currently Aboriginal communities can access shopping, doctors and social outings through the CareWest Aboriginal Community Transport service but with limited vehicles and staff answering the needs of a large, aging population and isolated individuals, the inquiry can’t happen fast enough, and if recommendations are followed through, expanding the service will transform the lives of many. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Yvette Aubusson-Foley SW Parliament has initiated an inquiry into what CareWest already knows, that transport for seniors and disadvantaged people in rural and regional NSW is hard enough when you live near medical and shopping services but throughout Orana Far West isolation becomes a profound experience.

Conducted by the NSW Parliament’s Committee on Community Services, the Terms of Reference adopted by the Committee will give particular regard to the situation of seniors, Aboriginal persons, persons with disability, and social housing tenants.

The Inquiry has emerged from a request by Deputy Premier Troy Grant who asked that the Committee examine these issues and report back to Parliament.

“Most Australians have access to public transport or have enough money to provide their own,” committee chair and Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall

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said. “For most of us, society supports our mobility.

“But in some cases, particularly for those who live in remote areas and are on pensions or who are otherwise disadvantaged, transport options are either very limited or absent. That in turn limits access to medical and social support services.

“This inquiry is looking into how that issue might be overcome in an equitable way.

“We’ll be looking at a range of options, including adjustments to existing transport services or financial support measures.”

“We welcome any ideas or observations on this issue through submissions to the inquiry,” Marshall said.

“The inability to get suitable transport is a chronic problem for many individuals, so it’s important that we provide a useful channel that helps the community to be part of the solution,” he said.

It’s both great news and old news to CareWest which has been providing Aboriginal Community Transport as part of its social support program to Dubbo and the Orana Far West for the past two years.

If anything the inquiry will hopefully help improve these much needed services which provide opportunities for those who are isolated through location, age, mobility, disability and the transport disadvantaged.

The service aims to assist people in getting to medical appointments, shopping, social outings and cultural activities.

By helping people get out and about CareWest aims to help people stay connected and access the services they need in order to stay as independent as possible and to live in their own homes for longer.

Disadvantaged people include those that live in isolated townships with very few services such as health

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Lisa McEwen, Chelsea Wood, Neville Toomey, Jason Lake and Sharlene Wright.

services, dentists and supermarkets; people who do not have a driver’s license; and young mothers and bubs who have no way of getting to the services they need.

Regular passenger Neville Toomey, a 70-year old who is a well-respected Elder of the Dubbo Community said the Aboriginal Community Transport service had made positive changes to both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. The west Dubbo resident has utilised the service for about four months.

“It has changed my life extremely well,” he told Dubbo Weekender. “I couldn’t get a taxi from over home which is west side, O’Donnell Street, up to Big W. “This is a wonderful service particularly for people of my age and it is nice to know we are not forgotten,” he said.

“To be helped when doing my shopping and other jobs makes getting out and about more enjoyable; I en-

joy the conversations I have and I am never rushed to do things or finish my jobs quickly.

“The drivers always come with a smile and are very warm – I love the service and I just want to say a big thank you to CareWest,” he said.

Getting from place to place makes a dramatic difference to client’s lives but the service is not limited to just driving.

“He has support going to the doctor’s too, because the driver’s stay with them and go to the doctor with them to support them,” said coordinator of the Aboriginal Community Transport service Sharlene Wright.

“They wait for you and take you into Woolies and help do shopping for you and put your groceries in the trolley and take them back out to the car. You don’t have to do anything,” he said, with sincere gratitude.

Before accessing the service, Toomey was dependent

on transport by taxi.

“The taxi won’t wait for you,” he said.

“The social support side of things has assisted Mr Toomey, tremendously. It’s saved him $40 a week on taxi travel,” Wright said.

“More! Over where I live in O’Donnell Street to downtown it’s about $11 or $12 one way. It’s hard, when you’re just battling.

“The Aboriginal Community Transport has allowed other transport companies to now have access to west Dubbo whereas before it was a bit standoffish due to other things that were going on. So, this Aboriginal Community Transport has broken down barriers,” Wright adds.

“Neville’s in the street where the mail never used to go,” said Lisa McEwen, Carewest Aboriginal Community Transport coordinator, Orana Far West.

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Neville Toomey, Elder of the Dubbo Community and West Dubbo resident has found the Aboriginal Community Transport service a positive change to both the Aboriginal and nonAboriginal communities.

HAVE YOUR SAY! Parliamentary Transport Inquiry z The NSW Parliament’s Committee on Community Services is conducting an inquiry into transport for seniors and disadvantaged people in rural and regional NSW and will report to Parliament before November 30. It is receiving submissions until July 21, 2016. z For further information, including the full terms of reference, please refer to the Committee’s webpage at www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/communityservices

Chelsea Wood, Carewest Aboriginal Community Transport driver gives client, Neville Toomey a hand getting into the CareWest Community Transport bus.

“We didn’t get mail for about nine months,” Toomey said. “Now the post man’s back.”

“There was no mail run over there because of the damage to vehicles and taxis and just everything, so this Aboriginal Community Transport has broken all those barriers, and they now have the mail and access with taxis,” Wright said. “One small step has lead to big steps now.”.

“The Aboriginal Community Transport service was an idea brought up by Lisa Dunn because she’d visited so many remote communities. Since then it’s just expanded. I just started off as community liaison officer and been involved with the remote communities and seen this get up and running,” Wright explained.

One of the greatest effects of the ser-

vice is returning independency to the client’s lives.

Chelsea Wood is a driver who attends to client’s needs.

“We have a lot of elders that don’t get a lot of visitors. I can go and sit down and have a cuppa and talk to them about what days they’d prefer to go shopping and then talk to them about doctor’s appointments they might have and book them in.

“I’m there to pick them up and take them and wait for them to finish, to then drop them home.”

Social visits can also be arranged to maintain a healthy connection to community.

“We can take them to visit family. So Neville lives in west Dubbo and if he’s got family in East Dubbo, we can take

him up there,” said McEwan.

The service has two Aboriginal drivers who are based in Dubbo, Chelsea Wood and Jason Lake, and there is a wheelchair friendly bus and one car as part of the service.

“As we also cater for mums and bubs we can provide car seats and capsules for young children which means that no one need miss out on their transport needs,” said Wright.

The service is not just limited to Dubbo but covers many communities in outlying areas in the Orana Far West region.

“If our clients need to go to Orange for specialists we can take them there,” said McEwan.

“It’s all about interaction. It gives them their self esteem back and independ-

ence. It’s a good thing,” said Wright.

“I think it’s the best thing to ever happen to the Aboriginal community, especially the elderly,” said Toomey.

ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT BOOKINGS All bookings and further information about the service can be obtained by calling CareWest Community Transport on 6883 2323. The taxi voucher scheme, which is available for use after Community Transport booking hours and weekends, will still be available only to those who are eligible under Commonwealth Home Support Program eligibility criteria. To find out if you are eligible and how to access the scheme contact CareWest Community Transport.

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is not really a dog man.

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Call in the puppies EGULAR readers may recall that the family acquired a puppy last winter in an attempt to address the embarrassing reality that virtually nothing at our place had been chewed to pieces.

I am not really a dog man, in the sense that I am not enamoured with pets, nor am I half-man half-dog as a result of an evil scientist’s lab experiment gone wrong and made into a Marvel comic.

So it was not a unanimous decision.

The two quite likeable family members were keen, while the sullen one with nary a good word to say about anything sulked in opposition.

Needless to say sulky boy lost and with my cries of “don’t expect me to walk the little mongrel every day” still echoing down the hall, a pound pup named Missy arrived.

We initially feared it was some lionhunting breed that would grow to resemble a cross between a crocodile and a dinner table.

The only consolation would be that we could take it on the professional dog-fighting circuit, if it didn’t eat us all first.

Our fears were allayed when she instead grew into the sort of gangly, skulking desperado often seen combing through rubble in war zones.

So how’s she fitting in?

Well, now we can proudly show guests a trove of once-treasured possessions that are either; meticulously gnawed and strewn through the lawn, or hanging out of the dog’s mouth mid-process.

Limited page space means I cannot list everything that has been reduced to saliva-coated confetti courtesy of this shedding shredder.

In fact a list of things in the backyard not as yet completely destroyed would include only trees and the garage.

To describe what we have now in the backyard as lawn is to describe The Biggest Loser as sensitive to issues of body image.

Likewise, to say the dog has made the yard a bit messy is like observing that World War I made the Somme a

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bit messy.

There is now a labyrinth of craters interconnected with tunnels and boobytrapped with concealed bones and other sharp objects that were at one time garden tools, fencing material or family heirlooms.

Readers may also recall that the poop interaction issue was another with which sulky boy was struggling during pre-Missy negotiations.

The comfort of being proven correct in this matter is difficult to savour fully while picking up dog turd in quantities sufficient to fill a Rio Tinto dump truck every two days.

Watch a documentary on the Serengeti where 10 million wildebeest migrate over weeks, and there’s not a gnu pat in sight.

But this faecal sausage-machine can top-dress our yard shin-deep with dung

before you can say “who’s feeding it corn?”

Barking is another blessing the hound brings to our lives.

I am not sure if it annoys the neighbours as well, but someone wrote “shut the bloody dog up” on our front lawn in large letters of burning petrol, so take from that what you will.

The din usually kicks off about 5am which would be OK if we were dairy farmers, vampires, or nocturnal marsupials.

` To describe what we have now in the backyard as lawn is to describe The Biggest Loser as sensitive to issues of body image.

Of course any nocturnal marsupial in our yard would be relentlessly pursued by this yapping conflict refugee until it found refuge in the new tunnel network.

It is this energy level that we are struggling to expend, since in that regard the mutt seems to be part restless leg syndrome whippet, part weight-conscious sled husky, mixed with some species of migratory Arctic seabird.

I estimate that to receive sufficient exercise this dog would need to walk daily from our place to a point known locally as Wee Waa, dragging me on a concrete toboggan.

But apart from the wanton destruction, the nocturnal distraction and the eternal defecation, it must be said that the dog is affectionate and certainly has some redeeming qualities.

And it is of this I must remind myself as I walk the little mongrel every day.

Australian-led team’s discoveries provide new clues on ‘Hobbit’

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JAKARTA: The discovery of fossilised remains by an Australian-led team in Indonesia has unlocked new questions about human evolution and the history of the tiny human, known as the `Hobbit’.

And it all could have started with a tsunami.

It was three weeks until the end of the digging season at the Mata Menge site on the Indonesian island of Flores in October 2014 when Dr Gerrit van den Bergh, from the University of Wollon-

gong’s Centre for Archaeological Science in NSW began thinking about what to do next.

“We hadn’t found any human fossils (at the site) so we had to give it up,” he told AAP this week.

While Dr van den Bergh was in a remote area searching for new excavation sites, unbeknown to him the team back at camp had discovered a human molar inside an ancient riverbed.

When he returned, “it was like magic”.

“The next couple of days more fossils showed up and at the end of the week we had a very big party and invited all the villagers and all the people who helped with the excavating,” he said.

The findings on the lower right jaw fragment and six teeth from Mata Menge, published in the journal Nature on Thursday, is the latest in a string of significant discoveries Dr van den Bergh has made on Flores in eastern Indonesia over the past 20 years.

Dr van den Bergh said the new fossils uncovered in 2014 date back even further than the `Hobbit’ to around 700,000 years – making it a potential ancestor to the little human.

Not only does he believe the discovery will silence those critics who argue the `Hobbit’ was nothing more than a deformed modern human, but also has important implications for our understanding of early human dispersal and AAP evolution.

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Election promises need closer scrutiny

BY TOM MURPHY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CSU’S FACULTY OF BUSINESS

NNOUNCING election promises is the ‘bread-and-butter’ of election campaigns, but how can Australian voters sort out the credible announcements from the ‘election hype’?

Charles Sturt University (CSU) business expert Associate Professor Tom Murphy, with CSU’s Faculty of Business, presents a guide to Australian voters on judging election promises.

Professor Murphy said, “When one party announces increased funding for childcare and another a new piece of infrastructure, they are both important announcements for different parts of the electorate.

“But what is the information voters should seek in order to judge and compare these promises and policies?”

Professor Murphy considers that, all too frequently, announcements in the media are no more than bald promises.

“But they still need to be properly assessed by voters in order for them to effectively participate in elections.”

He said, “Assessment by a voter starts with the promise itself. For example, does one party’s promise about childcare deliver a better outcome for me and my family than that proposed by the opposing party? One promise may change the way child care is delivered, while

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the other may be more funding for the existing program.

“But the promise is only one part of the story. Voters need to look beyond total expenditure and ask ‘how is the promise delivered?’ and ‘who benefits?’.”

Professor Murphy said, “Voters need

to understand, and secure an explanation, about the possible sources of funding to pay for the promise, and discern what must be given up for the election promise to be delivered.

“Remember, there are only three possible sources for funding election prom-

ises: cutting other government spending, increasing taxes and borrowing the money.

“Finally, to assess election promises, voters should consider the positive and negative spin-offs from the promise itself or the funding of the promise,” he said.

“Promises that increase spending increase growth and employment. For example, a new road employs road builders. And spending may have additional positive spin-offs for the national or local economy, such as making it more efficient, growing faster and creating more employment. Education, child care support, and research spending can also fall into this category.

“On the other hand, tax increases alone reduce economic growth and employment. Higher taxes mean less money for households and businesses to spend. And tax increases can also reduce incentives to work and investment in Australia. Alternatively, reducing taxes tends to increase economic growth and employment.

“Government borrowing for promises can also have negative impacts by putting upward pressure on interest rates, putting at risk credit ratings, and, in the long run, increasing taxes,” Professor Murphy said.”In the midst of a long election cycle, we must remember that political promises are not free gifts to the Australian people. They all have a cost and frequently have positive or negative spin-offs for our nation.”

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C O M I C R E L I E F | PAU L D O R I N

THE WATERCOOLER

- invited him to stay in his house, or technically a tent outside his house where he could sacrifice a lamb, and chill while in New York for a United Nations gig. Because why? No-one else was going to have that murderous tyrant around for a sleepover. But, the locals decided there’d be no camping in their neighbourhood. According to BuzzFeed Trump only wanted to be his friend because he was stinking, filthy rich.

Let’s talk ephemeral ink

BY JETT FOLEY

She’s got tickets on herself AND why not! Hillary Clinton has made history by becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major political party - the Democrats - and though she said, ‘We are standing underneath a glass ceiling right now’ it looks she’s done busted through that ceiling which keeps America in the last century when it comes to women in power. I’m thinking of other countries who saw merit in girl power at the top - Australia, India, Britain and Germany to name a few.

Bernie Sanders (he’s got a nice smile) is not however dropping out because a majority of people aged under 30 are very supportive of him and what he stands for plus he said it himself, he’s going for it in Washington next week.

Hillary’s nomination win comes as the primaries are almost to a close (lucky last is Washington DC - finally!!!) and the country turns onto the home stretch to the presidential election.

Watch out Donald, the Democrats are coming.

Speaking of that son of a toupee WHAT’S this we hear about DT and Gaddafi?

Donald Trump tried to raise money from the now dead Libyan dictator, Muammar Al Gaddafi, two years before the 2011 Libyan revolution which toppled the regime. “Sources say” he even tried to meet that north African tyrant to set up business ventures, as you do, fully aware that Libya supported terrorism at the time, which had killed scores of Donald Trump’s countrymen and women and children which brings him into question and could significantly hurt his chances at presidency, as if his racist, sexist, misogynist, abusive comments so far haven’t tainted his “glowing reputation”.

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FIRST, if you have a tramp stamp, rethink your life and here’s the news it’s too late for you to get an ephemeral tattoo which lasts roughly one year in case you change your mind, which you can’t now because you did it . You have to live with your choices, or do you?

A Harlem based startup is trying to innovate a tattoo ink which lasts for around 12 months. According to Curiosity.com, “The ink works by reverse-engineering the system which makes current tattoos permanent: when you puncture the skin with a tattoo needle, white blood cells rush in and try to absorb any invading particles. Because particles of ink are too big for the cells to absorb, they stay put.”

What these guys have done is created a smaller ink molecule within a bigger one so they stay in your skin the same way regular tattoo ink does, but once you use the separate removal solution that’s designed to break down the ink structure, the body’s defences flush away the ink and the tattoo disappears like magic.

Li-Fi is the new black The internet as we know it is in peril, threatened by something far faster because it literally travels at the speed of light.

Called Li-Fi, information is transmitted by light. While this technology is still experimental it holds significant, limitless potential.

In revolutionising Wi-Fi (accidentally invented by an Aussie) by 100 times; our desk lamps, our ceiling lights, street lights, headlights, any light, the sun, can potentially transmit information, faster than we’ve ever known. Sorry NBN you’ve already been superseded.

The frequency of light has a range that is 10,000 times greater than radio waves. LI-Fi thousands of streams can be transmitted simultaneously. Being part geek, my words can’t convey how exciting this will be. Can you imagine, kids in remote villages with one light source but they can receive and send masses of information accessing education material, for example, like never before.

Oh, yeah, you can download 18 x 1.5Gb movies in … one second. And the heavens opened and the angels sang.

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YOUR VIEWS June 8, 2016 Dear Editor We can do much better this winter Australia has a proud history of being one of the world’s most compassionate countries. However, as the cold months set in, there are tens of thousands of Aussies who still need a helping hand from Red Cross. Last year we helped more than 20,000 people who were lonely and at risk of serious illness or injury.

During the recent devastating storms, Red Cross volunteers were on deck to help people affected right across NSW. We must never accept that that life can’t be better for our families, friends and neighbours. In winter, it’s the poorest who often suffer most, including young homeless people and families struggling to make ends meet.

A donation to Red Cross before 30 June will ensure we can continue to carry out our work such as keeping in touch with the vulnerable and isolated to ensure they are safe; it will help provide breakfast for Aussie kids, who would otherwise go to school hungry and help in times of disaster in Australia and across the region. It will help us to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

To donate, or for more information, go to redcross.org. au.

Jody Broun New South Wales Executive Director, Australian Red Cross ••• June 6, 2016 Dear Editor, When Premier Baird and Deputy Premier Grant recently rammed through their forced council mergers, they forgot how devastating their decision would be for local communities.

This decision in Macquarie Street, Sydney, has robbed residents not only of the right to elect their local council, but also of their community networks and decades of shared local history.

We have been visiting many communities who are in shock at what has happened. Many are now asking the same questions: How will our voices be heard when an unelected administrator

appointed by the state government is now the ‘Mayor’, ‘Deputy Mayor’ and the whole ‘Council’?

How will the voices of our smaller community now be heard in distant town halls?

Why have we been treated like this?

This is no longer just about forced mergers. It is about local democracy.

Forcibly merged councils will not be having elections until September 2017. All other councils will have their elections in September this year.

We are calling on Premier Baird and Deputy Premier Grant not to deny democracy for those people who now live in merged council areas.

They should allow ALL councils to have their elections this year.

Local residents’ voices deserve to be heard and represented, mergers or not.

Yours Faithfully Peter Primrose MLC - Shadow Minister for Local Government Greg Warren MP - chair, Labor Local Government Caucus Committee ••• June 8, 2016 Dear Editor It never gets any easier seeing the tragic number of motorists who die or are injured after being caught in floodwaters and sadly the weekend’s storms were no exception.

Even though the immediate threat has passed, there are still many hidden dangers.

Road surfaces have been torn to shreds by flash flooding across the state; trees have been uprooted; and road safety signs have been ripped from their foundations.

Recently, a report from the NRMA identified a $1.7 million repair backlog for NSW road maintenance. It worries me to think how much worse the situation is after these storms.

The economic impact of damaged roads is substantial. The personal impact on families coping with the death or injury of a loved one is immeasurable. Until these roads are fixed, please drive with the knowledge that the danger does not recede with the floodwaters.

Regards, Genevieve Henderson, Slater and Gordon Motor Vehicle Accident Lawyer

Your feedback welcome – online + hard copy DUBBO WEEKENDER encourages online readers (via www. dubboweekender.com.au) to comment as a selection may be published each week. Email addresses must be supplied for verification purposes only, not publication, and destructive personal or offensive comments will not be published online or in hard copy. Dubbo Weekender supports constructive debate and opinion. Letters to the editor are welcome via email feedback@dubboweekender.com.au, fax 6885 4434, or post to 89 Wingewarra Street Dubbo NSW 2830. Letters should generally be 250 words or less, and may be edited for space, clarity or legal reasons. To be considered for publication, letters should include the writer’s name and daytime contact details.

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Intergeneration Report: Future State 2056 falls short of the mark sell it at ever-rising prices. Yet coal is in structural decline and a recent Carbon Brief analysis found that without emissions reductions, our carbon budget for having a 2 in 3 chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees will be exhausted five years from now.

There is no more urgent challenge facing our society than climate change and we need to seize the opportunities to lead a rapid transformation. But in the Intergenerational Report there is no analysis of the changes needed to limit global warming or the strategies, investments and costs for preparing and adapting to the impacts of a changing climate.

Renewable energy isn’t mentioned, let alone disaster preparation, health impacts and infrastructure investment.

The report also fails to address inequality and the deepening issues of social exclusion and disadvantage that af-

BY JAN BARHAM GREENS MEMBER OF THE NSW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OVERNMENTS have a responsibility to look to the wellbeing of future generations. Their decisions and policies shouldn’t just be about what they deliver in the four years between elections, but the opportunities and quality of life they our communities will enjoy over the decades to come.

That’s why I’m disappointed that the NSW Government’s recently released Intergeneration Report fails to live up to its title of Future State 2056.

The report’s shortcomings begin with the absence of any recognition that our future well being depends on the state of our natural environment. The environment plays literally no role in the Government’s model of the future, despite the fact that our biodiversity and quality of air, water and land are pivotal to the future health and success of our communities.

Climate change is mentioned once in the entire document. The report makes the truly incredible assumption that we’ll mine more coal every year and

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fect the quality of many people’s lives. A focus on overall economic indicators of productivity, growth and demand fails to take into account the challenges facing disadvantaged people and communities. It limits our ability to ensure everyone can participate fully in society.

In terms of housing, the report treats increasing supply as the only mechanism needed to ensure people have appropriate and adequate homes. But ensuring people on low incomes have the opportunity to live close to work and education and are connected to their communities and services requires more than that. We need inclusionary planning regulations for new developments to deliver affordable and social housing, to ensure our communities are accessible, liveable and diverse.

What’s more, the report acknowledges the Government will be increasing-

` Yet coal is in structural decline and a recent Carbon Brief analysis found that without emissions reductions, our carbon budget for having a 2 in 3 chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees will be exhausted five years from now.

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ly reliant on stamp duty for its revenue with no sign of changing course. This gives the government a vested interest in fuelling speculative investment in property and continuing to cash in on high turnover at high prices. Tax and housing policy reforms are needed to deliver affordability and availability of homes for everyone.

We need a fundamental shift in what our governments measure, analyse and value when they set the direction for our communities and our state. New South Wales should look to its British namesake. The Welsh National Assembly has recently implemented a Well-being of Future Generations Act that ensures a focus on long-term social, economic, environmental and cultural outcomes, and an Environment Act that promotes climate action and sustainability.

It’s time for governments to take into account all of the challenges of the future, including climate change and a broad conception of wellbeing that reflects the social, environmental and economic factors affecting our lives and communities. These are the building blocks to ensure governments are genuinely acting in the best interests of our society and the generations to come.

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DIGITALLY ENHANCED.

When in roam, do as the roamers do

BY MATHEW DICKERSON ON SMALL BUSINESS RULES CONSULTANT

TOOK my wife for a romantic trip to Paris at the beginning of last year to celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary and as we walked the streets of the City of Love, my wife would look for quaint cafes to eat at and interesting shopping locations to visit.

Unbeknownst to my wife, I made my decision on which locations looked like good based on one item only. The locations with a Wi-Fi symbol at the front of them looked surprisingly more attractive to me!

I am sure that after Dr Martin Cooper made that famous first handheld mobile phone call on April 3, 1973, the next question he was asked was whether the phone would work overseas. With 9.2 million Australians leaving our shores last year for a short trip and with 1.4 active mobile services per person in Australia, how to best travel overseas with our technology is a question that is asked by tens of thousands every day.

There are two broad areas to consider – voice and data. The solutions for both can be vastly different and with my limited space available, this will only touch on the myriad of possible solutions.

Firstly, consider voice.

There are three main questions you need to ask before you set out on your journey. How many; how long and where to? How many calls do you think you will receive and make while you travel and do you need people to be able to contact you on your normal number?

How long will you be overseas for? Where are you going to and, in particular, are you visiting a number of different countries in your travels or staying largely in one country? There are ancillary questions associated with these.

For example, if you want to make phone calls will those phone calls be back to Australia or will they be calls within the country that you are visiting?

Is it acceptable to give people a different number to contact you on for your time overseas? Are the countries you are visiting ones that have roaming agreements with your local carrier?

New Zealand; the UK and the USA are the top three destinations visited by Australians so I will use the US as an example. If I was going for a short trip to the US that also might include some time in Fiji as a stopover on the way there and a couple of days in New Zea-

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land on the way home, my decision would be to use my normal phone with my normal number and use international roaming.

People can call me on my normal mobile number and they will only pay the normal cost of a mobile call. I will pay around $1 to $3 per minute (country and carrier dependent) to make and receive calls but I would limit my calls in length and frequency. I would only have to ensure I had international roaming activated on my account so the convenience and comfort of knowing it would all just work would be worth the additional call costs that I would see on my next bill.

I could receive text messages for free but pay around 75c to send them. If I wanted to talk and text more, Australian carriers typically offer a pre-purchased overseas pass. Again this is designed for short term stays but for $5 to $15 per day, I could have unlimited calls and texts on that trip and still use my same number. With some slight variations, this general advice typically applies to PrePaid services as well.

If I was going to stay in one location for a longer period of time, I would use a separate SIM card.

My mobile would need to be unlocked from any specific carrier for this to work and I would not receive calls on my normal number.

I could setup my Memo or Messagebank service to tell people my international number while I travelled – and then I would know if they really wanted to speak with me!

The advantage of a separate SIM (either setup before you travel or purchased overseas) is the price.

An overseas SIM would see phone call prices reduced to around 25c to $1 per minute to call back to Australia or to call within the country you are visiting. You can also buy local Pre-Paid SIM cards which will work well if the majority of your calls are within your country of destination.

You can see how confusing it is with so many variables – and we haven’t even started on data yet.

The short answer to the question of using data while roaming is NO! The long answer is NOOOOOOO! With rates in the

` The short answer to the question of using data while roaming is NO! The long answer is NOOOOOOO! With rates in the vicinity of $3,000 per GB (compared to $10 per GB while in Australia) you can see how quickly a bill could escalate.

vicinity of $3,000 per GB (compared to $10 per GB while in Australia) you can see how quickly a bill could escalate. You could prepurchase overseas data packs that might reduce the effective price to $40 per GB but you still have significant limits on the amount of data available. Again you could use a local SIM in your phone with a focus on data or there are clever concepts whereby you can place a sticker over your SIM that allows your SIM to roam for voice but then have unlimited data for travelling in the vicinity of $8 per day. Then of course you can use a separate mobile hotspot with a local SIM card or, as I did in Paris, rely on Wi-Fi hotspots which then also bring into the calculation using VoIP for your voice services to reduce your calls to miniscule levels.

The one point I hope you take from this is that travelling overseas with your mobile is complicated and you need to review your own specific circumstances to come up with the best individual plan. It was also suggested to me that you could consider just leaving your phone at home and enjoy a break… Now I am dreaming!

Mathew Dickerson has become a serial IT entrepreneur after starting his first business in 1980.

He has started six successful businesses that have won numerous awards at local, national and international levels and currently still owns axxis and Small Business Ru!es.

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Urgent review of land tax required: REINSW THE state government must undergo an urgent review of the land tax regime, according to the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales.

REINSW President John Cunningham said there are many unfair outcomes as a result of the current land tax regime. “REINSW believes that some pegging mechanism needs to be considered during the current market,” Cunningham said.

“With property values rising, many property owners and tenants have been presented with land tax assessments that make their business ventures unviable. In effect the state government is compelling people to sell property because they have rezoned it and are taxing it for unrealised potential.

“There is also an adverse outcome for the elderly entering a nursing home only to find that they have inadvertently triggered the land tax provisions which come into effect as a result to changes to legislation which see net rental income from their former home assessed under the aged care means test.

“REINSW also suggests that people who purchase property for land banking purposes, whereby a premises is left vacant intentionally, should pay additional land tax as a penalty for not providing the property for the benefit of the community,” Cunningham said.

The recommendations have been made as part of a review of its Real Tax Policy ahead of the June 2016 NSW Budget.

Applications open to attend top ag innovation summit APPLICATIONS to attend a three-day summit for agriculture’s sharpest, most innovative leaders are now open.

‘GrowAg – Cultivating Excellence in Ag for our Farming Future’, will be presented by the Rural Research and Development Corporations from September 21 to 23, 2016, in Albury, NSW. Featuring an outstanding lineup of speakers, the collaborative forum will sponsor 100 key influencers from around Australia and across all sectors of agriculture to discuss new technologies and ideas, smart business, leadership and innovation.

John Harvey, managing director of the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), said, “GrowAg is a unique national event that will attract a diverse group of thinkers to work through the role of innovation in Australia’s farming future.”

“It’s not often 100 of the sharpest and brightest minds — the leaders of tomorrow — are brought together under one roof to share ideas, discuss challenges facing agriculture and importantly, identify how to capitalise on the opportunities. This will be one of those times,” he said.

GrowAg will give participants the opportunity to network with industry experts and mentors, and access a wealth

AGL Energy warning BUSINESS IN BRIEF of information, resources and the latest research and findings from the Rural Research and Development Corporations.

“Delegates will not only come away with greater networks and new ways of doing things, but they will also focus on how to practically adopt new innovations into agribusinesses and how to drive innovation across the wider industry,” Harvey said.

With approximately 40 delegate positions available through the open call, agricultural decision makers aged 25 to 40 are invited to apply for the top-line event. Travel and conference attendance are free for successful applicants.

Harvey said, “We’re looking for people who are carrying Australia’s ag industry — the leaders, the decision makers and the influencers — across all agricultural sectors and in all capacities, whether they’re farmers, bankers, service providers or otherwise involved in agribusiness and the supply chain.”

Applications close Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Successful delegates will be announced in mid-August 2016. Applications can be submitted online atwww. rirdc.gov.au/growag.

Big business valuation and big sale price – but no capital gains tax bill!

EFORE you sell a business, there are a number of things you should step through. If you sell, there will be both income tax and capital gains tax considerations which a small business accountant can walk you through. Certainly before you do anything you need to work out what you will be happy to walk away with after costs and taxation.

So what is the recommended path prior to selling?

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1. Get a business valuation & work out your price BEFORE you sell it’s always a good idea to have an understanding as to what your business is worth. Remember that price and value are two different things. A business valuer will give you an estimate on what your small business valuation is based depending on risk and return. This does not mean that this is the price you will necessarily get should you sell as sometimes the market will pay more than the value, just like a house in a real estate situation.

In some cases, the market may pay less.

Once you know what the minimum value is, you can then decide whether to accept the price

you have been offered, or at least the minimum price you feel would be an offer too good to refuse. Usually, if the price is well above the business valuer’s figure, you will be tempted to accept the offer.

2. Establish if you satisfy the small business cgt concessions ONCE you have your offer, before you decide to accept, you need to work out any tax that may be applicable, including capital gains tax. Depending on your structure, you will usually be entitled to a 50% discount on any capital gain if you have owned the asset for at least 12 months.

However, you may be entitled to the small business capital gains tax concessions which allow you to minimise or disregard the capital gain completely.

There are four main concessions which are subject to certain conditions: z The 15-year small business exemption which provides a total exemption of a capital gain if you have continuously owned the CGT asset for at least 15 years and the relevant individual is 55 years old, or older, and retiring, or is permanently incapacitated; z The small business 50% ac-

tive asset reduction; z The small business retirement exemption which provides an exemption of capital gains up to a lifetime limit of $500,000.

If you are under 55 years old just before you make the choice, the amount must be paid into a complying superannuation fund or a retirement savings account (RSA); z The small business rollover which allows you to defer a capital gain from the disposal of a business asset for a minimum of two years.

To be eligible you need to be a small business entity (turnover less than $2,000,000) or satisfy the maximum net asset test ($6,000,000). These conditions are somewhat complex and you should seek advice from a small business accountant to ensure you know where you stand prior to any transaction.

3. Allocate the price to minimise tax IT is important to understand that if you sell your business, the price can include plant and equipment, stock and goodwill.

The sale of plant and equipment and stock will be subject to income tax, whereas the sale of goodwill will be subject to capital gains tax (CGT).

AGL Energy (AGL) is warning people an AGL branded email scam which contains malicious malware is continuing to be circulated.

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AGL has reported the scam email to the Scamwatch, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and the Australian Federal Police. Activities have been undertaken to remove a number of identified sources of the hoax email.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo Particularly if you satisfy the small business CGT concessions, you will be generally better off if you can allocate as much price to the goodwill as possible. If the plant has almost been written off in your books for tax over the years, be careful as a high price for the plant will crystallise a higher profit on sale which will be subject to income tax.

The buyer will try to allocate more to stock and plant as this will give them a higher cost base to write off for income tax purposes.

4. Consider rolling any gain into superannuation DESPITE recent budget announcements, you might be still

better off to roll over the final 25% of your capital gain into superannuation if you satisfy the CGT concessions. The money may be tied up until you satisfy release conditions but you will need to decide whether you will be better off in the long run.

Conclusion: SELLING a business has tax consequences so be careful you understand what will be left over before you accept an offer.

With some shrewd planning from an accountant you can end up with a lot more than you thought. Without some shrewd planning, you may end up with very little – and so you might end up realising you shouldn’t have sold in the first place!

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An eye for When you’re new to town, settling in and starting a business can be a daunting prospect, but for photographer, Erin Michele, fresh from Melbourne and with family in tow, her sights are set on becoming a local and creating beautiful memories for her clients. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley.

Why did you choose start a photography business?

I’d always been told I was good at it, but I pursued photography as a career because I was passionate about giving other people a snapshot of unseen emotion that no one else sees.

It’s a competitive field, what do you see as your point of difference?

There is a specific market for the work we do and the service we offer. I can photograph a mother and daughter or a newly engaged couple and produce gorgeous photographs of beautiful emotion and memories, because I’ve lived it.

I have children of my own, so I know the special words that get the giggles. I’ve been married for five years, so I know the emotions of being in love and wanting to tell everyone about it.

Our point of difference is that you won’t find us booking every kind of shoot we can, because we want to be great in a specific field, instead of mediocre in a wide range of things.

What tools do you use to market your business and which have you found the most effective?

Had you asked me this question a couple of years ago, I would have said “social media!”, but I feel like so many small businesses write off just how fabulous good old fashioned marketing with newspapers and flyers actually is!

When you have something tangible for people to see and feel, they’re more likely to work that into their daily life, than say, another Facebook ad popup.

I do love a beautiful video in my newsfeed every now and again though. Something that pulls on people’s emotions is key to being remembered in such a competitive field.

What else, other than great photographs, do you set out to deliver to clients?

When you work in the customer service industry, you want to deliver an experience; a feeling that your clients have that sets you apart from their “friend with a great camera”. Being a photographer allows me to get to know people on another level. I learn about their insecurities & their worries, as well as the kind of memories

The Baker’s Dozen Trivia Test

they want to capture, then it’s my job to have my clients walk away with beautiful photographs and an experience that they can’t get anywhere else.

What’s been your best day on the job?

My best day on the job would have to be the day we had portrait sessions booked back to back for the entire day. Our hair and makeup artist worked tirelessly the entire day but we laughed and had so much fun. We worked with all ages that day too and it was exhausting and I was getting anxious about getting the perfect shot, but excited about finally sitting down that evening and taking a look at all the images. It’s an awesome thing when you can meet so many people with so many different life goals and experiences, different backgrounds and personalities, but still have an amazing time with each and every one of them. It was a great day!

What’s been your worst day on the job?

My worst day on the job ended up being my biggest lesson in business. I’d not long started studio sessions and I was inexperienced with talking to my couples and families about what they can expect from their experience from us.

They loved everything, but there was a lot of confusion when it came to ordering their prints because I’d failed to explain the process to them and it took away from their experience with us.

These days, I repeat myself in emails, phone calls and consultations. I explain everything, down to the detail, to ensure my clients are well educated in the products they’re ordering and the process of producing these products.

When your products are incredible, being completely transparent and informative is the best thing you can do for your business.

You recently moved from Melbourne. What challenges have you faced re-establishing your business in the Central west?

It’s certainly a different life out here, isn’t it?!

Our biggest challenge at the moment is being the ‘outsiders’. Everyone here knows someone that has a particular skill set, so coming into such a small community, we’re finding that we have

1. MUSIC: What group had a hit song with “Love Shack”?

2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the name of the passenger train that travels between Ade-laide, Alice Springs and Darwin?

3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the name of the area in the Pacific that means “many islands”?

4. MEASUREMENTS: How long does it take light from the Sun to reach the Earth?

5. GAMES: What is the highest score possible in the game of darts?

to really work hard to cement our place here in the Central West, which is great! We moved here specifically for the lifestyle you have here and the sense of community, so I wouldn’t expect anything less.

What are the current photographic business trends in Melbourne that you have brought here?

I think business as a whole, in Melbourne, is very fast paced and often impersonal. It’s so common in Melbourne to spend an hour sitting in traffic on the freeway, each way to work, every single day. It limits the amount of time people are willing to spend in a face to face consultation or design appointment, so almost all businesses, even the smaller startups, are all going digital.

I have to expect that it’s the way of the world and of course, we keep up with technology in the areas that really matter, but it can’t always be about being better than the next business that offers the same services as you, it needs to be about consumers, the people buying and using your services.

When everything gets fast paced and impersonal, especially in photography, you start missing the mark on what your couples or families truly want in their experience, when you start dropping the ball in those areas, it’s hard to come back from that. So I think, as much as I will continue to incorporate digital marketing into our business plan, I’m certain I will leave the other business trends of digital communication in the hustle and bustle of Melbourne life.

What do you hope to achieve in Dubbo?

We’d love to open a studio here in Dubbo.

Something that stays true to the laid back lifestyle that Dubbo offers. To finally be one of the locals and have ‘Debra down the road’ refer her friends to us because she’s dealt with us personally. That’s what we want for our new lives here in Dubbo.

What kind of photographs do you specialise in?

We specialise in couples, weddings and family sessions.

6. ASTRONOMY: What two planets in our solar system rotate clockwise?

7. MONEY: What is the currency of Switzerland?

8. HISTORY: Where were the first Strategic Arms Limitations Talks held in 1969?

9. INVENTIONS: What 1947 invention led to the development of small portable radios?

10. MOVIES: What film musical included the tune “They Call the Wind Maria”?

11. FLASHBACK: Which group released “Love Is Like Oxygen”?

12. SPORT: When Angelique Kerber won the Australian Open in 2016, she was the first German woman to win the singles title since Steffi Graf.

When was Graf’s last title?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “I want to stand with you on a mountain, I want to bathe with you in the sea, I want to lay like this forever, Until the sky falls down on me.”

MUSIC EXTRA: Where did Roger Whittaker’s “The Last Farewell” come from?

ANSWERS: SEE THE PLAY PAGES.

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Lifestyle

Hot stew for winter of wellbeing FTER a bumper cold and flu season last year, dietitians urge Australians to boost their immune system this winter by tapping into nutritious comfort foods.

According to the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA), focusing on whole foods, including those containing vitamin C, zinc and protein, can help immunity – a useful weapon in fighting off the germs that cause colds and flu.

Figures from the Department of Health show more than 14,000 cases of the flu were reported in Australia last year, a 36 percent increase from the year before.

And the flu accounts for 13,500 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths among Australians aged over 50 years.

While healthy eating may not ward off germs entirely, DAA spokesperson Simone Austin said making nutritious meals a priority in the colder months can reduce the likelihood and severity of colds.

She added that a nutritious diet is particularly important in vulnerable populations, such as the elderly, whose immune systems may already be compromised.

“Foods high in vitamin C include capsicum, broccoli, kiwi fruit, strawberries and citrus fruit. Zinc is found in fish, seafood, beef and lamb, which also provide goodquality protein. Baked beans and pumpkin seeds also provide zinc. So there’s plenty of nutritious and tasty options.

“Now that winter has finally arrived, it’s time to enjoy tasty, warming foods that give you, and your immune system, a boost,” said Ms Austin, an accredited practising dietitian.

According to Austin, a nutritious winter diet need not be expensive or complicated.

She recommends nourishing winter meals, such as beef and bean stew (see recipe), porridge topped with pumpkin seeds and chopped nuts, warming seafood soup with added dark leafy greens and slices of capsicum, grainy toast or a wholemeal muffin topped with baked beans, delicious fruit crumbles, using fresh or frozen berries.

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Rural doctors call for Rural Rescue Package

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RURAL doctors are calling on the major political parties to get behind a ‘Rural Rescue Package’ jointly proposed by the Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) and Australian Medical Association (AMA) to attract to rural practice more doctors with the advanced medical skills needed by country communities.

RDAA President, Dr Ewen McPhee, said the proposed Package would go a long way towards reversing the decline in health services available in rural and remote areas.

“Rural communities need to have locally available doctors, with the appropriate generalist skills, to meet the broad-ranging health needs of their communi-

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HEALTH IN BRIEF ties,” Dr McPhee said.

“Unfortunately, we have seen a decline in the number of rural generalist doctors over the past few decades, creating gaps in local health services and impacting on overall health outcomes for those living in rural and remote Australia.

“RDAA teamed with the AMA to develop the ‘Rural Rescue Package’, which provides the framework for addressing this problem.

“The first tier of the Package is designed to encourage more GPs, other specialists, and registrars to work in rural areas. It takes into account the greater isolation

of rural practice, both for doctors and their families.

“The second tier is aimed at boosting the number of doctors in rural areas with essential advanced skills training in a range of areas such as obstetrics, surgery, anaesthetics, acute mental health, and emergency medicine.

Rural areas need doctors with strong skills in these areas to ensure that communities have access to appropriate acute services locally, including on-call emergency services.

“Fair and realistic incentives to encourage doctors to relocate to, and remain in, rural practice, and which increase with actual rurality, are necessary to reverse the trend of a declining rural generalist workforce.

“We also need a commitment from the major political parties to provide realistic levels of fund-

ing to support the development of advanced skills that doctors need when practising in the bush.

“Rural towns need doctors who can provide generalist services.

“This ranges from pre-natal to palliative care, after-hours care, emergency care and hospital services, in addition to their general practice skills.

“The establishment of a nationally recognised rural generalist model of practice, where general practitioners are supported to develop the skills most needed by their communities, is also necessary to help reverse the trend of declining access to healthcare in the bush.

“We call on the Coalition and Federal Labor to commit to the Rural Rescue Package, and to work toward building a sustainable future for rural generalist practice.”

OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 10.06.2016 to Sunday 12.06.2016

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

Oils ain’t oils…

WORK in an audio world. Everything I do in my work life has a noise factor involved. (There are people who would argue that would apply to every aspect of my life, as a noisy little person, and that would not be a million miles from the truth).

I tell stories in sound. All the bits of sound that go to make the story all add to the story. So there’s the voice telling their perspective, the interviewer bringing out the information, and then all the other background atmospherics and sound effects to consider as well. And then some people ramp it up even further by adding music to the mix too. (I don’t do that, partly because of the sort of stories I tell, and partly because I find the music bits a bit irritating in a lot of stories. But then, the older I get, the more things there are that I find irritating. I am at risk of becoming a cranky old woman, if I am not there already. A noisy, nosy, cranky old woman.)

So, with one thing and another, there’s quite a bit of noise in my life. And it’s amazing how much of it I just take for granted, that I accept in my life without too much analysis. It’s there and I don’t question it. From the noises of farm life, to the shared office space, the sound effects of the highway and the buzz in a shopping centre. It flows over you, this environmental noise, and you don’t realise the impact it’s having on you. And sometimes that impact can be pretty significant.

But every so often the noise of the world gets out of control. It reaches saturation point, it becomes too much and I have to turn down the volume on life.

I can be travelling along quite happily and then all of a sudden I just need more space around me than the modern world allows, and so much of that space is taken up with sound.

It can be weird how you don’t notice the way it’s building up, the irritation

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factor with all the noise that’s around.

It didn’t used to be such an issue in my life, until I took up my current career of working almost entirely with my ears.

It’s like I’ve trained my ears to be on the alert all the time and listening critically all the time, so they’re constantly feed information in to be analysed. And my brain is trying to process that stuff. And sooner or later, it’s just too much.

I was in the car the other day and scrolling through the radio stations to find something that I could put up with.

And it didn’t matter where I turned, there was nothing that I could cope with. It was either bumptious pretend experts, patronising presenters, very ordinary music or rampant and badly made commercials. And it took me a few minutes to exhaust all the options before, in despair, I turned it all off and gave myself dead air.

And the relief was remarkable. It was like taking a swim on a hot day or having a long cool glass of water. And it was interesting because, unlike being overheated or thirsty, I wasn’t all that conscious of being over-audioed.

I wonder how much of the time we would be better off if we just consciously chose to spend some time in silence.

(I wonder how many times people have wondered that, as they listen to me on air? There’s a sobering thought.)

I wonder how much pressure we are putting on ourselves by blasting our senses with the environment, with extra input.

When was the last time you got into a lift, or into a car, with a group of people who are all wearing different perfumes, aftershaves, hand creams or possibly some less savoury scent? Even if people have been reasonably discreet about the amount of additional flavouring they’ve immersed themselves in, the solid wall of competing scents can be a complete nightmare.

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` As I recall the story, Simon Marnie has, on many occasions, made it clear that he thinks truffles are a vastly over-used commodity; his perspective would be similar to something my grandmother used to say. “A teaspoon for elephants.”

Too much of a good thing is too much of a good thing, no matter which of your senses in being incensed.

I remember hearing ABC presenter Simon Marnie telling a story about going to a food industry event with his friend and colleague Tim Pak Poy. As I recall the story, Simon Marnie has, on many occasions, made it clear that he thinks truffles are a vastly over-used commodity; his perspective would be similar to something my grandmother used to say. “A teaspoon for elephants.”

The story goes (according to my ageing, and possible fading recollection) that Tim Pak Poy had organised Simon’s accommodation for the event, at quite a smart hotel. Simon checked into the hotel and then headed along to the event. Then, much later that evening, he returned to his hotel, performed his usual ablutions and went to bed.

And then spent the whole night with the smell and taste of truffle oil driving him mad. No matter what he did, he couldn’t get rid of the all pervading Presence of Truffle Oil. It was everywhere. In his mouth, in his nostrils. It nearly drove him mad.

I cannot remember at what point it was that Tim Pak Poy revealed to him that he had been pranked. Mr PP had gained access to Simon’s hotel room and had infused every bit of it with truffle oil. He had tenderly sprinkled it on his pillow cases, on his towels, on his pyjamas. He had even gone so far as to dip his toothbrush in truffle oil.

And given the vastly inflated price of truffle oil, as compared with other oils, that would have been an expensive, if vastly entertaining exercise.

Even the most valuable of assets or experiences can become enervating.

It’s true you can have too much of a good thing.

Construction workers trained in lifesaving suicide prevention program MORE than 100,000 construction workers have been trained in a lifesaving program which helps them recognise and support mates in need.

MATES in Construction (MIC) CEO Jorgen Gullestrup said the group’s field officers had now delivered the critical training in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia.

“Our comprehensive, life-saving program has been implemented on more than 1,942 sites across the country, Gullestrup said.

“And since beginning in Queensland in 2008, suicide rates in the construction industry have fallen by almost eight per cent. From being a high risk group amongst Queensland men, we are now average or below average. This means real lives saved, and real families saved

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from the hurt of losing a loved one.

“Every year 190 Australians who work in the industry take their own lives. Our goal is to halve this number over the next 10 years by training construction workers to recognise that a co-worker is unwell, before it’s too late,” Gullestrup said.

“We know that construction workers are six times more likely to die from suicide than from an accident at work, so investing in workers’ mental health is

just as important as investing in their physical safety,” he said.

The national suicide prevention group is the first of its kind in Australia, operating in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia, and is challenging long-held beliefs about gender stereotypes through a revolutionary program of training that is unique to the construction industry.

“MATES in Construction is an industry-led approach to an industry problem. We provide a program of training that is unique to construction workers, that has been designed specifically to address issues common within the sector,” Gullestrup said.

“Early intervention is the key, so our program has been designed to teach workers what to look out for, and the best ways to reach out and offer a help-

ing hand to someone they’re concerned about,” he said.

“In an industry that employs more than one million people right across Australia, it’s more important than ever that as an industry we continue to let our blokes know that there is help out there, and that they are not alone.”

Workers trained in each state z Queensland: 57,559 z NSW: 27,857 z Western Australia: 14,637 z South Australia: 8,808

MATES in Construction is an industryled approach to an industry problem helping men on the ground, in their workplaces, to seek help and get better.

Construction workers can call the MIC hotline anytime on 1300 642 111.

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THE BIG PICTURE.

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Weathered post Glen Smith from Darkeye Photography has contributed this stark image he shot on Old Dubbo Road, just on sunset. Loving the black and white! Thank you Glen, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an epic shot.

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HEALTH.

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Triple Zero (000) call takers: there to take your calls, not your abuse SW Ambulance deputy director Western Control Centre Max Stonestreet and local Triple Zero (000) call taker staff officially launched the NSW Ambulance Western Division’s ‘No Excuse for Triple Zero (000) Call Taker Abuse’ campaign on Tuesday, June 7.

The launch comes as part of a statewide campaign targeted at stamping out the abusive and threatening behavior regularly levelled at call takers during calls to Triple Zero (000).

“Stop asking me stupid questions”, “I have a gun and I’ll find you”, “listen here b****”, “just get here now or I’ll f***ing kill you”, “you’re clearly an idiot”, are all things said to NSW Ambulance Triple Zero (000) call takers at Western Control Centre by people calling for emergency help in the past six months.

Commissioner Dominic Morgan chief executive NSW Ambulance and a former NSW Ambulance call taker and dispatcher, has launched a zero tolerance crackdown on the abuse of Triple Zero (000) call takers.

“Control Centre staff across the state are routinely faced with an unacceptable level of abuse and threatening behaviour from members of the public they are merely trying to help.”

“There is simply no excuse for Triple Zero (000) call taker abuse. Our message is clear: offensive language, screaming, swearing, yelling, arguing, name calling, belittling, threatening, hanging up, being rude, sexually suggestive or unco-operative is abuse,” Commissioner Morgan said.

NSW Ambulance measured the abuse in one shift. The statistics are staggering with 8.32 per cent of Triple Zero (000) calls answered by one call taker in that shift containing a level of verbal abuse.

“Our highly trained call takers answer a call for help on average every 28 seconds. Just as we don’t tolerate abuse against our frontline paramedics, from today we are sending a strong message that it is unacceptable for threats and abuse to be levelled at our call takers,” Morgan said.

The “No Excuse for Triple Zero (000) Call Taker Abuse” campaign is a public awareness campaign made up of eight posters and educative collateral which will be rolled out in media and social media channels.

The posters feature NSW Ambulance call takers from four Control Centres, including Kathryn and Andrew from Western Control at Dubbo. Each volunteered to be the face of the campaign to shine a light on the issue of abuse, its regularity and the impact it has on their wellbeing and resilience long after the call ends.

“I’ve been sworn at, had my family threatened and been called all kinds of names,” NSW Ambulance Dubbo based call taker Kathryn said.

“I recognise that I’m often the first person someone speaks to after being confronted with a tragic, distressing or emotionally charged situation, but the public needs to know that I’m not your verbal punching bag.”

“When I’m being verbally abused, or questions aren’t being answered, it can add minutes to the

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One of the posters used in the anti abuse campaign features Kathryn, from the NSW Ambulance Western Control at Dubbo. PHOTO: NSW AMBULANCE

paramedics getting to a patient during an emergency. That’s dangerous in a situation where every second counts,” Kathryn said.

Fellow Dubbo call taker Andrew said no one should have to be subjected to what he’s experienced in his time in the job.

“You name it I’ve heard it and I’ve only been here six months. Even if you don’t realise it at the time, it impacts you. We aren’t only trained to answer the phone; we are qualified to help you during your medical emergency in those vital minutes until paramedics arrive.

In emergency situations, we are the closest thing to the paramedic, the nurse, the doctor, until they arrive and begin delivering physical care,” Andrew said.

Both call takers want the public to know that staying calm and answering

their questions will enable NSW Ambulance to get help to you quickly.”

“It’s not rocket science, it’s child’s play - some of our callers are as young as four. If they can stay calm, answer our questions and follow medical instructions when on the phone to our call takers during an emergency, so too can any adult,” Kathryn said.

Callers should know that no question a call taker asks is unnecessary and that in emergency cases the paramedics have been dispatched as we continue to ask questions and give medical instructions.

“Quite often we get abused for asking what the caller sees as irrelevant.”

“These answers are vital, they help us provide you with immediate lifesaving medical advice and we can brief the attending paramedics enroute on updated medical details or help them pinpoint an exact location,” Kathryn said.

` Stop asking me stupid questions”, “I have a gun and I’ll find you”, “listen here b****”, “just get here now or I’ll f***ing kill you”, “you’re clearly an idiot”, are all things said to NSW Ambulance Triple Zero (000) call takers at Western Control Centre by people calling for emergency help in the past six months.

NSW Ambulance provides a range of support measures to call takers who have been abused including formal debriefings, taking them off call taking duties, providing them with timeout and counselling from senior managers, peer support officers or Chaplaincy support as needed.

However with each of these measures involving taking a call taker off roster, it means there is additional pressure on other staff responding to calls in a time of crisis.

“We will always ensure that our call takers are provided with the support they need should they be abused, however call takers shouldn’t have to be subject to abuse and threatening behaviour as they go about their work,” Commissioner Morgan said.

“NSW Ambulance will continue to stand by our Control Centre staff and pursue abusive callers to the full extent of the law under the Telecommunications Act should they fail to take this very reasonable request on board.”

“We have a zero tolerance, no excuse approach to this issue and are encouraging call takers to report any incidents for further review and assessment,” he said.

To see the No Excuse for Triple Zero (000) Call Taker Abuse campaign follow NSW Ambulance on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or visit the NSW Ambulance website.

For those wishing to access more information about what to expect when they dial Triple Zero (000), fact sheets can be accessed online via www.ambulance.nsw.gov.au.

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FOOD.

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Outlaw’s catch of the day

BY GEMMA DUNN ATHAN Outlaw’s statement that “seafood is the best convenience food ever” may be bold – but the seasoned chef, for want of a better phrase, refuses to eat his words.

“Most seafood will cook within minutes – much faster than any ready meal – and that, for me, is what makes it such a great choice for everyday meal occasions,” reasons the 38-year-old. “Just be brave; try something different!”

Documenting his ongoing mission to dispel the myth that fish is tricky to deal with is his latest book, Everyday Seafood, a collection of easy-to-prepare recipes especially for home cooks.

The aim, says Outlaw who was born in the English city Kent, is to “ get people cooking simple, good, sustainable seafood”.

“It’s good for beginners, but there are also enough recipes in there for people that have followed my previous two books,” he adds.

Simple and speedy may be the vibe for the recipes, but completing the book was a bit of a lengthy process – which Outlaw admits was mostly down to his own perfectionism and busy schedule.

“I don’t have the luxury of disappearing for a few weeks and just writing,” he confesses, adding that he opted to cook and plate all the individual dishes himself, in order to ensure they taste exactly as they should.

“My publisher thinks I’m nuts because I don’t use home economists and stuff, but I want to make sure it works,” he says, chuckling. “And being the third book, I didn’t want it to be like that third bad album.”

On the contrary, Outlaw’s efforts have produced a refreshing focus on accessible ingredients, and vibrant dishes that require no special equipment and uncomplicated techniques.

Catering for anything from light bites to leisurely lunches, summer barbecues and family-style entertaining, all bases are covered – and the book’s peppered with Outlaw’s personal top tips, gleaned from years in the industry.

He credits his first stint at Rick Stein’s The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow for his sea-to-plate love affair.

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Nathan Outlaw. Photos: John Phillips/ PA Photos; David Loftus

“Without really knowing, I just caught a bug for it, and then I didn’t want to do anything else,” he contends.

True to his word, Outlaw, who also enjoys living by the sea in Cornwall with his wife and two children, runs a successful empire, including Outlaw’s Fish Kitchen in Port Isaac, The Mariners Public House in Rock, Outlaw’s at The Capital in London, and his two Michelin-star flagship Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, also in Port Isaac.

It’s the latter where he spends most of his days, “cooking and developing a lot of the recipes”.

“The restaurant is paramount,” he affirms, refuting the idea that some chefs simply put their name above the door. “I love cooking; I don’t love it for the glamorous side of it.”

And while Outlaw’s latest seafood venture in Dubai might just be that (he will be collaborating with the world-famous Burj Al Arab Jumeirah), he sees a much more modest future for himself.

Nathan Outlaw’s Everyday Seafood by Nathan Outlaw, photography by David Loftus, is published by Quadrille.

“I don’t plan much bigger than this, really,” he confides. “I think, if anything, I’ll work hard for another 10 years, and then I probably want to end up in Restaurant Nathan Outlaw.

“An old man behind the stove, cooking a bit of fish for people.”

Why not cook up a bit of fish for yourself? Here are three of Outlaw’s recipes to try at home...

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 10.06.2016 to Sunday 12.06.2016

FOOD.

HOT SMOKED SALMON PATE, WHISKY JELLY

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(Serves 6 as a starter) For the pate: 400g hot smoked salmon, skinned Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lime 100g full-fat cream cheese 150g thick Greek yoghurt 1tbsp creamed horseradish Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper For the whisky jelly: 200ml Laphroaig whisky 40g caster sugar 2 sheets of bronze leaf gelatine To serve: Grated zest of 1 lime 12 slices of rye bread Salted butter, softened, for spreading 1. To make the pate, put the hot smoked salmon into a food processor with the lime juice and blitz for 20 seconds. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the cream cheese, yoghurt, horseradish, lime zest and some salt and pepper. Blitz for one minute: you want the pate to be almost smooth, with a little texture from the salmon. Divide between six ramekins or other small dishes, cover and refrigerate.

2. To make the jelly, soak the gelatine in a shallow dish of ice-cold water for about five minutes to soften. Put the whisky and sugar into a pan and heat gently until the sugar has dissolved and the liquor is almost at a simmer then take off the heat. Remove the gelatine leaves from their dish, squeeze out the excess water, and then add to the whisky and stir until dissolved. Leave to cool completely, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let it set.

3. Pour the cooled, liquid jelly evenly on top of the pate and return to the fridge to set.

4. Take the pate out of the fridge around 20 minutes before serving, so that it comes to room temperature.

5. When ready to eat, toast the rye bread and spread with butter. Sprinkle the lime zest over the pate and serve immediately, with the buttered toast.

(Makes 10) 150g unsalted butter, at room temperature 80g soft light brown sugar 80g granulated sugar A pinch of sea salt 1/2tsp vanilla extract 1 medium egg 250g plain flour 1â &#x201E;2tsp bicarbonate of soda 100g dark chocolate buttons 100g milk chocolate buttons

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1. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugars, salt and vanilla extract together until thoroughly combined. Add the egg and beat in well.

2. Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda over the mixture and mix until evenly combined. Finally, fold in the dark and milk chocolate buttons.

3. Form the dough into a log, wrap in cling film and place in the fridge for three hours to firm up.

4. Preheat your oven to 170C/Gas 31/2. Line two baking trays with baking parchment. Divide the mixture into 10 equal pieces and shape into balls.

Place on the baking trays, leaving enough room in between for spreading. Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden. Leave on the trays for a minute or two, then transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if you can resist eating them straight away.

MONKFISH SATAY (Serves 4) For the frittata: 600g monkfish fillet, trimmed of sinew and skin, cut into chunks. (Because monkfish is not available in the southern hemisphere, Sydney Fish Market suggests the best substitutes in recipes are Rocklobster or members of the Stargazer family (Uranoscopidae), which have a similar texture though not quite as firm.)

2tbsp coriander seeds 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped 2tbsp finely grated fresh ginger 3 lemongrass stalks, coarse outer layers removed, finely chopped 2tbsp sunflower oil 2tsp soy sauce 2tsp fish sauce Grated zest of 1 lime (use the juice for the sauce) Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper For the peanut sauce: A drizzle of sunflower oil 6 shallots or 2 banana shallots, peeled and finely chopped 4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped 2 red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped 2tbsp brown sugar 1tbsp fish sauce 200ml coconut milk 160g unsalted peanuts, roasted and finely chopped Juice of 1 lime To serve: 1 lime, cut into quarters 1. For the marinade, toast the coriander seeds in a dry pan over a medium heat for a minute or two, until fragrant. Using a pestle and mortar or spice grinder, grind the seeds to a powder. Add the garlic, ginger and lemongrass and grind again. Add the oil, soy sauce, fish sauce and lime zest and mix well.

2. Lay the monkfish chunks on a tray and coat all over with the marinade. Cover the tray with cling film and refrigerate for one hour. If you are barbecuing, light your barbecue 30 minutes before you intend to cook.

3. Meanwhile, make the peanut sauce. Heat a medium pan over a medium heat, then add the oil. When it is hot, add the shallots, garlic and chillies and sweat for three minutes. Stir in the sugar and cook for a further three minutes, then add the fish sauce and coconut milk. Bring to the boil and let it bubble for a couple of minutes. Stir in the peanuts and lime juice, then season with salt and pepper to taste.

Keep warm (or allow to cool if preparing ahead and reheat to serve).

4. When the monkfish is ready, thread four to five chunks onto each of the four skewers. If using a chargriddle, heat up over a high heat. When the char-grill is smoking or the barbecue coals are white hot, carefully lay the monkfish on the griddle and cook for two minutes on each side.

5. Serve the monkfish on or off the skewers with lime wedges and the peanut sauce in a bowl on the side.

Accompany with plain rice and a leafy side salad.

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White is not for wimps, it’s pure and simple

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN OLOUR may be cool currently – but if you prefer to dance to a different decor tune, and yearn for light-filled, calm, easy-on-the-eye rooms, then a white palette’s the obvious choice.

Ignore the ‘white is for wimps’ wisdom; that only the brave stylishly splash on fashionably bright shades and enjoy a technicolour world, while the rest of us scaredy-cats pale at the sight of colour charts and scurry back to the safety of neutrals.

What this theory fails to recognise is the simple fact that white works.

What’s not to like about a palette which makes spaces appear lighter and larger – and with such a huge variety of shades on offer (yes, really!), from subtle and warm, to crisp and sharp, there’s bound to be at least one, or more, that suits.

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“White, combining all the colours of the visible spectrum, is a dramatic, affirmative choice, rather than a passive one,” declares Karen McCartney, champion of a white palette and co-author of White Rooms: Decorating With Style, Pattern And Colour.

“White creates the sense of a blank canvas, a fresh beginning upon which we can impose our decorative style,” she adds. “Light reflects off white; it bounces around and has the effect of lifting the spirits.

“And its credentials have been proven over time – white’s been used for generations and in many cultures, to symbolise honesty, purity, perfection and spirituality.”

She firmly believes white has the power to “set rooms free” and suits any style of home, from modernist to Moroccan interiors, country cottages to industrial lofts – examples of which all feature in the beautifully illustrated book.

“It may be, of course, that other factors are needed to make a white scheme work – textured neutrals against a soft white background, a hint of pink in the paint to tie in with a key decorative feature, or being clever about the way in which gloss and matt contrasts. There are all sorts of additions which can enhance a white space, whether its sheer white curtains or shutters at a window, or lighting, from natural light to LED.” Sound all-white to you? Time to freshen up those rooms...

DIP INTO WHITE Bewildered by the vast array of white paint shades?

Follow a few simple guidelines to ensure a white scheme works.

“Simple white reflects light and helps to make a space appear bigger, but can feel cold and impersonal,” says Marianne Shillingford, creative director at Dulux.

Gold and black make a contrast on a white wall, from an image in White Rooms, by David Harrison and Karen McCartney.

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CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

PASTA is a favourite national food of Italy, where it is typically cut into a variety of shapes and eaten with a sauce, in a soup or incorporated into a baked dish.

But not just in Italy! Kids everywhere love pasta. No wonder it regularly appears on our family table.

Mysteriously, though, when the kids were young, they often claimed to love linguine but not spaghetti, or shells but not elbows.

And no matter how many times I tried to explain that it’s all the same thing, they insisted, “No! It tastes different!”

Here’s your chance to check it out when you make fresh pasta with kids. They can cut this dough into a variety of shapes right before their eyes. When it’s cooked, they’ll discover one thing is certain – eating fresh pasta (pasta fresca) opens the taste buds to something quite different from the standard dry pasta from a package.

And if, while slurping the pasta into their mouths, you hear, “We like the squiggly shapes better!” you’ll have your answer.

Maybe some forms are just a little more fun.

FRESH PASTA (Makes 2 servings) 1 cup flour 1 egg 1 tablespoon water Prepare the dough: 1. Mound the flour on a work surface and make a deep “volcano” with your hands.

Break the egg into the volcano. Beat the egg lightly with a fork while adding water.

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“Try a combination of pure white and a warm off-white with added light-reflective properties, such as Absolute White and Morning Light from our Light & Space range.

“Layers of subtle neutrals make a different kind of impact on a room than deeper shades, but they’ll still make an impact. The creative use of light from floor to ceiling brings subtle shades to life at night too, and of course, you can add colour to a neutral room in accessories. “ WHITE WISDOM: When you’re not using much colour in the room, you need to excite the senses with texture. Use a velvety flat matt on walls and layers of sensuous fabrics on furniture, with warm, smooth wood flooring. Use tester pots and view in all lights before making a final paint choice.

WHITE MAGIC “What’s so appealing about white is its great democracy. It doesn’t discriminate between high architectural art and a warehouse interior, where garage paint can cover every surface, rendering ugly pipes, bricks and stained floorboards invisible,” says McCartney.

“White allows the eye to float over every surface, and the furnishings, art and objects to take centre stage. Patterned pastels, bold artworks, antiques, sculpture, designer pieces and found objects all work stylishly within the context of white.”

WHITE WISDOM: If a white open-plan room with large floor-to-ceiling windows is eye-wateringly bright, use tints to soften the effect. A touch of grey/brown for paint and a low-reflection flat wall and ceiling paint will help.

WORK WHITE: White’s brilliant for bedrooms and kitchens, as it helps create a calm, peaceful atmosphere. Furniture will be a focus so it needs to be stylish, and window shutters contribute to an uncluttered, streamlined feel.

WHITE CLUSTER Interesting white objects in a group act as an eye-catching feature in a space.

“The joy of grouping white objects together is that while they may vary slightly in shade, this only adds to the interest they provide when displayed in a pleasing cluster,” says McCartney.

“Pay particular attention to the shape, materials, height and placement of objects, to ensure that, whether they’re showcased in front of a dark or light wall, their form is easily defined.”

Ceramics, monochrome artwork and white flowers in a room, from an image in White Rooms, by David Harrison and Karen McCartney, published by Penguin Lantern. Photos: PA Photo

break down the volcano walls.

2. Gradually incorporate flour into the egg mixture from the inside walls of the volcano. (This is a good job for kids to exercise their motor skills and patience.) Continue to stir in the flour until the dough is stiff.

3. When it is too firm to mix with the fork, knead it with your hands. Incorporate just enough flour to make a ball. (You may not need all of the flour.) Knead the dough for a few minutes until smooth and pliable.

Place the dough on a floured surface, cover and let rest for 10 minutes.

Make pasta shapes:

Roll the dough out on a floured board into a very thin rectangle. The thinner the better, as the noodles will plump up when cooked. Cut lengthwise into narrow strips with a pizza cutter. Of course, you don’t have to stick to standard forms. Using a small table knife, try different “kid” shapes like wiggly lines, little triangles or stars.

Cook the pasta: –Boil the pasta in salted water for 4-5 minutes. Drain and serve with a pasta sauce and cheese. Or, toss into a pot of simmering chicken soup and boil until cooked.

Watch my video FRESH PASTA at www. donnaerickson.com.

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Living La Vida Lisboa Monument to the Discoveries, Belem, Lisbon. Photos: PA Photo/Renato Granieri; Sarah Marshall.

BY SARAH MARSHALL HEN I lived in Lisbon 14 years ago, I stayed, rent-free, in a dilapidated 12-bedroom palacio owned by a bon vivant called Jorge who wafted through its crumbling corridors with an air of faded grandeur.

He typified an aristocratic capital since forgotten by the rest of Europe, where colourful characters eked out a fantasy existence by surviving on cheap rents.

For decades, Lisbon has been trapped in a wonderful time warp: specialist shops still sell products from behind wooden counters and weathered doorways reveal historic interiors untouched for years.

But now change is happening at an accelerating pace, and there’s a palpable energy in a city that’s drifted aimlessly for so long.

According to figures collected by Lisbon’s tourist board, the number of visitors to the city increased by 18 per cent from 2013-2015. To cope with the demand, there has been 150 per cent growth in hotel openings during the same period.

Flight access is also improving.

So what’s the reason behind this drastic change?

It’s partly down to changes in government. Four years ago, a century-old law freezing rent charges was scrapped, sparking investment in rundown properties and a plethora of new restaurants and bars.

The results could have been disastrous.

Fortunately, though, proud Lisboans prefer to preserve their past rather than raze buildings and start again.

Once dominated by government offices and embassies, Rua Dom Pedro V and the Principe Real district is now filled with wine bars, fashion boutiques and design stores. Climb the wooden staircase of revamped 1800s neo-Moorish mansion Embaixada (Praca do Principe Real, 26) to find ornate interiors just as beguiling as the pop-up shops now housed inside.

The concept of upcycling was key to the design of new hotel AlmaLusa Baixa/Chiado, which occupies a former arsenal on Praca do Municipio – another area of the city enjoying a new lease of life.

Director of operations Sofia Brandao shows me the original flooring – one of the few parts not to be flattened in the city’s devastating 1755 earthquake – and highlights fragments from the property’s more recent

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past: silver-stained mirrors from a barber’s shop hang in the restaurant, and Moroccan tiles once sold in a showroom decorate bathrooms.

“We’re offering people ‘smart luxury’,” says Sofia, referring to boutique bedrooms that look much more expensive than their 145 euro price tag.

In fact, every aspect of the city offers great value for money. In April, Post Office Travel Money rated Lisbon the cheapest city in Western Europe in their City Costs Barometer.

It’s possible to dine in a neighbourhood restaurant for 10 euro per head and even the 45-minute metro journey from the airport into town costs less than a couple of euros.

This is also one of the few European cities where independent businesses have the upper hand on generic big brands. From dusty, traditional stores to trendy new openings, local shops champion artisan Portuguese products such as paper-wrapped soaps, household linens and even canned fish.

At Miss Can (www.miss-can.com), close to Sao Jorge Castle, the owner sells canned mackerels smoked using methods employed by her fisherman grandfather in 1911; and in the dockside Time Out Ribeira Market, journalists from the city guide series have curated their favourite street food stalls and craft vendors from around the city.

Of course, Lisbon still bathes in the glory of its historical sites – including the Unesco World Heritage sites of Belem, linked to the Age of Discoveries.

Standing beneath the Monument to the Discoveries, where statues of 33 navigators reach out to the River Tagus, I imagine a time when Vasca do Gama set sail to extend the Portuguese Empire.

Right now though, there’s so much on Lisbon’s own doorstep to explore. * WHERE TO STAY? AlmaLusa Baixa/Chiado, www.almalusahotels. com/baixachiado Located opposite the city hall, this smart, stylish hotel is part of a downtown regeneration.

Minibars have been replaced with kitchenettes and ostentatious additions stripped back, although the look is far from utilitarian. Request room 26 for a romantic suite, and book dinner in the excellent Delfina restaurant serving dishes inspired by former Portu-

guese colonies. Doubles from 145 euros per night with breakfast.

WHERE TO EAT The Insolito, www.theinsolito.pt Still in operation, Lisbon’s first private lift rattles guests to the rooftop restaurant of this 19th century family house in Bairro Alto, which is now a boutique hotel. Weave through the cool, quirky interior to a terrace with views of the Sao Jorge Castle. Eat oysters at the bar, or order creative modern cuisine, while a DJ spins soul music.

Cervejaria Trindade, www.cervejariatrindade.pt Traditional seafood dishes are near heavenly at this former monastery in Bairro Alto, where waiters are dressed as friars. Order fresh shellfish and swig draught Sagres beer, while seated at tables in the vast canteen-like space. An outdoor terrace can be found in the cloisters.

WHERE TO PARTY Bar Procopio, www.barprocopio.com/en Emulated by many but matched by few, Procopio is the archetypal clandestine cocktail bar of years gone by. Ring a doorbell to enter a dimly lit room crammed with Art Nouveau antiques, where dapper gentlemen wait tables in a space that’s changed little since opening in 1972. Closes at 3am.

Pensao Amor, www.pensaoamor.pt Rooftops in Lisbon.

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AlmaLusa hotel in Lisbon, which offers visitors smart luxury

Pop-up cafes in Lisbon.

Once a brothel in the seedy Cais do Sodre district, Pensao Amor is now one of Lisbon’s hottest nightspots.

Flit between rooms adorned with images of naked women, or sneak into secret kissing booths. Open until 4am on weekends, but expect long queues if you arrive after midnight. The entrance is at 38 on Zona Rosa, the pink street.

WHERE TO SHOP Lojas Das Conservas, www.facebook.com/ lojadasconservas/ Canned fish is one of Portugal’s most important industries, and more than 300 brands of tuna, mackerel and sardines can be found in this store set up by the National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Fish.

Caza das Vellas Loreto, cazavellasloreto.com.pt Sao Jorge Castle, Lisbon.

View from the terrace of The Insolito restaurant.

There’s only one item for sale in this wood-panelled shop – candles. More than 3600 different shades and shapes have been manufactured on the premises since 1789, with prices starting from 1.50 euros.

WHAT TO DO Take the tram A convenient way to traverse Lisbon’s ankle-busting seven hills, the 19th century tram network is also great for sightseeing. Route E28 is the most famous, but equally scenic – and less crowded – are routes 12 and 25.

Alternatively, visit the 28 Tram Cafe (Rua de Santa Cruz do Castelo, 45), a replica of the old fashioned wooden carriage built to scale.

Soak up views

Spread across seven hills, the city has plenty of high points. To watch the sunset, visit the ramparts of Sao Jorge Castle, or save money on an entry ticket by climbing to Nossa Sra do Monte in Graca, where there’s the added bonus of including the 11th century fortification in your view.

Eat pastel de nata Pasteis de Belem (pasteisdebelem.pt/es) has been making award-winning custard tarts using a secret recipe since 1837, but expect large queues at the bluetiled bakery and cafe. Instead, try Zarzuela (www.zarzuela.pt) on Rua do Arsenal, where tarts were named amongst the best 12 in Lisbon. * For more information on the city, visit www.visitlisboa.com

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Macquarie Credit Union DREAM Festival Art Prize and Exhibition announced ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF

HE Macquarie Credit Union DREAM Festival announced this week, the introduction of a new and exciting event to their October calendar: the DREAM Art Prize and Exhibition - “Citizen”.

Exhibition Coordinator, Jessica Moore, said, “This year, the festival will be hosting an art Exhibition that celebrates the “built” landscape. We are calling on artists to respond to the man-made features of Dubbo and to look up on our city with new, fresh and creative eyes.”

Dubbo is not known for the beauty of its built landscapes. While the quiet, tranquillity of the Macquarie River is justifiably admired, it is uncommon to see residents extolling the virtues of the fast food outlets in Cobra Street, the railway crossing through Brisbane Street, or even the heavily used, but not overly loved L.H. Ford Bridge.

While the built landscape of the City will not be changing any time soon, can we change our relationship to it, can we forge a new appreciation of the city we call home? Citizen, aims to create a new view of our city, calling on Artists to take inspiration from the built landscape and create new views of our city.

Festival chair, Anne Field, said, “Citizen will be displayed throughout the CBD during the festival, creating an art-walk through the city.

A $1,000 Critics’ Choice prize is being provided by Designer Décor and Gifts and the public will be given an opportunity to vote with a $500 People’s Choice award provided by

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Crampton’s Carpets.”

The Festival is now encouraging artists to register their interest with the exhibition coordinator. For more information or to register your interest please email Jessica Moore at jesrosmor@gmail.com.

Visiting violinists to perform with local students at winter recital AN inspirational concert featuring the principal violinist of the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, a former Irish Chamber Orchestra member and violin students from Sydney, Newcastle and Dubbo will be held on Sunday, June 12, 2016 starting at 4pm at St Mary’s School hall.

The Winter Recital is the gala performance for the Dubbo Suzuki Violin students and visiting students participating in a weekend of workshops with the renowned guest artists.

Dubbo Suzuki Violin teacher Alison Williams said 70 talented violin and cello players will attend the Dubbo Winter Workshop over the June long weekend to play music together and raise money through Sunday’s gala concert.

“We have students aged from three to 15 taking part in the workshop that will run from Saturday morning until lunchtime Monday,” Williams said.

“During the workshop, students will take part in tutorials, master classes, orchestra classes and enrichment classes, all of which are designed to increase their skills as musicians.”

“We are very fortunate to have some highly accomplished guest musicians to lead the workshops and to perform with the students at Sunday’s concert,” she said.

The visiting musicians are Laura McDonald, a multi international piano competition

winner, Lisa Grosman a former member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Airena Nakamura, Principal violinist with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Soprano Kathryn Zerk and Masaki Nakamura on violin.

“The concert gives local violin students the opportunity to play alongside some of Australia’s most outstanding musicians, in a magical concert with works by Sarasate, Bach, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Kreisler and many more,” Williams said.

“The concert will be a great showcase of the talents of the students and also the teachers,” she said.

“The whole weekend will be great for the students and I’m sure they will have a great time and learn a great deal as musicians,” she said.

The Dubbo Winter Workshop has been organised through the Dubbo Suzuki, which is a form of music education that combines instrumental teaching with a philosophy embracing the overall development of the child.

Violin winter recital tickets TICKETS to the Gala concert can be purchased at the door on Sunday, June 12, at 4pm, St Mary’s Primary School, and includes afternoon tea: Adults $20, Children (under 18) $10, Concession $15, Family of 4, $50, Children under 4 free.

All proceeds from the concert are going towards Dubbo Suzuki’s new baby grand piano - which is kept at St Mary’s Primary School.

Workshops THE visiting artists are in Dubbo as guest tutors at the Dubbo Winter Workshop - a Suzuki method based 3 day workshop for violin and cello students, held from June 11 to 13.

Students are travelling from around NSW to attend.

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Dubbo Suzuki Japan Performance: Students from Dubbo Suzuki Violin performing in Japan with teachers Tracey Lynch (far left), Alison Williams (far right) and Ai-Vee Chua (piano). PHOTO: SUPPLIED.

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Maggie O’Farrell’s latest is deeply affecting, but also glamorous and stuffed to bursting with feeling BOOK OF THE WEEK This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell is published in hardback by Tinder Press.

NORTHERN Irish author Maggie O’Farrell has, since she wrote the heartpulverizing After You’d Gone, revealed a knack for capturing the bald truths of marriage in all their spiky, broken, loving fragments.

This Must Be The Place is just as well executed, the story of alcoholic Daniel and his sprawling, fractured family, punctuated heavily by the pull of his enigmatic and reclusive former-movie star wife, Claudette.

It leaps from New York to Ireland to France and Scandinavia as Daniel’s world is shattered, first by an ex-girlfriend’s voice caught on the radio, and second, by a pitilessly fired bullet.

O’Farrell see-saws between the past and present, tugging on the strands that make up the weave of his whiskeysoaked predicament. It is deeply affecting, most especially when exploring the meaning of fatherhood and the devastating fault lines caused by grief. But it’s also glamorous, subtle, knowing, and stuffed to bursting with feeling.

8/10 (Review by Ella Walker)

FICTION When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson is published in hardback by Century.

DOROTHY Koomson’s 11th novel is a tale of two best friends who meet as eight-year-old wannabe dancers. They share the same views and even the same names: Veronica ‘Roni’ Harper and Veronika ‘Nika’ Harper.

Joined at the hip, they pledge that nothing will drive them apart. But a seismic event tears them from each other – ripping the soul from Nika, and leading to Roni’s religious salvation.

Slowly Koomson drip feeds you events and shows with great heart how they can lead to a crossroads. How you face it – and whether you can survive the journey ahead – differs from person to person.

Nika adopts a new life as Grace, running away to live as her true self, whereas teenage Roni runs to the church and begins to live as Sister Grace. But there is an unholy noise that needs to be quelled. Can the former friends find each other and put their ghosts to rest?

8/10 (Review by Rachel Howdle) Lingua Franca by William Thacker is published in paperback by Legend Press.

MILES Platting is the disengaged founder of naming rights company Lingua Franca, which matches corporate sponsors with cash-strapped towns. After his staff head to Barrow-In-Furness to rename it Birdseye, the legacy of a recent tragedy hanging over them, he wakes alone in a mysterious hospital where no one is permitted to speak and the nurses only want him to write his story.

While deciphering original identities is an amusing distraction – Lingua Franca is based in Stella Artois, formerly Milton Keynes – the novel’s paper-thin characterisation and jumbled narration struggle to maintain attention.

It’s a bundle of interesting concepts: the importance of names and language; class and culture clashes; the true worth of prostituting our history for success.

Unfortunately, it’s just not that interesting a story.

6/10 (Review by Natalie Bowen) Dietland by Sarai Walker is published in paperback by Atlantic Books.

THE lead character in Dietland, Plum, is unusual in a novel – she’s fat. She’s unhappy, living a very small life that barely takes her anywhere other than her apartment and her local cafe, where she is embarrassed to be seen eating a scone in public, and she suffers cruel looks and comments.

She occasionally visits the HQ of the magazine she ghost writes an agony aunt column for.

Dietland takes the idea of “Fat is a feminist issue” on a complicated and difficult journey. Contemplating getting her stomach stapled, Plum thinks when she is thin all her dreams will come to fruition. But when she gets sucked into a women’s club, they try to talk her out

of the op.

Meanwhile, an activist group called Jennifer rail against a publisher for sell-

ing magazines with pictures of naked women’s bodies and, soon, rapists are being thrown out of a plane.

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The different take is shocking. The women aren’t meek, seeking approval or a plaything for the boys. This isn’t chick lit – it’s an antidote.

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condemn Robert or draw clear conclusions about his motives, but simply recounts the dialogue, events and facts with sensitivity and meticulous research. A compelling investigation.

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NON-FICTION The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale is published in hardback by Bloomsbury.

THE multi-award-winning author of the hugely successful The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher is back with another painstakingly-researched and atmospheric tale of intrigue and drama.

In the summer of 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his younger brother Nattie spent 10 days watching cricket, playing cards and taking trips to the theatre and seaside.

Telling neighbours their mother was visiting family, it was only 10 days later that their mother’s body was discovered decomposing in their home. Robert immediately admitted to the murder and both boys were arrested and sent for trial at the Old Bailey.

What follows is a fascinating insight into the social, political and cultural environment of the East End of London during this time. It does not set out to

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK I Wish I Were A Pirate by Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Sarah Ward is published in board book format by Bloomsbury Childrens.

They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but when the cover features the steering wheel of a pirate ship, which moves up and down to make a pirate boy wave, it’s pretty hard not to be impressed.

My Alien And Me author Smriti Prasadam-Halls has joined forces with illustrator and designer Sarah Ward for this short, but very sweet rhyming tale of adventure on the high seas, with piratey push-up flaps fit for little fingers.

“If I were a pirate how happy would I be... I’d heave my anchor up (cue flap that pushes up the anchor) and sail away to sea.”

Baddies are made to walk the plank... straight into the jaws

Why Orwell matters HRISTOPHER Hitchens is the author of “Why Orwell Matters” – as one prominent commentator in the USA press noted, Hitchens presents George Orwell as fit for the 21st century.

Another journalist noted that “Orwell emerges from this text as the public intellectual par excellence, a much needed model in an age in which intellectuals have ever had greater access to the popular media, yet are increasingly irresponsible in their utterances”. This comment must surely relate to the manner in which politicians are presenting their message to the nation prior to the coming election.

Hitchens addresses the public’s attitudes, whether thinking about empire, or dictators, race or class, nationalism or pop culture, Orwell’s outlook remains indispensable even in a vastly changed world. The book steps through the last 65 years, noting dozens of examples that have transpired to reflect the narratives of Orwell.

Today’s column is motivated by a message from a long term associate, written by Tom Harris and headed “Climate Debate Dominated by ‘Duckspeakers’.” Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” features a society in which a new language was created by the government to control the thinking patterns of the population. It was labelled ‘Newspeak’ – a language designed to limit the range of human thought.

Issues such as freedom, scepticism and debate would be un-

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thinkable since no words existed to describe them, apart from the term ‘thoughtcrime’. Being called a Duckspeaker was considered to be a complement – the repetitive words spoken being like those of the quacking of a duck.

A current example is the media beat-up where in organisations, groups of employees are called “guys”. Two generations ago the reference to guys was in US films or their military. But today’s media is implicated in duckspeak, along with other social issues that would otherwise be almost unheard of years ago.

A recent release in the Beginners Guides series is “Economics” by James Forder. This could well be of value to many of the media people as well as the forecasters of the economic future of the country. There is much guesswork and prediction that comes from misreading the real situation on various issues of life.

When reading “Down & Out in Paris and London” by George Orwell, one understands the way society is structured then – and now. It examples a Paris hotel, presented on several floors. Workers in the basement were at the bottom of the work

and social scale, stoking the boilers and performing labour intensive jobs. Move up a floor to the kitchens in which there was a hierarchy ranging from the prominent chefs to those peeling potatoes. Move to the dining room floor where a hierarchy continues from the head of operations to the most menial waiters. And they are catering to the top 2 per cent of the population.

The ‘down and out’ element continues through the book, workers struggling to live on meagre earnings and being sacked for drinking a glass of milk.

Another recent book is “Under New Management” by David Burkus which examines the unexpected truths about great organisations. And whoever leads the nation from July will certainly implement ‘new’ management, constructive or otherwise.

How does our society compare with that revealed in “Animal Farm”. This was an example of a collection of farm animals all going about their regular functions until the farmer, Mr Jones, left. Commencing their new existence, the animals met and decided to adopt the seven

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of a shark, our pirate friend climbs the crow’s nest to look for land – and yep, me hearties, there’s even a treasurefilled surprise at the end.

Yes it ticks every cliche in the pirate canon, but I Wish I Were A Pirate is a quick and colourful, jolly jape of a book. Look out for I Wish I Were A Princess too.

8/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection commandments. These run: 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

2. Whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

3. No animal shall wear clothes.

4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.

5. No animal shall drink alcohol.

6. No animal shall kill any other animal.

7. All animals are equal.

Back in the days of Moses, the Ten Commandments were revealed. Time has passed and just as the farm animals gradually disregarded the Animals commandments, humans have increasingly disregarded the Christian commandments as introduced in Exodus of the Holy Bible. It wasn’t long before the animals developed a hierarchy with a relatively few, the pigs, rising to the top. An extract from Animal Farm runs: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which...”

Two new releases relating to the way the Animal Farm is managed are mentioned here.

“For the Common Good” by Bill Shorten puts forward his reflections on Australia’s future.

He examines the rapid pace of change in our modern world

and offers a “way forward” that enables us to adapt, seize new opportunities and preserve the Australian way. He argues that the key to achieving national progress is in building a common good between workers, businesses, governments and the community.

The other book is “Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull” by Annabel Crabb. It looks at the Prime Minister in action – his flaws and achievements – plus his life and adventures. It relates a remarkable relationship with Kerry Packer and the changes that occurred over time.

The intellectual capacity of Turnbull is prompted in the book “Spy Catcher” by Peter Wright, published in 1987, which relates the story of his defence of a senior Intelligence Officer in MI5. Margaret Thatcher attempted to ban the publication of the book in Australia – it was eventually released with Turnbull saying, “Its publication confirms that Australian democracy is founded on sceptical good sense.”

As policy promises are made in the coming election campaign, the Orwell model becomes obvious.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE EAR the laughter at the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow taking to the Dubbo Regional Theatre stage on Tuesday, June 21.

An outstanding cast of the finest local and international comedy talents guarantee an evening of comedy like no other, hand-picked to bring the biggest and best belly laughs to audiences.

For nearly twenty years the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow has home delivered the best of the Festival to towns and cities across Australia. It’s silly, it’s satirical, it’s side-splitting. It’s Australia’s ultimate comedy road trip!

The line-up includes Urzila Carlson, Rob Hunter, Wil Sylvince, Jess Perkins and Sam Taunton.

Urzila’s style ensures audiences are eating out of her hand within minutes of her taking the stage. Her material lies in her unique, everyday experiences. Jess, described as ‘jaunty’ and ‘bright’, is a new-comer who is definitely one to watch.

Rob Hunter, is ‘downright weird but darn funny’ has an intelligent and uniquely appealing style and has received critical and popular acclaim nationally and internationally.

Sam Taunton is one to watch on the Australian comedy landscape with his charming delivery and is in hot demand as a host across the

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Wil Sylvince born and raised in Brooklyn is one of the most explosive comedians performing around the world today and has honed his skills in New York’s top comedy clubs.

EAR Alicia Leggett - Orana Arts speak at the Dubbo Cultural Forum to be held at the Western Plains Cultural Centre Community Arts Centre on Tuesday, June 28, 6.00pm.

Alicia will be speaking on the role of Orana Arts within the Regional Community, so come along and find out how Orana Arts can help you and your cultural organisation.

The Dubbo Cultural Forum represents an opportunity for all volunteer community cultural organisations to express needs and ideas for cultural sustainability in the Dubbo Region.

Dubbo Artz was appointed the facilitator of the Forum, by Dubbo City Council’s Community Services Director, David Dwyer, in 2013.

The Dubbo Cultural Forum is supported by a wide range of volunteer Cultural/Arts organisations which are coming together three times a year, in a mutually respectful endeavour, to actively promote effective sustainability within the wider community.

All interested people are welcome to attend.

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EE one of Australia’s most iconic literary tales come to life on the Dubbo Regional Theatre stage. Snugglepot and Cuddlepie will be staged on Thursday, June 30, at 10am, 12 noon and 6pm.

The timeless charm of May Gibbs’ classic suits children aged 5 to 10 years old. The Gumnut babies are on a mission to see a human—but only in the distance! On their journey to the big city they meet friends and foes including Professor Kookaburra, Mrs Fantail, Mr Lizard, Mr Frog, Mrs Snake, Mr Possum and, of course, Little Ragged Blossom. Can Snugglepot lead the way? Can Cuddlepie hold his nerve? Can they avoid falling victim to the Big Bad Banksia Man? These much-loved characters come to life on stage as this funny and charming new production introduces today’s children to the wonderful world of May Gibbs.

Whether it’s a first meeting, or a trip down memory lane for grown-ups, this new contemporary adaptation will surprise and delight audiences of all ages.

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O consider opportunities for your businesses in the mining supply chain. The Mining, Equipment, Technology and Services (METS) sector is a potential growth area for businesses in the Dubbo region and Western Plains Regional Council has been collaborating with the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce and the NSW Department of Industry to identify opportunities.

METS NSW is a project of the Energy and Resources Knowledge Hub with partners including the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources, the NSW Department of Industry, HunterNet, Austrade, and a diverse range of industry participants.

METS NSW is expanding its services to Dubbo and the Western Plains Regional area.

Council’s Economic Development Officer Jacki Parish said METS NSW visited Dubbo to introduce

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LAN ahead for the Gympie Music Muster 2016.

With Australia’s best country music talent at one event for four spectacular days and nights, the 35th celebration of the Muster is going to be unforgettable.

This year’s headliners announced include some

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“I saw the premiere of this production at the Sydney Opera House. It’s not a fluffy, cutesy-pie production for babies—it is a funny, energetic and witty version of the delightful May Gibbs story,” DRTCC Manager, Linda Christof said. Monkey Baa Theatre have successfully ‘blown off the dust’ of this charming classic.

“It is 55 minutes of wonder and entertainment for school groups and families and the 6pm performance is also autism and special needs friendly,” Ms Christof said.

Tickets are on sale now from drtcc.com.au or the Theatre Box Office on 6801 4378 EE a government grant boost a local community commemorative project in Nymagee which has received $3,000 to ensure that the contribution of local servicemen and women is appropriately honoured under the Australian Government’s Saluting Their Service grants programme.

Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton was in

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Nymagee recently and took the opportunity to present the local Progress Association with a cheque for this funding.

The funding will help with restoration of the local Honour Board which serves an important purpose in the Nymagee community.

“The grants will help ensure that the contribution of those from our local area who have served our nation, and those who continue to serve, will be remembered and appropriately honoured,” Coulton said.

“The dedication and hard work of organisations such as the Nymagee Progress Association ensures communities right across Western NSW can preserve our local wartime history for future generations.”

Local community organisations interested in applying for funding under the Saluting Their Service grants program should visit the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) website www.dva.gov.au/grants or contact your nearest DVA office on 133 254 or 1800 555 254 from regional Australia.

O save the date, a day on the green is coming back. Since 2002 music lovers across the NSW Central West have made their way to Mudgee to enjoy the annual a day on the green concert.

It’s event number 18 this year and, once again,

promoters are putting together an outstanding lineup of artists.

All the details will be announced soon, but in response to the many queries organisers received about the show date, they can announce a day on the green will take place on Saturday October 22.

You know the drill.... clear the calendar, organise the babysitter, get the accom booked and start thinking of a lovely spring day with your friends in the beautiful surrounds of Robert Oatley Vineyards.

Remember that a day on the green members receive the first concert announcement, pre-sale and special ticket offers. It’s free and only takes a few minutes – simply register online at: http://www. adayonthegreen.com.au/register.

More information soon!

of the biggest stars of country music in Australia and abroad featuring: Kasey Chambers, John Williamson, Troy Cassar-Daley, Beccy Cole, The McClymonts, Rodney Carrington, Gord Bamford, Sara Storer, Warren H. Williams, Drew McAlister, Caitlyn Shadbolt and many more.

A fundraising initiative of the Apex Club of Gympie, the Gympie Music Muster is a recognised charity that has defined the region of Gympie. Just two hours drive from Brisbane and 40 minutes from Noosa the festival is accessible yet the perfect hidden outdoor holiday retreat.

HunterNet’s supply chain logistics program to local businesses.

“HunterNet’s Supply Chain Participation Program has been running successfully in the Hunter region over the past three years. It helps businesses prepare and identify target markets and opportunities to tap into the mining supply chain. The program includes supply chain education, business capability and diagnostics, supply chain expert panel sessions and business development support,” Parish said.

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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.

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CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL 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

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

TED’S TAKEAWAY Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

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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

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

SPORTIES STICKS AND STONES 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

THE GRAPEVINE ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

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WYLDE BEAN THAI CAFE KƉĞŶ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ůƵŶĐŚ ϲĂŵ Ɵůů ůĂƚĞ 40 Bourke Street, 6885 5999

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ͘KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϱĂŵͲ ϭƉŵ͘ EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

GROCERIES

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KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϲĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10 &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

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

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

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϲƉŵ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

THINGS TO DO

WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE

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Friday, June 10 MOVIE: Moulin Rouge!

iZombie

Silent Witness

ELEVEN, 8.30pm, M (2001)

GO!, 10.40pm

ABC, 8.30pm

MGM shakes hands with MTV in Baz Luhrmann’s lavish romantic musical – an aurally and visually eclectic assault on the senses – set in Paris on the cusp of the 20th century.

Idealist poet Christian (Ewan McGregor), transfixed by the bohemian wonder of an underground Montmartre nightclub, befriends painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo) and writes a play that thrusts him into a dizzying romantic dilemma with the club’s star attraction, Satine (Nicole Kidman).

The audacious kaleidoscope of colours, costumes and sounds makes this an unforgettable, euphoric joyride.

She’s as pretty as a picture, but Liv Moore (Kiwi Rose McIver, Masters of Sex) has an ugly secret: she eats human brains. Using the knowledge she gains from devouring the dead, she moonlights as a psychic consultant for a police department.

IZombie is a fresh and young take on the zombie genre, and while there is of course a smattering of gore involved, it’s a series that bewitches with its wit and draws you in with its complicated relationships. It works on many levels. Tonight, in “Flight of The Living Dead”, when Liv’s former sorority sister dies in a skydiving accident, she soon realises that it’s murder.

The role of social workers is dramatised in a gritty piece of drama from the Silent Witness writers. Many may tut that the procedures followed here don’tt ring true to real life, but where would uld the fun be in portraying an episode e that concentrates on all the red tape e and regulations involved? When suspected paedophile Dale Barge ge is found murdered in a playground, nd, Nikki (Emilia Fox, right) and Jack ack (David Caves) are brought in by y inexperienced detective Rory Drennan (John Dagleish). Before ore you can say boo, the team link Barge’s death to a missing child. d. It’s another well-acted and gripping ng case.

ABC

PRIME7

WIN

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Catalyst. (PG, R, CC) 10.55 Wild Life At The Zoo. (R, CC) 11.25 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Silk. (M, R, CC) 1.55 Antiques Roadshow.

(PG, R, CC) 2.55 Kitchen Cabinet. (R, CC) 3.25 The Bill. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Murder, She Wrote.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 ABC News: Early Edition.

(CC) 5.25 The Drum. (CC) 5.55 Antiques Roadshow.

(CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 Seven Morning News.

(CC) 12.00 MOVIE: United. (M, R, CC) (2011) Based on a true story.

A soccer team is involved in a plane crash on the way to a tournament. David Tennant, Jack O’Connell.

2.00 The Daily Edition.

(CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 Seven News At 4. (CC) 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00

6.55 Election Announcement: Labor. (CC) An election announcement.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Election Announcement: Labor. (CC) An election announcement.

8.05 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks. (CC) Adelaide, the “City of Churches”, has always had a strange mix of progressive politics and small town parochialism.

8.30 Silent Witness. (M, CC) Nikki and Jack are brought in on a case after a suspected paedophile’s body is found in a playground.

9.30 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) Still reeling from the fallout of the murderer’s identity, DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller are surprised when Joe Miller pleads not guilty.

10.20 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program.

10.50 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton and Elysse Morgan.

11.05 The Chaser’s Election Desk. (R, CC) Part 1 of 5.

11.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC)

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

(CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Pete visit the Seidlers’ Killara house, a ’60s family home which has become a national icon. Karen makes a pasta dish with slowroasted eggplant. Fast Ed makes three potato recipes.

8.30 MOVIE: The Green Mile.

(M, R, CC) (1999) After a convicted murderer arrives on death row, the guards are surprised to discover he believes he can perform miracles. He quickly wins over his captors, but it also becomes clear there is no hope of overturning his sentence. Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse.

12.20 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.15 Desperate Housewives.

(M, R, CC) With Carlos intending to resign from his job, Gaby fears she will be unable to maintain her lifestyle.

1.00 Home Shopping.

Today. (CC) Today Extra. (PG, CC) Morning News. (CC) WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show.

Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles.

Hosted by Mario Lopez.

Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) Join James Reeson for inspirational, easy recipes that can be cooked at home.

News Now. (CC) Afternoon News. (CC) Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

TEN

SBS

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.30 Bold. (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 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, R, CC) 2.10 Entertainment Tonight.

(PG, CC) 2.40 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 3.10 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.40 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (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 Munch 150. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Point Review.

3.30 Italy Unpacked: Looking To The Future. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Robert Lindsay.

(PG, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 14. Wests Tigers v South Sydney Rabbitohs.

From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

10.10 MOVIE: Payback.

(MA15+, R, CC) (1999) A small-time crook seeks revenge after being double-crossed, and left for dead, by his wife and partner-in-crime, after they robbed the local Chinese triads. However, to complete his mission he must also match wits with a criminal organisation and a pair of corrupt cops.

Mel Gibson, James Coburn, Gregg Henry.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 The Project. (CC) Waleed Aly, Gorgi Coghlan, Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann and Meshel Laurie look at the day’s news and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (CC) Host Amanda Keller chats with Jeff Goldblum, star of Independence Day: Resurgence.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton is joined by Matt LeBlanc, Emilia Clarke, Kate Beckinsale and Dominic Cooper.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with special guest Harry Shearer, voice artist from The Simpsons.

10.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) An inventor from South Australia shows off his idea on a new way to tackle the harsh Australian sun.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC)

6.00 Food Safari. (R, CC) 6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Angkor: The Kingdom With Feet Of Clay. (R, CC) Part 2 of 2. A look at the downfall of the Ancient Egypt and the rise and fall of Angkor’s Kingdom in Cambodia.

8.30 The Missing Evidence: 9/11 – Secret Explosions In The Tower. (PG, R, CC) A look at 9/11 and the conspiracy theories surrounding the collapse of the World Trade Center. Many people are unconvinced by the official reasons for the building’s demise, instead placing emphasis on claims of eyewitness reports of explosions in the structure before the disaster.

9.30 Britain’s Ultimate Pilots: Inside The RAF. (CC) Part 1 of 4. The Red Arrows reveal the secrets behind their spectacular British summer display season.

10.35 SBS World News Late Edition. (CC) 11.05 MOVIE: Ages Of Love.

(MA15+, R) (2011) Three romantic short stories exploring the three stages of life and love. Monica Bellucci, Robert De Niro, Riccardo Scamarcio.

12.15 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.15 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.45 MOVIE: A Few Best Men. (MA15+, R, CC) (2011) 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 actor Patrick Wilson and professional YouTuber Simone Giertz.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

1.20 MOVIE: Quiet Chaos.

(MA15+, R) (2008) A man struggles when his wife dies. Nanni Moretti, Alessandro Gassman.

3.25 Who Do You Think You Are? (CC) 4.30 Soccer. UEFA Euro 2016.

Group A. Match 1. France v Romania.

1.00 2.00

2.30

3.00 4.00 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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Friday, June 10 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.45pm Baby Mama (2008) Comedy. Tina Fey, Amy Poehler. A professional woman hires a surrogate to carry her baby. (PG) Comedy

7.30pm Finding Carter. An unconventional family drama about a girl realising that sometimes the people closest to you are the ones who have the most to hide. (M) FOX8

8.30pm Choccywoccydoodah. A Brighton-based team tackle outrageous customer demands for exotic and downright bizarre cakes.

(PG) Lifestyle Food

7.00pm Golf. European PGA Tour. Lyoness Open. Second round. Fox Sports 3

8.30pm Inside Amy Schumer. Comedian Amy Schumer explores topics revolving around sex, relationships and general life.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel

8.30pm Virgin Atlantic: Up In The Air. A three-part documentary series which goes behind the scenes of the airline over the course of 14 months.

(PG) Lifestyle

9.00pm Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Big Three-Oh! (MA15+) Comedy Channel

9.30pm Banged Up Abroad.

(MA15+) National Geographic People

8.30pm Gone Girl (2014) Thriller. Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike. A man reports his wife missing on their anniversary, but all is not as it seems. (MA15+) Masterpiece 10.35pm Tammy (2014) Comedy. Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon. (M) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Clangers. (R) 4.25 Mister Maker’s Arty Party. (R, CC) 4.45 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 5.00 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 5.25 The Hive. 5.30 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Go Jetters. (R) 6.00 Peg + Cat. (R) 6.15 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 The Hoarder Next Door.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 5.

9.15 Sex Change Soldier.

(M, R, CC) 10.00 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) 10.35 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 11.15 Rise Of The Superstar Vloggers.

(M, R, CC) 12.15 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.15 Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 1.55 News Update. (R) 2.00 Close. 5.00 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.10 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. (R, CC) 5.15 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.50 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher.

(R, CC) 3.15 Jamie’s Got Tentacles.

(R, CC) 3.25 Vic The Viking. (R, CC) 3.40 Sea Princesses. (R, CC) 3.50 Jamillah And Aladdin.

4.00 Odd Squad. (R) 4.25 Numb Chucks. 4.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 5.00 Camp Lakebottom. (R) 5.30 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R, CC) 5.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 5.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 6.25 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 6.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 7.00 Deadly 60.

(R, CC) 7.30 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Spooksville. (PG, R, CC) 8.20 Adventure Time. (R) Zombies threaten the Land of Ooo. 8.45 Degrassi: Next Class.

(PG, CC) Lola denies Shay’s request.

9.05 Girls In Love. (R, CC) 9.30 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir. (R) 9.55 Lanfeust Quest.

(PG, R, CC) 10.15 Kamisama Kiss. (PG, R, CC) 10.40 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Flushed.

(C, CC) 7.30 Hairy Legs. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Pipsqueaks. (P, R, CC) 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 Better Homes. (R, CC) 1.00 City Homicide. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Dealers. (PG, R) 3.00 Medical Emergency. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 ICU. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 ABBA: When Four Become One. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

Prospective buyers find their dream home.

9.30 To Build Or Not To Build.

A couple battles to build their dream home.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

11.00 Air Crash Investigation.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 1.00 To Build Or Not To Build. (R) 2.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 2.30 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Shopping.

(R)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 11.00 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 12.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 12.30 Batman. (PG, R) 1.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 1.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.00 Sonic Boom.

(PG, R) 2.30 SpongeBob. (R) 3.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 3.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans. (PG) 6.00 MOVIE: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. (R) (2001) 7.40 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.

(PG, R, CC) (2005) Daniel Radcliffe.

10.40 iZombie. (MA15+) 12.40 Sun, Sex And Suspicious Parents. (M, R) 1.30 Batman: The Brave And The Bold. (PG, R) 2.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 2.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 3.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge.

(PG, R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Fishing Western Australia. (R) 7.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 8.30 Dream Car Garage. (R) 9.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 10.00 Bomb Hunters. (PG, R) 11.00 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 12.00 T.J. Hooker.

(PG, R) 1.00 Family Guns. (M, R) 2.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 4.00 Doomsday Castle. (PG, R) 5.00 American Restoration. (PG, R) 6.00 American Pickers. (PG, R) The guys head to South Carolina.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 12. Essendon v Hawthorn. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 Friday Front Bar. (M, CC) A unique look at the AFL. 11.30 Olympians: Off The Record: Geoff Huegill.

(R, CC) 12.00 Zero Hour. (M, R, CC) 1.00 City Homicide. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Doomsday Castle. (PG, R) 5.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R)

6.00 News. (CC) 9.00 News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News.

(CC) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. (CC) 4.00 ABC News Afternoons With The Business. (CC) 5.00 Grandstand. (CC) 6.00 ABC News Evenings. (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 News Special: Ali Memorial Procession. (CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.30 7.30.

(R, CC) 3.00 BBC World. 3.30 BBC Africa. 4.00 News Special: Ali Memorial Service. (CC)

ABC NEWS

GO!

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 Global Shop. 10.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 River Cottage Autumn. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: The Scarlet Blade.

(PG, R) (1963) 2.50 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 3.20 Escape To The Country. (R) 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 As Time Goes By. (R) Lionel admits to feeling bored.

8.50 MOVIE: Forever Young.

(PG, R, CC) (1992) A test pilot is given a second chance at love. Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis.

11.00 MOVIE: Plenty. (M, R, CC) (1985) A woman struggles to make a life for herself.

Meryl Streep.

1.30 MOVIE: The Servant. (M, R, CC) (1963) 3.40 MOVIE: Night Boat To Dublin. (PG, R, CC) (1946) 5.35 Friends. (PG, R, CC)

7.20pm Football. AFL. Round 12. Essendon v Hawthorn. From Etihad Stadium. Fox Footy 7.50pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 14. Wests Tigers v South Sydney Rabbitohs. Fox Sports 1 Ben Affleck stars in Gone Girl

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Catalunya Grand Prix. Race 7.

Replay. 9.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 10.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 11.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 12.00 Get Smart. (PG, R) 1.00 Matlock. (M, R) 2.00 Nash Bridges. (M, 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 MacGyver. (PG, R) MacGyver goes on the run.

8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger.

(M, R) Walker tries to help a condemned man.

9.30 MOVIE: Born To Raise Hell. (MA15+) (2010) An Interpol agent pursues an arms dealer. Steven Seagal, Dan Badarau.

11.30 Car Crash Britain: Caught On Camera. (M, R) 12.30 Shopping. (R) 2.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 3.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. (M, R) 4.00 Nash Bridges. (M, R) 5.00 The Doctors. (M, CC)

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 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 11.00 JAG. (PG, R) 12.00 Judging Amy. (M, R) 1.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 The Simpsons.

(R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(M, R) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Moulin Rouge! (M, R, CC) (2001) A wannabe bohemian poet falls for a courtesan. Nicole Kidman.

11.10 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.10 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 1.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 2.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 8.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 In The Garden. (CC) 9.30 House Hunters Off The Grid. (R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 The Millionaire Matchmaker. (PG, R) 12.00 Housewives Of Beverly Hills. (M, R) 2.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 6.00 House Hunters Off The Grid. (R) 6.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 7.00 House Hunters. (R) 7.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 8.30 Hotel Impossible. (PG) 10.30 Extreme Homes. (R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 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 India’s Dancing Superstar. (R) 5.35 Brain Games.

6.00 Street Genius.

6.30 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Illusions Of Grandeur: Austin. (PG) 8.25 Release The Hounds.

Hosted by Reggie Yates.

9.20 Adam Looking For Eve (Germany) (M) Couples go on naked dates.

10.10 MOVIE: Iceman. (M, R) (2014) 12.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour.

Criterium du Dauphiné. Stage 5.

La Ravoire to Vaujany. 140 km mountain stage. From France. 1.25 MOVIE: The Sky Crawlers. (M, R) (2008) 3.35 PopAsia. (PG) 4.35 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Chuck’s Eat The Street.

(R) 6.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 7.30 Boys Weekend. (R) 8.00 Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction.

(R) 8.30 Brazilian Street Feasts.

(R) 9.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 9.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 10.30 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 11.00 5 Ingredient Fix. (R) 11.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 12.30 My Grandmother’s Ravioli. (R) 1.00 Chuck’s Eat The Street. (R) 2.30 Chopped Junior. (R) 3.30 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 4.00 5 Ingredient Fix. (R) 4.30 Brazilian Street Feasts. (R) 5.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 5.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 6.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 My Grandmother’s Ravioli.

8.00 Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction. (R) 8.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 9.30 Man Fire Food.

10.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives.

10.30 Restaurant: Impossible.

(PG, R) 11.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 12.30 Man Fire Food. (R) 1.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 1.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 My Grandmother’s Ravioli.

(R) 2.55 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.30 Fit First. (PG) 12.00 MOVIE: Pootie Tang. (M) (2001) 2.00 Rez Rides. (PG) 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 The Dreaming. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Muso Magic Outback Tracks. 4.30 Kagagi, The Raven. (PG) 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. (PG) 5.30 Kriol Kitchen. 6.00 Tangaroa. 6.30 UnderExposed. 7.00 Unearthed. 7.20 News.

7.30 Aunty Moves In. 8.00 Mohawk Girls. (PG) 8.30 Noah’s Ark. (PG) 9.00 Defining Moments. 9.30 Chappelle’s Show.

(MA15+) 10.00 Shuga. (PG) 10.30 Blackstone. (MA15+) 11.20 Boat People. (PG) 11.30 Mohawk Girls. (PG) 12.00 Volumz.

(PG) 4.00 Away From Country. (PG) 5.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (PG) 1006

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Saturday, June 11 Rugby Union: Australia v England

RocKwiz Salutes The Legends

TEN, 7.30pm

SBS, 8.35pm

It’s the first year that Australia will host England in a three-Test battle for the Cook Cup, which currently sits in England’s trophy cabinet, so you can expect a determined Aussie line-up to come out with all guns blazing for game one. But after the bruising encounter between the two sides in last year’s World Cup, where Australia stormed to an emphatic 33-13 victory, England will also have plenty to prove, particularly under the guidance of Aussie coach Eddie Jones. Join Matt White, Scott Mackinnon, Gordon Bray, Matt Burke and Nathan Sharpe for all the action as they call the muchanticipated clash at Suncorp Stadium.

The RocKwiz band room at The Espy in St Kilda, Melbourne, might be going through a redevelopment, but that hasn’t stopped the team from presenting a stellar show, week after week. Tonight, forget ice hockey, maple syrup and super-polite mounties, this episode is all about Canadian showbiz talent. This RocKwiz special pays tribute to the singer-songwriters from the Great White North who’ve made their mark over the years. Paul Dempsey, Brian Cadd and newcomer Olympia belt out their renditions of songs by Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Alanis Morissette and Rufus Wainwright.

ABC

PRIME7

MOVIE: Finding Nemo PRIME7, 7pm, G (2003) The geniuses at Pixar Studios picked up an Oscar for this vivid re-creation of life in the Great Barrier Reef. Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) is a clownfish with a weak fin and an overprotective father (Albert Brooks). Dad’s worst fears are realised when Nemo is netted and whisked off to a tank in a Sydney dentist’s office. The misadventures kick in when a forgetful regal blue tang named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) is recruited to return Nemo to friendlier waters. Storywise, it’s the same Disneyfied, family-oriented messages you’d expect, but the ingenious visuals and fun characters make it well worth diving in to see.

WIN

TEN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.45 Reality Check. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Tom Ballard.

12.20 Two Men In China: Beijing. (PG, R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

1.20 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) 2.05 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 3.05 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks. (R, CC) Hosted by Tony Robinson.

3.35 Animal Super Senses: Scent. (R, CC) (Final) Hosted by Patrick Aryee and Helen Czerski.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) Barnaby’s wife is involved in an incident.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 Road To Rio. (CC) A look at Australia’s Olympic team.

12.30 Olympians: Off The Record: Steve Hooker.

(CC) Bruce McAvaney interviews Steve Hooker.

1.00 House Rules. (PG, R, CC) One pair is eliminated.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh and Pete visit a house made of cubes.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC) Narrated by Grant Bowler.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday.

(PG, CC) The Investment Series.

(CC) The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (CC) Fishing Australia. (R, CC) Rob travels to Noosa.

Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) Showcases Surfing Australia’s programs.

WIN Presents. (CC) MOVIE: Jumping The Broom. (PG, CC) (2011) Paula Patton.

Love Shack. (PG, CC) News: First At Five. (CC) Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.00 RPM. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 St10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room. (R, CC) 12.00 All 4 Adventure.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 1.30 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 2.30 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.00 The Renovation King.

(CC) 3.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (PG, CC) (Series return) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.25 Election Announcement: The Coalition.

(CC) An election announcement.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Costa visits a garden in the Blue Mountains.

6.55 Election Announcement: The Coalition. (CC) An election announcement by the Coalition.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) (Final) Voodoo priest Emmanuel summons the spirit of Baron Samedi.

8.15 Indian Summers. (M, CC) There is excitement in Simla as the viceroy arrives for the first of his summer visits.

9.05 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, R, CC) After a social worker is murdered on Bonfire Night, suspicion falls on an Aboriginal teen.

10.05 Rake. (M, R, CC) Thompson has Cleaver in the frame for drug trafficking. However, Wendy comes to the rescue.

11.05 8MMM. (M, R, CC) An indigenous radio station hires a new trainee.

11.30 Rage. (PG) Music videos.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Finding Nemo.

(R, CC) (2003) The father of a young clownfish embarks on a perilous journey to find his missing son, who has been captured by scuba divers on the Great Barrier Reef. Along the way he enlists the aid of Dory, a fish with short-term memory loss and a sea turtle named Crush. Albert Brooks, Alexander Gould, Ellen DeGeneres.

9.00 MOVIE: Men In Black II. (PG, R, CC) (2002) A secret agent who specialises in monitoring and policing aliens living covertly on Earth, enlists the help of a former partner whose memory has been wiped.

Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rosario Dawson.

10.45 MOVIE: After Earth.

(M, R, CC) (2013) After a teenager and his father crash-land on Earth, 1000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape, they must signal for help and find a way to survive the unchartered terrain and evolved animal species while waiting for help. Will Smith, Jaden Smith, David Denman.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, R, CC) With some help from coaches Ronan Keating, Jessie J, Delta Goodrem and the Madden brothers, a group of contestants sets out to prove they have what it takes to be a singing sensation. Hosted by Sonia Kruger.

8.40 The Voice. (PG, R, CC) With some help from coaches Ronan Keating, Jessie J, Delta Goodrem and the Madden brothers, a group of contestants sets out to prove they have what it takes to be a singing sensation. Hosted by Sonia Kruger.

10.55 MOVIE: In Good Company. (PG, R, CC) (2004) A middle-aged executive finds himself working for a much younger boss, after a corporate takeover, and discovers the man is also dating his daughter. Dennis Quaid, Scarlett Johansson, Topher Grace.

6.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Mitch and Cam’s party girl friend, Sal, announces she is getting married to a man she met only months earlier.

6.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Bondibased vet Dr Chris Brown is confronted with an unlikely snake bite victim, the snake itself.

7.30 Rugby Union. (CC) International Test Series.

Australia v England.

Game 1. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

Commentary from Matt White, Scott Mackinnon, Gordon Bray, Matt Burke and Nathan Sharpe.

10.00 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) A panel of successful business people, including Janine Allis, Andrew Banks, Steve Baxter, Dr Glen Richards and Naomi Simson, take a look at an idea from Briella Brown, who has created a service that allows people to hire designer outfits for a fraction of the price.

11.00 48 Hours: Shadow Of Death. (M, R, CC) A look at the murder of Andra and Brad Sachs, a wealthy couple from San Juan Capistrano, California.

1.10 MOVIE: The Rite.

(M, R, CC) (2011) A student studies exorcism at the Vatican. Colin O’Donoghue.

3.15 WIN Presents. (R, CC) 3.30 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.00 48 Hours: Who Killed Amy Gellert? (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the murder of Amy Gellert, who was killed outside her family home in Florida.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

1.00 Home Shopping.

12.00 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.00 2.15 4.30 5.00 5.30

SBS 6.00 Soccer. 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 Equestrian. FEI Jumping World Cup. 3.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 3.30 Pan-American Road Trip With Dara And Ed: Guatemala To Nicaragua. (PG, R, CC) 4.35 Beat The Ancestors: Roman War Machine.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 DNA Nation. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Hidden Killers Of The Tudor Home. (PG, CC) Dr Suzannah Lipscomb investigates a Tudor home, in search of the household killers of the era. The builders of the day engineered new design solutions and technologies for the homes of the day, often with catastrophic consequences.

8.35 RocKwiz Salutes The Legends. (CC) RocKwiz pays homage to the best music Canada has to offer, from Joni Mitchell to The Band and Leonard Cohen.

Features performances by Olympia, Brian Cadd, Paul Dempsey and Vika and Linda.

9.35 MOVIE: Walk The Line. (M, R, CC) (2005) Chronicles the life and career of country music legend Johnny Cash.

From his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside the likes of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin.

12.05 The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End. 1.05 Masters Of Sex. (MA15+, R, CC) 4.15 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.50 The Date. (PG) 5.00 CCTV News. (PG) 5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Saturday, June 11 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.20pm The Theory Of Everything (2014) Biography.

Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones. The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. (PG) Masterpiece

8.30pm Outcast. Follows a young man who has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. (MA15+) FX

7.30pm Fatal Vows. (M) Crime & Investigation

6.00am Surfing. World League. Men’s Tour. Fiji Pro. Day 7. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Amy (2015) Documentary. Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse. (MA15+) Masterpiece

9.00pm King Of The Nerds.

(PG) Comedy Channel 10.00pm Celebrity Legacies.

Find out how rich the famous really were when they died.

(MA15+) Arena

8.30pm Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) Comedy. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson. An a cappella group struggles to regain its reputation. (M) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.45 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 5.00 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 5.25 The Hive.

5.30 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Go Jetters.

(R) 6.00 Peg + Cat. (R) 6.15 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts.

(R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(R, CC) 7.30 Highway Thru Hell.

(M, CC) 8.15 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) 8.45 The Chaser’s Election Desk. (R, CC) Part 1 of 5.

9.15 Live At The Apollo.

(M, R, CC) 10.00 Comedy Up Late. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Broad City. (M, R, CC) 10.55 Louie. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Highway Thru Hell. (M, R, CC) 2.45 News Update. (R) 2.50 Close. 5.00 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.10 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. (R, CC) 5.15 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.05 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 11.30 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.55 So Awkward. (R, CC) 12.25 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (PG, R) 3.00 Deadly 60.

(R, CC) 3.25 Officially Amazing.

(R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (R, CC) 4.45 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 4.55 SheZow. (R, CC) 5.05 Grojband. (R, CC) 5.30 Roy. (R) 5.55 Scream Street. (R) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R, CC) 6.30 Horrible Histories.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 7.30 Keeping Up With The Kaimanawas. (R) 7.55 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) Clare prepares to tell Eli the truth.

9.00 Girls In Love. (R, CC) Ellie decides to help Anna.

9.25 House Of Anubis. (R) Alfie attacks Mrs Andrews.

9.50 Close.

7TWO

9.30pm The Seven Five.

Former NYPD officer Michael Dowd tells how he and his partner committed a long list of crimes while on the job in the 1980s and early ’90s. (MA15+) Crime & Investigation

GO!

6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Room For Improvement. (R, CC) 9.00 The Real Seachange. (R, CC) 10.30 Dealers. (PG, R) 11.30 SA Life Favourites. (CC) 12.00 Home In WA. (CC) 12.30 Great South East.

(CC) 1.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 1.30 Qld Weekender. (CC) 2.00 WA Weekender. (CC) 2.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 13.

Eastern Suburbs v Randwick. 5.00 Road To Rio. (R, CC) 5.30 Secret Location. (PG, R) 6.30 The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration.

(R, CC) 9.00 Escape To The Country.

10.00 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. (R) Presented by Nick Knowles.

11.00 Air Crash Investigation.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Zero Hour. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Sydney Weekender.

(R, CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (R, CC) 2.00 Qld Weekender. (R, CC) 2.30 Creek To Coast. (R, CC) 3.00 Home In WA. (R, CC) 3.30 SA Life Favourites. (R, CC) 4.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Pirate Express.

(C, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 2.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 3.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 3.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 4.00 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 4.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.00 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo! And The Legend Of The Vampire. (R) (2003) 6.30 MOVIE: TMNT. (PG, R, CC) (2007) 8.15 MOVIE: The Last Airbender. (PG, CC) (2010) Follows a young successor to a long line of Avatars.

Noah Ringer.

10.15 MOVIE: Beautiful Creatures. (M, R, CC) (2013) 12.40 Go Girls. (M, R, CC) 1.35 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-GiOh! Zexal. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. (PG, R) 4.00 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 4.30 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds.

(R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 Motor Racing. Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars. Replay. 7.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder.

AHG Sprintcar Series. Wormall Civil Sprinters. 8.00 Shopping.

9.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 9.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG) 10.00 Motor Racing. Targa Tasmania.

Replay. 11.00 Car Chasers. (PG, R) 12.00 Deadly Seas. (PG, R) 1.00 Cowboys Of The Sea. (PG) (New Series) 2.00 Horse Racing.

Stradbroke Handicap Day. Featuring the Group 1 $1.5 million Stradbroke Handicap (1400m).

4.30 Gator Boys. (PG, R) 5.30 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 12. Geelong v North Melbourne.

10.30 MOVIE: Miami Vice.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2006) 1.10 Friday Front Bar. (M, R, CC) 1.40 Jail. (M) 2.00 Zero Hour.

(PG, R, CC) 4.00 Motor Racing.

Night Thunder. AHG Sprintcar Series. Wormall Civil Sprinters.

5.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 5.30 Shopping.

6.00 News Special: Ali Memorial Service. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 News. (CC) 1.30 Planet America. (R) 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.25 Foreign Corre. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Drum Weekly. 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (CC) 6.00 ABC News Weekend. 6.25 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Weekend. 7.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners.

(R, CC) 8.45 One Plus One Redux. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News Weekend. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.00 News.

10.30 World This Week. (R, CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

8.30pm Australian Story.

The story of advertising executive Dof Dickinson. (PG) National Geographic People

6.00 MOVIE: One Million Years B.C. (PG, R) (1966) 8.00 Danoz Direct. 8.30 Global Shop. 9.00 The Avengers. (PG, R) 10.00 As Time Goes By. (R) 11.20 MOVIE: Fire Over Africa. (R, CC) (1954) Maureen O’Hara. 1.00 MOVIE: Mame. (R, CC) (1974) Lucille Ball.

3.30 MOVIE: Battle Cry. (R, CC) (1955) Van Heflin, Aldo Ray. 6.30 MOVIE: The Illusionist.

(PG, R, CC) (2006) A magician must contend with an Austrian prince.

Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti.

8.45 MOVIE: Outbreak.

(M, R, CC) (1995) A US Army colonel tries to stop a deadly airborne virus from developing into a pandemic. Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman.

11.20 Dalziel And Pascoe. (M, R) A young Sikh woman is murdered.

12.30 MOVIE: Battle Cry. (R, CC) (1955) 3.20 MOVIE: Mame. (R, CC) (1974) 5.30 Rainbow Country. (R)

5.50pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 11.

NSW Swifts v Queensland Firebirds. Fox Sports 3 7.30pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 14. Sydney Roosters v Melbourne Storm.

Fox Sports 1 7.30pm Football. AFL. Round 12. Geelong v North Melbourne. Fox Footy

ONE

SBS 2

6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Star Trek: Voyager. (PG, R) 9.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 10.00 World Sport.

(R) 10.30 Get Smart. (PG, R) 11.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 12.30 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 1.30 Jake And The Fatman. (PG, R) 2.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 3.30 Attenborough’s Animal House. (R, CC) 4.30 Reel Action.

5.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 David Attenborough’s Planet Earth.

(R) 6.30 Last Man Standing.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) Alien technicians overhaul the ship’s systems.

8.30 The X-Files. (M, R, CC) Scully recounts a UFO encounter.

9.30 Minority Report. (M) Dash and Vega team up again.

10.30 Zoo. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 2.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 3.30 RPM GP. (R, CC) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Catalunya Grand Prix.

Race 7. Replay. 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 7.30 Kuu-Kuu Harajuku.

(C, CC) 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 Neighbours. (R, CC) 2.05 Cristela. (PG) 2.35 To Be Advised.

7.50 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with special guest Harry Shearer, voice artist from The Simpsons.

8.50 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Lewis Hamilton, Ewan McGregor, Jack Whitehall and Dara Ó Briain.

9.50 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie is given a chance to write for Vogue.

However, her article isn’t very well accepted by the editor.

11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 In The Garden. (R, CC) 7.30 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Nashville Flipped. (R) 9.30 House Hunters Off The Grid.

(R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 12.00 Hotel Impossible. (PG, R) 2.00 Postcards. (PG, CC) 3.00 House Hunters Off The Grid.

(R) 4.00 Good Bones. (PG, R) 5.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. (R) 6.00 Tiny House Hunters. (PG, R) 6.30 Masters Of Flip. (R) 7.30 House Hunters. (R) 8.30 House Hunters International. (R) 9.30 House Hunters Renovation. (PG) 10.30 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 1.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

The life of late singer Amy Winehouse is profiled in Amy

6.00 WorldWatch. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment.

(PG, R) 1.50 Do Or Die. (PG, R) 2.40 Planet Sport. (R) 3.40 Celebrity Chef. (R) 5.00 Brain Games. (R) 5.30 India With Guy Martin. (PG, R) 6.30 Soccer. UEFA Euro 2016.

Highlights.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.35 Heston’s Recipe For Romance. (PG, R, CC) Heston tries to develop a “romantic” meal.

9.30 MOVIE: Frances Ha. (MA15+, R) (2012) A woman struggles with achieving her goals. Greta Gerwig.

11.05 Lil Bub & Friendz. (M, R, CC) 12.20 Cycling. UCI World Tour.

Criterium du Dauphiné. Stage 6.

La Rochette to Méribel. 141 km mountain stage. From France. 1.50 MOVIE: Winter’s Bone. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) 3.40 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives.

(R) 6.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 7.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Brazilian Street Feasts.

(R) 9.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 9.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 10.30 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 11.00 5 Ingredient Fix. (R) 11.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 12.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Man Fire Food. (R) 2.00 Diners, DriveIns And Dives. (R) 2.30 Chopped Junior. (R) 3.30 Dinner At Tiffani’s.

(R) 4.00 5 Ingredient Fix. (R) 4.30 Brazilian Street Feasts. (R) 5.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 5.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 6.30 Man Fire Food. (R) 7.00 Diners, DriveIns And Dives. (R) 7.30 Kitchen Inferno With Curtis Stone. (R) 8.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 9.30 The Freshman Class. (PG, R) 10.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 11.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 12.30 The Freshman Class. (PG, R) 1.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 3.30 Chopped Junior. (R) 4.30 5 Ingredient Fix. (R) 5.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 5.30 The Freshman Class. (PG, R)

6.00 Morning Programs.

10.00 Our Songs. 10.30 Torres To The Thames. (PG) 11.30 Yarrabah! The Musical.

12.00 Living Black. (CC) 12.30 League Nation Live. 2.00 Defining Moments. 2.30 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 3.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 4.30 Unearthed. 4.50 Cash Money. 4.55 JM’s Healthy Tips. 5.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 5.30 Move It Mob Style. 6.00 Kriol Kitchen. 6.30 Down 2 Earth. (PG) 7.00 Forgotten Bird Of Paradise. (PG) 7.30 Rose Against The Odds. (PG) 8.30 Being Mary Jane. (M) 9.30 MOVIE: Beauty. (2012) 11.00 Lurujarri Dreaming. 11.30 The Will And The Skill. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (PG) 5.00 Bush Bands Bash.

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Sunday, June 12 Miniseries: Doctor Thorne

Bones

MOVIE: Terminator Salvation

ABC, 8.30pm

PRIME7, 9.20pm

7MATE, 10.10pm, M (2009)

From the hand of Julian Fellowes, who gave us Downton Abbey, comes this new three-part miniseries, premiering tonight. Adapted from the 1858 novel

by Anthony Trollope, while Doctor Thorne looks as cinematically beautiful as Fellowes’ hit period drama, it is a much darker affair about love and money. We follow the life of a beautiful but penniless illegitimate daughter, Mary Thorne (Stefanie Martini), who is raised by her rich aunt and cousins on a breathtaking estate. Starring the handsome Tom Hollander (Rev.), Ian McShane (Deadwood) and Alison Brie (Mad Men), it’s a solid affair that might help ease Downton Abbey fans’ mourning.

The world of Bones isn’t an easy one.

What with bodies to be investigated and the continual bad luck of its characters, it’s fortunate the series has a quirky streak to lighten the load. Tonight, there are two episodes to feast on. In “The Death In The Defense”, Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz) investigate the death of a public defender who may have been murdered by a previous client. In “The Murder Of The Meninist”, the team investigates a body found in a car crash, the remains of which belong to the founder of a men’s rights organisation who may have been the victim of domestic abuse.

It’s now clear why tantrum-prone prone thespian Christian Bale (right) was so o upset on the set of Terminator Salvation. As resistance tance fighter John Connor, the Welsh actor once ce again plays second fiddle to a handsome e Aussie – Heath Ledger stole The Dark Knight from under him, and Sam Worthington is easily sily the best thing about this visceral thrill-ride. e. Director McG risingly (Charlie’s Angels) does a surprisingly solid job upholding James Cameron’s legacy. Anton Yelchin tackles the pivotal role ole of a young Kyle Reese and, strangely, Helena Bonham Carter pops up as a sickly scientist. It’s as merciless as the murderous machines themselves.

ABC

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders.

(CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Skullbone Plains. (R, CC) 2.30 Tim Winton’s The Turning. (M, R, CC) 2.45 Robyn Beeche: A Life Exposed. (R, CC) 3.15 The Book Club.

(PG, R, CC) 3.45 Australian Story. (R, CC) 4.15 David Attenborough’s Rise Of Animals. (R, CC) 5.15 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) (Final)

6.00 Home Shopping. (R, CC) 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 House Rules. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Johanna Griggs.

2.00 African Cats. (CC) Follows a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh catches up with Chris and Cookie.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike tours Home And Away filming locations.

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today. (CC) News, current affairs and sports.

10.00 Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(PG, CC) 1.00 Full Cycle. (CC) Hosted by Scott McGrory and Bradley McGee. 1.30 Wild China: Tibet. (R, CC) A look at Tibet.

2.30 The NRL Rookie.

(PG, R, CC) Contestants vie for an NRL contract.

3.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 14. Manly Sea Eagles v Penrith Panthers. From Brookvale Oval, NSW.

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

(PG, CC) 11.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 12.00 Netball. (CC) 2.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 2.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.00 iFish. (R, CC) Hosted by Paul Worsteling.

3.30 RPM GP. (CC) Hosted by Matt White.

4.00 RPM. (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 Bowls Show.

2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 InCycle. (CC) 4.30 FIFA World Cup 2006: Two Weeks In June.

5.30 Escape From Colditz.

(R, CC) A group of engineers enacts an escape plan.

6.00 Surfing The Menu: The Next Generation. (CC) Dan and Hayden head to Beswick.

6.25 Election Announcement: Nick Xenophon Team. (CC) An election announcement.

6.30 Compass: Auburn Giants. (PG, CC) A look at the story of the Auburn Giants.

6.55 Election Announcement: Labor. (CC) An election announcement.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (CC) Hosted by Kevin McCloud.

8.30 Miniseries: Doctor Thorne. (PG, CC) Part 1 of 3. During the 19th century, the son of a wealthy family falls in love with the niece of a local doctor.

9.20 Miniseries: Death Comes To Pemberley.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 3. A couple’s preparations for their annual ball are interrupted by a murder.

10.20 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (M, R, CC) Hosted by Shaun Micallef.

10.50 Hiding. (M, R, CC) 11.50 By Any Means. (M, R, CC) A young girl is murdered.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 House Rules. (PG, CC) With garden week underway, teams have just four days to follow a new set of rules whilst making over the front and back of the exteriors. Stress and lack of space push teams to breaking point.

8.20 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

9.20 Bones. (M, CC) Brennan and Booth investigate the death of a public defender who may have been murdered by a previous client. In the wake of the incident in the lab, Hodgins is forced to face a difficult road to recovery.

10.20 Bones. (M, CC) The team investigates the death of the founder of a men’s rights organisation.

11.20 Castle. (M, R, CC) Castle and Beckett arrive at a crime scene to discover the female victim bears a shocking resemblance to medical examiner Lanie Parish. As they try to make sense of this mystery, they realise the killer appears to have some sort of twisted obsession with the detectives of the 12th Precinct.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 20 To One. (M, CC) Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald and Michael “Wippa” Wipfli count down 20 of the wildest and most unforgettable commercials, from big-budget blockbuster to quirky adverts.

8.00 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

9.00 Killer Women With Piers Morgan. (M, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Piers Morgan interviews female murderers, beginning with Erin Caffey, who masterminded the murder of her family when she was just 16-years old.

10.00 Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons: Mexico. (M, CC) Paul Connolly heads to Mexico, where he’s granted access to El Hongo maximum security prison.

11.00 Teens Behind Bars.

(M, R, CC) A look at how in an effort to reduce the number of children in prison, some US states are trying a new approach.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Phil, Luke and Manny try to take down a peeping Tom’s drone that is spying on a sunbathing Gloria.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Haley tries to take Alex’s mind off her university placement woes by taking her to a music festival.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) Guest chef Luke Nguyen sets the mystery box challenge, where the contestants must create an impressive dish.

9.00 MOVIE: Noah. (M, R, CC) (2014) After experiencing visions of an apocalyptic flood, a man builds an ark in order to protect his family and carry two of every animal to safety.

His efforts, however, are opposed by a local tribal leader who believes his people all deserve to be saved from the coming deluge. Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Dead Sea Treasure Map. (PG) Takes a look at the discovery of a treasure map and the subsequent search for the riches it documented.

8.30 How To Find Love Online. (CC) Dr Hannah Fry and Dr Xand Van Tulleken investigate the “science” behind internet dating. They are determined to test the viability of the matchmaking algorithms that the big companies claim will help find love, but others believe is just clever marketing and actually a giant con.

9.30 Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies. (PG, CC) The search for the cure for cancer continues with the story of how Richard Nixon declared a “war on cancer”.

10.35 Erebus: Air Crash Antarctica. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the story of four police officers who went to Antarctica as part of a recovery operation.

11.55 MOVIE: Giovanna’s Father. (M, R) (2008) A man defends his daughter. Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri.

12.50 Whitechapel. (M, R, CC) (Final) The hunt is on for a gang of killers.

1.40 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

3.55 Miniseries: Death Comes To Pemberley.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

5.00 Insiders. (R, CC) Hosted

by Barrie Cassidy.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.30 Sunrise. (CC) David Koch and Samantha Armytage present the news, sport and weather, with business and finance updates.

12.00 Major Crimes. (M, R, CC) A former teen actor is murdered.

1.00 Step Dave. (M, R, CC) 2.00 The Avengers. (PG, R) 3.00 20/20. (CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.00 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Graham chats with Emilia Clarke.

1.00 48 Hours: Last Chance For Freedom. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC)

1.50 MOVIE: Birdwatchers.

(M, R) (2008) Claudio Santamaria.

3.45 The Man Who Jumped.

(M, R, CC) 4.45 Joussour Project. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

7.30pm Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004) Fantasy. Daniel Radcliffe. (PG) Family

8.00pm Community. (PG) Comedy Channel

4.30pm Viking Women. (PG) History

8.30pm Maigret. A killer begins stalking young women.

(M) BBC First

6.00pm Colour Theory. A look at indigenous artist Archie Moore. (PG) Foxtel Arts

6.00am Cricket. Tri-Nation ODI series. Australia v South Africa. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Bob’s Burgers. Bob gives Louise’s enemy a job.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel

10.30pm Undercover Boss.

Meet Tina Lee from T&T Supermarket. (PG) Lifestyle

8.30pm Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) Action.

Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner.

Ethan and the team must eradicate a rogue organisation.

(M) Premiere 10.30pm District 9 (2009) Sci-fi. Sharlto Copley, David James. A human is exposed to extraterrestrial biotechnology.

(MA15+) Action

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 3.20 Puffin Rock. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Clangers.

(R) 4.25 Mister Maker’s Arty Party.

(R, CC) 4.45 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 5.00 Fireman Sam: Heroes Of The Storm. (R, CC) 6.00 Peg + Cat. (R) 6.15 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 MOVIE: When We Were Kings. (PG, R, CC) (1996) 8.50 Thrilla In Manila.

(M, R, CC) A look at the ‘Thrilla in Manila’.

10.20 Facing Ali. (M, R, CC) 11.55 Louis Theroux: Twilight Of The Porn Stars. (M, R, CC) 12.55 Junior Doctors: Your Life In Their Hands.

(PG, R, CC) 1.55 The Home Show.

(PG, R, CC) 2.40 News Update. (R) 2.45 Close. 5.00 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.10 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. (R, CC) 5.15 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.05 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 11.35 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.55 So Awkward. (R) 12.25 Dance Academy. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (PG, R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (PG, R, CC) 4.45 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 4.55 SheZow. (R, CC) 5.05 Grojband. (R, CC) 5.30 Roy. (R) 5.55 Scream Street. (R) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R, CC) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 7.30 Keeping Up With The Kaimanawas. (PG, R) 7.55 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Girls In Love. (R, CC) Ellie discovers that Dan has a new girlfriend.

9.25 House Of Anubis. (R) Victor is suspicious.

9.50 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.55 Rage. (PG, R) 2.30 Close.

4.30pm Football. AFL. Round 12. GWS Giants v Sydney. Fox Footy Tom Cruise stars in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

7TWO

GO!

6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping.

9.30 Best Houses Australia. (PG, R) 10.00 Home And Away CatchUp. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Dealers. (PG) 2.00 Storage Hoarders. (R) 3.00 Secret Location. (PG, R) 4.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 6.00 Mighty Ships. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 For The Love Of Dogs.

(PG) 7.30 Border Patrol: 50K Meth Man. (PG, CC) A woman’s scheme is uncovered.

8.00 Motorway Patrol. (PG, CC) A driver goes walkabout on the Harbour Bridge.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Prospective buyers find their dream home.

9.30 Escape To The Continent.

A look at homes.

10.45 Mighty Ships. (PG, R, CC) 11.45 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.15 Dealers. (PG, R) 1.45 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.45 Escape To The Continent. (R) 4.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 2.00 LEGO Friends. 2.30 Nexo Knights.

(PG) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 4.00 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 4.30 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 5.00 Justice League Unlimited. (PG, R) 5.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 6.00 Batman: The Brave And The Bold. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. (PG, R) (2011) 8.45 MOVIE: Starsky & Hutch.

(M, R, CC) (2004) Two cops investigate a drug-running cartel. Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson.

10.45 MOVIE: Scary Movie.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2000) Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans. 12.30 The Magaluf Weekender. (M, CC) 1.30 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 2.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 SpongeBob. (R) 4.00 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 4.30 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds.

(R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Home Shopping. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Road To Rio. (R, CC) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (CC) 11.30 My Fishing Place. (PG) 12.00 Cowboys Of The Sea. (PG, R) 1.00 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) 1.30 Prospectors. (PG, R) 2.30 Abandoned. (PG, R) 3.30 Bid And Destroy. (PG, R) 4.30 Football. AFL. Round 12. GWS v Sydney. From Spotless Stadium, Sydney.

7.30 MOVIE: Need For Speed. (PG, R, CC) (2014) A mechanic tries to save his garage. Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper.

10.10 MOVIE: Terminator Salvation. (M, R, CC) (2009) Man and machine battle for supremacy.

Christian Bale, Sam Worthington.

12.40 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 12. Richmond v Gold Coast. From the MCG. 3.40 Jail. (M, R) 4.00 Bull Riding. 2015 Pro Tour. Replay.

From Cairns, Queensland. 5.00 Prospectors. (PG, R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 World This Week.

(R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 1.00 News. (CC) 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.05 Australians Of The Year: In Conversation. (CC) 6.00 ABC News Weekend. 6.30 Foreign Corre. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Weekend. 7.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News Weekend. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. 10.30 Planet America. (R) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Conflict Zone. (PG) 12.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

4.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 14. Manly Sea Eagles v Penrith Panthers.

Fox Sports 1

6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: Brothers In Law. (R, CC) (1957) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Global Shop.

10.00 Avengers. (PG, R) 11.00 MOVIE: Geordie. (R, CC) (1955) 1.00 The Investment Series. (R, CC) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Apache. (R) (1954) 4.00 MOVIE: Samson And Delilah. (R, CC) (1949) Hedy Lamarr.

6.30 MOVIE: You Only Live Twice. (PG, R, CC) (1967) Bond searches for a missing spacecraft. Sean Connery.

8.55 MOVIE: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. (PG, R, CC) (1969) James Bond’s search for his nemesis, Blofeld, leads him to love and danger in the Swiss Alps.

George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas.

11.50 Rizzoli & Isles. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.50 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.20 The Investment Series. (CC) 1.50 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 2.00 Danoz. 2.30 MOVIE: Geordie. (R, CC) (1955) 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Rugby Union. (CC) International Test Series. Australia v England. Game 1. Replay. 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 11.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 12.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 1.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 2.30 World Sport. (R) 3.00 Megacities.

(PG, R) 4.00 Megafactories. (R) 5.00 What’s Up Down Under. (R, CC) 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) 8.30 David Attenborough’s Death Of The Oceans?

(PG, R, CC) 9.30 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Opening Night Supershow. (M, R, CC) 11.30 World Sport. 12.00 The Killing. (MA15+, R) 1.00 RPM GP. (R, CC) 1.30 RPM. (R, CC) 2.30 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish.

(PG, R) 3.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 3.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 4.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 4.30 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 11.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 11.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 1.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 2.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.50 To Be Advised. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid? (PG, R) 7.50 How I Met Your Mother.

(M, R) 8.20 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Grampa reveals Homer was an “accident”.

8.50 MOVIE: DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story.

(M, R) (2004) A team enters a dodgeball competition.

Ben Stiller.

10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG, R) 11.50 Don’t Trust The B----. (M, R) 12.50 Frasier.

(PG, R) 2.00 Family Ties. (PG, R) 2.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 3.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 4.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 7.00 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 8.00 House Hunters Reno. (PG, R) 9.00 In The Garden. (CC) 9.30 House Hunters Off The Grid. (R) 10.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 12.00 House Hunters. (R) 1.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 2.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 3.00 House Hunters Reno. (PG, R) 4.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG) 5.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 6.00 Tiny House Hunters. (PG, R) 6.30 Tiny House, Big Living. (Series return) 7.30 Rehab Addict. (PG) (New Series) 8.30 Flip Or Flop. 9.30 Good Bones. (PG) 10.30 Extreme Homes. 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Tiny House, Big Living. (R) 1.00 Rehab Addict. (PG, R) 2.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 3.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 PopAsia.

(PG) 10.00 WorldWatch. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 WorldWatch.

1.00 MOVIE: Black Lightning. (PG, R) (2010) 2.55 Friday Feed. (R) 3.25 Space Dandy. (PG, R) 3.55 The Brain: China. (R) 5.30 Soccer. UEFA Euro 2016. Highlights. 6.35 Ninja Warrior Sweden. (PG) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Drunk History UK. (MA15+) A retelling of historical events.

9.00 South Park. (M, R, CC) 9.25 Whaled Women.

(MA15+, R) 9.35 Cycling. UCI World Tour.

Criterium du Dauphiné.

Final stage. Le Pont-deClaix to Superdévoluy.

151km mountain stage.

11.15 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. (M, R) 11.40 Sex – Made In Germany. (MA15+, R) 12.35 Shot

By Kern. (MA15+, R) 1.00 Cutie And The Boxer. (PG, R) 2.30 Kurt Wallander. (M, R, CC) 4.15 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 The Freshman Class. (PG, R) 6.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 7.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 8.30 Brazilian Street Feasts. (R) 9.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 9.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 10.30 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 11.00 5 Ingredient Fix. (R) 11.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 12.30 Brazilian Street Feasts. (R) 1.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 1.30 Chopped Junior. (R) 2.30 Chopped Junior. (R) 3.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 4.30 Brazilian Street Feasts. (R) 5.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 5.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 6.30 All-Star Academy. (PG) 7.30 Kids Baking Championship.

8.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 9.30 Restaurant: Impossible.

(PG) 10.30 All-Star Academy. (PG, R) 11.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 12.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 1.30 Kids Baking Championship.

(R) 2.30 Brazilian Street Feasts. (R) 3.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 3.30 Chopped Junior. (R) 4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.30 Chopped Junior. (R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Wapos Bay. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. OFC Champions League. 12.00 Living Black. (CC) 12.30 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. Women’s Grand Final. Mindaribba Sisters v Redfern All Blacks. 1.30 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. U-15’s Boys Final. Toomelah Tigers v Walgett Aboriginal Connection. 2.30 Rugby Sevens.

3.30 Down 2 Earth. 4.00 Rez Rides. (PG) 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 Fit First. (PG) 6.00 Standing On Sacred Ground. (PG) 7.00 CBQM. 8.10 Ngarritj. 8.30 Songlines. 9.00 Colour Theory.

9.30 MOVIE: When The Man Went South. (M) (2014) Soane Prescott. 11.00 Seaman Dan And Friends. 11.30 Defining Moments. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 1206

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FIND THE WORDS This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 12 letters left over.

They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

GRIN & BEAR IT

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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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INSANITY STREAK

by Tony Lopes

PRINCE VALIANT

CALIFORNIAN CROSSWORD

by Murphy & Gianni

THE CASHIER

by Ricardo Galvão

From the pages of America’s most popular newspapers meas. short ACROSS 42. Hot tub 21. Mooches 1. Creche trio 45. Georgetown 22. Gripe con5. Impress greatly stantly 8. Rhett’s last word athlete 46. Parachutist’s 23. -- Mahal 12. Terrible guy? thrill 24. Milwaukee 13. “Holy cow!”

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2. Shakespeare’s 35. Seep slowly 23. Dawdle river 37. Colander 26. Rocket 3. Stare stupidly 38. Just one of launcher 4. Hostel those things?

30. Lotion additive 5. Once more 39. Crosby’s long31. Moonshine 6. Join with a time pal container blowtorch 40. Deli loaves 32. Desert-like 7. Slithery swim41. Make 24-Down 33. Adorned with mer 42. Bargain gems 8. Transfers on 43. Advertise 35. “Golden Boy” a PC 44. Charitable playwright 9. Sheltered 36. Parcel of land 10. Unembellished donations 46. To and -37. “Help!”

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JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS

by Dave T. Phipps

STRANGE BUT TRUE z It was 19th-century Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh – one of the most popular artists of all time – who made the following sage observation: “Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction.” z Those who study such things say that penguins are so well insulated

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by Samantha Weaver that, in general, they have a harder time staying cool than they do staying warm. z You’ve probably never wondered how to categorise the dill pickle, but some people have. Is it a fruit? Hard to say. The cucumber is, technically, a fruit – part of the gourd family – so it would seem that a pickle is, too. z You’ve almost certainly heard of the Rock of Gibraltar – as a metaphor for strength and solidity, if for no other reason. This famed mono-

lith of limestone on the European side of the Strait of Gibraltar, that narrow connection between the Atlantic Ocean and the Medi-terranean Sea, makes up only half of the Pillars of Hercules. On the African side of the strait is Jabal Musa, and this southern half of the Pillars is twice as tall as its more famous part-ner to the north. z Many people don’t realise that the popular name Renee means “reborn”.

Thought for the Day: “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain

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YOUR STARS ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) New places and people lead to fresh experiences this week. A friend suggests a meeting that does not immediately appeal, but could grow on you. A choice piece of gossip may be well off the mark, so take care about passing it on. As much as you crave a dramatic time, it’s unlikely.

The urge to chatter away makes you amusing to others. Some words may be taken to heart, however, so try not to be upsetting.

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) A blip in a

love affair could see you licking your emotional wounds midweek. Never mind, organise this weekend for family and friends and be with those who are supportive and fun. Cash flow could be erratic, so plans need to be made economical. Nobody will mind. It’s your company that they want! You don’t have to be the life and soul of the party, but it could keep you from brooding over your romantic other.

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) You are in

two minds about most things this week.

Still, you can only be in one place at a time and only doing one thing. Pushy folk don’t impress you and any attempt to hurry you will not be well received.

Still, a bit of choice information gives you the ammunition you need. It could be another week before you get the answer to a very important question. In the meantime, get out and enjoy what nature has to offer.

CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Friendships are strong and confidences welcomed.

If someone is not responding in the way that you want, well, maybe there has been a bit of wishful think-ing? Passions that run high this week, however, cool just as quickly. Surprises seem to be the order of the day right now. A lovely feeling that something nice is around the corner means that you are feeling more optimistic. It doesn’t take much.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Your words really count this week. Remember that those uttered can-not be taken back. Spending quality time with family, especially

younger members, is magi-cal. You may not agree with the way someone tackles a situation, but tread carefully. Alt-hough you are not in the mood for making decisions, just doing nothing could solve a prob-lem. Is that how you want it or can someone make you so cross that you take charge?

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Celebrations

this week could burn a hole in your finances. Try not to go over the top. Partnerships are on the move in more ways than one.

If you are moving business or home, check out the area carefully.

Don’t want to be bothered with finances?

I know, but do read the small print even if someone you trust tells you that it is all right. They may be trusting someone else! Romance is on the cards, but don’t play your aces too soon.

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BY CASSANDRA NYE SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) You feel like a bit of luxury and, if someone offers, why not? Of course, it has to be the right someone. Plot and plan to get that invitation and this weekend could be something special. An upset can be solved with music and kind words. Did they misunderstand or were you being self-indulgent? Being kind and helpful seems common sense, yes? You may want to resist as you feel that someone else is getting the better deal. Really?

CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) Who could

deny you anything when you turn on the charm?

Well, someone could if you don’t do your homework. Someone who seems easy-going is far from a pushover, believe me! Likewise getting involved with moot issues should be avoided. Being a part of something big suits you fine. However, playing second fiddle jars. Someone has to do it, Capricorn!

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23)

Money and love seem to be riding the same horse this week and they are heading right for you! Although you put romance first, there is a tendency to ap-preciate the finer things in life. That takes money.

So, if you prefer the suitor or business partner with the bigger wallet, it seems sensible. Enjoy being pampered and admired and treat yourself to something special.

SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) Mars is full

of energy and is stirring your passions.

Don’t you just love the drama of the unknown? A novel romance comes to mind. Have you been reading too many love stories? Never mind, you will find your own dreams becoming a reality.

You haven’t been having nightmares, have you? Mostly good passions coming your way, but watch your words if someone annoys you! Been there before?

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) This is a fun time when it seems as though anything goes! It is certainly time that you let your hair down and started smelling the roses (or anything else that you desire). Those who are in a partnership find that there are fiery moments.

Howev-er, this serves to move things on and bring back a spark. Still seeking that someone special? Look in unusual places and stretch your imagination.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Always

projecting yourself into the future can be unsettling and give you indigestion.

Think about it. Who will you meet this weekend? Where will you take yourself, that is the question! You are admired for your straight thinking and strength.

You set an example that is hard to follow, though. A young relative or young colleague may be feeling this very much.

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! So much will be going on, Gemini, that you will feel as if you are in the middle of a whirlwind – sometimes calm, sometimes roaring. Do you know what is going on? No? Ask and you will find the answers.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You long to be a crowdpleaser, Gemini. That is not always possible or even desirable. In the months ahead, concentrate on building up business and relationships.

The cash will come later.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Hoping for more action, Gemini? You will get it but not by running around like a headless chicken. Pause often and consider your options. Do you know them all?

Find out.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Gemini, you are to be admired for your determi-nation and talents. You know how to get things moving, but this can stir up envy.

Double-check everything you are told, especially if it involves money or family.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bringing your hopes and desires out into the open brings about some interesting conversations. In amongst these, somewhere, is a gem of an idea. Investigate, determine and act!

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Your role is sometimes seen as that of a lover or peacemaker, Gemini. Oh, but you are so much more. Let others see your talents and, if they want to make use of them, let them pay handsomely.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Gemini the lover, Gemini the friend, Gemini the successful business genius? You don’t have to look for opportunities. Let them fall into your lap and get working on them.

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Narromine has been selected to host the iconic 18-carat gold trophy on August 23. PHOTO: KARON PHOTOGRAPHY

Narromine to host 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup Tour HE 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup Tour officially broke out of the barriers this week with the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) announcing that Narromine has been selected to host the iconic 18-carat gold trophy on August 23.

The special announcement was held at Darren Weir’s stables in Ballarat, Victoria, the heartland of the 2015 Emirates Melbourne Cup winning trainer.

This year’s Tour will see the $175,000 trophy travel to 34 towns and cities across Australia and New Zealand, before returning to Flemington for the ‘race that stops a nation’ on the first Tuesday in November.

Narromine was chosen to host the Tour for the commitment made by the Narromine Turf Club to provide a comprehensive schedule of activities for the entire community to enjoy while the Cup is in town.

Narromine Turf Club Manager, Libby Dennis, said being part of the Tour will be an unforgettable experience that will unite community members as they play

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VRC Chief Executive, Mr Simon “Hosting the Tour is a wonderful opLove, said this year the Tour will celeportunity to share the story of the Cup brate a heightened enthusiasm for racwith our local community and celebrate ing amongst community groups far and a great Australian sporting event,” Denwide following Michelle Payne’s triumnis said. phant Emirates Melbourne Cup victory in Racing royalty ` 2015. joined the launch For the first time the celebrations, includ“Since the Tour be‘People’s Cup’ has been ing 2015 Emirates gan in 2003, we have Melbourne Cup winmanufactured using delighted in bringing ning trainer Darren communities together gold mined from West Weir and strapper in the shared history Wyalong in regional Stevie Payne, 2015 and magic of the EmirNSW, a destination of Emirates Melbourne ates Melbourne Cup Cup winning horse this year’s Tour, and the and Michelle’s victory Prince of Penzance last year certainly adds launch welcomed the and Flemington Amanother dimension to bassador Georgia Cup’s new manufacturer those narratives,” Mr ABC Bullion to the Connolly.

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The final say

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Poor form in the land of the long tall poppy HE worst thing about Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s video pitch for the hearts and minds of Aussie â&#x20AC;&#x153;battlersâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that it resembles the predictably tear-jerking back-story of a contestant on The Voice.

It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that the clip seems to have fallen well short of its target of eliciting empathy from the voting public, spawning instead a wave of â&#x20AC;&#x153;oh, puh-leeseâ&#x20AC;? derision for its contrived sentimentality.

It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even that the voice-over sounds more like a cheesy country-and-western song lyric than an election pitch.

The worst thing about the video â&#x20AC;&#x201C; released this week and showing images from the incumbent PMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is that Malcolm Turnbull feels the need to apologise for being rich.

I was part of an interesting conversation this week â&#x20AC;&#x201C; interesting in that it was through Facebook, which is usually the last place one seeks out meaningful discourse â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but compelling because it made me think about the notion of privilege, and of how we here in the Land of the Tall Poppy tend instinctively towards scepticism when someone has or does more than we have or can.

The exchange began fluffily enough, with a tongue-in-cheek jab at the PM that was amusing, if not necessarily true.

Borrowing from a hash-tag wave of â&#x20AC;&#x153;How poor WAS Malcolm?â&#x20AC;? tweets, it went something along the lines of: â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ś so poor we could only afford truffles at Christmasâ&#x20AC;?.

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and the impact of background on com- Leader and wannabe PM Bill Shorten, petency, or otherwise. who wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly born under a sheet of tin in the desert, by the way â&#x20AC;&#x201C; any It was suggested that Mr Turnbull and more worthy to lead a country? his dear departed dad did not have as If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a good person, if you care poor a start in life as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like us all to think. about others; if you value fairness (and Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perhaps true â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a difference between equity and be the first pollie to overstate a bio- equality); if you use whatever privilege you have (and it comes in MANY forms) graphical point â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but neither was he born as â&#x20AC;&#x153;rich and privilegedâ&#x20AC;? as his de- for the betterment of the world/humanity/community â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mattractors would have us believe. ter who your parents â&#x20AC;&#x153;But a lot of doors were or werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, how opened for him when ` much money they he was starting out, had or didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have, so he did get a very How about we judge big â&#x20AC;&#x153;kick startâ&#x20AC;? when or when you earned Turnbull and his he went about carvyour wealth or sucgovernment, Shorten cess (or didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t). ing out a career,â&#x20AC;? my and his Opposition, and I find abhorrent friend offered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There would be different all the other aspirants for the notion that if outcomes for many if our precious vote â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not on youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wealthy and/ successful, you they had benefited in whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in their family tree or MUST have somehow the same way he did.â&#x20AC;? or whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in their bank Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true â&#x20AC;&#x201C; my reached those heights friend is right. But at the expense of othaccount, but on their should that kick start ers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a horrible genworthiness to govern? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the likes of which eralisation and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apare familiar to many plied far too widely in civic, political and cultural leaders â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this â&#x20AC;&#x153;tall poppyâ&#x20AC;? country of ours.

Politics and its peddlers aside, it sadautomatically indicate that it somehow dens me that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t value achieveeclipses any personal achievement? ment more highly in Australia. We seem Why canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we judge Turnbull â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and other leaders â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on what he IS and DOES to champion mediocrity â&#x20AC;&#x201C; everyone gets now? a ribbon.

Short of denouncing his inheritance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say I applaud success at any price, but I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dangerous (and whatever it may have been â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and sitting cross-legged in a kibbutz for his forma- unfair) to assume that if someone has tive years, what exactly should he have reached the top of their field, industry, done? Would a youthful vow of povercareer, sport, whatever â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ALty have made Turnbull â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or Opposition WAYS because some other poor bastard

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Sometimes it is because some other poor bastard has paid the price, but sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just hard work and smarts, dedication and determination â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and yes, opportunity and luck often play a part. But is that necessarily a bad thing?

Even more detestable than the communistic (and completely unrealistic) tenet that all must be equal and no-one should have more than anyone else, regardless of effort, is the approach of those with privilege (and in Australia, we are many) who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept the responsibility that comes with that privilege â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that is, to use it to enrich the lives of others; to â&#x20AC;&#x153;give backâ&#x20AC;? if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like an appropriate clichĂŠ.

So how about we judge Turnbull and his government, Shorten and his Opposition, and all the other aspirants for our precious vote â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not on whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in their family tree or whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in their bank account, but on their worthiness to govern?

And how about we use the privilege of our access to information and the right to vote, to make informed choices based on more than knee-jerk distrust.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Australians, no? Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we supposed to champion the idea of a fair go?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave the last word to a colleague who can always be relied on for a moment of levity: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Me? I started with nothing and after 30 years of hard work Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud to say I still have it.â&#x20AC;?

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F I NANCE AVA ILA BLE T. A . P. FORD FALCON XL 6 CYLINDER, AUTO, STEEL TRAY, REVERSE CAMERA S/N 7780

AUTO

TOYOTA HILUX 4X4 OFF ROAD READY, TOWBAR, UHF, BULLBAR S/N 7791

4X4

FORD FALCON XLS UTE 6 CYLINDER, LOW K’S, AUTOMATIC TONNEAU, ONE NOT TO MISS S/N 7788

AUTO

MAZDA BRAVO SDX TURBO DIESEL, 4X4, CANOPY, TOWBAR READY FOR WORK S/N 7776

4X4

GREATWALL V240 ECONOMICAL, LOCKABLE HARD COVER, READY FOR WORK OR PLAY S/N 7541

58pw

$

$9,9 $9,990 990

$9,9 $9,990 990

$10,9 $10,990 990

$11,9 $11,990 990

$12,990 $12 990 990

HOLDEN CRUZE CD

HOLDEN CAPTIVA

GREAT WALL V200

HOLDEN COLORADO 2008

HOLDEN CAPTIVA

TURBO DIESEL, LOW K’S, ECONOMICAL MID SIZED CAR S/N 7750

62pw

$

TURBO DIESEL, AUTOMATIC, FAMILY SIZED S/N 7686

74pw

$

$13 990 (I) $13,990

$16,990 $16 990 990 (L)

HOLDEN SV6 COMMODORE

MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER AUTO

AUTO, V6, TOWBAR, CRUISE CONTROL S/N 7653

2.4L 4 CYLINDER ECONOMICAL 4X4 ON DEMAND S/N 7687

$

86pw

$

86pw

$19,9 $19,990 990 (O)

$19,990 $19 990 990 (O)

2011 TOYOTA RAV 4

TOYOTA RAV 4 AUTO

ECONOMICAL, FAMILY SIZED TOW BAR, TINT, ALLOY WHEELS S/N 7703

$

98pw

2.5L TURBO DIESEL 4X4 LOADED WITH EXTRAS S/N 7694

98pw

$

SPORTY LOW K’S, TINT, 6 SPD MANUAL S/N 7792

$

74pw

$16,990 $16 990 990 (L) HAVING TROUBLE WITH FINANCE? GIVE US A CALL TODAY 02 6885 5911 2012 FORD TERRITORY TURBO DIESEL, AUTO, 7 SEATER S/N 7623

$

110pw

TURBO DIESEL, 4X4, STEEL TRAY READY FOR WORK S/N 7797

$

78pw

$17 $17,990 7,9 990 (M) MITSUBISHI TRITON 2011 TURBO DIESEL, 4X4, CRUISE CONTROL S/N 7694

$

94pw

TURBO DIESEL 4X4, 7SEATS, WHAT A CAR! WHAT A PRICE! S/N 7605

$

82pw

$18,9 $18,990 990 (N) FORD FALCON XR6 AUTO, POLISHED ALLY BULLBAR, HAYMAN REESE TOWBAR S/N 7782

94pw

$

$2 $21,990 21,9 990 (Q)

$21,9 $2 $21,990 990 (Q)

2012 HOLDEN SV6 UTE

TOYOTA KLUGER KX-R

6 SPEED MANUAL, LOCKABLE HARD COVER STYLISH & SPORTY S/N 7763

110pw

$

FAMILY SIZED, AUTOMATIC, REVERSE CAMERA S/N 7726 $ pw

110

$22 $2 $22,990 22,9 990 (R)

$22,990 $22 $2 22 990 22 990 (R)

$2 $25,990 25 990 (U) 25,9

$25 $2 $25,990 25,9 990 (U)

$25 $2 $25,990 25,9 990 (U)

TOYOTA HILUX SR 4X4

NISSAN NAVARA 2013

NISSAN NAVARA

HOLDEN COLORADO

TOYOTA HILUX 4X4

TURBO DIESEL, STEEL BULLBAR, TOWBAR READY FOR WORK S/N 7264 $

TURBO DIESEL, 4X4, LOADED WITH EXTRAS S/N 7642 $

$27 $2 $27,990 27 7,9 990 (W)

$29,990 $29 $2 29,9 990 9 90 (Y)

118pw

126pw

TURBO DIESEL, 4X4, VERY LOW K’S READY FOR WORK OR PLAY S/N 7609 $

134pw

$31,990 $31 $ 19 990 90 (A1)

TURBO DIESEL 4X4, SPACE CAB UPGRADED EXHAUST, SNORKEL, S/N 7578 $

6 SEATER, 3.0L TURBO DIESEL, 4X4, READY FOR WORK & FAMILY LIFE S/N 7718

$32 90 (A2) $32,990

$32 $32,990 32,9 990 (A2)

138pw

$

138pw

14 BOURKE ST DUBBO wholesale911.com.au

A/H Damien Seton 0404 977 607 or Darren McGuire 0409 112 911 Finance to approved purchasers based on 20% deposit at 10.99% over a 60 month term, including a $770 origination fee. Please use these payments as a guide only, all payments rounded up to the nearest dollar amount. Total (I) $16,068 (L) $19,199 (M) $20,242 (O) $22,329 (Q) $24,415 (R) $25,459 (U) $28,589 (V) $29,632 (W) $30,676 (Y) $32,763 (A1) $34,849 (A2) $35,893 (A12) $46,327 Offer ends: 30/06/16

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