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The makings of abuse HEY are images to drop your heart clean out of your chest. Institutionalised child abuse implemented under the guise of authority, punitive care and justice. This week, the world over “Australia’s Shame” - the ABC 4-Corners news report of the same name - is indeed just that. Systemic abuse against children apparently normalised. A Royal Commission will no doubt reveal a far deeper layer of rot which permeates the Northern Territory not just across the corrections system but the NT’s society as a whole. Living in Alice Springs in 1990 my association with the local indigenous population through my husband-to-be – employed at the time by TAFE on the Aboriginal Lands - meant that to stand alongside Aboriginal people, ride with them in my car or welcome them into my home, brought barrages of abuse from strangers on the street, as if treating my Indigenous colleagues like anybody else was somehow breaking a code of unspoken law. As an outsider, I was not neither aware of or conditioned to collude with it. Racism in the Northern Territory - which has the largest proportion of it’s population (30 per cent*) who are Indigenous – is only part of this story. Abuse and violence is a particularly bad hangover from the 19th century where white authority over the “noble savage” - on a rescue mission to save them from themselves - while stealing land, resources and culture, has long been a prevailing mentality. Notably, some of the prison guards in the story are also Indigenous, raising disturbing questions about just how warped and lost cultural sensitivities have become in the NT, recruiting as it may seem, like against like. Treatment of these children who may be products of a violent, disengaged upbringing, who have learned ways of communicating which are confronting or even dangerous, are still kids. Clearly damaged by life - and now their time in Don Dale - as a cherry on top, the abuse in whatever form doled out by life, has been rubber stamped by elected officials. So hurry up Turnbull with that Royal Commission and reveal the powers that be have enacted a catastrophic failure on their watch. Why heads haven’t already rolled (as of Wednesday this week), is a mystery or why the Northern Territory Minister for Corrective Services, Justice, Families and Children (and that has got to be the greatest, singular oxymoron of all time in this country), John Elferink, hasn’t stepped down of his own accord is an even greater wonder. A sign perhaps, of the character of the man. In response to the shocking report the national advocacy organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, ANTaR, this week called for the sacking of Elferink.

By the time this letter goes to print, may it have already happened. Oxfam has expressed hope the Royal Commission recommendations are actually implemented through bi-lateral support of governments at federal and territory levels. Oxfam Australia chief executive and former Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Helen Szoke was astonished the Northern Territory Government suppressed the former Children’s Commissioner’s report into Don Dale abuses for so long but again it’s those endemic beliefs of supremacy and inferiority and the power play that sustains them, going all the way to top. For those on the ground, enacting ritualised punishments on children, why was there not one voice within the ranks that could step back and see practices for what they were instead of playing to prejudice and power games? Or, were they frightened too, of being seen to challenge the status quo, by saying ‘no more’. The cameras after all were rolling. What looks like three men afraid to enter the cell of a child holding a pack of cards, may in fact be three men more afraid of the repercussions if they hold back, if they question the status quo or blow the whistle. Thanks to Caro Meldrum-Hanna that job has thankfully been done. The 4-Corners report does show alarm bells were ringing for a long time, but even with statistics like Oxfam’s claim that Indigenous youth are 24 more times likely to be in detention they fell on deaf ears. It’s the ‘that’s the way it is’ mentality which organisations like Oxfam challenge by doing things like giving funds to Aboriginal people to help reintegrate them back into their communities and access services after they are released from prison. They’re calling on all governments to implement the “Change the Record Coalition’s ‘Blueprint for Change’. Ironically, 2016 is the 25th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. How far we’ve travelled. August 4 is National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day (Children’s Day) “a time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families to celebrate the strengths and culture of their children.” The day is an opportunity for all Australians to show their support for Aboriginal children, as well as learn about the crucial impact that community, culture and family play in the life of every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child. The theme this year is My Country, Our Country, We All Belong and is about helping Indigenous kids – and these are Australian kids, these are our kids - feel connected and proud in culture and ensuring all kids in this country feel like they belong. Well the cards are on the table now that they should feel a little safer too. *CREATIVESPIRITS.INFO

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The Battle for Bylong continues as Peter Andrews protests mining move BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

ETER Andrews shot to fame at the start of this century when the ABC’s “Australian Story” filmed his Bylong property, “Tarwyn Park” from the air, showing his land was green and lush while all the surrounding paddocks, and indeed most of eastern Australia, was in the fierce grip of the Millennium Drought. His farm produces five times the amount as neighboring and similar properties, yet he uses virtually no chemical inputs. One decent rain event would droughtproof him for five to 10 years while neighbors were trucking in feed and water to keep their livestock going. John Ryan has been documenting his struggles with government, bureaucracy and corporate agriculture for almost 25 years - this week Peter Andrews dropped in to check out the state of the Macquarie River and let people know where his struggle is up to.

“I started at Broken Hill where we were all considered to be squatters because we were on leased land so I’ve just gone back to where I started,” that’s Peter Andrews’ throwaway line to explain why he’s taken the law into his own hands, moving back to his former Tarwyn Park property at Bylong, just east of Mudgee. He’s 101 percent committed to an unshakeable belief that this action is all about letting people know there’s the possibility of a better future for humanity and the broader environment. Everywhere he looks he sees environmental degradation and looming disasters yet says the answers lie in the practical landscape laboratory he spent 30 years perfecting on the property; the birthplace of Natural Sequence Farming (NSF). Despite the plummeting coal process, Tarwyn Park is set to be physically obliterated by open cut and underground coal mines. Retail magnate Gerry Harvey, who’s used Peter’s knowledge to revitalise many of his properties, is aghast. “The irony – and stupidity – of possibly losing a place like Tarwyn Park to mining is simply breathtaking – what the hell are they thinking,” Harvey said. There’s been plenty of accusations flung at the current government about being in the pocket of the coal industry and this Battle for Bylong also hangs under the cloud of property purchases in the area by the notorious Obeid family, allegedly hoping to cash in on cheap farmland which could then be sold for a fortune if coal mines could be lured to the area. So we have this jewel of international agriculture which could be replaced by a giant hole in the ground, destroying forever the soils, perched braided streams and artesian aquifers which

Peter Andrews. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER could show the way to a profitable and sustainable Australia. “We’ve had it checked out as rigorously as you possibly could, there’s no doubt that if we look at the history of Australia – all the things that we now have got problems with everywhere in the world were solved automatically in this landscape and then of course the Europeans came in,” Andrews said “There is no other opportunity in the world like this.” Andrews believes the site is unique because it mirrors all the worlds’ potential landscape functions in miniature, meaning all possible scenarios can be tested on a small scale, yet be rigorous practical demonstrations of how larger models could work – far better he says than computer simulations and powerpoint presentations. “There’s hundreds of millions of dollars worth of scientific research, not just what I did, but when Bylong agriculture began in 1820 it was like starting a timeclock for European impacts on this Australian landscape and of all of Australia it is the most demonstrative part where you can actually see what each plant is doing and so you can understand that sitting there is a blueprint of how humanity can solve the problems,” he said. “We’ve made mistakes everywhere and of course Bylong was one of those that happened so early and by extremes, I mean it was clear in 1900 it was the biggest herd of Shorthorn cattle prior to that clearing, then it had 38 dairies and a cheese factory and then a horse stud in 1915 and each of these cycles, they kind of stressed it because it’s very sensitive soil and each time it would collapse, so they stop that industry and start another one. “So here we’ve got the Comeback King for the world of knowing how a landscape can go into these extreme situations and recover, but the bigger thing was it was automatic and when people

just left it automatically recovered, five years and it was going again and another big industry would start so I said this is such important science that we must get people to understand it and how it works,” he said. This Sunday is a call to arms from a range of environmental groups who want to see Tarwyn Park urgently listed as a state and national heritage site so it can be properly protected. His horses, like the landscape itself, are deeply symbolic of utilising nature’s best resources to prove up the natural sequences. “If I hadn’t had horses out at Broken Hill and then down at Gawler in South Australia and seen the massive difference in their natural health and then be able to go to Bylong and monitor them because they’re like a real barometer for landscape functionality and health and realise that there was real and clear evidence of what the solution was,” Andrews said. “I thought then that I only had to show people and it would take off but greed broke in I think and, personal egos and greed and instead of it taking the proper and sensible course of commercial development it’s gone into these cycles of stupidity as I see it. So horses are, literally in this case, the canary in the coal mine. “Using horses is an amazingly effective way, they respond quickly because they’re an unnatural animal because we’ve bred them for physical ability alone and so that means that their systems have to be at the highest tuning you can get – that means that they’re more sensitive and that means that if you don’t get it right they react to something, it shows up pretty quickly, their bones are not good or their health’s not good, or their fertility’s gone, all of those things were the guides that got me to understand that we could rely on the information that’s in Bylong,” Andrews said.

` This Sunday is a call to arms from a range of environmental groups who want to see Tarwyn Park urgently listed as a state and national heritage site so it can be properly protected.

He’s determined to complete a research and development (R&D) project begun on the property decades ago, one he claims was ripped apart by greed, egos and at-threat commercial interests who don’t want to see farmers able to increase productivity by 500 percent while slashing the expensive chemical inputs their business cases rely on for profits and corporate growth. He wants to make the research outcomes and all relevant information available to the world. “We can measure backwards in this landscape very accurately whereas tomorrow we wouldn’t really know what’s going to happen – the weather does all sorts of things and conditions can change – but by knowing that the imprint it’s left in the landscape and we can measure it, the science is certain so we’re not talking about something that’s unable to be proven,” Andrews said. “The processes of this Australia landscape reversed in the first five years of European agriculture and then we watched the actual pre-productivity deteriorate to a fifth, now of course we’re doing all sorts of things just to jack it up and the profitabilitys gone from something like ten pound return on a pound to a one pound return on a ten pound investment if you’re lucky. “That’s where it, we think we’re doing better, we think we’re making more but the costs have just gone through the roof and so the profit’s not there anymore,” he said. More than 100 people have already booked to be at a “Save Tarwyn park from Coal” day this Sunday, July 31, you can access further information from a facebook page set up for the campaign. Andrews is critical of wasting billions of dollars researching stuff that this landscape’s already proven. “On our public R&D funding, they’ve put Dracula in charge of the blood bank really and they’re just draining the money away and we haven’t got enough constructive vision in the system to say wait a minute, if this was automatic there must be a pattern out there that’s visible and able to be reconstructed – yet nobody in 30 years from the official areas of the government has checked on that,” Andrews said. “They just sit there and draw - high level scientists have told me that if they just gather data, which is the single thing that’s motivating all the things that governments spend money on, it’s about what happened at that place at that time and it’s irrelevant because tomorrow the weather could do something and that data is no longer useful to apply. “Whereas we look back in this landscape and it’s guaranteed that it went on for thousands of years and that we could reproduce it because it was automatic, run by sunlight and gravity and that means that everyone can afford to do it if they just want to grow plants they can afford to make this thing work worldwide,” he said.

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FINDING COMMON GROUND Reducing ignorance about religions through education BY JOHN RYAN N JOURNALIST

T seems that every time you switch on to commercial television there are reports about Muslim terrorists causing mass carnage around the world. Rupert Murdoch seems intent on his newspapers and networks carrying the message that Muslims are different and are intent on destroying the rightful forces of Christianity. To me, I immediately think of the Crusades in reverse, you know, when Christian armies spent hundreds of years attacking Muslims in what today’s known as The Middle East. And call me silly, but since the George Bush’s (elder and younger) took over the White House, that’s a copybook case of history’s mistakes repeating themselves over and over. We fear because “they” are different. Just ask the allied troops in World War I, who went to war against the Germans after the media, quoting government sources no doubt, accused the Huns of butchering nuns and babies in poor old Belgium. All god-fearing peoples revolted at these atrocities, it’s just a crying shame none of this propaganda was true. One Christmas Day in WWI troops from both sides across huge swathes of the frontline deserted their trenches, weaponless, and sat in “no man’s’ land” where they swapped food, sang Carols and checked out each others’ family photos. The military hierarchy couldn’t condone this sort of peaceful grassroots behavior because we had a war to fight against evil – both sides in fact were told they were fight-

ing evil – so the unnecessary bloodshed dragged on, and on, and on. How much simpler, how much more beautiful, how much more peaceful and productive it would have been if the soldiers en-masse had refused to fight for their political masters who were ordering them over the top, while being well out of harm’s way themselves. People were talking to people, people stopped fearing other people once the stereotypes had been blown away, and all but the zealots wanted peaceful lives. Prior to World War II the Japanese Army was ultra-nationalistic, ultra-militaristic and incredibly insular and inward looking – the senior soldiers were determined they’d make war to avenge the perceived lack of respect shown to their nation by the western world, and also to capture the vast natural resources of the Pacific their tiny island nation so desperately needed. Conversely, the Japanese Navy had spent decades sailing the world, calling into all sorts of international ports and mingling with other races – they were far more broad-minded in their world view and understood war was stupid and futile for a wide range of reasons, but they lost that policy battle. As a Catholic growing up in the 60s and 70s I didn’t encounter a huge wave of revulsion directed at me or my religion, despite the fact Irish Republican Army (IRA) were blowing up civilians across England and other countries as well as shooting them with pistols, rifles and rocket launchers. As a Catholic, I could also understand that the history of British rule in Ireland had

been harsh and unfair, so like many around the globe while I was appalled at the attacks, I could understand there were historical motivations sparking radicalisation. Just as western nations are now bombing with drones and planes across many Middle Eastern nations, so too are we effectively breeding up a tidal wave of resentment with the massive collateral damage, which is military-speak for the thousands of innocent civilians, including women and children, who are being killed on a seemingly daily basis. No wonder people are disaffected – just as many people in the west see a Muslim as a terrorist, so too must many people living in bombed out communities, lacking working water, sewerage and other essential services, look at people like me as one the “enemy” by association. History, which humans as a species often don’t seem to take any lessons from, has gone down this path of igno-

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rance and fear far too many times, and it’s been interesting looking at statistics of how many more Aussies are killed by sticking metal objects in toasters than by any acts of terror each year, yet the Murdoch press hasn’t done a single front page calling on the government to ban toasters – the conclusion I’ve drawn from that, based on ignorance and an utter lack of facts, is that Rupert Murdoch wants his toast and wants to be able to eat it too. There are many Muslim, Jewish and Christian organisations in Australia who are working hard to ensure that education through interaction, and understanding via dialogue, is permeating throughout the grassroots community, to try and combat the fear caused by unknown differences. Three young Muslim men have been in Dubbo talking to local school students about the importance of that education and dialogue when it comes to understanding, and respecting, the religious faith of others.

St John’s College Senior Studies of Religion (SOR) students participating in a Q&A session exploring Islam and peace. Both the ISRA students and college faculty believe that interfaith dialogue is the path to acceptance and understanding across Australia’s religiously diverse society. PHOTOS: DUBBO WEEKENDER

` The younger students were surprised to hear that Jesus is a very significant person within Islam and is still considered one of the prophets just not the final prophet. – Sandy Abbott

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Aydin Abdivglu, Ibrahim Khalil and Kamil Aydinlioglu from the Islamic Science and Research Academy (ISRA) at St John’s College recently as part of the Interfaith Initiative, helping to dispel ignorance and break down barriers.

YDIN Abdivglu is an Aussie but these days he’s concerned many in the nation may not understand that he’s true blue, and a practicing Muslim. He led a team from the Islamic Sciences and Research Academy up to Dubbo to put paid to a few popular myths about his religion. “It’s very important because we need to dispel these perceptions that people have because at the end of the day we’re all Australians,” Aydin said. “No-one worries about the good Muslims, the ones who practise their faith and are peace loving but it makes headlines when you see someone with a beard, who we know doesn’t represent Islam, but saying they’re doing things in the name of Islam and commits these horrendous terrorist acts.” He says it’s personally souldestroying every time he sees someone committing these atrocities and claiming it’s under the banner of Islam. “It just breaks my heart, nothing else I can say, breaks my heart,” he said. “We just need a few people in the communities to educate both Muslims and non-Muslims, the Muslims to tell them what they need to do and educate the non-Muslims to let them know that not all Muslims are like that and tell them the truth about Islam.” Kamil Aydinlioglu was pleased at the interaction, from the senior students studying Two Unit Studies of religion (SOR) right down to more junior classes. “The students were very interested in what we were saying and they were sincere in their seeking for more knowledge, they really wanted to know what Islam is – their participation I believe was really good, you could see the smile on their faces when you told them something they didn’t know and they’d say oh, I didn’t know that,” Kasim said.

“This has been my first experience visiting a school and it really has been, for myself, a thing that has really developed me.” He said there was plenty of concern amongst his faith about how the religious terrorism debate was being played out on the public stage. “When we look at the media and its portrayal of Muslims it’s sort of negative, not the perception of Muslims that we want people to know but through activities such as this, school talks and organisations such as ours facilitating education and dialogue,” Kasim said. “Dialogue is important because you can know about something but it’s not the same as interacting with that person so when you have the education and when you have the dialogue you really understand that Muslims are peace loving people . “Most of the problem with society I think is not knowing, when we get to know each other we’re not scared of each other anymore and it really promotes unity and peace, helps reduce these radicalisation issues because one of the main factors is isolation.” He said resource programs such as SOR in schools really help facilitate that sort of unification and forming of a peaceful society rather than what we see in the media where it’s religion against religion. “That’s not the way it is, we’re all brothers and sisters in humanity, we should all be respecting and caring for each other, be more tolerant and loving,” Kasim said.

“It is really concerning, of course the actions of an individual does not represent the religion and I divide the people joining ISIS into two categories – people who think they’re serving their religion and are ignorant, don’t know what they’re doing and two, people who are just there for what ISIS provides them in terms of money, power or women or whatever they are looking for.” “These people are doing these atrocious activities which don’t fit any interpretation of Islam, them attributing their actions to Islam is really concerning because it creates fear in others – you know as a Muslim that your religion is peaceful but what these people are doing sort of really breaks your heart,” he said. In recent times he’s seen an uptake of people directly comparing quotes from the Quran which appear to literally incite people to violence, with quotes from the Christian Bible in a similar vein – that’s not the approach of one-upmanship he believes is not conducive to creating a better society. “When people have a certain perception of Islam it doesn’t work to point out what the Bible says if they’re using verses from the Quran. It creates an argument and then people don’t want to back down, there’s pride involved,” Kasim said. “If your words are not getting through, if you’re not explaining it or the person is not reciprocating, sometimes your actions talk louder than your words. “Actions are way more powerful so in society if you inter-

act with that person, you treat them well or justly, people see that and realise these Muslims are sincere,” he said. Ibrahim Khalil said these types of educational visits showed why the Studies of Religion (SOR) course should be compulsory for all students of all and no faiths. “SOR’s kind of like the subject you chose ‘cos you had nothing else to choose – it was kind of the subject you took but it teaches you public speaking, how to speak to people, stuff like that,” Ibrahim said. He’s heard plenty of anecdotal evidence that Muslim and nonMuslim schools alike haven’t pushed SOR because they were concerned they’d find their students converting to other faiths “That’s definitely changing because SOR has been rising to become this academic subject, it’s a social science which really helps expand your world. “I’ve seen Jewish organisations, Christian organisations and Muslim organisations, people from them go to other schools and it just gives so much more value to SOR because they have this physical interaction that you can’t really have with other subjects,” he said. He believes SOR helps students when leave school and they get out into the real world, where they get to apply what they’ve learnt, placing that broader world view into their mindset. “If I had it my way, SOR would be like what students had to do. It really educates so many students and it humanises people from different faiths, from different walks of life,” Ibrahim said. “You don’t only have to humanise people who are religious, like you only do Christians, Jews, Muslims or Buddhists, also people who have agnostic views or atheist views, you understand where they’re coming from and it creates this kind of understanding between a group of people and SOR also allows us to get into dialogue and really meet people. “SOR allows people to really think because the core questions that SOR asks get people to critically analyse verses and analyse content. You really break it down – like in English where you really break down a book or break down a person and this is what they think about you know maybe I can try and achieve common ground with this person by connecting here,” he said. As an example he said if he was talking to someone who was a very devout Christian he’d potentially focus on the fact that both of them believe in God.

“We went to one school in Strathfield where we discussed issues like abortion and the wars overseas, all of that stuff,” Ibrahim said. “As we talked we realised that through discussing these issues not on religious terms but just on principled terms, in a very principled way, we kind of got to understand that we share principles and that we have this common ground. “That’s why I believe that the government should be funding this (compulsory SOR) because it helps create a cohesive society, it helps create a society that’s so much more forgiving, that’s so much more connected, that’s so much more tolerant,” he said. St John’s SOR teacher Sandy Abbey said he got plenty out of the day, as well as the students, “I think it’s essential because as a practicing Catholic I can teach the students a lot about my religion, but really they’ve got to hear it from a practicing Muslim to understand the essence of what Islam is as a living and dynamic religion today,” he said. “People are people, and I think what’s been amazing especially say with the young students today is that when it boils down to it there are 99 similarities for every one difference between all these religious traditions especially Islam, Judaism and Christianity. “The younger students were surprised to hear that Jesus is a very significant person within Islam and is still considered one of the prophets just not the final prophet,” he said. He says the way the public and political debate about Islam and terrorist attacks is being played out, the more important it is that students study such a broad social science styled subject such as Studies of Religion. “SOR is a really good tool to promote education against ignorance and at the end of the day it’s great for everyone to have open and frank forums but the most important thing is that we’re well educated when we’re making our comments,” Abbey said. “The best way for students to come to a true understanding is through those discussions and through those interactions and I think the one thing we need to realise is that before any of us enter the classrooms, teacher or student, we come with a particular world view and we stand within that world view but discuss what the world is around us with others who may have a different world view to our own. “That transcends just an understanding of religion but more of an understanding of us as humans in general,” he said.

` As we talked we realised that through discussing these issues not on religious terms but just on principled terms, in a very principled way, we kind of got to understand that we share principles and that we have this common ground. –Ibrahim Khalil

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Seven Days

The week’s top stories from around the region by John Ryan

SOMETHING STINKS THE third bin in Dubbo has spoken and it’s not well liked, or wanted, by most people in the city. Nevertheless the will is strong inside city hall and without individual councillors to lobby on the issue, the smart money is on the staff being able to push this through against the will of the people. Meantime Wellington residents have just a single bin and locals down there have been calling for a recycle bin for years. Maybe we should tread carefully on this issue and bring Wellington into line with Dubbo’s current system before embarking on something so radical and costly here, especially when the people haven’t been brought along. I know council can have statistics showing those involved in the Eastridge trial support or at least don’t actively oppose the third bin, but the people who commission these reports can almost always end up with the results they want because they’re paying for it (ratepayers actually pay for it, but don’t design or collate the information – we’ve delegated that responsibility).

FLOODING DRAMAS THE water comes up and the money flows like sands through an hourglass. Roads across the council area, and the west, have received a soaking and the damage bill just to get them back to the condition they were in prior to the flooding will cost millions. This time around our tourist information centre was spared after a bit of a panic saw IT people removing computers and the like, but it just goes to show that building on a floodplain isn’t the smartest thing to do. It cost a couple of hundred

Warren Shire face a huge clean up after debris has banked up and clogged almost 600 metres of waterway.

thousand of rate payer’s bucks to clean the joint up last time round. Plenty of people are calling for plans to be scrapped to build all sorts of infrastructure and public recreational spaces down past the soccer fields, and that needs to happen, we can’t have development on the table where the people are forced to budget for endless clean-up costs. Even the northern pontoon will be an expensive fix for ratepayers after council waited too long to drag it out, there’s extensive damage there. The walkway is damaged and may be bucked and that won’t be cheap to fix as it will be done under the red-tape regime that local government seems to love to apply. I think council should “devolve” this responsibility to a private contractor or not-forprofit organisation to take care of these sorts of things, it’d probably cost ratepayers a lot less in the long run and with far less red-tape and disorganisation. This paper had pictures of debris banking up in the river during last week’s floods and the pictures were extensively shared across social media, but spare a thought for Warren where there’s a “raft”

(Above) Troy Grant and Matt Hansen discuss how best to help start preventing rubbish getting into the Macquarie River. Post your photos and ideas to the Dubbo Weekender Facebook page.

of debris more than 600 metres long which is made up of huge amounts of timber but includes dead cattle and assorted rubbish. At this stage it may drop to the river bottom when the level recedes, no-one really seems to know how it’s going to play out but it will be a massive job of clean-up – already Warren Shire has had an excavator at work, but it’s pretty much akin to eating soup with a fork, a never-ending job. It will be interesting to see who has to end up paying for that mess. I met with Dubbo MP Troy Grant, Matt Hansen and James Riley down at the boat ramp this week, there’s still a lot of discussion going on about how best to help start fixing the problem of rubbish getting into the river, so keep the social media world ablaze with comments, send your pictures in and we’ll keep the issue alive.

I’LL BE DAMNED AT least Burrendong is at more than 60 percent and rising thanks to great inflows in the past couple of week, so that should at least give some security to irrigators out west. Added to that, they’ve also

had opportunities to tap into the rainfall on their own properties, many farms are so hightech these days that every single drop works back into their in-house irrigation systems. Add to that floodplain harvesting and tapping into the wild flows going past and we should have a couple of good money earning seasons ahead of us. That’s not to mention the winter crops for this year, a lot of people have seen waterlogging damage to crops that were in but the old saying is that there’s far more money in mud that dust, so if we can get reasonable conditions in the next few months and keep the rain way for harvest we stand to see many extra and much-needed dollars pouring into the region from the ag sector. It also means plenty of water in the dam for next year’s Burrendong Fishing Classic, and that means it should draw even more people to the competition.

the Bell Junction and believes he could fix it up for a fraction of the cost, so I’ll be following that up. Peter told me the Bell, prior to European settlement, would have entered the Macquarie and flowed against that current which would have negated much of the water’s huge force, and he thinks that should be replicated in some way, shape or form, indeed he’s created a scale model of how it could work on Tarwyn Park at Bylong, his traditional property which has been taken over for a proposed coal mine. (Read a feature on that issue in this week’s paper). I’ve seen plenty of examples of his Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) work where he’s used two opposing water flows to negate each other, for little cost and which prevents that huge erosive force from causing environmental damage, so I’d love to see him given a go down in Wello.

AN INJUNCTION ON WET GROUNDS GREAT to see sporting clubs THE BELL RIVER trying all sorts of things to keep JUNCTION their members fit and training THE swiftly flowing Bell River meets the Macquarie at Wellington and it’s been a mess for a long time. Currently a few acres of land have collapsed into the river and that silt has ended up downstream in places like Dubbo and beyond, and it’s hardly conducive to water quality. Mid-Macquarie Landcare is working with about a zillion other stakeholders to try and get this finally fixed but it’s been an ongoing issue for decades and no-one seems to have the few million dollars spare for the rehabilitation works. I met with Natural Resource Management guru Peter Andrews in Dubbo this week and we discussed cheaper and more natural options that could work rather than a full-on engineering fix with reams of concrete. He’s previously scoped out

together. My young blokes have been to Flip Out for trampolining, PCYC for boxing and junior rugby players have spent some time training on the sand in the huge undercover horse arena at the Dubbo Showground. While they were lucky enough to play on VP last Saturday, there was the fallback option of staging the game at Geurie. Innovation is the name of the game to keep young boys occupied.

BOOK WEEK NED KELLY I slipped out to see my 9 yearold Ned Kelly at his school’s Bookweek parade. The smiles on the kids’ faces is worth all the last minute efforts creating a garbage costume out of, well, garbage.

A fundraising evening in support of Compass Run – Riding for Rare Cancers charity motorbike ride – to raise money and awareness for Without a Ribbon, an organisation supporting those battling rare cancers.

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He asked why his helmet was boxshaped unlike most of the others which were mostly rounded to follow the original design and I told him that it was recycling, that we’d use it for our new letterbox complete with the front slot for the mail, and he was satisfied with that. I dug up some information from a Shepparton historian to show the Dokkie Ryan’s, of which I’m one, were Ned Kelly’s first cousins, he wanted evidence to show his mates at school. Armed with the documented evidence he duly showed it around his class where the general consensus was that you can’t believe things you get from the internet – these days, you just can’t win.

GOOD CRIMS ANYWAY, Ned was back in the day where blokes like him were the good guys up against a corrupt police force so luckily things have reversed these days. Last Sunday a 30 year-old man was arrested by Dubbo police after numerous pursuits around the city, the crime spree included Skye’s law, drive while disqualified, possess house-breaking implements, malicious damage, common assault, possess prohibited drug along with other traffic offences. Good work by police, but scary to have people like that sharing our roads. Some of that ilk have also been doing the break and enter thing, with numerous firearms being stolen throughout the area. It’s amazing how good these ‘crims’

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are to locate these firearms in the first place and then be able to grab them in burglary, and pretty frightening. Still on police news and Missing Persons Week is coming up from July 31. I can’t imagine what it would be like to say goodbye to a loved one and then never, ever see them or hear from them again, and having no idea what had happened to them. This year the campaign is all about encouraging people to stay connected.

BITS AND PIECES SKILLS minister John Barilaro was in Dubbo this week for a Q&A with TAFE staff and community members to let them know about the radical changes to that organisation. It is overly top heavy and full of crazy red-tape, so let’s hope this restructure isn’t about cost-cutting by slashing jobs, and all about redirecting wasted money into improving educational outcomes for everyone who needs that education and training. TAFE does some great stuff, hopefully it will build on that. There’s lots of council committees looking for community members to sit on, such as the Sister City, Dubbo Day Awards, Rural Consultative Working Party, you have to get your nominations in by August 5. Not sure why these committees were scrapped in the first place only to be rejigged, when I get half a sec I’ll have to ask the question but it seems a lot of bother and community angst was created that wasn’t necessary in the first place.

Rugby kids training in the horse arena at the showground this week due to wet field closures. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

Western Plains Regional Council Youth Council members, Alisha Parker, Heather Brandon and Phoenix Aubusson-Foley attended the launch event of The NSW Strategic Plan for Children and Young People 2016-2019 at the Sydney Opera House on July 26 and are pictured here with the Minister responsible for Youth John Ajaka.

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The NSW Government’s announcement that greyhound racing would be banned from July 2017 has already started destroying lives and livelihoods across the state. Weekender talked to just a few of the local people affected by the decision. WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Maddie Connell T’S Thursday afternoon in Dubbo. The sun is shining and a smattering of people have gathered at Dawson Park, the home of Dubbo Greyhound Racing, for a 10-race program. It’s rained heavily the previous day, but that just makes the sandy track more fun for the enthusiastic dogs who belt around it at speeds of up to 70kmh. But the death knell has sounded for this club and so many others like it across the State with the Government’s ruling that greyhound racing will be axed in NSW from July 1, 2017. Signs at the front entrance show the anguish of the patrons and the punters, bright red lettering begging the government not to shut the gate on their industry where future generations will never know the excitement of an afternoon at the doggies. The decision, announced by the government on July 7, stems from cases of live baiting and the inhumane treatment of animals. ABC program Four Corners exposed the issue last February and a Special Commission of Inquiry led by former High Commission judge Michael McHugh over 13 months ended on June 16 after the discovery of overwhelming evidence of systemic animal cruelty, including mass greyhound killings and live baiting.

McHugh’s findings were detailed in a four-volume 900-page report which concluded that the NSW Greyhound Racing Industry has fundamental animal welfare issues, integrity and governance failings that cannot be remedied. In a joint statement released to the public, NSW Premier Mike Baird and Deputy Premier and Minister for Racing, Dubbo MP Troy Grant said the government was acting to protect animal welfare as a priority and that Mr McHugh had been asked ‘to leave no stone unturned’ in his investigation. The report revealed that between 48,000 and 68,000 greyhounds – or at least half of all greyhounds bred to race – were killed in the past 12 years because they were deemed uncompetitive. It also showed that up to 20 per cent of trainers engage in live baiting and 180 greyhounds a year sustain ‘catastrophic injuries’ during races, such as skull fractures and broken backs that resulted in their immediate deaths. Troy Grant said the report shone a light upon a sickening degree of animal mistreatment. “NSW is the first Australian state to ban greyhound racing,” he said. The move follows the apparent state of the indus-

try around the world, with greyhound racing only operated commercially in eight countries. The largest of these is the United States where the sport has been in decline for a number of years. “We are following in the footsteps of so many jurisdictions across the United States and the world which have banned greyhound racing to protect animal welfare,’’ Grant said. A further revelation on July 20 showing that at least 99 greyhounds were killed and buried at the Keinbah Trial Track in the Hunter Valley between 2009 and 2013 will only add fuel to what is now an already blazing fire. The independent investigation conducted by Clive Steirn SC and released to Greyhound Racing NSW showed that the dogs were killed by a blow to the head, either by gunshot or a blunt instrument. Mr Grant told a press conference in Dubbo that he was open to discussion but was taking the matter extremely seriously. “I am happy to continue discussions on the ban. But this debate can only be about the facts, not opinion. Obviously, we will absolutely listen but they have to be able to supply the facts. “Simply commenting or offering an opinion won’t

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Dubbo’s Dawson Park greyhound racing track is home to second and third generation breeders and racers who congregated for up to 40 races are year.

change the government’s decision. This was a complex, comprehensive report to make on a whole lot of factors and one that we didn’t want to make but unfortunately, we had to make.”

Brenton Scott, chief executive, NSW Greyhound Breeders, Owners and Trainsers Association SW Greyhound Breeders, Owners and Trainers Association (GBOTA) chief executive Brenton Scott was disappointed by the report but pointed out that the deaths had occurred before industry reforms. “The findings are a great disappointment and confirm that the greyhound industry has had issues that must be, and are being, confronted,” he said. He believes the greyhound racing industry has changed and he will continue to make a case for the Premier against the ban. “The greyhound racing industry is currently formulating and documenting our industry reform plan that will allow the Premier to not only consider but to quantify our success in meeting the challenges placed on our industry by Commissioner McHugh. “The greyhound racing industry has changed and will continue to change to absolutely ensure all participants act in a manner that meets community expectations in relation to the welfare of animals.” “The death of any greyhound, without proper reason, is unacceptable and the industry must continue to maintain a position of zero tolerance. Any position less than this is part of our past, it is not part of our future.” In a letter distributed at the local races on July 21, Scott said the greyhound industry had been ambushed by the government and not given an opportunity to properly respond to the McHugh Report. “When Premier Mike Baird shocked and shattered tens of thousands of greyhound families Australiawide with his unexpected decision to ban our sport and industry in NSW, collectively we were left reeling. “The Government had the benefit of preparing its response with exclusive access to the McHugh Report. It chose to release the McHugh Report and the Premier’s proposal to ban our sport at the one time. “In the process, it rendered our industry’s normal leadership body, Greyhound Racing NSW, rudderless

and unable to respond to this harsh and poorly considered decision.” A steering committee featuring representatives from GBOTA, independent clubs and industry key players has been formed to provide high level strategy. A new website, community campaign and plan of rebuttal will be established and a Trust to allow clubs and interested parties to contribute to a fighting fund. “The unfairness and gravity of the Government’s position has united all of us and we are now progressing our fight with definite strategy and single purpose. A new logo ‘Racing to a Respected Future’ has been designed to reflect industry unity and the body has now appointed former solicitor-general of Australia, David Bennett as its legal representative.

Shayne Stiff, president, Dubbo Greyhound Racing Club (DGRC) BOTA spokesman and Dubbo Greyhound Racing Club (DGRC) president Shayne Stiff said they were preparing to go into battle. “I was part of a union movement that brought down a government and it can do it again,” he told SBS News. “The people of NSW will fight for this.” “I’ve had a lot of grown men crying yesterday, livelihoods, lives, family blood … I don’t think the government knows how many people this is hurting.” Locally, Stiff wore red to the races, and told of how the ban would deprive the local community and dent the economy. “It puts $3m into the community, with 40 meetings a year, wages and tax. It’s of great significance.” Stiff said the racing fraternity was like a family, with everyone banding together in good and bad times, but this crisis has really hit home. ‘It’s a battler’s sport,” he explained. “But this is heartbreaking for a lot of people.” Stiff said the industry hadn’t been given a chance to

respond to the inquiry which was released after major reformations. “We have been reforming for the past 18 months,” he said, adding that industry representatives had not been able to be part of the inquiry process. “There were 80 recommendations and shutting down was just one – there were 79 other recommendations to keep it going. Stiff can’t believe that the Nationals, who are widely known to support rural and regional communities, have played a part in the ban of greyhound racing in NSW with Troy Grant as their leader. “The Nats might be the new Greens. I don’t know. I have been in Sydney in talks with the Premier and Deputy Premier but I don’t know if they are hearing our concerns.” As well as his role as DGRC president and steering committee member, Stiff is a bookmaker and has been involved with greyhounds all his life. To see the industry just disappear within 12 months is just something he can’t even contemplate. “I don’t want to think about that at the moment, I am just going from day to day. But I have been involved since I was born, 48 years, my father was a bookmaker and my grandfather was a bookmaker and my grandmother had dogs. “If this goes, I might have to go into politics!” “But seriously, I will fight until I’m dead to keep the industry alive. That’s what I’m doing at the moment. The industry has united, we are working on a rebuttal. Before the announced closure, Stiff said they were already trying hard to assist the Greyhounds as Pets (GAP) program and that breeding was down by 50 per cent. “Dubbo was actually going to be a Centre of Excellence. I guess that’s all gone now. “We have had no chance to reform and I don’t think the government knows the full extent of what they have done. We are on the outer edge here in Dubbo but there are 1000 participants, we have up to 40 race

I don’t know how they can go to bed at night and know they have destroyed so many lives.” – Greyhound breeder Charmaine Roberts on the government’s decision to ban racing

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 29.07.2016 to Sunday 31.07.2016 meetings a year, with 1.5 permanent staff and 9 or 10 on race days.” Two recent racegoers were Derek Kerr from Forest Reefs near Orange and Ian Stanford from Molong. Kerr believes greyhound racing is a great family activity which he doesn’t want to see gone. “It’s a great sport. Our kids have left home now but the grandkids come to the races and they have lots of affection for the dogs, which is returned. The races – it’s a happy environment.” Not only does Kerr take an interest in the races, but he also owns a few dogs which he was hoping would help build his retirement fund. “The NSW Government made me redundant so I decided to focus on the dogs as I have always had racing dogs,” he said. “Now I will have nothing, it’s like a double whammy from the government. I’m feeling pretty dirty about the whole thing. Both my wife and I don’t know where to turn or what to do.” Kerr said they had invested $500,000 in their property and built running yards especially for the dogs. “This was our retirement and we bought our place (six acres) specifically for this. “Now we have to rethink our whole future.” Although he has invested in the industry, Kerr said it’s never been about the money. “It’s just about doing what we are doing and we love it. But our future is certainly in doubt.” Fellow racegoer Ian Stanford has been a greyhound breeder for 45 years while his father was a breeder for 65 years. He talked of his childhood growing up with them. “Mum and Dad used to get us kids up early to go to the races in Bathurst. Sometimes we would fall asleep with the dogs on the way home. “I still have five at home and I still love racing them. I treat them the same each day but they always know when it’s race day. “I think this ban is absolutely ridiculous. I know there are a few bad eggs but not a lot of people are like that.”

Charmaine Roberts UBBO’S Charmaine Roberts is a third generation greyhound breeder so it’s fair to say it’s in her blood. For her, the shutdown represents the end of life as she has always known it. “The impact, it’s just destroying so many people – suppliers, vets, all the people who spend money on tyres, petrol, food, the list goes on. It has a far-reaching effect. I was on my way to the races and felt physically sick when I heard the news. “Everyone you talk to, they are absolutely devastated. It’s worse than losing a family member. They can’t believe it. And I am one of the people whose life has been destroyed. “It’s gut-wrenching.” Roberts runs 70 dogs on 25 acres south of Dubbo. Every time she goes outside, she is reminded of what is happening. “I’m third generation in this industry, what am I going to do?” As a greyhound property, the value of this place has just been destroyed too. I can’t imagine walking out the back door and not seeing my dogs. It’s just such a shock. Since it’s come out, you’re upset every day about little things. After the ban, the only dog we’ll be allowed to have is a pet. “I will have to give up my livelihood and I know nothing else. I would have to move interstate if I want to keep racing.” She says greyhounds were on the First Fleet so their history is significant. To have that heritage wiped out will be a major disappointment. “I think Captain Cook had greyhounds on the ship. That’s how long Ninety per cent they’ve been around in Australia.” of what we do Roberts said the issue is supplying the of live baiting – which involves using a real anigreyhounds so mal to incite the runners I wasn’t very instead of a stuffed toy – had been dealt with by happy … I will authorities. have to shut “We all know there’s bad apples in every sport up shop.” – or organisation,” she Murrumbar Pet said. Meat co-owner “That happened in Victoria, Queensland and Brian Tink

NSW. But it was in February 2015 and they went to jail. race. Greyhounds are an animal that is bred to race. More people were actually caught in Victoria and Qld. They love to run.” And they are still in jail as we speak.” She said going to the races is also a fun and accessible activity for people of all ages. Roberts said the majority of those in the industry had adhered to the rules. But they are still being pun“It’s a very social outing and everyone can own a ished for their choice of livelihood. greyhound.” “Judge McHugh looked at the industry as a whole Roberts is now worried about what the future holds and there were 80 recommendations of but is determined to oppose the ban. how to better the industry. The figures of “The Greyhound Breeders, Owners 68,000 that they’re quoting are incorrect and Trainers Association are getting as they cannot trace how many dogs are legal representation to try and fight to put to sleep. overturn the decision.” “Ninety per cent of the recommenda- We’ve put tions in the report concern finding new our whole life Rob Ingram homes for the dogs and cutting down on breeding (which they did). The Grey- savings into OB INGRAM is also asking for anhounds as Pets program has been in place the greyhound swers in relation to the upcoming for quite some time, more than five years. closure. He started training greyWhen our dogs finish racing, they can be industry” – hounds four years ago and runs a purrehomed through the program. It’s a bril- Tomingley trainer pose-built property near Tomingley. He liant idea.” and wife Lea have invested their lives Roberts said Premier Baird just wants Rob Ingram into the venture, with 56 dogs on 100 to shut down the $350m industry. acres. “I can’t believe he can just drop this bombshell on Since the announcement, Ingram says he lives each us.” day like a man on death row. She also feels that the entire greyhound racing in“I wake up with a headache, I go to bed with a headdustry in this State is being punished for the misdeache. Every day is difficult. It feels like you’re waitmeanours of a few. ing to die. We come from a business background and “Why don’t they close down the church or the pobought at Tomingley to set up. We’ve put our whole lice or football codes when people do the wrong thing? life savings into the greyhound industry and put eveThere are issues everywhere. Why just shut us down?” rything into it.” Roberts believes that Premier Mike Baird doesn’t Ingram has spent $100,000 on greyhound infrafully realise the terrible impact of this decision to imstructure in the past two years. pose the racing ban. “And I had plans to spend another $100,000. But all “We’ve been targeted and this decision will destroy the infrastructure on our property is now worthless. our lives,” she said. I’ve just had to tell the builder I employed that’s where “There are thousands of people whose lives he’s just it stops.” destroyed.” Ingram said this is the side of the industry that is not “I don’t know how they can go to bed at night and being considered, with tradesmen and hardware supknow they have destroyed so many lives. There is even pliers also affected.* talk of suicides with support already offered through “These are the things that people don’t see or hear BeyondBlue and Lifeline.” about. You don’t realise what it’s like until you’re in Roberts is also upset that the local Member for the situation. They are playing with people’s lives. DifDubbo, Troy Grant, in his role as Minister for Racing ferent people have different levels of investment. The has supported the industry shutdown. flow-on effect is massive.” “Where the hell do you get a Minister for Racing that Ingram has been seeking information in order to doesn’t support racing? It makes me really angry. They plan his future. should give people a chance to reform. Instead, he’s “There’s a lot of questions that haven’t been anjust put a pen through us.” swered,” he said. Roberts said greyhound breeders like herself are “I spoke to Greyhound Racing NSW last week and closely monitored and the dogs are only doing what asked them what’s going to happen to my dogs racthey enjoy. ing in a state where I’m not licenced. I have been to “We are all licenced and the kennels are checked see Troy Grant three times and been told that he’s gorandomly. At the end of the day, the dogs are there to ing to hold a public forum in the next few weeks. That race. If you don’t look after them, they’re not going to doesn’t help us. “The damage is getting done by the

Dog owners have invested heavily in infrastructure in the region to own and maintain up to 70 dogs at a time and are subject to random checks to ensure dogs are well looked after.

day.” “One of Troy Grant’s policies when he was elected was to be transparent and to look after community interests. “Well hasn’t he failed that.” With 56 canine mouths to feed, Ingram is just taking it one day at a time. But he says it’s an ongoing struggle. “We battle from week to week. You have to keep battling, there’s nothing else you can do. “I have four week old pups and another litter due next week. And I’ve already lost a couple of clients.” Ingram believes the inquiry and its outcome have not been very well managed. “The report has no credibility and they are just baffling us with bullshit. “If the politicians believe that report is the be all and end all, then they need to have a good hard look in the mirror at themselves. And if the people believe that is the be all and end all, then they need to have a look at who they are voting for. “And there are plenty of stories of racing dogs being rehomed as pets but the politicians don’t want to see it. “They just want to shut it down as quickly as they can and hope that it goes away.” Despite everything that has happened, Mr Ingram remains optimistic that the industry can still be saved. I’m hopeful that common sense will prevail and they might realise what’s happening. But if this is what politics is coming to, perhaps there should be a free for all. “Even if they make a full backflip today, I would then have to convince clients to not let their dogs go elsewhere. The longer it takes to make the final decision, the more people are affected. There are a lot of people struggling.” In the meantime, Mr Ingram wonders how they will survive. Even winning recent races at the local track,

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Dawson Park, have been hollow victories for him and his greyhounds. “How am I going to feed my dogs? I look at the pups in the paddock and I think, what’s the future for you? “We can’t last 12 months. What happens to all our dogs? “But we will keep plodding along. With 50 plus dogs, you can’t just walk away.”

Brian Tink, local meat supplier OCAL meat supplier Brian Tink is also wondering what the future holds following the industry announcement. He and brother Wayne own Murrumbar Pet Meat and one of their main tasks is supplying the local greyhound fraternity with fresh meat. “This decision will certainly impact on my business,” he said. “Ninety per cent of what we do is supplying the greyhounds so I wasn’t very happy to hear the news.” “We have spent 32 years building this business up only to have something like this happen. “I will have to shut up shop.” Without the greyhounds, Tink doesn’t know where their customers will come from. “The biggest problem is that most people who have cats and dogs just go to the supermarket and get cans off the shelf. They don’t want to go elsewhere because it’s convenient. Mr Tink spoke about the other local business people who would be affected by the ban. He currently sends a truck to Sydney with eight tonnes of meat which is sold to wholesale industry buyers every fortnight. Without that, local fuel outlets will also miss out on the trade. If they have to close Murrumbar, their five staff will be unemployed and the 15 meat suppliers will lose

their contracts with the company. “I don’t think they realise just how this will impact people,” Tink said. “I don’t think they have thought about it at all. “I think the Premier and Deputy Premier have just made a captain’s call and done this without discussing it.” “A lot of the Nationals are very upset about the decision.” With further bans called for, Tink wonders where it will end. “The Greens want to ban live exporting, all racing, campdraft and rodeo, they will also push to ban mining. Then where will all the money come from? “No-one likes cruelty but there were two people caught live baiting and they are in jail now.” As for his company, Mr Tink plans to take a wait and see approach. If compensation is given to people in the industry, he wonders whether he will be eligible. “It’s very hard to see where they will draw the line. “We will just have to poke along and see what happens.” Whatever the future holds, NSW looks set to become the first Australian state to ban greyhound racing and the next 12 months will be a trying time for people in the industry. A transition plan to wind down greyhound racing is in place and will include a welfare plan for dogs including opportunities for re-homing, an adjustment package for industry participants and a transition arrangement for existing Greyhound Racing NSW assets that will ensure they are used for open public space, alternative sporting facilities or other community use.

*Mr Ingram’s timber supplier was approached but chose not to comment.

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Lyndon and Kerrie Phipps: Love and laughter It would be hard not to laugh along with Lyndon and Kerrie Phipps who joke around as they settle into conversation about being mates and having coffee dates. Weekender chatted to a couple who seem like chalk and cheese, but are actually more like two pieces of the same jigsaw puzzle. WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Maddie Connell Lyndon Phipps WAS born and bred in Dubbo, and grew up in West. The first time I met Kerrie, I was paying a deposit to go skydiving. I was at the abattoirs at the time and she was working in a dental surgery. She was very efficient but didn’t make a lasting impression on me. I was 19 at the time and just wasn’t that interested. She could’ve been the hottest girl on earth but I was busy enjoying being single – swimming in the river, hunting, motor bike riding and skydiving. Twelve months later, we ran into each other again. We didn’t like each other at first. Then I took out another girl and Kerrie was on a date with another guy and we double dated. It wasn’t long after that the other guy and girl got together. Then Kerrie and I became mates for ages. I eventually asked her to go out with me. It was when another guy showed interest that I decided I liked her. But I had decided not to go out with someone if they weren’t someone you’d marry. My philosophy is if I’m not happy single then I’m not happy married. Back then, Kerrie was very quiet and reserved and insecure – quite the opposite of what she is now but she was still Kerrie. She was always independent, she didn’t need me. I started working at B & J Chemicals manufacturing soap powder and doing despatches then I worked in real estate, at Richardson and Wrench. I left there to work at home in business with Kerrie. I did everything that Kerrie didn’t want to do when she started doing life coaching, like bookkeeping and web maintenance. I didn’t do it because I was better than Kerrie, I just wanted to help. I became a postman two and a half years ago and I love it. I had always wanted to be a postie. When I was younger, my sister and I would run out when the postie came, I loved that they ride around on a motorbike all day. I’m now studying theatre and performance at UNE and trying to teach myself Spanish. I also want to do El Cami-

no de Santiago (The way of St James). It was the route that Jesus’ brother James walked and many people now make the pilgrimage, about 200,000 each year. I was inspired to do it by watching a film called “The Way”. By doing it, I think I would learn a lot about myself. It’s one of those things. You always find new things when you push yourself. I missed Kerrie when I started my new job, we would ring each other every day. I’m pretty proud of her. She makes me laugh. Kerrie is delightful, lovely, resourceful and hilarious. We have this saying ‘Just laugh and hug me.’ What makes us work is that we trust each other. When Kerrie goes away (she travels a lot for work), I enjoy the solitude but I’m happier when she’s home. I do miss her when she’s away. She makes my life exciting and I could not imagine it without her. And because of her I have done things that the void of indecision and procrastination would have snared me in. I’m a thinker, Kerrie’s a doer. I am happy for Kerrie because she is doing what God has called her to do. And I look forward to travelling with her more in the future.

Kerrie Phipps WAS writing and journaling from when I was a child. I’ve now written three books and up to my eighth coauthoring. I’ve always wanted to help people. I’m actually passionate about encouraging inclusion and acceptance which I was challenged with growing up. Lyndon and I have been friends for 23 years and married for 22 years. But I only vaguely remember meeting him at skydiving. We had a mutual friend called Roy. I was 18 or 19 and it was certainly friendship between us at that time. He treated me like his sister. I was also quite broken and it was actually his friendship that helped me. He accepted me and we built trust together. I actually used him to get rid of other guys I didn’t want to date. He was a safe person to have around. Then I started to worry that he would get a girlfriend and our friendship would change.

I also changed from thinking that I would never get married to only if I met the right person. Then that person became Lyndon. He proposed 4 ½ months after we started dating. We had actually chosen the ring together in Sydney and then Lyndon put it in a drawer and forgot about it. He was taking his time, I call him the timing guy. I just like to get things done so sometimes we see things at different times. Sometimes I have to make decisions that he’s not on board with, challenging his perception. But when I have doubted myself, he has confidence in me and we have a high level of trust and lots of honest communication. Marriage has been a journey of personal development, so has parenthood and running the business. I’m comfortable to be who I am and that’s a lot to do with Lyndon. Lyndon is a deep person.

He thinks about good things happening and I make sure I do it. He reads the instructions. I’m a big picture person, he does the details. Everyone needs a safe place and Lyndon reminds of who I am. When I feel I’m not good enough, he’s always there to boost me. Sometimes I try to put him in the spotlight too but he’s not keen. In a way, he’s still figuring out what he wants to be when he grows up. He has definitely given me wings to fly and now we’re on a similar learning journey. There are things that he’s learning in his uni course that I’m learning as a (motivational) speaker. Next year, when I’m doing speaking on cruise ships, I can rope him in to do some confidence building and improvisation. I’m looking forward to us travelling together, I just want to share those memories with him. And he can take care of the details!

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VISION FOR THE FUTURE Minister Barilaro paints a bright future for TAFE – after job cuts and restructure NSW Skills Minister John Barilaro was in Dubbo on Monday, July 25 to address staff, students and stakeholders from TAFE Western about his future vision for TAFE, (previously announced on July 13). Despite talk of inevitable job cuts and a Strategic Plan yet to be finalised, the forum was cathartic, lifting a sense of disillusionment in staff and teachers with OneTAFE’s promise of rejuvenating resources. For some however, the promise of digital improvements is embarrassingly long overdue. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley. ATHERING in the TAFE Western Institute’s ‘Hub’ at the Myall Street campus, students, staff and stakeholders waited patiently for the NSW Minister for Skills, John Barilaro to address the room. Having had 12 days to digest the news that TAFE NSW will be undergoing what the minister is calling ‘once-in-a-generation reforms’ - replacing the independent Institute structure with a single, multi-campus TAFE NSW - many had questions. For Barilaro, the message was simple; by reducing overheads and funnelling savings and revenue from sold-off assets, more investment can be made into frontline teaching services and benchmark the training and skills needs of the state. Integral to the strategy’s success are staff and teachers. While top heavy administration will attract job

specialists and the specialists are supported I think it losses, funds will be channeled back into resources. will be an improvement,” she said. Underpinning the vision is an invitation for the reform to enacted wholistically. “The last thing I want to do, especially for the most disadvantaged in the community who rely upon TAFE, “I’m confident if you’re at the centre of all this – the the most vulnerable, in relation to our disability serpeople of this organisation – we’ve got a better chance vices… the problem is each Institute’s doing things a of getting it right. I’m not saying it’s going to be perbit differently,” Barilaro said. fect, because we still have to work within certain parameters, but I think we’ve got a great chance of get“You’re right, under Kate here, you’ve had the reting it right for the future,” Barilaro said. sources and the leadership to get it right here, and I actually want to look at where are we doing it really The feeling by teachers and staff was that for the well and set that as the benchmark. first time in a long time, someone actually cared about what they need. Kate Baxter, Institute director, TAFE Western said, “I think the minister gave reassurance to staff there will Cheryl Fitzpatrick, teacher consultant for Students be a very measured approach and it will take some with Disabilities, TAFENSW Western Institute who has time and through that process staff will have plenty worked with TAFE for 20 years said, “TAFE staff have of opportunity to be involved to have input and give been feeling really battered. We lost a lot of colleagues feedback, and I think that will assure at the end of last year to redundancy. So people they can be a part of the future people are feeling bruised … I’ve felt like of TAFE NSW.” leaving quite a lot of times over the last couple of years but I’ll wait and see how The future of TAFENSW very much this goes.” hinges on technology with the promise of 12 dedicated Connected Learning Fitzpatrick expressed concerns the re- The government Centres being built – one a month – in forms might result in a dissolution of dis- needs to lift their 2017 and the site of a digital headquarability services and suggested to the minters to be determined but earmarked for ister policy was needed to inform how game with staff specialists like herself work. and their centres a regional centre. Is Dubbo on the shortlist? “We’ve not had that in the Institute structure. Each Institute has done their out here to lift “There is no short list. The truth of own thing. Obviously we work to legisla- that technology the matter is it’s going to be one of the tion. We have to comply with the disabilmajor centres than a smaller centre, but ity standards for education and federal to match the it will come down to infrastructure: and state legislation.” schools. Where is there NBN? Where is there no NBN? Where is the ability of a data cen“In some Institutes they now only have tre? Where are the universities? Where one or two people providing a very generare the research centres? alist support system and that includes things like deaf students who don’t have teachers who speak Auslan to “It can’t just be a matter of ‘let’s just plonk this here’ work with them.” because if you want it to succeed it needs to be able to work. “If the reforms maintain a system where they have

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 29.07.2016 to Sunday 31.07.2016 The minister thought it was “fantastic” the Dubbo-based Department of Education’s distance learning office pioneered the delivery of video conferencing via satellite and IP; was integral to the rollout of connected classrooms including the installation of smart boards in schools – and TAFE campuses - across the state, and continue to source, generate and connect content providers from around the world. Via the Connected Classrooms project school lessons are delivered across New South Wales and beyond demonstrating a capacity – and heritage - to service a digital education headquarters. “Obviously out here we’ve lead the way via satellite because of the remoteness issues so obviously Dubbo will be in the mix with other regional centres,” said Deputy Premier and Member for Dubbo, Troy Grant. “The great news is it’s going to the regions. With the new model there’s opportunities for various functions or centres of excellence to be scattered throughout the state, so I’m sure Dubbo’s ideally placed for one,” he said. Also up for grabs is a corporate headquarters. On the issue of being digitally ready Baxter says TAFE Western is a leader in the field of using technology in skills and industry based education. “In terms of our capacity and innovation around connected learning, it’s very strong in Western NSW. For a long time, we’ve tried to service some very remote communities and we’ve had to use that technology in the same way as the schools have. “We’re using our connected classroom system which we’ve now got in every campus across Western NSW - all of our 24 campuses are enabled - and we also have a very impressive suite of mobile delivery units, so we can go out to communities, or even to very small locations that don’t even have a TAFE campus and to physically set up with equipment that students need to do specialist training.” For Diane McNaboe, community teacher of Aboriginal Language and Culture the switch to an increased use of technology can’t happen fast enough and is essential for new students growing up with connected classrooms as the norm. “Every classroom in Dubbo has smart boards and interactive classrooms and they’ve got some laptops. The technology in our schools in Dubbo are right up there, from pre-school up. Then when they come here and the technology is not equal to what they had in school, I think that’s a concern. At TAFE there’s only one designated connected classroom per centre.” “The government needs to lift their game with staff and their centres out here to lift that technology to match the schools. “With the languages we need connectivity in every room up at the Yarradamarra Centre so we can tap into the Barkindji, Gamilaraay, all the languages so we’re building the language courses up. The increased reliance on technology will not replace face to face learning, which the Minister reassured staff would remain as a key component of student teacher interractions. Kate Baxter agrees. “We certainly know across Western NSW even for people in remote locations they do benefit from having face to face contact with a teacher and our mobile units facilitate that.” Going face to face with TAFE NSW teachers and staff has certainly helped Skills Minister Barilaro clear the air for his vision to gain traction and it’s being noticed nationally. “I was in a meeting with [John Barilaro] and the deputy premier (who’s the Minister for Skills) in Western Australia and she was saying how envious she is of the work he is doing in this reform. It’s really rejuvenating TAFE here despite the external things that have been impacting on VET help, and the rest of it on a federal level. “He’s been able to navigate that and actually position NSW out in front with his reform, foreseeing exterior problems and he’s combatting that. “We’re a long way from going down the path that Victoria took. We did that right at the start from Smart and Skilled but even after that evolution there’s still more lessons to be learnt so there’s no comparison to what he’s doing in NSW to Victoria, and there now actually trying to copy his model, so I think the Minister’s got it right. He’s leading the nation in this space. “The staff and teachers are absolutely hungry for this change and the Minister’s hit the right chord with them and they’re the important ones, they’re the one’s we trust to teach our students. They’re the vital cog of this wheel, so if they’re happy with the model they’ll embrace it and we’re going to get more success,” he said. “I think staff are very positive, they’re looking forward to functioning again as part of TAFE NSW and sharing a lot of expertise and innovation that obviously exists across the whole of the state. There’s some things we do very well at TAFE Western which we believe other people can benefit from and we’re certainly looking forward to being able to develop programs based on the expertise of others based across the network,” said Baxter. The next step is formulation of the strategic plan. “I’m waiting for the strategy, the implementation plan, but I’m also mindful of growing jobs in the region, so we’ll have a look at it. There’s no time frame for the implementation plan per se. I’d say over the next couple of years we’ll a lot of the heavy lifting. I’ve asked TAFE to make that decision,” Barilaro said. “We’ve got to be focussed on just training and education. From a student’s perspective, it’s got to be seamless without disruption. If it takes a bit longer, then it’s a little bit longer. There are things that we can do automatically internally, then we should be getting on with it.”

Teacher Consultant for Students with Disabilities, TAFENSW Western Institute, Cheryl Fitzpatrick.

NSW Skills Minister John Barilaro with TAFE Western staff.

Front, Wayne Wilson, Director Aboriginal Education and Equity Provision, TAFE Western, Rod Towney, Community teacher, Aboriginal Language and Culture, TAFE Western, Diane McNaboe and Barkindji Man, Marbk Wilson.

OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 29.07.2016 to Sunday 31.07.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Tony Webber Gold in Rio Games’ hysteria won by athlete village, sewage bronze Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident hoping for silver.

Y favourite Olympic spectacle occurs weeks before the opening ceremony. I love the drama of the men’s and women’s substandard accommodation hysteria. It’s one of the disciplines in the multievent hysteriathon, which also features: the stadiums won’t be finished, the locals are criminals/undesirables, and the athletes won’t be able to function due to polluted air and/or water. (The other media staple is the announcement that a trillion condoms are on standby for the shagathon that apparently erupts as athletes finish competing and have their first drink in 10 years, which must be such a change from years of channelling all their energies into concealing the contents of their urine samples). And “when will my room be ready?” is so much more important than trivialities like “why is a country as poor as Brazil spending millions on a one-off sports carnival?” The modern hysteriathon gained popularity in the lead up to the 2004 Athens games, when speculation was that athletes would be sleeping rough, foraging for food and dropping dead from black lung shortly after competing. India’s 2010 Commonwealth Games upped the ante with tales of massive cobras slithering about the athletes’ village and fears that Delhi belly would render any sporting exertion a risk to personal dignity. Beijing’s 2008 hysteriathon was the air quality issue, which had it that the only way athletes could compete outdoors was not to breathe at all, and for the first time synchronised swimmers were envied for the amount of time they would spend underwater away from the hellish coal fumes masquerading as atmosphere. Rio has already added its regional flavour to proceedings: firstly with the street crime threat to athletes from poor people who don’t seem to realise that white foreigners consider themselves immune to socio-economic reality, and secondly the Zika virus scare.

National Forces are on high alert surrounding the Olympic arenas in Rio this week.

The alarm at the spread of the virus has been played down by health experts who almost without exception will not actually be travelling to Rio. Curiously both the Delhi and now Rio accommodation criticism featured blocked toilets and raw sewage sloshing down the corridors like runaway thickshake. Since there was no-one actually living there at the time, it does rather pose the question as to who’s making these deposits into the over-burdened toilet network of the uninhabited apartments. Rio will also inevitably feature “cleaning up the favelas” coverage, courtesy of the Brazilian police media unit, just like Delhi featured “Beggars? What beggars?” “Cleaning up the favelas” is a Portuguese expression meaning to send poorly equipped police into impoverished urban areas the state has washed its hands of, to shoot armed young men subsisting on the supply side dynamic of the international desire for illegal coca products.

Those not wishing to be shot should observe the preference of the affluent societies consuming those same coca products, which is that impoverished people abandoned by the state sit quietly and amuse themselves at zero cost while they await the arrival of globalisation’s bounty.

especially where those vulnerable might be seen by foreign media, and where “paying particular attention” means concealing from view for a few weeks. The hysteriathon inevitably ends with the opening ceremony, the Games proceed, air is breathed, no-one’s photos are bombed by homeless people and the whole carnival proceeds as intended: a All Olympics, including Sydney’s, massive national feel-good, a short-term make a point of paying particular attenbonanza for the host city’s hospitality tion to their society’s most vulnerable, industry and a financial burden on the country for years to come. ` The only justification a global legion All Olympics, including of PR experts can conjure is that the Olympics serves to put the host city “on Sydney’s, make a point of the map,” raising its appeal to the fickle paying particular attention whims of global tourism. to their society’s most Yet the idea that people with the exvulnerable, especially where pendable income for international travel those vulnerable might be could not find Rio, or Beijing or Sydney, on a map, holds as much water as an athseen by foreign media, and letes’ village sewerage system. where “paying particular And the Zika virus publicity certainattention” means concealing ly won’t assist. Though the shagathon from view for a few weeks. might?

Facebook pushes Messenger: basically, it’s my way or the highway

2016 ONLINE LIFE

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is once again getting pushy about how people mes-sage one another. Two years ago, the social-media giant forced its users to adopt its Messenger app for direct communication, a change it enforced by deactivating messages in the main Facebook app and steering users to the app. There was an uproar. Some users thought Messenger violated their privacy, while others just resented having to add yet another app.

Still, the plan worked; more than 900 million people use the app, roughly four times the number in 2014. But some continued to resist, exploiting a loophole to avoid Messenger. All they had to do was log into Facebook’s mobile website using a smartphone browser like Safari or Chrome. Now Facebook is coming after those holdouts. In some markets, the company has already blocked mobile browser access to messages on

Android phones. In others, opening messages on Facebook’s mobile website gets you a warning that “your conversations are moving to Messenger” and a link to download the app. The company will extend the ban to all markets and to iPhone users in the upcoming months, it says. The Messenger app provides more reliable notifications about incoming messages and runs more quickly, the company says. This might not seem like a big

deal to many users but it’s emblematic of a central dilemma in the modern age: We have free – as in unpaid – access to an ever-expanding array of software and services, but less and less control over how we use them. That rankles people who have no interest in Messenger. Messenger is currently ad-free but analysts think the app could generate billions of dollars in advertising revenue for the corporation AAP within just a few years.

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A plan for a sustainable industry THE greyhound racing industry has presented a strong rebuttal to the NSW Premier, the Hon Mike Baird MP, as its first significant move to challenge his decision to close the greyhound racing industry in NSW. The rebuttal has been presented to the Premier and NSW Government by a united group of industry bodies called the NSW Greyhound Racing Industry Alliance, which includes the NSW GBOTA, all independent clubs and industry participants. The rebuttal identifies serious flaws in both the facts in the report and the entire construction of the investigation. It indicates that the terms of reference were inappropriately narrow and biased. The Government needs to understand that regional and rural NSW will be the hardest hit, should the proposed ban on greyhound racing move forward. What the Government hasn’t made clear is that more than 1,000 full-time jobs in rural and regional New South Wales will be lost if greyhound racing is banned. What’s more, some 10,000 participants living outside metropolitan areas will be severely emotionally and financially affected by the ban. Thousands of people enjoy watching races and are involved the community of racing. Hundreds of suppliers to the industry will also be impacted. This ranges from vets and pet food suppliers to the people who provide catering and track maintenance on race days. In addition, greyhound racing track facilities are used by local clubs, charities and community groups on a daily basis. Banning our industry and sport would be a disaster for regional and outer-metropolitan communities. The Government needs to understand that there are thousands of people who have been involved in greyhound racing all their lives. They love their dogs and this sport and they will be emotionally and financially crippled by this decision. We are seeking proper engagement with the Premier and the NSW Government to set expectations and a timeframe for the industry to present its plan and make the required changes. We believe we should be allowed the time and opportunity to prove that greyhound racing can be viable and sustainable whilst being centrally focused on the total life cycle management of greyhounds in align-

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ment with community expectations. The NSW greyhound racing industry has a plan for a sustainable industry that works for people, our regional towns and cities. It ensures animal welfare is at

the focus of every decision we make and we want the chance to implement this plan. Sincerely, Brenton Scott, Chief Executive of NSW Greyhound Breeders, Owners and Trainers’ Association (GBOTA).

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Fayrouz Tawfik

Fayrouz Tawfik is a Paris-based journalist swimming in the changing currents of Europe.

Changes to celebrated ways of life are not on the French menu HE French language sounds sweet and delicate but the French say things as they are; straight forward and blunt. We call it “apeller un chat, un chat”. It’s not kitty, pussycat or ball of fur. It’s a cat! But the French never had to call their neighbours who are Muslims “Potential Terrorists”; or fear that one of their family members who is dating a Muslim might turn out to be verbally violent against them after converting to Islam. The whole situation is new; not that there has never been terrorist attacks in France, but before the enemy was known. Hezbollah in 1985 bombed stores and Beaubourg Cinema during a Jewish film festival and in 1986 they declared responsibility to a triple bombing on Claridge Hotel on the Champs-Elysees and two stores. On December 24, 1994 Air France flight number 8969 was hijacked by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The following year a series of eight bombs attacks were conducted by GIA. However, never during these decades did the French fear a Middle Eastern or was suspicious that his neighbour could be a potential terrorist just because of his faith. Never was a Muslim rejected a visa for tourism to Europe nor had to submit dozens of pages to prove sanity and financial ability to travel. Vehicle ramming like the Nice attacks that took place on the Bastille Day July 14 this year was not new, but the most fatal. On December 21, 2014 a man yelling “Allahu Akbar” ran over 11 pedestrians in Dijon; and the next day another man in an identical manner ran

over 10 in the city of Nante. The man of Tunisian origin who drove for two kilometres through a crowd of people gathered to watch the fireworks from the Promenade des Anglais in Nice used a 19 tonne truck; not a regular SUV like the Dijon and Nante attackers. What makes the terrorist attacks these past years different from the ones committed by Islamic groups in the ‘80s and ‘90s is one thing: the motive is no more political, but establishing supremacy of a religious identity. Back to the ‘Chat’ I mean the ‘Cat’; it is no more some armed group or movement that has a political agenda targeting one particular country. Daesh or the Islamic State (IS) has more on its mind and that’s why the recruitment is done globally. It is no more the typical Middle Eastern man who wants vengeance from a former colonial enemy, the new terrorists are recruited from all over the world; Arabs, Asians, Africans and white men who embraced Islam and want to prove their loyalty and faith to their leaders. Most are driven by blind faith of a dogma totally foreign to them; most don’t even speak or understand the language Islam was dictated in, and the few who can read and understand Arabic never read the so-called holy text properly. Faith supported by ignorance makes it easy to recruit from Indonesia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Mali, France, UK

and anywhere on earth where there are Muslims with an identity crisis. They found their identity in a faith not a country and are willing to die for it taking the lives of the infidels with them as a trophy. Unfortunately, this ‘Cat’ has more than nine lives and it is out of control. It became so big and wild and nothing can weaken it as long as it has rich milk with cream poured from Saudi royalty treasuries. To make things worse all countries suffering the vicious attacks of this ‘Cat’ have strong and friendly ties with the Saudi kingdom. All are allies with the milkman sponsoring terrorism everywhere. But the French people are fed up with befriending the enemy. You see we don’t like to change our life styles. We don’t want to be scared of going to theatres or bars. We didn’t like it this year when the LGBT Pride Parade changed course and was shortened out of fear. We want to continue going to stadiums, walking down busy and crowded boulevards and enjoying the annual fireworks of the Bastille Day. We will call things by their real names. Those who believe that applying the Islamic legislation (Sharia) can only be achieved by converting the infidels or beheading them are TERRORISTS. Those who finance and support Daesh are not our allies but the allies of governments which has financial gains from keeping ties with them. We cannot be politically correct about this issue any further.

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Greg Smart

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

Fear mongering is the new normal EAR is a powerful tool. It empowers the maniacal, and emboldens the ambitious. In the wrong hands, fear can be used to manipulate the disadvantaged and unsophisticated, to the advantage of the maniacal and ambitious. Witness the rise of Donald Trump, the rebirth of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, the hard right Islamophobes in the Coalition, and the pro-Brexit campaign in the UK. These people and movements claim their respective countries are being lost and need to be reclaimed. Pauline Hanson believes Australia is being overrun by Muslim hoards. The pro-Brexit Campaign had billboards reading ‘Breaking Point.’ Donald Trump wants to ban Muslims from entering America, and believes a 4,000 kilometre wall to keep out Mexicans is a feasible solution to America’s crime and immigration issues. Queensland Nationals MP George Christensen continually declares Australia is under threat from radical Islam and Halal food. These are but are a few examples, but their message is clear - the only safe way forward is to reclaim to the past. But what is the past they want to create? This is never explained. Do they want to go back to a pre – 9/11 world, before America and its axis of acolytes fell dutifully into place, initialled Operation Iraqi Freedom and liberated thousands of armed Iraqi solders into unemployment and disillusionment? What about a pre Gulf War One world, where America was the only superpower following the end of the Cold War, and terrorism was confined to Northern Ireland? What about to returning to the white bread consumer driven 1960’s – quarter acre blocks for all, and being black was a ticket to a life of bigotry and oppression. And the Russians wanted to bomb us to oblivion. Jews suffered unspeakable atrocities

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One Nation’s Pauline Hanson. PHOTO: AAP/DAN PELED

in the 30s and 40s for being perceived as ‘less than pure.’ Surely that is not a period to be reclaimed. What about post World War 1, where the English and French ignored religious and racial differences and redrew

` Fear mongers claim their voice has been forgotten in a tide of political correctness. Attorney General George Brandis declared everyone has a right to be a bigot, and assured safe passage for every bigot to espouse their racist and intolerant views on mainstream and social media.

1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: When was the European Union founded? 2. MOVIES: In which animated Disney movie did the character of Sebastian appear? 3. US PRESIDENTS: Which president received a patent for a device that would lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river? 4. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin phrase “corpus Christi” mean? 5. THEATRE: Who wrote and composed the play “Camelot”? 6. HISTORY: In which year was

the remains of the Ottoman Empire along lines on a map – thus contributing to sectarian divisions and perpetual spiral of violence and retribution? Perhaps the fear mongers would like to explain why they are the arbiters of the reclaiming, and how the country was theirs to reclaim in the first place? At this point the debate usually declines into a protestation about free speech. Fear mongers claim their voice has been forgotten in a tide of political correctness. Attorney General George Brandis declared everyone has a right to be a bigot, and assured safe passage for every bigot to espouse their racist and intolerant views on mainstream and social media. Fear of the other became firmly entrenched in political campaigning. The boats must be stopped. Senator Hanson believes Islam is a violent ideology not

The Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published? 7. MATHS: What type of geometrical figure would the term “deltoid” describe? 8. LITERATURE: Which author invented the character of Hercule Poirot? 9. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of whales called? 10. GEOGRAPHY: What is the longest river in Europe? 11. RACING: Name the famous racehorse trained by Melbourne-

based Peter Moody, and ridden by Luke Nolen in most of her starts. She was retired in 2013. 12. FLASHBACK: Name the only No.1 song Ray Parker Jr had as a solo artist on the Australian charts. (No, it wasn’t “Ghostbusters”.) 13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “We’re doing what we can, But if you want money for people with minds that hate, All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait.” ANSWERS: SEE THE PLAY PAGES.

a religion, and followers do not assimilate with mainstream Australia. Trump publically declared Mexicans are rapists and coming over the border to commit crime in America. The more outrageous the claim, the more the fear mongers are lauded for ‘telling it like it is.’ Trouble is ‘telling it like it is’ is just as vague a sentiment as ‘getting back our country.’ It is lazy campaigning that manipulates voters by stoking vulnerabilities. In the rush to report, the mainstream media are very weak on applying scrutiny to fear mongering. Hanson and Christensen are serial offenders for declaring any violent event an act of Islamic terrorism before the facts are fully known. The fear mongers get away with outright lies and passing off feelings for facts. ‘The public would feel safer if Muslim immigrants were banned’ is not a fact, but media scrutiny is rarely applied. And is absent from media outlets aligned with the fear monger. Is it any wonder ‘I’m not a racist, but…’ is now ingrained in the Australian vernacular. Surely basic humanity is the arbiter, but the vacuum created by declining humanity is being filled with fear, cheered on by those with the most to gain from dividing and conquering. To see Trump declaring America is riddled with problems and he will instantly fix them, whilst giving no details how, is symptomatic of power gained by fear. The pro-Brexit campaign had no plan for what to do if they won the referendum. The fear mongering achieved the winning result, but then what? The big question to Hanson, Christensen, Trump et al – once you have reclaimed your country, then what? Who gets to decide when all the threats are gone and a mythical normal way of life is restored?

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Thanks for the memories, VHS and so long BY MATHEW DICKERSON SON SMALL BUSINESS RULES CONSULTANT

N just two days we will see a significant chapter in the technology world closed. Less than two months shy of the fortieth anniversary of the introduction of VHS video recorders, Sanyo has announced that the last VHS unit in the world will roll off their production line at the end of this month. The simple concept of recording video that we all use so commonly today was a revolution back in the seventies and changed the world of home entertainment. Although Philips introduced the first massmarket Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) in 1972, at $20,000 in current dollars, it was too expensive to be adopted by the masses. The first real impact on the consumer market occurred in November 1975 when Sony introduced the Betamax VCR quickly followed by JVC introducing the Video Home System (VHS) VCR on September 9, 1976. The format war that then developed was almost as intense as a Ford V Holden or a Mac V PC rivalry. The Betamax supporters would gather in the smaller section of the video rental store with a smug smile knowing that their technology was superior to the VHS format while the VHS followers chuckled away in the same store about their greater choice of movies. Ask any person who lived through the format war and they will immediately tell you that Betamax was a better product but VHS was marketed better. This is one of those urban myths with a smattering of truth. If you want to get down to the details, Betamax offered 250 lines of horizontal resolution compared to VHS which offered 240 lines so you could say that Betamax was technically superior – just – but I would defy any average consumer to pick the difference when played back on the small CRT televisions available at the time. In my opinion, the winning of the format war by VHS came down to two main items. Firstly, VHS introduced tapes from the outset with a two hour recording time. Betamax only had one hour. People wanted to record a movie or a sports event on one tape or rent a movie on one tape and the one hour format just wasn’t quite enough. This is a classic in the consumer world where consumer desire should be the number one priority rather than delivering on what the company wants. I am sure Sony had some dedicated technicians who truly believed in the superi-

ority of their product but at JVC they looked at what the consumer wanted. The longer recording of VHS gave it a decided advantage but the killer blow was a decision by JVC that Apple should have learned from in later years. JVC decided to license out their technology to any manufacturer who wanted it. Sony wanted to produce all the hardware themselves to maintain the high quality that they had created in the Betamax format. It wasn’t so much that superior marketing won the day for VHS but the weight of marketing. If you imagine a variety of manufacturers producing VHS machines and all marketing their individual product the weight of marketing would have drowned out whatever the might of Sony – just one company – could produce. As an added bonus, VHS was an acronym and the world loves acronyms! Even though Sony was first to market, it didn’t take long for VHS to win the numbers game. By 1981, Sony’s market share in major markets such as the US and the UK had fallen to 25 per cent and by 1986 it was down to 7.5 per cent. From there it was a spiralling decline. VHS was more pop-

ular so electronics goods stores stocked more VHS related equipment and video stores had more movies on VHS. With more choice in VHS, more people chose VHS and the decline continued. Sony finally adopted the attitude that if you can’t beat ‘em then you may as well join ‘em and produced their own VHS device in 1988 and by 2002 the last Betamax device was manufactured. The world still owes Betamax a huge thank you. The home entertainment we enjoy today was started by Betamax. The formats continued to develop and saw the introduction of LaserDisc and Video CD and DVD and Blu-ray until we reach today where we have streaming services and hard drive recording. Each new technology is a step above the previous standard and delivers more of what consumers want. The technologies that don’t make an improvement and deliver on consumer needs quickly fall by the wayside. LaserDisc was one such format that never gained mass adoption. It was introduced in 1978 and delivered exceptional quality but with an inability to record, a short play time (60 minutes) and a large size (30cm diameter) it really didn’t deliver on what consumers want-

` There is one thing in technology that is guaranteed. No organisation can afford to stand still. The top floor of a skyscraper cannot stand alone but instead is built upon all previous floors and so it is with technology.

ed and gained little traction. After losing the original format war, Sony backed the Blu-ray standard which eventually won out over DVD but the victory was shortlived as video stores are now closing in greater numbers with the progression of streaming. There is one thing in technology that is guaranteed. No organisation can afford to stand still. The top floor of a skyscraper cannot stand alone but instead is built upon all previous floors and so it is with technology. Each new development is created with the combined knowledge of all previous advancements. The United States Commissioner of Patents has been reported as saying that the US Patents office should be closed down as “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” This might seem reasonable with all the incredible products we see on the market today but when you consider this quote was not from today but from 1899, you start to contemplate how much invention is a building process rather than a lightbulb moment. Thankfully mankind will never be satisfied and will always strive to improve. In the same way our grandparents could not have imagined the way we consume our home entertainment today, I can’t begin to imagine how our grandchildren will consume their home entertainment. VHS is dead. Long live home entertainment.

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF Foodies forking out a forkful FOODIE’ culture is causing Australians to chew through their finances, according to new research from industry superfund owned bank ME. Around a third of Australians are spending more on food-related trends, such as ‘superfoods’, roving food trucks or online delivery services, than five years ago – increasing to 43 per cent among Gen Ys. More than half (62 per cent) of the 1,000-strong survey didn’t have a food budget, despite 68 per cent noticing an increase in food-related trends in the past five years, and 44 per cent labelling themselves as a ‘foodie’. And, of those who did have a food budget, 42 per cent often or always exceeded it, particularly Gen Y’s (50 per cent) compared to those aged 50-plus (29 per cent). ME’s head of Deposits and Transactional Banking, Nic Emery, isn’t surprised by the rise in food-related spending, but is concerned by the lack of financial-food bingeing. “With shows like MasterChef gracing our living rooms every night, and food delivery services on the rise, it’s no wonder we’re seeing increased spending on culinary delights,” he said. “It’s important to factor in how big a slice of your financial pie is being allocated to food,” he said. “Be creative with your budget, take

A Permanent move Newcastle Permanent is opening it’s doors in Dubbo for the first time. Vanessa Muddiman is the new lending Manager. Almost 1000 people - including 6 in Dubbo - are employed across 60 branches in NSW.

note of price per kilo with fruit and veg and look for weekly specials. By following some easy rules, such as only dining out every fortnight, shopping for items in season or buying in bulk can ensure you still can have your cake and eat it too.”

Lamb market benefits from stable slaughter trend MEAT & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) midyear Australian Sheep Industry update has revealed that the national monthly lamb slaughter has been its most consistent over the last two and a half years – signalling a greater probability of more consistent market trends going forward. MLA’s manager of market information Ben Thomas said record lamb slaughter and production is forecast for 2016, with sheep production forecasts remaining unchanged since April. Thomas said one of the most interesting trends was the stability in the aver-

age number of lambs slaughtered and its contribution to prices. “Since 2014, there has only been a 4 per cent change in the rolling 12-month average number of lambs slaughtered,” Thomas said. “This reduced volatility in supply has also helped reduce volatility in the average pricing in recent years, along with the softer Australian dollar and lower NZ lamb production.” Thomas said the higher numbers of lambs on hand and expected lamb sales are behind the slightly upward revision to the 2016 lamb slaughter projections. “We are now forecasting 2016 lamb slaughter to be at 23 million head – which will become the fourth consecutive year with a record number of lambs processed,” Thomas said.

New Panama Papers revelations expose rampant tax dodging in Africa RESPONDING to the new revelations of the Panama Papers (https://panamapapers.icij.org), Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said: “The latest Panama Papers revelations expose rampant tax dodging that is allowing multinational companies to avoid paying their dues, particularly how shadow companies are shifting billions in revenue derived from highly lucrative mining and extractives operations across Africa,” Dr Szoke said. “It is shameful that tax avoidance is preventing this money from being spent on vital services such as schools and hospitals in the world’s poorest continent. “[This week’s] release of information shows that the firm Mossack Fonseca helped to establish offshore companies ‘to own, hold or do business with petro-

leum, natural gas and mining operations in 44 of Africa’s 54 countries.’ “The fresh revelations published … by the International Consortium of Journalists included details of millions of dollars in alleged bribes for oil and gas contracts in Algeria and the widespread use of offshore companies to assist in oil, gas and mining deals. “These are valuable natural resources – that should be supporting the needs of everyday people, rather than lining the pockets of the rich and powerful. “When corporations get away with shirking their responsibility to pay their fair share, spending on essential services that are desperately needed suffers. “This scandal is contributing to the inequality crisis across Africa.” Dr Szoke said Oxfam Australia’s recent report, The Hidden Billions, further revealed Australian-based multinational corporations are playing a role in poor nations losing out due to tax dodging practices. Oxfam’s research revealed nearly $AU9 billion that could be spent on public services in Australia and poor countries was being hidden by Australian-based multinationals in tax havens. Dr Szoke said that overwhelming evidence was mounting in support of Oxfam’s call for more transparent tax policies. “Oxfam is calling on the Federal Government to legislate to ensure that companies disclose their profits and taxes publicly for every country in which they operate,” Dr Szoke said. “Others, including the US, Canada, and Europe have already made the public reporting of taxes and profits mandatory for high-risk sectors such as mining and banking.”

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You only die twice (or does Business in your small business?)! changing times ANY years ago, the secret to making money and having a good business was to have fancy marketing and a great sales team. Basically you could have an average product or service and still do quite well. World renowned business guru Brian Tracy argues that this was the old way but in today’s fast changing world, the best way to have a great business is to actually have a great product or service or die a natural death. Now this may seem (sarcastically) a very ‘profound statement’ but what he’s saying is that average products and services will lead to discounting and price wars as the new age makes it easier for customers to do research and get better deals. Great products or services usually lead to repeat business and unless you have repeat business you will generally die. Business valuers consistently look for this when performing a small business valuation with higher than normal multiples. How then do you know if you have a great product or service?

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great product or service. If your sales are stagnant or decreasing, chances are you are slipping back to the pack, losing to the competition or reducing your prices. Have you done an analysis?

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Budget ad campaign for Cabonne makes global statement BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

ORMER Dubbo cameraman Andrew Barnes has filmed an amazing promotional campaign for Cabonne Shire Council called “Discover the Riches.” It’s a cleverly thought out campaign which has created a central themes to link the 12 villages in the shire into a single integrated entity, while also showcasing what the individual centres have to offer. Slick and polished yet displaying the earthy appeals of country NSW, the ads were produced by Cabonne marketing agency Adloyalty. According to company director Caddie Marshall, it’s great to work on some-

thing so close to home which is also so close to your heart. “As a resident of Canowindra I am excited to be given the opportunity to showcase all that our region has to offer,” Caddie said. She aimed the commercials at locals with a view to making them so enthused about their local region, that they’d become the area’s most convincing ambassadors. “The television commercials will provide a big picture view of who we are – the cinematic quality of the campaign is outstanding, the campaign is highly emotive and Andrew Barnes has done a magnificent job,” Caddie said. “The commercials will resonate with those who call the area home and people looking to explore the region further. “The advertising is not about individual businesses as such but is designed

` It’s a cleverly thought out campaign which has created a central themes to link the 12 villages in the shire into a single integrated entity, while also showcasing what the individual centres have to offer. Slick and polished yet displaying the earthy appeals of country NSW, the ads were produced by Cabonne marketing agency Adloyalty.

Andrew Barnes, cameraman, Izabella Tanewski, Adloyalty marketing assistant and Jaqueline Cooper, photographer

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to give an overall portrait of the region to encourage visitors and locals to delve deeper into the villages,” she said. The TV commercials have been linked to a strategic social media tsunami, with a website that provides a far greater depth of information for those who need more detail. That side of things can be quickly updated as needed and also has the ability to be reactive to any unfolding developments or opportunities. “Social media will be aimed at encouraging local collaboration and engagement in order to showcase the depth of our local stories and characters,” Caddie said. “Locals will be able to get involved with the campaign by nominating their favorite local pub, sharing the best fishing spots (highly unlikely) and highlighting their many other Village Gems. “It will be about sharing your local knowledge and being a virtual tour guide for visitors to your village,” she said. The central west viewing area for the TV commercials means residents around centres like Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst, Cowra, Lithgow and Parkes will also be exposed to many close-by attractions that many people wouldn’t have realised existed. The slogan for the “Discover the Riches” campaign is “Take a day, a week – or a lifetime,” so as well as throwing up a smorgasbord of visitation and experiential options, these resonating messages are also hoping to hit people looking at short trips, long stays or even tree-changers. Andrew Barnes grew up on a farm at Eugowra and worked as the Dubbo cameraman for WIN News in the

days when that company still operated a news bureau in the city. Now working as an independent video producer with his own company based in Sydney, he said he’s always keen to come back and help promote the region. “It is always special to get back to the region whenever I can, but to have the opportunity to show it’s wonders to the world is something I hold in high regard,” Andrew said. “I had been to all of the villages and regions before except Ophir, some I hadn’t visited in a long time and it was refreshing to see the friendly charm of these little places, the scenery is stunning but it is the people that makes the area shine. ‘The campaign was shot in just one week, an incredible effort, and Andrew is sold on the professionalism and creativity of the Adloyalty team, he’s pleased to see that level of ability that he’s used to dealing with in Sydney, actually based in a rural setting. “Personally it is the biggest and best project I have worked on,” Andrew said. “I am really happy with how it turned out and how it was received; it has had comments from around the world and to be acknowledged by the industry is something I am very proud of. “It isn’t far for a drive ... get in the car on the weekend and check it out,” he said. I’m a bit biased here, Barnesy worked with me for two years as my cameraman and is incredibly good at his job, as well as having the work ethic that comes from a mixed family farming background, nothing was ever a problem and he surmounted all the technical and lack of resource issues we faced on an hourly basis.

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He filmed the “discover the riches” campaign using the high tech “Blackmagic Design” camera, and the makers of that gear were so impressed, they’re now utilising the Cabonne ads as a showpiece on their website and for trade shows. Considering the Blackmagic cameras are being used by some of the biggest and brightest in the industry, that’s a huge achievement all by itself, and it will also see a huge value add for the Cabonne ads as well. Comparing this campaign to the three million dollar Barossa Valley effort a few years back, the social media success shows that the tiny budget was money incredibly well spent. In just six weeks “Discover the Riches” has seen more than 25,000 people view the videos on Facebook, with an accumulated daily reach of more than 200,000 and an accumulated daily total of almost 300,000, and that’s without including Instagram and other platforms. “People are engaged, they’re getting on social media and telling us they’re visiting our region because of the campaign,” Caddie said. “It’s really engaged people, we’ve got people now posting their own pictures to Facebook, like of the waterfalls after recent rains – we’ve gotten people to be proud of what’s in their own backyard 365 days of the year, we don’t need a circus coming to town. “People from our area living away or overseas are sharing the images with their friends so they can show them where they’re from, they’re hashtagging “Discover the Riches” they’re telling us these images are making them homesick and we don’t need an event to anchor our tourism appeal, we’ve already got it all right here,” she said.

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Lifestyle

Keep on top of Winter weeds BY CHRIS BRAY GARDENING GURU

FTER two months of record rainfall, our gardens and lawns are starting to see the emergence of annual broadleaf weeds and grasses. Now is the time to keep a routine check and remove or spray where necessary, to have a weed free garden and lawn prior to Spring. At this time of the year and with the current moisture held in the soil, weeds will be a common sight in garden beds and areas of lawn that may be feeling the effects of Winter. Annual weeds such as Clover, Winter Grass and Bindii are just a few of the more common weeds found at this time of the year. Clover and Bindii are two weeds that can be removed by hand with a suitable weeding tool or alternatively be sprayed with the many selective herbicides available. Before any application of herbicide to your lawn, always check the label to see if your lawn type is compatible with the spray being used. Spraying your lawn area enables you to quickly eradicate annual Winter weeds and given favorable weather conditions, you should see results within 7 to 10 days at this time of the year. One particular weed that has certainly appeared in mass this year is Winter Grass. This fine leaf weed is commonly found in garden beds and lawns where moisture is high and shade is common, especially under trees and areas shaded by houses, sheds and fences. Depending on the lawn type that you have, this weed can be easily removed with a suitable Winter Grass herbicide. One particular spray containing the active constituent "En-

NT Aboriginal organisations call for NT Government to be dissolved

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A COALITION of Northern Territory Aboriginal organisations this week called for the federal Parliament to step in to dissolve the NT Government, following the exposure of the NT Government’s treatment of children in detention. “Any government that enacts policies designed to harm children and enables a culture of brutalisation and cover-ups, surrenders its right to govern,” said spokesperson John Paterson. The federal Parliament has ultimate control over NT matters and can act to dissolve the current NT Government and bring on an urgent NT election. “We also urge the Prime Minister to ensure the NT Government plays no role in the development or oversight of the Royal Commission. It must be entirely independent of the NT Government, and chaired by an appropriate independent expert and must have Aboriginal representation from the NT. Local organisations and those working in this sector must have input into the terms of reference. The terms of reference must: • Encompass the entire NT youth justice system, not just issues relating to detention facilities; • Examine all previous enquir-

dothal" is very effective in removal of Winter Grass. If your lawn is Kikuyu, you may have to be cautious as this spray is more suitable for lawns like Buffalo. Spraying this weed in its early stages before seeding, will reduce its numbers in following seasons, enabling you to encourage a more healthy and vigorous lawn. Other areas of the garden that may be affected by Winter weeds will be pathways, driveways etc. If you find that you are spraying over and over again in these areas, there are herbicides that have a residual effect for up to 12 months. One easy application will reduce the incidence of weeds re-occurring, leaving your pavers and paths weed free for an extended period and with advances in the active con-

` Spraying your lawn area enables you to quickly eradicate annual Winter weeds and given favorable weather conditions, you should see results within 7 to 10 days at this time of the year.

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ies relating to youth justice in the NT for cover ups and uncover why the recommendations were not implemented. • Not limit how far into the past the Commission can inquire. • The Commonwealth must appoint an alternative provider of youth detention and child protection/out of home care for the NT. The NT Government cannot continue to deliver these services while children remain at risk. • The youth currently on remand should also be removed from the Darwin and Alice Springs detention facilities immediately and placed in appropriate secure accommodation. • The office of the NT Children’s Commissioner must be appropriately and adequately resourced to perform her statutory duties. “That harm is being done to our children and our community in our name is unacceptable. Those responsible, including ministers, advisers, bureaucrats and corrections employees need to be held to account,” spokesperson Olga Havnen said. “The NT Government has led a concerted and sustained cam-

stituent used, surface staining of pavers and paths is also reduced. If spraying around garden beds, especially with any glyphosate based herbicide, make sure overspray does not go onto plants as they may be affected from such herbicide. Other handy hints to consider is to empty sprayers after use and wash out your sprayer with clean water and flush through the hose and wand. Leaving herbicides and other chemicals in your pressure sprayer reduces the effectiveness, causing rubber seals and o-rings to distort and reduce the lifespan of the sprayer.

5 Top tips for this week 1. Monitor weeds in garden beds and lawns. Treat with a suitable Herbicide or remove with a suitable weeding tool. 2. Plant deciduous fruit trees, roses and seasonal produce. 3. Prepare garden beds with compost and broken down animal manures. 4. Prune roses and spray after completion with a suitable fungicide such as lime sulphur. 5. Mulch garden beds to insulate plant roots from the effects of Winter, suppress weeds and retain moisture.

paign demonising young people and to pass draconian laws inconsistent with recommendations made by successive inquiries, including those of the NT Children’s Commissioner. “We are seeking urgent discussions with the Prime Minister to ensure this Royal Commission actually meets the needs of those most affected, and ultimately creates the momentum for reform of the entire youth justice system in the NT.”

Western NSW schools on board with a healthy lunch WESTERN NSW primary schools are helping the next generation of parents pack healthy lunches for their children to provide students with lifelong cancer prevention benefits. Cancer Council NSW nutrition program “Eat It To Beat It” delivered 75 Healthy Lunch Box sessions during the Western NSW kindergarten orientation period last year. Schools are being encouraged to get on board for this year’s kindergarten orientation period or throughout the school year. The free 25-minute sessions show parents how easy it can be to pack a healthy lunch box every day. Each family gets a free show bag filled with great resources, including a hands-on Healthy Lunch Box Kit. Western NSW Community Programs Coordinator, Camilla Thompson said including fruit

and vegetables in the lunch box was an easy step towards eating the recommended two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables every day. “Evidence tells us that diet is linked to cancer and that eating more fruit and vegetables can help reduce your cancer risk,” she said. Schools in Western NSW are working hard to create healthier environments for students and want to support families to build healthy habits at home. “Schools tell us that many lunch boxes still contain a lot of packaged foods,” Camilla said. “Teachers want to encourage parents to build healthy habits in their children from day one, as what kids eat in the playground influences concentration levels in the classroom.” Parents who have attended Healthy Lunch Box sessions report an increase in their confidence to pack a healthy lunch box and increased knowledge about recommended fruit and vegetable consumption. “They also come away with some great recipe ideas and tips and tricks to get kids to eat the healthy food packed in the lunch box,” Camilla said. To find out more or to register interest for a Healthy Lunch Box session, go to eatittobeatit. com.au or contact Community Programs Coordinator, Camilla Thompson on 02 6392 0804 or email Camilla.thompson@nswcc. org.au.

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HEALTH

Education is key for those living with bipolar BY SANE AUSTRALIA ANE Australia has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the benefits of online support and social connection for the four million people affected by complex mental illness. Stories of eight inspiring Australians affected by bipolar, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, anorexia, major depression and suicide, will be broadcast across television, radio and online in 155 communities nationwide for the next eight weeks. The campaign primarily focuses on people living in rural and regional areas where there are significant barriers to getting mental health support. As the mental health sector continues to face funding uncertainty, SANE Australia is encouraging people to visit the SANE online forums to get the help they need. SANE Australia, and perhaps a link to the sane forums.org

‘Mick’ I’ve known there was something different about me for many, many years - even when I was 13 or 14 years old. As my younger self, I never thought I’d find someone to accept me as I am, warts and all. But it did happen. And now I have a wonderful wife and two amazing children. I also have treatment-resistant bipolar disorder. I was diagnosed officially about 10 to 12 years ago. I knew something was wrong, but wasn’t sure what it was. At the time, I had no idea about bipolar. It was just a word, so I did a lot of my own research. Growing up, I’d never had many friends. I would come home from school, go to my dark room and listen to music. I was fortunate that I was good at sport which kept me really busy and also gave me a social life. But when I got older and couldn’t play sport any more, I re-

What causes Bipolar disorder?

When I’m experiencing mania, one of the biggest indicators is that I’ll speak loudly, not letting anyone get a word in, talking over everyone. Of course, people don’t like that... And then you crash. And your bipolar depression comes in. And it’s worse than anything you can imagine - Mick

The causes of Bipolar disorder are not fully understood. As with any other illnesses, they are likely to be a combination of hereditary and other causes, but a genetic predisposition to develop the illness has been clearly established by scientists. How many people are affected? Up to one person in fifty will develop Bipolar disorder at some time in their lives. It happens to people from all ethnic backgrounds. Although it can appear at any age, it’s more likely to develop for the first time in the teens or twenties, and tends to affect more women than men. What are the symptoms of Bipolar disorder? People with Bipolar disorder can become high, over-excited and reckless, or imagine that they are more important or influential than they are in real life. They can also become extremely low, feeling helpless and depressed, with difficulty making decisions or concentrating. Some people mainly experience highs. Some experience mainly lows, and some experience both extremes — becoming profoundly depressed or over-excited. The person may then behave in an uncharacteristically irrational or risky manner. How is Bipolar disorder treated? Treatment can do much to reduce and even eliminate the symptoms. Treatment should generally include a combination of medication and community support. Both are usually essential for the best outcome: Medication Certain medications assist the brain to restore its usual chemical balance and help control the mood swings and depression. The symptoms of bipolar disorder generally react well to medication. Community support programs This support should include information; accommodation; help with finding suitable work, training and education; psychosocial rehabilitation and mutual support groups. Understanding and acceptance by the community is also very important. How do I find out more? It is important to ask your doctor about any concerns you have. SANE Australia also produces a range of easy-to-read publications and multimedia resources on mental illness. For more information about this topic see the resources below. Living with Bipolar The SANE Families, Friends and Carers Guide explains the importance of dealing with your own reactions to mental illness, finding support, and planning ahead. The SANE DVD Kit on Bipolar Disorder is available for purchase. It features people who’ve experienced Bipolar disorder, and their carers, talking about what has helped them cope. It also includes the Bipolar Disorder guide.

ally struggled. I found it hard to stay in contact with the people I’d associated with. And then I isolated myself. I remember telling my wife very early on that I was ill. I’d had bad experiences before when I’d told people. It was just like a movie scene where the camera moves away and you’re left sitting there. You could just see, that was it. It was all over right there and then. So rather than just let it go, I thought I’ll tell her. She was fantastic, she’s still fantastic. I wouldn’t be here without her. I’m medically retired due to my illness, but I really hope to work again one day. In my previous work life, I found the understanding wasn’t there regarding mental health. I wasn’t treated very well at times. I found I was the one having to educate people, having to find the information and explain reasonable adjustment to my employers and the rights I had with my disability. There’s very little education about mental illness at the managerial level. It’s such a massive undertaking, but things need to change. It would make a huge difference for people with a mental illness to just be able to work and be supported at work, without the added respon-

sibility of having to educate their employers. When I’m experiencing mania, one of the biggest indicators is that I’ll speak loudly, not letting anyone get a word in, talking over everyone. Of course, people don’t like that... And then you crash. And your bipolar depression comes in. And it’s worse than anything you can imagine. Suicide is a very real problem in our society. In fact, suicide awareness is one of my biggest passions. It’s something we shy away from acknowledging, even though the statistics are frightening. We don’t talk about it unless we’ve had somebody close to us take their lives. We’re not doing enough about it. It’s as simple as that. When you’re living with a mental illness, having a respectful and anonymous place like the SANE forums to go to makes a real difference. You don’t have to participate. You can just go and have a look. Or you can share your small wins like being able to get to the shops today – for someone with a mental illness that can be huge, and you’ll get encouragement for that. From time to time, you’ll see something really resonates with you and that can really help.

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Herbert’s home comforts BY KATE WHITING N a cosy dining room filled with light, art and floor-to-ceiling shelves of beautiful crockery, Australian cook and writer David Herbert is apologising about the baked goodies on the table in front of us: “They’re not the most attractive-looking scones,” he says, with a smile. This is a man who has cooked for the Queen Mother and two Australian Prime Ministers, and worked with Delia Smith and Jamie Oliver, but Herbert is as modest as they come. His cheese scones, spread liberally with butter on a silver knife, are light, fluffy and impossibly moreish. We’re having afternoon tea (Ceylon Orange Pekoe leaves in an infuser because “teabags are banned in this house”) at his home to discuss his cookbook, David Herbert’s Best Home Cooking, which is a collection of recipes from his weekly column in The Weekend Australian Magazine. Although the 56-year-old now calls the UK home – he’s lived there on and off for decades – he’s sent two recipes a week back here to Australia for the last 16 years. His column is very popular, and Herbert says letters from fans have, on occasion, moved him to tears, including one from a woman who says she carries his tomato soup recipe around with her in her handbag because it’s a constant in “an abstract world”. “There was a guy whose wife had died and she’d always made this chocolate cake, so every year he made it to celebrate her.” Herbert grew up surfing with dolphins and fishing in Nelson Bay – but it was cookbooks that fascinated him most. “I used to go to the library as a kid, when I was eight, nine, 10, and borrow cookbooks from the shelves and go to bed at night thinking about them. “I remember my father’s sister, who was quite sophisticated and lived in the city, telling us about how she went to Russia and had this dish that was a slice of salami under the grill, and they popped an oyster in it. I went to sleep for weeks thinking about how delicious this oyster and salami dish would have been; food always seemed to fascinate me.” Herbert has now notched up six cookbooks of his own. His latest is aesthetically simple but beautiful – smaller than most, it feels lovely in your hands – with a black cover, a la vintage Delia. “The people that inspired me were

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always domestic cooks; mostly female food writers who weren’t chefs, they were people that were writing. From the Seventies, I had Katie Stewart’s cookbook and loved it because it was really practical, simple food that always worked,” he says. “People think they want to cook cheffy food at home, but in fact, it’s just stressful. Cooking should be easy, uncomplicated and you want to have a nice time, you don’t want to be in the kitchen making stacks of stuff and try to be like a restaurant. Get a job in a restaurant if you want to do that!” When he first went to England, he

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If you haven’t used your slow cooker since you prepared chili for the last grand final, it’s past time to put it to work! Slow cookers are the perfect way to make everything from appetizers to desserts. You can prepare breakfast in the slow cooker the night before and have a hot meal in the morning. Lunch, dinner and dessert are easy to make in a slow cooker, too. You also can extract all of the flavours of the best of the season’s vegetables and fruits.

got a job as cook in a country house in Norfolk – and would be sent to cook for the late Queen Mother when she was at Sandringham. He returned to Australia to become the Prime Minister’s private cook, throwing last-minute barbecues for 20: “You’d always have stuff backed up, you just had to stretch it.”

which is clacking away in his conservatory – but he still likes nothing more than trying out new recipes for his column in his modest kitchen and sharing them with his partner, Francis.

Drawn back to the UK again (“I missed the light and landscape”) he was taken on as food editor for Sainsbury’s Magazine, which Delia Smith set up (“We got on fabulously”), and then became food editor on Easy Living magazine.

“Sunday nights we have roast chicken, and then I make a risotto or chicken pie out of the leftovers. Sometimes I do meatballs because Francis is Italian, and sometimes I just roast vegetables. They might take an hour to cook, but the preparation time is nothing. Even cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus, all goes in, so it’s fairly simple.”

Nowadays, he’s branching into pottery – making cups and saucers in a kiln

Try some of David Herbert’s simple fare for yourself...

Here’s a slow-cooked breakfast recipe for Spinach, Bacon and Mushroom Quiche that also can become a light lunch. And a delicious recipe for Chinese FiveSpice Pork makes the perfect filling for a wrap stuffed with a lightly dressed salad for lunch or as a flavourful entree for dinner! Remember, slow it down and stay cool!

SLOW COOKER QUICHE (Serves 6.) 1 (280g) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well-drained 4 slices bacon 2 cups coarsely chopped Portobello mushrooms 1 small (1/2 cup) chopped red

sweet pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 170g (1 1/2 cups) shredded Gruyere cheese or Swiss cheese 8 eggs 2 cups half-and-half or whole milk 3 green onions, roots removed and discarded, green and white ends, diced 1/2 cup packaged biscuit mix 1. Coat the interior of a 3-1/2- or 4-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Using clean paper towels, squeeze spinach to remove liquid, set aside. 2. In a medium skillet over medium heat, cook bacon until crisp; drain, crumble, and set aside. In same skillet, using the remain-

ing bacon fat, add mushrooms and sweet pepper, and half of the salt, pepper and nutmeg; cook until tender. Stir in spinach and cheese. 3. In a medium bowl combine eggs, half-and-half, green onions and the remaining salt, black pepper and nutmeg. Stir egg mixture into spinach mixture in skillet. Gently fold in biscuit mix. Pour egg mixture into prepared slow cooker. Sprinkle with bacon. 4. Cover and cook on low-heat setting for 4 to 5 hours or on highheat setting for 2 to 2-1/2 hours or until a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean. Turn off cooker.

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GLUTEN-FREE STRAWBERRY AND HAZELNUT MERINGUE

(Serves 4) 1-2tbsp olive oil 1 large onion, finely chopped 2 celery sticks, finely diced 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1/2tsp dried chilli flakes 1.25L chicken or vegetable stock, plus extra if needed 100g red lentils 55g bulgur wheat 2tbsp tomato puree Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2tbsp roughly chopped mint 2tbsp roughly chopped basil 1. Plain yoghurt and extra mint leaves, to serve 2. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat, add the onion, celery and garlic and cook for five to seven minutes, or until softened but not coloured. Add the chilli flakes and cook for one minute. 3. Pour in the stock and bring to the boil. Stir in the lentils, bulgur and tomato paste and return to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for about 20 minutes or until the grains are tender. Add a little extra stock, if needed. Season to taste. 4. Add the mint and basil just before serving. Ladle into bowls and serve with a dollop of yoghurt and a few extra mint leaves.

(Serves 8-10) 210g skinned hazelnuts 6 large free-range eggs, separated 180g caster sugar 250ml double cream, whipped 250g strawberries, hulled and halved Icing sugar, for dusting 1. Preheat the oven to 170C (150C fan). Grease and line a 24cm springform cake tin. 2. Place the nuts in a dry frying pan and toast over low heat, shaking the pan, until starting to brown. Cool and then pulse in a food processor until they are coarsely ground. 3. Using an electric mixer or hand-held electric beaters, whisk the egg yolks and caster sugar until pale and very thick â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this should take about three to four minutes. Gently stir in the ground hazelnuts. 4. Whisk the egg whites in a clean, dry bowl with hand-held electric beaters until firm peaks form, then gently fold them into the hazelnut mixture with a large metal spoon. Spoon into the prepared tin, then transfer to the oven and bake for 45-50 minutes, or until firm to the touch and slightly shrunk away from the side of the tin. 5. Leave to cool for about 15 minutes, then carefully remove the outside of the tin and cool completely on a wire rack (it will probably sink a little). 6. When the meringue is cold, cut it in half horizontally and fill with whipped cream and half the strawberries. Dust the top with icing sugar and decorate with the remaining strawberries.

VEGETABLE FILO PIE

David Herbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Home Cooking is published by Penguin Lantern.

(Serves 8) 2 red peppers, seeds and veins removed, cut into 2cm pieces 3 red onions, cut into thin wedges 1 large butternut squash, peeled and cut into 2cm pieces 1 bulb garlic Olive oil, for cooking and brushing 500g frozen spinach, thawed and chopped 200g feta, roughly crumbled 2tsp crushed or ground sumac, plus extra to garnish Salt 8 sheets filo pastry Sesame seeds, to garnish 1. Preheat the oven to 200C (180C fan). 2. Place the peppers, onion, squash and garlic in a large roasting tin, drizzle with a little oil and roast, turning occasionally, for 30 minutes or until tender and coloured. Remove and stir through the spinach, then set aside to cool. 3. Stir the feta through the cooled vegetables. Slice the garlic bulb and squeeze out the delicious soft centres, then sprinkle with sumac and season to taste with salt. 4. Grease a 23cm springform cake tin with a little oil. Line the inside of the tin with five layers of filo pastry, overlapping and brushing each layer with a little oil, allowing the pastry to come above the rim of the tin. 5. Place the filling in the tin and cover with three layers of pastry, brushing each layer with oil. Any overlapping pastry can be folded over the filling. Bake for 20 minutes, then brush with oil and sprinkle with sesame seeds and a little extra sumac. Return to the oven and bake for a further 10-15 minutes or until golden.

CHINESE FIVE-SPICE PORK

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(Makes 8 servings.) 2 (340g) pork tenderloins 1/2 cup reduced sodium soy sauce or tamari, plus 2 tablespoons 1 tablespoon Chinese five-spice powder 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper Non-stick cooking spray 4 thick slices fresh pineapple and juice 3 tablespoons light brown sugar 2 tablespoons mirin or rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons canola oil 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger 3 cloves garlic, minced 3 green onions, roots removed and discards, white and green parts, diced Toasted sesame seeds (optional)

1. Trim any silver skin from the meat. Season meat on all sides with 2 tablespoons of the soy sauce or tamari, 1/2 tablespoon of the five-spice powder and the black and cayenne pepper. 2. Coat an extra-large non-stick skillet with cooking spray; heat skillet over medium-high heat. Cook meat in hot skillet until brown on all sides. Transfer meat and any juices to a 3 1/2- or 4-quart slow cooker. Add in the slices of pineapple and any juices. 3. In a small bowl whisk together the remaining soy sauce and five spice powder, the brown sugar, mirin or vinegar, oil, ginger and garlic. Pour over meat. Cover and cook on low-heat setting for 5 to 6

hours or on high-heat setting for 2 1/2 to 3 hours. 4. Transfer meat to a cutting board, reserving cooking liquid. Cover the pork loosely with a piece of foil and allow the pork to cool for 10 minutes before slicing. 5. Cut meat into 1-2cm (1/2-inch) slices. Drizzle meat with cooking liquid. If desired, sprinkle with green onions and sesame seeds. Serve the meat in a wrap or lettuce cup with coleslaw or pickled vegetables and a drizzle of the cooking liquid; or as an entree for dinner over brown rice, with coleslaw or a salad as a side.

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The best of Cabonne Photographer Jacqueline Cooper has captured the spirit of country life in this iconic image, shot as part of a new tourism campaign to promote the Cabonne region which weaves the characters of 12 villages in the shire into a single story, appealing to visitors from around the world and with unprecedented success on social media. The campaign includes television advertisements shot by former local WIN cameraman, Andrew Barnes. Production of the campaign has been done by Canowindrabased marketing agency, Adloyalty. Great work guys!! Read more about it in the Business section of this issue of Dubbo Weekender in an article by John Ryan.

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Shower with love BY SAM WYLIE-HARRIS TEPPING under a cascading shower can be one of the most luxurious feelings in the world. But turning the shower on to be greeted with a pathetic little trickle can be one of the most frustrating and disappointing experiences! Indeed, the power of a good shower should not be underestimated. So much more than a means of getting clean, the right one can encourage us to break into a chorus of Singin’ In The Rain, awaken the senses and leave us invigorated and ready to face the demands of the day. Nearly 90 per cent of households have at least one shower in their home, and with demand for super-stylish systems continuing to grow, leading bathroom specialists now offer an array of solutions for both traditional and contemporary interiors. “The bathroom continues to be a key element of our homes, playing a much greater role beyond that of its traditional function as just another part of the daily routine,” says Robin Levien, an international designer . “It has become both multi-purpose and multi-functional, an oasis of escapism and relaxation. A place for reinvigoration, transformation and even somewhere to pose, ponder and play.” Dreaming of a shower upgrade? The first stage in the planning process is to address a number of key issues, such as water pressure, the fabric of the building and ceiling height. “ The most important thing is to ensure you choose a shower system that’s compatible with your water supply, to make sure you have sufficient water pressure to give optimal showering experience,” notes Joe Stephens, a product designer . Once the practical points have been addressed, you can drench yourself in the fun bits... DARK DEPTHS Style and ambience can make a big difference in a bathroom; an uncluttered spa style, and chic, minimal designs are ever-popular. And while lighter colour schemes may be most traditionally associated with this part of the home, don’t rule out moody hues, which can work especially well. “There is a trend for using dark colours on the walls and floor, which with good lighting, can actually make a small space seem bigger, as well as delivering a boutique hotel feel,” says Levien. Think different shades of greys, particularly darker tones, which are very on trend and great for creating a tranquil feel of luxury and relaxation. WET & WILD Oversized shower heads can – literally – wash our woes away and make us feel like we’re in Club Tropicana. “Drench shower heads are a fantastic choice for those looking to create a spa-like showering experience,” says Helen Shaw, marketing manager at Laura Ashley Bathroom Collection. “Large, 300mm shower heads, which can be ceiling-mounted for a dramatic effect, are perfect for this as they create a cascading rain shower effect. Diverter valves are very popular, as they give the ability to switch the flow of water between two or even three different outlets, such as the main overhead shower, a handset and a bath filler. Thermostatic shower valves are another popular choice, particularly for families, as they are safe and easy to use.” Lisa Ward, a shower design expert, agrees: “ Right now, bigger is better. Show-stopping ceiling-fed shower heads are a huge trend, because they look great,

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Cucumber Mint Salad with Cheese BY DONNA ERICKSON “Watch out for the mint! It will invade your garden like an aggressive weed if you don’t keep it under control,” warned my well-meaning neighbours when my kids and I planted our first assortment of herbs. But I

say... “Bring on the mint!” After chives, mint is the next perennial peeking through our soil. At certain time of the year it has pushed its way beyond its borders and, I admit, duels for territory with other plants. But I celebrate its recklessness and pick it daily, rub it through my fingers and breathe in the freshness. No wonder toothpaste, soap, candy and chewing-gum companies profit from its virtues. There are countless ways to enjoy fresh mint from the garden, too, including this

tasty salad, which I serve as a side with grilled meat or fish. Ask your kids to pick a few sprigs for this recipe and enjoy prepping it together an hour or two before your meal. CUCUMBER MINT SALAD WITH CHEESE (Serves 8.) 1 English cucumber (also known as a hothouse cucumber), about 30cm long 225g cheese such as cheddar, gruyere, Havarti or mild provolone 20 fresh mint leaves 2 tablespoons mayonnaise

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and they provide a really luxurious showering experience. “This year we’re seeing the emergence of ‘wow’ shower head features, such as waterfall settings and LED mood lighting, which create a sense of total relaxation,” she adds. “There’s a perception that ceiling-fed shower heads are inflexible, but increasingly, homeowners are investing in a diverter to a second shower head, which can be adjusted to suit the needs of each user, meaning they get the best of both worlds.” THE WOW FACTOR When space is at a minimum, often it’s all about finding inventive and user-friendly ways of fitting in the essentials – but those lucky enough to have lots of bathroom space to play with can tap into trends on a larger scale. “Bathrooms are moving from the functional into the decadent,” says Edel Nicholson, marketing manager with a shower manufacturer. “There are no longer any taboos and the filter has been lifted! Colour, texture, shape and size have moved from being ‘safe’ to almost stretching the boundaries of good taste. There has never been so

much choice and product variation, and trends are very fast moving.” To create a beautiful bathroom, the pros suggest picking a statement piece that you really can’t live without – make that the focus of the room – and design your bathroom around it. Talk to your local bathroom retailer, as they can give you professional advice and use a suite of design tools, so you can be confident you’ve made the right choices for your space and needs, before any costly tiling or plumbing work begins. “We love giving a traditional bathroom an up-todate facelift by removing the bath and replacing it with a large format slim tray and wet room,” says Nicholson. “This totally transforms both the look, life and function of the bathroom. “Again, there is huge choice out there, and if you are concerned about plumbing and drainage, opt for a low level tray for a true wet room look. “Think about coloured glass, as this can offer a ‘wow’ factor and also delivers some privacy, if the bathroom is used by more than one person at a time.” 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved through the stem Sprigs of fresh mint, for garnish. 1. Trim off the ends of the cucumber, cut in half lengthwise and let your child scrape out seeds with a spoon. Pat the cucumber dry. 2. To dice, slice each half in fourths lengthwise. Line up the

long “sticks” and cut perpendicularly to previous cuts, creating cubes. 3. Dice the cheese in slightly smaller cubes. 4. Remove any stems from the mint leaves. Cut them using an easy chiffonade technique that makes the mint look like fluffy ribbon: Stack eight leaves neatly and roll them up lengthwise to make a tight bundle. An adult should

carefully cut bundled leaves thinly crosswise, to make ribbon-like pieces. Or, let kids cut through the bundle thinly with scissors. Repeat with remaining leaves. 5. In a large bowl, combine the cucumber, cheese, mint, mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Fold in the tomatoes and taste for seasonings. 6. Chill and serve garnished with a sprig or two of mint.

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Cheaper thrills in Norway’s Stavanger

WƵůƉŝƚ ZŽĐŬ͕ >ǇƐĞłŽƌĚ͕ EŽƌǁĂǇ͘ WŚŽƚŽƐ͗ W WŚŽƚŽͬ^ƚĞƉŚĂŶŝĞ DĂƐŬĞƌǇ͘ BY STEPHANIE MASKERY ATHERED around the chef’s table, our party of eight eagerly anticipates the arrival of our 17-course sushi dinner. Each dish is a tiny work of art, and we all mumble appreciative ‘aahs’ as we taste freshly caught salmon and cod, with wasabi. Roger Joya, who came fourth at the sushi world championships in 2015, is our chef for the evening at Sabi Omakase, an intimate restaurant with room for just nine people. While it may sound like the finest Japan has to offer, I’m actually more than 5000 miles from Tokyo, in Norway’s oil capital, Stavanger. Since the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Stavanger has been the poster boy for Norway’s economic boom. Many of the city’s 130,000 inhabitants enjoyed a life of high wages, low unemployment and an extremely luxurious restaurant scene. But the price of oil has been dropping, reaching a 12year low earlier this year. Norway’s economy has taken a hard hit, and the impact has been most notably felt in Stavanger, where a weaker krone means it’s now a much more affordable destination. Central hotels cost from approximately $A110 per night. Fortunately, there’s much more than oil to a city where brightly-painted wooden buildings line a harbour looking out towards cloud-shrouded fjords across the bay. We’re eating dinner in Storhaug, one of Stavanger’s newest up-and-coming suburbs. Formally known as the city’s backyard, the area is an eclectic mix of second-hand bookshops, street markets and start-ups from young, hip entrepreneurs. You can grab a coffee in the new, trendy indoor food market Mathallen, or try some delicious tarragonroasted langoustines in Ostehuset, a cafe-come-deli celebrating local produce. Just a short walk away is Olbaren Ost, a tiny bar situated on the site of a former brewery, where everything from the furniture to the beer is handcrafted. Keen to keep it cool, the next day we sign up to the NuArt tour, a 90-minute city centre guided walk that takes in works of the NuArt Festival, a celebration of the world’s leading street art. Our guide, Mike Wojtowics, points out 50ft wall murals of whales, stencil art of angels and even tiny toy men fixed to walls and hidden around the city. The festival, which has been running every September for the past 15 years, attracts world-class graffiti artists including Pure Evil, famous for his images of crying celebrities. While some of the artwork is temporary, a lot of it is permanent, meaning Stavanger

has some of the best and most diverse street art in the world. For those seeking more traditional pursuits, there are several quirky museums. The sleek and rather spectacular Petroleum Museum tells the story of Norway’s discovery of oil, with fascinating interactive displays and a mock drill platform, complete with emergency chute. We also visit The Norwegian Canning Museum and take a guided tour of what life was like before the oil, when Stavanger’s main industry was canning. “If it swam in the sea or grew on trees, we canned it,” our enthusiastic English guide Piers informs us. While Stavanger’s quirky attractions make for a fun day out, most tourists know the city as a gateway to the fjords and despite looming black clouds, we are keen to get out onto the water with a cruise up to the famous Pulpit Rock, Norway’s most photographed monument. Heavy mist sits on top of the Lysefjord’s mountainous cliffs, but the place is still stunning. We speed past craggy islands dotted with red-roofed houses, churning up the strikingly blue waters of the fjord. As we

Rib Captain Havard Gundersen of Fjord Events.

approach the famous Pulpit, a sheer jut of granite towering 604m above the fjord, we see... nothing. Hidden above the clouds, we’re just going to have to climb it instead. Tours of the Lysefjord leave from Stavanger several times daily and you can opt for just the cruise or the cruise and the hike, which as a round trip, takes six hours. Tickets can easily be bought on the day either at the quay, on board or from the tourist information. “The weather is trolsk,” says our guide, “it means the trolls are nearby”. As we head up into the mist, it’s easy to see why legends around here are plentiful. After two hours, we finally get our glimpse of the rock. It’s a gigantic structure, reaching out into the abyss, like an altar to the Norse gods. It’s said to be one of the greatest viewing platforms on earth. Sadly, there’s no view right now, but who needs one? It’s still breathtaking. As people precariously dangle their legs over the edge, perhaps it’s good we can’t see to the bottom. The epic climb to the top of the rock leaves us feeling rather adventurous, so what better way to recharge

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the adrenalin than a sea safari on a power rib? Fjord Events offers a range of raft excursions where you can look out for whales, seals and birds of prey, all while bouncing over the waves at up to 60mph. We head to Flor and Fjaere, also known as the palm island – a unique oasis in the North Sea. As we disembark onto the small jetty, we’re immediately greeted with an explosion of colour. Some 50,000 annuals are planted by hand every year to stun visitors and the scent of all these flowers permeates the whole island. Our guide and co-owner of the island, Siri, takes us on a tour of the gardens – a passion project started by her father-in-law and expanded by her husband into a 20-acre site with beaches, waterfalls and even a Japanese carp pond. You could easily lose yourself in the beauty here, but our captain, Havard Gundersen, is calling us back to the rib. At well over 6ft tall and sporting a gigantic ginger beard, his infectious grin has us all excitedly clambering aboard. Soon we’re speeding over the water, while the wind whips at our faces. We’ve all caught the Norwegian passion for life – great food, great culture and great fun. Approaching Stavanger, we pass the royal yacht. The king and queen are here today and I’m reminded of the wealth in this tiny and charming town. Nipping past on our speedy boat, I realise how fun it is too, with much more to offer visitors than just its oil. * Stephanie Maskery was a guest of the Norwegian Tourist Board. Visit www.visitnorway.com.

Views from the Lysefjord boat trip to Pulput Rock.

Retro family fun on the NSW coast BY EVYN TESTONI T was somewhere between watching the egg and spoon race and human wheelbarrow relay that I realised I hadn’t laughed so hard since I was a kid. My cheek muscles started to cramp and my eyes were watering – seeing your eight-year-old daughter face plant when her 11-year-old brother drops her in the dirt will do that. Retro races are just one part of the “back to family” theme championed at the BIG4 Sunshine South West Rocks Holiday Park on NSW’s north coast. Staying at the park took me back to the fun family times I enjoyed as a kid at caravan parks in the 1970s – except here the creepy, drab, amenities block doesn’t exist. Sunshine’s block even has piped music. It’s setting a new benchmark for holiday parks – something everyone enjoys from campers to caravanners, to lazy glampers like my family, who stayed in a luxury cabin beside a saltwater lagoon. The facilities are incredible – with everything to amuse and entertain all ages. There’s a putt putt course, half tennis court, covered jumping pillow and playground, games room with ping pong, pool, pinball and air hockey and much more. The showpiece is Shipwreck Island – an amazing wonderland with pools, waterslides, pirate caves and a pirate ship at its centre. But for all the bells and whistles, Sunshine’s main aim is to bring people together for a dose of old-fashioned family fun and relaxation. It boasts a family club, rather than just a kids club, with activities like the retro races and trivia to get everyone involved. Park owner Tony Mayne says his vision was to recreate the family holidays of yesteryear with modern touches. “I think we are starting to look back at simpler times when family came before ambition and assets, and what makes us truly happy,” he says. “Life is just crazy nowadays, and our purpose is to get you to walk and talk slower by the time you leave.” The park has been a labour of love for Tony and his family, who have aimed to make it one of the most family-friendly resorts on NSW’s north coast. He invested $1 million in launching Shipwreck Island, converting an old fishing trawler into the stunning Golden Rose pirate ship – the centrepiece of the attraction, named after Tony’s young daughter Ella-Rose. While aimed at under-12s, it’s a jaw-dropping sight for the young at heart as well. “Shipwreck Island is a huge hit with kids and parents, they play on it all day and moan when they have

go home for dinner,” Tony says. “There isn’t a day when I can’t hear shrieks and squeals of delight all day coming from Shipwreck Island.” Tony gets misty-eyed when describing the park’s evolution and its most recent addition. “I designed and built Shipwreck Island based on my own long-held childhood fantasies,” he says. “I started designing it 15 years ago, which involved converting an old, wrecked 50-foot timber fishing trawler into a replica pirate ship, and it gets to me sometimes when I see the reaction in the faces of kids when they see it and are playing on it... very cool!” We visited in the recent winter school holidays and kids were still enjoying the waterworks. There’s heaps to do even in the cooler months, with a huge fire pit a focal point for families to gather around at night, toasting marshmallows and telling tall tales. Another great reason for a winter visit is the whale watching, with pods of majestic humpbacks and right whales cruising past nearby Trial Bay on their way north. A resident mob of eastern grey kangaroos roam the park, along with a riot of kookaburras, which cheekily perch near anyone with food – though the park makes a point of discouraging feeding the wildlife. Feeding yourself is no problem though, whether it be slapping up a feast of snags on the barbecues or taking in the park’s licensed restaurant – Full Circle Eatery. We stopped in a couple of times – the bacon and egg rolls are as big as your head and there’s even kids’ milkshakes in half-pint (300ml) bottles.

Sunshine is surrounded by Hat Head National Park and is just 10-minutes walk to the renowned Trial Bay Beach, with six more glorious beaches close by. It’s close to all the local attractions – including Trial Bay Gaol and Smoky Cape Lighthouse – and is two kilometres from the town centre, which has an array of great food options and a couple of big supermarkets to stock up on supplies. The park borders a large saltwater lagoon and you can hire canoes to paddle around its tranquil expanse. Bikes and peddle carts are also available for hire and the town’s cycleways are safe and mainly flat. IF YOU GO GETTING THERE: South West Rocks is about 25km off the Pacific Highway, take the Kempsey Frederickton exit. It’s about halfway between Sydney and Brisbane – roughly six hours drive from either capital. It’s just over an hour from Port Macquarie or Coffs Harbour airports. STAYING THERE: The park has a variety of options from powered camping and ensuite sites to a range of cabins. EATING THERE: The park has covered barbecue facilities and a licensed restaurant – Full Circle Eatery – open for breakfast and lunch, plus dinner on Friday and Saturday. PLAYING THERE: Putt putt, half-court tennis, games room, canoe hire, bike hire, for more info go to www. big4southwestrocks.com.au * The writer stayed in South West Rocks courtesy of BIG4 Sunshine Holiday Park. AAP

Children riding a peddle go-kart at Big4 Sunshine Holiday Park at South West Rocks on NSW’s north coast. PHOTO: AAP IMAGE/BIG4 SUNSHINE HOLIDAY PARK

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The Best Medicine ‘The Best Medicine’ is fresh from rolling them in the aisles at the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival but there is some irony to Hannah Boland’s work, who as a chronic pain, anxiety and depression sufferer, tells her stories with music, humour and grace in a show designed to bring laughter to those that need it most. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley. How did you get into standup comedy? I’ve always been a performer of one kind or another. I’ve been performing music in front of audiences since I was 5 years-old, and I’ve always loved public speaking and entertaining. I think a part of me has always wanted to have a go at doing comedy, but I never had the confidence or maturity to do it well. Then in 2011 and 2013, we lost two fullterm babies 18 months apart, after which I suffered a nervous breakdown. During my very long and slow recovery (which is still ongoing) I remember how important laughter was to me. Don’t get me wrong, it didn’t happen all that often. But when I would have a good belly laugh with a friend, or sit and watch a funny movie or a comedian on TV, that experience of laughter was such a hopefilled experience for me because it reminded me of what it was like to laugh again, and gave me hope that I would one day might be able to feel some sort of happiness. That memory was so strong for me that when I started to recover enough to look towards my future, all I wanted to do was to bring that same hope to other people. I think that mission, combined with the maturity and boldness I had now developed - having been through what I had - was the final push I needed to get up and do it! So here I am! How did your first performance work out? My first ever stand-up performance was actually right here in Dubbo in 2014! Looking back I realise how utterly crazy it was to perform a solo full show as my debut into stand-up! I had never really tried comedy before; I hadn’t even been to any open mic nights to test out the material, which is pretty much unheard of for any comedian starting out. The reason I didn’t take that approach is because I have a young family who is my priority, and I also suffer from some health complications which means that I can’t be running all over the big smoke looking for 10 minute slots on open mic nights. Needless to say I was pretty tightly wound before that first Gift of the Gab show at Dubbo RSL. I had no idea about where the audience might laugh or if my material was going to be funny, but there’s nothing like jumping off the deep end, is there? Thankfully, the audience had a blast! It still stands out in my mind as one of my most favourite performances to date - not from a skill/performance perspective but from an audience appreciation level. I was literally wel-

comed into the industry by the Dubbo public, and I am forever grateful for that! What’s the story behind The Best Medicine show? This show is rather aptly titled The Best Medicine, as the running theme of the show is to encourage people in life through laughter! It really is a show that anyone can relate to, even though I talk a little about living with depression, anxiety and Fibromyalgia (my chronic pain condition). I try to be as honest with people as possible because if there’s one thing I’ve learned about people who struggle with such things is that just knowing you’re not alone in how you’re feeling can be such an encouragement. And of course, that’s what good comedy is, isn’t it? It connects people through shared experiences. Has laughter been the best medicine for you? Well, it might sound trite, but it’s also true. Laughter has been and still is such a huge part of my recovery process, and in conjunction with an incredibly supportive family, friends network, professional help and my faith in God, perhaps it is more accurate to say it has been a key ingredient in the best medicine! Your show is described as ‘clean’. How difficult is it to keep it that way? About as difficult as trying to define what “clean” is in the first place! Everyone will

draw a different line in the sand as to what they deem to be “clean”. I think one of the reasons there is so little “clean comedy” on the circuit is that people can be so easily offended, and when comedians with the best of intentions (myself included) unwittingly stray into offensive territory in the mind of another, the task can literally be impossible. You also have to work ten times harder to be clean! If you take away the vulgarity used when trying to make a point with impact (which is what most punchlines are) you have to work much harder to convey the humour without that tool. Personally, I think that some vulgarity used appropriately is an excellent tool in comedy and in other contexts, and one day I hope to have audiences trust me enough to take them there without causing offence. But for now I am still building that trust, so I play it extra-safe and am grateful for the experience of getting to know my craft more intimately. What’s your family connection to Dubbo? I first visited Dubbo in 2003 when I flew up from Melbourne, and my (now) husband brought me out from Sydney to meet his Nan for the first time! I enjoyed myself immensely as I had the mandatory tour of the zoo and the gaol, and seeing where my husband’s father had grown up as a kid. Dubbo became even more special to me when I saw how much my husband loved being here! Nan moved from Dubbo out to Yeoval a year or so ago, but in the meantime my sister and her family moved from Victoria to Dubbo and absolutely love it here! So just when we thought there was no more family to visit in Dubbo, we were thrilled to have new reason to come back! What have you learned about yourself through your comedy? That if you let your doubts and fears rule you, you will never achieve even a small amount of what you potentially could. I’ve also learned to have so much more respect for our performing artists in Australia as it is a really tough gig – both financially and the public scrutiny. And even though I can’t say I am a huge fan of every well-known Australian performer, I do respect the grit, perseverance and skill it takes to be where they are!

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Benjamin Warner’s “Thirst” will thrill fans of post-Apocalyptic fiction BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

BOOK OF THE WEEK Thirst by Benjamin Warner is published in hardback by Bloomsbury. FANS of post-Apocalyptic fiction will welcome Benjamin Warner’s debut novel. It’s a disturbing, enigmatic book, all the more troubling for its humdrum setting. The nightmare scenario Warner conjures up is of a sudden and total lack of water. Inexplicably, rivers and reservoirs have combusted, leaving only beds of ash and charred foliage. We don’t know how far this disaster extends, only that food and drink is rapidly running out in the sprawling suburb where unhappy young couple Eddie and Laura live. The situation becomes increasingly desperate as the temperature soars and the inhabitants wait passively for help that never comes. Warner has something to say about dependence on authority and lack of meaningful community. But really this is a visceral book and where it excels is in its gut-wrenching descriptions of how dehydration ravages the body and mind.

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FICTION Dead To Me by Lesley Pearse is published in hardback by Michael Joseph. SET in London and Devon before and during the Second World War, Dead To Me follows the unlikely friendship of two young girls whose lives are poles apart – privately educated Verity, and Ruby, who grew up in extreme poverty. Written from their perspectives, the story draws on themes of relationships, class and feminism, beginning with the moment the girls meet, to a pivotal event that threatens to tear them apart. From the first page, the novel hints at darker undertones, and in her usual style, author Lesley Pearse crafts a gripping plot that twists and turns, leaving the reader second guessing right up until the heart-racing climax. With a compelling mix of history and drama, it is definitely one to be read in as few sittings as possible. 8/10 (Review by Anna Hinchcliffe)

Benjamin Warner’s debut novel is centred on a nightmare scenario. PHOTO: BLOOMSBURY/GIONCARLO VALENTINE.

The Dog Who Dared To Dream by SunMi Hwang is published in paperback by Abacus.

THE Dog Who Dared To Dream is the latest release from South Korean author

Sun-Mi Hwang, most famous for her bestseller The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, a story that was adapted into the highest-grossing animated film in Korean history.

As its similar titles suggest, this new release is something of a sister novel to its predecessor in terms of its animalfocused narrative. The protagonist is a dishevelled puppy named Scraggly who

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 29.07.2016 to Sunday 31.07.2016 captures the affection of her owner who is rearing dogs to be sold. A series of heartbreaking events that litter Scraggly’s life lead her to dream of life outside the boundaries of her home, and propel her to act boldly and without fear. It’s an endearingly simplistic story that reflects the modesty and spirit of Hwang’s own upbringing in South Korea. Within the confines of a small garden, themes of friendship, motherhood and betrayal are examined. Whilst the narrative is not particularly daring and felt a little insubstantial at times, it is overall a poignant, hopeful and charming read. 6/10 (Review by Erin Bateman)

NON-FICTION Straight Jacket: How To Be Gay And Happy by Matthew Todd is published in hardback by Bantam Press. IN the watershed 1970 film The Boys In The Band, a character remarks, “Show me a happy homosexual and I’ll show you a gay corpse.” These sardonic words reverberate through Matthew Todd’s sobering assessment of the men-

tal health crisis impacting the LGBT community, which the author candidly refracts through the prism of his selfdestructive behaviour before and during his editorship of gay lifestyle magazine, Attitude. Straight Jacket is a cri de coeur for a rainbow flag generation living under a dark cloud of self-loathing and body dysmorphia, for which Todd accepts some blame by promoting images of gym-toned perfection on Attitude’s front cover. In his enthusiasm to share a polemic of exhaustively researched argument about toxic shame, addiction and escapism, Todd overloads early chapters with quotations from estimable sources. Clambering through dense paragraphs of expert opinion reaps rewards, including shocking accounts of bullying at school – from teachers as well as pupils – and young people committing suicide to escape their torment. In these moments of unvarnished, heartbreaking truth, Todd’s call to arms strikes an undeniably moving chord. 8/10 (Review by Damon Smith)

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon is published in hardback by Orion Children’s Books. TWO voices weave together this story of loss and division in Australia. On one side of a metal fence there’s Rohingyan refugee Subhi, who has spent his entire short life in a camp with his mother and sister; and on the other, Jimmie, who, since her own mother’s death spends her days careering about, hoping her brother will buy her a bike. With a fence at its centre, it’s no wonder The Bone Sparrow is already drawing comparisons with The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. The language captures the children’s confusion, their hope mixed with worry over their families and dreams of freedom (physical freedom for Subhi, and the imaginative freedom to read for Jimmie) with nuance, heightened by their naivete, and the novel doesn’t flounder in abject misery when it easily could. However, there are scenes so upsetting you are less gripped than you are desperate to set it aside for a breather. There’s a particularly nasty incident

Much ado about nothing AST week, Sydney media featured a NSW map showing the voting percentages favouring Pauline Hanson’s Party in the recent Federal election. This might not reflect votes for a party but rather votes against the options. One in 12 voters in a huge geographic proportion of NSW voted for that party. The area generally represented in that map showed NSW excluding Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong, and typifies Sir Earle Page’s motivation in the early 1950s to create a new state for country people. Clare Wright’s “The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka” details the Stockade as one of Australia’s foundation legends – from this emerged the so-called ‘birth of Australian democracy’. Today, too much government decision making focusses on winning votes from metropolitan regions, yet the country areas generate the nation’s prime industry revenues. “The Citizens’ Bargain” by Walter and McLeod provides a documentary history of Australian views since 1890. The process of merging Local Government Councils is more to do with failure to eliminate the poor practices of ineffective administrations – autocratic action taken because they couldn’t administer their own regulations. The State’s initiative to shut down greyhound racing also involves their failure to enforce previous regulations which aimed to tidy up that activity. But what about horses? Most

horses don’t die of old age but, like dogs, they are “put down”. No politician would dare close the thoroughbred industry. They have failed to curtail the rate of criminal behaviour: instead of shutting that system down with force they have reopened Grafton Jail and increased accommodation elsewhere by 250 cells, all at our expense. A September release, “State of the World” by the Worldwatch Institute, questions whether a city can be sustainable. They see that cities are the world’s future. Today more than half the global population – 3.7 billion people – are urban dwellers and that number is expected to double by 2050. Cities are growing; the only formal debate is about how they will grow. Researchers covering key cities around the world have examined the core principles of sustainable urbanism. Some people are acting to improve their cities but, in our situation, it is clear that those people living away from cities are deprived in many ways by that centralisation focus. Author Doug Saunders examines the largest migration in history in “Arrival City”. Populations of suburbs, slums and cities’ fringes have moved

there from rural areas. Rather than formulating decentralised structures in remote areas, governments choose to reinforce the centralised growth, improve social mobility and accommodate criminal underworlds. Well-qualified administrator JCW Cumes is the author of “A Bunch of Amateurs – the Tragedy of Government & Administration in Australia”. They are so ineffective on many counts – they have overseen the failure of tax collection from several major companies and individuals as those companies transfer money off shore. They have failed to introduce GST collection on internet imports ranging from pedal cycles to books. If they really wanted to protect jobs in Australia, such imports could have doubled the GST tax rate. They sign Trade Deals with foreign countries that reduce our job opportunities. Major manufacturing is virtually eliminated. They allow government instrumentalities such as the ABC and Australia Post to compete with private enterprises on products ranging from insurance, electronic devices and more, yet both operate by each imposing nearly a billion dollar cost on the public purse. The leader of the Council of Small Business has said that

with a rat that leaves your heart a little more broken than before. Cleverly imagined and very affecting, getting to the end is just a bit of a struggle. 6/10 (Review by Ella Walker)

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Friday night drinks BY COLIN ROUSE A few drinks was a good way to wind down at the end of the working week at the Pastoral Hotel on Friday, July 22. Back row, Neil Horder, Rachael Toohey, Sandra Bills, Sarah Daly, Emma Garofalo, front row, Maddison Trank, Patrice Kent

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Boudoir Burlesque at the theatre BY COLIN ROUSE

THERE was a full house at the Dubbo Regional Theatre & Convention Centre on July 23 for “Boudoir Burlesque”. With a round table and bring your own supper arrangement, many came in fancy dress to enhance the fun night.

Jean Daly, Pam Treloar, Cheryl Tomkin, Rhonda Walters, Betty Bruce, Dawn Miller, Robyn Newton, Fay Orlando, Pam Ridley, Ailsa Dyball

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Back row, Peter O’Brien, Sandra O’Brien, George Taylor, Jenny O’Keefe, Dan O’Keefe, Front row, Ros Lorimer, Bill Lorimer, Kerry Taylor, Peter Haywood, Del Haywood

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Back row, Natalie Bowen, Kristin Falkiner, front row, Kaliste Lane, Tegan Ridley, Lisa Dietrich, Hiromi Lynch

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The Mudflappers at The Old Bank BY COLIN ROUSE

ON Saturday, July 23, The Mudflappers entertained diners at The Old Bank. A large crowd enjoyed the music provided by Dirk (guitar), Stephan (drums), and Lips (Guitar)

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Sophie Brabrook, Annabelle Russ, Brooklyn Dunn, Toneal Stephens

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Friday night at The Monkey Bar BY COLIN ROUSE

WORK mates and friends enjoyed drinks and dinner at The Monkey Bar on Friday, July 22.

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WHAT’S ON.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 29.07.2016 to Sunday 31.07.2016

OPEN WEEKENDER COFFEE & MEALS

'ƌĂď Ă ŐƌĞĂƚ ŵĞĂů Ăƚ ZĞŇĞĐƟŽŶƐ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT Open Monday to Saturday from 6pm ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ ĐƵŝƐŝŶĞ ƵƐŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ͘ &Ƶůů Ăƌ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ZŽďĞƌƚ KĂƚůĞǇ tŝŶĞƐ͘ YƵĂůŝƚǇ /ŶŶ ƵďďŽ /ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů Newell Highway (next to the golf course), 6882 4777.

VELDT RESTAURANT Open for dinner Monday to Saturday ĨƌŽŵ ϲƉŵ͘ Under Quest Serviced Apartments ŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌǇ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ DĞŶƵ 22 Bultje St, 6882 0926

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

TED’S TAKEAWAY

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚǇ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂǇ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůǇ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

CLUB DUBBO VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES 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

WYLDE BEAN THAI CAFE KƉĞŶ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ůƵŶĐŚ ϲĂŵ Ɵůů ůĂƚĞ 40 Bourke Street, 6885 5999

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 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

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ͘KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ďŽŽŬƐ 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

THE SWISH GALLERY

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD

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

KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂǇ ŽĨ ĞǆŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞǆŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϵͲϱƉŵ >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂǇ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďǇŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

TARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϵͲϰƉŵ͘ dŚĞ ǌŽŽ͛Ɛ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ ŽīĞƌ ǀŝƐŝƚŽƌƐ ƚƌƵůǇ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĞǆƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĂǀŽƵƌŝƚĞ ĂŶŝŵĂůƐ͘ Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

READINGS CINEMA ŽŵĨŽƌƚ͕ ƐƚǇůĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĂůƵĞ ΨϭϬ ƟĐŬĞƚƐ ϯ ĞǆƚƌĂ͘ ĂŶĚǇ ďĂƌ͖ ϱ ƐĐƌĞĞŶ ĐŝŶĞŵĂ ĐŽŵƉůĞǆ͖ ŝŐŝƚĂů ƐŽƵŶĚ ŽůďǇ ŝŐŝƚĂů ϯ ƉƌŽũĞĐƟŽŶ >ƵǆƵƌǇ ĂƌŵĐŚĂŝƌ ĐŽŵĨŽƌƚ 49 Macquarie St,6881 8600

CALL FOR A GREAT RATE ON A LIST FOR YOUR BUSINESS HERE! 6885 4433.

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE

Friday 29.07.2016 to Sunday 31.07.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, July 29 Brain Games

MOVIE: Snakes On A Plane

The Living Room

SBS 2, 4.55pm

NINE, 10.10pm, M (2006)

WIN, 7.30pm

Australians are renowned for our love of gambling, so tonight’s episode of Brain Games, which focuses on risk, should pique some interest. Risk, of course, is not only present when we’re taking a punt on the Melbourne Cup – it’s part of everyday life. We take calculated risks all the time – when crossing the street, investing our super, or wolfing down sushi rolls for lunch – but how does our brain figure out if the reward justifies the possible danger? That’s what Jason Silva is trying to figure out, with the help of some leading neuro and congnitive scientists, and some neat games and experiments.

Surely there’s a more practical means of silencing a murder witness (Nathan Phillips) than stowing crates of lethal snakes aboard a passenger plane and unleashing them midflight? Not in this exuberantly trashy action-thriller! When the venom starts spreading, it’s up to Samuel L. Jackson’s FBI Agent Flynn (“I’ve had it with these (expletive) snakes on this (expletive) plane!”) to save the day. The jettisoning of common sense and logic in favour of macho posturing and go-for-broke silliness makes this highly addictive. Fasten your seatbelts for first-class B-movie entertainment – and check under your seat.

For those for whom too much Bachie is never enough, here’s your chance nce to go lorette behind the scenes of the Bachelorette pad, as Amanda (pictured) takes es a tour of the rural Sydney property with e man Bach host Osher Günsberg. The they’re all vying for, Richie Strahan, is the one she’s really there to see – but will he acceptt her own rose? Meanwhile, Dr Chris is down in Tassie chasing the Southern arry is Lights, aka Aurora Australis, Barry off to Bunnings for some DIY supplies, and Miguel has your weekday ou how to dinners covered, as he shows you he menu feed the family on a budget. The oy bau includes seafood paella, san choy and a cottage pie.

ABC

PRIME7

NINE

WIN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Catalyst. (R, CC) 11.00 Croc College. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 2.50 The Cook And The Chef. (R, CC) 3.20 The Bill. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Murder, She Wrote. (PG, R, CC) A variety show takes a murderous twist. 5.00 ABC News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) Analysis of the day’s news.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG, CC) 11.30 Seven Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Nowhere To Run. (M, R, CC) (1993) A prison escapee helps a widow and her two young sons who are being threatened by a property developer. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette. 2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news. 3.00 The Chase. (CC) Hosted by Bradley Walsh. 4.00 Seven News At 4. (CC) 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 Today. (CC) Presented by Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG, CC) Presented by David Campbell and Sonia Kruger. 11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show. 1.00 MOVIE: Her Alibi. (PG, R, CC) (1989) A writer finds himself in danger after he provides the alibi for a woman who is accused of murder. Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova. 3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 Afternoon News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 6.30 Everyday Health. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 WIN News. (R, CC) 8.00 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Talk. (CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. (CC) 2.30 Everyday Health. (PG, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (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 Kylie Kwong. (R, CC) 2.00 Fonko: South Africa And Nigeria. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Nicky Campbell. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 5.00 Thai Street Food With David Thompson. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce. 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) The best analysis of local, national and international events from an Australian perspective. 8.00 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks: Townsville. (PG, CC) Tony Robinson uncovers the not-so-well known side of the Far North Queensland city of Townsville. 8.30 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) The apparent double suicide of two impersonators is reinvestigated. 9.30 Scott & Bailey. (M, CC) Part 2 of 3. When the killers change the rules of their sick game, Rachel’s safety is in question. 10.20 Lateline. (R, CC) Emma Alberici hosts a news analysis program featuring coverage of current events. 10.50 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton and Elysse Morgan. 11.05 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) (Final) The shocking truth is finally revealed. 11.55 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Johanna Griggs meets up with two rising stars of Rugby Sevens, lovebirds Charlotte Caslick and Lewis Holland, for a barbecue cook-off. Karen prepares a salted peanut butter cookie icecream sandwich. 8.30 MOVIE: Raising Helen. (PG, R, CC) (2004) A young woman’s carefree lifestyle in New York City comes to a screeching halt after she becomes responsible for her sister’s three children when she and her husband perish in a car accident. Kate Hudson, Abigail Breslin, Hayden Panettiere. 11.00 Dynamo: Magician Impossible. (PG, R, CC) Dynamo heads to California, where he mystifies everyone he meets with his illusions and tricks.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 A Current Affair. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 21. Canterbury Bulldogs v St George Illawarra Dragons. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 10.10 MOVIE: Snakes On A Plane. (M, R, CC) (2006) An FBI agent takes on a plane full of snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. With the help of LA’s leading snake expert on the ground, he leads the other passengers on a desperate fight for their lives. Samuel L Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips.

6.00 WIN News. (CC) 6.30 The Project. (CC) Waleed Aly, Gorgi Coghlan, Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann and Meshel Laurie take a look at the day’s news. 7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Chris goes in search of the Aurora Australis. Miguel shows a family how to prepare five dinners for under $100. 8.30 Life In Pieces. (PG, R, CC) Follows three generations of the Short family as their lives unfold in four short stories, each of which is seen from the differing perspective of another member of the clan. 9.00 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Abby Coleman, Celia Pacquola and Lawrence Mooney, competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Special guest quizmaster is Katherine Kelly Lang. 10.00 Offspring. (M, R, CC) The staff at St Francis find themselves shaken by a public relations crisis. 11.00 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news.

6.00 Nigella Feasts. (R, CC) Nigella cooks an all-day breakfast, including boiled eggs, and raspberry and oatmeal swirls. 6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Blackbeard’s Ship. (PG, R, CC) Follows a team of underwater archaeologists exploring a 300-yearold wreck off the North Carolina coast. They believe it to be the Queen Anne’s Revenge, which was the vessel of the infamous and much-feared 18th-century pirate Blackbeard. 8.30 MOVIE: Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. (M, R, CC) (1979) A young man, motivated as much by his attraction towards a fellow conspirator as his idealism, joins a resistance group opposed to the Roman occupation of Judea. His actions gain him an unexpected following, however, after he is mistaken for the Messiah. 10.15 SBS World News Late Edition. (CC) 10.50 MOVIE: Candy. (MA15+, R, CC) (2006) An art student falls in love with a bohemian poet, but their lives descend into chaos due to their addiction to drugs.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.00 Private Practice. (M, R, CC) A reality show centred on Sam helps shed some light on issues in his colleagues’ personal lives. 1.00 Home Shopping.

12.20 The NRL Rookie. (PG, R, CC) Contestants vie for an NRL contract. 1.20 Infomercials. (PG) 3.15 Nine Presents. (R, CC) Music special. 3.30 Extra. (CC) 4.00 Global Shop. 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, CC) Hosted by Stephen Colbert. 2.00 Global Shop Direct. 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.50 Anton Corbijn: Inside Out. (M, R) 2.20 The Search For The Crystal Skulls. (R, CC) 3.20 The Quest For The True Cross. (PG, R, CC) 4.15 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.50 Lois. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence. (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks. 2907

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Friday, July 29 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

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6.35pm The Girl Next Door (2004) Comedy. Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert. (MA15+) Comedy

8.30pm Law & Order: SVU. Rollins’ old boss from Atlanta visits. (MA15+) Universal Channel

9.30am Soccer. Major League. MLS All-Stars v Arsenal. ESPN

8.30pm Jurassic World (2015) Action. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard. A genetically modiﬁed dinosaur escapes its enclosure, threatening the lives of thousands. (M) Premiere

9.20pm Saving Hope. (MA15+) SoHo

6.30pm Lady In Number 6. At the time of ﬁlming, Alice Herz-Sommer, 109, was the world’s oldest pianist and its oldest Holocaust survivor. (PG) Foxtel Arts 7.30pm Dr. Feelgood. (M) Crime & Investigation

7.50pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 21. Canterbury Bulldogs v St George Illawarra Dragons. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Action. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong. (M) Action

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Sydney Sailboat. (R, CC) 5.00 Play School. (R, CC) 5.05 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R) 5.35 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Go Jetters. (R) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Teacup Travels. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Fresh Blood. (R, CC) 8.30 The Hoarder Next Door. (PG, R, CC) A look at extreme hoarders. 9.20 Ben: Diary Of A Heroin Addict. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.05 Dirty Laundry. (R, CC) 10.45 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 11.25 Sherlock. (M, R, CC) 12.55 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.40 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.25 Close. 5.00 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.30 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 5.40 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 3.15 The Jungle Bunch. (R) 3.25 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir. (R) 3.45 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 4.00 Odd Squad. (R) 4.25 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 4.40 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 5.05 Camp Lakebottom. (R) 5.20 Kung Fu Panda: Legends Of Awesomeness. 5.40 Kobushi. (R, CC) 5.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 5.55 Make It Pop. (R, CC) 6.20 Eve. (CC) 6.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 7.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 The Haunting Hour. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 8.20 Adventure Time. (R) 8.45 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) Frankie auditions to be a model. 9.05 The Sleepover Club. (R, CC) 9.30 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir. (R) 9.50 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 10.15 Kamisama Kiss. (PG, R, CC) 10.40 Close.

10.30pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon is joined by celebrities and a musical guest. (M) E! 11.00pm The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore. (M) Comedy Channel

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6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 It’s Academic. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Toybox. (P, 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 Mr Selfridge. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Dealers. (PG, R) 3.00 Australia’s Best Backyards. (R, CC) 3.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie. (R, CC) 4.00 Beat Bugs. (C, CC) 4.30 Flushed. (C, CC) 5.00 Best Houses Australia. (R) 5.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 The Border. (PG) 8.30 Escape To The Country. Prospective buyers find their dream home. 10.30 Best Houses Australia. 11.00 The Sound Of Music: Meet The Stars. 11.30 Cook Me The Money. (PG, R) 12.30 Australia’s Best Backyards. (R, CC) 1.00 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie. (R, CC) 1.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.30 Motive. (M, R, CC) 4.30 The World Around Us. (R) 5.30 Shopping. (R)

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.30 Sooty. (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 The Looney Tunes Show. (R) 4.30 Gumball. (R) 5.00 Clarence. (PG) 5.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire. (R) (2011) Obba Babatunde, Jeff Bennett. 7.30 MOVIE: Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas. (PG) (2003) 9.10 MOVIE: The Whole Nine Yards. (M, R, CC) (2000) A dentist is pressured to sell information. Bruce Willis. 11.10 MOVIE: Get Shorty. (MA15+, R, CC) (1995) John Travolta, Gene Hackman. 1.20 GO Surround Sound. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 2.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 2.30 Sooty. (R) 3.00 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 4.30 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R)

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6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Fishing Western Australia. (R) 7.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 8.30 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 9.30 Dream Car Garage. (R) 10.00 Combat Dealers. (PG, R) 11.00 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 12.00 T.J. Hooker. (M, R) 3.00 The Neighbors. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 5.30 American Restoration. (PG, R) 6.00 American Pickers. (PG, R) Frank takes a gamble on a vintage car. 7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the match. 7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 19. Geelong v Western Bulldogs. From Simonds Stadium, Victoria. 11.00 Friday Front Bar. (M, CC) 11.30 Olympians: Off The Record: Luc Longley. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Locked Up Abroad. (MA15+) 2.30 American Pickers. (PG, R) 3.30 American Restoration. (PG, R) 4.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 5.00 Dream Car Garage. (R)

6.00 News. (CC) 9.00 News Mornings. (CC) 11.55 Heywire. 12.00 News. (CC) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 ABC News Afternoons With The Business. 5.00 Grandstand. 5.55 Heywire. (R) 6.00 ABC News Evenings. 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Grandstand. (CC) 8.00 Planet America. 9.00 ABC National News. 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. 11.00 ABC National News. (CC) 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, 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 Al Jazeera. 5.00 BBC Business Live. 5.30 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

8.30pm Murder Among Friends. Killers turn on one another. (M) Discovery

6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. (PG) 7.30 Infomercials. (PG) 10.30 Come Dine With Me. (PG, R) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Outcast Of The Islands. (PG, R, CC) (1951) Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard. 2.00 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 2.10 Monarch Of The Glen. (PG, R) 3.20 Heartbeat. (PG, R) 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) Monica burns her first Thanksgiving dinner. 7.30 Soccer. International Champions Cup. Tottenham Hotspur v Atlético Madrid. From the MCG. 10.00 MOVIE: Assassins. (M, R, CC) (1995) A young assassin tries to murder a rival. Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas. 12.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Infomercials. (PG) 3.00 MOVIE: Man At The Top. (M, R, CC) (1973) 4.45 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

7.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. First semi-ﬁnal. Fox Sports 2

7.50pm Football. AFL. Round 19. Geelong v Western Bulldogs. Fox Footy

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6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 River To Reef. (R) 8.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 9.00 Undercover Boss. (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 searches for a missing statue. 8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger. (M, R) Walker nearly causes a young boy’s death. 9.30 MOVIE: Setup. (MA15+) (2011) A diamond heist turns deadly. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Ryan Phillippe. 11.15 Bear Grylls: Mission Survive. (M, R) 12.15 Shopping. (R) 2.15 Walker, Texas Ranger. (M, R) 3.15 Matlock. (M, R) 4.15 Get Smart. (PG, R) 4.45 World Sport. (R) 5.00 The Doctors. (M, CC)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Beyblade: Shogun Steel. (R) 6.30 Transformers Rescue Bots. (R) 7.05 Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters. (R) 7.35 Pokémon. (R) 8.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 8.35 Littlest Petshop. (R) 9.00 Buzzy Bee And Friends. 9.30 Crocamole. (P, R, 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 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.05 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.05 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R) 8.00 MOVIE: Xanadu. (PG, R, CC) (1980) 10.00 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 11.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 1.00 Sabrina. (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. (PG, R) 8.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG, 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 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 6.00 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG) 6.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 7.00 House Hunters. (R) 7.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 8.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 9.30 Island Life. 10.30 Extreme Homes. (R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 House Hunters. (R) 12.30 Late Programs.

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Chris Pratt stars in Jurassic World.

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 Fameless. (PG, R) 4.55 Brain Games. (PG) 5.25 Street Genius. 5.55 365: Every Day Documentaries. 6.00 If You Are The One. (R) 7.05 Human Resources. 7.30 Friday Feed. 8.00 RocketJump: High Plains Drifter. (New Series) 8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. (MA15+) Couples go on naked dates. 9.25 Naked: Diary From Porn Valley. (MA15+, R) Explores the sexualisation of young people. 10.25 MOVIE: Tai Chi Hero. (M, R) (2012) 12.20 MOVIE: The Swamp. (M, R) (2004) 1.35 PopAsia. (PG) 2.40 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Chopped. (PG, R) 6.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 7.30 Pizza Masters. (R) 8.00 Diners, DriveIns And Dives. (R) 8.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 9.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 10.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 11.30 Boys Weekend. (R) 12.00 Secret Meat Business. (PG, R) 12.30 Pizza Masters. (PG, R) 1.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 3.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 4.00 Beach Eats USA. (R) 4.30 This Is Brazil! (R) 5.30 Pizza Masters. (PG, R) 6.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 The Best In Australia. 8.30 Kitchen Inferno With Curtis Stone. (R) 9.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 10.00 Beach Eats USA. (R) 10.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 12.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 1.00 Beach Eats USA. (R) 1.30 The Best In Australia. (R) 2.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 4.30 Beach Eats USA. (R) 5.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 5.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 12 Canoes. (PG) 1.15 Custodians. 1.30 Fit First. (PG) 2.00 The Long Walk: 10 Years. (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 The Dreaming. 5.30 The Prophets. (PG) 6.00 Kriol Kitchen. 6.30 Cafe Niugini. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 Aunty Moves In. 8.00 Mohawk Girls. (M) 8.30 East Of Arnhem. (PG, CC) 9.00 Defining Moments. (PG) 9.30 Express Yourself. (M) 10.00 Shuga. (M) 10.30 Blackstone. (M) 11.20 Walking With Us. 11.30 Mohawk Girls. (M) 12.00 Volumz. 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (PG) 5.00 NITV On The Road: Laura Festival. 2907

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Saturday, July 30 MOVIE: The Boxtrolls

MOVIE: Be Cool

The Six Queens Of Henry y VIII

PRIME7, 7pm, PG (2014)

NINE, 11.25pm, M (2005)

SBS, 7.35pm

This fun family movie introduces us to the Boxtrolls, a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead-Wright) in a cavernous home they’ve built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town’s villain, Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley), comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, where he teams up with feisty Winnifred (Elle Fanning), and together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs’ family. With stunning animation, slapstick comedy and spirited characters, it’s an entertaining gem for kids and adults alike.

The belated sequel to Get Shorty follows no-nonsense mobster Chili Palmer (John Travolta), who is tiring of his involvement in the movie biz and thinks he’d fit right in with the gangster rappers and other nefarious types who rule the music industry. Upon discovering a gifted young singer named Linda Moon (Christina Milian), Chili takes her under his wing and tries to launch her career with a record label run by Edie (Uma Thurman), the widow of a friend (James Woods). In the process, he falls foul of Linda’s manager (Vince Vaughn), a tough rap mogul (Cedric the Entertainer) and even the Russian Mafia.

nd Dan Suzannah Lipscomb (pictured) and onship Jones’ journey through the relationship history of history’s most famous wifetaker comes to a close tonight, as the y VIII’s historians revisit the last of Henry one a marriages. The docudrama has done e pretty good job of fleshing out the or women who stood beside the Tudor monarch beyond their method of dethroning, as they are usually es defined, and Henry’s last two wives nal are the focus of this fourth and final episode. Catherines Howard and d Parr were queens number five and ut six; the former young, beautiful but adulterous; the latter older and e wiser, but a little too pushy on the subject of religious reform.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 10.30 Rage: Splendour In The Grass Special. (PG, CC) Music videos. 11.30 The Checkout. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Rise Of The Continents: Australia. (R, CC) 1.05 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) 2.05 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce. 3.05 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks: Townsville. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Tony Robinson. 3.35 Time Scanners: Colosseum. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney. 5.00 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 Road To Rio. (CC) 1.00 Olympians: Off The Record: Boomers Uluru Special. (PG, CC) 1.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. (R, CC) Tony tries to find out Jeannie’s birthday. 2.00 MOVIE: G-Force. (PG, R, CC) (2009) Government-trained guinea pigs battle evil. Will Arnett. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh and Pete visit a unique home extension. 5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

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6.30 Gardening Australia. (CC) Jane visits an expansive garden in Victoria. 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 The Coroner. (PG, CC) Jane awakes to the news a ship has washed ashore and the locals are pilfering its cargo. 8.20 Indian Summers. (M, CC) (Final) Ralph must decide whether he is willing to let an innocent Ramu Sood hang now that he knows the truth. 9.30 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) A former British army officer returns home to Cornwall, in the wake of the American Revolutionary War, to find his world in tatters. His father has died, his estate is in ruins and his sweetheart is engaged to his cousin. Refusing to give up, he sets out to restore his family’s fortunes. 10.30 Miniseries: Arthur & George. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 3. Arthur becomes convinced his young client George is the victim of racial prejudice. 11.20 Rage: Splendour In The Grass Special. (MA15+) Music videos.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: The Boxtrolls. (PG, CC) (2014) A young boy, raised in secret by mischievous but goodhearted group of boxwearing creatures called Boxtrolls, tries to save his adopted family when they are captured by an evil pest exterminator. Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost. 9.00 MOVIE: Cool Runnings. (PG, R, CC) (1993) Based on a true story. Refusing to let anything stand in their way, two Jamaicans planning to become their country’s first bobsled team at the Winter Olympics, enlist the help of a down-and-out ex-champion. John Candy, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis. 11.00 MOVIE: 16 Blocks. (M, R, CC) (2006) A veteran police officer is tasked with escorting a witness the 16 blocks from where he is being held to a New York courthouse, in the face of some unexpectedly violent opposition by a cadre of corrupt cops. Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: What Happens In Vegas. (PG, R, CC) (2008) After a drunken night in Las Vegas results in them getting married, a couple is forced to spend six months together, as husband and wife, in order to split the $3 million they won from a slot machine. Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah. 9.00 MOVIE: Crazy, Stupid, Love. (M, R, CC) (2011) A middle-aged husband’s life changes dramatically after his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to reassert his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, who helps him get back into the singles’ scene. Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone. 11.25 MOVIE: Be Cool. (M, R, CC) (2005) A former mobsterturned-movie producer tires of the Hollywood scene and decides to enter the music industry with the help of a talented, young singer. However, his efforts are hampered by industry insiders. John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

1.00 Home Shopping.

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PAW Patrol. (CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday. (PG, CC) In Conversation With Alex Malley. (R, CC) Cybershack. (PG, CC) Hot In Cleveland. (PG, CC) Melanie pretends to be someone else. Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R, CC) MOVIE: Lassie. (R, CC) (1994) A Baltimore family moves to a farm. Helen Slater, Tom Guiry. South Aussie With Cosi. (CC) News: First At Five. (CC) Getaway. (PG, CC)

1.50 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.50 MOVIE: The Apparition. (M, R, CC) (2012) A young couple conjure an evil presence. Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan. 4.30 Global Shop. Home shopping. 5.00 Infomercials. (PG, R)

WIN 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.30

SBS

Fishing Edge. (R, CC) The Home Team. (R, CC) iFish. (R, CC) Family Feud. (R, CC) Weekend Feast. (R, CC) Studio 10: Saturday. (PG, CC) The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) Healthy Homes Australia. (CC) The Doctors. (PG, CC) Fishing Australia. (R, CC) Cruise Mode. (CC) Puppy Academy. (CC) Storm Season. (PG, R, CC) Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (CC) Hosted by Jennifer Adams. 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. 2.00 Equestrian. (CC) FEI Classics Series. Kentucky Three-Day Event. 3.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 3.30 The Classic Car Show. (PG, R, CC) 4.25 Meet Caligula. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Shaun Micallef. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Travels With The Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) (New Series) Dr Chris Brown travels around the world. 6.30 David Attenborough’s Mountain Lions. (PG, CC) Sir David Attenborough narrates the story of two mountain lion mothers. 7.30 MOVIE: The Croods. (PG, R, CC) (2013) After their cave is destroyed by an earthquake, a family of early humans, led by their overly suspicious and tradition-bound patriarch, goes in search of a new home. Along the way they encounter an imaginative nomad who helps challenge their way of looking at the world. 9.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Rebel Wilson and Iggy Pop. 10.30 Joel Creasey’s Comedy Offensive. (MA15+, R, CC) Comedian Joel Creasey takes a look at some of the naughtiest bits from the Montreal Comedy Festival. 11.30 48 Hours: The Verdict. (M, R, CC) A look at the death of Robert Cline III who was killed by his estranged wife, in what she claimed was self-defence.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 The Six Queens Of Henry VIII. (CC) Part 4 of 4. Historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones explore the reign of Henry VIII from the perspective of his six wives. They conclude their quest by looking at his romance with teenager Catherine Howard and his final union with Catherine Parr, who would outlive her husband. 8.30 RocKwiz Salutes The Decades. (M, R, CC) Julia Zemiro, Brian Nankervis and the RocKwiz Orkestra are joined by Kira Puru, Vance Joy, Tex Perkins and Glenn Shorrock to explore the local and international music scene from the ’70s. Features performances by iconic muiscians as well as trivia. 9.30 MOVIE: A Beautiful Mind. (M, R, CC) (2001) Based on a true story. A mathematical genius stands on the brink of international stardom after making an astonishing discovery. However, he instead finds himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery when he is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

12.00 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00

1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop Direct. (R)

12.00 Masters Of Sex. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.05 Masters Of Sex. (M, R, CC) 3.15 Masters Of Sex. (MA15+, R, CC) 4.20 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.55 Poh & Co. Bitesize. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News. 5.45 France 24 Feature.

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 29.07.2016 to Sunday 31.07.2016

Saturday, July 30 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.50pm Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) Comedy. Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth. (M) Romance

7.30pm Wayward Pines. (M) FX

6.30pm Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown. (M) TLC

8.30pm Outcast. A man who has been haunted by strange phenomena his entire life tries to combat the forces of evil. (MA15+) FX

7.30pm Slash: Live On The Sunset Strip. Viewers get a front-row seat to Slash’s show at one of Hollywood’s most iconic venues. Foxtel Arts

3.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 21. New Zealand Warriors v Penrith Panthers. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Winners & Losers. Bridget urges Sam not to be “just a mum”. (M) SoHo

7.30pm Walking Through History. Presented by Tony Robinson. History

8.30pm Sicario (2015) Action. Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin. An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to crack down on the illegal drug cartels at the border between the US and Mexico. (MA15+) Premiere

7.20pm Football. AFL. Round 19. North Melbourne v St Kilda. Fox Footy 7.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Second semi-ﬁnal. Fox Sports 2 Emily Blunt stars in Sicario.

10.25pm Indecent Proposal (1993) Drama. Robert Redford, Demi Moore. (M) Romance

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 5.00 Play School. (R, CC) 5.05 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) (Final) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R) 5.35 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Go Jetters. (R) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Teacup Travels. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Highway Thru Hell. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Mock The Week. (M, R, CC) 8.45 Live From The BBC. (PG, CC) 9.15 Live At The Apollo. (M, R, CC) 10.00 Comedy Up Late. (M, R, CC) 10.35 Catastrophe. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.00 Broad City. (M, R, CC) 11.20 Episodes. (M, R, CC) 11.50 Video Killed The Radio Star. (R, CC) 2.30 Highway Thru Hell. (PG, R, CC) 3.20 News Update. (R) 3.25 Close. 5.00 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.30 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 5.40 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.15 Stand And Deliver. (R, CC) 11.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 12.00 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. (R, CC) 12.30 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street. (R) 12.55 Eve. (R, CC) 1.25 Girls In Love. (R, CC) 1.50 The Next Step. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.30 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (R, CC) (Final) 4.40 Numb Chucks. (R) 4.50 SheZow. (R, CC) 5.05 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 5.30 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 5.55 Scream Street. (R) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 7.30 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: Next Class. (PG, R, CC) 9.05 The Sleepover Club. (R, CC) The girls pretend to be parents. 9.30 MY:24. (R, CC) Young people tell their stories. 9.40 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.30 Room For Improvement. (R, CC) 9.00 The Real Seachange. (PG, R, CC) 10.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Dealers. (PG, R) 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. Semi-Final. Sydney University v Warringah. 5.00 Road To Rio. (R, CC) 6.00 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. (PG) 7.00 MOVIE: Made Of Honor. (M, R, CC) (2008) Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan. 9.00 Escape To The Country. 10.00 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. (R) 11.00 Terror In The Skies. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 No Reservations. (PG, R) 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 Great South East. (R, CC) 3.30 Home In WA. (CC) 4.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG, R) 4.30 Sea Snakes Of Marion Reef. (R) 5.30 Shopping.

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Dennis & Gnasher. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Pirate Express. (C, R, 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 Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitzu. (PG) 4.00 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 4.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.00 Justice League Unlimited. (PG, R) 5.30 Batman. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Cats & Dogs. (PG, R, CC) (2001) 7.45 MOVIE: Charlotte’s Web. (R, CC) (2006) A pig forms a friendship with a spider. Dakota Fanning. 9.40 MOVIE: Blast From The Past. (PG, R, CC) (1999) Two very different people fall in love. Brendan Fraser. 12.00 Adult Swim. (M, R) 1.30 Forever. (M, R, CC) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. (PG, R) 4.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. Christmas Cup. Replay. 7.00 Zoom. (PG, R) 7.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG, R) 8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.00 Zoom. (PG) 9.30 HarleyDavidson TV. (PG) 10.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 10.30 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 11.30 Car Chasers. (PG, R) 12.30 Bomb Hunters. (PG, R) 1.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 19. GWS v Richmond. 4.30 Dynamo: Magician Impossible. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the match. 7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 19. North Melbourne v St Kilda. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. 10.30 MOVIE: Assault On Precinct 13. (MA15+, R) (2005) Ethan Hawke. 12.45 Friday Front Bar. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Jail. (MA15+, R) 2.00 Bomb Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 4.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. Christmas Cup. Replay. 5.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 5.30 Shopping. (R)

6.00 Landline. (CC) 6.30 World This Week. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Planet America. (R) 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. 3.30 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. 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Weekend. 7.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News Weekend. 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 Press Club. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.30 Landline. (R, CC) 3.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

9GO!

6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 10.00 MOVIE: The Winslow Boy. (R, CC) (1948) 12.30 Destination WA. (PG, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (R, CC) (1968) Dick Van Dyke. 4.00 MOVIE: The Poseidon Adventure. (PG, R, CC) (1972) Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine. 6.30 Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensic Story: A Question Of Identity. (PG, R) A look at forensic techniques. 7.40 See No Evil: The Billings Murders. (M, R, CC) Take a look at a mysterious disappearance. 8.40 MOVIE: Zodiac. (M, R, CC) (2007) A serial killer in San Francisco taunts authorities with dozens of letters containing eerie messages and cryptograms. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr. 11.50 Dalziel And Pascoe. (M, R) 1.00 Infomercials. (PG) 3.00 MOVIE: Spanish Fly. (M, R) (1976) 4.30 MOVIE: A Hill In Korea. (PG, R, CC) (1956)

ONE 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 Jake And The Fatman. (PG, R) 12.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 1.30 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 2.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 3.00 Megafactories. (R) 4.00 The McCarthys. (PG, R) 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 5.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (R, CC) 6.00 The Renovation King. (R, CC) 6.30 The Unstoppables. (PG) 7.00 Last Man Standing. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Africa. (R, CC) 8.30 Zoo. (M) 9.30 Minority Report. (M) Dash and Vega follow a vision to the Southside. 10.30 Crisis. (M, R) 11.30 Legends. (M, R) 12.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 2.50 RPM GP. (R, CC) 3.20 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Hungarian Grand Prix. Race 11. Replay. 4.20 Monster Jam. (R) 5.20 World Sport. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Pokémon. (R) 7.00 Jar Dwellers SOS. (C, R, CC) 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 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 6.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? (PG, R) Hosted by Ellie Taylor. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with celebrity guests, including Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. 9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Hosted by Tom Gleisner. 10.30 American Gothic. (M) Cam experiences hallucinations. 11.30 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted by Scott Tweedie and Olivia Phyland. 2.00 Sabrina. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 7.30 Explore Canada. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. (R) 9.30 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG, R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.00 Island Life. (R) 1.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 2.00 Postcards. (PG, CC) 3.00 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG, R) 4.00 Mega Mansions. (R) 5.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. (R) 6.00 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG) 6.30 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.30 House Hunters. (R) 8.30 House Hunters International. (R) 9.30 House Hunters Reno. (PG) 10.30 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Where Are We Going, Dad? (R) 2.35 The Numbers Game. (R) 3.05 Survive Aotearoa. (PG, R) 4.05 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy. (PG, R) 5.00 Brain Games. (R) 5.30 365: Every Day Documentaries. (PG) 5.35 MOVIE: Kirikou And The Sorceress. (R) (1998) 6.55 Des Bishop: Breaking China. 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 The Island With Bear Grylls. (M, R, CC) (Final) The men and women are barely surviving. 9.25 Spotless. (MA15+) Jean confides in DCI Squire. 11.40 MOVIE: Garden State. (MA15+, R) (2004) Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm. 1.30 MOVIE: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. (M, R) (1978) 3.35 MOVIE: Through Her Own Eyes. (M, R) (2007) 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 7.30 Beach Eats USA. (R) 8.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 8.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 9.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 10.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 12.30 The Best In Australia. (R) 1.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 3.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 4.00 Beach Eats USA. (R) 4.30 This Is Brazil! (R) 5.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 6.30 The Best In Australia. (R) 7.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 8.30 To Be Advised. 9.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) Guy Fieri heads to an island-Italian mashup. 10.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 11.30 To Be Advised. 12.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 1.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 2.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 3.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 4.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 5.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Kriol Kitchen. 12.30 League Nation Live. 2.00 Our Stories. 2.20 Cash Money. 2.25 Jeffrey’s Healthy Tips. 2.30 Aunty Moves In. 3.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. 4.30 Unearthed. 4.50 Cash Money. 4.55 Jeffrey’s Healthy Tips. 5.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 5.30 Move It Mob Style. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 6.30 Talking Language. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.30 Characters Of Broome. 8.00 Being Mary Jane. (M) 9.00 NITV News From The Garma Festival. 9.30 Miniseries: Roots. (MA15+, CC) 11.30 Australian Biography. (PG) 12.00 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival. (PG) 1.00 NITV On The Road: Boomerang Festival. 2.00 Late Programs. 3007

NITV

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 29.07.2016 to Sunday 31.07.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Sunday, July 31 The Great Australian Spelling Bee

Bones

WIN, 6.30pm Teamwork is key on this cutest of game shows tonight, with the kids split into four teams of four for a different kind of Speed Spell round. With a minute to spell as many words as they can, the whole team will be in the Spell Gate at once, taking it in turns to spell one word at a time. The team with the least number of correctly spelled words will go into the Spelling Bee, and only half of them will make it through to next week’s show. It’s heartbreaking to watch two smart little tackers deal with the disappointment of losing, but hosts Grant Denyer and Chrissie Swan will be there to help console them.

ABC

MOVIE: The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab

PRIME7, 9pm In the first half of tonight’s two-part final of its penultimate season, Bones has fun playing with movie references from Pink Panther to To Catch A Thief, as the team works with the French police on the tail of a jewel thief after a body is found with a diamond lodged it its jaw. Even more fun is Booth’s (David Boreanaz) distress over his vision problems, which he is stubbornly refusing to acknowledge. Part two sees the return of The Puppeteer, the serial killer first seen earlier this season and who now has Brennan (Emily Deschanel) in his sights. Will Booth find out who’s pulling the strings before The Puppeter adds another marionette to his collection?

PRIME7

ABC, 11pm, M (2012) A criminal underbelly? Check. A murder nted mystery? Check. A cast of talented rything Aussie actors? Yes, this has everything tion, but you expect from a local production, e’s this adaptation of Fergus Hume’s assiest 1880s-set novel is one of the classiest we’ve seen. Tracing the murderr investigation of a well-to-do wn cart, Englishman inside a horse-drawn nnections the list of suspects grows as connections are made to the wealthy Mark Frettlby essica De (John Waters), his daughter (Jessica ver Gouw) and her boyfriend (Oliver Ackland, pictured). But it’s not until lawyer Duncan Calton (Marco Chiappi) at more starts searching for answers that e. questions are raised. A must-see.

NINE

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 The Coroner. (PG, R, CC) 2.45 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) 3.45 The Book Club. (R, CC) 4.20 Australian Story: Gone Girl. (R, CC) 4.50 David Attenborough’s Flying Monsters. (R, CC) A look at the “flying monster”, the pterosaur.

6.00 Home Shopping. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 Bewitched. (R, CC) Darrin is turned into a child by Endora. 12.30 MOVIE: Den Brother. (R, CC) (2010) A young man joins a girl guide group. Hutch Dano, G Hannelius. 2.30 MOVIE: Father Of The Bride Part II. (R, CC) (1995) A father, already traumatised by his daughter’s marriage, is further shocked by news of her pregnancy. Steve Martin, Diane Keaton. 5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 Surfing The Menu: The Next Generation. (CC) Dan and Hayden head to Exmouth in Western Australia where they go surfing with Alex Ramerez. 6.30 Compass: The Moral Compass. (CC) Hosted by Geraldine Doogue. 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs New Zealand. (CC) Chris meets writer Scott Lawrie who is planning on building a sculptural steel house on a remote hillside. 8.30 Barracuda. (M, CC) Part 4 of 4. Devastated by his loss at the Commonwealth Games, Danny gets into a fight with Martin. 9.30 Stop Laughing… This Is Serious: Hello Possums. (M, R, CC) Part 3 of 3. Explores how Australian comedy has established itself on the world stage. 10.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (M, R, CC) (Final) Host Shaun Micallef presents a round-up of important news stories of the week. 11.00 MOVIE: The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab. (M, R, CC) (2012) An heiress investigates a murder. John Waters, Marco Chiappi.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program. 8.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, CC) A passenger travelling with a snowboard during summer has officers concerned he has got something hidden inside. A fisherman from Hong Kong is found to be carrying live bait. 8.30 The Force: Behind The Line. (PG, CC) Police catch a man who claims he is growing drugs for medicinal purposes. 9.00 Bones. (M, CC) After the team investigates the discovery of a body at a glass-recycling plant with a diamond lodged in its jaw, they are approached by a French police officer who claims to know the killer’s identity. Booth discovers he suffers vision problems. Hodgins thinks he is being followed by a ghost. 10.00 Bones. (M, CC) (Final) The team pursues “The Puppeteer”, a serial killer whose path they have previously crossed. 11.00 Dynamo: Magician Impossible – Top 10 Greatest Moments. (PG, R, CC)

12.45 Our Girl. (M, R, CC) Molly befriends an Afghan girl. 1.45 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos. 3.35 The Curse Of The Gothic Symphony. (R, CC) A performance of the Gothic Symphony. 5.00 Insiders. (R, CC) Hosted by Fran Kelly.

12.00 MOVIE: Carnage. (M, R) (2011) Two pairs of parents hold a meeting after their sons are involved in a fight in the park. Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz. 2.00 Home Shopping. 5.30 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather.

PAW Patrol. (CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports. (PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show. (PG, CC) Hosted by Yvonne Sampson. Full Cycle. (CC) Hosted by Scott McGrory and Bradley McGee. Human Planet: Oceans – Into The Blue. (PG, R, CC) A look at the sea. The NRL Rookie. (PG, R, CC) Contestants vie for an NRL contract. Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 21. Manly Sea Eagles v Newcastle Knights. From Brookvale Oval, Sydney.

WIN

SBS

6.00 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Joseph Prince: New Creation Church. (CC) 7.30 Joel Osteen. (R, CC) 8.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 8.30 Just Go. (R, CC) 9.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (PG, CC) 12.00 Netball. (CC) 2.00 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) 3.00 iFish. (R, CC) 3.30 RPM GP. (CC) 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) 3.00 Inside Volleyball. (CC) (New Series) 4.00 Voxwomen Cycling. (CC) 4.30 InCycle. (CC) 5.00 Small Business Secrets. (CC) 5.30 1945: The Savage Peace. (PG, CC)

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart. 8.00 Love Child. (M, CC) The future for Annie and her unborn baby is unclear after a protest turns unexpectedly violent. Joan faces both suspension and the unexpected ramifications of Eva’s pregnancy. 9.00 MOVIE: My Sister’s Keeper. (M, R, CC) (2009) After spending her entire life as an organ donor for her terminally ill sister, a young girl finds a lawyer and decides to sue her parents for medical emancipation to avoid donating a kidney to her dying sibling. 11.15 Unforgettable. (M, CC) (Series return) The Secret Service enlists Carrie and Al’s help when their investigation into the seemingly pointless murder of a struggling musician in a hotel room leads them to a counterfeiting ring run by an assassin.

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 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (CC) A group of some of Australia’s brightest young people, aged between eight and 13 years, are put through their paces as they compete in a spelling bee. Hosted by Chrissie Swan and Grant Denyer. 7.30 MOVIE: How To Train Your Dragon 2. (PG, CC) (2014) After a heroic young viking and his loyal dragon Toothless discover an ice cave full of hundreds of wild dragons, while out exploring, they must protect them from an evil warlord and a band of thieves. Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler. 9.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Race 12. German Grand Prix. From Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Rome: Empire Without Limit: The Unconquerables. (PG, CC) Part 4 of 4. English historian Mary Beard concludes her exploration of the causes behind the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. She reveals how rather than destroyed it was transformed, with much of its aspirations, institutions and infrastructure mimicked by its successors. 8.35 Pauline Hanson: Please Explain! (PG, CC) Take a look at a 1996 speech by Pauline Hanson, the decades of debate that followed it and the influence it has had on Australia, as well as the impact it has had on her own political career. Includes interviews with Hanson’s critics, advisors and commentators. 10.05 The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution. (CC) Filmmaker Stanley Nelson charts the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in America, in the ’60s and ’70s, as well as showcasing its significance to broader American culture.

12.10 Constantine. (M, CC) Papa Midnite raises the dead. 1.05 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.00 Global Shop. 3.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.00 48 Hours: Live To Tell – My Name Is Victoria. (M, R, CC) A Californian woman is kidnapped. 1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show.

12.05 Black Panther Woman. (M, R, CC) 1.05 MOVIE: Little Girl Blue. (M, R) (2007) 2.50 MOVIE: Deliver Us From Evil. (MA15+, R) (2009) 4.40 Honk If You’re Horny. (MA15+, R, CC) 4.50 Poh & Co. Bitesize. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News. 5.45 France 24 Feature.

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6.20pm Southpaw (2015) Drama. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams. A boxer tries to get his life back on track after a family tragedy. (MA15+) Premiere

6.30pm So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation. (PG) FOX8

6.00pm Colour Theory. A look at a indigenous artist Reko Rennie. (PG) Foxtel Arts

6.00am Cricket. Second Test. West Indies v India. Day 1. Fox Sports 4

8.00pm Bob’s Burgers. The family get stuck in a terrible storm. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

9.30pm Killing Spree. Goes inside the mind of Anders Behring Breivik. (M) Crime & Investigation

2.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 21. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Canberra Raiders. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm The Night Of. Naz learns the survival rules in Rikers. (MA15+) Showcase

9.30pm Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia. (M) History

3.00pm Football. AFL. Round 19. Fremantle v Sydney. Fox Sports 3

8.30pm The Descendants (2011) Drama. George Clooney, Shailene Woodley. (M) Masterpiece 10.35pm San Andreas (2015) Action. Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 5.50 Go Jetters. (R) (Final) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Teacup Travels. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Seconds From Disaster. (M, R, CC) 8.15 The Daters: John And Burgo’s Speed Dates. (M, R, CC) 8.35 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow. (M, R, CC) 9.20 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Head For The Hills. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Ben: Diary Of A Heroin Addict. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.55 Coming Out Diaries. (M, R, CC) 11.55 Confessions Of A Nurse. (M, R, CC) 12.45 Seconds From Disaster. (M, R, CC) 1.35 The Home Show. (PG, R, CC) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.25 Close. 5.00 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.30 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 5.40 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.25 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street. (R) 12.50 Eve. (R, CC) 1.25 Girls In Love. (R, CC) 1.50 The Next Step. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.30 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) 4.40 Numb Chucks. (R) 4.50 SheZow. (R, CC) 5.05 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 5.30 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 5.55 Scream Street. (R) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 7.30 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: Next Class. (PG, R, CC) 9.05 The Sleepover Club. (R, CC) Tayla enters a magazine contest. 9.30 MY:24: Fablice. (R, CC) Young people tell their stories. 9.40 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.50 Rage. (PG, R) 2.25 Close.

John Turturro stars in The Night Of.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. (R) 9.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 10.00 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Dealers. (PG, R) 2.00 Storage Hoarders. (R) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Semi-Final. Southern Districts v Northern Suburbs. 5.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 6.00 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 7.00 For The Love Of Dogs. (PG) 7.30 Animal Airport. (PG, CC) 8.00 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) A drunken student loses his lunch. 8.30 Escape To The Country. (R) Jonnie Irwin visits Suffolk. 9.30 Escape To The Continent. A look at homes overseas. 10.45 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 11.45 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.15 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.15 Dealers. (PG, R) 3.45 Storage Hoarders. (R) 4.45 Escape To The Continent. (R)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 2.00 LEGO Friends. (R) 2.30 Nexo Knights. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitzu. (PG) 4.00 Over The Garden Wall. (PG) (New Series) 4.30 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 5.00 Justice League Unlimited. (PG, R) 5.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Space Jam. (R, CC) (1996) 7.40 MOVIE: The Mask. (PG, R, CC) (1994) Jim Carrey. 9.40 MOVIE: The Inbetweeners 2. (MA15+, CC) (2014) Simon Bird. 11.40 Adult Swim. (M) 12.40 The NRL Rookie. (PG, R, CC) 1.35 The Magaluf Weekender. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 SpongeBob. (R) 4.00 Little Charmers. (R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Shopping. (R) 9.30 Olympians: Off The Record. (PG, R, CC) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (CC) 11.30 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) 12.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) (Series return) 1.00 Mudcats. (PG, R) 2.00 Turtleman. (PG, R) 2.30 AFL PreGame Show. (CC) 3.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 19. Fremantle v Sydney. From Domain Stadium, Perth. 6.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) A valet’s body odour haunts Jerry. 6.30 MOVIE: Twister. (PG, R, CC) (1996) Meteorologists are caught in a severe storm. Helen Hunt. 9.00 MOVIE: The Rock. (MA15+, R, CC) (1996) An FBI agent and a convict break into Alcatraz. Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage. 11.55 MOVIE: Snatch. (MA15+, R, CC) (2000) 2.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 3.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R)

6.00 Planet America. (R) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 2.55 Heywire. (R) 3.00 News. 3.30 Offsiders. (CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 Catalyst. (R, 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. 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. 10.30 Planet America. (R) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Conflict Zone. 11.55 ABC Open. (R) 12.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

9GO!

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 10.00 Fish’n With Mates. (PG, R, CC) 10.30 Avengers. (PG, R) 11.30 MOVIE: The Happiest Days Of Your Life. (R) (1950) Alastair Sim. 1.15 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.45 MOVIE: Any Wednesday. (PG, R, CC) (1966) 4.00 MOVIE: El Dorado. (PG, R) (1966) 6.30 MOVIE: The Lake House. (PG, R, CC) (2006) Two lovers make a surprising discovery. Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves. 8.30 MOVIE: I Am Sam. (M, R, CC) (2001) A man fights for custody of his daughter. Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer. 11.15 Person Of Interest. (M, R, CC) A “wingman” is the latest person of interest. 12.10 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.35 Fish’n With Mates. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 Infomercials. (PG) 2.30 MOVIE: Let’s Be Happy. (R, CC) (1957) 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Rugby Union. Semi-Final. Hurricanes v Chiefs. Replay. 10.00 Healthy Homes Australia. (R, CC) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 4x4 Adventures. (R, CC) 12.00 Puppy Academy. (R, CC) 12.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.30 World Sport. (R) 3.00 The Unstoppables. (PG, R) 3.30 Megastructures. (PG, R) 4.30 Cruise Mode. (R, CC) 5.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures. (PG, R) (Final) 8.00 Last Man Standing. (PG, R) 8.30 Chopper’s Republic Of Anzakistan. 9.00 MOVIE: The Power Of One. (PG, R) (1992) Stephen Dorff, Morgan Freeman. 11.35 Megafactories. (R) 12.35 World Sport. 1.00 The Killing. (MA15+, R) 2.00 RPM GP. (R, CC) 2.30 RPM. (R, CC) 3.30 Football’s Greatest Teams. (PG, R) 4.00 River To Reef. (R) 4.30 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.00 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Invizimals. (R) 6.30 Victorious. (R) 7.05 Fairly Odd Parents. (R) 7.35 Pokémon. 8.30 Ninja Turtles. (R) 10.00 Mako Mermaids. (C, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 11.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 1.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 2.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 2.30 To Be Advised. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. (PG, R, CC) Russell moves into Timmy’s apartment. 8.30 MOVIE: Mona Lisa Smile. (PG, R, CC) (2003) A freethinking art teacher upsets a school. Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst. 10.55 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 11.55 Nurse Jackie. (MA15+, R) 12.30 Don’t Trust The B----. (M, R) 1.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 2.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 3.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 4.00 Charmed. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.30 Kenneth Copeland.

6.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.00 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 8.00 House Hunters Reno. (PG, R) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG, 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 Flip Or Flop. (R) 3.00 House Hunters Reno. (PG, R) 4.00 Come Dine With Me. (PG) 5.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 6.00 Tiny House Hunters. 6.30 Tiny House, Big Living. 7.30 Escape To The Country. 8.30 Flip Or Flop. 9.30 Mega Mansions. 10.30 Extreme Homes. 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Tiny House, Big Living. (R) 1.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 PopAsia. (PG) 10.00 Croatian News. 10.30 Serbian News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 MOVIE: Mr And Mrs Incredible. (PG, R) (2011) 2.55 Night Shift. (R, CC) 3.10 Friday Feed. (R) 3.45 Space Dandy. (PG, R) 4.15 The Brain: China. (R) 5.50 365: Every Day Documentaries. 5.55 Where Are We Going, Dad? 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 Drunk History UK. (MA15+) (Final) A retelling of historical events. 9.00 South Park. (M, R) Cartman gains control of a drone. 9.55 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. (M) 10.25 Sex Box USA. (M) 11.20 Shot By Kern. (M, R) 12.20 California High. (M, R) 1.20 MOVIE: Barbara. (M) (2012) 3.20 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 6.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 7.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 8.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 8.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 9.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 10.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 11.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 12.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 1.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 2.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 3.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 4.30 This Is Brazil! (R) 5.30 Beat Bobby Flay. 6.30 All-Star Academy. (PG) 7.30 Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern. (PG, R) 8.30 Kitchen Inferno With Curtis Stone. (R) 9.30 Big Bad BBQ Battle. (PG, R) 10.30 Beat Bobby Flay. (R) 11.30 All-Star Academy. (PG, R) 12.30 Bizarre Foods. (PG, R) 1.30 Big Bad BBQ Battle. (PG, R) 2.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 3.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 4.30 Beat Bobby Flay. (R) 5.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.30 Big Bad BBQ Battle. (PG, R)

6.00 Tipi Tales. 6.30 The Dreaming. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Wapos Bay. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. OFC Champions League. 12.00 Talking Language. 12.30 Football. NTFL. 2.30 My Louisiana Love. (PG) 3.30 In The Frame. (PG) 4.00 Our Stories. 4.30 Characters Of Broome. 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 The Medicine Line. 6.00 Australian Biography. 6.30 Message Stick. 7.00 A Journey Of Hope. 7.45 We Shall Remain. (PG) 9.00 NITV News From The Garma Festival. 9.30 Miniseries: Roots. (CC) 11.30 Ngurra. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 3107

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by Wulff & Morgenthaler

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 17 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle. Underground treasures

OUT ON A LIMB

by Gary Kopervas

FLASH GORDON

by Jim Keefe

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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

by Wagner

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

From the pages of America’s most popular newspapers

ACROSS

THE CASHIER

by Ricardo Galvão

1. Integers (Abbr.) 4. Journey segment 7. Mr. Crockett 8. Baby’s ailment 10. Roof edges 11. Parka 13. Square one 16. Chum 17. Jagged 18. Cattle call? 19. Portent 20. Show boredom 21. Accumulate 23. Carriages 25. Coagulate 26. “Peter Pan” pooch 27. Existed 28. Oddballs 30. Extinct bird

12. Recognizes 14. Angers 15. Heavy weight 19. Cheerios grain 20. Nay canceler 21. Antitheft device 22. Tile art 23. Variety of shark 24. As a substitute 25. 5 percent of a ton (Abbr.) 26. Kathmandu’s DOWN land 1. Fleet-related 28. Travelocity 2. Finished mascot 3. Methods 29. Newark’s 4. Yearns (for) county 5. Run off to wed 30. Strength 6. Early helicopter 31. Siblingless 32. Candle count? 7. Information 34. Mosque bigwig 8. Church law 9. Alligator’s cousin 35. Snack in a shell 10. Kreskin’s claim 160704

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POINT TAKEN

by Paul Dorin

JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS by Dave T. Phipps

STRANGE BUT TRUE z When you were growing up, did kids call each other “chicken” to insult each other’s bravery? In all likelihood, the answer is yes. That word has been used since the 14th century to insult those considered to be cowardly.

by Henry Boltinoff

is the most educated place in the world; more than half of the country’s residents have earned at least one tertiary degree. z According to a study conducted by researchers at Emory University, heterosexual couples who spend more than $20,000 on their wedz It was once against the law in some places – England, for example ding were three and a half times as likely to have shorter marriages – for a man to marry his brother’s than those who were more frugal. widow. It was considered to be an This principle extends to the ring, incestuous relationship. too; men who spent more than z On a per-capita basis, Canada $2000 on an engagement ring

by Samantha Weaver were more likely to end up divorced. z It takes about 70 hours to read the entire Bible aloud – even longer if you take breaks to sleep and eat (and shower, one would hope). z Aside from being plant products, what do pinecones and pineapples have in common? You might be surprised. Not only do both have scales (which are obvious to see), but the scales share the same pattern: 13 rows spiralling one way, and eight rows spiralling the other way.

Thought for the Day: “If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.” – Terry Pratchett And another: It was noted American poet and feminist Adrienne Rich who made the following sage observation: “Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.”

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YOUR STARS ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 20) Blasting

your way through this week, you are certainly in top form! Positive moves and long-awaited progress propel you forward. There is little to be imaginative about as life is now full of hard facts. That means decisions are easy to make and you tend to see the outcome without doubt. With all that energy at your disposal, it is not surprising that your love life takes a definite upturn.

TAURUS (APRIL 21-MAY 21) As everything comes together to make this a memorable month, so you should be sure of being in the right place. With a strong air of optimism around, it would be easy to overdo things, especially on the money side! Being Mr Sensible is sometimes needed. Romance and passion are in the air, but there are sure to be some lightning flashes. Try to avoid situations that draw you into dead ends and frustrating spats.

though? With so much activity around you, should you? Yes, do. When it comes to love and home life, this is where your joy lies. Relaxing does not mean that you can’t get out and have some adventures!

VIRGO (AUGUST 24-SEPTEMBER 23)

Were you thinking of taking it easy this week? Hard luck. That doesn’t mean that it will be stressful, far from it. It is just that with so much going on you will be buzzing around like the busiest bee! You look good, you talk good and by golly you feel good! Be your own best friend and refuse to be put on a guilt trip. Negative vibes from someone who is envious should be ignored.

strictions frustrate you, but overall this is a great week. Face the fact that you cannot have everything you want right now and the pressure is off. Instantly! Get out and visit folk you haven’t seen for some time and the balance is reset. Passion? Oh yes, and some spats and sparks too. Enjoy what life throws at you. Some moments will be remembered because of their laughter and some because of their shock element.

CANCER (JUNE 22-JULY 22) There is an awful lot going on this week, so much so that you may need to get that priority list going. If you avoid running around doing errands for others then sanity will reign. Do too much, however, and burnout could ensue! A long-standing relationship looks like becoming much more. You may have considered this in the past and decided against. Things have changed around you both so look again. LEO (JULY 23-AUGUST 23) Having put a

lot of energy into life you should now be able to relax and bask in the joy of success this week. Can you really relax,

for the week commencing August 1

BY CASSANDRA NYE times overwhelm you. Please don’t let it. Want to jump off of the ride and hide in a dark corner? Just a bit too much going on? A quiet day to relax will see you in a better place.

SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 23-DE-

CEMBER 21) As there is less to take your attention this week, make the most of a time to think and take stock. Things will soon get busy again and your mind will be duly scrambled (as usual)! Get any details at work sorted before taking a break and you can then truly relax. Being practical is just what you need. Working with others can also put you in touch with a more optimistic side to your personality.

CAPRICORN (DECEMBER 22-JANUARY

20) There is more reason to be optimistic than you imagine. When we have a couple of setbacks we can feel that it will always be that way. It won’t! This week shines a pleasing light on the future. In a happy but quiet week what appeared to be a problem fades away. Forward looking, forward thinking and full of faith, that is who you like to be. That is who you can be again now.

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUNE 21) At times re-

AQUARIUS (JANUARY 21-FEBRUARY

19) Holidays and new friends beckon this

LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 24-OCTOBER 23)

Fate and fortune seem to be playing a game with you this week. They are not. Emotions, both good and trying, pull you this way and that. However, there is someone close who wants to help you and maybe a bit more! Take your time. They could become a valuable asset. Be in touch soon with any older friends or relatives you care about.

SCORPIO (OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER

22) There is so much optimism and

romance around you at the moment. Being introduced or bumping into someone special is likely. Look your best, get out and about and give us that smile! Excitement, though, can some-

week. Whether you’re planning something or right in the thick of it, excitement is there. You won’t immediately be struck by Cupid’s arrow, but it is on its way. All you have to do is put yourself in the position of receiving it by looking for fun. Any tensions this week are almost sure to be self-inflicted. Stop it!

PISCES (FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 20) You

won’t feel like being too serious this week. To be honest, you probably don’t feel like doing very much. Shame, then, that Mr Reality turns up. Yes, deal with those awkward people and their financial grumbles before they give you indigestion. It is a case of ‘soonest tackled, soonest mended’! Plan a few days away doing something that really floats your boat. Will this be an antidote to a bumpy week? You bet!

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You are a showman/woman, Leo. Bring those talents to bear in the months ahead and you could really shine. Finances do not seem as important as your home life right now. Grow the love there. Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Your natural abilities are awesome, Leo. Who but you could truly make a room shine? Apply some of this to your work and create something special. By the way, you do not need anyone to hold you up! Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Increased knowledge sees you taking flight in the months ahead, Leo. You will be so glad that you made the effort, even though it ate into your social life! Finances are better. Love life even more so. Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Not everything can be perfect in your life, Leo. Most of it will be, though. Just avoid being smug or saying ‘I told you so’! That would not be well accepted. Business and love life totter on gleefully. Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Leo, you know how to have fun and throw a good party. This ability will bring both friends and happy colleagues in the months ahead. Being so good at love could see you spoilt for choice in this area, though. Count your blessings. Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Lovely Leo has a way of sailing through life without too much difficulty. Long may that continue. However, pay attention to details when it comes to cash and relatives. A mixture of both spells problems! Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Love and laughter fill your days in the months ahead, Leo. However, you need to spread a little of that around to family and friends. Being the life and soul of the party may seem trite at times but it serves an important role.

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Addiction – a life threatening illness ROM the moment I saw him as Dusty in the delightfully lightweight Twister, I’ve been quietly cheering for Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It’s not just stellar talent as a character actor that’s captured my deep admiration throughout his diverse resume of roles (and if you’ve never seen Charlie Wilson’s War, you’re a little poorer for it). The reason I’ve eagerly awaited each of his new roles – and never been disappointed, I might add – is that I’ve always felt an oblique kind of camaraderie with the man. The worlds we inhabit – at least until last week, in his case – couldn’t be more different but still I felt a kindred spirit. Because I imagine that in his schoolyard years, Hoffman was the fat “ranga” kid who managed to keep his head from being “flushed” every afternoon by actually using it. I’ll wager he was a brilliant but difficult child, who challenged and infuriated his teachers, and confounded his would-be tormenters by using his wit like a shield. And I’m confident of not being too far off the mark because I went through my teenage years as a chubby chick for whom the only sport not to be dreaded was running rings around less cerebrally able bullies. A quick tongue was the only weapon at my disposal in the battle for self-esteem in which every other teenage girl came armed with athletic ability or seemingly spectacular boobs – or, most painfully for perpetually flat chested, bargearsed me – both. The ghastly quest for acceptance was compounded by the ignominy of being a dusty boarder at an eastern suburbs all-girls school in the self-indulgent ‘80s (think Ja’mie in blue eyeshadow and water-wave taffeta). I managed to come out the end of those teenage years with a pretty healthy sense of self, and with a genuine belief in the value of style over substance. (Mind you, I also came out with the sizeable arse still attached and I still hate it). I have a pedestrian, but stable

and loving upbringing, a very good education and the good fortune to have been born on the right side of the tracks in middle class Australia to thank for that. So here’s my two-bit, cereal-box psychological assessment of how it came to be that one of the world’s most applauded actors, with any financial woes long since behind him and the lives of three young children stretched out ahead of him; with a virtual guarantee of job security and the adoration of millions of movie and theatre goers around the globe – wound up dying alone with a needle sticking out of his arm. Without a sense of self, what is there? For all his global acclaim and undeniable thespian genius, I think Hoffman

was still essentially that ungainly little freckle faced butterball. Without the benefit of whatever twist of fate gives one person fortitude and another fear, he had no way of out-running the bully that is addiction. Comparing my creative ability with Hoffman’s is ridiculous, of course, but the point I’m making is that whether you’re a movie star or a street sweeper, the absence of a sense of self can be fatal. I’ve heard it said this week that sympathy for Hoffman is misplaced – that he had everything to live for and that his addiction was the product of ego and his death from it the ultimate price of his selfishness that his children will now be left to pay.

` Is it such a leap to think of substance addiction as a disease of the mind as much as any of the more palatable forms of the particularly unpalatable suite of afflictions that is mental illness?

Yes, it’s hard to feel sorry for someone who throws away the kind of opportunity and apparent privilege Hoffman enjoyed. It’s equally hard to show compassion for the strung out junkie who breaks into your house in search of anything to pawn for a hit. But drug addiction – like alcoholism – is a disease. Is it such a leap to think of substance addiction as a disease of the mind as much as any of the more palatable forms of the particularly unpalatable suite of afflictions that is mental illness? Comedian and increasingly serious social commentator Russell Brand – similarly possessed of the same potentially lethal brilliance as Hoffman – said it perfectly in an article recently in which he asked readers to try to see drug addiction through the prism of illness. “The mentality and behaviour of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope,” he wrote. “If you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.” A junkie himself, Brand has been clean now ten years, but he’s an addict nonetheless. And if you can’t understand addiction, then you’re blessed indeed not to have ever struggled to give up smoking, or wound up in a doctor’s office or hooked up to an ECG because of an inability to say no to the fat and sugar you know is killing you – just maybe slower than an overdose of smack might. Not every death from drugs will be as high-profile as Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s, but each will be the result of the unfathomable nature of addiction that makes it so lethal. Greater understanding of the underlying insecurity that drives the illness of addiction will help enormously in the fight against it. Some compassion wouldn’t go astray, either. Because there, but for the grace of God, goes any one of us. *From the ‘Best of Jen’ files

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