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Alkane Resources vigilant about minimising impact

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FROM THE EDITOR

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Yvette Aubusson-Foley editor@dubboweekender.com.au facebook.com/WeekenderDubbo Twitter @DubboWeekender

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WOOD WORK The Old Dubbo Gaol gets paver upgrade PAGE 12

RURAL Merino sale attracts international buyers PAGE 20

OUT OF AFRICA

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Bob Coverdale’s passion for wildlife conservation PAGE 13

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ENTERTAINMENT Voci Stupende: Opera in the chapel PAGE 35

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Seven Days Tony Webber Paul Dorin What I Do Know

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Business & Rural Lifestyle The Big Picture Entertainment What’s On 3-Day TV Guide

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’VE discovered Twitter.

Not “discovered” like I just sighted the ragged coast of Santo Twitteria under royal Spanish sponsorship but “discovered” as in “get” how - even why - it works.

Like any good swashbuckling adventurer on a quest for buried treasure, there’s been sacks of peril on the high digital seas with long periods adrift under the windless sails of flat batteries, lost phones and the great white squall - social media overwhelm.

Mapless, I’ve fearlessly followed users into their Tweetable harbours only to discover their conversations - like grass skirts and wooden handicrafts - had no relevance to me or my needs (because you know, it’s all about me) and the more wrong turns I took, the more I understood why onion-shaped trunks were once sensible menswear, circa 1642.

It wasn’t that 140 characters was in any way daunting for an editor who makes a living out of being a topiarist of text or who despite loving words as much as a hot bubble bath with a glass of wine on Wednesdays, has no qualms about deleting characters from aTweet - like the heads from mutinous sailors.

Call me the Killer of Conjunctions.

What to say however in those 140 characters was as illusive as mermaids and while the outcome was often meaningless, frequently pointless, the quest to master the perfect Tweet beckoned like a sea siren, at once terrible and beautiful.

Once bitten by the bug (a Tweetle?), symptoms thankfully were nothing like scurvy and I got to keep my teeth and hair, but at the wheelhouse of my galleon (a Chinese-made Leagoo smartphone) I knew I was losing the good use of my precious time and perhaps some privacy.

Diving down into the depths of Tweet expertise required late night scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and wondering what is everyone on about and who do they think they’re talking to, until ‘oh!’ there’s something I’d be interested in. Me and the 50 besquillion other users.

Then, I see it. The desert island of “Turn on Mobile Notifications” which is the true pearl

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of Twitter, granting me a personal news feed about whatever I want to know, updates from journos on the ground in Yemen, the latest Turnbull update or a what’s on in Dubbo.

Cutting out the noise has been a tequila sunrise moment and from my deckchair of discovery I no longer need wonder why Twitter’s treasures were so hard to find or how easy it is to show the spammers, porn peddlers and gratuitous self promoters the most direct route to the plank.

I had arrived at the Nirvana of the digital age - “Information just for ME, Anywhere, Anytime”.

I may have felt less like Magellan bravely circumnavigating vast swathes of the digital unknown, and more like a cave woman in that lightning bolt moment (there weren’t light bulbs back then) when she first realised her grinding stone was in fact an efficient communication tool if thrown at her husband, home unannounced two months late from the mammoth hunt.

Was this the first Tweet? Are short sharp messages actually our primal selves trying to return to the essence of a paleo utopia on the wings of a small blue bird?

Of course in order for it to be “communication” he would have needed to reply. Possibly devoid of 140 characters in any language, or speech at all, his response may have been a simple “urgh”, the early form of “sound notifications”, of which today there are millions of options.

I chose “ping”.

And it is mind boggling how many Tweets some people send, especially at lunch time or early evening because with every new arrival, I know, because I hear, a ping.

Malcolm Turnbull is an early morning Tweeter, Caro Meldrum-Hanna is frenzied around 12. The Fin Review has reinvented the meaning of “scheduled posts” and pumps out Tweets at 20 messages per second.

And so it seems the honeymoon is over.

I have lowered my anchor in my own patch of Twitter, but the mute button has now become my trusted second mate.

Mapless, I’ve fearlessly followed users into their Tweetable harbours only to discover their conversations - like grass skirts and wooden handicrafts - had no relevance to me or my needs (because you know, it’s all about me)

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` The consequences of energy hardship can be crushing.

They include energy rationing, energy-food trade-offs, and high levels of stress and anxiety.

Inability to pay for energy or to make any headway on energyrelated debts can, of course, lead to disconnection, which is disruptive to households and to family life and can lead to anxiety and emotional disorders, loss of food and inability to wash.

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Lower income households to benefit from Festival of Energy and state program

BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY EDITOR

HE Aboriginal Housing Office is hosting the inaugural Festival of Energy at the Dubbo Showground today, (Friday, September 2) targeting people living in Dubbo and surrounding areas on low incomes to assist with managing high energy costs.

“The real benefit of this initiative is that it enables Aboriginal families and communities in Dubbo to save money by getting information on the best tariffs available for their household to help reduce their energy costs,” Aboriginal Housing Office chief executive Shane Hamilton told Dubbo Weekender.

Dubbo’s Aboriginal social housing tenants, living in Aboriginal Housing Office (AHO) properties, are being invited to participate in a new energy saving pilot.

A hundred and fifty one AHO properties in Central Dubbo will receive an Australian-developed smart energy management system, with roof-top solar systems being added to houses which have sufficient sunlight to generate power from the solar.

Installations were started this week.

“AHO properties will be retrofitted with the Australiandeveloped Eddy smart energy management system, and some properties will also get rooftop solar installed. This will be supported with an education campaign for tenants, focusing on how to reduce energy use in

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the home and access support programs and services available locally,” Hamilton said.

“By installing the Eddy smart energy management system and solar, we’re aiming to reduce the financial burden of high energy costs, and help the wider community with education about how to get the best deal and access relief schemes.”

AHO data from tenants and the sector backs the need for the pilot and a recent report by St Vincent de Paul Society using AGL data shows Dubbo has the second highest electricity disconnection rate in regional NSW and ranked sixth out of all postcodes across the State.

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Fourth&Centre Tessa Manning said Dubbo is an area where many households are on low incomes and are most vulnerable to rising energy costs.

“These households spend a higher proportion of their income on energy and are far more likely to report difficulty paying their bills and seek crisis or emergency assistance for payment of bills. To address this issue, the Aboriginal Housing Office will be hosting a Festival of Energy in Dubbo on September 2, 2016,” Manning said.

“The consequences of energy hardship can be crushing. They include energy rationing, energy-food trade-offs, and high

levels of stress and anxiety. Inability to pay for energy or to make any headway on energyrelated debts can, of course, lead to disconnection, which is disruptive to households and to family life and can lead to anxiety and emotional disorders, loss of food and inability to wash.

“The Festival will assist residents in Dubbo to reduce their energy bills by providing access to interactive in-home energy use workshops, ‘Bring Your Bills’ sessions, energy tariff talks, financial counselling services and energy-related technology demonstrations.”

Good news came over a week ago on August 24 when Member for Dubbo & Deputy Premier, Mr Troy Grant encouraged eligible households to apply for NSW Government Home Energy Action appliance program discounts to replace inefficient TVs and fridges.

The 40 and 50 per cent discounts for low income households are expected to save households an average of $140 a year on their energy bills.

“This program will help 20,000 low income households lower their living costs,” Mr Grant said.

“Replacing an inefficient fridge will save a household up to $200 a year on its energy bill. Replacing an inefficient TV will also save a household up to $125 a year on its energy bill.”

Eligible households must be a NSW resident; and hold either a valid Pensioner Concession Card, Health Care Card or Low Income Health Care Card from Centrelink or a Gold Card from Veterans’ Affairs.

The fridge being replaced

must be six years or older, and the TV being replaced must be a plasma or cathode ray tube (CRT) TV. In a formal statement Environment Minister, Mr Mark Speakman said the scheme could also reduce about 11,500 tonnes of carbon emissions every year, which was like taking more than 2,800 cars off the road, if 20,000 households each used the subsidy to replace one appliance.

“Low income households are the most vulnerable to rising energy costs. That’s why this scheme is designed to reduce the high upfront costs for these households,” Speakman said.

The NSW Government is also working with leading community service organisations such as Anglicare, Baptist Care, Kempsey Neighbourhood Centre, Kildonan Uniting Care, Metro Assist, Northern Rivers Community Gateway and Good Shepherd Microfinance to ensure energy hardship clients can easily access the offer, particularly those most in need across regional and remote NSW. The offer is available until the $4 million program budget is exhausted. To apply for a subsidy, visit http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/households/appliance-replacementoffer.htm.

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Alkane Resources vigilant about minimising environmental impact Dubbo Zirconia Project (DZP)

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LKANE RESOURCES have all the approvals in place to build the longawaited Toongi Zirconia Project just south of Dubbo, but even before a sod is turned managing director Ian Chalmers says the company is continually revising the best way of doing things in the quest for improvements.

Much of the subdued criticism against the massive rare earths mine has centred around having tailings ponds on a riparian floodplain upstream of Dubbo, with concerns elements such as uranium could be swept into the Macquarie River during a catastrophic flood event.

Chalmers said Alkane is now looking at a new way of handling the wastes.

“Part of our ongoing modification is we’re looking at what’s called forced evaporation and that forced evaporation does away with the need for the big evaporation ponds and if we can do that and make these work, which we think we can, our actual waste footprint will drop enormously, drop by 90 percent, so we won’t end up with these big tailing dams, these big evaporation ponds, it’ll actually be quite small and that’s the most likely scenario,” Chalmers said.

“It’s got technical merit in doing that but the environmental side of it is amazing, it drops our land access back to nothing.

“Forced evaporation is used worldwide and usually used in the areas where there are water restrictions or space restrictions and those sort of things and it wasn’t something we ignored initially but we looked at the simple model, you always start with trying to get the simple de-

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Chalmers said the concept of forced evaporation became attractive to the company after talking to mining experts and engineering companies from around the globe.

“I think there’s a very high probability that we will go down that path, it may not happen initially at start-up just because of that capital involved but it’s certainly something long term that we will do.”

“They’ve said why don’t you look at this, why don’t you look at the economic viability of putting in forced evaporation – yes, it does use more electricity, so it’s more costly, it’s a fairly high capital cost but the balance is that the end result is a much more manageable, and I think presentable, option,” Chalmers said.

“All the approvals are done which is the main thing really for us and now we’ve got to put the financing in place and we’ve managed to get some really good announcements out in terms of marketing and offtake

After more than a decade of planning the mine itself has now passed all the regulatory hurdles.

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agreements, all those are starting to come in but the big step now is to put all the funding in place and ideally we’d like to see the first tranche of that by the end of this year so we can actually start doing some physical work,” he said.

“It’s the access particularly, we’ve got to upgrade Obley Road, we need that, that’ll be number one priority, then we’ve got to look at water supply, power supply and those sorts of things and then really detailed design, detailed engineering design follows and that then puts us in a position to start construction.”

The defunct Dubbo to Molong railway line has long been in the mix to provide an off-road transport option to the DPZ, which will see more than one million tonnes of materials going in each year, but just 30,000 tonnes of product coming out.

“The rail line, well we did a lot of work on it but it just basically doesn’t work at this point in time but we’ve given as part of our planning approval, that after about three or four years we would reassess that, we’d have another in-depth study about can we upgrade the railway line, can we make it work and we’ll do that I mean we still believe there’s an opportunity there but right now it just doesn’t work for a whole raft of reasons, social reasons, environmental reasons and financial reasons,” Chalmers said.

“I think it’s been given a very very rigorous assessment as to what the pros and cons are and basically we think the option that we’ve ended up with is a very good option in terms of all the waste is stored onsite, nothing leaves the site, the only thing that does leave is the end products, the valuable end products, everything else is retained.”

He says a tremendous amount of work has been going on behind the scenes for 16 years.

The pilot plant is currently running down at ANSTO again and will be for about three weeks – he hopes it’s the final stage in checking some engineering developments that Alkane worked on the last 12

months, and also to get the new suite of products out to end users just to show it’s what the company is going to produce.

“Are you comfortable with it, will you be prepared to sign offtake contracts and those sorts of things,” he said.

“We’ll still keep working, we’ll still improve the whole operation and improve what we’re doing but right now, this final run should be it I hope.”

He says the strategic importance of the rare earths mine is even greater than ever before, with China dominating the world supply.

“We’re the only major new project in the world today that has the capability of competing with the Chinese and it’s very important strategically, I mean we get a lot of credibility in Europe, North America, and then also in Asia, Korea and Japan for this project – internationally it’s a very important project,” he said.

Alkane is a Western Australian based company and found the process of designing and establishing the Tomingley gold operation laid great groundwork for understanding how to negotiate its way through this state’s current regulatory framework.

“It’s helped just getting the approvals’ process done here, all of the things that we had to do, all of the learnings we went through getting Tomingley up and running, we were able to transfer that across here,” Chalmers said.

“Now they’re very different projects both in size, mining style, waste areas and those sorts of things but just the different departments, the attitudes of different departments, the attitude of the government generally it’s been an interesting exercise and then more esoterically I suppose internationally people can look at us and they visit Tomingley as part of looking at the project and they say oh these guys have done it and they’ve put up a $115 million gold project on time, on budget, it’s operating effectively, you know, it gives us a lot of credibility going forward to build the bigger project here.”

` We’re the only major new project in the world today that has the capability of competing with the Chinese and it’s very important strategically, I mean we get a lot of credibility in Europe, North America, and then also in Asia, Korea and Japan for this project – internationally it’s a very important project - Alkane Resources managing director Ian Chalmers

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Seven Days RAIN RAIN GO AWAY I DON’T like to complain about having too much rain but … we’ve had too much rain.

On the positive side of the ledger, it looks like the major dams in our part of the world will all be full, or close to it.

On the concerned side of things, far too many people are seeing their crops put at risk by the continual drenching, it’s either a feast or a famine.

Out west I’ve heard there’s a roundup shortage as farmers look to wipe out their wheat crops so they can get the much more profitable cotton in the ground, and while I can see the rationale of those business decisions, surely in the 21st century we can find new ways of doing this instead of buying yet more expensive poison from multinationals – they really do have us over a costly, and toxic, chemical barrel.

THE GOOD ICE SPEAKING of roads, spare a thought for a business virtually shut down by the recent closure of Wheelers Lane that nobody’s talking about.

Brett Williams operates an automatic ice dispensing machine just north of the rail line and it was totally blocked off all during the construction period, so people wanting a 4kg bag of ice had to park a long way away

and actually walk to pick it up, then lug it back.

That’s enough to change people’s buying habits.

“We had a loyal following but once people change their habits then you have to get them to change back,” Brett told 7Days, but there’s no doubt he’s always trying to look on the bright side of life.

“Business is always slower in winter so from that perspective the timing of the road closure was best for the impact – I understand that that the road had to be fixed but we were probably affected the most.

“The road was shut for just two days in January and sales dropped by 80 percent,” he said.

One thing I didn’t realise, the ice from Brett’s machine is HACCP-approved which means it’s fit and accredited for human consumption, so if people have had to buy ice that hasn’t been designed for them to use in their drinks hopefully they’ll return to their previous buying habits.

Wheelers lane has been in the wars lately, this week council reported a burst water main near the rail crossing – what an amazing coincidence, wonder how that could have happened.

It affected residents as far away as Myall, Fitzroy and Goode Streets, there was a detour for southbound traffic on Wheelers lane and we were told the quality of the drinking water wasn’t compromised, or at

WET AND DRY RALLY ROADS GREAT to see all the South Dubbo Rotary Destination Outbackers got through the trek safely, and before these new big rains came along.

One hundred and forty-five people in 56 vehicles raised $250,000 for the club to distribute to charities such as the Royal flying Doctor Service.

This is an incredible event and it just keeps chugging along.

The Kidney car rally was happening at the same time and there were a few locals who participated in that as well, all raising money for great causes.

Still on rallying and well done to David Ward and Derek Blomfield who raised $23,000 in last year’s KidzFix Rally, they’re having another crack in this year’s event and have already topped the $16,000 mark.

Wardy had a son born prematurely and the Newborn and Paediatric Emergency Transport Service NETS) saved his life, so he’s got a hugely personal stake in helping out.

Their team is called Two Dads, and will start at Morwell in Victoria, brave some snow covered country to Jindabyne and wind their way back to the finish line in Bendigo.

To help out, and every little bit helps, you can check out how by visiting the Two Dads Facebook page, twodadskidzfixrally. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

The week’s top stories from around the region by John Ryan least not as badly as it was for residents in Flint, Michigan.

We could always buy bags of Brett’s human-consumptive ice and wait for the sun to melt it – maybe council could pay for that service, that sounds like Karma to me.

THE BAD ICE IT’S great to see communities confront serious issues head on, and Wellington has made no secret of the fact that locals will do anything they can, collaboratively, to minimise the harm the drug ICE is causing in the town.

A local Community Drug Action Team has been set up and will host a “Breaking the Ice” forum at Wellington Civic Hall on September 20 from 6:30 to 8:30pm.

Nikki Woolley runs the community programs for the Australia Drug Foundation (ADF) in NSW and said local leaders and experts in drug prevention and harm reduction will be on hand to help you understand the issues and misconceptions surrounding ‘ice’.

“This forum will provide you with evidence based information about ‘ice’ and where to seek help, support and treatment in your area. The solution lies in the community’s hands and we will give you some practical tools to deal with the issue,” Woolley said.

“More importantly, we need

to start seeing the person rather than just the drug and to encourage people to seek help early, rather than hide the problem.”

More information is available at www.adf.org.au/cdat There was a huge forum in Dubbo this week with experts from across the region in town looking at innovative ways to combat the drug problems in virtually all communities.

A new organisation called Western NSW Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol Stepped Care Integration Planning Executive Group (SCIPEG) (Whew!) has been formed and hopefully their solutions will be simpler than the group’s name – seriously though, the name is complex because the problem is complex and it’ll require everyone in every conceivable organisation having their two-bob’s worth on how to work together to address so many of these seemingly intractable issues.

Here’s some of an official excerpt: “The Western NSW Primary Health Network (WNSW PHN) has been tasked by the Australian Government, to design and commission mental health and drug & alcohol services in our region, over a three year period.”

“The Western NSW Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol Stepped Care Integration Planning Executive Group (SCIPEG) has recently been established, to bring stakeholders together

and ensure resources are used efficiently.”

“SCIPEG is jointly chaired by the WNSW PHN and Local Health Districts (Western and Far West) with the aim to identify service gaps and design improved mental health services that match the needs of the community.”

There have lately been renewed calls across the board for a comprehensive drug rehabilitation centre to be built in Dubbo to service western NSW.

WELLO STREET PARADE INTO SPRINGFEST IT’S a busy time for Wello with the town already gearing up to promote its 200th birthday, which arrives next year, and this year’s Springfest less than four weeks away.

A street parade will be held on September 26, and “is set to add color, music and a sense of festivity” to the town according to organizer Ian law.

“Last year was exceptional, we had people riding penny far-

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things, buses adorned with flowers, a truck with scouts completing a ropes course and even some pirates from St Mary’s school,” Mr Law said, adding that organisers are hopeful more and more individuals and groups will build and enter floats in the parade.

“There is so much to see and do - Friday night will see the opening of the Quota Charity Art Exhibition as well as the SpringFest Drone Photographic Exhibition, while on Saturday not only will we have the street parade, but there will be markets in Cameron Park, chariot races, a Vases in the Valley exhibition and the first SpringFest Cycle Classic,” he said.

Springfest will conclude on Saturday night with Snoopy Under the Stars from 6.30pm.

JUST LIKE SHEEP LOVE the rural photo competition at this year’s Rabobank Dubbo National Merino Show and Sale.

I tried my hand at taking what could be called unusual pictures to throw my entries in the ring for next year.

Huge attendances and great prices, with more than 4000 attendees through the gates in just one day of the event, that’s an amazing boost for local accommodation suppliers, food and fuel outlets etc. *Check out the full story and photos on page 10.

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SHEEP ON THE MENU I ATE plenty of lamb and mutton over the weekend, firstly one on the spit at an U13 end of year rugby party, and later on at the 4th Minore Camp-Oven-Cook-Off. This is a great event, more than 100 locals having a variety of fresh feed, local produce including the wild hare, a few drinks, bonfires and raising some cash to help local fella Kailem Barwick through some tough days. *Check out the full story and photos on page 20.

BITS AND PIECES CONGRATS to the Dubbo High School Class of ’76 to get such a strong turn-up for its reunion.

Well done to Parkes MP Mark Coulton on being elected to the role of deputy speaker in the house of representatives – he’ll need every bit of his calm demeanor and conciliatory manner to survive this parliament, I don’t envy him that job.

Police continue to work away at keeping the community safe, that’s another job that most people are glad to leave someone else to do – it’s also a varied occupation, with the reactive side of things seeing as 32 year old Bourke man arrested on a break and enter and stealing of several firearms from Balladooran – meantime local cops joined forces with Headspace for the “Wear it Purple”

Freeing Peter Juris, Peter, Michael, Lois and Andrew Greste released Freeing Peter, the true story of how an Peter Greste’s family took on the Egyptian government to free him from unjust imprisonment. PHOTO: SUPPLIED.

Day which is all about promoting community tolerance – like I said, policing covers a wide range of issues.

Lots of footy news with former Canberra Raiders captain Alan Tongue in town running

domestic violence programs.

Ex-rabbits Roy Asotasi and Beau Champion at Buningyong Public to talk about how important it is for kids to brush their teeth.

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Wear it Purple Day Headspace Dubbo staff and supporters, and NSW Police Orana LAC were on hand last Friday, August 26, at the Church Street Rotunda, to mark Wear it Purple Day, raising awareness of the LGBTQI community issues and rights. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

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FEATURE.

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

ATS and rats and alligators may not have been on the menu but most other foodstuffs were on offer at Minore’s fourth annual Camp Oven Cook-out.

“I caught a hare, no-one likes eating rabbit, so I told them it was something different and everyone loved it until they found out it was hare. We do goat, hare, we’ll only do legal animals,” that’s the ethos according to organiser, Glen Bloink.

“Bloinky” put on a huge feed a few years back and invited all the locals, since then he’s been under pressure to make sure it happens at least every 12 months.

“It’s the Minore community interacting, I’ll give you an example, a lady that’s been living here for 27 years, at the first cook-off we ever had, she’d

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never ever met her neighbor, he’d lived here for 16 years and at that first cook-off they met each other for the first time so that was pretty cool,” he said.

“We’re going to feed everybody up and have a good night tonight, there’s a four-piece band playing, a real good night - the first year we only had 90, we were just cutting out teeth, the second year we had 120, last year we had 130.

“Everyone loves it, they wanted two a year and I haven’t got the time to do two a year,” he said.

It’s not just about socialising, like any good community, locas are this year rallying around a local family to support them.

“This year we’ve got a young fella up the road, Kailem Barwick been diagnosed with cancer a couple of years ago,” Bloink said.

“He’s had a couple of operations, he went into remission for a short period and had some more pains so they had some more scans and they found that the cancer was all the way through his body, the last operation they took part of his lung and several of his ribs to try and slow it down and it’s all through his body at the moment.

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“They want to try a new treatment that costs five grand a pop and it’s not on the PBS so we’re here to raise a bit of money for him tonight and a lot of people that don’t even know him have given 100 bucks just out of their pocket which is amazing,” he said.

Jenny Tracy said she wouldn’t miss the annual Cook-Off. “It’s good community spirit just to see people that you don’t see, we’re raising money for a local fella that’s doing it a bit tough and that’s what country people do,” she said.

“We’re too busy to even know what our neighbours are up to and this is a good way to meet neighbours, people live on the same road and you don’t even know they live there.

“Great for the kids, they can play with their friends, country kids, this is how we were brought up.”

Zoe Cuthell, aged nine, was having a great night with her mates.

It’s good community spirit just to see people that you don’t see, we’re raising money for a local fella that’s doing it a bit tough and that’s what country people do - Jenny Tracy

“Really fun, I like the fires, I get to play with my friends,” Zoe said.

Likewise Helen Rushton, who loves the fact everyone gets in the spirit.

“It’s great, every year, they get bigger every year, there should be more of it – you get all the young ones together with all the older ones and we all enjoy it,” she said.

Bruce Rushton agrees.

“I reckon we’ve lost sight of these sorts of simple things, because of OH and S and all that sort of stuff, they need to relax the rules and regulations around community things,” Rushton said.

“Just meeting people you’ve never met before and stuff like that, even though there’s a lot of people that I know, it’s good to meet people I’ve never even met before.”

There were more than 10 camp ovens, at least four spit roasts with pork, lamb and turkey, Metters stoves and similar combustion cooking apparatus.

This along with numerous small fires, a giant bonfire and another pile of wood that dwarfed the first.

Organisers couldn’t have been happier with the event, Kennard’s once again supplied the lighting trailer free of charge and the 100 plus adults, and lots of kids, didn’t have to rely on the firelight.

Late in the evening the spit being used to roast the turkey, conked out and the big bird blackened fairly well on one side.

Efforts to dosue the flames with various brands of beer weren’t as effective as one might think, so the only course of action left open was to auction the charred carcass off.

That’s another $250 into the kitty to help Kailem Barwick endure his ongoing and painful health battle.

Everyone knows about Peking Duck, maybe the Cook-off has created the Minore Turkey.

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WOOD WORK The Old Dubbo Gaol gets wood paver upgrade engineered to perfection The feet of petty and hardened criminals, murderers and thieves, executioners, police and in more recent times, visitors from around the globe, have all at some time in the past century crossed the hardwood blocks paving the entrance to the Old Dubbo Gaol destined for misery in confinement, to meet their maker or simply on their way to work. Last month the wood blocks to the historic passageway were replaced with newer, damage free timber. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Yvette Aubusson-Foley D PROJECTS designer Peter Tonkin was in Dubbo this week to attend a formal reopening of the Old Dubbo Gaol following the completion of a restoration project to replace rare wood block flooring in the main entrance of the State Heritage listed attraction.

Tonkin acted as a consultant on the project having previous experience restoring wood block cobbles in the Rocks area on behalf of the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.

“We’re a design consultancy and because we’ve been through the process before we knew some of the pitfalls.

The main thing was - and Sydney has a lot more wet weather than Dubbo - the blocks expand considerably, and if you don’t gap them appropriately, the whole thing will buckle and in [the old Dubbo Gaols] situation, it could pull down walls,” he told Dubbo Weekender.

“Timber block pavers ran through the Sydney CBD from about 1880 to about 1930 right though George Street and the Rocks. They wanted us to help them reinstate a small section of it, just past the Museum of Contemporary Art, so we conducted an excavation there and did the research into how it was originally laid in Sydney.

“There are some differences between Sydney and the Gaol. It wasn’t as highly finished or oiled, but it was bedded on a concrete base. In Sydney they didn’t bother with the chamfering of the

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blocks.

“Chamfering is where the edge is taken off the corners. This is a special thing. It makes it quite a comprehensive piece of work because every block is machined. They just take off about a centimetre and all done fairly precisely. In Sydney they didn’t bother with that, it was all square cut.

“Our experience in Sydney was that you needed to gap the blocks accordingly and use the right species otherwise they swell in humid weather or in the wet. Sydney also wasn’t gapped quite as much as this.

The 300 millimetre deep blocks sit on a dry, tamped down, sanded cement mix base and the original base, put in the 1890s, has been kept. Gaps between the blocks are filled with sand to allow movement should they swell or be subject to flooding.

“If they all swell it can make that sort of difference,” Tonkin said, gesturing a measure of almost one metre. “It can damage buildings and buckle, so we had to allow for all of that.

“What they’ve put on top though is a sikaflex, like a bituminous or tar like substance - it’s the modern equivalent.

Originally they used a tar as well but it wasn’t quite as flexible as this, but it was designed to ‘squish’ in and then it will retreat when it dries out in summer.”

“A bit of calculation went into it with a structural engineer. I think they’ve

Some of the original hardwood blocks which have been replaced after 100 years of service in the entrance to the Old Dubbo Gaol.

3D Projects designer Peter Tonkin who consulted on the project with an example of one of the new blocks installed last month.

done a very good job with this,” Tonkin said.

The planning of the restoration has been measured in years and at least eight months of that has been dedicated to in depth research.

“There was very little information about who actually laid the original paving. We think at the time it could have been done by prisoners. We don’t really know,” said Western Plains Regional Council manager business support at the Old Dubbo Gaol Jamie Angus.

Today, there is a small section left on the entrance way flooring where original paving blocks have been kept.

“Years ago they did replace a big section of them but there was still about half originals and half the newer blocks.

That was done in the 60s and 70s. We’ve removed them all, new and old, and of the original ones we were only able to rescue about 30.

“We’ve kept all of them. We haven’t thrown them out or used them as firewood as people would think. At this stage we’re thinking we may do something with them at a later date, maybe an art piece or use them throughout the site in some way, but we’re not sure how we can do it at the moment. Most of them are termite or rot damaged, as you can tell.

“We did do a lot of research into exactly the type of wood used here, so it is like for like. It’s narrow leaf ironbark. We sent it away to a laboratory to get the exact species of wood that was used,” Angus said.

The original timber was sourced from around the area but exactly where remains unknown.

“We were able to source them through Ramien’s Timber but the stuff we have put down is coastal and the reason we’ve used this wood is because of the size of the wood.

“When you’re putting it down, you have to avoid what’s called the heart which is basically the centre of the wood, so you need quite a round tree so you don’t get sections with a heart. The trees around here just isn’t old enough because it was all removed. Any of the newer trees are too small.”

The gaol is one of only three locations in Australia which still has hardwood road paving, a common technique employed between 1880 and the 1930s.

“The wood blocks at the entrance to the Gaol are unique for the style in which they are laid and for the fact that they are located in a regional area,” said operations supervisor, Kim Hague.

The project has been provided with $1 million in funding under the NSW Government’s Restart NSW Cobbora Transition Fund, which was established to create infrastructure that drives economic growth and productivity in the region.

Previous upgrade works to the Gaol, made possible through this funding, include maintenance work on salinity and rising damp issues of the Gaol Walls and internal building walls, as well as restoration of the Watchtower, upgrade of Nosey Bob Holographic Exhibition, refurbishment of the Infirmary Block and the installation of new Faces of Crime exhibition.

The gaol was closed between August 15 and 28 for the wood block restoration to take place.

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Out of Africa Bob Coverdale left the Great Continent many moons ago but his passion for wildlife conservation continues.

Weekender chatted to a man who not only carved a career as a veterinarian but has spent the past 16 years as a zoo volunteer. WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Maddie Connell S if on cue, a blue-faced honeyeater lands on one of the zoo’s outdoor tables as Bob Coverdale begins to talk about his life as a conservationist, animal lover and keen bird watcher. The bird is close enough to snap a picture and amazes with its lustrous plumage.

Growing up on an African coffee plantation, Bob was surrounded by animals from a young age and talks about seeing them on the savannah.

“I was brought up in Kenya on a farm of 650 acres, on which 250 acres of coffee was grown. It was a great place to grow up. I went to boarding school from the age of eight and lived there until I was 17-and-a-half. I enjoyed school and would come home often.

“We saw wild animals pretty regularly on the farm – rhinos, antelope. The mongoose would get into the chicken house. I remember the tribesmen locking up their cattle because of lions.”

Bob describes Kenya as a great country which features plenty of picturesque scenery.

“It’s a beautiful place which goes from rainforest to dry deserts and has a beautiful coastline.

“Where we lived was a high altitude area 100 miles from the Equator, with quite a cool climate and very fertile. Agriculture was a primary industry and there wasn’t a great deal of mining at the time.”

Bob spent his days outside pursuing boyhood adventures.

“I was always outdoors. I had one older brother and we didn’t have to work on the farm so we spent lots of time running around the bush.

“We were keen on seeing animals and going to wildlife parks.”

Bob’s playmates were local kids. While apartheid existed at that time, he didn’t see the effects of racism until he was a young man.

“We had a house servant because that’s what people did. Most of my playmates were black. There were certainly no lines drawn in that regard, it was 1940s Africa.”

As colonialists, Bob and many of his peers went overseas to continue their education.

“A lot my age went to England to school.”

Many of the colonials influenced local agriculture with some fairly poor results.

At the time, Bob wanted to be a farmer. He decided to travel in order to observe farming techniques in other countries.

“I finished school in 1955. I left Kenya to do an agricultural study tour of New Zealand. I ended up staying there for three-and-a-half years, working on dairy farms and sheep farms.

He got a Diploma in Agriculture and then did a working holiday around Australia.

“I worked in sugar mills, saw mills, you name it. I liked Australia because it was a free place and in those days, it was easy to get jobs.”

Bob returned to Kenya again where he did national service.

“I did it for six months full-time in the territorial army, and to the army reserves after that until I left the country, which was another three years.

I went back to Australia and got a job with Dalgety’s.

I had worked with them in Kenya, to improve farming.

“We bought British breed dairy cows from Kenya, sending them to Uganda. Dairy farming was a new adventure.”

In 1965, the boy from Kenya moved to Australia permanently.

“There were just better job prospects on offer. My Dad was Australian and Mum was English so it was relatively easy to emigrate. As a British citizen, I qualified for the 10 pound fare. For a young fellow, there were better opportunities.”

Initially, Bob worked with CSR as a sugar cane inspector in the Northern Rivers region for three years followed by Ingham in Qld for a year before doing a complete lifestyle change. “ I wanted to go to university to do veterinary science. Although I’d left school in Year 10, I worked to get through. I was lucky enough to get a scholarship and they were the heady days of Gough Whitlam.

“By that time, I had a family and we all moved to Bris-

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bane, which was the big smoke considering I’d always lived in smaller places.”

Studying chemistry and physics was hard but Bob never regretted his decision.

“I’d always been interested in animals so, vet science was one of those things that came up. I’m glad I didn’t go farming – it’s a tough world.”

It took six years to do the degree and then a postgraduate Masters in Veterinary Pathology. “We all moved to Melbourne after that and then Armidale where I worked for the Department of Primary Industries for 25 years until the government decided to close down that area.

“I worked on local animal health problems providing a diagnostic service to farmers, working with livestock such as cows, sheep and pigs. We investigated the cause of animal deaths and production losses. It was a very interesting role.

When the section shut down, Bob was lucky enough to get a field job and a transfer to Dubbo.

In 2000, he became a volunteer at Taronga Western Plains Zoo before retiring from full-time work as a vet in 2003.

He loves volunteering and everything that the zoo represents.

“I discovered the zoo and found out about volunteering and did the training course. It’s one of the greatest places.

Bob is very passionate about the zoo’s resident animal population, in all their shapes and sizes. Hand

The Mau Mau Uprising Another reason for Bob wanting to leave Kenya was political upheaval in the British colony.

“When I was in my last year of school, there was a terrorist uprising of the Mau Mau people. They called themselves freedom fighters. That was a pretty sad time. I had a few friends killed/murdered.”

The Mau Mau Uprising was a military conflict in British Kenya between 1952 and 1960. It involved Kikuyu-dominated groups called Mau Mau, white settlers, and elements of the British Army, including local Kenya Regiment, mostly consisting of the British, auxiliaries, and anti-Mau Mau Kikuyu.

The capture of rebel leader Dedan Kimathi on October 21, 1956 signalled the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau, and essentially ended the British military campaign.

“Post -World War II, there were a lot of soldiers who’d been overseas and seen how other people are treated, particularly the indigenous people.

While Kenya is relatively stable these days, Bob said there is a lot of terrorist activity on the Somalian border and Sudan has also been through civil war.

“There’s a huge refugee camp in northern Kenya in the desert country.

“It’s sad but that is the way the world has gone.

Kenya has had its political moments but it’s still a stable country. It’s an independent country now and most people get along well, even those with tribal backgrounds. It’s still a lovely place to live.”

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in hand with his love of wildlife is Bob’s concern as a conservationist.

“I was always a keen birdwatcher and animal watcher. In Africa when I was growing up, wildlife was always plentiful in those days. But population explosions and the way the world’s gone has changed that.”

“It’s sad that there’s money spent by rich people on the black market and it’s horrible the things that are done for the sake of a few dollars. But with things like rhino horn worth $70,000 a kilo, that’s the sad part about it.

People are trading in lizards and birds.

“Birds are my favourite but I also love bongos and tortoises.

“People need to be educated and armed with the education to be able to know what’s going on and report the people who are doing it. I don’t know if money is the answer to educate people.”

For all his efforts as a zoo volunteer, Bob received the ‘Accept and Take Responsibility’ Award in 2012. The award recognises volunteers who ‘go out of their way to accept and take responsibility which results in excellent customer service for visitors and builds positive, strong relationships between our people.

The award transcription states that Bob ‘brings a wealth of experience in many volunteering activities to both the general volunteer program and the education program. As a presenter on birds, Bob has inspired us all to take the time to observe and research our bird life.

Bob has also organised and participated in the Animal Watch activities on Meerkats and White Rhinos, and other animals as required.’

Additionally, Bob co-ordinates the water testing activity for Streamwatch NSW. His team have recently been invited by the regional Catchment Management Authority to participate in the Waterwatch Snapshot Autumn sampling on the Macquarie River.’

Bob has also had a sporting life and even represented Australia on more than one occasion. “I’ve played hockey most of my life and my main achievement was winning two gold medals in the World Masters hockey men’s team in the 70-years division and the 75-years division,” he said proudly.

“Hockey has taken me all over the world and I have played in South Africa, England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, representing Australia.”

Bob took up dragon boating two years ago because it’s something his partner Sue Hill is involved in.

“I really enjoy it, it’s a great crowd of people. We have done trips to Tasmania and New Zealand. There are more than 60 members including active breast cancer survivors and campaigners.

Bob describes dragon boating as an opportunity to meet people and do exercise. “It’s good for working your chest muscles which is good for those who have had breast cancer. I have won medals at a couple of regattas and have now become the team sweep.”

“I also play golf for fun, I haven’t won any medals,” he laughs.

The father and grandfather also loves to travel and would love to visit Canada and Alaska, and the Galapagos Islands to see the tortoises. As long as it involves animals, Bob will be happy.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 02.09.2016 to Sunday 04.09.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident and former journalist.

Burkini beach ban a study in losing hearts and minds OTHING says tough on terror like banning swimming togs.

Thirty coastal resorts in France have now banished the burkini - the full-body swimwear favoured by some female Muslim bathers - from their local beaches.

ISIS must be reeling.

There is no doubt a small number of terrorist/extremist actions have brought great horror to France – Paris and Nice specifically - as well as the rest of the world.

But if the road to hell is paved with good intentions, a greater example of counter-productive ham-fistedness than the burkini crackdown is difficult to envisage.

The various mayoral decrees do not explicitly use the word burkini; instead they ban “beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation�, citing reasons such as the need to protect public order, hygiene or French laws on secularism.

Secularism is a hard one to justify in that it is only Islamist beach garb that is targeted, while public order seems a stretch too, given that ample Muslim targets would present themselves to anyone inclined to direct violence in that direction.

But referencing hygiene seems less

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like sound civic regulation and more like the casually derogatory slurs that bode ill for the future.

If public order is the objective, suggesting a segment of the public is unclean is a peculiar way to encourage it.

Widely viewed footage of a burkini-clad, presumably Muslim, woman publicly disrobing while surrounded by armed police enforcing the beach ban also looked like the sort of oppressive humiliation that might confirm the worst impressions among disillusioned sections of the Islamic community.

True, on French soil the blame for provocation and criminal violence lies with the murderers of the hundreds so atrociously slain in multiple terror attacks.

But such a crude reaction by local authorities against individuals enjoying the seaside in the clothing of their choice is a needless affront to a minority community already struggling to contain radicals and potential so-called lone wolves in its midst.

The research tells us social exclusion and radicalisation are related, and that messages of us and them push susceptible individuals into the arms of extremists or add warped justification to an unstable individual’s inclination to lash out.

Is the goal less violence or more?

Do bans on the cultural dress preferences of women going to the beach being policed to the extent that a woman minding her own business removes a garment under the watch of armed officers send a message of inclusion and solidarity?

Sure, running down families in a truck sends a strong message too, but while security services work behind the scenes to identify the next culprit, the battle for hearts and minds is not served by petty laws that look a lot more like bigotry than the reasonable middle ground.

Hardly helping was former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s call for a national burkini ban in the interests of “re-establishing the authority of the state,� though

` The research tells us social exclusion and radicalisation are related, and that messages of us and them push susceptible individuals into the arms of extremists or add warped justification to an unstable individual’s inclination to lash out.

any state that lost authority due to swimming trunks is a state that should be more careful, you’d think.

Not all French officials were so blind to the risk of such inflammatory words, deeds and imagery.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve reiterated the Government’s opposition to the ban, saying any such law would be “unconstitutional, ineffective and likely to create antagonism and irreparable tension.�

Irreparable tension.

Depending on where you were situated for this saga you might have heard three different sounds.

On the beach that day as the woman removed her outer garment while the police looked on, her fellow beachgoers jeered her and shouted “go home,� according to press reports.

Meanwhile somewhere deep in the traumatised ruins of Libya or Syria you might detect the frantic keyboard clatter of ISIS operatives downloading footage of a modest Muslim woman’s public humiliation as propaganda gold.

And if you listen carefully to the ill winds buffeting the tolerance of western society, eroding liberties, emboldening bigots, fragmenting communities, you might just hear the spirit of Osama bin Laden rubbing his hands with delight.

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Anne Jones: A country practice From Austria to Australia, the ‘burbs to the bush and becoming Wellington’s first and last lady Mayor, accountant Anne Jones has packed a lot into her life, including plenty of volunteering. She talked to Weekender about her passion for community. WORDS Natalie Holmes WAS born in Austria and I emigrated to Australia as a small child with my parents and older sisters. I don’t remember much of Austria because I was only 18 months-old when we moved but I have been back nine or 10 times.

The first time I went back I had a strange feeling of coming home. I had the same feeling in Wellington in 1980.

When I went there I just felt that it was the place I had to be. I was so taken with the place that the same weekend I visited, we bought a farm.

I completed my education at St Mary’s Convent in Liverpool. After I left school, I commenced a secretarial course at Liverpool Technical College. I did that for 12 months and I thought that was what my career path would be. Then I decided after speaking to a friend that I should think about a long-term career.

I started an accountancy degree and graduated in 1979.

I was the only woman in the class.

They used to give me funny looks but I did my best and was the top of the class. I joined a firm called Barry Hancock and Associates. I met with Arthur Young and Company who then merged and became Ernst Young Chartered Accountants in Liverpool.

After two years, I was appointed as manager of the Liverpool practice and stayed with them until 1986 when I started my own firm in Wellington. My husband at the time, Bill, was a Detective Sergeant in the Australian Federal Police and we moved to Wellington for a treechange. When I was in Liverpool, I built up quite a good client base and left Liverpool with a box trailer with client files. Many of them wanted to stay with me so I would travel back to Sydney and meet with them. I continued with my practice from 1986 to 2003 when I sold it to the WHK group. By then, I’d already been elected as a councillor with Wellington Council in 1995. During my 21 years on Council, I’ve held the position of deputy mayor for seven years and mayor for seven years. In both roles, I was elected unopposed until 2012.

Then I had a three-year break until I was re-elected in September 2015. Since the amalgamation (between Dubbo City and Wellington Councils) on May 12, I’ve been elected to be one of the eight (former) councillors to be part of a community consultation committee advising the administrator on local views

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and issues, assisting to engage community and partners on the new council. I am very proud to represent my community, I enjoyed it and I’m still doing it.

I’ve been married to Peter Payne for 26 years. Peter and I used to play together as little children in Sydney. Then he was one of my accounting clients in Sydney when I was with Ernst Young.

Initially I didn’t see him as someone who wanted to have a relationship with an accountant in the country. But that’s what happened! Peter’s a builder, most of his work is commercial buildings like Endeavour Court.

After I moved to Wellington, I started my accountancy practice above the State Bank. One day, I went out to lunch with the principal of my previous firm.

While we were together, Peter rang and asked to speak to me. I got on the phone and told him that I had started my own practice in Wellington and took my files from Sydney. He asked if I had taken his. I hadn’t so I asked him if he would like to become a client (laughs).

I didn’t change my name when I married Peter. When I decided to share my life with him, I had already established my name in the accounting field. Some people know him as Peter Jones and if we went to a dinner in my role as mayor, I would often take the place card away if it referred to him that way.

With Council. I have always had a passion for community and people. That’s one of my strong points. The highlight of my experience so far has been a project which happened when I first went on Council. There was a need to do something with youth so we established the PCYC. A public meeting was held in 1987 and we established a committee.

Senior Sargent Neill Scarr was the first president. We worked until we got the money by fundraising.

My greatest achievement as an accountant is being able to help people who wouldn’t have the opportunity to speak to someone not on the clock – who go by the rule of no money, no work.

I love helping people within the community. I’ve been on the Westhaven board for 18 years. They made me a life member two years ago. I was also on the board of Maranatha (aged care facility) for eight years as the treasurer. I am a board member of Binjang Community Radio Station. I like to have a leadership role but you need to have a good

understanding of an organisation to be the president. And finance is my strong point.

I was on the consultation committee when the jail was being built and was the official visitor at Wellington Correctional Centre for four-and-a-half years.

My role was going in and assisting inmates with various challenges and issues – whatever they needed. It was a bit daunting at first but they had so many different stories to tell you.

I also participated in the Community Awareness for Policing program representing the Orana Command in Sydney.

I am the first vice district governor of Lions Clubs international district 201N4.

I become the governor next year, heading 51 clubs across NSW. I’ve only been a Lion for five years. I was talked into it

by Barbara Andrews who asked me to join her executive team. Over the years, otary, I had been asked to join Lions, Rotary, mmit Quota and CWA but I couldn’t commit long-term. eeded Barbara told me that she needed ried I me as her zone chair. I was worried wouldn’t know what to do, but shee said ‘Jonesy, it won’t take you long to pick it up.’ Within a week, I was a Lion. From there, I became zone chair and presihen, I dent of the Geurie Club. Since then, have been on the district cabinet and I istrict currently hold the title of First District Governor. They are flying me to Chicago for the 100th anniversary of Lions throughout the world. abran During the fires at Coonabarabran and the Blue Mountains, I was thee disaster alert chair for the district, giving out vouchers to farmers. Nationallyy and 4,000 internationally, Lions gave $344,000 n and to help re-build in Coonabarabran $400,000 to the Blue Mountains. as abTo see those communities, it was pport solutely shattering. We helped support Coonabarabran for two and a half years s. 309 and Blue Mountains for three years. families were affected and 211 lost their homes. They are people who had to reed in build their lives. I am also involved d the the Gollan Rural Fire Service and re’s a Volunteer Rescue Association. There’s g that personal satisfaction I get knowing ple. I I’ve played a part in helping people. undaalso chair the Australian Lions Foundation for our district.

For all the things I’ve done, I was awarded Citizen of the Year for Weladerlington. I also received a World Leader-

ship Award and a Women in Local Government Award and the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award for Human Services, all in 2013. I received the Harry Hession Bronze Honour Award in 2014 and an OAM along with a Women Out West Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. I had always said that while I was mayor I wouldn’t accept an award - I do what I do because I want to.

My whole focus at the moment is all about the new entity as a consideration after the amalgamation. It’s not about me, it’s about my community and Local Government is at a grassroots level. It’s all about ensuring that Wellington and Dubbo can turn the page and do what we need to do to get the best outcomes for both areas.

For me, the most important thing is the local community and knowing them g able to see them. and being

Airports should use fake guns to test their security, govt told

2016 INSECURE LIFE

CANBERRA: Airports should resume the practice of using fake guns to test their security regimes, a damning report on passenger screening suggests.

And the government must make sure all X-ray machines and metal and explosive trace detectors are up to date.

An audit of passenger security screening at domestic airports has found that minimum standards have been established, but the government had no way to

make sure screening was effective or whether airports were sticking to the rules.

It doesn’t have meaningful performance targets or enforcement strategies for passenger screening and doesn’t direct resources to areas with a higher risk or non-compliance, the Australian National Audit Office says.

The use of replica guns in carry-on luggage to test security systems stopped in March 2014 amid problems with firearms

licensing and work health and safety concerns.

More than two years on, the program is still suspended, although the infrastructure department told auditors other “test pieces” with the same amount of metal as a handgun are put in carry-on luggage instead.

The audit report says if tests of the system are to simulate realistic threat scenarios, the department needs to address the issues and start using fake guns

again soon.

Outdated security equipment was supposed to have been replaced by the end of 2015 but almost a year before then the department decided not to go ahead with this, the report says.

But after it got the draft audit report in June, the department told airports they would have to replace old metal detectors and explosive trace detectors by July 2017 and X-ray machines by July 2018.

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DIGITALLY ENHANCED.

Apple Pay to give banks a run for their money

BY MATHEW DICKERSON SMALL BUSINESS RULES ULES CONSULTANT

T is September and Apple is in the news. There is nothing unusual about that. The Apple iPhone 4s was released on October 14, 2011 and every year after that, Apple has chosen September as the month to announce their latest iPhone. Consumers and mobile phone professionals the world over have come to rely on this timing.

That is not what I want to talk about today though.

I want to talk about an ongoing technology feud we are currently witnessing in the consumer market between Apple and some little battling underdogs here in Australia. When you think of the big banks in Australia, underdog is not the first term that pops into your mind but these banks are playing first-grade now on the world stage – and the world is watching.

CBA; Westpac; NAB and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank have put a joint submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to allow them to take on Apple. Although we think of these banks as large in our market (CBA; Westpac and NAB sit at numbers one, two and four on our ASX200) when we compare them to Apple, they are minnows. Apple’s current market capitalisation is two and a half times the combined market capitalisation of the banks involved in the ACCC action.

So what is this fuss all about?

Money. Obviously. More specifically, Apple Pay. Apple Pay was launched in the US in September 2014 and since

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then has been steadily making its way across the world. In very simple terms, Apple Pay is a payment system that is designed to move consumers from physical wallets with plastic cards to a virtual wallet on a phone. Not just any phone but specifically an Apple iPhone.

When you visit a retailer you tap your phone on the terminal while holding your fingerprint on the fingerprint reader on your phone.

As is the Apple way, it is simple to use and just works. Although Apple won’t release the total number of users across the world, we do know that globally a million new users are joining the service each week and over the last year, transaction volumes through Apple Pay have increased five-fold.

With Australia having a proud history of early adoption of technology, you would think consumers in Australia would be adopting this technology faster than Ryan Lochte could change his testimony.

Unfortunately, this decision is not one to be made solely by consumers. The banks have to play their part. They have to play nice-

ly with Apple. Despite the fact that banks across the world have already come to terms with Apple Pay, our banks are holding out.

This is not going to be an easy battle. Merchant fees in Australia amount to more than $2.8 billion but it is not just the absolute dollars that worries the banks. It is the loss of control over the transaction if Apple becomes involved.

The banks should look to the lessons of the past in the music industry. Businesses that resist change and think that is the way to beat a competitor quickly find that customers will work out a way around roadblocks that are put in place. We are already seeing evidence of this in Australia.

Number three in the big four banks in Australia is the ANZ. They are a notable omission from the banks involved in the submission to the ACCC. They completed their individual deal with Apple on 28 April this year and that has seen a surge in applications.

Online credit card applications for the ANZ have increased by twenty per cent since the announcement and traffic to their Web site has

increased by six per cent. Consumers are loyal to a brand – to a point. The data is already showing us that if your bank doesn’t provide the service you want, you will find someone else who will.

So why is Apple even developing this technology? The banks seem to do a pretty good job of transferring our money electronically at the moment (and taking their cut). Surely Apple should focus on making hardware and selling it and working out better products that will appeal to the market and try and stop the onslaught from myriad Android products.

Note this quote from 2008 by Steve Jobs. “Phone differentiation used to be about radios and antennas and things like that. We think, going forward, the phone of the future will be differentiated by software.”

Apple don’t just want you to use their product. They want you so intertwined into the Apple ecosystem that you wouldn’t possibly consider another product. Once you use Apple Pay and iTunes and wear an Apple Watch and use iCloud then you wouldn’t possibly consider another phone. It is a great example of cross-marketing and keeping a customer within your product range.

For the end-user, it is about convenience. Countless surveys show the primary motivator in a shopping experience is not price but convenience. If using a mobile phone to complete a purchase makes it easier for people to shop, I can guarantee people will use that system.

I will be watching with interest the ACCC case but I suspect the remaining banks will not want to allow ANZ to get too much of a head-start and we will see agreements falling into place shortly.

Happy tapping!

What is the value of a real estate agent?

BY JOHN CUNNINGHAM AM REINSW PRESIDENT

E are living in an age of disruption where we are offered a range of new solutions which claim to make our lives easier and save us money.

In real estate there is a new provider appearing almost every week declaring they can take the hassle out of choosing a real estate agent to sell your home. Some even suggest cutting out the agent altogether.

Some of these providers are claiming they will save you a fortune by helping you choose the cheapest agent, a low cost facilitator or a “follow the dots” private sale process.

This is being enabled by the ease of access-

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ing information online, which makes it easier for certain providers to target the unsuspecting and offer a fear based solution.

But consumers need to be aware that cheaper is not always better, and you could end up on a ride to nowhere good.

The biggest decision you need to make when selling your house is to decide what provides you with the best value and best outcome, not the lowest cost.

Are you prepared to invest in the right people and presentation to achieve a great return on your investment, just the same as any wealth creation strategy would do?

Property values are the most inexact science imaginable. It is a totally subjective assessment based on individual perceptions, and as such cannot be determined simply by a process.

The property buying decision is based on 80 per cent emotion, backed by 20 per cent logic.

This emotive element is by far the most critical in determining the final sale price of your property that buyers are prepared to pay.

Believing that an unskilled private seller, an inexperienced facilitator or a cheap desperate low skilled agent will find the premium price in your property, is probably the most expensive mistake you can make.

Your greatest asset requires presentation, marketing, pricing and negotiation strategies carried out by a professional trusted advisor who will not only offer you value, but will become invaluable in your real estate journey.

Choose wisely and you will maximise the value that you receive on the sale of your home.

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“I’m here with my small business accountant – get me out of here!”

BY PHIL COMERFORD SCOLARI COMERFORD

TRIP to seeing your small business accountant can, for many, be like a trip to the dentist. However, it doesn’t need to be that way.

Yes, there’s the perception that it could be a very boring meeting or uncomfortable given your financial situation, and yes, it is a shame we can’t offer to numb the pain with a needle or laughing gas, but each meeting should arm you with more information about profitability and cash than you had before you walked in the door.

Now, if I own a small business, what would be some of the ways that I could actually make such a trip less painful?

Better still, could I actually enjoy it?

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1. Have a list of things that worry you Have you ever gone into a meeting with your accountant stressed, in a hurry and then when you’ve walked out gone, “Well that was a complete waste of time!” A meeting that has structure and is efficient will always yield better results.

Prior to the meeting, sit down and list some of the areas of your business that you are concerned about. It could be

cash flow, sales, marketing, profitability or issues with your clients or team.

The more prepared you are for the meeting the better. Keeping your accountant informed of the issues you face should see them adapt suggested solutions to the problems. If you don’t tell them what’s up, it makes it very hard to get the right advice or, more importantly, proactive advice.

2. Ask questions, particularly if you don’t understand If you are presented with a heap of numbers such as a balance sheet and profit and loss statement but don’t understand what is being explained, then stop and ask. Accountants that use mumbo jumbo don’t really provide a lot of benefit.

Always ask where the cash is and if possible get information that means more than “you made a profit and this is the tax”. Look at key performance indicators such as margins, sales growth, bench marking to similar industries, etc.

3. Present clean data The cleaner the data you present, the more likely you will get better information that will assist you to drill down the numbers and see what is going on.

Whilst you don’t want allocate costs to thousands of lines, design your chart

of accounts so that when you look at these you can see more clearly what areas of your income and expenses need reviewing. This will also help when you do your cash flow forecasts or three way budgets.

If everything is just lumped in together and then input by your accountant, it will just increase the chances that something is being left unattended to, and will not promote good discussion.

Of course, messy, unclean unreconciled data can lead to: z misdiagnosis; z higher accounting fees; z inefficient meeting times (going around in circles); z incorrect budgeting; z mistakes (higher taxes).

gress and discuss the results with them either at the next meeting or via email or phone.

4. Go through the numbers & unexpected variances

Conclusion:

If something doesn’t look right, ask questions. Ideally you will have a strategic plan in place and you will have entered your budgets in so that anything that looks strange can be easily identified, analysed and followed up.

5. Write down an action plan based on advice Write things down when sitting with your accountants. List the bits of advice they give and make sure you write down an action plan so you can monitor pro-

6. Request what-if scenarios Asking how you can improve the numbers and cash will usually be answered if your accountant has what-if software.

It will show you how much difference can be made with little tweaks.

Each little tweak should then have an action plan attached to it, and chipped away at until the goal is achieved. This is not difficult! You just need to ask the questions and get them to show you what can be achieved.

Better still, a great accountant will actually volunteer the information. You shouldn’t always have to ask.

Going to the accountant shouldn’t be dreaded. If things aren’t going to plan, then the meeting should give you hope and direction of what you need to try and address to get real business improvement.

If you don’t enjoy going to your accountant then either you, they or both of you need to change the way you have your meetings.

You might not walk out feeling you’ve had some laughing gas, but at least you should feel optimistic that you can get on the right track, and stay there.

To stand out, be yourself

BY KERRIE PHIPPS S BUSINESSWOMEN

OW does Book Week inspire courage in life and business? Read on.

Book Week came with an extra responsibility for me. Actually it’s been a few years since I’ve been involved in any preparation for the event. Hats off to parents who helped their kids transform it into something super cool to represent their favourite book.

My son nominated me for a different kind of challenge.

As one of his school's “Library Committee” he suggested to them ‘I can get an international author to come in and judge the writing competition’. He didn’t dress up. He decided to go as himself, as contributor to my three books and editor of a friends book. #Nerd (That’s a compliment to him, I hasten to add).

The first story I read was about Great Grandfather Jack, and his courage under fire and was so close to my Grandad’s story I took myself to the office for tissues.

The next was a story of a student’s first day in Australia.

Wow. It was a privilege to see our country through new eyes, and I knew that judging this

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competition would be a challenge. I called on the librarian to bring in a second opinion.

The students were asked to present a poem or story that was personal and meaningful.

Those two words seemed like a reasonable challenge, but as I read, I saw how difficult it really is. To write from the heart, is a very different process to writing knowledge. Putting your creativity, uniqueness and inner thoughts on paper – to be judged – is a vulnerable thing indeed. It’s something I struggle with more than I care to admit.

I console myself with the fact that I’m not alone. And so I get on with writing. I was grateful for the opportunity to review so many different stories, and notice the impact on this particular reader. It reminded me that our personal stories matter. Our unique and sometimes quirky perspectives are what cause people to stop and think.

In a world that so easily slips into autopilot mode, that really matters.

Expressing yourself and your ideas is what grabs the attention of people who are bombarded with information, surrounded by everyone trying to be the same but better. They find it easier to tune out to marketing messages and rely on what they already know.

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What engages people? Personal and meaningful. We wonder ‘does anyone care?’ and often they don’t, UNTIL they see themselves in your story, or see how your story relates to them.

When you read about the creator of a healthy food product, and the challenges they faced at their own kitchen table, the heartbreak over their own family struggles, you see yourself there.

You might find some products on your own shelves that share their story on their packaging or website. Is it savvy marketing that grabs your attention? Or the founder's personal stories, the passion they share from the heart? We love to see ourselves in a story, letting our imagination take us somewhere, out of our ordinary everyday.

The winner of the writing

competition, as judged by myself and Michael Lowbridge, school business manager (and published author) was a story that clearly captured the imagination, and shared the perspective of two characters with different experiences.

I discovered several days later that the author of this piece was Year 7 student, Grace Haddon, who you’ll be glad to know after reading her poem, is still a dancer. A close second was Anneke Goud, who took us on a very different personal journey, all around Australia in vivid detail.

How will you stand out in a busy, competitive world?

Be yourself. Develop your strengths, allow yourself to shine. Be courageous, share your passion, your insights and creativity.

by Grace Haddon The world around me stops, The eyes watching disappear, My body with the music, My mind suddenly clear.

There she is on stage, With hair in a high neat bun, She moves with such elegance, She and the music are one.

I smile at the audience, The music continues to play, The dance is almost over, Last one of the day.

I am proud to be her mother, Wish she had a chance, But due to lack of money, This is her last dance.

I move to my last pose, My eyes fill up with tears, I think about my life of dance, As the crowd around me cheers.

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Merino sale attracts international buyers

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

UBBO’S Rabobank National Merino Show and Sale has come of age according to president Matthew Coddington.

What began as an event purely to show and sell the nation’s best Merino sheep has become far more than that.

“Massive couple of days, we had over 4000 people here on the middle day, 200 schoolkids participated in a national wether challenge, the whole thing’s just grown massively, we’ve got a farm expo, rural photo competition, the sheep show, the sheep sales and it’s just grown and grown every year,” Coddington said.

It’s all about value adding to the existing foundation event, where so many like-minded people will travel from across the country to show, sell, bid, buy or look anyway, so adding new activities can literally be sold to a captive population.

This year overseas interest was strong.

“Definitely, it’s getting to be really known as a national and international event. We’ve got people from all over Australia and Argentina as well,” he said.

“The Argentine buyer paid $30,000 and $26,000 for two toppriced rams.”

On top of the buzz when the country’s top Merino studs congregate is the fact this season has seen a huge boost in prices across the board.

“Pretty well all livestock markets have gone so well because there’s so many years of drought the numbers have gotten so low that the supply and demand at a crossroads now and we’re getting all-time-high prices for our wheat and our wool,” Mr Coddington said.

Dubbo’s economy also gets a huge boost, with more than 4000 people passing through the gates on a single day of the three day affair.

That means motel rooms, fuel, food outlets and plenty of other local businesses benefit from a big spend.

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There was strong interest in the sales from across Australia and beyond, with an Argentine buyer spending $56,000 on two rams.

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Queensland’s Candice Roberts checks out the wool quality, the nation’s best fleeces were gathered at Dubbo Showgrounds for the event.

It’s often said that two heads are better than one

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T I M & K I M H O U G H T O N A R E C E L E B R AT I N G

For t h e love The Grapevine's 21st birthday. of good coffee.

That’s 21 years as one of Dubbo’s leading cafés.

Serving great coffee, breakfast, brunch, lunch, ch, k. and light afternoon tea – seven days a week.

Eat in or takeaway. Enjoy!

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Lifestyle

Survivorship: let’s talk about it (but not limited to) pain, fatigue, weight loss, sexual dysfunction, body image –– there are

BY CAMILLA BARLOW a gamut of other issues that those who have CANCER COUNCIL NSW completed their cancer treatment face that may be a little less obvious.

T’S quite common for people to discuss their Feelings of anxiety and depression can be experience with cancer and the implica- very common and not always easy to articutions of receiving a diagnosis; the types, the late. Family and friends may expect you to be treatments and therapies, the side effects, and happy that you’ve finished treatment, so why there are loads of discussion around reducing so blue? your risk of cancer in the first place.

Cancer Council NSW run webinars which But what about life after cancer treatfocus on survivorship – with a real focus on ment – what happens then? The conversation wellness and coping mechanisms. ‘Wellness’ shouldn’t stop once cancer treatment is all is all about how you feel physically, psychodone and dusted. logically, socially, spiritually and economically Cancer affects one in 2 of us before the age – including how you meet the expectations of of 85 in Australia. And while the incidence of your family and community. It can be complex cancer is on the rise – so too is the number and all-encompassing – just like the cancer diof people surviving their cancer diagnosis. In agnosis itself. fact, in Australia, the survival rate across all These webinars are free and open to everycancer types is 67 per cent. one – patients, caregivers, friends, colleagues, This rate is steadily increasing over time and can be attributed to the incredible amount of health professionals – whoever is interested. research developing cancer treatments, sup- Recorded live and accessed via any device at portive care and coordination of therapies, any time – all you need is an internet conneccancer screening technology and also public tion and you can participate by posting queshealth campaigns that promote the impor- tions to the host panel, or simply watch on tance of screening for an early, more treatable from the comfort of your own couch.

The webinar recordings are then diagnosis. posted onto the Cancer Council So why don’t we discuss the ` website (see link below) to watch post-cancer experience more in at a more convenient time. our society when there are so Feelings of many people surviving cancer liv- anxiety and The next webinar on Thursday ing all around us? Everyone’s ex- depression September 29, will focus on anxiperience is unique, so the levels of ety and depression and what you can be very ‘wellness’ following active cancer can do to help overcome these treatment can vary significantly common and feelings. The panel of experts feafrom person to person. not always easy tured include Dr Catherine MaAs much as we would like peo- to articulate. son (Psychiatrist Specialist Psyple who’ve finished their cancer cho-oncology, Crown Princess Family and treatment to get back to normal as Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead); quickly as possible - so much may friends may Dr Laura Kirsten (Senior Clinihave changed, and there are still expect you to cal Psychologist, Nepean Cancer so many variables. You could call be happy that Care Centre) as well as a cancer it a ‘new normal’.

Registrations are availyou’ve finished survivor.

In addition to the physical efable via the Cancer Council webfects that cancer and its treatment treatment, so site www.cancercouncil.com.au/ can have on the body, including why so blue? get-support/webinars/

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The long term effects of bullying on young people

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THIS week, SBS featured a story on the impact of bullying on young people and the long-term effects.

Beyond the personal tragedies of the individual families who shared their stories, the program raised the question as to whether bullying should be a criminal offence for minors.

Interrelate strongly condemns bullying behaviour and sympathises with these families.

“To tackle this issue, we believe a universal approach is needed which involves government, parents, teachers and the broader community. Education and early intervention is the key, where inappropriate behaviours are challenged so that young people learn to think about the appropriateness and consequences of their own actions,” said Interrelate’s CEO, Patricia Occelli.

“We know that children who are bullied are nine times more likely to have suicidal thoughts and that children who bully have a 1 in 4 chance of having a criminal record by age 30. We believe engaging people in conversations

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about bullying is absolutely critical to making a real difference in people’s lives where bullying is concerned.”

KEY FACTS AND FIGURES Interrelate provides education on bullying through its: • Bullying Awareness Program for primary schools – which develops students’ understanding about the nature of bullying and gives practical strategies for dealing with bullies • Cyber Safe Teens program for high schools – which teaches students to safely and responsibly navigate their online world • I relate. SAFE platform – for monitoring social media use in schools • Bullying Awareness Webinars for parents/carers – which provides parents with practical strategies to take if they think their child is being bullied or is bullying others

Past webinars currently available to watch discuss themes including survivor guilt, getting back to work, pain management, men’s issues and the big ticket issue faced by anyone who has had a cancer diagnosis – the worry about the cancer returning.

Fear of recurrence is understandably a huge issue among cancer survivors. While there is so much discussion in mass media about cancer and disease prevention, there should be more attention paid to how you can decrease your chances of a cancer recurrence.

Fortunately there is a lot of research addressing these issues, and fabulous programs are being developed in line with the findings.

A significant finding from research is the role that exercise and nutrition plays in the reduction of cancer recurrence along with increased feelings of wellbeing and reductions in anxiety and depression.

By exercise we’re not suggesting you take part in an Ironman competition, but moderate and guided resistance training to help rebuild muscle tone, together with regular aerobic exercise including walking or swimming.

Nutritionally speaking, eating a balanced diet rich in fresh vegetables and fruit is highly recommended.

Yoga, mindfulness and meditation has also been shown in research to increase your feelings of wellbeing – so don’t knock them til’ you try them. On top of all the evidence around the wonderful physical, emotional and psychological benefits exercise has – another great thing is that you don’t have to spend a penny to do it!

So let’s keep the conversation going about life after cancer treatment. Meaningful discussion around survivorship and support can only have positive outcomes for the huge amount of Australians who continue to beat this complex and all too common disease. z For more information on free Survivorship programs offered by Cancer Council NSW, including Webinars, Living Well After Cancer, Rekindle, Healthy Living After Cancer, ENRICH or local support groups in the Dubbo area – call 13 11 20 or visit www.cancercouncil.com.au

“The stories shared on SBS last night are a clear reminder of why we do what we do in the space of anti-bullying education and why a stand that has no tolerance to bullying is so necessary.”

This year, Interrelate celebrates 90 years of delivering relationship education and services to individuals, couples, families, children and schools across NSW. If you would like more information about any of Interrelate’s bullying awareness programs contact schoolservices@interrelate.org. au

New service supports NSW stroke survivors on the road to recovery STROKE survivors across New South Wales now have access to support when they leave hospital with the launch of the Stroke Foundation Follow Up service.

Stroke is one of Australia’s biggest killers and a leading cause of disability, with more than 50,000 new and recurrent strokes occurring nationwide every year.

To help fast track patient recovery and reduce hospital readmission rates, the Stroke Foundation has implemented the new Follow Up service to assist stroke survi-

vors as they return home from hospital.

The nib foundation funded Follow Up service is currently on offer at 17 sites across regional and metropolitan areas of the state, including a combination of both public and private facilities. The program provides patients with a call from a health professional after hospital discharge and as well as with information, advice, support and referrals to assist them to better manage their health and stroke recovery.

Stroke Foundation NSW Executive Officer, Teresa Howarth, said the service provides access to enhanced care and support to promote recovery for stroke survivors, their carers and family.

“During 2015 alone, NSW residents experienced more than 17,000 strokes. It is a sudden and potentially devastating health crisis that strikes without warning, leaving people no time to prepare,” Howarth said.

“The Follow Up program fills an existing service gap for stroke survivors and those heavily involved in their recovery by providing much needed support and advice on their return to home, which for some is described as the most challenging phase of their life journey,” she said.

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

Sally Bryant

It’s hard to remain irritated with an enthusiast… ’VE been babysitting a selection of the most indulged domestic animals you’d care to meet, while their parents have been on holidays and it’s been an experience.

It’s not every day you get to meet characters like these, let alone move into a house with them for a week or so.

The cat is in charge, it’s fair to say. He’s a beefy little character with a massive attitude and has more than his fair share of that natural arrogance for which cats are famed. He’s like all the caricature cats rolled into one, the ultimate Garfield sarcasm machine who just does precisely as he pleases and then reacts with somewhat well-bred consternation when you take him to task.

“Well, I don’t always get up on the bench when you’re cooking dinner, but when I do, I make sure I get a good pawful of whatever it is you are making…”

“What do you mean, you don’t want me up here? My mother ALWAYS lets me do this, you just ask her. When she gets back.

But until then, there’s no call for you to get shirty. Stop swatting me, I’m getting down, in my own good time.”

“Excuse me! Excuse me! There’s been an error. These biscuits have been in my dish for fully 8 hours, they’ve gone stale. They need refreshing. And that beef heart is cut too small, too big, too poooooointy. And I know there’s chicken in the fridge. What did you give the dog, I want some.”

It’s like there is a running commentary, from the time I get home from work.

“Oh, well, this is a FINE time to be getting back. I have needs you know. I’m here, all day, at home, on my own. Here, let me trip you as you carry that shopping into the kitchen. Is that beef heart I smell in there?”

And it happens pretty much all evening, until I go to bed. And then, later in the night, it resumes.

“Excuse me, are you awake? Hello, are

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The Baker’s Dozen Trivia Test

you awake? I don’t suppose you’re awake?

Oh, sorry, did I wake you walking over your chest in my size nine kitten heels, and breathing beef heart in your face. But, given you’re awake now, can you top up the food supplies? I’ve had a busy evening and I’m peckish again. And those biscuits are stale. I did knock the packet down from the shelf, but you appear to have sealed it properly. Never mind, rookie error.”

And then, early the next morning as I get ready to go to work?

“Can you keep it down out there? A cat needs his rest you know; I’ve had a busy night.”

His partner in crime is a Doberman who looks very threatening but has a temperament that’s halfway between Tigger and Scooby Doo. And like Bluto from the Popeye movie, she’s LARGE. It’s amazing that for a breed of dog that has a reputation of being Very Savage Indeed, the Doberman is remarkably like a blond box of birds. If you saw the film Damien, The Omen, you’ll remember those dogs, the Dobermans with the ridiculously pointed ears. Apparently the breed used to be surgically altered to make their ears do that.

And that’s not the only post-production modification that used to be wrought on Dobermans (or Dobermen I wonder?). Like many other dog breeds, they used to have their tails docked. And like many people I have long thought that was not only rather cruel but a pretty pointless exercise.

As it turns out, if you are sharing a house with a cheerful Doberman, you might start to see some of the rationale behind docking their tails. Say about the time they go past a glass of wine or some finger food on the coffee table, or a pot of tea. Whoosh, whoosh goes the tail and there goes the refreshments.

Or, at some point in the middle of the night, when she comes to visit the bedroom just on the off chance that you’re

1. HISTORY: Which two towns were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD? 2. GEOGRAPHY: In what country is the Abel Tasman National Park located?

3. ANATOMY: How many vertebrae are in the human body?

4. LITERATURE: In 1961, this author published a selection of mystery stories for young readers titled “Thirteen for Luck”?

5. MOVIES: Which Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) movie ends with a scene on Mount Rushmore?

6. MONEY: How much was the British farthing worth when it went out of circulation in 1960?

7. PRIME MINISTERS: Who served as the 10th Prime Minister of Australia?

8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which ancient region’s name means “between two rivers”?

9. MEDICINE: The drug digitalis is derived from which flower?

10. ASTRONOMY: How often is Halley’s Comet visible from Earth?

11. SPORT: Who holds the

` And it’s one, two three circuits of the house, absolutely maggoty flat. And each time she completes a circumference, she looks at me and gives me an idiot grin, and takes off for another turn.

record for most stages won in cycling’s Tour de France?

12. SPORT 2: In 2015, Lydia Ko became the youngest player (18 years, 4 months) in women’s golf to win an LPGA major. Who had been the youngest?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “Friday night I crashed your party, Saturday I said I’m sorry. Sunday came and trashed me out again, I was only having fun.”

ANSWERS: SEE THE PLAY PAGES.

awake and bored and in the mood to let her out to race around the garden in the moonlight after rabbits, and foxes. And ghosts of long dead swagmen. Or whatever illusory creature it is that she can hear out there.

She’s not stupid. She doesn’t come into the room and whine to be let out. She’s far more subtle. She comes into the room and enthusiastically waits for me to notice she’s there. The tail is going nineteen to the dozen.

Whap! Whap! Whap! On the wall. Waking me up. Me, awake in the middle of the night again, not best pleased. How do you tell a dog off for wagging its tail in the middle of the night? You can’t go crook on someone for simple youthful enthusiasm can you?

Well, yes, as it happens, you can.

But the truly glorious representation of her nature is best seen when I get home in the afternoons and I let her out of the dog run. If you ever want to feel as though you are a deeply important and much-feted celebrity, can I recommend this as a feel good exercise.

She waits at the gate for me to open it up and give her the word and, on my okay, she’s out of there like a bow from an arrow. And it’s one, two three circuits of the house, absolutely maggoty flat. And each time she completes a circumference, she looks at me and gives me an idiot grin, and takes off for another turn.

And then, she resumes her circle work but this time with me as the central point.

She races off flat chat, and then props and checks and tears directly at me, as though she’s going to knock me over, but then feining away at the last second. The whole manoeuvre is such an expression of joy, of her happiness to be alive at that particular point of that particular day.

It’s been a real trial taking care of this pair.

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BY GEMMA DUNN F you should ever have any doubts over the power of prep, speak to green-eating guru – and Honestly Healthy founder – Natasha Corrett.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail,” she muses proudly. “It’s as simple as that. And I have the famous [Benjamin Franklin] quote at the front of my cookbook so it’s the first thing you see.”

Discussing her latest title, Honestly Healthy In A Hurry, the 33-year-old explains: “I wanted to create something that was method [based]. Working in kitchens, I realised that we do everything mise en place, so we prep and cook it all [in advance], and just pull the dish together at the last minute.”

Extending the same approach to our day-to-day lives – putting in some prep and planning early – will help keep us on track with our healthy cooking, she says.

“I know if I get home from work and I’m tired, I am going to order a takeaway. I’m exactly the same as everyone else, so unless I have that food in my fridge, I’m not going to do it.

“Just put your favourite programme on and dance around your kitchen!” she adds.

She may say she’s the ‘same as everyone else’, but this London-born foodie certainly has one thing that many of us claim to lack – and that’s bundles of energy.

Meeting Corrett at her book launchcome-cooking class, the vegetarian chef – complete with enviable glossy hair and clear skin, despite insisting she’s knackered from a late night of promotional duties – certainly practices what she preaches. And today, her sermon is prep, prep, prep.

“Your freezer is your best friend,” she begins. “So if every two weeks you can make up a batch of stew or a curry – something with a lot of sauce, and freeze it in single-portion freezer bags, they can be heated up from frozen with no fuss.”

It’s how she and her husband, gym owner Simon Bateman, live – and with a bit of practice, she promises that all of us busy folk “won’t want to do it any other way”.

But while she’s mindful of what she puts in her body now, Corrett admits it took a trip to an Ayurvedic doctor to change her former yo-yo dieting ways, and ultimately inspire her 2013 overnight hit cookbook, Honestly Healthy: Eat With Your Body In Mind, The Alkaline Way. “He told me I was really acidic and I needed to eat more alkaline foods,” she says, bundling her brunette locks on top of her head. “He told me to go on this 21-day [plan] and promised it would

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Natasha Corrett. Photos: PA Photo/Lisa Linder.

change my life.

“He gave me this muffin that was like cardboard, and I thought, ‘If I am allowed to have that, then I can create a healthier alternative where I feel like I’m not missing out and I don’t have to binge’. So that was the turning point for me; if I fancied a pizza, rather than feeling guilty, I’d find another way to make it.”

And that’s where the self-trained chef – daughter of restaurateur Graham Corrett and interior design mogul Kelly Hoppen – made her name.

Encouraging consumers to “cook smart” with no wastage, her latest mantra is designed to inspire readers

A FITTING RECIPE FOR THE WORKING CLASS

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

THE debate about creating employment and producing products that are made in Australia has become a central part of political debate. The current economic climate is one reason why this is so important.

Each October we have Labour Day to recognise the social and economic achievements of our workforce and the products we

to cook in three different ways: Quick – straightforward recipes that take less than 30 minutes; Quick Quick Slow – recipes that are quick to bring together but take a little longer in the oven; and Cook Once Eat Twice – recipes that take advantage of the food you’ve prepared in advance. All with tips, charts and check-lists aplenty.

says, smiling. “We want to move [Honestly Healthy] around”.

Can’t wait for the Tuk-Tuk takeover?

Here are three recipes from Corrett’s latest book to try now...

Quite literally steering the revolution, she’s also been touring festivals in a tuktuk decked out with juice blenders and smoothie makers.

“The idea is to hopefully franchise them out, and make them into a little business where we can go ‘round to big offices and serve a healthy lunch,” she

produce. It’s also a day to celebrate workers and their contributions to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our country.

Labour Day in Australian has its origins in the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

Protests by workers in the 1850s brought about what was a major win for the working class.

Australian workers were the first in the world to achieve an eight-

hour day with no loss of pay.

Try my Diva-style version of Factory Workers Chicken – a family recipe created by the owner of a small machine shop – for your Labour Day gathering. If you can’t wait, make it this weekend!

DIVA-STYLE FACTORY WORKERS CHICKEN (Makes 8 servings.)

You can make this dish ahead of time and re-heat it for your celebration. Even if you intend to eat the chicken without its skin, leave

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the skin on for baking to keep the chicken pieces from drying out as they cook. You also can grill the chicken and serve it with the Salsa Sauce, if desired.

900 grams chicken thighs (or skin-on chicken breasts or a combination of both) 1/2 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons poultry seasoning or Italian seasoning 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 (approx 470ml) jar salsa, hot or mild

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SWEET POTATO FALAFELS

PEACH AND ALMOND CAKE

(Makes 16) 340g roasted sweet potato (500g raw sweet potato, roasted whole) 1/2 clove garlic, grated 1/4tsp smoked paprika A pinch of Himalayan pink salt 1/2tsp sunflower oil 20g coriander, roughly chopped 25g quinoa flour polenta, for dusting For the yoghurt dip: 180g goats’ milk or dairy-free yoghurt 1/4 clove garlic, grated Zest of 1 lemon 10g mint, chopped A pinch of Himalayan pink salt For the tomato salsa: 180g baby tomatoes, sliced 1tbsp olive oil A pinch of Himalayan pink salt 1. First, roast the sweet potatoes (you can even do this in advance). Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/ gas mark 4. Drizzle the sweet potatoes with sunflower oil, add a sprinkle of salt, then roast in the oven for 25-40 minutes until soft. Allow to cool.

2. When ready to make the full dish, again, preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas mark 4.

3. S coop out the flesh of the cooled roasted sweet potato into a food processor.

4. Grate the garlic into the processor and add the paprika, salt and sunflower oil and pulse until smooth.

Add the coriander and pulse again. Stir in the quinoa flour.

5. Divide the mixture into 16 equal pieces and roll into balls. It is a wet mixture, but don’t worry: roll them in the polenta and they will hold their shape perfectly. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes until crisp on the outside.

6. Combine the ingredients for the yoghurt dip and the tomato salsa in separate bowls. Serve the falafels with a mixed leaf salad and a gluten-free wrap, adding some dressing and salsa.

(Serves 6-8) 150g ground almonds 50g buckwheat four 1 1/2tsp baking powder 1tsp bicarbonate of soda 1/4tsp Himalayan pink salt 2 eggs 1tsp vanilla extract 80g (about 1 large) roughly chopped peach 150ml agave syrup 60ml sunflower oil 2tsp fennel seeds (optional) Zest of 1 lemon 2 1/2 small peaches, sliced in half and stoned For the icing: 150g goats’ milk or dairy-free yoghurt 2 tbsp agave syrup Juice of 1/4 lemon 1tbsp coconut oil, melted For the garnish: 1 peach, sliced Lemon zest 1. Preheat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas mark 5 and line a 24 x 14cm loaf tin with baking parchment.

2. Put the ground almonds into a bowl with the buckwheat flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt and combine.

3. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, then stir in the vanilla, chopped peach, agave syrup, sunflower oil, fennel seeds and lemon zest.

4. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture, stirring until combined.

5. Pour the batter into the prepared tin, then stand the peach halves up evenly along the centre of the cake.

6. Put the cake into the oven for 30-40 minutes, covering with foil halfway through baking.

7. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack and leave until cold. Peel of the paper.

8. Combine the icing ingredients in a bowl and pour over the cake. Garnish with the sliced peach and lemon zest. Allow to set, then serve.

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TEN-MINUTE TURMERIC QUINOA RISOTTO (Serves 2) 1/2 white onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, finely sliced 5cm piece of fresh turmeric, grated, or 1tbsp ground turmeric 1/2tsp fennel seeds 1tbsp sunflower oil 1tbsp vegetable bouillon powder 180g cherry tomatoes, cut in half 170g roasted sweet potato (250g raw sweet potato, peeled and roughly chopped) 190g precooked quinoa (100g uncooked quinoa) A generous pinch of Himalayan pink salt A generous pinch of freshly ground black pepper 30g hard goats’ cheese or pecorino, grated, or 2tbsp nutritional yeast Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon 1. Put the onion, garlic, turmeric, fennel seeds and sunflower oil into a wide-bottomed frying pan and saute for two minutes until soft. The wider the pan, the quicker the risotto will cook.

2. Add 250ml water and the vegetable bouillon powder and simmer for a minute before adding the tomatoes.

3. Cover and continue to heat for a further four minutes until the tomatoes start to break down.

4. Add the roasted sweet potato to the pan with a further 125ml water (you can follow the instructions in the previous recipe for roasting your sweet potatoes in advance, except that this time you’ll need to chop them too). Use the back of your spoon or spatula to break down any larger bits of tomato or sweet potato – watch out for splashes. You want to make sure that it’s really smooth and completely break down any lumps. Once it is a lovely thick mixture, add a final 125ml water and the quinoa and stir through.

5. Add the salt and pepper and leave on the heat for a further three minutes or until you get a thick, risotto-like texture. Stir through the grated cheese (or nutritional yeast), lemon zest and juice and serve nice and hot.

1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon yellow mustard 1 tablespoon cornstarch To Marinate: Place chicken in a non-porous pan or a glass bowl.

Coat each piece with the olive oil.

Season the chicken with poultry or Italian seasoning, chili powder and pepper on both sides. Pour the salsa over chicken and turn to coat. Cover the pan with plastic wrap or aluminium foil and refrigerate to marinate for at least 2 hours, or overnight.

To Bake: 1. Heat oven to 205C/400F. Remove chicken from pan or bowl and reserve the marinade for the Salsa Sauce recipe below.

Place chicken, skin side up in a 13 by 9-inch baking pan with the breasts in the centre, if using those pieces. Don’t crowd the chicken. Sprinkle both sides with the salt. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

2. Lower the heat to 175C/350F, and bake for an additional 15-30 minutes, or until the juices run

clear (not pink) when poked with a sharp knife, or the internal temperature of the chicken breasts is 70C/160F and of the thighs are 75C/16F. Pour the Salsa Sauce over the baked chicken. Serve over rice or pasta.

Salsa Sauce: Place the marinade in a medium-size pot and stir in the brown sugar and yellow mustard until well-combined. Bring to a rolling boil for 2 minutes, and stir in the cornstarch to thicken. Pour the sauce over the chicken.

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Celestial sunrise As the sun rose on Saturday, August 27, casting it’s dawnlight on the frosty paddocks between Molong and Orange, a thick fog veiled the sun to eerily reveal it’s true colour: white. The fog blocked all the various colour wavelengths emitted by the sun equally, and so shows the sun in … well … it’s true colours. (Sorry!). PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

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BY GABRIELLE FAGAN HEN you’re a fashion designer who dresses the creme de la creme of the celebrity style pack – from Cara Delevingne and Beyonce, to Margot Robbie, Suki Waterhouse and Kendall Jenner – it’s almost a given that your own home will be a celebration of Hollywood-style glamour.

Jamie Blakey, however, shuns the red carpet lifestyle beloved by her coterie of famous clients, and lives in a chic shoreside house, with a laid-back atmosphere which is totally in tune with her relaxed rock-n-roll design ethos.

“It’s a house by the beach, of course, but I think of it as an open, communal home where we can all relax and have fun. I hate formality, and that’s why this place works for me. I sit on the deck looking out to sea and it really inspires my designs,” says the designer and owner of hugely successful fashion label One Teaspoon, famous for its denim cut-off shorts, ripped jeans and flowing tops.

Her pared back decor palette mirrors the shades favoured in her ranges – black, white and denim blue – and perfectly suits the simple, two-storey wooden house, nestled in the sand dunes in northern Sydney.

Eight years ago, when Blakey and her family – husband Ron, who works in the surf industry, and their three children, Eddie, Mickey and Minnie – moved in, they had quite a job on their hands refurbishing the property, which had been painted avocado green on the outside, while inside sported timber walls and floors so oiled and polished they were almost orange, making it more barn than beach.

The couple subtly altered the layout to make the spaces on the ground floor ‘flow’ into one another, replaced timber, chose a crisp all-white decor scheme to further enhance the light, which streams in from the wrap-around windows and floods every area. The final transformation was painting the exterior charcoal.

Linen fabrics, collections of shells, framed music posters and, for drama, a particularly show-stopping animal skull decoration combine to provide texture and interest in the fuss-free space.

Blakey’s favourite interior accessory, pot plants fulfil their role of bringing rooms alive and blurring the boundary between the outdoors and in.

“I love the upstairs as it’s relaxing, but downstairs is where everything happens – family, friends, dogs and music all combine, and I love the spontaneity of that,” she says.

Unsurprisingly, the designer – who hates to pigeonhole her style and loves the description of her fashion as ‘rebellious’ – doesn’t think there should be any hard and fast rules for decor.

“I like to improvise and change rooms around, so we can show-off our belongings in a new light,” she says, which explains why there’s a bohemian feel to rooms.

A life-size model peacock is perched on one of the ceiling rafters, and Blakey’s recently paid a nod to the house’s location and added an authentic ship’s wheel to a group of monochrome wall prints.

This quest for originality and desire for change reflects her approach to work. Her mother taught her to sew, and from the age of 12, Blakey made her own clothes. She worked for several years in the fashion industry, until 15 years ago, after failing to find items she wanted to wear or those which expressed her style,

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The living area of fashion designer Jamie Blakey’s beachside home. Photos: PA Photo/Vincent Fahey.

The sounds of fun

BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

Kids are born collectors. If you’ve already observed their inclination to hoard sticks, rocks and shells, they’ll no doubt have fun collecting the sounds around them, too.

Here are some clever ways your school-age kids can make sound productions and recordings with you using the voice memo or voice recorder apps on your smartphone.

“WHAT’S THAT SOUND?”

GAME Encourage an older child to listen with a younger sibling to the everyday sounds of their lives. Go on a sound safari in your home and neighbourhood, and help your older child record sounds one by one. For example, record the neighbour’s barking dog, a jet flying overhead, the newspaper landing on the front porch, your garage door squeaking as it opens and closes, birds singing, ducks quacking at a park.

Keep a list as you record.

When you get home, play the recordings back to the family, pausing between the sounds. Try to guess them.

Preschoolers will enjoy familiar indoor sounds, too, which are generally easier to identify, such as the doorbell ringing, a microwave oven beeping, the toilet flushing, etc.

LAUGH OUT LOUD Record voices of family and friends laughing. Try to record each person separately. Enjoy more laughs when you play

back the recordings and try to identify the laughs. (This is a great activity at a summer family reunion and at a birthday or sleepover party.)

PLAY IT AGAIN If your child is practicing a musical instrument and the lesson calls for learning both parts to a duet, record one part. Play it back as your child plays the second part “live”.

For a memorable production, have someone play and record a piece on the piano, then accompany it with a

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A collection of prints bring drama to a white wall at Jamie Blakey’s home.

The living area of Jamie Blakey’s home.

The bedroom at Jamie Blakey’s beach side home.

she scraped together her savings and bravely launched her own brand.

The name, One Teaspoon, came as she was sat in a cafe one day, nervously planning her very first show, and suddenly glanced at a single sachet of sugar on the table. “It was only a small idea that got me to the point of my own collection, so it seemed fitting,” Blakey explains.

Her anxiety over how her clothes would be received proved unfounded – they were snapped up instantly and are now sold worldwide, as well as regularly being showcased by the brand’s famous fans, of course.

Inspiration comes from experiences and random sources, she says, including her travels, fabrics, a colour, but more often than not, day-to-day life in her special home by the sea...

BORROW BLAKEY’S BEACHSIDE VIBES Conjure your own cool coastal atmosphere with an all-white (and black!) colour scheme.

Dulux has an Absolute White in its Light & Space range. If that’s too stark for the whole room, paint one feature wall a soft grey.

Simple black furniture contrasts well with painted wood floors.

Blakey’s exotic plants and ferns contrast beautifully with her home’s neutral backdrop, and faux plants make it easy if you’re not naturally green-fingered.

Just one coastal accessory can be enough to make an interior feel it’s yards from the shore.

Lanterns and pot plants decorate many surfaces at Jamie Blakey’s home.

The home office area at Jamie Blakey’s home.

trumpet, flute, drums, etc.

SING ALONG Record your preschooler singing favourite songs with you or with siblings.

It’s fun to recite rhymes and made-up jingles, too.

Include in your repertoire recitations of your address, extended family names and other everyday information you want your child to memorise.

Play it back in the car or during indoor playtime to reinforce the information.

NOW HERE’S A TIP

BY JOANN DERSON z When kneading dough for bread or pizza crust, spray your hands with non-stick cooking spray. z “To avoid a dirty-smelling hamper, place a single sheet of fabric-softener in the bottom of your laundry closet, or in the hamper itself.” – contributed by R.L. z Need to safely carry a bow while you’re transporting a present? Place it inside a zip-lock sandwich bag, close partway, fill with air and seal. The bow will make it to your destination uncrushed, and you can stick it on at the last minute. z Line junk drawers in the kitchen or bathroom with inexpensive sheets of cork board. Things

don’t slide around as much, and you can even use pushpins or finishing nails lightly inserted into the cork to make custom compartments in the drawers. z If you have trouble with dry shampoo because you have dark hair, look for one that is coloured.

Or try using dry shampoo at night to give it time to soak up oils and wear off. z “Write your grocery shopping list on an envelope, so you can tuck coupons inside. Then you can have it all together at the checkout. I also put a sticky note on my debit card that says ‘COUPONS!’ Sometimes it’s the only way I remember to redeem them at checkout.” – contributed by A.A. z To avoid unsightly flour marks on the outside of a cake, just dust the pan with a bit of your cake mix.

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Discovering Durrell’s dreams in Paxos

ZŽƐŝĞ ĂŶĚ WŽƉƉLJ ƐŚŽǁŝŶŐ Žī ƚŚĞŝƌ ƐƚŽŶĞ ƚŽǁĞƌƐ͕ ďƵŝůƚ ŽŶ Ă ƉĞďďůLJ ďŝƚ ŽĨ ďĞĂĐŚ͕ ŶĞĂƌ >ĂŬŬĂ͘ WŚŽƚŽƐ͗ W WŚŽƚŽͬ ůĂŝƌĞ ^ƉƌĞĂĚďƵƌLJ͘

BY CLAIRE SPREADBURY LAKKACHATTA swinda lactu,” says my six-yearold daughter Rosie, pencil poised on a notepad.

“Yasi,” comes the reply from her sister Poppy, four, who’s sat at the table. “Ikki tabu.”

It’s a new game they’ve started playing since we landed in sunny Greece. They’re being waitresses and making an effort to grasp the local language.

It’s been 15 years since I last visited this country.

Back then, it was all booze and bathing, but this time I’m here with my family, discovering a land more akin to the one Gerald Durrell wrote about in My Family And Other Animals, when he wished he could give everyone the gift of his wonderful childhood.

After flying into Corfu, we hop on the hydrofoil and bob across the ocean for an hour to pretty Paxos – the smallest of the Ionian Islands, and said to be similar to the Corfu Durrell adored as a child.

With winding roads, gorgeously green plants, an azure sea and villas dotting every corner of the three main villages, it’s clear this is a part of the world that’s made for exploring.

Our villa, Milou, is a grand affair – set off the beaten track at the top of a hill – with nothing surrounding it but a handful of other properties.

The front door opens into an enormous games room, with a very cool, electric blue billiards table. We make downstairs our slumber zone, with a main bedroom leading out to the poolside, and a calming twin room, painted to match Greece’s country colours of blue and white.

The kitchen-dining area is spacious, white and wel-

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coming, but we spend most of our days outside.

The infinity pool provides hours of entertainment for the kids – and Daddy, who loves nothing more than drenching them with a running dive-bomb. And the view, looking out towards the Pindus mountains, is enough to take the relaxation factor up a notch or two.

Mind you, there’s a cackle of hysterics as the volume on the docking station reaches ear-piercing levels, belting out club classics in the blazing sunshine. I

The Poolside view at Villa Milou.

emerge from the pool to see my husband James throwing some serious shapes, shouting, “Pool party”, while our children giggle at his moves and attempt to join in.

Despite being a sleep-deprived, overworked and consistently exhausted parent, this villa escape is making me feel young and energised.

I said goodbye to holidays like this after our ‘babymoon’ seven years ago, but now our daughters are older and having swimming lessons, a villa escape is a great option. Armed with rubber rings, a mountain of sun cream and a hire car, this is about as relaxing as a family holiday gets.

We spend our days gorging on Greek salad with fat and furiously red tomatoes, crunchy cucumber, giant lumps of local feta cheese and lashings of olive oil and oregano. And come the evening, James lights the barbecue and cooks the most enormous sausages ever seen, pork and chicken kebabs, giant peppers, and what can only be described as a ‘nine-bar’ of halloumi, all bought in the local shops at Gaios, the island’s capital, and beautiful Loggos, both just a few miles away.

It’s cheap too – we easily buy enough meat to feed us all, with masses of leftovers, for nine Euros at the oldfashioned butcher’s.

A car is essential here. Even just getting supplies for the villa is tricky without wheels. And it means you can explore this beautiful, unspoilt island with ease.

Measuring around a mere eight miles from one end to the other, Paxos doesn’t take long to get around, though roads can be tricky to navigate. We easily get lost amid rural roads, while trying to avoid pedestrians, shush unbelievably excited children and translate Greek road signs. We pass giant pots planted up with cacti, aloe vera and lavender, watched over by gnarly old olive trees, as holey as honeycomb.

We drive past a school with signs warning us that children cross here, but there’s no one to be seen.

When compared with overcrowded Corfu, it seems crazy that so few make the extra journey to experience the peace of Paxos.

We head into Gaios, admiring the perky pink and white flowers on the Oleander trees that line the road.

A quarter of Paxos’ permanent residents live here (about 600), where the Venetian stone-flagged square leads to a picturesque harbour, and at sunrise fishermen sell their catch on marble slabs.

Tavernas spill out onto pavements and, strangely, there are a couple of fish spas – presumably set up when having the dead skin on your feet eaten off by toothless water creatures was having a bit of a moment. It may well have attracted the bronzed beauties from their giant yachts which dock in the bay, but they’re very quiet now.

For the best food, we’re told to go to Loggos, where the multi-coloured shops, bars and restaurants all perch on the water’s edge, with rustic wooden boards advertising their wares.

I sit, sipping a strawberry daiquiri and watching fish flutter beneath the surface, while a boy stands on a boat, his big bronzed belly proudly on show while he whizzes a homemade fishing line into the sea.

We find a craggy bit of headland near Lakka, Paxos’ most northerly tip, where giant rocks peer over and stand tall from the sea. The girls while away time making stone towers out of pebbles while I investigate a

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 02.09.2016 to Sunday 04.09.2016 growing green mass with bulbous, almost pod-like ends, that I’m certain must be edible. I look around to ask someone, but there isn’t a soul to be seen – just the four of us, deserted on our own idyllic coastland.

Luscious lemon trees with fruit as yellow as the sun wave in the wind, as we head out on a boat trip to Antipaxos, a small island a few kilometres south of Paxos, on our final day.

Looking back at Loggos, it almost looks like Nyhavn in Copenhagen, the painted properties fading into the distance.

We spend a full day exploring aboard sightseeing boat Lefcothea, which costs 50 Euros for all four of us (after a little haggling in the shop at the port), stopping to admire ancient rock formations on the way. We float passed layer upon layer of mossy grey and white limestone cliffs, swirled and whipped up like messy meringue, while others look like the curled slices of a supersized BLT.

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There’s a hotchpotch of people on the trip; a threegenerational family, old couples, young lovers and a group of women having the time of their lives.

We pull into Voutoumi, a small, slightly sandy beach (most shorelines are adorned with pebbles in Paxos), where the colour of the sea matches the cloudless sky.

The girls spend an age playing with squirters and telling everyone on the beach (about 25 holidaymakers) how disgusting the water tastes, seconds before sticking their faces in again.

“It’s like a sunset in the sea,” says Rosie, describing how the colour of the ocean changes from clear to turquoise, into azure and navy. And I smile, thinking Durrell would have been pleased with her description.

When we return home, I ask if they’d like to holiday in Paxos again.

“Yakka chakka!” comes the reply.

I’ll take that as a yes.

Claire Spreadbury, with her daughters Rosie and Poppy, sat on Levrechio Beach. * Claire Spreadbury was a guest of CV Villas

James, Rosie and Poppy admiring the view at Levrechio Beach.

The colourful harbour at Loggos.

Thailand is leading way with edible insects S MOTHERED in sauces, shaped like hamburger patties or mixed into spirals of dough, edible insects are served up in numerous ways in Thailand.

In the Thai capital, home to millions of workers from poorer regions, you’ll find plenty of stalls offering a wide variety of insects to taste.

Crickets, grasshoppers, silkworms and water cockroaches are some of the more than 1600 species of edible insects available.

“The country is the global leader with respect to the edible insects industry in several ways,” Patrick Durst, a representative of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), told EFE. Durst, who co-authored the 2013 report Six-legged livestock: Edible insect farming, collection and marketing in Thailand, points out that the Asian country has managed to evolve “from a system of subsistence for local consumption to creating value-added commercial channels”.

More than 250 emerging companies from around the world have begun a movement to bring these edible insect-based products to the Western market.

“The European Union, for example, is working on a regulation governing the market of edible insects within its borders,” Italian businessman Massimo Reverberi, who early this year founded Bugsolutely, a company dedicated to the production of spiral pasta with cricket flour, told EFE. “The barrier is not completely logical. In Italy or France, for example, one eats a type of cheese with worms inside. Not to mention products such as oysters... which look like monsters. But people feel repulsed by insects,” said Reverberi.

The FAO classifies edible insects as a superfood due to their nutritional properties, rich proteins, vitamins and other micronutrients, as well as posing an environmental impact much lower than bovine or porcine cattle farms ensuring sustainable development of the food industry.

A major strong point of Thailand is the rise in local

consumption. Now in some supermarket chains, along with potato chips nuts or other snacks, one can find bags of edible insects.

According to FAO data, 112 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, America and Oceania practice “entomophagy” or consumption of insects.

“There are endless possibilities with edible insects, there are chefs who have begun to innovate their dishes and cookbooks. Meals have a pleasant taste, the only problem is having the image of the insect in the mind (of the people),” says Reverberi.

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Dubbo Artz virtual gallery to connect region’s arts communities online What’s on

BY LEONIE WARD

z Dubbo & Orana Region Orchid Society - Annual Spring Orchid Show Meeting Room near Orchid House, Victoria Park Saturday, September 10: 10am to 4pm, Sunday, September 11: 10am to 2pm Further information: Christine Sutherland, 6887 322

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RT is the way we learn about ourselves and the communities we are part of and with Dubbo having an active online community, Dubbo Artz believes now is the time to connect the two.

To this end Dubbo Artz - the peak, volunteer arts body of Dubbo and the surrounding area - is working on establishing a visual media platform via Facebook and the Dubbo Artz website which aims to provide artists with exposure and sale opportunities.

The virtual gallery will be managed by Dubbo Artz with individual artists responsible for providing contact details for potential sales with any negotiations to occur between the seller and the buyer.

There is a real need to provide a “point of sale venue” to our local artist community which enables them to sell their work and generate an income.

But it is also invaluable to connect the world of art with a new, and wider audience.

This new venture will help and support our local artists to prosper by exposing them to the very active online Dubbo community and help new and inspiring artists make important connections.

Dubbo Artz has a proven track record of championing the needs of the local arts community, meaning this body is the right one to tackle this important local project.

When the Dubbo City Council advised the Dubbo Artz committee to “prove the need for a theatre in Dubbo” that’s what the committee set out to do.

Dubbo Artz provided the community of Dubbo with professional, live performances on a regular basis, to not only grow an audience base but to irrevocably “prove” to the DCC that the community of Dubbo was in need of a theatre.

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sional performances were presented by Dubbo Artz per year from 2004 to the end of 2009, in various venues around Dubbo, with the long awaited opening of the Dubbo Regional Theatre taking place in 2010, thus bringing to an end the entrepreneurial phase of Dubbo Artz.

The role of Dubbo Artz shifted in 2013 when it was appointed the facilitator of the Dubbo Cultural Forum by Dubbo City Council’s Director of Community Services, David Dwyer.

The Dubbo Cultural Forum represents an opportunity for all volunteer community cultural organisations to express needs and ideas for cultural sustainability in the Dubbo Region.

The forum is supported by a wide range of volunteer Cultural/ Arts organisations which are coming together three times a year, in a mutually respectful endeavour, to actively promote effective sustainability within the wider community.

And now, Dubbo Artz is continuing to advocate for the local members of the arts and cultur-

al community with the establishment of the virtual gallery which aims to connect up and coming and existing artists with Dubbo’s established and active online community.

Dubbo Artz has always stood for advocating for the arts and culture community in the city and in the region and the Virtual Gallery is our next step in continuing to be a champion for local arts and culture of all kinds.

Expressions of interest, enquiries and/or suitable good quality photographs and details regarding the virtual gallery can be sent to Dubbo Artz via dubboartzvirtualgallery@gmail.com.

To ensure the safety of intellectual property all artists are asked to provide a watermark for photographs of their original work.

Dubbo Artz will welcome all forms of visual art: original paintings, embroidery, ceramics, jewelry, textile art, and more.

Dubbo Artz is proud of Dubbo and its art and cultural community and now is the time to give that community the digital edge it needs.

z Outback Writers’ Centre – WestWords 2016 September 16 to 18 - Community Arts Centre, Western Plains Cultural Centre An opportunity for beginner to advanced writers to hang out together and learn about writing and publication from industry professionals. Workshops and panel Conversations available Further Information: outbackwriters@gmail. com, http://outbackwriters. weebly.com/ z Make-a-Wish Australia – Dubbo Branch High Tea featuring a Camilla Jayne fashion parade accompanied by a variety of local market stall holders.

Saturday, September 17: 2.pm at the Dubbo Baptist Church, Cobra Street z Australia Decorative and Fine Arts Society Dubbo and District Lecture: “A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion” Monday, September 19: 6.30pm, Wesley Centre Church St Dubbo Enquiries: Bruce Gray 0419 200 795 z Dubbo Field Naturalist and Conservation Society Social Meeting -Tuesday, September 20 at 7pm Speaker: Mike Sutherland, Alkane Resources, Preparing and Implementing the Dubbo Zirconia Project Biodiversity Management Strategy Bindyite Room, Ground Floor Community Arts Centre - WPCC cnr Gipps & Wingewarra St Enquiries: Janis Hosking 6887 2692 z Western Plains Cultural Centre - Handmade Art Markets Saturday, September 24: 10am to 2pm z Central West Makers’ Place Meets each Friday from midday until 6.00pm at the Old Fire Station on the corner of Wingewarra and Darling St’s Dubbo.

Activities include such things as 3D printing, basic electronics, robotics, silk screening and pottery.

Enquiries - Adam Clark on 0431 038 866

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Voci Stupende in Port Macquarie 2016. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

Opera in the chapel

BY NATALIE HOLMES S JOURNALIST

ROM wool growing to raising the profiles of the state’s rising opera stars, Armidale sheep farmer Hugh Fraser has found an ongoing vocation thanks to the talents of his two daughters.

Both singers, Hannah and Hester are also graduates of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. It was seeing the lack of opportunities available to classically-trained voice performance students that prompted Hugh and his wife Jane to launch Voci Stupende.

Now in its third year, the group has been thrilling with their ‘trilling’, bringing a musical genre not often shared with regional audiences.

“It started in Armidale in 2013. We thought it was a good way of bringing opera to country areas and of gaining exposure for the performers.

“We have two girls who went to the conservatorium in Sydney and the youngest brought her peers to Armidale and we held a concert there.”

“While they were singing the triumphant end to the show, I thought they were good enough to take anywhere and decided to try and see if we could take a group around country areas. It’s now in its third year and we’ve been into a lot of places.

Voci Stupende, Italian for ‘wonderful voices’, sing in four part harmonies with piano accompaniment and have a repertoire which includes many classic operatic pieces.

“We began with just eight singers, an MC and an accompanist. It has expanded to include over 30 young people and each recital promises a new and delightful composition of performers, each boasting individual talents and covering a huge classical repertoire in more than six languages and every voice type, male and female in SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone).

According to Hugh, the feedback from opera lovers in the bush is always

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positive.

“We are always well-received and people are astounded by the talent.

“Many of them say ‘we are so lucky to have you bring them here. We don’t get that every day.’ The response from them is what keeps us going.”

Hugh said the beauty of the music can be very moving for audience members.

“They will go on a rollercoaster of emotions. It can be quite tear-jerking.

It’s quite amazing how it affects people.

As well as giving audiences an opportunity to listen to opera, Hugh said the concerts provide performers with valuable experience.

“Unlike other genres, it is less common for them to be recognised in their field.

“They graduate from the Conservatorium of Music and then what? We are trying to give everyone what they need and see this as a stepping stone to the future.

The singers audition for various role and enter competitions as well as the performances which they are using as a learning curve as well as the enjoyment

gained from singing.

“Being judged teaches them about handling criticism. It’s great experience for them. But with these concerts, I’ve seen them come out of their shell and really blossom. The performances are done in a live environment. There’s nothing like that.

The regular areas that we go to are benefiting enormously as well.

Hugh said they are still working on building audience numbers.

“It’s just a matter of getting people there. It is very hard to get huge audiences because opera is not everyone’s cup of tea but there are a lot of people who like classical music and when we pick the repertoire, we pick songs that people will know.

“Thanks to movies, people actually know more opera than they realise.”

Voci Stupende is moving into more regions across the state and as they become more well-known, they have been invited to participate with other groups including the South Coast Music Society, Canowindra Baroquefest, Opera by the Lake and the Yass Music Society.

“Our repertoire is gathering momentum and we are being booked for more and more events.”

As for his own transition in the beautiful world of music, Hugh said he is enjoying being part of it and finds the young performers to be an inspiration.

“We’ve started this as a not-for-profit organisation that benefits the kids.

That’s what it’s all about.”

Voci Stupende z St Andrew’s Chapel, Dubbo z 4.30pm Friday, September 10, 2016 z Tickets www.trybooking.com.au/213994 Swish Gallery or At The Door z For more information contact Hugh and Jane Fraser 0267781233 hfraser@vocistupende.com z www.vocistupende.com

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Easternisation is the trend of the 21st century

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

BOOK OF THE WEEK Easternisation: War And Peace In The Asian Century by Gideon Rachman is published in hardback by Bodley Head.

SINCE 1500 the ‘Western’ nations, initially the warring, seafaring European kingdoms, and latterly America, have dominated the world economy. Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times, cogently puts forward the case that Easternisation is the trend of the 21st century.

The forerunner for global supremacy is China, but Rachman also reflects on the strength of a more youthful India, the future of other regional powers such as Japan, and how all Eastern nations are increasing their sphere of influence across the globe.

In this study, the fate of Europe is rather bleak, a continent struggling with ageing populations and sluggish economies. However, living standards will remain the envy of the world and the West’s best chance of staying relevant is through its strong institutions remaining trusted and fair.

Some of the major tumultuous events of our era, such as mass migration, climate change and even Brexit, are all the better understood when taking in this bird’s eye, long-range geopolitical book.

Required reading for interesting times.

9/10 (Review by Will Ennett)

FICTION The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakani is published in paperback by Portobello Books.

HIROMI Kawakani is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists and, thanks to Allison Markin Powell’s translation, we get to enjoy this meandering and innocent novel.

Kawakani’s tales of a small Japanese thrift shop, where Hitomi works on the till, form a collection of short stories, each one centred around an item from the shop.

The delightful nature of the story comes from the magic of the ordinary and the everyday goings on in the shop owned by the enigmatic Mr Nakano.

Through Hitomi’s cautious, watching eyes, we see a relationship grow between herself and Takeo, a seemingly straightforward young man, who is more affected by the 30-something ‘girl’ than even he is aware.

This book is a definite slow burn, but totally worth the perseverance. The glimpse it offers into the relationships

between families and friends in Japan results in a tenderly handled mystery and a fractured love story.

7/10 (Review by Rachel Howdle) Hide by Matthew Griffin is published in hardback by Bloomsbury.

THIS debut novel from Matthew Griffin is a deliberately paced, poignant story of two men in love against all the odds.

Narrated over a considerable number of years, Hide tells the tale of taxidermist Wendell Wilson and veteran Frank Clifton, who meet after the Second World War in a run-down North Carolina mill town.

Unsurprisingly, due to the climate of the time, the pair are forced to hide their love and live in fear, never exchanging love notes or speaking in public.

Many years later, after the couple have created a home for themselves on the outskirts of town, Wendell reflects on the consequences of isolating himself from the world as Frank’s strength and health deteriorate.

Griffin creates a fascinating and raw journey for Frank and Wendell, championing the love between two people, regardless of the lack of support from the outside world.

Despite some rather gruesome descriptions of taxidermy and a slight feeling of repetition around halfway through, which would put some readers off, this is quite a remarkable novel.

Deeply touching and thought provoking.

7/10 (Review by Heather Doughty) Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson is published in hardback by Corvus.

AUTHOR M.M. Banning and her ‘eccentric’ son Frank live a reclusive life in a mansion in Los Angeles. Echoing the likes of Salinger and Harper Lee, Banning was the author of a literary classic at the age of 19 and has famously not written a word since.

Having now found herself in financial turmoil, she reaches out to her publisher with the promise of a new novel, providing she is given an assistant to help with Frank.

Enter Alice, a determined young woman who defiantly manages Banning and Frank’s individually challenging personalities to end up forming a close and enduring friendship with the wonderfully unique Frank.

Be Frank With Me is Julia Claiborne Johnson’s first novel, and one that took her six years to write. This fact is reflected in the brilliant and detailed depiction of Frank and his many intricacies that lovingly unfold throughout.

Admittedly, by comparison, the rest

of the novel does feel somewhat lacking, and the narrative is a little too familiar to really make an impact.

Certainly no game-changer, but an optimistic and heartfelt read all the same.

6/10 (Review by Erin Bateman) Minds Of Winter by Ed O’Loughlin is published in hardback by riverrun.

TWO strangers happen upon each other in a most unlikely place near the top of the world, both chasing their own personal mysteries, which are actually intertwined.

Flitting between several timelines in a variety of locations across the globe, the story (loosely based on real events) at-

tempts to unravel how a timepiece from a ship lost while charting the Nothwest Passage in the mid-1800s wound up on a modern-day London mantelpiece.

While O’Loughlin clearly laboured over research for the book, his writing leaves much to be desired. Convoluted by maritime lore, the book seems to be a love letter to naval history rather than a compelling (or even cohesive) story.

The hopping around is tiresome and uncomfortable, some chapters contributing little to the overall arc, leaving the characters empty and under-developed. I simply didn’t care for any of them or their struggles.

There are odd glimmers of hope here

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4/10 (Review by Wayne Walls)

NON-FICTION The Book: A Cover-to-cover Exploration Of The Most Powerful Object Of Our time by Keith Houston is published in hardback by W.W. Norton & Company.

A love letter to the physical book, this is a fascinating and erudite telling of how it came into being. From the different ways that paper has been made for over four millennia, to the machines that first made mass-produced books possible, the mechanics of bookbinding, and the history of book illustration from woodcut through to photography, Houston’s history of the book is hugely enlightening.

We often take for granted the books we hold in our hands, lost in the story we are reading, and can easily forget that millions of years of innovation and craft have led us from carving stories on stone to publishing them into a printed paper book.

Houston has an eye for humour and The Book is stuffed full of quirky anecdotes, such as how, up until the mid-19th century, the paper used for books in Europe and America was made from discarded linen underwear, how Mark Twain lost his fortune in the race to create the first machine that could mass-produce books, and the paper shortage in America that caused paper manufacturers to recycle the shrouds of Egyptian Mummies.

More than anything, this captivating history of the printed book shows how connected different cultures are when it comes to

sharing the written word, from Ancient China, Greece and Rome, through to the Moorish Empire, medieval Europe, early America and 19th Century England, there has always been a desire to improve the way we store our shared histories.

If you’re looking for the definitive history of the printed book, this is it.

Democracy A DVANCING further to references in books which study the evolution of mankind, this week’s selection from the shelves considers the development of disciplines by which communities live, whether enforced by dictators or enacted by resolved legislation.

One of the earliest references to the history of peoples has been examined in the “Dead Sea Scrolls”, the text examining them written by John Desalvo. He studied their history and myths noting that, since the Scrolls were discovered in 1947 in the Judean desert, there has been much debate and speculation.

Nigel Spivey studied the social development of man in “Classical Civilization” in which he explores the foundations and enduring legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome by working in nine of the real cities of the classical world. These evolved through gradual acceptance of local leaders, expanding groups, and eventually emperors and rulers using dictatorship disciplines.

Paul du Plessis is the author of “Studying Roman Law” which is an overview of private law during the first three centuries of the Common Era. It explains the different contexts by which these rules arose and the mechanisms by which they were enforced against the backdrop of one of the most sophisticated and influential legal systems of the ancient world.

In 1215, rebellion in England forced King John to accept the terms of the Magna Carta, which is one of the most famous

8/10 (Review by Tory Lyne-Pirkis)

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Cuckoo by Keren David is published in paperback by Atom.

THE format itself is perhaps the most interesting aspect of Keren David’s young adult novel, Cuckoo: It’s a series, being played out on video, contained within a book.

So, each chapter outlines what’s happening in a YouTube video that snubbed 16-yearold soap actor Jake has filmed, based on ‘real’ moments from his life, and published online, complete with ‘comments’ at the end.

He explains that it’s his way to set the record straight after his career – and home-life – spiralled out of control.

But the framework is not enough to have you gripped by the plot as well. Jake’s character in beloved soap Market Square has been written out, his dad’s lost his job and his mum is struggling with commuting and caring for Jake’s brother, Adam, who has severe autism.

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That’s a lot of pain and strife to mine, but David veers through these emotional markers without pause, without analysis, while the ‘talking to camera’ tone sadly loses its ingenuity after 50 pages or so.

A speedy read that touches on some tough topics, but it doesn’t stay with you.

6/10 (Review by Ella Walker)

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At age 70, Benjamin Franklin embarked for France in 1776.

As with other colonies, America was without money, munitions, gunpowder and common cause. He was dispatched to Paris to solicit aid and the experience underwrote the American Revolution.

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So much control of history is influenced by individuals who make more mistakes than appropriate decisions. “Trust Me, I Know What I’m Doing” by Bill Fawcett collects 100 mistakes which have lost elections, ended empires and made the world what it is today.

Charles I made a deal with the Irish to fight Parliament – the move lost him public support – and later his head. The British Parliament passed the Townshend Act, making the American colonies pay for their own defence – and that started a revolution. In 1929, US President Herbert Hoover decided to let the economy fix itself and the Great Depression got bigger.

And President Richard Nixon taped everything he said in the Oval Office believing it would all be of great historical value.

He was correct – and the same tapes cost him his presidency.

Just last week people in Sydney assembled to commemorate the making of China’s People’s Republic. Maurice Meisner is the author of “Mao’s China and After”. Mao ruled the country since his revolution in 1949.

The country had certainly suffered at the hands of the Japanese during World War II. But it went on to massive loss of life

through famine and starvation, and gradually to a form of Chinese socialism.

During the Vietnam War some 180,000 US troops were serving there, creating potential dangers to southern China. Details of this transition through to 1980 are found in “The Dragon & the Foreign Devils” by Harry Gelber.

“World Order” has been written by Henry Kissinger in which he reflects on the character of nations and the courses of history. Europe was subject to the Thirty Years War which was seen as the defence of Christendom against the Ottoman Turks. The books steps through the circumstances of the French Revolution, the conflicts with Russia, the Palestine issue, the tradition of Iranian statecraft and the Khomeini revolution, the Korean War, Vietnam and the breakdown of national consensus, then to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The question of International Order is discussed as Kissinger summarizes how the great states and empires of world history evolved their distinct identities and attitudes. It is appropriate thinking about statecraft, strategy, fates of nations and the tectonic plates of history.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Our sustainable city on show

BY BRENDA HUTCHINS DUBBO Sustainable City and Science Festival was held on Saturday, August 27, at the WPCC. The beautiful weather brought out a large crowd to learn and hear about how to live a fully sustainable life. Kids were also well catered for with Circus West providing hands-on activities, as well as a science show and animals from the Dubbo Zoo.

Amanda, Jeanette and Emily Irvin

Uncle Ray Peckham

Colin and Marie Farais

Wendy Nelson and Linda Nicastri

Sacha Whitehead and Halli Chaplin

Making a smoothie

Simon Bracht and Peter Edwards

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Crowd enjoying the Science Show

Kids getting up and close to a visitor from the Zoo

Circus West performer on stilts

Front yard at WPCC

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Paul “Irish” McMillan at the Old Bank

Kristy Hamm and Anna Richardson

BY BRENDA HUTCHINS AN enthusiastic crown turned out at the Old Bank on Saturday 27th August 2016 to hear Paul “Irish” McMillan.

Lorraine Wily and John Snelson

Keith Macgregor, Benjamin Dorman and Graham Wallis

Sydney Dance Company on Show with “Countermove”

Carl Murray and John Morris

Noelle Fineman and Margaret Maher

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“COUNTERMOVE”, a contemporary double bill, entertained the crowd on Saturday, August 27, at DRTCC. Young and old enjoyed the performance by the Sydney Dance Company.

Jo-Ann Davis and Cheryl Jacobson

Gail Snelgar, Charlie Collins, Tom Snelgar, Bob and Pam Bell

Tracy McIntyre and Jenni Ward

Amber Gordon and Josie Stanger-Jones

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H E A R EAR a knock on the door any time soon from one of the 38,000 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census Field Officers now working across Australia to visit households and remind those of us who still haven’t done their census form to get the job done.

Since taking the online Census form down as a precautionary step on 9 August to protect people’s data, more than half of Australian households have now completed the Census.

Head of the Census Program, Duncan Young, said the online form has been performing smoothly since it was re-opened.

“We thank the many Australians who have already completed the Census and we apologise again to everyone for the inconvenience caused on Census night,” Young said.

“If you have not completed the Census, we remind you to complete it as soon as possible. Your information is safe and you won’t be fined for completing it after Census night, but it is important to complete the form either online or in paper as soon as possible.

Important Census numbers: Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS): 13 14 50. Paper Form Request Service: 1300 820 275 Census Inquiry Service: 1300 214 531.

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EAR the familiar and timeless tunes of Beethoven and Mendelssohn starring Meta4 Quartet and Australian Chamber Orchestra Collective on Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 2pm, Dubbo Regional Theatre.

The ACO Collective is the critically acclaimed 17-piece string ensemble which delivers the regional touring and education programs Australia-wide and combines musicians of the ACO with Australia’s most talented young professional musicians at the outset of their careers, creating a combined ensemble with a fresh, energetic performance style.

These young professionals have all participated in the ACO's year-long Emerging Artists’ Program and are in demand from Australia’s professional orchestras, but dedicate themselves to the ACO's high-octane performance style for intense touring periods.

In keeping with his adventurous programming, ACO Collective’s Artistic Director Pekka Kuusisto, has invited the prestigious Finnish Quartet Meta4 to join ACO Collective on the tour.

Meta4 Quartet makes its Australian debut directing ACO Collective with Beethoven & Mendelssohn performing Beethoven’s last complete work, as part of the mighty pillar on which the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2016 season is built.

Dubbo is one of seven regional NSW destination that have been included on the national tour. The concert is suitable for ages: 8 years and older and is a great way to spend a winter’s afternoon in a cosy and ambient theatre.

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EE one of Australia’s top CEO’s at the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce’s next breakfast on September 7, 2016 from 7am at the Commercial Hotel. Paul O’Malley, CEO Bluescope Steel, was born in Dubbo. His formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Applied Finance. He has worked in investment banking and consulting and has held several senior management positions prior to his current role.

Dubbo Chamber President, Matt Wright said that whilst the CEO Series of Breakfasts has been well received, he’s been surprised at the numbers.

“We’ve had strong support from the public and our member base, however I’m really surprised that more businesses haven’t taken up the opportunity to come along and hear from the heads of some of the biggest corporate names in the country. Normally to see this calibre of presenter you would need to travel to a capital city and potentially pay double the attendance fee, so the offering from Chamber represents exceptional value.”

For questions or comments, please contact, Toni Beatty, Executive Officer, Phone: 0457 844 883, Email: executiveofficer@dubbochamber.com.au

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EE your filmmaking skills up on the big screen at the 2016 Dubbo One Eye Film Festival which is open to receive entries until midnight October 21. In partnership with the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo Filmmakers will host the 4th annual One Eye Film Festival at the brand new Black Box Theatre on November 11 and 12. Dubbo Filmmakers member and festival coordinator, Kellie Jennar says the One Eye Film Festival is open to all filmmakers who can demonstrate a link to Dubbo and surrounding regions.

“That link might be thematic, geographic or a delightful accident of birth.

There is no entry fee, prizes or theme.

The festival is all about promoting and showcasing local filmmaking.

All genres and styles of films are encouraged, however there is a time limit of seven minutes.

“It’s a great opportunity to showcase your films to enthusiastic local people.“ It’s a completely difference experience to upload a film into the silence of cyberspace, compared with the immediacy and warmth of watching your film with an audience.

“Filmmaking can be quite a solitary activity so it enables filmmakers to get out of the editing studio, see the diversity and creativity of films being made and network with other local filmmakers,” she said.

The One Eye Film Festival has grown in popularity both with filmmakers and audience in the past three years. Last year, 30 short films were shown to an audience of more than 350 people at three sittings. Entry forms and further information is available at http://dubbofilmmakers.wordpress. com/one-eye-film-festival/

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DO O get dolled up for a cocktail evening fundraiser is being held next month to raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service south eastern section. Organised by the Dubbo Support Group Inc exclusively for the Dubbo Flying Doctor base, guests will be served fine wine, boutique beer and finger food.

Dubbo City Toyota will be opening the doors to their Lexus Showroom on Bourke Street, Dubbo to host the event on Friday, September 9 from 7pm.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is on of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world using the latest medical and communications technology.

They deliver extensive primary healthcare, dental and 24-hour emergency service to those who live, work and travel throughout Australia.

Tickets are $50 available from Terry Clark 0407 444 690 or Maureen Dempsey 0458 229 745.

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O sign up your community group, sports clubs or council (interim or not) to apply for up to a million dollars (read: jackpot!!) to help you deliver an “important sports infrastructure project” for the community.

Member for Dubbo & Deputy Premier Troy Grant sent out the invite late last week, to apply for grants between $500,000 and $1 million for new or upgraded sport and recreation infrastructure projects.

Let’s stop and dream here for a moment. What if our Number 1 oval velodrom got an upgrade? Dubbo bleeds regional, state, national and international cycling champions. We could have a training track which actually comes up to THEIR standards and it could be indoors!

What about an Olympic standard high jumping arena? It’s astonishing how Australia (let alone Dubbo) is overpopulated by horse jumping nuts but how underrepresented are we at the Olympic standard?

Hello! An archery range of any description please. Clay shooting. Maybe the PCYC is ripe for an upgrade…

Opportunity knocks until September 16 so grab your applicant information pack on the Liquor & Gaming NSW website (hang on, there’s a conflict of interest – sport/kids/liquor/gaming/moving on) www.liquorandgaming.justice.nsw. gov.au with expressions of interest.

Applications will be assessed by the independent ClubGRANTS fund committee and approved applicants will then be invited to lodge formal applications. Successful projects will be announced in 2017.

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HE National Landcare Conference will get underway in Melbourne on September 21-23, 2016.

It’s Australia’s premier sustainability and biodiversity event. All community members interested in caring for the land and water that sustain us are encouraged to attend the three-day event.

The theme of the biennial conference is Collaborative Communities – Landcare in Action, and gives the Landcare community an opportunity to share information over a series of panel discussions and presentations that reveal the new and innovative practises that Landcarers can incorporate into their sustainability projects. Those who want to get involved and gain knowledge can register online at nationallandcareconference.org.au but need to hurry, as tickets are selling out quickly!

This year the conference will feature over 30 presentations, workshops, and panel discussions led by 50 respected speakers on subjects including rehabilitation of soil erosion, the challenges of climate change, landscape restoration, and grazing best management practices. In addition, discussions will be opened on government initiatives such as; 20 Million Trees projects, biosecurity, and opportunities for carbon sequestration. Attendees can also sign up for field trips organised across 11 regional sites and projects to witness local natural resource management all across Victoria.

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CENSUS ACO COLLECTIVE DUBBO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ONE EYE FILM FESTIVAL SPORT GROUP FUNDING

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

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Friday, September 2 The Grinder

MOVIE: The Sum Of All Fears

ELEVEN, 8pm As Matt LeBlanc showed with his fantastic self-effacing turn as a lessthan-flattering version of himself in Episodes, there’s a lot of fun to be had for all when actors are happy to poke fun at themselves. While he’s not literally playing Rob Lowe here, Robe Lowe’s character Dean is a notdissimilar fading TV star, plus tonight’s episode is liberally sprinkled with cameos from famous faces also willing to send themselves up.

Timothy Olyphant (Justified) returns as himself to give Dean a taste of his own medicine, and talk show Jimmy Kimmel also has a part to play, interviewing Dean about Olyphant’s spin-off show. Good fun.

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MOVIE: The Other Boleyn yn Girl SBS, 8.35pm, M (2008)

9GO!, 8.30pm, M (2002) After Harrison Ford portrayed Tom Clancy’s buttoned-down hero in the last two Jack Ryan films, this reinvention of the resourceful CIA analyst sees Ben Affleck as more of a Jack-the-lad Ryan. With nucleararmed neo-Nazis threatening world peace, the CIA director (Morgan Freeman) leaves the fate of the world in the hands of the young go-getter.

It’s terrifyingly topical given the present political climate, yet any semblance of reality is undermined by a second-rate script and a romantic subplot ill at ease with the subject matter.

PRIME7

ansson take Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson sibling rivalry to a whole new level el as ferociously ambitious sisters battling ing for the affection of Eric Bana’s brooding Henry VIII in this sumptuous bodice-ripper.

Johansson plays the doe-eyed Mary ry Boleyn, who goes through life justt trying to mind her own business, while the he usually straightforward Portman plays her scheming sister Anne.

Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morrissey and Jim Sturgess round d out the good-looking cast. Oscarnominated screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Last King off nd Scotland) retains all the scandal and subterfuge of Philippa Gregory’s bestseller, while director Justin

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6.00 ABC News Breakfast.

(CC) 9.00 News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Catalyst. (R, CC) 11.00 From The Heart. (R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Pointless. (R, CC) 1.50 Our Zoo. (PG, R, CC) 2.45 Auction Room. (R, CC) 3.15 The Cook And The Chef.

(R, CC) 3.45 The Bill. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Murder, She Wrote.

(PG, R, CC) Jessica helps a woman and her son.

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) The latest news and views.

11.30 Seven Morning News.

(CC) 12.00 MOVIE: The Girl Next Door. (M, R, CC) (1998) A woman resorts to murdering a man’s wife, in order to gain his love.

Tracey Gold, Tom Irwin.

2.00 The Daily Edition.

(CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams.

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 9.00 11.30 12.00

6.00 One Plus One. (R, CC) Jane chats with Ian “Molly” Meldrum.

6.10 Pointless. (CC) Contestants try to score as few points as possible by coming up with answers no one else can think of.

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 Birds Of A Feather.

(PG, CC) Now that Sharon has given up work to help Dorien, Tracey is the only one in the house bringing in a wage.

8.25 Midsomer Murders.

(M, R, CC) After the owner of a local airfield falls to his death, Barnaby and Nelson investigate.

9.55 QI. (PG, R, CC) Guests David Mitchell, Sara Pascoe and Jack Whitehall join Stephen Fry for a “K”-inspired discussion.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program.

11.00 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton and Elysse Morgan.

11.15 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) Guests include Sarah Millican and RJ Mitte.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

(CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Presenter Johanna Griggs meets paralympians Dylan Alcott and Ellie Cole. Graham Ross takes a tour of the Buckingham Palace Gardens. Melbournebased chef Karen Martini prepares some spring rolls.

8.30 MOVIE: Meet The Parents. (M, R, CC) (2000) A man heads to Long Island with his girlfriend to meet her parents for the first time. He hopes to use the chance to ask the father for permission to marry his daughter, but it is not long before it becomes obvious the man, a former CIA agent, has no love for his daughter’s beau. Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo.

10.45 The Big Music Quiz.

(PG, R, CC) Two teams of celebrities, including Dave Gleeson, Ella Hooper and Giaan Rooney, face off on their knowledge of popular music in this next generation game show.

11.45 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) Adam asks Beverly for help avoiding the annual President’s Fitness Test.

12.00 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

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

12.15 Private Practice.

(M, R, CC) Naomi returns to be with Addison on her wedding day.

Cooper struggles with the hardships of being a stay-at-home father. Violet begins a new project close to her heart.

1.30 Home Shopping.

Today. (CC) Today Extra. (PG, CC) Morning News. (CC) The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

MOVIE: Beyond Rangoon. (M, R, CC) (1995) In 1988, an American doctor visits Burma and becomes aware of the country’s political situation.

Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko, Frances McDormand.

News Now. (CC) Afternoon News. (CC) Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

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SBS

6.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.00 WIN News. (R, CC) 8.00 Entertainment Tonight.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Talk. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (M, R, CC) 1.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight.

(CC) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. (CC) 4.00 Ben’s Menu. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

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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 The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Point Review. 3.30 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (R, CC) 4.30 Thai Street Food With David Thompson. (R, CC) (Final) 5.00 Cycling. La Vuelta a España. Stage 12.

Highlights.

5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 A Current Affair. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 26. Canterbury Bulldogs v South Sydney Rabbitohs. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

10.10 MOVIE: Jackie Chan’s First Strike. (M, R, CC) (1996) A Hong Kong cop pursues a woman involved in the purchase of a nuclear weapon on behalf of a terrorist. He follows the suspect’s trail around the world, all the way to Australia, in his bid to prevent a possible tragedy.

Jackie Chan, Jackson Liu, Annie Wu. 11.50 MOVIE: City Hall.

(M, R, CC) (1996) After an off-duty cop and a criminal linked to the mob are killed in a shootout, which also claims the life of an innocent bystander, the deputy mayor investigates.

He uncovers evidence of high-level corruption that encompasses members of political and judicial bodies.

Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda.

6.00 WIN News. (CC) 6.30 The Project. (CC) Waleed Aly, Gorgi Coghlan, Tommy Little and Meshel Laurie take a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Amanda takes Dr Chris on a tour of the world famous Los Angeles-based doll store, American Girl.

8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with special guests Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Amanda Keller, Mick Molloy and Kitty Flanagan competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted

by Tom Gleisner. Guest quiz master is Justine Clarke.

9.30 To Be Advised.

10.30 The Odd Couple.

(PG, R, CC) Oscar becomes weirdly obsessed with living up to Murph’s reputation.

11.00 The Odd Couple.

(PG, R, CC) After the tax office decides to audit Oscar and his ex-wife, Gaby, Felix offers to mediate between the contentious exes.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC)

6.00 Nigellissima. (R, CC) Nigella prepares butterflied leg of lamb and baby eggplants, couscous with clams, and liquorice pudding.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Empire Of The Tsars: Romanov Russia: The Age Of Extremes.

(PG, CC) Part 2 of 3. Historian Lucy Worsley examines the extraordinary reign of Catherine the Great.

8.35 MOVIE: The Other Boleyn Girl. (R, CC) (2008) After Henry VIII’s last marriage fails to produce an heir, two sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, compete for the affection of the king, while their power-hungry uncle uses the situation to better the family’s fortune.

Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana.

10.40 SBS World News Late Edition. (CC) 11.15 MOVIE: Heaven.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2002) A teacher takes the law into her own hands when the police fail to arrest the man responsible for her husband’s murder. Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone.

2.00 Impractical Jokers.

(M, CC) The boys get involved in business conversations.

2.30 The Baron. (PG, R) 3.30 Extra. (CC) Hosted by Mario Lopez.

4.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Project. (CC) A look at the day’s news.

1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

(PG, R, CC) Comedian Stephen Colbert interviews a variety of guests from the worlds of film, politics, business and music.

2.30 Home Shopping.

12.55 Coast: Sea And The City.

(PG, R, CC) 2.05 Coast: Winter. (R, CC) 3.15 Secrets Of The Irish Landscape. (R, CC) 4.10 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.45 Poppy. (MA15+, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

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CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.40pm Mr. Holmes (2015) Drama. Ian McKellen, Laura Linney. (M) Masterpiece

8.30pm Law & Order: SVU. Carisi tries to help a mother find her daughter. (MA15+) Universal Channel

8.30pm Facing... Delves into the life of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. (M) National Geographic

6.00am Tennis. US Open.

Day 4. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Chappelle’s Show.

Dave imagines what a black watermelon-smashing Gallagher would be like.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel

9.30pm For The Love Of Cars. Explores the world of micro cars. (PG) Discovery Turbo

8.30pm Fargo (1996) Crime.

Frances McDormand, William H. Macy. (MA15+) Masterpiece 9.05pm Minions (2015) Animation. Voices of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm. Before becoming the loyal servants of Gru, the Minions set out to win the favour of super-villain Scarlet Overkill. (PG) Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.25 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.45 Sydney Sailboat. (R, CC) 5.00 Wallykazam! (R) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.30 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Kazoops! (R, CC) 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, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 River Monsters.

(PG, R, CC) 8.20 Gruen Pitch Rewind.

(R, CC) 8.30 Cocaine Cowboys. (M, CC) A look at the impact of the cocaine trade.

10.25 Dirty Laundry. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.15 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 11.55 Sex Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 12.40 River Monsters. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R) 2.10 News Update. (R) 2.15 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 Thunderbirds Are Go. (R, CC) 3.50 Danger Mouse. (R) 4.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 4.25 Game On. 4.40 Dragons: Riders Of Berk.

(R, CC) 5.00 Camp Lakebottom.

(R) 5.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) 5.30 Slugterra. (PG, R) 5.55 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 6.00 Make It Pop! 6.20 Secret Life Of Boys. (R, CC) 6.25 Backstage. (CC) 6.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 7.00 Deadly 60.

(R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing.

(R, CC) 8.00 Adventure Time. (PG, R) 8.20 Total Drama Action.

(R, CC) 8.45 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) Clare is nominated for valedictorian.

9.05 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 9.35 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir. (R) 9.55 Sword Art Online.

(PG, R, CC) 10.20 K-On! (PG, R, CC) 10.45 Close.

10.30pm Jimmy Kimmel Live. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

7.50pm Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Round 12. British Grand Prix. Practice 1. Fox Sports 3 Dave Chappelle stars in Chappelle’s Show

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6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Match It. (C, R, CC) 7.30 Flushed. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Toybox. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away: The Early Years.

(PG, R, CC) 9.30 NBC Today. (R) 12.00 Better Homes. (R, CC) 1.00 Lovejoy. (PG, R) 2.00 The Great Outdoors. (R, CC) 3.00 Australia’s Best Backyards. (R, CC) 3.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie.

(R, CC) 4.00 Best Houses Australia.

(R) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) Teams compete to make a profit at auction.

7.30 The Border. (PG) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Alistair Appleton heads to Norfolk.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

11.00 Cook Me The Money.

(PG, R) 12.00 Australia’s Best Backyards.

(R, CC) 12.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie. (R, CC) 1.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.00 Lovejoy. (PG, R) 4.00 Inside Ireland. (R, CC) 5.00 Shopping.

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Steven Universe. (PG, R) 12.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 1.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 1.30 Sooty. (R) 2.00 Sonic Boom. (R) 2.30 SpongeBob. (R) 3.00 Little Charmers. (R) 3.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes.

(R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 Steven Universe. (PG) 5.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 6.00 Scooby Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace. (R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) 8.30 MOVIE: The Sum Of All Fears. (M, R, CC) (2002) A CIA analyst pursues a group of terrorists. Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman.

11.00 MOVIE: Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever. (M, R, CC) (2002) Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu. 1.00 Way Stranger Than Fiction. (M, R) 2.30 Sooty. (R) 3.00 Sonic Boom. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

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6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 8.00 Motor Racing. Australian Drifting Grand Prix. Replay. 9.00 Motor Racing. Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars. Replay. 10.00 A Football Life. (PG, R) 11.00 Starsky & Hutch.

(PG, R) 12.00 Family Guns. (M, R) 1.00 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse.

(M) 1.30 Lizard Lick Towing. (M) 2.00 Blindspot. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Billy The Exterminator. (PG, R) 4.00 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG, R) 5.00 Canadian Pickers. (PG, R) 6.00 American Pickers. (PG, R) 7.00 Pawn Stars. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Football. (CC) EJ Whitten Legends Game. Victoria v All Stars. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 MOVIE: John Carpenter’s Ghost Of Mars. (MA15+, R) (2001) Natasha Henstridge.

1.00 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse. (M, R) 1.30 Lizard Lick Towing. (M, R) 2.00 Canadian Pickers. (PG, R) 3.00 Family Guns. (M, R) 4.00 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG, R) 5.00 Dream Car Garage. (PG, 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. 8.00 ABC News Evenings With The Business. 9.00 Planet America. 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. 2.25 ABC Open. (R) 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World. 3.25 ABC Open. (R) 3.30 BBC Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera. 5.00 BBC Business Live. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC) 5.55 Heywire. (R)

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9.30pm Mega Hammerhead.

(PG) National Geographic Wild

7.50pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 26. Canterbury Bulldogs v South Sydney Rabbitohs. Fox Sports 1

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Creflo. (PG) 7.30 Infomercials. (PG) 10.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 11.00 Friends.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Last Holiday. (R, CC) (1950) 1.50 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 2.20 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 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) 7.30 As Time Goes By. (R) Lionel walks in on Sandy in the bath.

8.50 MOVIE: Chasing Liberty.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) The teenage daughter of the US president falls for a young Englishman. Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Mark Harmon.

11.00 MOVIE: Fathers’ Day. (M, R, CC) (1997) Robin Williams.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.00 Edgar Wallace Mysteries. (PG) 4.20 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 4.30 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Animal Extra. (R, CC) 8.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 9.00 Meganature.

(PG, R) 10.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 11.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 12.00 Get Smart. (PG, R) 12.30 Matlock.

(R) 2.10 Vegas. (R) 3.20 Diagnosis Murder. (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 infiltrates a money laundering scheme.

8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger.

(M, R) Walker helps a retired Texas Ranger who has arrived in town pursuing a suspected cop killer.

9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Dark Vengeance. (M, R) (2011) A cop searches for justice. Steven Seagal, Meghan Ory. 11.30 Undercover Boss. (M, R) 12.30 Shopping. (R) 2.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 3.00 Diagnosis Murder.

(PG, R) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger.

(M, R) 5.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Wakfu. (R) 6.30 Transformers Rescue Bots.

(R) 7.05 Transformers: Robots In Disguise. (R) 7.35 Pokémon.

(R) 8.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 8.35 Littlest Petshop. (R) 9.00 My Little Pony.

(R) 9.30 Crocamole. (P, CC) 10.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 11.00 JAG. (PG, R) 12.00 The Good Wife. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 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.

(M, R) 8.00 The Grinder. (PG) 8.30 MOVIE: The Heartbreak Kid. (MA15+, R, CC) (2007) A married man falls in love with another woman. Ben Stiller.

10.45 James Corden. (PG) 11.45 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.45 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.55 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping. (R)

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) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 9.30 Tiny House Hunters. (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) 1.00 Tiny Luxury. (R) 2.00 Postcards.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Come Dine With Me. (PG) 5.00 Buying The View. (R) 6.00 Tiny House, Big Living. (R) 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 Late Programs.

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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 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) 5.00 Brain Games. 5.30 Street Genius. (PG) 5.55 365: Every Day Documentaries.

6.00 If You Are The One. (R) 7.00 Human Resources. (PG) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 RocketJump: Jess’s Big Date. (M) Clinton proves to be eager and talented.

8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. Couples go on nude dates.

9.25 Esports. Australian World Championship. Qualifiers.

11.50 The Birthday Boys. (PG, R) 12.15 MOVIE: 7 Days. (MA15+, R) (2010) Claude Legault, Rémy Girard, Martin Dubreuil. 2.15 PopAsia. (PG) 3.20 NHK World English News.

5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Iron Chef America. (R) 7.00 Chopped Junior. (R) 8.00 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 9.00 Buy This Restaurant.

(R) 9.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 10.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 10.30 Pizza Masters.

(R) 11.00 Man Fire Food. (R) 11.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 12.30 Buy This Restaurant. (R) 1.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 1.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 2.00 Tyler’s Ultimate. 2.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 3.30 Chopped Junior. (R) 4.30 Pizza Masters.

(R) 5.00 Man Fire Food. (R) 5.30 Barefoot Contessa. (R) 6.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Mexican Made Easy. 8.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 9.30 Buy This Restaurant. 10.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 10.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 11.00 Iron Chef America. (R) 12.00 Chopped Junior. (R) 1.00 Mexican Made Easy. (R) 2.00 Tyler’s Ultimate. (R) 2.30 Mystery Diners.

(PG, R) 3.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 3.30 Barefoot Contessa.

(R) 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 The Marngrook Footy Show.

(PG) 11.30 Our Stories. 11.50 Uncle Gundi. 12.00 Inside Out: Indigenous Imprisonment. (PG) 1.00 Bush To Belly. (PG) 2.00 Kids To Coast. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Yamba’s Playtime.

3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Muso Magic. 4.30 Kagagi. (PG) 5.00 The Dreaming. 5.30 Tangaroa. 6.00 Fusion Feasts.

6.30 Watchers Of The North. (PG) 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 On The Edge. (PG) 8.00 Survive Aotearoa. (PG) 9.00 The Point Review. 9.30 Express Yourself. (M) 10.00 Shuga. (PG) 10.30 Blackstone. (M) 11.20 The Other Side. (PG) 11.50 Walking With Us. 12.00 Volumz. 4.00 On The Road.

(PG) 5.00 NITV On The Road: Barunga Festival.

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Saturday, September 3 Heston’s Dinner In Space SBS 2, 8.30pm Fixing the crime against food that is airline meals was a tough enough challenge for the UK’s most innovative chef, but tackling dinner in zero gravity is taking things to a whole new level. You might say the idea is out of this world, even. It’s all in honour of British astronaut Tim Peake’s sojourn on the International Space Station. While he’s up there, Heston wants to use food to remind him of life back home, so he is trying to create a menu of British classics – from bangers and mash to a bacon sandwich – all within the confines of NASA’s strict rules. It’s not easy, but in tonight’s second instalment, we see how successful he was.

ABC

MOVIE: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes WIN, 10.05pm, M (2014) Our conflicted relationship with animals is explored in this impressive sequel set 10 years after 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Humankind is in crisis after a devastating global virus, and the survivors must negotiate for resources with a community of genetically enhanced apes living in the Californian forests. The negotiations go awry – Malcolm (Jason Clarke) favours co-operation with the simian cousins, while his boss (Gary Oldman) distrusts them – and the two species are brought to the brink of war. Visual effects reign supreme, explosively in some scenes and touchingly in the expressions of alpha-ape Caesar (Andy Serkis).

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Agatha Raisin ABC, 7.30pm Agatha Raisin’s eponymous amateur sleuth (played by Ugly re Betty’s Ashley Jensen, right) is more n PR accustomed to the snazzy London ntry world than crime fighting in country fields, but that only makes her ased on adventures more entertaining. Based irky the books by M.C Beaton, this quirky comedy/drama started out with a oneeturns off episode last year, and it now returns with a full series, screening over the a joins next eight weeks. Tonight, Agatha a walking group in a bid to attractt the eye of her dishy neighbour James (Jamie Glover), but her plans for y when romance are thrown into disarray und a rambler from a rival group is found bashed to death in a field.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.40 The Checkout. (PG, R, CC) 12.10 Birds Of A Feather.

(PG, R, CC) 12.30 QI. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 Pointless. (R, CC) Presented by Alexander Armstrong.

1.50 The Men Who Made Us Fat. (R, CC) Part 2 of 3.

2.40 Restoration Man. (R, CC) Presented by George Clarke.

3.30 Inside The Commons: Party Games. (R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A body is found entangled in a bird net.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 To Be Advised.

3.30 Surf Patrol. (R, CC) A pregnant woman’s life is on the line.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Graham and Joh head to Mount Annan.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC) Narrated by Grant Bowler.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday.

(PG, CC) Presented by David Campbell and Sonia Kruger.

Hot In Cleveland. (PG, CC) The gang buys Stormi’s.

Fish’n With Mates.

(PG, CC) Al runs into rapid trouble in banjo country.

The Block. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Scott Cam. The Garden Gurus. (CC) Nigel looks at the benefits of retaining walls.

News: First At Five. (CC) Getaway. (PG, CC) A threeweek Australia special continues.

6.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.00 iFish.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Weekend Feast. (R, CC) 9.30 St10. (PG, CC) 12.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes Australia. (CC) 1.30 Life Inside The Markets.

(CC) 2.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 2.30 Fishing Australia. (R) 3.00 Cruise Mode. (CC) 3.30 Puppy Academy. (CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Small Business Secrets. (R, CC) 2.30 The Rise And Rise Of Donald Trump. (PG, R, CC) 3.35 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.05 The Classic Car Show.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 Cycling. La Vuelta a España. Stage 13.

Highlights.

5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Costa learns about chocolate. Jane visits a restaurant kitchen garden.

Tino shows how to “feed” the soil.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Agatha Raisin. (PG, CC) (New Series) After a militant rambler is found dead in a field, former PR whiz Agatha Raisin investigates.

8.20 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime.

(M, R, CC) After an agitated young woman disappears from a train, a married couple decide to investigate. They discover the victim had been carrying a recording which could potentially identify an assassin.

9.15 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, R, CC) Dr Blake investigates the suspicious death of a young mechanic whose body was found under a car.

10.15 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) With Jim gravely ill in Bodmin jail, Ross and Dwight launch a desperate mission to save him.

11.15 The Code. (M, R, CC) Jesse and Ned are facing the possibility of extradition to the US to face serious charges.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. (PG, R, CC) (2006) A young man is blackmailed into tracking down his old ally, the legendary pirate Jack Sparrow. The irascible rogue has his own issues to deal with, however, as Davy Jones intends to claim his soul in exchange for a favour he performed years earlier when he raised the Black Pearl. Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom.

10.00 MOVIE: The World’s End. (MA15+, R, CC) (2013) A group of friends reunite, 20 years after failing to finish an epic pub crawl, when one of them becomes fixated on completing the marathon drinking session. Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Transformers: Age Of Extinction.

(PG, CC) (2014) An inventor and his daughter are forced to go on the run after he becomes involved with the leader of an outlawed group of robot heroes who are being hunted by a mysterious government agency. Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Nicola Peltz.

10.10 MOVIE: Fighting.

(M, R, CC) (2009) In New York City, a young counterfeiter is introduced to the world of underground street fighting by a seasoned scam artist who offers to become his manager after witnessing him fighting off some thugs. Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Zulay Henao.

6.00 Travels With The Bondi Vet. (CC) Dr Chris visits some monkeys in Japan and seeks out the “big five” creatures of the deep.

6.30 David Attenborough’s Big Birds. (PG, R, CC) Sir David Attenborough takes a look at “big birds”, which never take to the air.

From emus to ostriches and kiwis, he reveals how these amazing animals have not only managed to survive, but at one time could have been said to rule the land.

7.30 MOVIE: We Bought A Zoo. (PG, R, CC) (2011) Based on a true story. In the wake of the loss of his wife, a single father moves his family to a rundown zoo. Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church.

10.05 MOVIE: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.

(M, R, CC) (2014) A growing empire made up of genetically evolved apes find themselves on the brink of war with a band of humans who are the survivors of a devastating virus which ravaged the planet a decade earlier.

Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Million Dollar American Princesses: Wedding Of The Century. (CC) Part 2 of 3. A look at the young American heiresses whose stories inspired Downton Abbey.

8.30 MOVIE: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.

(M, R, CC) (2010) Hoping to relive the pleasures of youth, a man dumps his wife of 40 years to pursue a young call girl.

As a result, it is not long before it becomes obvious that other members of his clan are also struggling with their passions and dedication to long-term commitments. Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin.

10.20 RocKwiz. (M, R, CC) Music quiz show featuring folk legend Judy Collins and Tim Freedman, lead singer of The Whitlams. Each artist performs one of their songs backed by the RocKwiz Orkestra before combining for a duet.

Hosted by Julia Zemiro.

11.15 Cycling. La Vuelta a España. Stage 14. Urdax, Navarra to Aubisque, Gourette. 196km mountain stage. From Spain.

12.15 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos chosen by special guest programmer, Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.05 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) Dr Oz looks at hair salon health concerns, including how straighteners may contain toxic chemicals, like formaldehyde, which cause breathing problems and may lead to cancer.

1.00 Home Shopping.

12.20 MOVIE: The Wicker Man. (M, R, CC) (1973) Edward Woodward.

2.05 MOVIE: Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb.

(M, R, CC) (1971) 3.50 Nine Presents. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Fish’n With Mates.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Infomercials. (PG, R)

12.40 48 Hours: The Doctor’s Daughter. (M, R, CC) A look at the death of Leslie Neulander in 2012, and claims her death was not an accident but a murder.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 Inspiration Ministries.

(PG) (New Series) Religious program.

2.00 Witnesses. (M, R) 4.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.35 Spine. (MA15+, R, CC) 4.50 How The Light Gets In. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

12.00 12.30 1.00 4.30 5.00 5.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Saturday, September 3 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.35pm No Strings Attached (2011) Comedy. Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman. (M) Romance

6.30pm The Amazing Race.

The final four teams race from Peru to Dallas. (PG) FOX8

6.30pm Baby Animals In The Wild. Take a look at a broad range of baby animals as they try to survive in the wild. (PG) National Geographic Wild

12.30pm Rugby Union. Mitre 10 Cup. Round 3. Tasman v Taranaki. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) Comedy. Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth. After one hangover too many, a 30-something Londoner begins a diary as a way of stopping her life from going to the dogs. (M) Romance

8.30pm Just For Laughs. All the laughs from the Montreal International Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. (M) Comedy Channel 9.30pm Amy Schumer Presents Rachel Feinstein: Only Whores Wear Purple.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel

7.30pm Treehouse Masters.

(PG) Discovery 9.30pm Hell’s Kitchen. A collection of cooks are put through their paces by aggro chef Gordon Ramsay. (MA15+) Lifestyle Food

7.30pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 26. Melbourne Storm v Cronulla Sharks. Fox Sports 1 9.00pm Golf. European PGA Tour. European Masters. Third round. Fox Sports 2

10.30pm Labyrinth (1986) Adventure. David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly. (G) Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.45 Sydney Sailboat. (R, CC) 5.00 Wallykazam! (R) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R) (Final) 5.30 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) (Final) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Kazoops! (R, CC) 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, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Highway Thru Hell. (CC) 8.20 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) 8.50 The Moaning Of Life: Happiness. (M, R, CC) 9.35 Live At The Apollo.

(M, R, CC) 10.20 Catastrophe. (MA15+, R, CC) (Final) 10.50 Broad City. (M, R, CC) 11.10 Episodes. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Breaking Bad. (M, R, CC) 1.15 Highway Thru Hell. (R, CC) 2.00 The Moaning Of Life. (M, R, CC) 2.45 News Update. (R) 2.50 Close.

5.00 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) (Final) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.30 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) (Final) 5.40 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 12.25 Game On. (R) 12.35 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street. (R) 1.00 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.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 7.30 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.05 Dani’s House. (R, CC) Dani and Max are snowed in and alone.

9.35 World’s End. (R, CC) Cat and Lexy sneak to the SZ. 9.50 Close.

Natalie Portman stars in No Strings Attached

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Room For Improvement. (R, CC) 8.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 10.00 Shopping.

(R) 11.00 Home In WA. (CC) 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG, R) 12.30 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.00 WA Weekender. (CC) 1.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 2.00 Horse Racing. (CC) Cox Plate Preview Day. Chelmsford Stakes Day. 5.30 No Reservations. (PG) 6.30 Mighty Cruise Ships. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railways. (PG, R) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) 9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. (R) 10.30 Air Crash Investigation. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 No Reservations. (PG, R) 12.30 Mighty Cruise Ships. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 2.00 WA Weekender. (R, CC) 2.30 Qld Weekender. (R, CC) 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep.

(PG, R) 3.30 Great South East. (R, CC) 4.00 Home In WA. (R, CC) 4.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 5.30 Shopping. (R)

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.00 Dennis & Gnasher. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Pirate Express. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 1.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.00 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 2.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 3.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 3.30 Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitzu.

(PG, R) 4.00 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 4.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.00 Justice League Unlimited. (PG, R) 5.30 MOVIE: Ella Enchanted. (PG, R, CC) (2004) 7.20 MOVIE: Hairspray.

(PG, R, CC) (2007) John Travolta.

9.35 MOVIE: Are We Officially Dating? (MA15+) (2014) Three friends begin potential new relationships.

Zac Efron.

11.35 Adult Swim. (MA15+, R) 12.35 Forever. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 3.00 Yu-GiOh! Zexal. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. (PG, R) 4.00 Wild Kratts.

(R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Motor Racing. National Burnout Masters Series. Replay.

7.00 Motor Racing. National Burnout Masters Series. Replay.

8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.00 Zoom.

(PG) 9.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG, R) 10.00 Dream Car Garage.

(PG, R) 11.00 MotorEx 2016. (PG) 12.30 Timbersports. Australian Championship. Round 3. 1.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 2.00 Ultimate Factories. (R) 3.00 Canadian Pickers. (PG, R) 5.00 Dynamo: Magician Impossible. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Women’s Exhibition Match.

Melbourne v Western Bulldogs. From Whitten Oval, Melbourne.

9.15 MOVIE: The 6th Day. (M, R) (2000) A helicopter pilot goes on the run.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Wynter.

11.45 MOVIE: Snatch. (MA15+, R, CC) (2000) Jason Statham. 2.00 Jail. (M, R) 3.00 Zoom. (PG, R) 3.30 MotorEx 2016. (PG, R) 5.00 Dream Car Garage. (PG, 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 News. 1.30 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. (R, 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) 8.45 One Plus One Redux. (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 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

9GO!

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 Heartbeat. (PG, R) 10.40 As Time Goes By. (R) 12.00 Your 4x4.

(PG) 12.30 MOVIE: Laxdale Hall.

(R, CC) (1953) 2.10 MOVIE: The Quiet Man. (PG, R, CC) (1952) John Wayne. 4.50 MOVIE: Dial M For Murder. (PG, R, CC) (1954) 7.00 MOVIE: The First Wives Club. (PG, R, CC) (1996) Three spurned women plot revenge. Goldie Hawn.

9.05 MOVIE: Rumour Has It. (M, R, CC) (2005) A woman discovers that a part of her family history may be more complicated than she imagined. Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine.

11.05 MOVIE: Romancing The Stone. (M, R) (1984) A romance novelist’s sister is kidnapped. Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner.

1.10 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.10 MOVIE: Laxdale Hall. (R, CC) (1953) 4.45 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 5.00 Rainbow Country. (R) 5.30 Your 4x4. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Netball.

International Quad Series. Game 2. Australia v England. Replay.

10.00 World Sport. (R) 10.30 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 11.30 The Unstoppables. (PG, R) 12.00 Star Trek: Voyager. (PG, R) 1.00 MacGyver. (PG, R) 2.00 Motor Racing. Porsche Carrera Cup Series. Round 5. Highlights.

3.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 4.00 The McCarthys. (PG) 4.30 Reel Action.

5.00 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 5.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (R, CC) 6.00 The Renovation King. (CC) 6.30 The Unstoppables. (Final) 7.00 Last Man Standing.

(PG, R) 7.30 Megastructures. (R) 8.30 Megafactories: Lotus.

(PG, R) Takes a look at a Lotus supercar.

9.30 Zoo. (M) 10.30 Crisis. (M, R) 11.30 Rosewood. (M, R) 12.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 4.00 Motor Racing.

Formula 1. Race 13. Belgian Grand Prix. Replay. 5.00 Champions Of The Rottnest Channel. (R, CC) 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, R, CC) 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 Neighbours. (R, CC) 2.05 To Be Advised. 4.30 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (CC) Hosted

by Grant Denyer and Chrissie Swan.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) Barney must wear a ducky tie.

8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Guest quiz master is Justine Clarke.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) Carrie decides she enjoys being single, at least that is until a bad picture of her is printed on a magazine cover.

11.20 American Gothic. (M) 12.30 The Loop. (PG, R) 3.00 Neighbours. (R, CC) 4.30 Sabrina.

(PG, R) 5.00 Shopping. (R)

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 7.30 Tiny House, Big Living. (R) 8.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Flipping Out. (PG, R) 9.30 Tiny House Hunters. (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 Selling LA. (PG) 4.00 Tiny House, Big Living. (R) 5.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. (R) 6.00 Tiny House Hunters. (PG) 6.30 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.30 House Hunters. 8.30 House Hunters International. 9.30 House Hunters Reno. 10.30 Vacation House For Free. 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 WorldWatch.

8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 WorldWatch. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 WorldWatch. 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) 2.40 Caldera. (PG, R, CC) 2.50 Rebel Music. (M, R) 3.20 Don’t Tell My Mother… (PG, R, CC) 5.15 365: Every Day Documentaries. 5.20 MOVIE: The Fox And The Child.

(2007) 7.00 Food, Booze And Tattoos.

7.30 If You Are The One Australia Special. (R) 8.30 Heston’s Dinner In Space. (R, CC) Part 2 of 2.

9.25 12 Monkeys. Cole and Cassie embark on a time travel mission.

11.05 Lost Girl. (M) 11.55 MOVIE: Weird Science. (M, R) (1985) 1.35 MOVIE: The Angels’ Share. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) 3.30 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Iron Chef America. (R) 7.00 Chopped Junior. (R) 8.00 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 9.00 Buy This Restaurant. (R) 9.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 10.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 10.30 Mexican Made Easy. (R) 11.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 12.30 Buy This Restaurant. (R) 1.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 1.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 2.00 Tyler’s Ultimate. (R) 2.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 3.30 Chopped Junior.

(R) 4.30 Restaurant: Impossible.

(PG, R) 5.30 Buy This Restaurant.

(R) 6.30 All-Star Academy. (R) 7.30 All-Star Academy. (PG, R) 8.30 All-Star Academy. (R) The remaining home cooks face-off.

9.30 All-Star Academy. (PG, R) 10.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (R) 11.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 12.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 1.30 All-Star Academy. (R) 2.30 All-Star Academy. (PG, R) 3.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 4.30 Tyler’s Ultimate.

(R) 5.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.30 Tyler’s Ultimate. (R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 The Point Review. 12.30 League Nation Live. 2.00 Our Stories. 2.20 Destiny In The Dirt. 2.30 Watchers Of The North. (PG) 3.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 4.30 Unearthed. 4.50 Cash Money. 4.55 Healthy Tips. 5.00 One With Nature. 5.30 Fusion Feasts. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 6.30 Talking Language. (PG) 7.00 Kardiyarlu Kangurnu. (PG) 7.30 From The Western Frontier.

8.00 Indians And Aliens. 8.30 Moksgm’ol. 9.30 MOVIE: Fruitvale Station. (M) (2013) 11.05 Ngarritj. 11.30 Australian Biography. (PG) 12.00 On The Road. 1.00 On The Road.

2.00 On The Road. (PG) 3.00 On The Road. (PG) 4.00 Bush Bands Bash.

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Sunday, September 4 MOVIE: Back To The Future Part II

Grand Designs New Zealand

7MATE, 7pm, PG (1989)

ABC, 7.40pm

The second film of the trilogy sees Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), his girl Jennifer (Elisabeth Shue) and Doc (Christopher Lloyd) travel to 2015 to manipulate Marty’s future. In the process, they give Biff a chance to steal the time machine, travel back in time and give a 2015 sports almanac to his 1985 self; even a trip back to 1955 is required to fix this mess.

Confusing, yes, but director Robert Zemeckis (Cast Away) makes it gel, and injects enough pop culture gags and self-referential moments to keep the entertainment meter hovering. A bit more cartoonish than the original, but still one of the best sequels of all time.

With a modern history that starts even more recently than Australia’s, New Zealand isn’t exactly known for its antique architecture. So the claim by this week’s subjects Marty and Morella that the home they are building, using 230-year-old New York barn frames they are importing, could be considered the oldest building in NZ seems to hold water. On their block on the outskirts of Auckland, the plan is to fill the shell of the barns, with their ancient wood that timber merchant Marty loves so much, with a modernist home with all the mod cons. From barn-raising to finishing touches, there are many ups and downs.

ABC

PRIME7

Australian Survivor WIN, 7.30pm

Australian Survivor fans (and there seem to be plenty of them) will be loving the fact that at this show is now on three nights a week, with an extra episode now airing on Tuesdays. Itt means less time waiting to witness the fallout allout from each tribal council’s politics – which in this instance, leaves one contestant declaring “I want blood”. d”.

But with immunity to play for, differences must be set aside quick k smart, as there’s an epic challenge e ahead which will take more than an hour to complete. If they weren’t going through all these trials and dramas in an amazing Samoan paradise, you’d almost feel sorry for them. Hosted by Jonathan LaPaglia (right).

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WIN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders.

(CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) 4.05 Australian Story: A League Of Their Own. (R, CC) 4.35 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Wendy Harmer. (PG, R, CC) 5.10 Agatha Raisin. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure.

(R, CC) (2011) A woman heads to New York. Ashley Tisdale.

2.00 MOVIE: Last Chance Harvey. (PG, R, CC) (2008) A chance encounter changes a man’s life.

Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh visits a Mexican-inspired concrete home.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(PG, CC) Full Cycle. (CC) Hosted by Scott McGrory and Bradley McGee. Outback Paramedic.

(PG, CC) Human Planet: Grasslands – The Roots Of Power. (PG, R, CC) Narrated by John Hurt.

Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 26. New Zealand Warriors v Parramatta Eels.

From Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand.

6.00 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Joseph Prince. (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 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals.

(R, CC) 12.30 What’s Up Down Under.

(R, CC) 1.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 2.00 Australian Survivor.

(PG, 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) 4.00 Voxwomen Cycling. (CC) 4.30 Cycling. La Vuelta a España. Stage 14.

Highlights.

5.00 Small Business Secrets.

(CC) 5.30 The Hollywood War: The End Of Innocence.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame: Amanda Keller.

(PG, R, CC) Anh Do paints Amanda Keller.

6.30 Compass: The Moral Compass – Capitalism Under Pressure. (CC) Hosted by Geraldine Doogue.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

(CC) Local, national and international news, featuring an extended report exploring in depth state-based issues.

7.40 Grand Designs New Zealand. (CC) (Final) Architect Chris Moller meets a couple who have imported two historic barns from the US. 8.30 Vera. (M, CC) Part 2 of 4.

DCI Vera Stanhope and her team investigate a 30-year old mystery.

10.00 The Bletchley Circle.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 4.

After one of her former compatriots is accused of murder, Jean sets out to prove her innocence.

10.45 The Honourable Woman. (M, R, CC) The hunt is on for Atika’s son.

11.45 Meet The Mavericks: Jack Charles And Amiel Courtin-Wilson.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 5.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 The Big Music Quiz.

(PG, CC) Two teams of celebrities, including Ada Nicodemou, Bindi Irwin and Rebel Wilson, face off on their knowledge of popular music in this next generation game show. Hosted by Darren McMullen.

8.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

9.00 Criminal Minds. (M, CC) After former team member and current Interpol agent Emily Prentiss tracks an international serial killer to American soil, she enlists the team’s help in tracking him down.

10.00 Criminal Minds. (M, R, CC) While profiling a series of child abductions and murders, the team comes to suspect that one of the cases may not be the handiwork of the serial killer they apprehended for the crimes in question.

11.00 Motive. (M, CC) The team questions the grey zone between law and justice as they investigate the murder of a street artist by his own protégé. Angie continues to look into the case involving the death of Derek Caster.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 The Block. (PG, CC) After seven days of renovating, the teams are keen to impress the judges with their guest bedrooms.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

9.30 Killer On The Line: Stephen French. (M, CC) (New Series) Documents the case of former soldier and pub landlord Stephen French, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing Christopher Garford, a customer at the Wisbech Arms in a crazed knife attack in 2006.

10.30 Real Detective: Redemption. (M, CC) (New Series) A reenactment of a true crime from the pointof-view of the detectives investigating the case, beginning with Eddie Herman of Cobb county, Georgia, who found himself delving into a double homicide.

11.30 Unforgettable. (M, CC) Carrie and Al must find the connection between a murdered coast guard officer and a celebrity chef.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Jay and Gloria plan a surprise getaway to Miami for the entire Pritchett clan.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) A therapy session with the author of a self-help book draws different reactions from the Pritchetts.

7.30 Australian Survivor. (CC) The tribes need to put their differences aside and unite to compete in an epic immunity challenge.

8.40 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) Maxi puts his life on the line to rescue two fishermen from a capsized boat. A group of tourists refuses to heed warnings about a rip and need to be saved, leaving Jethro furious.

9.10 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) The lifeguards are alerted to a two-year-old girl trapped in a locked car, in sweltering heat.

9.40 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Race 14.

Italian Grand Prix. From Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Search For Atlantis.

(PG, CC) Takes a look at the legend of Atlantis and how new evidence has surfaced regarding a catastrophe that mirrors the myth.

8.30 World’s Biggest Sea Battle. (CC) Dan Snow documents the largest naval battle of World War I, the Battle of Jutland. One hundred years on, he leads an investigation into what went wrong, why so many people lost their lives, and reveals the crucial role the conflict played in the eventual Allied victory.

9.40 Curing Alzheimer’s. (CC) Examines new research into Alzheimer’s which is offering hope to people battling the disease.

Not only are there drug trials underway around the world which have shown positive results, but scanning and gene technology allow the illness to be identified in its early stages.

10.40 Cycling. La Vuelta a España. Stage 15.

Sabiñánigo to Sallent de Gállego, Aramón Formigal. 118.5km mountain stage. From Spain.

12.15 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

2.40 Vera. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 4.

DCI Vera Stanhope and her team investigate a 30-year old mystery.

4.10 The Bletchley Circle.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 4.

5.00 Insiders. (R, CC) Hosted

by Barrie Cassidy.

12.00 Scandal. (M, R, CC) A paranoid government official drops a “bombshell” which catches Olivia offguard.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather.

12.30 1.30 2.00 3.00 3.30

12.00 48 Hours: Hannah Graham Pt 1 – Deadly Connections. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the death of Hannah Graham.

1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning talk show. Hosted

by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

2.00 MOVIE: Look For A Star.

(PG, R) (2009) 4.05 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.40 Strangeface. (M, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour Down Under Bitesize. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News. 5.45 France 24 Feature.

11.00 1.00 1.30 2.30

3.30

Constantine. (M, CC) Full Cycle. (R, CC) The Baron. (PG, R) Infomercials. (PG, R) Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Sunday, September 4 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm Runaway Bride (1999) Romance. Julia Roberts, Richard Gere. A columnist searches for the woman who cost him his job. (PG) Romance

8.00pm Impractical Jokers.

The boys take part in a focus group. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

6.00pm The Music From Classical Destinations. Music from the acclaimed travel series, Classical Destinations.

(PG) Foxtel Arts

2.30pm Cricket.

One-day International Series.

Sri Lanka v Australia. Game 5.

Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Inglourious Basterds (2009) Action. Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent. A group of Jewish soldiers embark on a suicide mission. (MA15+) Masterpiece

8.30pm Robot Chicken.

A new slate of pop-culture parodies, insults and oldfashioned demented humour.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel 8.30pm Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. (PG) UKTV

9.00pm Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007) Family. Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman. (G) Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(R, CC) 7.30 Seconds From Disaster.

(M, R, CC) 8.20 The Daters: Traffic Light Party. (M, R, CC) 8.30 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow.

(M, R, CC) Hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre.

9.15 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Off Broadway. (M, R, CC) 10.05 Cocaine Cowboys. (M, R, CC) 12.05 Army Girls. (M, R, CC) 12.55 Seconds From Disaster. (M, R, CC) 1.45 The Home Show. (R, CC) 2.30 News Update. (R) 2.35 Close. (Series return) 5.00 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.10 Boj. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.35 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.25 Game On. (R) 12.35 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street.

(R) 1.00 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 WAC. (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, CC) 7.30 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.05 Dani’s House. (R, CC) A greedy real estate agent conspires to sell Dani’s house.

9.35 World’s End. (R, CC) Casey shows Noah toxic chemicals.

9.50 Rage. (PG, R) 2.20 Close.

9.30pm 24 Hours In Emergency. A man is brought in with a cut finger. (PG) Lifestyle

6.30pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 26. Penrith Panthers v Manly Sea Eagles.

Fox Sports 1 11.45pm Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Round 12. British Grand Prix. Race. Fox Sports 3 Brad Pitt stars in Inglourious Basterds

7TWO

9GO!

6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. (R) 9.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 10.00 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Storage Hoarders. (R) 1.30 Mighty Cruise Ships. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 No Reservations. (PG, R) 3.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 5.30 Intolerant Cooks.

6.00 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 7.00 For The Love Of Dogs.

(PG) 7.30 Britain’s Busiest Airport: Heathrow. (PG, R, CC) A look at life inside Heathrow Airport.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Presented by Jules Hudson.

9.30 Escape To The Continent.

(R) 10.45 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 11.45 Escape To The Country.

(R) 1.45 Escape To The Continent.

(R) 3.00 Storage Hoarders.

(R) 4.00 The World Around Us. (R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.00 Little Charmers. (R) 11.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 12.00 Rabbids Invasion.

(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, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 4.30 MOVIE: The Bugs Bunny RoadRunner Movie. (R, CC) (1979) 6.30 MOVIE: Wild Wild West.

(PG, R, CC) (1999) 8.40 MOVIE: Broken Arrow. (M, R, CC) (1996) An airforce officer pursues a terrorist. John Travolta, Christian Slater.

10.50 MOVIE: Snakes On A Plane. (M, R, CC) (2006) Samuel L Jackson, Julianna Margulies.

1.00 Adult Swim. (MA15+) 2.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch.

(PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (PG, R) 3.30 SpongeBob SquarePants.

(R) 4.00 Little Charmers. (R) 4.30 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 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 Adventure Angler. (PG) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (CC) 11.00 The Neighbors. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 The AFN Fishing Show.

(PG) 12.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG) 1.00 Selling Big. (PG, R) 2.00 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 3.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Back To The Future Part II. (PG, R, CC) (1989) A young man inadvertently alters time.

Michael J. Fox. 9.15 MOVIE: The Bourne Supremacy. (M, R, CC) (2004) A former CIA agent tries to clear his name. Matt Damon, Franka Potente.

11.25 MOVIE: The Big Hit. (MA15+, R) (1998) Mark Wahlberg.

1.30 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 2.30 Selling Big. (PG, R) 3.00 Bull Riding. 2015 Pro Tour. Replay. 4.00 Bull Riding. 2015 Pro Tour. Replay.

5.00 Bull Riding. 2015 Pro Tour.

Replay.

6.00 Morning Programs. 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 Behind Closed Doors: An ABC News Special. (R, CC) 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. 12.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

7.30pm Jonas Kaufmann: An Evening With Puccini. Foxtel Arts

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 10.00 The Baron. (PG, R) 11.00 MOVIE: Some Will, Some Won’t. (PG, R, CC) (1970) 1.00 Garden Gurus.

(R, CC) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Bandido. (PG, R, CC) (1956) 4.00 MOVIE: The Way West. (PG, R) (1967) Kirk Douglas.

6.30 RBT. (PG, CC) Follows the activities of police units.

7.30 Death In Paradise. (M, R) DI Poole is distracted by a new case.

8.40 Major Crimes. (M, CC) The squad is left with a mystery after a dead body falls out of the boot of a car during a chase.

9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. (MA15+, CC) A competitive fisherman is murdered.

10.40 Murder In The First.

(M, CC) 11.40 Person Of Interest. (M, R, CC) 12.40 Death In Paradise. (M, R) 1.50 GEM Presents. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 MOVIE: Some Will, Some Won’t. (PG, R, CC) (1970) 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Healthy Homes Australia. (R, CC) 8.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 9.30 Life Inside The Markets. (R, CC) 10.00 The Unstoppables. (R) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 4x4 Adventures. (R, CC) 12.00 Puppy Academy. (R, CC) 12.30 Avon Descent. (CC) 1.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.00 Megafactories.

(PG, R) 3.00 Cruise Mode. (R, CC) 3.30 Netball. International Quad Series. Game 3. Australia v New Zealand. 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Attenborough’s Tiger: Spy In The Jungle. (PG, R) Part 1 of 3.

9.30 MOVIE: Jarhead.

(MA15+, R) (2005) Jake Gyllenhaal.

12.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 12. British Grand Prix. 1.30 World Sport. 2.00 RPM GP. (R, CC) 2.30 RPM. (R, CC) 3.30 Homeland.

(M, R, CC) 4.30 Avon Descent. (R, CC) 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 Totally Wild. (C, R, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 11.00 Australian Survivor. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Cheers.

(PG, R) 2.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 3.30 Raymond. (R, CC) 4.30 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(M, R) Marshall and Lily contemplate a move.

8.00 The Simpsons. (M, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Psycho. (M, R, CC) (1998) A woman checks into a sinister motel. Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche.

10.40 Sex And The City. (M, R) 12.00 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 Sabrina.

(PG, R) 4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 5.00 Kenneth Copeland. 5.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG)

6.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.00 Vacation House For Free. (R) 8.00 House Hunters Reno. (R) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 9.30 Tiny House Hunters. (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. (R) 4.00 Come Dine With Me. (PG) 5.00 Vacation House For Free. (R) 6.00 Tiny House Hunters.

(PG) 6.30 Tiny Luxury. 7.30 Escape To The Country. 8.30 Masters Of Flip. 9.30 Flipping Boston. 10.30 Flip This House.

(M, R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 1.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Flipping Boston. (R) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Late Programs.

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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 MythBusters. (R, CC) 3.00 Friday Feed. (R) 3.30 Community.

(PG, R) 4.25 How The Light Gets In. (PG, R, CC) 5.35 Stacey Dooley: Coming Here Soon. (M, R) 5.45 365: Every Day Documentaries.

5.50 Where Are We Going, Dad? 7.30 If You Are The One Australia Special. (R) 8.30 MOVIE: Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (PG, R) (1979) The Enterprise investigates an alien probe.

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy.

10.55 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. (M) 11.25 I’m A Stripper. (M, R, CC) 12.15 Savage U. (M, R) 12.40 Mistaken For Strangers. (M, R) 2.00 MOVIE: The Solitude Of Prime Numbers. (M, R) (2010) 4.10 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Iron Chef America. (R) 7.00 Chopped Junior. (R) 8.00 Buy This Restaurant. (R) 8.30 AllStar Academy. (R) 9.30 All-Star Academy. (PG, R) 10.30 All-Star Academy. (R) 11.30 All-Star Academy. (PG, R) 12.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (R) 1.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 2.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 3.30 Chopped Junior. (R) 4.30 Cutthroat Kitchen.

(R) 5.30 Big Bad BBQ Battle. (PG, R) 6.30 Beat Bobby Flay. (R) 7.00 Man Fire Food. (R) 7.30 Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations. (PG) (New Series) 8.30 Restaurant: Impossible.

(PG, R) Hosted by Robert Irvine.

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They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Four great ball games

OUT ON A LIMB

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FLASH GORDON

by Jim Keefe

Aussie Rules backs ball boy bomb captain centres coach competition dummy fans flags

goals half injury kicking late tackle linesmen lock mark mascot offside ovals

pass penalty positions posts referees ruck rugby league score scrum soccer team

touch train try umpire union whistle youth

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WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

GRIN & BEAR IT

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LAFF-A-DAY SNOWFLAKES There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Place the numbers 1 to 6 around each of them. No number can be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle.

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GO FIGURE

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KIDS’ MAZE

16. Strait (6) 19. Monk (5) 21. Sister (3)

15. Zealous study in art (6) 17. Remove everything from ACROSS CRYPTIC the vehicle arrival area (5) 1. Waggish (9) CLUES 8. Self (3) 18. Parent is about right to 9. Flirt (11) ACROSS become more 11. Old (7) 1. Peculiarly inapt distant (7) 12. Elsewhere (5) poems from 13. Madness (6) opposite ends of 20. To the French from that time 15. Crockery (3-3) the earth (9) on (11) 17. Trunk (5) 8. Employ fusi22. Single-mind18. Cordial (7) leer, not flier (3) ed, perhaps (3) 20. Insolent (11) 9. Change into 22. Entrap (3) certain reciprocal 23. Free tooth prominent up 23. Profitable (9) movement (11) 11. Rain blows on front (2,3,4) DOWN youth leader in DOWN 2. Tree (3) electricity store 3. Nobleman (5) (7) 2. Religious 4. Peculiarity (6) 12. Public relawoman in nonunion organisa5. Top part (7) tions use wise tion (3) 6. Acceptable (11) bird to look for 7. Board (9) 3. Money-bag is prey (5) 10. Absurdity (11) 13. Exact retribu- clean, containing old shilling (5) 11. Share (9) tion for Geneva 4. Decomposes explosion (6) 14. Hatchet (7)

QUICK CLUES

MEGA MAZE

in a short month, say, in a way (6) 5. Footwear which doesn’t help one keep one’s feet? (7) 6. Hurry to fetch female to combine (3,8) 7. To appear in constant controlling device (9) 10. Literally intended for the landlord, apparently (2,3,6) 11. How lots may be disposed of (2,7) 14. Grant me something to wear (7) 16. Trimming to cuff (6) 19. Ransack for a weapon (5) 21. Thanks redheaded sailor (3)

>> The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

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PRINCE VALIANT

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From the pages of America’s most popular newspapers

ACROSS

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1 Vacationing 4 Rotating parts 8 Grouch 12 Melody 13 Garfield’s pal 14 Golf target 15 Not restricted by convention 17 Facility 18 Sprite 19 Wing part 21 Strolled 24 Perched 25 Yoko of music 26 Storm centre 28 Skewered entree 32 And others (Lat.) 34 Moray, e.g.

36 Vagrant 37 Aligned oneself (with) 39 Cosmetics mogul Mary – Ash 41 Caviar base 42 Type measures

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46 Take away (from) 50 Dict. information 51 Jai follower 52 Out of jeopardy 56 Uninteresting 57 Sweater material 58 Chow down 59 Partner 60 Swiss range 61 Mound stat

DOWN 1 Lummox 2 Evergreen type 3 Mooch 4 Java 5 Fuss 6 Actress Sorvino 7 Big rigs 8 Fast cat 9 Bellow 10 As well 11 Existed 16 Wapiti

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by Samantha Weaver was embarrassed, he said, but added that he was “very satisfied with the police response”. z Thanks to extremely flexible jaws, the African egg-eating snake can swallow an egg that’s much larger than the diameter of its head. It also can tell with a flick of the tongue whether an egg is fresh or not. z Those who study such things say that if you start to lose your hearing, it’s more than likely that you’ll lose high notes before you lose low notes. z According to a recent study, kids in

some US states have more playtime with their parents than kids in other parts of that country. z According to the Australian Institute of Family Studies, mothers with a child under 5 spend spend an average of 38 hours a week parenting and playing with children. z I imagine that if someone screamed, “Eeek! A foggy-toddler!” you wouldn’t have any idea what was going on. If you’d studied the vernacular of 18thcentury England, though, you’d know to watch out for a bumblebee.

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z It was 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire who made the following sage observation: “What’s irritating about love is it’s a crime that requires an accomplice.” z In 2012, a Swedish man named Henrik Ismarker was fed up with people speeding down the road in his Stockholm neighbourhood, so he went to the local police department and asked them to crack down on drivers going too fast. In response, a speed trap was set up, and Ismarker himself got a speeding ticket the very next day. He

20 “Mighty – a Rose” 21 Troubles 22 Opposed 23 Colour 27 “A mouse!”

29 Elsa’s story 30 Reed instrument 31 Transvaal trekker 33 With a suspicious eye 35 Fond du 38 “CSI” evidence 40 Sings in 60-Across?

43 Unstressed vowel 45 Ump 46 Arp’s genre 47 Hebrew month 48 Lofty 49 Implement 53 Swab the deck 54 Corn spike 55 Greek H

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YOUR STARS

for the week commencing September 5

BY CASSANDRA NYE

ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) In another hard-

the weekend may give you a clue! This can be a ground-breaking relationship.

Oh, you may not realise it at first, but this could be the start of something big.

Should you burst into song? Maybe.

Optimism and a bright attitude go hand in hand with success. After all, who wants to work with or help a grouch?

working week, you are perhaps looking forward to relaxation and romance at the weekend. A bit of planning needs to go into this to make it run smoothly, however. This is not a time to trust to luck. By Friday you should have news of changes at work. There may be a promotion or something that makes you feel more appreciated. Impatience can make you prickly at times. However, showing this could smack of immaturity.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Good

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) There are

offers coming your way that you feel inclined to accept immediately. Make the right noises by all means, but give yourself time to think before signing on.

Maybe nothing better will come along, but maybe it will! Partnerships go more smoothly at work than they do at home.

Maybe more energy needs to be spent on your lover? You cannot be everything to everyone, but be seen to try your best and it goes down very well.

time! With so many people wanting your attention, however, you will need to keep up your energy. Get plenty of sleep even if you are given offers that you could not possibly say ‘no’ to. Listen more to your body and mind and less to the opinion of others. After all, you know what you want!

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Getting that

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) A lucky feel-

work/home balance is trickier than usual.

Although you feel the need for sympathy, it may not be forthcoming. Maybe a partner doesn’t understand why you work so hard. Point out what you would lose if you didn’t! As the weekend arrives, you slip into an intensely romantic phase, quite a long one if you are lucky. Give a loved one something to look forward to.

It may not be right away, but anticipation can be sweet.

CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) As this week

begins, expect delays in travel and some missed communications. Plan ahead and have plan B ready, just in case! Someone you were introduced to recently brings unexpected and happy news. Give thanks where they are due. Someone seems to give with one hand and take with another. Is this what you would call ‘give and take’ or are they taking advantage?

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) This is the time

of year when you positively shine with attraction and charm. So, whatever it is that you want to ask for, this could be the

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ing this weekend sees you plotting and planning anything from a raffle ticket to a marriage proposal. Life is suddenly like a magical mystery tour. Whatever will happen next? Steer things your way by being attentive and determined. You do feel as though you can get what you want if you persist enough. You know that waiting for life to be perfect can lead to disappointment. It also wastes precious time.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) A bit of a bumpy

period is coming to an end. Wisely you have been patient and tended not to rock the boat. This will now pay off as you are allowed to sail ahead. Even though times seem quiet in a way, big changes are around the corner. Someone who drops a hint at the weekend leads you to believe it is in a certain direction. Sometimes you feel that your head is spinning with ideas and possibilities. What a lovely place to be in!

SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) Have you been discovered? Is someone working quietly in the background trying to get to know you better? Well, getting out at

news on the career or work front should be arriving this week. Details may, as yet, be sketchy. Have patience, but definitely show your interest. Think any changes and propositions through carefully, covering all eventualities. Being a patient soul, you are not inclined to fret. Indeed, someone close could do with a lesson in patience from you. Will they listen, though?

CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) Having

to take things more slowly this week allows you to take notice of what is going on around you. A few tweaks here and there put you in a better position. Taking more control of your personal and love life may mean changing a few things.

Does someone need rules to guide them? Money is not an issue with you but you like things to be ‘neat’.

AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) Be adven-

turous and do something you have never done before. If it can be with a partner, so much the better. Solo ventures are also well aspected because you may meet someone special en route. Leave nothing to chance and communicate your thoughts immediately. This is not a week to be backward or shy. Those who look your way may be, however. What should you do? Make the first move? Why not?

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Avoid disagreements and so make your relationships stronger. Although you will still not accept second best, realise that others are human. The more you insist on putting someone on a pedestal, the more likely you are to be disappointed. Realism can be a great tonic. Indeed, your practical and helpful approach at the weekend brings dividends! Someone finds your ‘telling it how it is’ attitude refreshing.

坥 坦 坧 坨 坩 坪 坫 坬 坭 坮 坯 坰

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Keeping your undoubted advantage both at home and work means being especially observant, Virgo. As you are in top form in the months ahead, it is hard for anyone to say ‘no’ to you. Ask. Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Virgo, you are the star in many a show. Be it at home or at work, you undoubtedly tend to shine. Use some of that sparkle to give a glow to your love life in the months ahead.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! When Virgo turns on the charm everyone listens.

Even so, avoid flirtations that could be troublesome. This could include liaisons at work. Sometimes it is best to play safe.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Being a Virgo often means being the centre of attention. Of course you love it, most of the time. Some private moments with family and friends are vital in the months ahead, however.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Virgo, not every drama needs to be played out in public.

This is especially true when you come to dealing with people at work. A few private words, gently spoken, can work wonders. Be flexible.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Central to your wellbeing is your home life, of course. Do your best to balance this with your work in the months ahead. Opportunities arise and must be taken up but not exclusively, Virgo.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Virgo, life can be hard work sometimes, but you know that the rewards are equally high.

Explain to those at home how the ‘game’ of work is played as they may misunderstand!

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s first batch of puzzles and tests Mega Maze

CryptoQuote answer

This week's Snowflakes

This week's Californian

This week's Sudoku

This week's Go Figure!

FIND THE WORDS solution 920 A great sport DUAL CROSSWORD 19,002 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Antipodes; 8 Use; 9 Interaction; 11 Battery; 12 Prowl; 13 Avenge; 15 Ardent; 17 Clear; 18 Farther; 20 Thenceforth; 22 One; 23 To the fore.

Down: 2 Nun; 3 Purse; 4 Decays; 5 Slipper; 6 Run together; 7 Regulator; 10 To the letter; 11 By auction; 14 Garment; 16 Offcut; 19 Rifle;

21 Tar. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Facetious; 8 Ego; 9 Philanderer; 11 Ancient; 12 Alibi; 13 Lunacy; 15 Tea-set; 17 Torso; 18 Affable; 20 Impertinent; 22 Net; 23 Rewarding.

Down: 2 Ash; 3 Thane; 4 Oddity; 5 Surface; 6 Permissible; 7 Committee; 10 Incongruity; 11 Allotment; 14 Chopper; 16 Narrow; 19 Friar; 21 Nun. The Baker’s Dozen Trivia Test: 1. Pompeii and Herculaneum. 2. New Zealand. 3. 33.

4. Agatha Christie. 5. “North

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Foxglove. 10. Every 75 or 76 years. 11. Belgium’s Eddy Merckx, with 34.. 12. Morgan Pressel was 18 years, 10 months old when she won a major in 2007.. 13. “You May Be Right”, by Billy Joel in 1980. The song was used as the theme song for the TV sitcom “Dave’s World”, based on the life of Florida columnist Dave Barry.

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The Emperor’s new shoes FTER nearly a quarter of a century as wardrobe coordinator for a chronically colour-blind and sartorially challenged offsider, you’d think I’d know better than to let my husband loose and unaccompanied on an impromptu quest for footwear.

I blame myself.

It’s been standard practice whenever we leave home to ask, just seconds before the lock clicks on the front door, if he has shoes other than the Boganesque slippers in which he insists on driving. (And which, miraculously, seem to have resisted every wifely attempt at destruction.)

This week as he set off, bound for an early season football date with the Son and Heir in the big smoke, I departed from protocol by instead asking, “Do you have everything?”

Any woman worth her salt should know that the subtle difference between “everything” and “boots” will be utterly lost on a bloke in a hurry to get on the road to a footy match.

Give ‘em specifics or forever hold your piece.

He’d reached the halfway mark before he realised his mistake. Credit where credit’s due – he did understand the potential distress a father turning up in slippers will cause a 15 year old boy.

“It’s okay,” he assured me when he rang. “I’ll just get a pair in Cessnock.

There’s a shoe shop there and I have plenty of time.”

Of course. What could possibly go wrong?

Enter a little blonde poppet with cutoff shorts, a name badge that says “Hi, I’m Kahalia” and either a fashion sense honed on the set of Bad Boyz, or a particularly mischievous sense of humour.

Eighty bucks and an ego boost later, The Oracle strolled from the shoe shop in his brand new black suede skate shoes, resplendent with their red patent stripes and white, inch-high soles – as-

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sured they were funky, fashionable and just the thing for a 50-something father of teenagers.

Think Eminem meets Homer Simpson.

Of course, he took Master 15’s silence for approval.

There was no such diplomacy from the Teen Queen.

“Oh. My. God! Daaaad! What ARE those?” she squealed in horror – and with that, ran off to hide one of the offending atrocities so as to prevent any further public appearances.

So began a week’s worth of family email debate as to the sartorial value of the Emperor’s New Shoes: Father (to son): Just wondering, did you like the new shoes I was wearing on Sunday?

Son: Hahaha – yeah, I noticed those.

Father has style :P...

Father (to mother and daughter): Dear ladies – Please note the email from

your son/brother in relation to “the emperor’s new shoes” and I quote: “Father has style”!

Daughter: Dear Father – Please note the use of the “:P” symbol. For the benefit of those born before the 1980s, this symbol is commonly used as a hint to the use of sarcasm. As in: “Father has style... hahaha, yeah right. What a fool for thinking that!”

Mother: S’up, dude?

Father: You’re not helping.

Mother: Sorry, Homer...

Father (to all): I have made a decision today based on your collective responses to my latest wardrobe purchase. I am going to buy another pair of shoes... yes, indeedy I am. And if you think the last ones were bad, wait ‘til you see these babies. Lime green and pink with steel caps. Yee haa....

The self-style Emperor did regain some semblance of ground by pointing

out that HE manages to bite his tongue when it comes to his 18 year old daughter’s choice of footwear.

“Mmmm – nine inch strapless black stilts. Very practical for the races.

Should go well with that dress you’re almost wearing...”

It’s possible the offspring and I overstepped the mark with our scorn. We should concede that our much loved father and husband is, after all, significantly colour blind and has (until this week, that is) three pairs of shoes in his entire wardrobe... four if you count thongs.

“Just you wait,” said The Oracle indignantly during a break from his as yet fruitless search for his new left shoe.

“I’ll remember this victimisation. One day the shoe will be on the other foot.”

Maybe, darling. But at least it’ll match. *From the ‘Best of Jen’ files

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