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Hi Everyone,

Firstly, a huge congratula tions to everyone in our local tourism industry – we live in one of the most beautiful destinations in Australia and this is made even better by every individual who works to enhance visitor experience through tours and experiences in our region.

It was great to see the indus try get together at the Whit sunday Tourism Awards last weekend – and congratula tions to all the winners.

Read our special 10-page fea ture inside!

This edition also celebrates the 10th annual Airlie Beach Festival of Music and we have put together 7 pages for the second of our Special Features for you.

Inside you will find inter views with bands, both big and small, a festival map guid ing you to local venues and a history snapshot featuring an interview with the festival founder.

Music Festivals always remind me of the first rock concert I went to when I was just 15 years old.

My parents had bought my friend and I tickets to see Bon

Editor’s Note

Jovi at the Milton Keynes Bowl in England.

It was 1997 and I had my bed room wall entirely covered with Bon Jovi posters at the time, there was not even a gap to see the colour of my wall paint!

When we arrived at the con cert there were 65,000 people there and I was so excited that I took the lead, pushing all the way to the front.

Once there, however, I very quickly realised that I was way too young (and short!) for the mosh-pit and so ran all the way back out again!

Despite this, watching my rock idol perform live on that day was a moment I will re member forever.

Fortunately, these days I am tall enough for the front row so I can’t wait to get to the Airlie Beach Festival of Mu sic and get in amongst it this weekend!

If you are heading down to the main stage, I might see you there!

Rach

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COIN COUNTING AND TEEN SPIRIT

In years gone by, when we think about a teenagers’ attitude, we are likely to imagine a grumpy, unhelp ful and often silent individual that wishes the world would go away.

This stereotype, however, is thankfully changing and teen agers these days seem to be en thusiastic, spirited and happy to help others.

This was certainly the experi ence of one Whitsunday local, Brett Shaw, who called into the McDonald’s drive through in Cannonvale last week.

Brett was so happy with an in teraction he shared with a teen age staff member that he took to Whitsundays Chat social media platform to tell everyone about it and received over 500 likes from other users.

When Brett went to pay for his McDonald’s at the drivethrough he asked the young server if he could use the loose change in his centre console.

The young man, who Brett es timates is about 15 years old, agreed happily so Brett started counting out $14.25 in coins ranging from five cents to dol lars.

To his surprise, the young man eagerly took the loose change and began counting out the money quickly and proficiently. When Brett complimented him on his ability, the young man said:

‘’That’s ok I took the hardest maths at school, so I need to practice.”

Hearing this made Brett feel even more impressed which inspired him to let the commu nity know about his positive experience.

“There is so much doom and gloom on the internet these days,” said Brett.

“The world needs to be a happi er place, so I thought I’d share.”

Arborists Did you know?

Whitpro’s chipper can chip an 18-inch, 20-metre-tall eucalypt tree in six minutes! Our spider reaches 21 metres high and 12 metres out to reach the tallest of trees in the most difficult areas. It’s also used by plumbers and painters for its reach.

Whitpro are the local professionals when it comes to safe and efficient tree pruning and removal. Services include removal, stump removal, de-nutting, pruning and tree relocation.

NOTORIOUS DOCKS AT BOWEN HARBOUR

Thesouthern hemi sphere’s only his toric recreation of a 15th century explorative vessel -which would have been used by the likes of Christopher Columbusis now docked at Bowen Harbour and open to the public all weekend.

Notorious is a hand-craft ed vessel that was re searched, designed, and built by Graeme Wylie over a period of eight and half.

The full-time labour of love was completed in 2011 and has been sail ing around Australia since 2012.

Graeme and his wife, Felicite, live aboard the vessel and spend their days sailing along the coastline, calling into ports and opening the beautifully crafted tim ber boat up for viewing whenever they can.

They have previously travelled between Tas mania and Port Doug las, but have spent the last few years in

Queensland.

The 15th century Portu guese caravel is made with 300 tonnes of reclaimed timber and has been con structed to look exactly like its predecessors, none of which exist today.

“Children see a pirate ship and can’t wait to get on board,” said Felicite.

“And Shipwrights see an amazing wooden vessel.

“Everyone loves it, espe cially families!”

Notorious will be docked outside Birds Fish Bar and Manager Chloe Bauer said she is glad to welcome the ship back after five years.

“The last time they came here was in 2017 and it is great to see them again!” she said.

Visitors can climb the gangway and explore on board and below deck, kids can pretend to be pirates and take a

few photos as keepsakes of a memorable day.

Notorious will be in Bow en Saturday and Sunday this week and it will be open to the public from 10am until 4pm.

Adult admission is $6 (over 15) and children (214 years) are $3.

At

11 am on 11 No vember 1918, the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continu ous warfare.

The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy de feats upon them over the preceding four months.

In November, the Germans called for an armistice (sus pension of fighting) to se cure a peace settlement.

They accepted the allies terms and surrendered un conditionally.

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month at tained a special significance in the post-war years and became universally associ ated with the remembrance of those who had lsot their lives serving as well as those who returned, forever changed.

This important date is marked

next Friday, October 11 in the following locations:

Cannonvale Cenotaph

The community is invited to meet at 10.30am at the Cenotaph at Bicentennial Park on Coral Esplanade, between Logan’s Playground and Cannonvale State School. A minute’s silence will be observed at 11am followed by laying of the wreaths. Drinks and nibbles will then be provided at the Jubilee Tavern.

Bowen RSL

The community is invited to attend a special Remem brance Day ceremony in the air-conditioned RSL on 38 Williams Street, with the bar open from 10am. Ev eryone will take their seats by 10.50am and a minute’s silence will be observed.

Mayor Julie Hall will be in attendance and afterwards the Country Women’s Asso ciation will kindly provide a luncheon.

The recreation of the 15 Century caravel is the only one of its type in the southern hemisphere

Graeme and Felicite Wylie welcome guests to explore their Portuguese caravel

REMEMBRANCE DAY NEXT FRIDAY

Thank You For Sixty Years At The Summergarden

of a historic Bowen institution were honoured for six decades of continued service and contribution to community last week in a morning tea celebration.

Summergarden Cinema owners Ben and Phyllis De Luca were congratulated on 60 years of operating the famed the atre by Zonta Club Bowen at the Gar den Club Hall on Saturday, October 29.

Known locally as “Ben’s Baby”, the Sum mergarden has become fundamentally linked, alongside the family themselves, with the fabric of Bowen.

“They have been associated with Bowen for 60 years and this is a huge achieve ment worthy of celebrating,” Zonta Club Bowen member Kerry Moloney said.

“Throughout those years, Ben has sup ported community groups – such as Zonta – with fundraising activities, and we have benefited immensely, with the profit enabling our club to support our community.

“This is for those funds, for everything, and for all the entertainment provided

to Bowen and the Whitsundays for six decades.”

Federal Member for Dawson Andrew Willcox was joined by distinguished guests from Whitsunday Regional Council, including Mayor Julie Hall, Councillors Jan Clifford, Gary Simpson, and Michelle Wright, as well as Bowen Gumlu Growers President Carl Walker, to applaud the achievement.

The Member for Dawson, who has lived in Bowen all his life, recalled how much the Summergarden Cinema means to not just his family, but to the town itself.

“What a great man he is; 60 years pro viding entertainment to all of Bowen. it’s an iconic destination and tourist attraction in its own right,” Mr Willcox said.

“My early memories, and Mr De Luca will attest to this, I was a very good pa tron. My wife on the other hand played up a bit, and I would never have done anything like that! In fact, we have Carl Walker here and he would throw pop corn around, but he’s grown up now too.

“I can remember being at school and

working with the P&C, he would do nate vouchers for people, he kept his prices low, because people in Bowen didn’t have a terrible amount of money. If you went to the city, you would see that those prices would be four and five times the amount. But he always looked after the community.

“I spoke to my parents today, and they recalled some of their times at the cin ema. We’ve had three children and they’ve all been through there. My own son has just married and his first date with his now wife was right there in the Summergarden – with mum sit ting two seats behind!

“As a town, we are honoured and blessed to have the De Luca family for every thing they’ve done. Thank you very much on a per sonal note and thank you so much for the community.”

Mr De Luca thanked all at tendees on behalf of his fam ily, with Phyliss an apology on the day.

“Everyone here is so important to us and to me over those years. That’s why I love to greet you all when you come around to my place, because you’re all very important,” he said.

“We are the only cinema in a big, wide area now and we have the movies the

Federal Member for Dawson Andrew Willcox congratulating Ben De Luca on 60 years of owning the Bowen Summergarden Cinema

Whitsunday Regional Council Mayor Julie Hall and Ben De Luca

Councillors Michelle Wright, Gary Simpson, and Jan Clifford with Ben De Luca

Mr De Luca was presented with an honorary plaque by the Zonta Club Bowen

“The Sky Is No Longer The Limit” For Bowen Students

BowenState High School is shooting for the stars as it officially becomes an Aerospace Gateway to Industry School, allowing its students to take their first small step towards the final frontier.

The school will begin offering a Certificate III in Remote Piloting next year within its senior school thanks to the State Govern ment Initiative which transitions students from school to industry.

Senior School Head Of Teaching Tim Close said the program sees the governing body of Aerospace Gateways to Industry liaise between schools and stakeholders to create a partnership which sends students directly into work.

“One of their key roles is creating that partnership with an industry body and a business, which is now formalised and solidified through that program,” Mr Close said.

“Next year, we will see the implementation of a Certificate III in Remote Piloting for the first time. Students will be able to exit grade 12 with the capability of being a ful ly qualified drone pilot.”

Integral in the program is a partnership with Gilmour Space Technologies, a Gold Coast-based venture-funded Australian space company who are constructing an orbital launch facility out of Abbott Point State Development Area.

The State High School - which already

offered smaller-scale Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (S.T.E.M) programs on rocketry and droning within its curriculum - was gifted with Civil Avi ation Safety Authority certified flight sim ulators in partnership with Gilmour Space in December last year.

Initial introductions to the Aerospace Gateways Program were facilitated by Gilmour Space Technologies in July of last year, with the school now progressing to official aerospace status for its 2023 cur riculum.

James Gilmour, co-Founder and Head of Launch Site Operations at Gilmour Space said the program was a key aspect for the company to grow alongside the region.

“Gilmour Space has already invested over $3.5 million into the local community, and we are working with local manufac turers to buy more systems associated with launch and develop local supply chains to support our ongoing operations,” he said.

“We’re extremely excited about the future opportunities that space, and particular launch, will bring to the region and Aus tralia. We want the sky to no longer be the limit for any students! Students and indus try can be bold and dream big.”

Mr Gilmour said the company are organis ing speaking engagements with the school to talk about the different career pathways to space, which now exist in Australia.

In coming years, the school hopes to im plement further opportunities, according to Mr Close.

“Future opportunities the program pres ents in conjunction with the flight simula tors, the strength of our relationship with Gilmour, implementation of the Certifi cate III, we now have opportunities for our students on top of what we already have,” he said.

“We look forward to continuing to grow our Aerospace capability within our school and are very excited for the future of Bowen as we move towards becoming space ready.

“Thank you to Gilmour for their contin ued support and funding for our S.T.E.M

in school and the assistance by Atherton State High School and Senior Experienced Aerospace Teacher, Jon Collins.”

The far north school southwest of Cairns lent information and assistance to Bowen State High School, including an insight into what the future can hold for an Aero space school.

“We could have students potentially tak ing part in Aerospace Skills as a general subject, which can see them gain their pi lot’s license,” Mr Close said.

The program will be delivered inde pendently by a registered training pro vider at the school’s independent learning centre for three lessons a week.

Senior School Head of Teaching at Bowen State High School Tim Close, Aerospace Gateway to Industry Schools Mrs Natalie Allen, Operations Manager for Gilmour Space Industries Mr Scott Shimmon, and Senior Experienced Aerospace teacher from Atherton State High School Jon Collins

OUR WHITSUNDAY

NEWS IN BRIEF

COUNCIL LAUNCHES SECOND COMMUNITY SATISFACTION SURVEY

Survey is another tool in addition to the usual channels that Council offers for providing feedback such as our online engagement portal, Your Say Whitsunday,” Mayor Hall said.

Cyclone Sunday Events and Disaster Awareness Days

Save the date for our Cyclone Sunday Events and Cyclone Awareness days across the Whitsunday Region! The events will be held as follows:

Sunday 20 NovemberBowen Markets (includes Emergency Services)

Sunday 27 November - Airlie Beach Foreshore (includes a Emergency Services)

Sunday 4 December - Collinsville (includes information stall and preparedness giveaways)

Sunday 11 DecemberProserpine Community Markets (includes information stall and preparedness giveaways)

Simply visit the WRC Disaster Management tent at any of the above events and complete a short survey to go in the running to win a generator!

Australia Day Nominations

Now Open!

The Whitsunday Regional Council Australia Day Awards celebrate the achievement and contribution of individuals and organisations in our region.

These awards are an opportunity to publicly acknowledge those who have made an extraordinary contribution or is an outstanding achiever.

Categories include:

• Citizen of the Year

• Young Citizen of the Year

• Senior Sports Award

• Young Sports Award

• Arts & Cultural Award

• Environmental Achievement Award

• Community Event of the Year

• Volunteer of the Year Award (Wally Hinschen Award for the southert part of our region).

Submit your nomination by visiting yoursay.whitsundayrc. qld.gov.au

Nominations close 27 November 2022.

Whitsunday Regional Council has commenced its second Community Satisfaction Survey to help measure its performance in providing services and facilities to residents in the Whitsunday Region.

A representative sample of residents will be phoned directly by an independent company, Market Facts, who has had many years of experience assisting Councils with understanding the needs of their community.

Mayor Julie Hall said the survey is a follow on from Council’s first survey undertaken in February 2021 and aims to provide comparable data to help inform future decision making.

“It’s so important that residents have an opportunity to share their views and help myself and Councillors identify priorities for future budget decisions.

The Community Satisfaction

“The findings will provide a further insight into the community’s perceptions of the organisation, provide a baseline for future benchmarking and performance levels and assist us in determining our future priorities.

“I encourage those who are phoned for the survey to offer genuine feedback so we can use this in determining our future goals for improving liveability for our residents.

“People who don’t receive a phone call can still participate online, and we invite everyone to provide feedback.”

LOCAL WHITSUNDAY LANDHOLDERS ENCOURAGED TO REGISTER FOR BUSHFIRE RESILIENCE PROJECT

Whitsunday Regional Council is seeking expressions of interest from interested landowners to develop FREE Property Bushfire Plans. Expressions of interest are open from 24 October 2022 to 30 April 2023.

The Whitsunday Bushfire Resilience Project, funded by the Commonwealth Government’s Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Program, aims to improve community resilience through:

• Development of Property Bushfire Plans • Training workshops in early 2023, and • Funding of private bushfire mitigation and community firefighting infrastructure.

We invite landholders throughout the Region to develop free Property Bushfire Plans in collaboration with Council. Plans will identify strategies and actions that may be delivered through grant funding of up to $2,000, matched 50:50 between landholder and Council.

how can you have your say?

The Our Whitsunday Community Satisfaction Survey commenced on Thursday 3rd November and closes on Friday 25 November 2022.

How will the survey be facilitated?

Independent market research company, Market Facts, will be conducting a random telephone survey for persons in the Whitsunday Region aged 18+. Calls will be made to both mobile phones and landline numbers.

If I don’t receive a phone call, can I still participate in the survey?

Yes, an online survey will run concurrently with the phone survey and can be accessed by visiting yoursay.whitsundayrc.qld.gov.au.

How long will it take?

The average survey length is 12 minutes.

We invite residents region wide to register their interest to participate in bushfire training programs to learn about how, when and why burning is required to protect country and property. Training courses will be held early 2023. View more information or register your interest in bushfire training or free Property Bushfire Plans via:

• Online Engagement Portal yoursay.whitsundayrc.qld.gov.au

• Email to info@whitsundayrc.qld.gov.au

• Mail to PO Box 104, Proserpine QLD 4800, or

• In person at Council’s Customer Centres Enquiries on this matter should be directed to the Natural Resources Management Branch on 07 4945 0200.

Japanese Exchange Opens Doors For Local Ag

Representatives from our local agriculture industry have spent the last five months passing on knowledge to a team of dedi cated foreign trainees as part of a Japanese Agri cultural Exchange Program.

Coordinated by Bowen Gumlu Growers Associ ation (BGGA), the initiative saw Japanese train ees spend time with a range of local growers, producers and associated agribusinesses, includ ing Marto’s Mangoes, Eden Lassie Agave Farm and Koorelah Farms.

The exchange program culminated in a visit from the Japanese Consul- General, Masuo Ono, who took a tour of the farms, met the trainees and local growers then spent some time with Mayor Julie Hall and local government representatives.

BGGA Chief Executive Officer, Ry Collins, said the association had been working closely with the Japanese Consulate and exchanging infor mation and updates about the program since the trainees arrived in Australia in April.

“The Japanese Consulate’s visit provided a great opportunity for Mr Ono to meet the growers and trainees and see first-hand where they have been living and working,” he said.

Mr Collins said the Japanese Agricultural Ex change Program was an important international education, trade and regional promotion initia tive helping to create conversations about new agricultural export and trade opportunities for local growers with Japan.

“BGGA addressed the need to remove existing regulatory and market access barriers that cur

rently restrict some of our produce from enter ing this important Asian market,” he said.

“Our discussion also highlighted the wealth of trade opportunities in North Queensland through other industries including aquaculture, manufacturing, mining and tourism.”

Our region is the largest producer of winter veg etable crops in Australia generating farm gate production worth approximately $650 million per annum.

Key commodities produced include tomato, cap sicum, mangoes, cucurbits, beans and corn.

Local growers employ approximately 1,500 workers throughout the year with an addition al 2,000 during the harvest season which means that one in every five workers living in the region are supported by this sector.

Local produce feeds the nation and is exported to more than a dozen countries.

Mr Collins said that the wealth of knowledge embodied in this vast agriculture sector was im parted on the trainees who will now take their new experiences back to Japan.

“BGGA is pleased with the success of the pro gram to date and thanks the growers who have been contributing to the trainees’ agricultural knowledge,” he said.

“BGGA also acknowledges the trainees’ dedica tion to their learning and farm work as well as the support from the Queensland Government for their contribution to the program.”

(left to right): Sawaka Kasuga (trainee), Chris Monsour (Prospect Agriculture and Eden Lassie Agave Farm owner) and Mizuki Oki (trainee) at Eden Lassie Agave Farm

Robert Lee (Koorelah Farms) with ConsulGeneral, Masuo Ono, at Koorelah Farms

Japanese trainees with Whitsunday Regional Council Mayor, Julie Hall, Consul-General Masuo Ono, and Consul, Ms Harumi Narita, at a networking event at Grand View Hotel on 25 October. Photos supplied

Charity ‘Camp And sCare’ Weekend Raises $10,000

BIG4Adventure Whitsunday Re sort raised a staggering total of $10,009.64 for RACQ CQ Rescue through its annual ‘Camp and sCare’ char ity event last weekend.

The popular Halloween family “minibreak for a good cause” sold-out the holiday park’s cabins and sites, with over 1,000 excited children and parents enjoying the spooky fun.

Each year, the annual charity event chooses a charity, individual or business to support and raise funds for, with this year’s heading to RACQ CQ Rescue.

The emergency helicopter service covers the Whitsundays and surrounding regions between Townsville, Rockhampton and the Galilee Basin to 200 kilometres off-shore to the Great Barrier Reef.

On average an hour in the air costs CQ Rescue $10,500.

“With the Whitsundays making up 41 per cent of RACQ CQ Rescue’s regional tasks, we really wanted to support them with our fundraising this year,” BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort Marketing Manager Tanya Cran said.

“The reality is that any Whitsunday resi dent or holidaymaker may need their ser vices at some point in time, so it is an or ganisation that the McKinnon family [who own and operate the resort] and our team really wanted to support.”

Camp and sCare is always a big event for the business, according to Ms Cran, but this year’s fundraising total was a record for the most they have ever raised.

RACQ CQ Rescue were extremely grateful that BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort put in so much work for their guests, and with their help, raised such an incredible amount.

The BIG 4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort’s annual ‘Camp and sCare’ charity weekend for locals raised over $10,000 for RACQ CQ Rescue this year

Inspiring Stories Feature In New Book

Thehighly anticipated first book in the series ‘Campfire For The Heart’ has been just been released by local Airlie Beach author Natalie Stockdale.

By bringing together stories of trauma, tragedy and resilience, Natalie shows us how we can all overcome life’s curveballs and move forward into a brighter future.

Using inspiring, true stories of recovery after experiences of loss, injustice, natural disasters, war, terror, illness, injury, abuse, and disability – life experiences shared by all humanity – the book aims to help im prove mental health by giving others hope.

“By learning how other people have con verted their darkest times to personal growth and success, we can discover how we too can grow from hardships - and help others in theirs,” said Natalie.

A total of 30 storytellers are included in Campfire for the Heart, most of whom are unknown heroes of their personal jour neys.

Others are well-known champions of resil ience such as Lindy Chamberlain-Creigh ton, celebrity chef Matt Golinski, and Gay le Shann, a horrific farm accident survivor. Early next year, Natalie will be bringing out the second book in the series, ‘Camp fire for a Woman’s Heart’, which features the remarkable stories of 25 international

women.

This includes an Australian Paralympian champion, a gutsy barrister who stood up to ICAC, a legendry ice-water swimmer from the UK, a brave young student from Afghanistan, a mother from war-torn Ukraine, a former First Lady of Timor Leste, and many other extraordinarily re silient women.

The first in the series, Campfire for the Heart is available now online through the publisher (Big Sky Publishing) and at local book shops, news agencies, and some post offices.

Aworldwide,

unprecedented re search and tourism partnership has expanded to the Whitsun days, launching the Coral Nurture Pro gram to help local reefs recover with a plan for long-term Reef stewardship.

Initially pioneered in the northern Great Barrier Reef, Cairns-Port Douglas re gion, the program has now dived into the Whitsundays thanks to a partnership between University of Technology Syd ney and local tourism operators.

Successfully completing its first mission to establish new coral nurseries in Whit sunday reefs, the program saw the plant ing of more than 1600 healthy corals at three locations.

Through the Great Barrier Reef Foun dation’s Reef Islands Initiative, the ‘Whitsundays Coral Nurture Program’ is bringing “unique Coralclip technolo gy to three new sites in the region – an

Chamber

innovative device that allows corals to be planted roughly 10 times faster than before.”

Great Barrier Reef Foundation Man aging Director Anna Marsden said the Whitsunday project builds on the suc cess of its first iteration’s early days in Cairns and Port Douglas – particularly its partnership with tourism operators.

“Bringing together science and tourism is key to this project’s success,” Ms Mars den said.

“By combining the knowledge of our marine science experts with the experi ence and resources of the tourism oper ators who are out on the Reef every day, we can accelerate the natural recovery of local reefs at a greater scale and faster than we’ve seen before.”

Ms Marsden said the Whitsundays Cor al Nurture Program aims to assist the recovery of three ecologically and eco

Blinkand it’s November already. The Summer heat has hit, Airlie Beach Music Festival is this weekend and Christmas parties are being arranged as we speak. Time flies. A crazy reflection on how busy we all are.

A huge week for businesses in the Whit sundays last week with the Federal Bud get being handed down and the Whit sunday Tourism Awards returning after a three year absence. This year, the Tourism Awards incorporated the Chamber Spon sored Business Awards. Our congratula tions to the Winners in every category – it has been a hard job to just survive these last few years. To overcome all obstacles and excel in the process is a testament to effort, resilience and quality of the busi ness owners in the region.

Notable winners in the People’s Choice Tourism Experience category were Ocean Rafting, whilst Big4 Adventure Caravan Park took out the People’s Choice Ac commodation. Congratulations to Crys tal Lacey on her Young Achievers Award and special note to Michael and Elizabeth Hackett recognised for the efforts with the

ChatBob Porter Award for outstanding contri bution.

In the business categories, it was fantas tic to see a mixed of established and new businesses. The awards were based on a nomination process and the Winner of the Businesses of the Year award went to the hard-working team at Magnums. Con gratulations to the winners of the Out standing Business awards: Shift for Service Businesses, Whitsunday Creative for Re tail, Fish D’Vine for Hospitality Venue and Airlie Beach Tourism for Booking Agents.

Not much room to comment on the Bud get, but it was certainly a Federal Budget focussed on delivering on its election promises, tempered with warnings about “awful” times ahead – factoring in mas sive increases in cost of living – especially electricity prices. There is cost of living relief factored into childcare, cheaper med icines, more affordable housing however, inflation will outpace wages growth for now. To try and contain inflation, the Gov ernment has pumped very little back into the economy.

Local author, Natalie Stockdale

A new Coral Nurture Program has arrived in the Whitsundays. Image: Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Allan Milostic, President of the Whitsunday Coast Chamber of Commerce

Whitsundays A New Home To World-First Coral Nurture Program

nomically important reefs through use of the unique Coralclip technology – a Queensland invention.

“[The clips are] a game-changer for coral restoration at this local level because it offers a fast and cost-effective solution to out-planting corals at larger scales,” she said.

The first Coral Nurture Program has achieved outstanding results in north Queensland with over 75,000 corals planted to date.

Ms Marsden said the program hopes to create a legacy through tourism opera tors and the local community.

University of Technology Sydney lead researcher Professor David Suggett and Coralclip inventor, Wavelength tourism operator John Edmondson, travelled to the Whitsundays to train local tourism operators in the Program’s technique.

“We worked with three Whitsunday tourism operators – Red Cat Adventures, Kiana Sail and Dive, and Ocean Rafting – to showcase how our innovative ap proach works and provide the skills to take the lead in rebuilding coral reefs at the sites they frequently visit,” Professor Suggett said.

“The beauty of the Coral Nurture Pro gram is that it’s community-led and sci ence-backed.”

Tourism operators will act as stewards on the front line, working to grow and plant the corals and then check back in regu larly on their health, according to Profes sor Suggett, with those results being in dependently and scientifically validated for their positive impact.

Tourism operators will head back to the coral nurseries in November to check and report on progress.

Local Mum Honoured On Teachers Day

Market

Ayoung

woman who left the work force to have children and feared it may have been too late to return, is being congratulated by TAFE Queensland for her inspiring work teaching young people in Bowen how to find employment.

As part of World Teachers Day, which was celebrated in Queensland last Friday, Bow en local Elizabeth Watson shared her story of success.

“It wasn’t until I had my children that I realised I wanted to make a change, chal lenge myself and pursue a teaching career,” she said.

“I was worried about how I would balance work, study, and raising a family. The bal ancing act wasn’t always easy, but I realised how much I wanted to support students to achieve their goals.”

With experience as an adult learner, Eliz abeth is able to impart first-hand knowl edge onto those she is assisting at the Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) program in Bowen.

Using both cultural and practical educa tion to inform and inspire her students, she is able to create a real difference in the town.

“Every Wednesday we discuss different topics such as preparing cover letters and resumes, attire, body language, practice interview questions, watch videos, have

TAFE Teacher Elizabeth Watson

guest speakers and work through work sheets,” Elizabeth explained.

By giving her students the right tools, she has found they have the confidence to pur sue a career they love.

Recently a mature age student who speaks English as a second language found em ployment.

“I encouraged and assisted her in applying for jobs,” said Elizabeth.

“A few weeks later, this student sent me an email letting me know how happy she was in her new job.

“I felt so honoured to be part of her jour ney to such personal success.”

Good Yield For Mango, Worker Shortage Remains

Bowenmango growers are in for a strong season of good prices, ac cording to local growers and the industry’s peak body.

Conditions have been excellent for farm ers across the state, meaning a high yield is expected which could drive down prices as demand lessens.

Picking season in North Queensland com mences in November, running for rough ly four to six weeks on average, and local farmers are currently expecting between $40 to $45 dollars per seven-kilogram tray, depending on species/variety/ and tonnage.

The industry’s peak body, Australian Man goes Industry Association, are forecast ing a strong outing from Bowen and the Burdekin of roughly 1.1 million mangoes from November through to late January – a large contribution to the country’s 8

million tally.

But with an excellent yield, prices could drop due to supply and demand. But that’s if the industry – which is still reeling from the sheer drop off in backpackers, who usually fill the role of picker – can find workers.

The launch of the recent Pick Paradise campaign – which sought to lure agricul tural workers to the region – in September is what the industry hopes will be a lifeline.

The fruit picking season in the south ern states has already reported being left short-handed, with much of the industry in Victoria falling behind, and in some cases, leaving fruit to rot for lack of sea sonal workers.

Bowen and the Burdekin are the fourth largest producers of mangoes in the coun try.

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A Glamourous Night At The Tourism Awards

LastSaturday saw tourism operators from across the region come togeth er for the first formal awards cere mony in the Whitsundays in two years.

The last event of its kind took place in 2019, and industry leaders were thrilled to be back celebrating their achievements amongst their peers.

Held in a big-top tent at the Whitsunday Sailing Club, the Whitsunday Tourism Awards saw 330 guests dressed to impress in a circus-themed black-tie dress code.

A total of 24 awards were handed out on the night and Tourism Whitsundays CEO, Rick Hamilton, said it was great to cele brate the significant contribution the tour ism industry makes to the Whitsundays region.

‘The process of compiling an awards sub mission isn’t an easy feat and it was de signed this way to encourage operators to really look at what they are doing in their business and how that flows onto the cus tomers, locals and region,’ said Mr Ham ilton.

‘We have one of the most cohesive and successful tourism industries in the coun try, this night is an example of that, every one is here celebrating their achievements, their competitors’ achievements and the overall achievements of the tourism in dustry.’

Mayor Julie Hall also attended the awards and congratulated the winners.

“The awards night was all about our amazing tourism stakeholders and hon ouring their efforts to make the Whit sundays the most popular tourism des tination in Australia and the world,” she said.

“I am proud of the collaborative and pro ductive working relationship my Council has formed with Tourism Whitsundays.

“We will continue investing in improved infrastructure across the region to posi tion the Whitsundays for strong future growth in tourism.”

After 21 years producing one of Airlie’s fa vourite community events, the dedicated team of organisers and volunteers final ly took home Gold for best Festival and Event at the Whitsunday Tourism Awards last weekend.

Event Coordinator, Margie Murphy said that they had been a finalist and a silver award winner several times, but that it was a wonderful feeling to receive Gold.

“This is the first time we’ve cracked the Gold!” she said.

“This is testament to the hard work of the combined committee who always do a fantastic job.”

The 2021 Great Barrier Reef Festival re

ceived the award and Margie said she is excited to enter the 2022 event next year as she believes that was the best yet.

“We’ve progressed even further since then” she explained.

“I think the 2021 event caught the judge’s eye because of the quality of the events, our awesome re-brand and our increasing link to the Great Barrier Reef through our educational experiences.”

The Great Barrier Reef Festival takes place in Airlie Beach on the first week of August each year.

Dozens of events bring the community to gether for fun and festivity – they include the Recyclable Regatta, Lantern Parade, Immerse Art Installation, Comedy Gala, Wearable Art Show, Rotary Street Parade and of course the fireworks.

Three Of The Best For Ocean Rafting

It was a golden night at Satur day’s Whitsunday Tourism Awards for the region’s most awarded tour operator, Ocean Rafting, who took home the top spots in Major Tour and Tran sport Operator, Adventure Tou rism, and the People’s Choice Award.

The Whitsundays’ original tour operator celebrated their three golds, as well as a runner up fi nish in Whitsundays’ Business Of The Year, just a month after celebrating their 25th birthday in October.

Owners Peter and Jan Clax ton were ecstatic to receive the awards, which were proudly sha red with their team on the night.

“We are honestly very humbled and honoured to take home three awards,” Ms Claxton said,

“We are so proud to be recogni sed and rewarded for our team’s ongoing passion, dedication and commitment to sharing the won ders of the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef Park.”

Ms Claxton extended her thanks on behalf of the Ocean Rafting fa mily, to each and every business,

family member, friend, guest, and team member who enabled them to be where they are now.

“Receiving the Major Tour and Transport Award and the Adven ture Tourism Award are true re flections of our products, which offer the adventure of a lifetime around the beautiful Whitsunday Islands, surfing the waves and feeling the rush on the boats we have designed especially for this purpose, then up to the sky with our scenic flights and Fly Raft package,” Ms Claxton said.

“The People’s Choice Award was won based on voting from our guests and industry colleagues and the recognition is a testament to our team and our product, so we couldn’t be any prouder.”

Having successfully been in ope ration for two and half decades as one of the Whitsundays’ most loved on-water experiences, and with three generations of family actively working in the business, the Ocean Rafting team are reno wned for always “taking it to the next level”, a whole company ap proach which reflects their longterm success and continuous gro

wth over the years.

Despite the last two COVID-im pacted years, Jan and Peter circled back to Peter’s aviation roots in 2022, adding not another “duck” to the existing fleet of ei ght custom designed vessels, but a plane: Ocean Rafting’s 7-seater Australian-built Airvan which took to the skies in May.

While Ocean Rafting’s Fly Raft packages and scenic flight tou ring options have been offered for several years, this added in vestment has allowed for more available seats on scenic flights over Whitehaven Beach, Hill In let and famous Heart Reef, resul ting in an iconic triple-whammy providing the ultimate Whitsun day experience in just one day.

This past year also saw the launch of Ocean Rafting’s own ‘Research’ vessel, which is used for the com pany’s many environmental ini tiatives, Reef Seeker Edutourism programs and charters.

The ever-expanding business has brought in award after award for their innovation and desire to always be improving, even when at the top of their game.

Ocean Rafting had an exceptional evening at the first Whitsunday Tourism Awards in two years, claiming three of the highest echelon awards at the Saturday night event

Mackay and Whitsunday Life Advertising Account Manager Mike McCann with his partner Demie Wigham. Photo credit: R Jean Photography

The Great Barrier Reef Festival team at the awards on Saturday night. Photo credit: R Jean Photography

The Ocean Rafting team took home three Gold Awards on Saturday night. Photo credit: R Jean Photography

Great Barrier Reef Festival Win Gold

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BOWEN WINS TWO GOLD AWARDS

BowenTourism and Business won Gold twice at the 2022 Whitsunday Tourism Awards on Saturday night.

The Visitor Information Centre won Gold in the Visitor Information Services cate gory and then backed it up when the Big Mango was named the top tourist attrac tion.

Bowen, at the top of the Whitsundays, is a real hidden gem and the heart of secluded beaches.

Bowen Tourism and Business is a notfor-profit organisation with more than 200 member businesses who are based in Bowen, the greater Whitsundays region and other parts of Queensland.

The small team of dedicated staff work alongside a very passionate team of 15 vol unteers to operate the Big Mango Visitor Information Centre and the information booth at Bowen’s Front Beach.

Bowen Tourism and Business (BTB) is responsible for destination marketing, ensuring visitors are aware of the incredi ble experiences on offer in Bowen and the wider Whitsundays region.

This is carried out daily through interac tions with visitors as well as through print, television, radio and online platforms.

Chair of Bowen Tourism and Business, Jenn Honnery, said winning two Gold awards was testament to the dedication and passion of the staff and volunteers.

“They work tirelessly and pride themselves in exceptional customer service,” she said.

“Bowen has so much to offer with beau

tiful beaches, fringing reefs and country hospitality.

“The BTB team ensure every visitor is aware of what Bowen and the greater Whitsunday region has to offer.

“As a booking agency, our organisation supports many of the tourist operators in Airlie Beach,” she said.

Manager of Bowen Tourism and Business, Leanne Abernethy, said the team was ab solutely thrilled to win Gold in two cate gories.

“The staff, the volunteers and the commit tee are all so very passionate about Bowen so we were all very proud to be named the best in two categories,” she said.

AT A GLANCE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE

*The Bowen Visitor Information Centre is open seven days a week and welcomes more than 40,000 visitors per year

*The centre now stocks an expanded range of merchandise and local produce includ ing many mango products – sorbet, chut ney, jam, chilli sauce, body products, can dles and even mango daquiri mix.

*The centre has more than 300 brochures on display including 102 regional guides, 94 brochures from Bowen businesses, 70 Whitsunday brochures and 52 brochures from out-of-region operators.

THE BIG MANGO

*The Big Mango was built as part of a com munity campaign to revitalise the local community and boost tourism.

*Built in May 2002, plans are already un derway for a 21st celebration in May next year.

*The Big Mango is located at Mount Gor don, 5km south of Bowen on the Bruce Highway.

*It cost about $90k to build and is 10 me tres high

*It is painted in the lush colour of the Kensington Pride mango that was intro duced to Bowen from India in 1871.

Bowen Tourism and Business staff: Robyn Maloney, Melissa Beuzeville, Leanne Abernethy, Glenn Womal and Bev Adams. Photo credit: R Jean Photography

BOWEN VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE GOLD WINNER Visitor Information Services

WINNER Tourist Attractions

The Big Mango wins top tourist attraction

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Little FishWins Big!

One of the Whitsunday’s most in novative business offerings, Lit tle Fish Tourism Development Consulting, took out two accolades at last weekend’s Whitsunday Tourism Awards –Gold for New Tourism Business and win ner of the Young Achievers Award.

Owner and founder, Crystal Lacey said that she still couldn’t believe it.

“I almost didn’t even enter into the awards, so to win was phenomenal!” she said.

“There are a handful of people who I have worked with over the years who have al ways believed in me, mentored me and inspired me.

“Through the process of creating my own business they have always been in my cor ner, cheering me on, helping to build the pathway I am walking upon and I will nev er be able to express the level of gratitude I have for that continual unconditional support.”

Crystal has worked in the tourism indus try for 16 years and was selected in the first Great Barrier Reef Marine Parks Authority (GBRMPA) Master Reef Guides Cohort.

She is also a Dive Instructor and Under water Photographer, and as an Eye on the

Reef Surveyor she helped ex ecute the largest natural coral transplant on the Great Barri er Reef.

In August she became the first environmental coordinator for the Great Barrier Reef Fes tival.

“Immersing and educating the wider community on our World Heritage Area through life changing experiences is undeniably my absolute pas sion!” she said.

“Developing Little Fish Tourism Develop ment Consulting was a natural progres sion to enable myself to access the indus try who want to develop and deliver guest experiences that are inventive, educational and interactive.”

Crystal’s business works alongside tour ism operators to offer a range of special ised services that enhance their offering.

These innovative immersive educational adaptations are unique and fit-for-pur pose to tourism businesses throughout the Great Barrier Reef, providing practical and relevant training, product develop

ment, guest experience training and busi ness development to tourism business.

Little Fish offers business and product developments and enhancements, work place training, marine education training, interpretation and immersive storytelling training, event coordination and event presentations, extensive stakeholder con nections and much more.

When asked why she thinks the judges chose her and her business, Crystal said it was likely the passion she puts into every thing she does.

“I hope it was the passion!” she laughed.

“The passion I have to engage, educate, inspire and deliver the wonder and excite

ment of the World Heritage Great Barri er Reef through interactive educational immersive guest experiences by engaging with the tourism industry to innovate and develop leading edge unforgettable expe riential experiences for each and every guest, energizing the world stage about our incredible Natural Wonder.”

Gold for New Tourism Business and winner of the Young Achievers Award. Photo supplied.

Crystal Lacey from Little Fish Tourism Development Consulting at the 2022 Whitsunday Tourism Awards. Photo credit: R Jean Photography.

Double Win For BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort

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Adventure Whitsunday Resort has been awarded top honours in two categories at the annual Whit sunday Tourism Awards, held on Saturday night under the big top at the Whitsunday Sailing Club.

Winning gold in the ‘Caravan and Holiday Parks’ category, the resort also won the consumer-voted ‘People’s Choice Award for Accommodation’ at the gala industry awards.

The resort has been proudly owned by the McKinnon family for 29 years and was represented on the evening by 20 of the resort’s now 75-member strong team, who enjoyed a night out celebrating the Whit sunday tourism industry’s night of nights.

“We are so very proud and grateful to have won both of these awards,” said resort owner and operator, Greg McKinnon.

“Both awards reflect the offerings of our quality tourism product, our ongoing development and our customer service, which is a testament to our forever grow ing team who are incredibly deserving of this award.

“They are a huge part of making the mag ic happen. And of course, our guests - we truly thank them for choosing us to enjoy their precious family holiday.”

“We would also like to extend a huge thank you to Tourism Whitsundays for hosting another brilliant event and for all

of their incredibly hard work in promot ing and celebrating this beautiful part of the world we are lucky enough to live in.

“It’s also so important for us to recognise our local community, industry partners, agents and suppliers who have supported us throughout.

“The resilience the region has shown throughout the last couple of years is un wavering and it certainly is time for every one to shine again.”

“Last but not least, a massive congrat ulations to all of the other Whitsunday winners and entrants - what a wonderful night to share with our industry friendsit’s been far too long and it was definite ly worthy of huge celebration, which was most certainly had by all it seems.”

Over the years, the McKinnon family have been passionate about continually rein vesting into the business in order to offer the ultimate Whitsunday mainland holi day resort.

“We have put everything into the resort over the past 29 years and continue to grow to make it the multi-award winning and nationally recognised destination to escape to with family and friends in the Whitsundays,” Greg contnued.

“Our resort is all about connecting with each other by offering an environment where everyone can enjoy the many facili ties and activities on offer, relax in quality

accommodation and just all come together.”

This year has seen fur ther development of the resort, with a par ticular focus on acces sibility needs.

To complement the resort’s existing acces sible cabins, facilities and Sensory Room, vi sion-impaired cabins were recently added to the inventory to more broadly cater to guest’s specific needs and provide them with an unforgettable Whit sunday holiday.

BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort of fers a range of accommodation, from tropical landscaped camp sites through to self-contained studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom cabins, providing options to suit every taste and budget.

With over 15 onsite activities including a big, huge, mega waterslide park, lagoon style pool, mini golf, outdoor cinema, Kid’s Club, year-round activities program and much more, BIG4 Adventure Whit sunday Resort offers the ultimate holiday escape.

For more information visit www.adven turewhitsunday.com.au

A Winning Standard Of Tourism Transport

Regional Council are congratulating their team’s success following the Tourism Awards on Saturday evening which saw Whitsunday Coast Airport and Shute Har bour Marine Terminal take out the Tour ism Retail, Hire and Service Category.

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Craig Turner, Chief Operating officer Avi ation and Tourism, and his team at Whit sunday Coast Airport won Gold, while Shaun Cawood, Shute Harbour Coordina tor, and his team at Shute Harbour Marine Terminal took home Bronze in the same category.

“The gold win for the airport was a great reward for the hard-working team as they have been kicking numerous goals for our region’s post Covid recovery,” said a Coun cil spokesperson.

“Our airport recorded the highest ever monthly passenger totals in April this year, with 47,384 passengers transiting through

the terminal.

“The previous highest monthly total pas senger count for April was 37,486 in 2019 so too eclipse that by nearly 10,000 proves that the Whitsundays is one of the fastest growing regional airports in Australia.”

Connectivity is key to making it easy for visitors to explore the Whitsunday region and the flow on economic benefits to Bow en, Proserpine, Collinsville, and other ar eas is huge.

Over 220 flights monthly equate to more passengers and visitors to stay and play, all the while supporting our region’s tourism and business stakeholders.

Meanwhile, the Shute Harbour team took home bronze for their efforts in reactivat ing the new Shute Harbour Marine Termi nal which will welcome the first of many luxury cruise liners docking in the marina in November.

Celebrity Eclipse will dock on November 9 followed by the Royal Caribbean’s 4000 passage ship, Quantum of the Seas on No vember 20.

Shute Harbour is home to a multitude of operators including Sealink, Cruise Whit sundays, Explore Group, Ocean Rafting, Salty Dog Sea Kayaking, Scamper, Pioneer Adventures and Elysian Resort.

Explore 74 Café will open in the coming weeks and will be a welcome addition complete with a bar and off-premises li quor available.

Shute Harbour is an ideal location for functions and conferences due to its prox imity to Airlie Beach and the Islands.

The well-equipped 344m2 function space is located on the upper floor of the termi nal building.

The fully air-conditioned space can ac commodate 120 guests and up to 250 guests in a luxe cocktail formation.

The integrated Wi-Fi and private ameni ties allow for a fully immersive conferenc ing experience.

Council wishes to congratulate all the nominees and winners of this year’s Whit sunday Tourism Awards and applauds all their efforts in making the Whitsundays the one of most popular tourism destina tion in Australia and the world.

Marianne Goldman from Whitsunday Coast Airport, Whitsunday Regional Council Mayor Julie Hall, Amy Humphries Terminal’s Officer and Craig Turner, Chief Operating officer Aviation and Tourism Photo credit: R Jean Photography

Whitsunday Coast Airport’s innovative departure’s lounge aquatic feature

The newly revitalised Shute Harbour Marine Terminal

The BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort representatives at the awards on Saturday Photo credit: R Jean Photography

The huge waterslide park

A friendly welcome

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A Peninsula Perfect Experience

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that are bringing their own unique style of guest experience to the region were thrilled to take home the Excellence In Customer Service Award at the Whitsunday Tourism Awards on Saturday night.

Paul and Fran Tuddenham, who took over their first property management role at Peninsula in Airlie Beach in July last year, have transformed the local business and have now received recognition for all their hard work.

“We simply treat people the way we want to be treated and try to do little extras wherever we can,” said Paul.

From leaving chocolates on pillows for guests when they enter their rooms to keeping a secret stash of kids’ toys, like bubbles and bracelets, under the counter to give away and organising honeymoon hampers wherever possible – it is easy to see why their guests always give them ex cellent reviews.

“If you have happy kids, then you have a happy holiday!” laughs Fran.

But it is more than just gifts that create a customer experience, nothing is too much for Paul and Fran and their positive en thusiasm is infectious to everyone they encounter.

“We are all about customer service,” said Paul.

“People come here happy, and our job is to maintain that.”

Originally from Robina, the couple worked in Banking and Management for over 20 years before starting a Mortgage Broking Business which they also operat ed for 20 years.

When they came to Airlie Beach on holi day, they took a tour of Peninsula and fell in love with the area and its stunning sea views.

Now, just 12 months after taking over the business, they have grown from 12 units to now managing 21 units on the property.

They were also awarded Resident Man agers of the Year at the ARAMA national awards in July.

An Award-Winning Mirage

OnSaturday night luxury accom modation providers, Mirage Whitsundays, were thrilled to take home an award for the fifth time in a row.

Having entered into the Hall of Fame at the 2018 Whitsunday Tourism Awards for bringing home Gold three years in a row, the team were glad to be back after COVID put a halt to the awards, making the 2022 occasion even more special.

This year they took home Gold in the 4-4.5 Star Deluxe Accommodation category.

General Manager Jeanette Harris said that she had recently joined the team, having worked over on Hamilton Island for the past eight years, and that it was wonderful to see all the great work they had been doing.

“The team were really proud!” she said.

“It was really fantastic to be among other industry par ticipants in the region and really exciting to be with other excellent operators on the night.

“I would like to give spe cial thanks to Connor Da vis who is our Front Office Manager and Mick Bennett who is our long-serving Maintenance Manager who knows the place inside and

out and keeps it running.”

There are 104 luxury apartments at the complex and Mirage Whitsundays man ages 85 of them as Holiday Rental Apart ments.

Ms Harris says that people comment most about the palatial feel of the large and modern apartments and Villas which have full kitchen facilities and spacious lounges.

The Villas and Executive and Penthouse Apartments also each have their own pri vate plunge pool.

“They also love the sea views!” she said.

Mirage Whitsundays offers a hot buffet breakfast each morning from the on-site Whisper Gin Bar and Restaurant, and their signature Bottomless Brunch is held

Paul and Fran Tuddenham from Peninsula Airlie Beach at the Tourism Awards last weekend. Photo credit: R Jean Photography

General Manager of Mirage Jeanette Harris with Maintenance Manager, Mick Bennett. Photo credit: R Jean Photography

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Kiana Claims Gold Because They “Live And Breathe The Reef”

“Waking up at a different pristine reef every day, 145-kilometres offshore” is just a small part of why local business Kiana Sail and Dive won big at the 2022 Whitsunday Tourism Awards on Saturday night.

Claiming two wins and a finalist recog nition at the region-wide awards, Brent Chatterton and his team at Kiana were ecstatic with the results, especially in their first year entering the esteemed compe tition: Gold in Ecotourism, Bronze in Unique Accommodation, and a Finalist in Adventure Tourism.

The win in Gold Ecotourism is something close to owner and master of Kiana Sail and Dive, Brent Chatterton’s heart.

“I was shocked when they called our names; I was stunned like a mullet! My team were so ecstatic for me,” Brent said.

“I’m humbled by it because we’ve done a lot of work in the Reef space – rehabilita tion, work in the Whitsundays, restoration and giving our own time and money to the reef we love so much.”

A tourism company named after its vessel, Kiana specialises in unique tours out to the Reef for three and five day overnight trips, but is also a key voice and activist in reef restoration – a factor that undoubted

ly played a role in its Gold win.

They have been involved in placing resto ration frames as part of Project Refresh at Bait Reef, the recent Coral Nurture Pro gram in the Whitsundays, Reef Bags as a separate project, and the Coral Reseeding Project.

“What it’s about is giving back. We give back to places so important to us as key, top tourism sites, which have eco nomic, cultural, and social bene fits and significance,” Brent said.

“We impart that to our guests too, that stewardship of the Reef. I tell the story of the Great Barrier Reef on the second night of our tours: how it was formed, the intercon nectivity, the size, the fun facts.

“But I also let them know that now they’ve seen it and fallen in love with it, they must protect it.”

Alongside their Gold win, they placed Bronze in the Unique Ac commodation category, which Brent attributes to their tours be ing “further than any other oper ator. You wake up every day on an exceptional and different reef.”

Kiana nabbed a finalist spot in Adventure Tourism as well, an ex

tremely strong category in the Whitsun days, which Brent said was “fantastic to be up there with esteemed colleagues like Ocean Rafting.”

The Gold win sees the business gain di rect entry into the Queensland Tourism Awards, but staying on brand, Brent said he will be unable to physically attend.

“I’ll be heading 200-kilometres out where

there’s not much data on the health of the reef for a Great Reef Census,” Brent said.

“Although business is important, it’s more important that we’re out there doing stuff in those undiscovered places, even if it’s at a great cost to the business. I think it’s im portant to do these things because we live and breathe and love the place we work in.”

The Kiana team at the Tourism Awards on Saturday night. Photo credit: R Jean Photography

The weekend music lovers have been waiting for is finally here and partygoers from around the coun try, state and region are settling in for a weekend of sweet tunes and rocking beats from some of the most talented musicians around.

Strap-in, sit-back and enjoy the ride –watch as the whole of Airlie Beach is transformed into a musical mecca where we all worship the Gods of Party and Par adise who unite to create a festival-goers utopia.

Headlining acts include The Animals, Loonaloop, Ben Lee, Eskimo Joe, Jon Stevens, Rogue Traders, The Badloves, and Mi-Sex who will each rock-out at

out across the streets and the whole town will moving to the same beat for one wild weekend.

This years’ official festival venues in clude Anchor Bar, Bar LV, Beaches Bar

Chambers, Sam McCann, and Sarah Mc Leod.

Tourism Whitsundays Chief Executive Officer, Rick Hamilton, said all the ingre dients for festivalgoers to enjoy a rockstar

WHEN: This weekend! Friday, Saturday and Sunday – 4-6 November

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10 Years Of Airlie Beach Festival Of Music

Known as one of the Whit sunday’s most celebrated local events, the Airlie Beach Festival of Music (AB FoM) has travelled a long way to reach this pinnacle of success.

Marking its 10th year in 2022 and awarded Festival of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards, it seems there is no stopping this iconic local festival.

It’s been a big year and an in credible decade which all started when festival founder Gavin But lin (known affectionately as ‘But to’) had a conversation with local musician Kieran McCarthy.

Sharing his vision for the festival, Butto felt sure that Airlie Beach was the perfect destination for a music festival.

“I thought there was no better place for a festival,” he said.

“It’s based a bit on Tamworth which is spread all over the town and we wanted to do something similar.

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“10 years down the track and it’s all happening – this is the only festival that brings the whole town together as one event.”

In the years before the first AB FoM, two other festivals had tried and failed to succeed, meaning that when Butto started out, there was a lot of scepticism.

Determined to prove them wrong, Butto knew that by choosing to hold the event at the Whitsunday Sailing Club people could be within walking distance

to the town.

Deciding on the location was a pivotal moment for Butto.

“At first no-one wanted to be part of it,” he said.

“But thankfully they trusted me and here we are 10 years later!”

Over the years a core group of organisers and volunteers, known as the ‘Festival Family’, have been the cornerstone of the event.

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off work to be here –it’s incredible, without them we wouldn’t have a festival!”

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Over the past decade, ABFoM has evolved and developed to become a lar gescale operation regularly at tracting thousands of people who enjoy the easy vibe and creature comforts of the event.

as possible for attendees.

Another key element that makes ABFoM stand apart from the rest is its ability to attract the bigname performers while offering a platform for emerging artists.

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“So many of them have been part of the festival for the whole 10 years,” said Butto.

“They live and breathe the festival – some of them even take a week

“Every year’s got better and bet ter – we’ve be learning as we go –whatever goes wrong one year we fix for the next,” explains Butto.

From introducing a shuttle bus service to putting food vans in side the venue, every effort is made to make the festival as easy

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“Local bands never get a chance to play at a festival, so we try and support them,” said Butto.

“We like to give smaller bands a crack and have 10 local bands playing this year - 50 in total – it’s going to be amazing!”

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Volunteers and organisers known as the Festival Family

Festival Founder Gavin ‘Butto’ Butlin (centre) with workmates just after the first tent was put up 10 years ago

House Of The Animals

Growing up in the UK, what’s it like to tour Aus tralia?

Iconic

UK band The Animals have been touring Australia for the last month or so, making a stop at the Airlie Beach Festival of Music before they head home. John Steele is the band’s drummer and only remaining original member and he can’t wait to get in the Whitsunday sun.

You’ve been touring Australia for the last few weeks; how have those shows been going?

They’ve been going very well actually. We seem to be doing pretty good business ev erywhere we go, standing ovations, which can’t be bad, we must be doing something right. We’re coming to the end of our tour.

We’ve got two gigs in Western Australia and then we’re flying back to Queensland.

It’s Good To Be The Badloves

Released in July 1993, The Badloves’ debut album ‘Get On Board’ spent a massive 69 weeks in the charts. Going from strength to strength over the years, lead singer Michael Spiby had a chat about what keeps bringing him back to music.

Being a band since the 90’s, you’ve taken a few breaks over the years. What brings you back to music after those breaks? There’s a bit of a joy that you get in rela tionships. When you get back together, it’s like a good catch up, and that then leads to more and more shows … The current lineup, we’re about seven years in, and that’s a lot of crocheting. Over the years, we’ve pulled it together, even to the point where, if we haven’t played for several months, it takes us a couple of weeks to really hit our straps again. But, from the very first show, it surprises everybody how much is still there. The band is something very

special, I’ve learnt over the years. It’s the ego, I think, that you think you can pull anything together with any players, but it doesn’t work that way. There’s certain music dialogue built from years and years of playing to gether and can’t be substituted. It’s amaz ing, always humbling.

Do you notice a change in the crowds or the industry or even yourselves after a break?

I guess the most explicit one is the Covid thing, and I was quite shocked at the au diences and the musicians … When we hit the road eventually, the audiences, I could see them re-immersing themselves in something they took for granted which was live music. Everything was different, the energy onstage was highly aware of the

Lovely! Apart from the past two and a half years, obviously, but from the mid90s, we’ve been here quite a few times and we really enjoy playing Australia, it’s a great country. Usu ally, we come over in either November, December or even January or February and it’s always been wonderful weather but this trip, it’s been awful … I’ve been keeping an eye on the weather forecast and it does look nice for the Airlie gig.

What drummers were you look ing up to when you first started playing drums?

When I first started playing drums, I was listening to jazz a lot. I was 16 when I first started drumming which was right in the

middle of the 50s so we were listening to Fats Domino, Little Richard, Elvis, Eddie Cochrane, Buddy Holly. All of those guys were influencing me and at the same time I was also listening to jazz with people like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich and all those great jazz drummers, a bit of a mixed bag, really.

What can the Airlie Beach crowd expect from the Animals?

We get to do the singles, obviously, we’ve got some great stuff to work with. Songs that really stand the test of the time‘House of the Rising Sun’, ‘We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place’, ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’, ‘It’s My Life’, ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’, ‘Bring It Home To Me’ – they’re great songs and they seem to hit the right spot for every generation. We get plenty of young people coming to the shows and they know all the words, they sing all the lyrics, it’s brilliant. Then we’ve got quite a bag of album tracks and B-sides so we shuffle them about a bit to keep the sets fresh. We’ll always play the hit singles but the rest of the set will be a mixture that we just pick and mix.

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Written by Sam Gillespie

privilege of us being onstage and the au dience, I think, were reinvigorated by the fact that something that had been taken away from them was actually important to them, and that was the live experience and the joy of intermingling between musi cians and audience. That was a very hum bling experience.

How excited are you for Airlie Beach Festival of Music?

We’re really excited about it because it means we escape the ridiculous weather down south. That’s my personal, selfish reason for coming up. But also, it’s a won

derful bill, and it looks like it’s been a pret ty important festival up north, from what I can see, if it’s ten years in the making. If you go hunting, let’s face it, that’s what festivals are best at, if you go for a deep dive. There were 20 names I don’t know, it’s amazing, it’s like going into op shops looking for treasures. That’s what I find really exciting. Maybe it’s courtesy of the weather, but I find people are lot looser and happier to enjoy themselves.

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Written by Sam Gillespie

Go Country With Peta Richards

AnAirlie Beach local who is best known for her involvement in Young Buskers and Open Mic Nights at KC’s Bar and Grill, is introducing some of her own original music at Whisper Gin Bar and Restaurant over the festival weekend.

Peta Richards has been playing country music since she was eight years old and is an award-winning singer-songwriter who took home the Best Overall Prize with her girl group, Shiraz, at the Charters Towers Country Music Festival back in 2008.

Having performed country music for over 30 years, Peta will bring a mixture of cover songs and original music to her perfor mance at Whisper Bar.

With a guitar in her hand and music in her soul, she is looking forward to bringing her music to a new venue.

“The crowd can expect a lot of good old classics from any genre – songs that every one knows and loves,” said Peta.

“I will also be introducing some of my own music – I’ll try and keep it very low-key, get into the vibe of the festival - easy listen ing for everyone to enjoy.”

Located at Mirage Resort in Cannonvale,

Moment With A Muso:

Favourite artist: Shania Twain

Least favourite music: Rap – I like to have a storyline

Last thing you listened to: Luke Combs

Whisper Gin Bar and Restaurant is open to day guests who would like to soak up the holiday ambience and stunning sea views while enjoying some live music.

If you are looking for a hidden gem, a place to chill out and some of the best daiquiris in town, then make sure you come to see Peta play.

Jason Daniels at The Rocks

With a Blue Mountain vibe through and through, artist Jason Daniels settled quickly into the Sunshine Coast musical land scape and its lifestyle, making a name as one of the most versatile and talented looping soloists in the scene.

Now, the young singer-songwriter - who spends much of his time gigging around the great southeast of Queensland – is heading to Airlie Beach Festival of Music, bringing his looping tracks, where he live records vocals and notes, then has them replay, merging and creating magic, to the coastal town.

“I think for me, looping music, you can jam to it. Building layers with loops, it becomes so much more engaging. I think that element of it is why I’m really drawn to it,” Daniels said.

“I’ve always wanted to play Airlie and I’m so excited.

“I think for me, from a young age, song was king, and that’s what I try to bring to my gigs.” The fact you can tell stories, get to know people, and connect to such an interesting side of humanity through song is why I was drawn to folk. You get to put your heart on your sleeve, which I love.”

Daniels will perform at The Rocks this Sunday from 10am.

12:00pm Majelen

sponsored by bricklane brewing

Come and chill oceanside in The Rocks Restaurant over the Airlie Beach Festival of music, talented local musicians, and the best views in The Whitsundays.

Rachel (Innocent Eve)

Bill Chambers

Niksta

Alex Kosenko

Big Pups

Allison Forbes

Jason Daniels (Buskers Winner)

Sunday Lemonade (Byron Bay P2A)

Mark Porter

With an array of fresh Australian produce on the menu and extensive wine list, The Rocks has you covered. Head Chef Michael Dominici and Restaurant Manager Santiago Lera have teamed up with International Chef Mario Varela to create an amazing dining experience for you to savour.

Resort

Nov 4th Nov 5th Nov 6th

Moment With A Muso: Favourite band?

That’s like picking a favourite child! I’ll say Dayglow.

Genre you just can’t ‘groove’ with: I have respect for all music, but free jazz I have a lot of questions…

Last song you listened to?

Less or More by Wild Rivers

Jason Daniels will play at The Rocks for the Airlie Beach Festival of Music

Peta Richards will perform at Whisper Gin Bar and Restaurant. Photo credit: Shutter Fox photography

Dallas Frasca at Magnums, Airlie Beach Australian Roots Rock

Their music “sounds like Janis Joplin and Angus Young had a baby and baptised it in Bour bon”, according to Rolling Stone mag azine, and if that doesn’t tell you what Dallas Frasca are about, then God knows what will.

Frontwoman Dallas Frasca, who is the award-winning Australian rock outfit’s namesake, encapsulates ev erything rock ‘n’ roll: power, rawness, energy.

She oozes with the essence of it, and now, she’s heading to the Airlie Beach Festival of Music for its tenth-year cel ebrations.

“It’s been on our bucket list for years to perform at the festival. It’s a mix of some of the best heritage bands of our country and the local upcoming bands,” Dallas said.

“It’s such a great chance for punters to discover new acts; we’re certainly looking forward to it.”

Dallas said the last three years had been spent on revitalising the band with a brand-new line-up – and “it’s a turbocharged version of what we used to be”.

“Your girls upgraded her guitar skills

and the musicians I’m playing with are incredible. That old rule of playing with people who are better than you, in terms of guitar, rings true – I’ve im proved so much. I’m confident in my voice, but your girl is on lead guitar now,” Dallas said.

“I recently bought an SG Classic Gib son, which is calling my name even now. It’s going to be interesting! When you get a new toy it’s full of inspiration and as you get better on an instrument you want to try more and dig a little deeper and surprise.”

And that’s what this show is all about for the rockstar: surprises.

“There’ll be a few sneaky new songs in the set list. Some new things like doing a bunch of live vocal looping as we go through the set. It’s this rock and roll band, female vocal guitar mixed with this synth lord music that comes from our new band members,” she said.

“It’s going to be parts of that new al bum, parts of that old repertoire, and parts of magic. We cannot wait to be heading up that way, especially to get out of this Melbourne weather!”

Dallas Frasca is playing at Magnums Airlie Beach at 3pm this Saturday.

Moment With A Muso: Favourite band?

It changes daily! This morning I was listening to Dame Joan Sutherland, then I’m just about to listen to ZZ Top lists.

Least favourite?

I’m always interested in bands doing something different and interesting. Last song you listened to?

PRESENTS

12:00pm Matty Rogers Band

JezZzie B

Ben Ransom

Loonaloop

10:30am The Hipshooters

Swamp Stompers

Perry Street Park

P2A)

Dallas Frasca

Kaedan McCarthy

10:00am Owls of Neptune

Coast P2A)

11:00am Allison Forbes

Lily and King

Ben Ransom

FRIDAY 4th NOV to

2022

Bellinian Archeous Phrase Live Dame Joan Sutherland

Dallas Frasca, the Australian rock queen, is playing at Magnums Airlie Beach for the Festival of Music

Andrew Cousins’ Unique Acoustic Folk

Performing

at the Airlie Beach Festi val of Music for the fourth time, An drew Cousins is bringing a new ad dition with him this year – his young baby!

Uniting a music tour with a family trip, Andy will be accompanied by his wife and child, a proud moment for the man who loves telling stories about growing up, family and love through the lyrics of his music.

Having won the Airlie Beach Festival of Music Song Writing Competition with his song Islands of Love, Andy says he is look ing forward to returning to a festival that has always supported him.

Andy now works as a renderer due to an injury that has prevented him from con tinuing to play music full time.

Travelling up the coast from Port Mac

quarie, he is looking forward to dropping the tools and picking up the guitar for a Party in Paradise and says he is excited to be part of the 10th annual event.

“Airlie Beach is such a family friendly place,” he said.

“Everyone goes there not to have problems but to have a good time.”

Andy first started playing music as a teen ager because he found it to be a relaxing tool that allowed him to unwind.

Music was an outlet in which he could ex press emotions and transform a stranger to a friend.

Spending many years busking around the country and performing gigs, he has an in credible gift.

You can catch Andy playing at Sorrento’s on Saturday at 3pm.

Powerhouse

rockers, Salt and Steel will be carving up the stage at the Anchor Bar this weekend with their edgy, heavy, esoteric sounds that have the crowds begging for more. Known for their high energy per formance and crowd interaction, this two-piece act has a full-band sound which generates fun at ev ery show.

With solid drums, driving gui tar riffs and intoxicatingly, fierce vocals, these talented musicians fuse heavy rock with the earthy and grounded sounds of tribal, blues and roots music.

Elle and Briony, the dynamic duo who make up Salt and Steel first started playing music together when they were travelling around New Zealand in 2015.

When their van broke down, they decided to give busking a go, and soon discovered a musical magic.

When they returned to Australia, they performed at an open mic night which led to their first gig and they soon became full-time musicians playing in an industry they loved.

During their career, Salt and Steel have performed alongside big names such as Wolfmother, The Superjesus, You Am

Since COVID, however, the Bris bane-based pair have had to seek alterna tive employment.

They now spend their weeks playing music for people living with a disability, which they say has been a close second to per forming live full-time.

This is the fourth time Salt and Steel have played at the Airlie Beach Festival of Mu sic and they will be releasing a new single at the beginning of next year, with an al bum to soon follow.

Moment With A Muso:

artists of all time: Pat Stevens

Least Favourite:

age pop because it has no feeling

song you listened to:

Andrew Cousins plays acoustic folk

I, Ash Grunwald, Phil Jamieson (Grin spoon) and The Beautiful Girls.

Elle and Briony from Salt and Steel

GIG GUIDE

Friday 4th Nov

• The Pub: Gee’d Up (2-5.30pm)

• The Pub: Lisa Hunt: Forever Soul (710pm)

• Grandview Hotel, Bowen: Shannan Fitzgerald (from 7pm)

• KC’s: ABFoM live music (10am-late)

Saturday 5th Nov

• The Pub: Blues Brothers Revue (2-5.30pm)

• The Pub: Lisa Hunt: Forever Soul (710pm)

• KC’s: ABFoM live music (10am-late)

Sunday 6th Nov

• The Pub: Jeff Duff & the Great Southern Band (2-5.30pm)

• Horseshoe Bay Café: Sunday Live Music (2-6pm)

• Grandview Hotel, Bowen: Chill Out Tunes (from 7pm)

• KC’s: ABFoM live music (10am-late)

Monday 7th Nov

• KC’s: Blake Evans (8pm-late)

Tuesday 8th Nov

• KC’s: Blake Evans (8pm-late)

Wednesday 9th Nov

• The Pub: Acoustic Sessions, Blake Evans (6.30 - 9.30pm)

• KC’s: Alex Kosenko (8pm-late)

Thursday 10th Nov

• The Pub: Acoustic Sessions, Blake Evans (7-10pm)

• Grandview Hotel, Bowen: Jackson Dunn (from 7pm)

• KC’s: Alex Kosenko (8pm-late)

See How They Run

We are living in a world where almost every piece of popular culture is intellectual property adjacent.

Let me explain: Movies and television, for example, are being filmed, shot, and pro duced that don’t just wear their influenc es on their sleeves, but have them broadly tattooed on their foreheads. I’ll give you the most salient example: Netflix’s Stranger Things series, something so close to Ste phen King without being Stephen King that you can almost taste it. We are in an era of remakes, adaptations, and reboots. The idea that there is nothing new under the sun is being taken to the nth degree.

But is it such a bad thing that Hollywood is tickling that little bit of your brain that likes to say: “Hey, I know this. I’ve been here before.” That tasty bit of nostalgia that we all eat up - nom, nom, nom. Is it disin genuous or manipulative?

I haven’t made up my mind yet, but in the case of director Tom George’s ‘See How They Run’, influenced extensively by famed mystery author Agatha Christie –the most-celebrated writer of whodunnit novels ever (essentially creating the genre), from Murder on the Orient Express to Death on the Nile – it’s not a bad thing.

George and screenplay writer Mark Chap pell have certainly dipped into the Christie soup for their film – centering their story of “murder most foul” around Christie’s own play, The Mousetrap, for good measurebut they’ve also dipped into another, more contemporary broth: Wes Anderson’s (di rector of the recent The French Dispatch, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and more).

Mark and George have mixed the two vi sionaries together. Anderson’s auteur style of directing and Christie’s exceptional abil ity to weave a mystery together with largerthan-life characters and intrigue but mak ing it silly.

Here, we find ourselves in the 1950s Lon don, where plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play are halted after a pivot

al member of the crew (Adrien Brody) is murdered. World-weary Inspector Stop pard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) take on the case, finding themselves thrown into a cast of characters who could all have com mitted the crime.

The film doesn’t pose as high art, and you’ll recognise things within it as references and nods (and even real people), and that’s where the fun is – the performers are like ably silly, relentlessly camp, and the come dy lands almost every time.

See How They Run (M) is showing from next week at the Bowen Summergarden cinema.

Movie Review by Declan Durrant

“BLACK

West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. Stars: Kieran Hodgson, Pearl Chanda, Gregory Cox

“ELVIS” (M) 159mins Music/Drama

From his childhood in Tupelo, Mississippi to his rise to stardom starting in Memphis, Tennessee and his conquering of Las Vegas, Nevada, Elvis Presley becomes the first rock ‘n roll star and changes the world with his music. Stars: Tom Hanks, Austin Butler, Olivia DeJonge

“TOP GUN: MAVERICK” (M) 120mins Action/Drama

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Stars: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller

Sat 5th

6th

10.00am 6.45pm

1.00pm 6.45pm 1.00pm

10.00am 3.35pm

Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan in See How They run

“Ooh-ooh-hoo, no, Baby, please don’t go”: The words lingering on the lips of locals once Australian pop royal, Jeff Duff, fin ishes his set at The Pub this weekend.

The famed musician, who was compared with “Sinatra, Presley, Jagger, Popeye” by Andy Warhol, will be the curtain closer for the Airlie Beach Hotel’s Live Music Weekender – a chock-full music extravaganza with four bands playing across four days.

‘Duffo’ – “One of the greatest entertainers Australia has produced,” says Molly Meldrum – has returned home with his ‘Spinning Wheel’ tour after decades of success across the globe as a solo artist and a tribute show. He’ll play the songs of two of the greatest bands on the planet in one unforgettable show this weekend at locals’ favourite local.

Rock audiences from all over the world have been blown away by the sheer power of both horn-driven bands for decades, and now ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’ and ‘Chicago’ are ar riving in the coastal town courtesy of Jeff Duff and his troupe of world-class musicians. If you know rock, you’ll know Blood, Sweat & Tears, whose songs range from favourites like ‘Spinning Wheel’, to ‘You Made Me So Very Happy’, ‘When I Die’, ‘Hi De Ho’, ‘More and More’ and more, more, more.

And Chicago, with their progressive fusion of rock and blues, have a songbook filled with hits: ‘If You Leave Me Now’, ‘Make Me Smile’, ‘Saturday In The Park’, ‘25 or 6 To 4’, ‘Does Anybody Know What Time It Is’, and ‘Begin

nings’.

A legend in his own right, Duffo will take on a vocal challenge that spans the decades and alongside the hottest musicians in Australia as his backing-band.

With 27 albums under his belt, including a recent album with members of legendary British rock band Deep Purple, Duffo will perform from his extensive repertoire, in cluding from the back catalogue of his illus trious career as the front man of ‘Kush’ and his time singing out the best of David Bowie.

It’s set to be a truly unforgettable Sunday af ternoon, featuring some of the most incred ible rock music played by Australia’s finest. And to end the afternoon is a special guest performance by The Official Blues Brothers Revue, endorsed by Judith Belushi and Dan Akroyd. You can’t get any closer to the real deal than that.

Jeff Duff will perform his Spinning Wheel show as part of the Airlie Beach Hotel’s Live Music Weekender on Sunday, November 6 from 2pm - 5.30pm. Completely, and entirely free – make sure you’ve booked your table for this epic show.

WHAT: The Music of Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago in Spinning Wheel featuring Jeff Duff

WHEN: 2pm to 5.30pm on Sunday, Novem ber 6

WHERE: Airlie Beach Hotel

“One of the greatest entertainers Australia has produced” is coming to the Airlie Beach Hotel this weekend

Jeff Duff will perform the songs of Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago in a free show at The Pub The renowned performer will bring his own voice to the music of some of the greatest bands of all time, as well as his own repertoire

Colour Run, Colour Fun

BowenState School commem orated their student’s excel lent fundraising efforts over the month of October with a colour run last Friday.

Students raised over $6,600 dollars towards the construction of a cricket pitch at the local school.

The event is part of an Australian fundraising body known as ‘The School Fun Run’, which contributes part of the funds raised to the locally relevant Parent and Citizens (P&C) associations.

The Fun Run allows students to gain rewards by raising more money for their cause, including items from as small as a golden handball all the way to a GoPro HERO9 video cam era.

Administration officer at Bowen State School Olivia Gordon said the goal was initially $5,000, which would act as part contribution to wards the total cost of the project at $30,000.

“We’re hoping a little bit here and there, as well as some in-kind do nations from businesses will let us achieve that goal,” Ms Gordon said.

“The Fun Run is annual and has helped us raise money for chilled water bubblers and marquees with our school emblems in previous years. It’s also something to look for ward to for the kids each year.

Ms Gordon said there were varia tions to choose from in the Fun Run format, but Colour Runs were al ways the most popular choice for the local school.

“The kids really enjoy it and when we announce it, they’re so excited every time,” she said.

“It’s also a way for us to reinforce our positive behaviour for learning and four key values: being responsi ble, respectful, safe, and a learner. If you’re doing those things through out the year, you’ll be rewarded with being able to attend the colour run. It’s also a great way to end a Friday!”

Images: Declan Durrant

Students at Bowen State School enjoyed a vibrant end to their Friday lessons with a school-wide colour fun run

Hosted by Bowen Neighbourhood Centre and Bowen PCYC

A Very Merry Airlie Beach Darts

With the Pre mier League not too far back in the rear view mirror, the 2022 Xmas Open for Airlie Beach Darts club got under way at Mika on Sunday morning with groups A and B.

Group A featured the runner up of this year’s Premier League: Jamie Maher. Joining him was Jayden Lloyd, Lorraine Woods, and Adrian Wickham.

Jamie advances to the quarterfinals after top ping group A unbeaten, with both Jayden and Lorraine going through to the qualifiers after finishing in second and third place, respectively.

Group B had a Premier League champion in the group: Andy Peel. He was joined by the father

son combo of Dick and Nathan O’Hara, as well as Seumas Rose.

Seumas topped the group unbeaten on nine points, with the remaining three players all finishing level on three apiece.

Nathan was the unlucky player to miss out on ad vancing to the next stage of the comp with Andy claiming second and Dick claiming third place in group B, courtesy of better leg difference.

Both Jamie and Seumas hit 180s during their vic tories on Sunday.

Thank you to Master Butchers Whitsunday for donating a meat tray for us to raffle off. And thank you to our sponsor Dyson Automotive, your support is greatly appre ciated.

Contributed with thanks to Jamie Maher

Cannonvale Cannons at Charters Towers

in her age group.

Unfortunately,

the Cannonvale Cannons’ Club Night was cancelled on Wednesday last week due to stormy weather but were back in the pool this week.

Over the weekend, Indigo, Ruby, and Koa Harland travelled to Charters Towers to compete at the Charters Towers Swimming Carnival, with the girls very excited to catch up with their brothers Tate and Mason, and sister, Ella.

Indigo, “Indi” Harland aged six, swam very well in her 25-metre Backstroke and Freestyle races. Her best swim was her Backstroke in a time of 48.01 (a 1.21 second personal best).

Koa Harland, aged eight years had a very successful carnival. She swam three personal bests and came second place in her 50-metre Breaststroke in a time of 1.05.18. She swam a super 50-metre Butterfly in 1.11.98, a 1.83 second personal best and was fourth

Ruby Harland, aged 10, swam in four events, coming first in her 100-metre Backstroke and second in her 100-metre Freestyle.

Mason and Tate Harland swim for Charters Towers Swimming Club, with Mason, aged 12, swam extremely well in all his Backstroke races. Tate, aged 14, swam a fantastic 200-metre Breaststroke in a time of 3.50.74 which was a 21.34 second personal best.

The Cannons would like to thank all the wonderful families who assisted with the Bunnings barbecue fundraiser on Saturday.

Swimmers continue to train for upcoming carnivals: Gardens (Townsville), Whitsunday (Proserpine), and Bowen. Some Cannons have also

Proserpine Pitbulls Cricket Report

After a bye last week, the Proserpine Pitbulls’ Under 11 side hosted their first ever home game against the Sarina Spartans.

Captain Laura’s bat flip went to the Spar tans, and the Pitbull pups were sent in to bat.

Bradley (4) and Sean (3) led the way with some great shots, unfortunately picking out the fielders before Aiden (9) followed up with some quick running between the wickets.

Aiden’s brother Jaxson (9) came in and they kept the scoreboard ticking over nice ly. Laura (7) was hitting the ball as clean as can be and teamed up well with Ellen (5), who played some excellent shots.

Tyrone (5) came out swinging and Zahra (5) was excellent with her calling and run ning between the wickets. Kobi (5) came in last to face the remaining deliveries and played a couple of great pull shots, with 8/72 the scenario at the end of the first in nings.

A quick slushy break and the pups were back out to defend their to tal.

Bradley (1/8 off 3) was very accurate and got a spectacular direct hit for a runout. Sean 0/12 off 1) found the middle of the batter’s bat, and decided to give wicket keeping a go, to which he did some great stops and got a caught be hind.

Aiden (1/12 off 2) got a beauty on line to take out middle stump. Jaxson (0/9 off 2) came close a couple of times, but missed out on a wicket. Zahra (0/8 off 2) bowled excellently. Laura (2/6 off 3) bamboozled the batters with her 2 step run up taking out the stumps twice. Kobi (1/8 off 3) was accurate, with some

Despite having an excellent bowling and fielding effort the Pitbull pups were unable to restrict the Spartans ending up with

nominated for the Hamilton Island Ocean Swim.

Contributed with thanks to Raylene Rasmussen

SWIMMING Ben and Nelson Malady

Celeste and Don helping at the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle

Ruby, Indi and Koa Harland at Charters Towers

DARTS Jamie Maher in action in the Xmas Open at Mika Airlie Beach

great change of pace. Ellen (1/8 off 2) bowled an unplayable delivery! Tyrone (2/6 off 2) bowled a couple of beauties to take out the stumps.

11/77 pipping the Proserpine side by five runs, with the team closing in on their first ever wind.

Player of the day went to Captain Laura. Contributed with thanks to Michael Hope

Proserpine’s junior cricketers played in an exceptionally close match against the Sarina Spartans on the weekend

Airlie Beach Bowls

BOWLS

Proserpine Bowls Club

BOWLS

Airlie

Beach Bowls Club players did their club, the district, and zone seven proud at the State Champi on of Club Champions at South Suburban in Mackay.

The pair of Betty Nicole and Carol Crosbie played outstanding bowls during the sec tional rounds and were undefeated in their three games, beating Kawana Bowls Club 18-8, Suburban Townsville 19-16, and Boonooroo Bowls Club 20-16 to progress to the State Final.

They came up against the pair of 419 Aus tralian-capped veteran Lynsey Clarke and Claire Turley, who has 66 caps for the country.

Betty and Carol started nervously, tied at seven all against their more fancied op ponents throughout the early ends of the game.

Lynsey and Claire found their form and pushed ahead to a comfortable lead until Betty and Carol staged a late comeback but unfortunately ran out of ends and went down 27-20 in front of a very large crowd, becoming the states silver medallist’s.

Carol, who is undergoing intensive Che motherapy, was drained substantially during the game, but, lived by our club’s motto: “Never Give Up, Never Give In, and Never Say Die.”

Also competing were our Mens Pairs whom finished 4th overall, missing out on the finals by one point only.

Armando Isgro also was selected as skip

per for North Queensland versus South Queensland in Townsville played on the weekend.

Tuesday and Wednesday bowls and Busi ness House Bowls were cancelled this week due to inclement weather.

Saturday morning Scroungers saw first round winners Merve Stewart, Maureen Barnard, Rick Galea, Gary Kiff, and Mark Mawson play off.

The final was played between Maureen Barnard and Mark Mawson, who over came his tenacious opponent for the vic tory.

John Brown was the Group B winner of the day beating a star-studded field.

Sunday afternoon Social bowls had Tony Whitehorn with Mario De Martini at lead, Lu Rogan at second, and Rex Muller beat John Trembath’s team in a nail-biter.

Contributed with thanks to Mark Mawson

Wangaratta Bowls

BOWLS

There were only a few players on Tuesday afternoon, however it did not lessen the quality of the bowls, with the winner’s circle comprised of Bron Tolcher, Irene Laird, and Penny Warren.

Their reward: a bottle of Mark Drum mond’s homemade Tomato relish.

On Sunday, although a warm afternoon, bowlers still came out to play in the much-needed shade, with winners for the afternoon Bill Myers, Penny Warren, and Pat Tracey, defeating Deb Beel, Sue Shear ing, Linda Scells, and Sugar Brunker.

Other winners were Irene Laird, Isobel

Wheeler, and Kennedy Whitton who de feated Bron Tolcher, Graeme Read, and Geoff Danvers. Robyn Stitt, Marg Wilson, and Allan Rolfe also won, defeating Mark Drummond, Greg Colquhoun, and Barry Beel.

Competition games results: The final of the B Grade singles was played this week with congratulations to Laurie Land in her win, defeating Kevin Baxter.

Competition is almost finished for the year, with the final of the Mixed Pairs be tween Lyn and Geoff Danvers, and Penny Warren and Allan Rolfe to be played at 9am on Thursday, November 10.

It is almost time again for the club’s AGM which will be on Sun day, November 27.

All positions will be declared vacant, with nomination forms avail able for positions on the board. High Tea and presentation of trophies will be on the same day. Attendees for the lunch, please put your name on the board for catering purposes.

Contributed with thanks to Penny Warren

OnWednesday, there were no So cial Bowls played at Proserpine Bowls Club when a thunderstorm cruised over Airlie Beach.

The weekend’s Mackay District Champi on of Champion 2 Bowl Triples still went ahead, however, with the first match on Saturday morning seeing Wests Tigers de feat Souths Suburban.

Following on, Northern Beaches defeat ed RSL, Airlie Beach defeated Seaforth, Mackay defeated North Mackay, and in the afternoon, Proserpine defeated Sarina.

Through all games you could see the qual ity of shot delivery and decision making with so many of them being edge of your seat matches.

Sunday morning were the two Semi Finals, one where Proserpine defeated Northern Beaches and Marian defeated Mackay.

The Final between Proserpine and Marian started off being neck and neck with nei ther team getting to control the action. It

is at this halfway point that things started to shift with Proserpine taking the upper hand.

Congratulations to Shane Kinnear (sub bing for Nathan Dodds), Scott Hamil ton, and Wayne Handley for taking out the MMDBA Champion of Champions 2 Bowl Triples for 2022.

Acknowledgment must be made those who worked behind the scene in green preparation, providing of lunches, serving behind the bar, doing the welcomes and green introductions and umpiring.

Spectators support was exceptional, and thanks must also be extended to Vince McSherry from Mackay Men’s District Bowls Association who drove up on Sun day with the Livestreaming equipment.

On Sunday afternoon the club had six for social bowls, with Sandy Daffara, Warren Wilson, and Peter Lawton defeating John Anderson, Bruce Uhe, and Mike Harrison, 23-16.

Proserpine Golf Report

GOLF

Rainaffected numbers this week at Proserpine Golf Club, but all comps were completed even though some competitors pulled out because of the rain.

The men’s winner of Saturday’s MBW sta bleford was Aaron Watts, on a count back from Brett Norris on 39. They were fol lowed by Ross McNeill on 38.

The ladies’ winner was Heather Luvis on a count back from Ann Gardel and Tiina Randmae all on 32 points.

The men’s run down went to 15th place, while the ladies place getters were Diane Chard, 30, Elspeth Scotford, Peta Thomas and Rehab Hull on 29.

The pin shots went to Andrew Mau, Luch ie Gardel, Levi Holmes, Trish McNeill and Penny Wardroper.

Only forty ventured out on Thursday, with Michael Leo winning the shirt with 41 points from Andrew Albergo 38, in divi sion one. Division two winner was Fraser Simpson 47 points, from Vic Feldman on 37.

The place getters were Steve Kelly 38, Chris Brett, Peter Fox, Elliot Woo and Aar on Watts 37, and Michael Cragg bring up the rear on 35. Allen Roberts and Aaron Watts on 13 and 16 took out the pin shots.

Tuesday’s stableford winner was Karl Kirkwood, from Michael Cragg and John Grosskreutz.

On Wednesday the ladies played a fourball multiplier. The winners were Brenda Cowan and Jenny Hounsell with 71 points. They were followed by Pam Casey and Di anne Chard, 69 and Lyn Muller and Rehab Hull with 61.

The pin shots went to Pam Casey, Brenda Cowan, Elspeth Scotford and Paula Mc Quat.

Sunday’s stroke winners were Nathan So thmann, 69 on a count back from Brian Allen, and Jason Whitney 70 in third place for the men.

The ladies’ winners were Jacqui Wall, 68, from Penny Wardroper and Peta Thomas both on 70 nett.

Contributed with thanks to Peter Lewis

Airlie Beach Bowls Club members Carol Crosbie and Betty Nicole claimed silver at this year’s Queensland state finals

Contributed with thanks to Heather Brown

Champion of Champion Two Bowl Triples winners Proserpine with MMDBA Match Chair: Wayne Handley, Scott Hamilton, Vince McSherry, and Shane Kinnear

The Sunday winners at Wangaratta Bowls Club, alongside club President Mark Drummond: Bill Myers, Penny Warren, and Pat Tracey

Bowen Golf News

Whitsunday Social Golf

gross Anna Winterbourn.

GOLF

second round of Club Champi onships at Whitsunday Social Golf combined with a stroke event on Monday, attended by 27 members.

The

The winners were Men’s A grade Jason Bourke, with runner up Darren Reynolds, best gross Geoff Harrison.

Men’s B grade winner Scott Wardroper and runner up Gerald Lovell.

Ladies with best gross to Ron Jamieson, Ladies A grade was claimed by Jacqueline Wall runner up Penny Wardroper, best

Ladies’ B Elise Hodgsen, runner up Karen Rix, best gross Jo Moynihan.

Pin shots were claimed by Penny Wardrop er, Linda Wardroper, Scott Wardroper, Ti ina Randmae, Aaron Watts, and George Meharry.

Congratulations to all winners, Club Champion will be announced at the end of year presentation. Nest Sunday will be the November Monthly Medal.

Contributed with thanks to Joanne Moyni han

Wednesday’s

competition at Bowen Golf Club was a single stableford for the men and single Bogie for the ladies sponsored by the club.

Ladies’ winner was Claire Garrod, plus 1, runner up Janice Bates, 0, while Men’s winner was Perry Layton, 41 points, with runner up on a countback Mark Tilbrook. Saturday’s competition was a single sta bleford sponsored by Bowen Home Hard ware, with thanks to the local business for their continued support, which has been a constant for the past 25 years.

Men’s Winner was Brian Martin, 39 points, runner up Brenden Wells, 38, with pin shots to Akeam Power, Daryl O’Connell, James Miller, and Rod Wells.

Ladies’ Winner Meg Garrod, 35 points,

Julie May sunk a hole in one during Saturday’s competition

and runner up Janice Bates, 34. Pin Shots to Julie May - who had her first official Hole in One - Janice Bates, Elona Lynch, and Julie Mawson.

Janice Bates also won the Car Wash Voucher.

This weekend’s competition at Bowen Golf Club is a single stroke event for the November Monthly Medals sponsored by Bowen Meat Supply and the club. Don’t forget to check the club’s Facebook page for this week’s dinner menu.

Contributed with thanks to Grace Nott

Proserpine Veterans Golf

GOLF

On The Whitsunday Green

GOLF

Thewinner of Fridays 9-hole stable ford competition this week at Whit sunday Green Golf Club was Neil Boland with 19 points.

Second and third place was a countback decider with James ‘Jimmy’ Millar taking second and Mark Winter third, both with 17 points.

Sunday was the Monthly Medal and again Jimmy Millar was in form to take the win with a great 50 nett.

Second was Marc Belke with 52 nett and Tyson Flavel in third. Tyson was also best off the stick on the day with 58 strokes.

Nearest the Pins were won by Wayne Sin gleton and Rod Lodders. This Sunday will be a ‘play anytime’ 18-hole stableford.

Another

great day of golf yesterday at Proserpine Veteran’s Golf with 30 players braving the hot and windy conditions.

It was a stroke event and the la dies’ winner, on count back, with a fantastic score of 68 was Elspeth Scotford. Second, also on 68, was Helen Deighton.

The men’s winner with a fantastic

67 was Phil Luckett followed by John Strelec (72 on countback). Nearest the pin winners for the ladies’ were Lyn Muller (9th), Kathryn Borer (9th and 13th), Heather Luvis (13th), Elspeth Scotford (18th), and Jacqui Wall (18th).

The men’s nearest the pin winners were Neil Cawthorne (9th), Wilf Herweg (13th), John Roser (18th) and Steve Mitchell (18th). There

were four chip-ins: John Strelec, Neil, Heather, and Lyn.

Next week will be a big day, start ing at 8:30am is the club’s Month ly Medal with all welcome. There will be an afternoon lunch and sweeps ($2 and $5), and players in the Club’s normal Tuesday Comp are welcome to join us for the $10 lunch.

Contributed with thanks to Paula McQuat

The Home Hardware Single Stableford ladies’ second place getter, Janice Bates, alongside men’s winner Brian Martin and sponsor John McEniery from Home Hardware

GOLF

Stroke event winners for women’s and men’s Elspeth Scotford and Phill Luckett

Contributed with thanks to Kate Cross

James ‘Jimmy’ Millar enjoying a day out at Whitsunday Green Golf Club

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10.25 Annika. (M)

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8.30 CSI: Vegas. (M) A dead woman is found in an abandoned car. 9.30 NCIS. (M) 10.30 To Be Advised. 12.30 Home Shopping. 3.30 Infomercials. (PG) 4.00 Shopping. 4.30 Authentic. (PG) 5.00 Hour Of Power.

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10.10 Suburban Gangsters. (MA15+) 11.10 Nine News Late. 11.40 The Equalizer. (M) 12.30 Emergence. (M) 1.30 TV Shop. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop. 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. (PG) 4.30 ACA. 5.00 News. 5.30 Today.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 My Mum, Your Dad. (M) 1.50 Talking Honey. (PG) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Hot Seat. 5.30 News. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 My Mum, Your Dad. (M) 9.10 Travel Guides. (PG) 10.10 Botched. (M) 11.10 Nine News Late. 11.40 Skin A&E. (M) 12.40 Tipping Point. (PG) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. (PG) 4.30 ACA. 5.00 News. 5.30 Today.

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6.30 The Sunday Project. 7.30 The Traitors. (PG) 9.10 NCIS: Hawai’i. (M) 10.10 FBI. (M) 11.00 The Sunday Project. 12.00 Shopping. 4.30 CBS Morning. 6.00 News. 9.00 News. 10.00 Landline. 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. 12.00 News. 1.00 Rosehaven. 1.30 Poh’s Kitchen Lends A Hand. 2.00 Parliament. 3.00 Gardening Aust. 4.10 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 5.00 Back Roads. 5.30 Hard Quiz. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Aust Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.20 Media Watch. (PG) 9.35 Planet America. 10.05 Parkinson In Australia. 10.55 News. 11.10 The Business. 11.25 Q+A. 12.30 The Pacific. 1.20 Annika. 2.05 There Goes Our Neighbourhood. 3.05 Rage. 4.25 The Drum. 5.25 7.30.

10.10 Peter Helliar: Loopy. (MA15+) 11.25 The Project. 12.25 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Shopping. 4.30 CBS Morning.

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11.30 The Project. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Shopping. 4.30 CBS Morning.

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6.00 Morning Programs. 10.30 That Pacific Sports Show. 11.00 All Creatures Great And Small. 12.00 News. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 Question Everything. 2.00 Parliament. 3.00 Gardening Aust. 4.10 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 5.00 Back Roads. 5.30 Hard Quiz. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 You Can’t Ask That. 8.30 Q+A. 9.35 One Plus One. 10.05 Stuff The British Stole. 10.35 News. 10.50 The Business. 11.05 Magda’s Big National Health Check. 12.05 Barrenjoey Road. 1.05 Parkinson In Australia. 2.05 Rage. 4.25 The Drum. 5.25 7.30.

6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Apocalypse: The Second World War. 3.00 Journey Through Albania. 3.35 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. 3.40 The Cook Up. 4.10 Empire With Michael Portillo. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.35 Charles: The New King. 8.30 Stolen: Catching The Art Thieves. 9.35 Nine Perfect Strangers. 10.25 SBS News. 10.55 No Man’s Land. 11.55 Bad Banks. 12.55 Romulus. 3.55 French Food Safari. 4.55 Destination Flavour Bitesize. 5.00 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Apocalypse: The Second World War. 3.00 Journey Through Albania. 3.30 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. 3.35 The Cook Up. 4.10 Empire With Michael Portillo. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.30 Dishing It Up. 8.00 Guillaume’s Paris. 8.30 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. 9.30 The Handmaid’s Tale. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 Gomorrah. 11.50 The Eagle. 4.15 French Food Safari. 4.45 Destination Flavour Bitesize. 4.55 Late Programs.

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 News. 12.00 MOVIE: His Perfect Obsession. (2018) 2.00 Police: Hour Of Duty. (M) 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 News. 5.00 The Chase Aust. 6.00 Seven Local News. 6.30 Seven News. 7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Hey Hey We’re 50. (PG) 9.15 Air Crash Investigation: North Sea Nightmare. (PG) 10.15 The Latest: Seven News. 10.45 The Amazing Race. (PG) 11.45 To Be Advised. 12.15 Mean Mums. (PG) 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 News. 12.00 MOVIE: Body Heat. (1981) (M) 2.30 Business Builders. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 News. 5.00 The Chase Aust. 6.00 Seven Local News. 6.30 Seven News. 7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Home And Away. 8.30 Kath & Kim. (PG) Brett plans a romantic trip away. 10.50 The Latest: Seven News. 11.20 Autopsy USA. (M) 12.20 World’s Deadliest. (M) 1.20 Travel Oz. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 My Mum, Your Dad. 1.50 Talking Honey. (PG) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Hot Seat. 5.30 News. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 Cricket. ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Semi-final.

9.00 To Be Advised.

10.00 Nine News Late. 10.30 To Be Advised. 11.30 Family Law. (M) 12.30 Tipping Point. (PG) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop. 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. (PG) 4.30 Skippy. 5.00 News. 5.30 Today.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Sinister Savior. (2020) 1.50 Talking Honey. 2.00 Pointless. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Hot Seat. 5.30 News. 6.00 News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 RBT. (M) 8.30 Paramedics. (M) 9.30 A+E After Dark. (M) 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 The First 48. (M) 11.50 Pure Genius. (M) 12.40 Tipping Point. (PG) 1.30 TV Shop. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop. 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. (PG) 4.30 ACA. 5.00 News. 5.30 Today.

6.00 The Talk. 7.00 Judge Judy. 7.30 Bold. 8.00 10 News First: Breakfast. 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00

The Real Love Boat Australia. (PG) 2.00 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 GCBC. 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 Bold. 5.00 News. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Dog House Australia. (PG) 8.30 The Real Love Boat Australia. Hosted by Darren McMullen. 10.00 My Life Is Murder. (M) 11.00 The Project. 12.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS Morning.

6.00 The Talk. 7.00 Judge Judy. 7.30 Bold. 8.00 10 News First: Breakfast. 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Real Love Boat Australia. 2.30 Ent. Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 Bold. 5.00 News. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Ambulance Australia. (M) 8.30 The Real Love Boat Australia. Hosted by Darren McMullen. 9.30 To Be Advised. 11.30 The Project. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS Morning.

7.30pm Spicks And Specks. (R)

8.00 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

8.30 Movie: A League Of Their Own. (1992) (PG, R) Tom Hanks.

10.35 Doctor Who. (PG, R)

11.20 QI. (PG, R)

11.50 Red Dwarf. (PG, R)

12.20am Motherland. (M, R)

12.50 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. (R) 1.40 Close.

7.30pm Spicks And Specks. (R)

8.00 QI. (M, R)

8.30 Anne Edmonds: What’s Wrong With You? (MA15+)

9.40 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG, R)

10.05 Mock The Week. (R)

10.35 Ghosts. (PG, R)

11.05 Doctor Who. (PG, R)

11.55 Friday Night Dinner. (M, R)

7.30pm Australia Remastered. (R)

8.30 Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America. (M, R)

9.30 Magda’s Big National Health Check. (M, R)

10.30 Days Like These With Diesel. (R)

11.25 Movie: A League Of Their Own. (1992) (PG, R)

7.30pm The Poles Revealed. (PG, R)

8.30 Long Lost Family. (PG, R)

9.15 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. (R)

10.05 Inside The Sydney Opera House. (R)

11.05 Catalyst. (R)

12.05am Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road. (M, R)

12.50 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. (PG, R)

5.30pm Escape To The Country. (R)

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Border Security: International. (PG, R)

8.30 Escape To The Country.

11.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R)

12.30 Escape To The Country. (R)

6.00pm To Be Advised.

8.00 Movie: U.S. Marshals. (1998) (M, R)

Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes. 10.40 Movie: Machete Kills. (2013) (MA15+, R)

Danny Trejo.

12.55 American Pickers. (PG, R) 1.55 Pawn Stars. (PG, R)

6.00pm Cricket. ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Super 12. Australia v Afghanistan. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R)

7.30 Antiques Downunder. 8.00 Antiques Roadshow Detectives.

8.40 Movie: The Firm. (1993) (M, R) 11.50 House. (M, R)

5.30pm MacGyver. (PG, R) 6.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 7.30 NCIS. (M, R) 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. (M, R) 10.20 Evil. (M, R)

11.15 Star Trek: Discovery. (PG, R)

12.15 Home Shopping. (R)

6.00pm Friends. (PG, R) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R) 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R) 9.30 Mom. (M, R) 11.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R)

12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, R)

5.45pm The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. (R) 6.15 Forged In Fire. (PG) 7.05 Jeopardy! (R) 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. (M, R) 8.30 Hoarders. (MA15+) 9.25 Atlanta. (MA15+) 9.55 The Big Sex Talk. (MA15+)

10.25 Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story. (MA15+, R)

5.30pm Mighty Ships: Marina. (PG, R)

6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. (PG, R)

8.30 Escape To The Country. (R)

10.30 I Escaped To The Country.

11.30 The Yorkshire Vet. (PG, R)

1.30 Escape To The Country. (R)

6.00pm To Be Advised. 8.00 Movie: The Patriot. (2000) (M, R) Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger.

11.15 Movie: The Departed. (2006) (MA15+, R)

4.30pm Movie: Sayonara. (1957) (PG, R)

7.30 Movie: Play Dirty. (1969) (M, R) Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport.

9.55 Movie: Convoy. (1978) (M, R) Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw.

12.15 My Favorite Martian. (R)

12.45 Explore. (R)

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R)

6.00pm Soccer. A-League Men. Matchweek 5. Western Sydney Wanderers v Central Coast Mariners. 9.00 Scorpion. (PG, R) 10.00 MacGyver. (M, R) 11.00 48 Hours. (M, R) 12.00 Tommy. (M, R) 1.00 Evil. (M, R) 2.00 Star Trek: Discovery. (PG, R)

6.00pm The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R) 6.25 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R) 10.15 Friends. (PG, R) 12.15 Home Shopping. (R) 1.15 Infomercials. (PG, R)

1.45 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R)

5.30pm Vs Arashi. (R) 6.25 Speed With Guy Martin. (PG, R)

7.30 Impossible Engineering. (PG)

8.30 The Good Fight. (M)

9.25 The Handmaid’s Tale. (MA15+, R)

10.25 Inconceivable: The Secret Business Of Breeding Humans. (M, R)

11.30 Vikings Special: The Saga Of Floki. (MA15+, R)

6.00pm Air Crash

Investigation: Special Report. (PG, R)

7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R)

8.30 Alan Carr’s Adventures With Agatha Christie. (PG)

9.30 Steam Train Journeys. (PG)

10.30 The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard. (PG)

5.30pm Escape To The Country. (R)

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. (PG, R)

8.30 A Touch Of Frost. (M, R)

10.30 Air Crash Investigation: Runway Breakup. (PG, R)

12.30 Gold Digger. (M, R)

1.30 Escape To The Country. (R)

4.55pm Movie: The LEGO Ninjago Movie. (2017) (PG, R)

7.00 Movie: Harry Potter

And The Half-Blood Prince. (2009) (PG, R)

Daniel Radcliffe. 10.15 Movie: 300. (2006) (MA15+, R) Gerard Butler.

12.40 Aussie Lobster Men. (M, R)

1.40 Esports. LPL Pro. Clash Royale. ANZ Cup. Replay.

6.00pm American Pickers. (PG, R) 7.00 Pawn Stars. (PG, R) 7.30 American Pickers. (PG)

8.30 Movie: Django Unchained. (2012) (MA15+, R) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio. 12.00 Movie: Black Mass. (2015) (MA15+, R)

6.00pm Cricket. ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

Super 12. 9.00 To Be Advised. 12.30 My Favorite Martian. (R) 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R)

6.00pm Bondi Rescue. (PG, R)

6.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 7.30 NCIS. (M, R) 10.20 48 Hours: The Poisonous Wife. (M) 11.15 Star Trek: Discovery. (PG, R) 12.10 Movie: The Matrix. (1999) (M, R)

6.00pm The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R)

6.25 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R) 9.00 Friends. (PG, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R)

1.00 Home Shopping. (R)

1.30 Movie: I, Tonya. (2018) (MA15+, R)

5.40pm The Bee Whisperer. (PG, R)

6.40 The Buildings That Fought Hitler. (PG, R) 7.35 Abandoned Engineering. (PG, R) 8.30 The UnXplained With William Shatner. (MA15+)

9.20 Cracking The Code. (M)

10.20 Dark Side Of Comedy. (MA15+)

5.30pm Murder, She Wrote. (PG, R)

6.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 7.30 Death In Paradise. (M, R) 8.40 Whitstable Pearl. (M)

10.40 Law & Order: SVU. (MA15+, R)

11.40 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 12.05 Danger Man. (PG, R)

5.30pm MacGyver. (PG, R) 6.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 7.30 NCIS. (M, R) 10.20 The Code. (M, R) 11.15 Blood And Treasure. (M, R) 12.15 Home Shopping. (R)

6.00pm Friends. (PG, R) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R) 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. (M, R) 9.30 Seinfeld. (PG, R) 11.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R)

1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, R)

5.45pm The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. (R)

6.15 Forged In Fire. (PG) 7.05 Jeopardy! (R) 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. (M, R) 8.30 Taskmaster. (M, R) 9.25 PEN15. (MA15+) 10.35 Hillary. (M, R) 11.45 Couples Therapy. (M, R)

12.55 Point Blank: Gun Obsession. (MA15+)

Escape To The Country. (R)

Bargain Hunt.

Call The Midwife. (M, R)

Judge John Deed. (M, R)

(PG, R)

Fisk. (PG, R)

Motherland. (M, R)

Sick Of It. (M, R)

Black Comedy. (M, R)

Air Crash Investigation: Atlantic Ditching. (PG, R)

Gold Digger. (M, R)

Escape To The Country. (R)

5.30pm Escape To The Country. (R)

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat. (PG, R) 8.45 Lewis. (M, R)

6.00pm American Pickers. (PG, R) 7.00 Pawn Stars. (PG, R) 7.30 Highway Patrol. (PG, R) 8.30 Aussie Salvage Squad. (PG) 9.30 Outback Truckers. (M, R) 11.30 Jade Fever. (M, R) 12.00 Esports. LPL Pro. PUBG Pro. Season 2. 2.00 S.W.A.T. (M, R)

6.00pm American Pickers. (PG, R)

7.00 Pawn Stars. (PG, R) 7.30 Family Guy. (M, R) 8.00 American Dad! (M)

6.00pm Antiques Roadshow. (R) 7.00 New Tricks. (PG, R) 8.00 Tennis. Billie Jean King Cup. Finals. Group B. Australia v Slovakia. 2.00 The World’s Most Expensive Cruise Ship. (PG, R)

5.30pm MacGyver. (PG, R) 6.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 7.30 NCIS. (M, R) 8.30 Bull. (M, R) 10.20 48 Hours: The Death Of Todd Stermer. (M, R) 12.15 Home Shopping. (R) 12.45 Infomercials. (PG) 1.15 Home Shopping.

6.00pm Friends. (PG, R) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R) 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R) 9.30 Mom. (PG, R) 11.10 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, R)

5.45pm The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. (R) 6.15 Forged In Fire. (PG) 7.05 Jeopardy! (R) 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. (M, R) 8.30 Alone. (PG)

9.40 Forbidden History. 10.35 Valley Of The Boom. (M, R) 11.30 Naked. (MA15+, R) 12.30 The Bad Kids. (M, R)

A Life On The Road. (M, R)

10.15 Stuff The British Stole. (M, R)

10.45 The Human Revolution. (PG, R)

11.40 Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America. (M, R)

7.30pm Spicks And Specks. (PG, R) 8.30 Mock The Week. 9.00 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 9.30 Question Everything. (R) 10.00 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. (PG, R) 10.45 Doctor Who. (PG, R)

11.30 Sick Of It. (M, R)

11.55 Anne Edmonds: What’s Wrong With You? (MA15+, R)

1.00am Blunt Talk. (M, R)

10.45 Born To Kill? Ted Bundy. (MA15+, R)

11.45 World’s Most Shocking Emergency Calls. (MA15+, R)

12.45 Escape To The Country. (R)

1.45 Bargain Hunt. (R)

5.30pm Escape To The Country. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. (M, R) 8.30 Grace. (MA15+, R) 10.30 Murdoch Mysteries. (M, R) 12.30 Father Brown. (M, R)

1.30 Escape To The Country. (R)

8.30 Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand. (2006) (M, R) Hugh Jackman.

10.40 Movie: Universal Soldier. (1992) (MA15+, R)

12.50 Esports. LPL Pro. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Season 2.

6.00pm American Pickers. (PG, R) 7.00 Pawn Stars. (PG, R) 7.30 Movie: Taken. (2008) (M, R) Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace. 9.30 Movie: Takers. (2010) (M, R) Chris Brown, Paul Walker. 11.45 Hardcore Pawn. (M, R) 12.15 S.W.A.T. (M, R)

6.00pm Cricket. ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Semi-final. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R)

7.30 As Time Goes By. (R) 8.50 Midsomer Murders. (M, R)

10.50 Chicago P.D. (MA15+)

11.50 Danger Man. (PG, R)

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 1.30 Take Two. (R)

6.00pm Cricket. ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Semi-final. 9.00 To Be Advised. 12.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R)

5.30pm MacGyver. (PG, R) 6.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 7.30 NCIS. (M, R) 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. (M, R) 10.20 Tommy. (M, R) 11.15 Evil. (M, R) 12.15 Home Shopping. (R)

6.00pm Friends. (PG, R) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R)

8.00 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R) 9.20 Two And A Half Men. (PG, R)

10.10 The Big Bang Theory. (M, R) 11.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 1.00 Home Shopping. (R)

5.45pm The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. (R) 6.15 Forged In Fire. (PG)

7.05 Jeopardy! (R)

7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. (M, R)

8.30 Land Of The Giants: Titans Of Tech.

10.10 Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. (2000) (M, R)

5.30pm MacGyver. (PG, R) 6.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 7.30 NCIS. (M, R) 8.30 Bull. (M, R) 10.30 The Code. (M, R) 11.30 48 Hours. (M, R) 12.30 Infomercials. (PG) 1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 2.00 Tommy. (M, R)

6.00pm Friends. (PG, R) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R) 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R) 9.30 Seinfeld. (PG, R) 11.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, R)

5.45pm The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. (R) 6.15 Forged In Fire. (PG) 7.05 Jeopardy! (R) 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. (M, R) 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. (M)

10.10 The World’s Toughest Prisons. (MA15+) 11.05 In Search Of... (MA15+, R)