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Well it’s biglast week for usand here City Life, this the itweek launch A lot has happened overathe few weeks it’s at fairOrange to say that the world as weisknow will bewe different from here on, and forour quite a while to come. new free newspaper Newswatch. You’ll be able to pick up the very issue this Many are now facing hardships that they would never have dreamed of just a few weeks back. Saturday morning from new specially marked stands in busy shopping areas People in safe employment last month now find themselves on unemployment queues, previously successful businessOrange. You can read more about Newswatch and find out exactly es are nowaround facing ruin. And so it where goes on. the stands are in this issue, I hope you like our first issue. My wife and I, like so many other business owners at this time, are scrambling to meet Government regulations, while trying to keep up with community expectations and still come out at the other end. 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ith the current pandemic flooding our news feeds it can be easy to forget that there are many people around the world who lack the basic necessities of life that we take for granted. But Orange-born Sarah Brown has set her sights on playing her part to improve the lives of disadvantaged school children in rural Rwanda. Sarah and a team of her fellow civil engineering students from the University of Wollongong are working towards building a new school building for the rural community of Ruhinga, in eastern

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Rwanda. The team must design and fund the building themselves, with the aim of travelling to Rwanda once travel restrictions are lifted and helping with the construction. “We are aiming at building the start of a school, one to three classrooms for children under five and over the coming years they will be able to continue to develop it. At the moment, all the children are in a church about a kilometre up the road, so when we build our building the children will move down to it instead of being crammed up in the church,” said Sarah. “It is up to us to do everything; to come up with what we want the building to look like, we have to do

all the design calculations, we have to do all the communication with our stakeholders in Rwanda and we have to do all the logistical work to source and supply materials and the labour and we have to fund the entire project on our own as well.” Sarah is looking to raise around $6000 to cover the costs of materials and labour for the project. If you would like to assist you can do so via their GoFundMe page here: bit.ly/RuhingaSchoolProject of there is a collection tin at Greengate Newsagency. She is also taking orders for beanies and hoodies through their Ruhinga School Updates Facebook Page.

Photos are of a similar project by University of Wollongong students in 2018. The building pictured is different in design to the one Sarah’s team is working on, but gives a good indication of the materials they will use and the terrain they will be working on. 4

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UNFASHIONABLE HEALTH CARE Without a doubt, the number one world topic at the moment is healthcare. All things coronavirus have been dominating world affairs now for several months and there is no sign of that settling down for some time yet. While all this has been going on, some of my recent conversations with friends have ventured onto other health issues that people have or are facing. It seems that many in my age group, over 70 that is, have a health issue story or two to tell. During those conversations I was amazed to hear about what I would term as unfashionable health care treatments, those that don’t follow traditional medical advice from say a Doctor. We’ve probably all heard of them at some point in time, but because it hasn’t affected us personally, we’ve just let them go through to keeper as they say. Well I have to say, I have a personal friend who developed cancer and was given 3 to 6 months to live. He and his wife did a lot of research and decided on a combination of natural supplements that they’d heard about. That friend also refused chemotherapy and 6 months after starting the supplements was found to be cancer free and now three years later, still has no sign of the cancer. His Doctor could not believe it.

DESTINATION: NEW YORK On board a hop on- hop off bus tour, we passed the iconic Flatiron building. Built in 1902, the distinctive triangular shape of the Flatiron Building (22 stories high), allowed it to fill the wedge-shaped island block and it became New York’s first skyscraper building (seems small compared to now-a-days skyscraper buildings). Its ‘pointed’ offices have a spectacular view which look out to the Empire State Building. For the movie buffs, you’ll recognize the building from its cameos in a variety of movies including the Spiderman trilogy, to which it was known as ‘The Daily Bugle.’

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I have another family member where the young son of an in law had severe ADD syndrome. This family heard about how looking after your gut properly could make a serious difference to one’s health. They changed the child’s diet and in a very short time that child was

behaving quite normally. Hearing these stories from trusted and reliable family and friends has prompted me to look further into some of the supplements I’ve now heard about, after all who doesn’t want to feel better, no matter what health condition you’re in? What has been of particular interest to me personally has been the amount of information that is out there about such things and the myriad of testimonials from people about results etc. Much of this information flies in the face of traditional medical methods and in many cases, there are detailed explanations as to the reasons why. Of course, you can’t trust everything you read but like anything, it’s a matter of sorting through the information and then determining what’s credible and what’s not. If you take the time and you have reasonable powers of reason, I’m sure you’ll sort the wheat from the chaff. I’m certainly not recommending any products, supplements etc. to anyone, but what I am saying is this, if you’re concerned about your health or have a health issue, it could be well worth your time and effort to do some research about unfashionable health care alternatives like those I’ve eluded to, or just ask around your friends, some are sure to have tried or be using such products, methods etc. Knowledge is power they say, in matters of your health, it therefore makes sense to broaden your knowledge, especially if it has the potential to improve your wellbeing or extend your life.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT CADIA

CADIA INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY APPROACH TO “CONTACT TRACING” TO PROVIDE EXTRA PROTECTION FOR CADIA WORKERS CADIA VALLEY OPERATIONS (CADIA) HAS COMMENCED TRIALS OF AN INNOVATIVE COVID-19 BLUETOOTH TRACING SYSTEM CALLED “SAFETY TRACE”.

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he system, which involves the use of small personal beacons and a mobile phone app that logs proximity to other workers on the site, has been designed for specific use within Cadia’s boundary and aims to quickly and accurately identify people who may have been in contact with an individual if there is a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 on the site. Cadia’s Acting General

Manager, Aaron Brannigan, said phase one of the trail was rolled out to the mining and fleet departments and has already been well supported by the workforce. “While the trial is only in early stages, we have had a positive uptake from those involved. It is comforting that workforce has a common goal of ensuring everyone remains safe on our site during this pandemic,” Aaron said. “Our first priority is the

safety and health of all our people, our families, and our communities. The coronavirus pandemic has presented us with challenges we’ve never seen before and we’re continually assessing the latest information available from governments and health authorities in order to minimise the spread of the virus. Using technology to support contact tracing is the next step in that process. “We remain committed

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Cadia Project advisor - Mining innovation and automation, Luke Cansdale, and Coordinator - Mining innovation and automation, Matthew Gibbons, showcase the new safety trace app device currently being used at the Cadia site.

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TAKING THE CELLAR DOOR TO YOUR LIVING ROOM — JONATHAN ROE —

RESTRICTIONS ON HOSPITALITY BUSINESSES ARE SLOWLY EASING, BUT OUR LOCAL CELLAR DOORS ARE STILL UNABLE TO CONDUCT ON PREMISES TASTINGS.

For Julie and Terry Dolle at Orange Mountain Wines, tastings and on premises retail sales make up between 80 and 90 percent of their turnover and like other wine businesses they have turned to online sales to try get through this incredibly difficult period. But an idea created out of necessity may now end up becoming a permanent part of their business. Orange Mountain Wines have been selling tasting packs, featuring six 50ml bottles of their current releases. Like tasting fees at the cellar door, the price of the pack can then be

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redeemed from the purchase of wine through their website. “It is basically taking the cellar door experience to your living room, so if you go on our website and buy one of these you can see me talking about each the wines and introducing each of the wines in the pack,” said Terry. “Because we can’t do tastings at the cellar door, we are down 300 people a week and so business is very challenging. But, what do you do? Do you sit on your hands or do you try to do something about it.” The tasting packs have proved to be popular and Terry is now planning to

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offer vertical tasting packs featuring different vintages of the same variety. And there might be a place for these packs to continue even after the Orange Mountain Wines reopen their cellar door. “Yeah, why not? We’ve had a lot of great feedback,” said Julie. “I just got off the phone with a lady who had some friends over and they did the tasting over dinner and really loved it said she would definitely do another one, I think down the track long term if we could keep it running I think it would be great.”

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Andrew GEE MP

FEDERAL MEMBER FOR CALARE LATEST COVID-19 NEWS

New Federally Funded Respiratory Clinic Opens in Orange A new GP-led respiratory clinic, established as part of the Australian Government’s $2.4 billion health package response to COVID-19, opened in Orange this week.

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The clinic is open from Wednesday, 20th May and is a service available free of charge to test anyone with flu-like symptoms. It’s the third respiratory clinic to open in the Central West, which is a fantastic achievement by our health workforce in protecting our communities from the risks ahead. In the absence of a vaccine, testing is a key weapon in the fight against COVID-19. The faster we can test and isolate cases, the more lives we can save and the fewer lock down restrictions we need. The Orange community has done a great job in keeping local cases low throughout this pandemic, and we want to keep it that way. The new Orange clinic is one of up to 100 dedicated respiratory clinics being set up across Australia as part of the Australian Government’s response to COVID-19.

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Andrew at the new Orange Respiratory Clinic with Andrew Harvey - CEO of the Western NSW PHN, Dr Gabriel Shannon - Clinical Leader, Orange Respiratory Clinic, Jo Marjoram - Lead Nurse, Orange Respiratory Clinic, Tabitha Jones, COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Western NSW PHN, and Ann Carter - Practice Manager.

Overview of the clinic – fast facts

• Location: Bloomfield Medical Centre car park, 1530 Forest Road Orange, opposite the Orange Health Service. • Opening date: Wednesday, 20 May 2020. • Opening days and times: Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm.

Don’t stop seeking medical care during COVID-19! It’s estimated that roughly 7000 cancers could go undiagnosed throughout COVID-19 as one in ten people are putting off seeing their health service provider for various reasons. The Government’s expanded Medicare-subsidised telehealth services have increased remote access to essential primary health care, including for regular health check-ups, via telephone or through video conferencing services. This also extends to subsidising home delivery services for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medications.

• To book phone Bloomfield Medical Group on 02 5335 6666 or visit www.hotdoc.com.au (search for Orange Respiratory Clinic). • Only attend the clinic at the time of the booking so social distancing can be maintained.

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Your Country Your Voice $2 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL FEDERAL DROUGHT COMMUNITIES FUNDING As I reported last week, the residents of both the Cabonne and Blayney Shires will benefit from a further $1 million for each shire under the latest round of the Australian Government’s Drought Communities Programme. Here is a list of the projects for each Shire.

Blayney Shire • Barry Bore Association: replacement of community infrastructure, $35,182 • School of Arts Community Hall Carcoar repairs and maintenance, $30,695 • Carcoar Pastoral Agricultural & Horticulture Society - new ringside and park shelter seating, $34,099 • Blayney Cricket Club: new fencing and gates at Dakers Oval, $77,000 • Lyndhurst Cricket Club upgrades: new grandstand and cricket pitch, $26,262 • Millthorpe Village Committee: upgrades to BBQ facility, footpaths and tables, $70,000 • Millthorpe CWA Hall : upgrades to toilets, kitchen and doors, $54,572 • Millthorpe & District Historical Society: Amenities Block Upgrade at Golden Memories Museum, $90,909 • Neville Public Hall Reserve restoration project, $59,300 • Newbridge Showground Pavillion Refurbishment, $180,518 • Recycled water project and water infrastructure upgrade/tank at King George Oval Blayney, $205,100 • New amenities block at Blayney tennis courts, $136,364

Cabonne Shire • Two more Central Tablelands/Cabonne water filling stations at Cargo & Cudal, $100,000 • Solar power & battery system for the sustainability of the Canowindra Golf Club, $50,000 • Fencing projects – Molong Recreation Ground Skatebowl, Cudal Memorial Park Playground, Fencing of playground at Jack Huxley Oval Manildra, and the Manildra Pool, $142,000 • Solid Shade Structures – Cargo playground, Mullion Creek playground, $165,000 • Molong Recreational Ground – new & upgraded cricket nets, $85,000 • Molong Pool – hot water system for showers, $20,000 • Dean Park, Cudal – stage 2 upgrade works including upgrade of kiosk, driveway, parking, $75,000 • Repairs & maintenance of community buildings – Yeoval Museum (repairs), Eugowra RTC (repairs and external painting), Gumble Hall (fencing), Baldry Hall (repairs & painting), Borenore CWA Hall (access ramp), $119,000 • A range of small footpath projects throughout Cabonne which have been identified in the recent community consultation process for the Cabonne Pedestrian Access Mobility Plan (PAMP), $240,000

SUPPORTING REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES The Australian Government is supporting our universities through COVID-19 with an $18 billion support package. This package locks in existing funding even in the face of declining student numbers. CSU has welcomed this relief package. I don’t believe that CSU’s COVID-19 revenue hit will come anywhere near the $80 million worst-case prediction by CSU, and I’m confident that with its impressive cash reserves of almost $350 million, along with our support package, it will be able to come through this difficult time. In so far as the CSU Medical School is concerned, it was paid for by the Australian Government two budgets ago and building work has already commenced. It will be welcoming it's first students next year. Isn't it terrific that students from our region will now have the chance to study and train locally to become country doctors? Andrew at CSU in 2018 announcing the

RUNS ON THE BOARD √ An extra $2.3 million for Calare communities in the Drought Communities Extension Program √ $20,000 for Molong Historical Society to go towards reconstructing the entrance of the Molong Museum √ $4,000 to the Molong Advancement Group to establish a disc golf competition at the golf club and showgrounds √ Better mobile and internet coverage for Freemantle under the $380 million Mobile Black Spot Program √ Almost $54 million in water security pipelines around the Central West √ $40 million for the upgrade of the Mitchell Highway between Orange and Molong at Guanna Hill √ $22 million for a new CSU medical school based in Orange √ $18 million for the Institute for Regional, Rural and Remote Health √ $14.7 million for Mission Australia’s Benjamin Short Grove Aged Care facility in Orange √ $8 million to investigate fast rail for the Central West √ $6.45 million for the Southern Feeder Road √ $3.4 million Aboriginal Learning Centre at TAFE in Orange √ $2.5 million for new classrooms at Catherine McAuley Catholic Primary School √ $2 million for local fruit growers for a netting trial √ $1.29 million for Cabonne Council R2R extension √ $1.25 million for the Peisley Street Bridge √ $1.24 million for new learning spaces at St Mary’s Primary School

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“Personally, I’m very optimistic about what the fitness industry looks like on the other side of this,” says Lachlan Learg, owner of the yet-to-open Red City Gym in Orange. Like hospitality and tourism, the fitness industry has been hard hit by the restriction put in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. But for Lachlan, the timing of the shutdown order was particularly frustrating. Following months of back and forward with Council over planning permission, the new Red City Gym Orange was all set to open… the very week personal distancing restrictions were put into place. “We were pretty much due to start the week lockdown came into effect, which was very frustrating,” Lachlan. Red City Orange is an expansion of the CrossFit gym, Lachlan and his brother founded in their hometown of Dubbo five years ago. Even back then, he said they always saw Orange as the next natural step to expanding their business. “It was actually a bit of a toss of the coin whether we were going to go Orange or Dubbo and we settled on Dubbo simply because we had more of a support network there with family and friends,” said Lachlan, who had spent a decade working in fitness in Sydney before coming back out west. “We’ve kept Orange in the back of our minds since then and so here we are; a few years later and it has come to fruition.” Well, not quite.

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HERE’S TO A HEALTHY POST-COVID-19 FUTURE — JONATHAN ROE — “We are now in a position where we have got a fully-fledged gym, but nobody in it,” said Lachlan, adding that not knowing how long restriction would remain in place has been trying. “I think the hard thing is there is no timeframe for it. You go to prison and you

know how long your sentence is, but we’ve never really got that, which is really, really difficult as a business,” he said. Like many other gyms, Red City in Dubbo has been hiring out their equipment to members and producing online content, but not having an established membership in

Orange ruled out that option for Lachlan. Still, with restrictions slowly easing, Lachlan remains positive that they will be able to get on with the business on getting people fit and active. “Timeline wise now there is a hope that things might be as normal as possible by July… We are tossing up at the moment whether it is feasible for us to do a bootcamp outside, but it is Orange in May and not Orange In February!” said Lachlan, who believes the current pandemic could well drive an increased interest in health and fitness. “CrossFit’s mission has always been one of improved public health, rather than necessarily competitive gain — I think that is something that has been lost in many affiliates around the world. Some people view CrossFit as just a competitive endeavour in its own right, which it can be, but really where we can make the biggest impact is in improving the health of normal people,” said Lachlan. “The hope is after COVID-19 people will be more aware of that, more aware of those risk categories that could have been prevented by lifestyle. Obesity is the biggest risk outside of age and it is something that is preventable, high blood pressure same thing, diabetes same thing — so the hope is that nationwide there is actually an influx in the fitness industry when things start to open up again.”

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JOHN DAVIS MOTORS — JONATHAN ROE —

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC MAY HAVE MEANT THERE WAS NO BIG GALA AWARDS NIGHT THIS YEAR, BUT IT HASN’T DAMPENED THE CELEBRATIONS AT JOHN DAVIS MOTORS AFTER BEING NAMED RENAULT DEALER OF THE YEAR.

John Davis, Renault brand manager Paul Burcher, and Ben Davis.

“It was a bit unusual this year as you normally have an award ceremony and dinner but this year it was basically a zoom session,” said Ben Davis, dealer Principal and Director at John Davis Motors. John Davis Renault won the Group 3 award for the second time in the past five years. “They are very, very hard to win,” said Ben. “It goes on everything from sales target achievement, to customers satisfaction, service achievement to facilities, so it covers the whole range of the business and you’ve really got to be at the top of your game in every little part of your business. “Paul Burcher who is our Renault brand

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manager, he lives and breathes it and he's done a tremendous job… And to everyone who is involved; it is a team effort. They all done tremendously well, and they should all be very proud of themselves.” It has been an incredibly tough time for the motor industry. Not only have sales been down for the 25 consecutive months, but April was the worst month in the past 30 years. “It has been a hard time and everyone is feeling the pinch at the moment, so this is a bit of positive in the hard world we are in in the current stage with COVID-19 and coming out of drought, so it is a nice reward for doing the right things through this tough time.”

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TROJAN SHOWING GROWTH

amidst adversity — JONATHAN ROE —

“WHEN WE STARTED THIS BUSINESS, WE ALWAYS SET OUT TO PROVE THAT MANUFACTURING IS VIABLE IN AUSTRALIA AND ESPECIALLY IN THE CENTRAL WEST,” SAID STEVEN TURNBULL, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF LOCAL METAL FABRICATOR TROJAN TRAYS.

ut things have not been easy. For almost the entire the three years Trojan Trays has been operating new car sales have been in steady decline across Australia. Years of drought, the horrific bushfires over the summer, and then the withdrawal of General Motors from Australia have been huge blows for many in the vehicle bodybuilding industry. But despite all this Trojan Trays had continued to grow — that is until the coronavirus pandemic shut down the economy. “The market was back a lot and then the first two weeks in April were absolutely terrible,” said Steve. “And we are not an isolated case,” added Steve’s business partner Greg Robinson. “Sydney, bodybuilders everywhere, not just us. They were doing it tough anyway and the dealers are doing it tough.” Faced with an unprecedented challenge, Greg and Steve got to work looking at ways to pivot their business and keep trading. “We had to make serious decisions about what we could do, we could either throw in the towel or do something different, so we had to do something different,” said Steve.

“And we were in the room for days,” said Greg. “We thought we could make cattle grids, but then the cattle industry is doing it tough, we thought about hospital beds, we thought of everything.” But then Steve had a conversation with one of their existing customers at Flick Australia. Flick has put a pause on buying new vehicles and so no new trays were needed, but besides pest management, washroom services make up a significant part of Flick’s business, and they had a job that Trojan was in the right position to fulfill. “They had just ordered 2000 units of these hand sanitiser from China. I had the conversation with them and we ended up doing a deal and took it on. Then they rang up and cancelled the order and swung it straight to us,” said Steve, who, two months ago, would never have considered the possibility their workshop would be full of hand sanitiser stands. “They left it up to us. They just they said, "this is the unit we need to put on there, come back to us with your designs." Then we mocked up a few images, sent the prototype and made sure it was stable. We looked at the best practice from a perspective of surface protection and were able to secure some 95 to 99 percent antibacterial powder coat: It is a product they use for surgical beds.”

In the end, Steve said they were able to provide a better product, made locally in a shorter time and all for a cheaper price than the imported product. “We’ve got a current order for 2200 units with a future order for another 2000,” said Steve. “And we’ve employed four people in a market that’s down; we’ve employed admin, we’ve employed marketing people, we’ve employed workers on the floor to put those units together. So our workforce is bigger now than before COVID-19 and we are recruiting now for another fabricator.” With the country taking the first tentative steps out of lockdown measures, Steve believes the next few years will see a stronger and growing local manufacturing industry. “Yes, definitely and it needs to,” said Steve, who has always made a point of keeping Trojan Trays’ business as local as possible. “A lot of people think we’re a franchise and that we import stuff, assemble it here and ship it out, but that’s as far from accurate as you could be,” he said. “We’ve never bought our steel from China, we are not reliant on overseas markets. We employ locals and all the money that comes in is locally spent, whether it’s on wages or giving to local charities. We are proudly manufactured in Australia.”

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MEDICAL WARD AT ORANGE

2020 - The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife in collaboration with International Nurses Day celebrated on the 12th May, provides us with the opportunity to acknowledge all nurses and the critical role they play in the healthcare of our community. The annual International Nurses Day celebrations were held a little differently this year due to the current pandemic and social distancing restrictions. At 3pm on the 12th May, The Orange Hospital and staff from across the district dialled in virtually to hear the much anticipated announcement of the Western NSW Local Health District Team Of The Year. The WNSW LHD includes 38 hospitals (25 of which are multipurpose centres), 50 primary and community health services and 23 community mental health facilities.

It is with great excitement that that the Orange Hospital Medical ward was awarded the Western NSW Local health district nursing Team of the Year for 2020. The Medical ward were thrilled with the announcement of this highly sought after title. Medical ward was recognised for their commitment to improving patient safety including their project on falls. This project has significantly reduced the amount of patient falls therefore reducing fall related injuries and enhancing improved patient outcomes. The team was also recognised for the wards preparedness for the Covid-19 pandemic including the efficient facilitating and upskilling of the staff on the respiratory ward. The district recognised and celebrated the staff who are committed, kind, passionate and brave in the face of COVID-19.

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Words of Wisdom ~ As told to Melise Coleman ST FRANCIS AGED CARE RESIDENT, STEPHEN LANE ~ AGE: 62

Where were you born? Orange, at the old Base Hospital.

Who is the person who influenced your life the most? My sister, she looks after me.

What is the most important lesson that you’ve learnt in life? Oh... now you’ve got me... be nice to everyone.

What is your favourite memory? When I was younger, I was always riding push bikes around, then I turned into a motorbike fanatic and then it changed to cars and I’ve loved cars ever since.

What was the naughtiest thing you did as a child? Oh... I got up to some mischief as a child. I had an air gun when we were living out at Mullion Creek, my sisters were hanging around me when I was handling it, when I fired the gun, the slug nearly got one of my sisters in the eye. What makes you happy? What I do like, I only started a couple of years ago, I started colouring in, when I do it, I do a fantastic job, I mean it. I don’t go over the lines. I really enjoy arts and crafts, some things I can do some I can’t do. I do also love my music, anything from the 80's I enjoy. What’s the weirdest trend that you remember growing up? Actually... I grew my hair right down to my shoulders *laughs* it was shockin'... at the time I thought it looked pretty good. What was your first job? I worked at Canobolas Holden, I used to wash the cars there and detail them inside.

How has Covid 19 affected your life? It’s been awful, usually I go to LiveBetter on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, now I cannot go there until the ban has been lifted. I’ve been doing my activities here instead, although it’s not the same. What are you most proud of? I try to do things that keep me going, I was very sick for a while I’ve had two strokes and a seizure amongst other things. So, I’m proud of how far I’ve come, I’m trying to pick myself up. When this is all over, I can’t wait to go back to my activities at LiveBetter. For those feeling a bit down and out at the moment, what’s your advice on how to bounce back? Try and do something for yourself, like I have. I know it’s not easy, but you can do it. Like on the weekends, I take myself to Cook Park, it's beautiful over there, I love it.

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

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Fresh, hot meals for the community — MELISE COLEMAN —

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN HAVE A FRESHLY COOKED HOT MEAL FROM CAFÉ CONNECT DELIVERED DIRECT TO THEIR DOORSTEP.

During the Covid-19 crisis, Orange City Council’s Choices at Home is continuing to provide the Meals on Wheels service to our local elderly residents. With additional funding, Orange City Council have called on Café Connect to partner with them to deliver hot meals within the community in addition to their regular frozen offerings. LiveBetter’s CEO Natalie Forsyth said, “Given that we have LiveBetter’s Café Connect here and it’s only been running as a takeaway option, we were pleased to get involved and assist the community. The idea is that we are delivering fresh, healthy and hot meals to people who are registered with My Aged Care and on the Commonwealth Home Support program or in the pre-eligibility stage. Last week was the launch

for us and since then our orders have doubled which is fantastic.” As volunteers are asked to stay home during this time, Orange City Council have made the switch to use their own staff to keep the service going which, in turn has set limitations on numbers and availability on certain days. Natalie continued, “It’s not only about cooking the meals, it’s also about being able to deliver them around town and we are very grateful to Council that we get to fill that gap.” Café Connect Chef, Jamie Stewart added, “The menu at the moment is chicken pie with vegetables, lasagne and salad and roast pumpkin, and feta and macaroni and cheese – all of which have a high nutritional value. People who ordered last week have reordered

which means they must be enjoying the fresh homemade meals. “Most of the recipients are in independent housing, so they are happy to receive their meals hot, and even just happy to see a familiar face. It’s great getting out and delivering to some of the more vulnerable people and to see how happy they are to receive their food, it’s a good feeling. It usually takes me (with the amount of orders at the moment) about an hour to deliver around Orange.” The partnership will run through to September, with the hope to continue into the future. To assist with hot meal demand please place your order at least two days prior. Contact Orange City Council’s Choices at Home on 6393 8968, to place your order.

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WRAPPED AS THEY REBUILD — MELISE COLEMAN —

TWO LOCAL KNITTING GROUPS ‘ORANGE PURLERS’ AND ‘CRAFT WITH LOVE (KENNA HALL KNITTERS)’ HAVE COME TOGETHER FOR A HANDOVER OF OVER 150 HANDMADE BLANKETS FOR NSW BUSHFIRE VICTIMS

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Craft with Love Coordinator, Sue Moffatt noticed an appeal for blankets on the ‘giveit’ website, a community hub connecting those who have, with those who need. With Sue’s intuition leading the way, our dedicated volunteer knitters have given families the gift of warmth for winter. Manager of Step by Step recovery support service, Anne Crestani picked up many of the blankets last week, with a vow she will be back for more. Anne explained, “We are so grateful for such beautiful and such a large number of blankets donated from Orange. “Bushfire victims living in temporary accommodation whether it be in caravans or tents in most locations are getting very cold this time of year. “Many families have lost a lot of basic things like their bedding and their linen, or its been smoke damaged so they’ve had to throw them out. In a lot of cases people are having to start again. Recovery from a disaster is a fulltime job. With Covid-19 over the top of that, it has really compounded people’s trauma. I think a lot of families that have been impacted by the fires feel like Covid-19 has taken the focus,

they are still in the early stages of recovery, so, these are also messages that you are not forgotten, the community is still thinking of you and you are still in everyone’s hearts and thoughts. This sort of thing is much more personalised and can often be really symbolic.” Three of Anne’s teams will work to distribute the wraps to Olinda, Lithgow, Dargan, Clarence, the Blue Mountains (Bell, Mt Tomah, Mt Wilson), Blackheath, Bilpin, Kurrajong, Colo Heights and St Albans. “It is a really large area that we are covering, but that was the natures of the fires. People are incredible, they are amazing, and within the communities themselves they have helped each other a lot.” Orange Purlers Coordinator, Dianne Percy said, “Being involved in something like this gives you a ‘feel-good feeling.’ It makes you feel that you’ve done something productive and you get a sense of pride knowing that someone is going to get value out of what you create, it’s comfort and it’s warmth for those rebuilding their lives. I love knitting for causes like this, it never feels like a chore, it gives me so much enjoyment and its relaxing for me too.” Well done to all of our local knitters involved.

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28 Taloumbi Place , ORANGE 4

Price Range: $899,000 - $929,000 Live a Life of Luxury This stunning home is all about a lifestyle that is luxurious and stress-free. The modern design, with soothing colours and high-quality inclusions, will delight you from the grand entrance hall to the amazing outdoor al fresco area with integrated outdoor kitchen. The huge master suite is the perfect adult retreat and boasts a beautifully appointed ensuite with spa bath. The spacious open plan living area with raked ceilings and high skylight windows letting in streams of light is the heart of the home. The galley kitchen is gorgeous and there is a muchcoveted butler’s pantry. The living and dining areas opening onto the outdoor area are the perfect place to entertain friends and family. Everyone will enjoy movie time in the theatre room which has built-in surround sound and plenty of room for your comfiest recliners. The 3 other bedrooms are spacious and inviting and the main bathroom is beautiful as well as functional. The landscaping both front and back is manicured and low maintenance by design, freeing up precious time for more leisurely pursuits. There is a triple garage plus another shed and storage inside and out of the house is plentiful. This home has so much to offer, it is well worth your consideration.

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123 WOODWARD STREET

$389,000

6A GARNET STREET

$425,000

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOMES: SATURDAY 23 MAY 10.15—10.45 Looking for a house in a good location with not too many renovations and well priced? Within walking distance of the CBD and zoned for the popular Calare Public and Orange High Schools, this property has a brand new kitchen, 2 new bathrooms, new carpet and flooring. It has been recently painted inside and out and it’s ready to move in and enjoy straight away. There are 3 bedrooms, the main with a walk in robe area and ensuite, a large lounge and family area plus an office. CONTACT: ADAM SAVAGE 0419 232 416

22 CASEY STREET

$395,000

This cute home has been very well renovated throughout and provides three very well proportioned bedrooms all with built-ins. The loungeroom is spacious with lovely timber floorboards and there is a second living area out the back. Outside is a garage and plenty of room in the yard that backs onto Jaeger Park. The hard work has been done here so if you are looking to invest you can set and forget. This home is currently leased for $330 per week to a great tenant who would love to stay. CONTACT: JACOB EVANS 0428 130 789

9/222 DALTON STREET

$229,000

OPEN HOMES: SATURDAY 23 MAY 2.00—2.30

140 SALE STREET

$599,000

OPEN HOMES: SATURDAY 23 MAY 11.00—11.30 GOLDEN GOLDFINCH WAY Everything about this spacious family home is golden. Located in one of Orange’s most sought-after locations, is this gorgeous 4-bedroom home which has plenty out of the ordinary to offer. The master bedroom located at the front of the home has its own kitchenette, built in wardrobes and ensuite and can be separately locked off from the rest of the home. The main level of the home boasts second and third living areas, with north facing views over the beautiful established garden and reserve. Space is in abundance as the garage has been converted into a versatile area with external access. High ceilings and cedar doorframes and windows add to the charm of this home combined with its stunning leafy outlook – must inspect to appreciate. CONTACT: MICHAEL WRIGHT 0421 360 948

$639,000

35 GREEN LANE

OPEN HOMES: SATURDAY 23 MAY 11.00—11.30 GREEN LANE LOCATION Now is your chance to live in beautiful Green Lane! The established trees and gardens and the seldom used park at the rear join to create a private oasis away from all the hustle and bustle of life. Beautifully comfortable just as it is with a lovely modern kitchen, neutral palette and a wonderful retro bathroom but there is scope for enhancement if that’s your desire. If you are looking for space to pursue your creative instincts this home has it in spades with a large studio away from the main house. There is also a large garage and lots of other car accommodation. I am available for private inspections at any time. Your Green Lane dream awaits! CONTACT: LIZ MCATAMNEY 0417 696 987

$425,000

30 GOLDFINCH WAY

This unit has been well-looked after by its owners. Offering a north facing living area and neat and tidy kitchen, bathroom and laundry this is something investors will want to look at. Upstairs are two bedrooms which are both large, especially the master which is big enough to double as a home office or place to keep exercise equipment. Other features include internal access from the lock-up garage and reverse cycle air conditioning. It is located at the end of the complex adding to quiet and privacy. Currently rented at $220 p/w. CONTACT: MICHAEL WRIGHT 0421 360 948

EASY LIVING This lovely modern home is only 7 years old and presents as new, offering easy living without the headache of building. Featuring a bright and sunny kitchen with storage a plenty, flexible and generous sized dining/lounge area, large main bedroom with en-suite and BIW, 2 other bedrooms with built-ins, internal access from the garage, ducted gas heating to keep you warm and a split system for cooling in summer. The low maintenance yard has a paved area as well as lawn and there is secure fencing right around. If easy living and low maintenance are on the top of your shopping list, you better put this property on there too and inspect today. CONTACT: ADAM SAVAGE 0419 232 416

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1 GIRRAHWEEN PLACE

$769,000

OPEN HOMES: SATURDAY 23 MAY 1.15—1.45 This cosy cottage is in an ideal location, just a short stroll to the conveniences of the CBD. Three spacious bedrooms, a north facing living room with sliding doors out to a nice courtyard and the large kitchen is big enough for both cooking and meals in one. The backyard is level, and a blank canvas ready for your new garden, veggie patch or perfect as is for pets and kids to run safely with the all-round great fencing, plus there’s a double lock up garage. CONTACT: ADAM SAVAGE 0419 232 416

SUPERB PROPERTY, SUPERB LOCATION This superb property is located on the edge of town, boasting elevation on a 1-acre block. With stunning views of Orange’s countryside, this huge four-bedroom home with office is ready to raise its next family. You’ll be impressed with the feeling of space in the home which is emphasised by raked ceilings and exposed beams. The home has recently received a makeover with new kitchen, bathroom and ensuite. The kitchen is a cook’s dream with Caesarstone bench top and double ovens. Gas heating keeps the home warm and there is also a large split system for extra comfort. There is a lovely space for entertaining and garden sheds with power. If you’re looking for space a short drive from town, put 1 Girrahween Place on your ‘must see’ list! CONTACT: MICHAEL WRIGHT 0421 360 948

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Open Houses FOR WEEK 21 — 27 MAY, 2020

DATE

TIME

ADDRESS COVID 19

PRICE RANGE

23.05.20

10.00am - 10.30am

64 Valenica Drive, Orange

$769,000

23.05.20

10.15am - 10.45am

23 William Maker Drive, Orange

$479,000

23.05.20

10.15am - 10.45am

25 Boronia Crescent, Orange

$559,000

23.05.20

10.15am - 10.45am

123 Woodward Street, Orange

$389,000

23.05.20

10.15am - 10.45am

29 Gala Crescent, Orange

$790,000

23.05.20

10.30am - 11.00am

14 & 16 Emmaville Street, Orange

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23.05.20

10.30am - 11.00am

139 Diamond Drive, Orange

$659,000

23.05.20

10.30am - 11.00am

10 Emerald Street, Orange

$510,000

23.05.20

10.45am - 11.15am

11 Trainor Court, Orange

$560,000

23.05.20

11.00am - 11.30am

161 Phillip Street, Orange

$690,000

23.05.20

11.00am - 11.30am

30 Goldfinch Way, Orange

$599,000

23.05.20

11.00am - 11.30am

35 Green Lane, Orange

$639,000

23.05.20

11.00am - 11.30am

101 Lords Place, Orange

$679,000

23.05.20

11.00am - 11.30am

28 Taloumbi Place, Orange

$899,000-$929,000

23.05.20

11.00am -11.30am

125 March Street, Orange

$1,049,000

23.05.20

11.15am - 11.45am

62 Kearneys Drive, Orange

$407,500

23.05.20

11.15am - 11.45am

10 Hutchinson Close, Orange

$699,000

23.05.20

11.30am - 12.00pm

2 Phillip Street, Orange

$469,000

23.05.20

11.30am - 12.00pm

97 Sampson Street, Orange

$760,000

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Open Houses FOR WEEK 21 — 27 MAY, 2020

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TIME

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PRICE RANGE

23.05.20 11.45am - 12.15pm

8 Hutchinson Close, Orange

4 2 2 $685,000

23.05.20

11.45am - 12.15pm

105 Lone Pine Avenue, Orange

23.05.20

11.45am - 12.15pm

6A Garnet Street, Orange

2 2 $425,000

23.05.20

11.45am - 12.15pm

15 Lawson Crescent, Orange

3 1 1 $429,000

23.05.20

11.45am - 12.15pm

20 Casey Street, Orange

3 1 1 $329,000

23.05.20

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Sunshine

ORANGE CITY LIFE IS PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO BRING YOU A SERIALISED VERSION OF THE ACCLAIMED NOVELLA, SUNSHINE, FROM MILLTHORPE’S

KIM KELLY

It’s 1921 and the Great War has left in its wake untold tragedy, not only in lives lost but in the guilt of survivors, the deep-set scars of old wounds and the sting of redoubled bigotries. In the tiny hamlet of Sunshine, on the far-flung desert’s edge, three very different ex-servicemen – Jack Bell, an Aboriginal horseman, Snow McGlynn, a laconic, curmudgeonly farmer, and Art Lovelee, an eccentric engineer – find themselves sharing a finger of farmland along the Darling River, and not much else. That is, until Art’s wife Grace, a battle-hardened nurse, gets to work on them all with her no-nonsense wisdom. Told with Kim Kelly’s inimitable with and warmth, Sunshine is a very Australian tale of home, hope and healing, of the power of growing life and love, and discovering that we are each other’s greatest gifts.

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There comes a time when several hundred corellas can do a man a favour, and this was one of those times. After the passing of the rain, they rose as one from the trees on the northern corner of the river, drying off their wings in the last furnace blast of lateafternoon sun. The flock made a wide arc south towards the Lovelees’ place, all screaming and squawking as they flew, putting on such a show that not even a copper with murder on his mind could have fought the urge to look up at them. Jack had grabbed the little he possessed: his old army great coat; frying pan; billy can; tin mug; the cannister full of lemon-bush tea he’d only just harvested from the whitewoods down by the Brewarrina track. He dragged a scrappy old branch over the fire he’d not got the chance to light – thank Christ – and made his way along the scungy, well-littered stretches of the riverbank, trying to keep his footprints hidden, keeping as low as he could, out of all view. That copper, he must have brought that horse of his creeping through the storm, right down to the schoolhouse, nosing about, wanting to catch Jack unawares – and so he did, until that horse let out a snort to tell him what was up. Jack had barely had time to scramble through the hole in the floor. He’d been warned by Greavy that this new bloke would come for him, and here he was, shiny buttons and all. I am not getting roped in, Jack promised himself, crawling out from between the foundation stumps as he heard the copper

move off towards the Lovelees’. I will not be chained up on that station like a criminal. I’m not a flaming criminal – not in any way other than what the army demanded of me. No more than Art Lovelee was; Jack had seen all that plain enough in the man’s eyes, not to mention his throwaway line of having earned a place as a basket case in Flanders: it’s the murdering that turns your mind inside out and has your soul absconding AWL in fright. They’d recognised each other at first sight. No words for that. And none for this, either: Jack Bell skulking off, running from the law, a felon for living on his own land – for being fool enough to believe things could be any other way. He ducked under the rickety timbers of the wool wharf, his feet sinking into the cool mud, catching his breath; catching his hopelessness. It was time, yes it was time, to hand himself in. Hang himself, one way or another. Be done with it. He closed his eyes against the slash of sun on the water, silver, white hot, his blood pumping molten rock. A frog croaked somewhere behind him where the wharf met the bank, where moss grew in shadows dank and permanent; the corellas returned, chattering, rustling all the branches above, as Jack Bell contemplated giving up. How do you know when enough is enough? How do you know when you’ve stepped over that line between righteousness and delusion? How do you know if you’re right or wrong in the first place? Maybe he had no business digging in here, he began to think in his distress. Maybe he was just another truculent, non-compliant black undeserving of anything more than what he had: nothing. But it wasn’t true, and he knew it. He was a good man; he’d been a good soldier, he’d always been a good worker, and he’d been a good husband, too. How had he been brought to this? He knew the answer to that one as well – he knew it was all about the land, who claimed

it, who owned it, and the law always falling on the side of a white man, be it the bastard squatter who raped his grandmother or King George – but knowing it didn’t change a thing. It was simple, really, and nothing personal, not to them; but it was everything personal to him. It was branded on him in his name, like it might have been on any jumbuck’s rear-end or implement of farming: property of Isiah Bell, who’d come and gone, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Jack’s heart smashed around the enormity of all his losses, and at the sorest centre of his most essential self lay his longing for his little daughter, Mary – the toooverwhelming thought that he’d likely never see her again. And he wanted to die. It’s time, he told himself again. He’d hand himself in quietly; if he was going to submit to defeat, then out at Brewarrina he’d at least be able to do it on good rations – he knew they got a meal of beef out there once a week. It had been a long time since he’d tasted damper, fresh and crusty from the coals; or butter and jam; or real tea. He got out from under the wharf, tucked his shirt in, smoothed back his thick black hair with his hands. He was ready. He stepped up the bank and, like a trap had been laid, there was that mad bastard McGlynn, waiting for him, looking ready, too – that damn rifle in his white-knuckled fist. Jack’s hands automatically leapt above his head, and he made no sound, except perhaps a sigh: So, this is it. Then McGlynn said to him under a flint-eyed squint, ‘Jesus, do you have to look at me like that?’ Like what? Jack had no idea what he was looking like or looking at. ‘I’m not going to shoot you.’ McGlynn pointed the muzzle away, up at the trees. ‘I was just about to get into them birds.’ Idiot, Jack sighed again, but his hands were

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still raised above his head; he didn’t know what to do. ‘That you, Mr McGlynn?’ And here came the copper too, up on his high horse, looming over them. ‘This bloke giving you trouble?’ Both Jack and McGlynn frowned at him askance, but it was McGlynn who spoke: ‘No trouble here.’ ‘Good,’ said the copper, getting down from the saddle. ‘Let’s see that it stays that way.’ He stared at Jack, too young and too full of himself; Jack supposed he was the type with something to prove. He gave Jack a long, careful going-over with that stare and said: ‘Are you the Abo called Bell?’ Jack looked away, repulsed by this young feller’s tone. What can you do with that kind of disrespect? Where can you put it, to keep it at a distance? ‘There’s no trouble here,’ McGlynn said again, and fiercer about it. ‘Good.’ The copper gave him a nod – that full of himself it was a wonder he didn’t choke, as he told McGlynn, ‘And there’ll be even less trouble when this here Bell feller comes with me.’ ‘Goes with you? What for?’ McGlynn didn’t mind giving the police a bit of bastard, either. ‘He’s under arrest.’ The young copper straightened and squared. ‘I have a warr—’ ‘What’s he done?’ McGlynn fairly snarled it at him. And the young copper paled then, though his voice remained steady: ‘He’s to be charged as an idle and disorderly person.’ ‘Get off,’ said McGlynn with a flick of his wrist. ‘This man is not idle – he works for me.’ There was some news for them all; Jack’s eyes nearly fell out of his head. ‘Oh?’ the policeman said. ‘I wasn’t informed of that.’ ‘Well, you have been now, haven’t you.’ McGlynn gave him another get-off curl of the lip. But the copper wasn’t finished: ‘Do you have a permit to employ him, from the Board?’ From the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board, who, like their Queensland equivalent, did nothing in the way of protecting anyone from anything, unless it was to steal kids and wages and land in the name of the Commissioner of Police. Jack knew all about that, of course. When he’d first stepped foot off the ship in Brisbane, waiting on the station platform there for that train up to Rocky, he was greeted with a welcome-home newspaper telling him that the Australian Workers Union was now demanding that no Aborigine be employed anywhere by anyone ever at all – tricky, them blackfellers, undercutting white men’s wages. Lest we forget. He’d thought it was a joke somehow, and nothing to do with him – he’d thought he’d have no trouble getting back into contract

droving. Ha! ‘No, I do not have a flamin’ permit.’ McGlynn took a step closer to the copper, still clenching that rifle in his fist. Jack didn’t want any part of this. The young bloke stood his ground: ‘I suggest you consider making an application, at the courthouse then, Mr McGlynn. It’s a straightforward procedure. Failure to do so will incur an increased fine —’ ‘What do you mean “increased fine”.’ ‘I mean greater than the fine you will receive for employing an Aborigine without a flamin’ permit in the first instance. You have twentyeight days to make your application to the court. In the meantime, you will be issued your flamin’ fine.’ Jack supposed McGlynn would have to buckle at that, take back the lie he’d just told, but he didn’t. He only nodded: ‘Righto.’ And told the copper, with some emphasis: ‘See you later, then.’ Another brief staring competition ensued before the copper was back on that horse of his and heading off. And Jack was asking McGlynn: ‘What did you do that for?’ He knew he wasn’t owed any favours by this man; the last and only significant time they’d met, Jack had all but throttled him. But McGlynn only shrugged and walked away, down along the wharf.

SNOW ‘Thanks anyway,’ the black man said at his back. This man called Bell. Snow didn’t want to look at him: he was still embarrassed at having been sprung on the verge of blowing his own brains out, and remained unconvinced that his was a life worth saving. There was something else, too: the way this Aboriginal man looked at him: warily, like he was the enemy. Snow McGlynn might have been an angry and hatefilled bastard of the worst order, but he wasn’t any man’s enemy, and the contradiction in these two facts sent such a crashing discord through Snow’s mind, he couldn’t make head nor tail of it – a noise worse than these bastard birds, all thirty-seven million of them screaming and shrieking as the sun began to sink through the trees. Snow turned at the end of the wharf and raised his gun. ‘Don’t do that,’ this blackfeller Bell called out to him. ‘Picking off one or two won’t make any difference.’

Still, Snow picked out one, lining it up in the dead centre of his foresight, just wanting this bloke to piss off now. But he didn’t; and Snow couldn’t fire, either: the bird moved and his vision blurred, searching out another. ‘You got a stockwhip?’ the bloke asked him, not going anywhere. Snow couldn’t look at him, but he asked: ‘A what?’ Not sure if he’d understood him. ‘A stockwhip,’ Bell said again. ‘Get in under the trees and crack it for a good half hour or so. Same time every day, just as they’re settling in. You’ve got to teach them – be regular about it. If you just take a couple of shots now and then, they don’t know what you’re on about. You’ve gotta really get in under them to get them to clear off – you’ve got to really give them the sh--s.’ Snow lowered the gun. Shooting at them had definitely achieved bugger all. But he did have an old stockwhip, in the trunk – where this gun belonged. Finally, he looked at Bell, just man to man, just standing there, and he nodded: ‘Yeah. Righto.’ He walked back to the house alone, and went on through the kitchen to the sitting room, where the trunk was – the only thing in the room except that fancy lamp hanging from the ceiling, with its cobwebs and its dust. He’d never been much bothered by the look of a place or lack of material comforts, but it occurred to him now that there was no comfort here at all. He should get a sofa or something; but if he did, that’d only provide another place for the rats to nest. He should get a dog, then, he thought, to deal with the rats, and somewhere wrapped around this idea came a layer of peace, against the crashing of all else. Yeah, I’ll get a dog, he nodded as he opened up the trunk. He didn’t know it yet to think it clearly, but he’d been too fearful of letting anyone near since Moz’s death – man or animal. It wasn’t just the all-day, every-day nightmare of his leaving that was keeping Snow in his own limbo of living death – it was Moz himself. They hadn’t been just mates; they’d been much more than that. War forges bonds that no man could ever speak of – not these men, at least, and not in those days. Then, it only brought shame; a shame that burned through every nerve, through every tight-held touch of love. Snow McGlynn would never love again. But he could get a dog. And a sofa, maybe. He found his old stockwhip in the trunk, kangaroo hide coiled up in a figure-of-eight knot, and tucked behind the boxes of bullets he kept there. Fourteen boxes of bullets, he counted, and he stared at them a moment. What was he doing with all that ammunition? He couldn’t remember buying half that much – a box here and there, just in case – but here it was: a stockpile from a war that had ended almost three years ago to the day, but hadn’t ended yet for Snow. He lay his gun down in the trunk and, this time, he locked it. Back out on the verandah, he unfurled the

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whip and gave her a crack; it had been quite some time since he’d done that, a year or more, since he’d walked away from the farm, and from any communication with his family. Probably time he wrote to his mother, and his brother, let them know he was going all right, when he found the words. He cracked the whip again at the air and, Christ, he almost laughed: stupid thing to be doing, but it felt in some way celebratory, like the marking of something – something good. He walked back over to the trees by the wharf and got right into it, cracking away, striding up and down. And he did let go a laugh when he looked up and saw that it seemed to be working: after ten minutes or so, the birds couldn’t settle. He kept going at it as the sky began to bruise through indigo with the dusk and the flock rose as one again – he could barely believe it, but there they went, buggering off. When he looked back down at the river, all softly glowing in the fading light, he saw Jack Bell down on the bank beside the wharf. He was holding up a couple of cod fish; he said: ‘Care to join me?’ Every word Snow owned flew back down into his chest; he couldn’t say a thing, but he nodded: Yes. And there they sat together, saying nothing and not needing to, while the fish cooked on Jack Bell’s fire at the water’s edge. Snow looked up into the trees, to see if the birds had returned, but all he saw was the Southern Cross, its five bright stars pulsing, four large, one small, all dancing, exploding in their own lonely silence, under the boughs at his back.

It was an expensive evening. When next Snow rode into Bourke some days later, and there made his application for the employment of Jack Bell, he received a fine of ten pounds, six shillings and three pence. How the magistrate arrived at that precise figure, Snow would never know, but supposed he’d earned an added extra for swearing obscenities at an officer of the law, as he had done to that Sergeant Brandell – the little piece of sh--. The constable who took his money didn’t mention it, asking only for the form: ‘What work are you getting the blackfeller to do?’ Snow refrained from telling him where to shove his paperwork; he replied: ‘What I tell him to.’ ‘Yeah, ay.’ The constable grinned – like the little piece of sh-- he was too. And Snow ignored it, signing on the line; he hadn’t seen Jack since that night by the river. In the light of the campfire he’d seen the regimental patch on the shoulder of his coat, though, folded on the ground between them: a rectangle split on the diagonal, he couldn’t see the colours to determine the regiment precisely, but it was Light Horse. There might have been a time, not long ago, that Snow would

have instantly presumed such a coat had been stolen by such a man. Not this time, not this man. They’d spoken only of how good the land was looking with the rain and the gentle flood of winter just past; how sweet the cod was, too; only a handful of words, but somehow Snow knew: Jack Bell had been over there with the rest of them, though he’d guessed most likely in Palestine. Snow had never been the smartest kid at school, but he was a decent thinker, he could nut things through. He could join the dots. And he could decide of his own accord that it was very flamin’ wrong that this man was tramping, all alone, and hiding from the police. He’d be offering Jack Bell whatever work he had going – and he’d be getting him to pay off that ten-pound fine through it. He was feeling generous, but not that generous. The first lot of labouring he’d have going was getting in some grapefruit: he was so pleased with the way his oranges and lemons were coming on, he thought he’d take advantage of this incredibly good growing weather and go early with his grapefruit plans. Grapefruits were also becoming increasingly popular at breakfast tables across Sydney and Brisbane, and he didn’t want to fail to capitalise on this by being too strict with his own schedule of plantings. He wanted to get in before the prices on small trees went through the roof, as they were tipped to – and there was his further business in Bourke that day. He left his horse at the trough outside the courthouse and walked down Oxley Street, the main street of town, to call in at the labour agent, seeing if he could get that odd bloke Ross Brock, who’d been with the gang that brought him his first lot of trees, to bring this next lot out from the railway. Two big pubs, each one big as the courthouse, sat almost facing each other either side of the road here, and they were both full of shearers: one favoured by locals, and one by blow-ins, all glancing for a fight. Could have been any spring-time wool town in Australia, except this was Bourke, where drinking and brawling were the main recreational activities. And none of Snow McGlynn’s business. He touched the brim of his hat as he walked on; he’d never understand why it was that no one ever gave him trouble, why no one his whole life had ever picked a fight with him, that he carried about him an air of serious-bastard that was intimidating at ten paces, and had been since he was a boy – never mind what soldiering had done to him. He just thought people didn’t like him, and that’s why they glanced away. But then, none of us ever really know ourselves, do we? The labour agent bloke recognised him straight off, jumping up from his desk: ‘Mr McGlynn, what can we do for you?’ ‘I’m looking to see if a truck can bring another load of trees out – I’m after that feller by the name of Brock,’ he said. ‘Him in particular?’ the labour agent asked, scratching his bald head at the strangely specific request.

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favour, if he could. It had come to him since his awakening from his own dire despair that there were plenty worse off, and Brock was one of them: his Soldier Settlement acres in Nyngan weren’t worth the paper their transfer-of-title was written on, he remembered Stu telling him; and the last newspaper Snow had read himself, a week ago, had told him too many returned men were facing ruin – unable to work their soil, unable to stock their bare paddocks, unable to pay their debts. It was a disgrace: to sell a man land he had no chance of making any money off, unless he has a spare few hundred pounds to make improvements – money none of them had, because they’d just given up five years and the best of themselves getting wrecked for their country, and for no obviously good reason. ‘Yes,’ he told the labour agent, making it doubly clear: ‘I want that feller Brock to bring the load – that feller with the little kid.’ The agent nodded: ‘All right, I’ll see what I can do. You know it ain’t his truck, don’t you? And I think he’s shearing at the moment – dunno where. Tell you the truth, I’m not sure he’s still on the books. You know he lives down Nyngan way, don’t you? He’s not really from round here.’ Snow almost said, ‘Don’t worry then, get someone else,’ but something stopped him. He saw a picture in his mind of that little snowyhaired boy digging with his little-boy spade in the dust, and without thinking on it further, he told the agent: ‘I’ll wait to find out. Let me know when I come back in next week.’ The agent shrugged: ‘You’re the boss.’ Snow touched his hat in thanks and left. A tawny dog eyed him from across the street, as he returned along it for his horse. He hardly noticed that dog, though – it was the same shade of dirt as the road.

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Sunshine was first published 2019 by Jazz Monkey Publications, copyright © Kim Kelly 2019. The moral right of the author has been asserted . This edition for Orange City Life is pub lished with permission of the author. Some phra ses and words have been altered from the original, for a general audience. All rights reserved. No part of this pub lication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval syst em, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electron ic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwis e without the prior permission of the author. The characters in this book are fictitiou s and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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