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Page of Positivity!! — MELISE COLEMAN —

JESS CONLIFFE On your Vibe... “Your vibe attracts your tribe. If you move through life with kindness and generosity, you’ll find your people. I feel so lucky to have met the most thoughtful people here in Orange.”

Cultivate an use your imagioptimistic mind, n consider alternation, always dare to believe atives, and make possible that you can what others think is imposs ible.”

– Rodolfo Cost a

HALEY MILNE On Seasons.. We experience every season when living in Orange and that’s why I love it. Yes, it gets extremely cold, but we get occasional snow that settles! The change to the colder season sparks the interest of hot drinks and soup. Delish! My favourite ‘cooler month’ tradition is to go out for brunch at one of our awesome local cafes, but, if I’m being completely honest, I do that all year round! Working in the wedding industry, I have found a new love for winter weddings. Long sleeved dresses, cosy blankets and beautiful backdrops for wedding photos, absolute bliss!

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Let’s be real, we all need a little positivity boost from time to time, maybe moreso now than ever, and it can be as simple as a smile from a stranger, an action that’s paid it forward, or as little as a ‘Gday’ text. Whatever it is, we wanted to kick start some positivity leading into the weekend. Because, we feel like we live in a pretty spectacular place, with some incredible people, and we wanted to show that off. In doing so, we caught up with some locals who wanted to send some positive vibes your way..

FIONA SCHOFIELD On living in Orange.. “We chose Orange to make our home for our family and our businesses just over 16 years ago. Orange is big enough, but small enough. Close enough, but far enough. It has a great, diverse community and it’s the central hub for so many outlying areas. It has truly become our home and I feel incredibly lucky to be supported personally and in business by our local community and the extended community beyond.”

SANDON GIBBS O’NEILL On Art and Culture.. ‘Burruguu’ means time of creation in Nhunggal language. Now is the time to create a better future for our children and grandchildren. One where they can walk together as one, be seen as equals in all aspects of society and where colour does not divide. With my art I hope to break down stereotypes, challenge norms and help build education around Aboriginal culture. We are on a path to where we stand in solidarity and walk together. I know that’s a future I would like to be a part of and one I hope our future generations will have.

ROBBIE MORTIMER On Music.. “I have been so well supported by the local Orange community for a number of years when it comes to my music. I love meeting new people who share stories about how my music has been able to take them on a journey or helped them through hard times. There is no greater feeling than having people sing your songs or connect with you on a personal level. I believe I have the best job in the whole world and the age-old saying is when you do something you love, you never work a day in your life. I encourage everyone to be kind, as everyone is fighting a battle we may not know about. Music is the best medicine. Life is good today!

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JOEY THORLEY On people of Orange.. “I have always found the Orange Community to have some of the best people in the country here and I think this year really shows it, it’s been a testing time for everyone in the community and to see local people supporting local businesses is fantastic! Now things are starting up a little more it’s great to see everyone still supporting our local businesses and make a point of doing it and trying to grow our fantastic community and I’m so happy to call Orange my home with great people in it.”

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SOME “LIGHT” ENTERTAINMENT

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Just for a change, I thought we'd have some fun, rather than just have me rant on about something again. Let's be a bit more positive this week. Over the next few weeks OC Life is giving readers the chance to win $500 to spend anywhere in Orange. If you're wondering why we're doing this, there's no particular reason, it just seemed a novel idea at the time, and I thought "why not?" It's all just in the name of having some fun, so let's see how it goes.

HERE'S THE DEAL: Orange City Council has recently purchased 2400 x 4 watt light globes to light up Summer Street between Peisley and Sale Streets. New string lights have already been installed between Peisley and Anson Streets, with the section between Anson and Sale Streets still to be completed. To win the $500 prize, you need to be the first to guess the correct number of light globes between Peisley and Anson Streets. The number is between 1000 and 2000.

DESTINATION: WAIKIKI BEACH, HONOLULU. Is the winter chill getting you down? Sit by the fire and check out this absolute dream. Waikiki beach is one of the most popular ‘touristy’ beaches, I mean, it is BUSY, but it’s also not hard to see why. The beach is lined with hotels, restaurants and shops. So, I had a lot of fun. It was our last destination before flying back to Australia, which was cruel really. Though, after six weeks abroad, we were ready to accept the vegemite on toast with open arms.

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HOW TO ENTER: Entry is by phone only. Be one of the first 20 callers to ring our office at 11am on Monday, then be the first caller to correctly guess the number of lights, if you do, you win! We'll take 20 calls each Monday at 11am until the prize is won. Our office number is 6361 3575 and please note, we will NOT take any calls until precisely 11am, so please don't ring before 11am. It'll be interesting to see how it all goes.

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Ruth’s Music Education Motivation — MELISE COLEMAN —

Music education has been at the heart of Ruth Thompson’s teaching career for over 30 years, and in doing so, she has become a much-loved member of the Orange region.

uth’s ‘Early Years Music School’ [EYMS] operates out of the heritage building at Orange Public School. It has proved very popular with the locals with many families travelling from Molong, Cudal, Millthorpe, even as far as Cowra, to enjoy her sessions. Upon visiting the classroom, a notable sign hung generously along the wall, which read, ‘I don’t sing because I’m happy, I’m happy because I sing.’

“That is very much what echo’s throughout this place.” Ruth explained, “Parents pay me their biggest compliment by saying I’ll come here, tired, sleep deprived, really wanting to stay home in my Pj’s, but knowing I can come here and I will always leave feeling better than when I came.” The vocal based program includes the use of singing games, listening, moving, dramatic play, percussion instruments, books and puppets in a setting of socialisation and wonder. Classes specifically to age

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an abundance of, laughter, which we have a lot of and of course, music, those are the elements. It may be a little muffled to a degree right now, being online and everything, but it’s kept the entertainment going and I cannot wait to see my EYMS family again.” For enquiries please contact Ruth on 0408 835528.

So, with such an incredible demand, Ruth set up her Zoom classes which have been running for over a month now. “It’s been quite funny, because there is about a one second delay, I’ll start singing and all of the children are still, about a second later you see them begin to dance and busting a move.” Ruth laughed. “Friends and family are watching the videos on Facebook so they are all supporting me as well, it’s nice to know other people are enjoying my videos out there. It kept my motivation and my creative juices flowing as well, it got me up in the morning, got me dressed and excited for the day, that kind of stuff.” Excitingly enough, after the two- week school holidays the doors to Early Years Music School will open again, though, like everyone else, there will be conditions and class sizes will be reduced, “It will be a very emotional time,” Ruth beamed, “There are so many people that are just itching to come back to ‘Ruth’s House’, as they call it. I just think that’s the power of community, which we have

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RDA MENTORING PROGRAM The Ten4Ten Leadership program by Regional Development Australia (RDA) Central West is a fantastic initiative that is connecting ten community mentors with ten specially chosen local year 11 students to help them to navigate this important time in their school life. I was delighted when RDA asked me to be one of the mentors and I’m looking forward to providing an insight into the world of politics. Some of the Ten4Ten Mentors recently gathered at Robertson Park including (pictured left to right): Pip Brett (Jumbled), Philip Dodds (Phocas), Kate LorimerWard (NSW DPI), Mayor Reg Kidd (Orange City Council), and Julia Andrews (CSU). Year 11 students across Orange, Blayney and Cabonne council areas are invited to submit a written application to the RDA. Applications close 5pm, Friday, 19 June 2020.

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Your Country Your Voice SOUTHERN FEEDER ROAD RAIL BRIDGE OPEN! Better country roads is an issue very close to the hearts of country people and so it was terrific to open the new bridge over the railway line at Huntley Rd/Leewood estate in south Orange today. The Australian Government has so far contributed $6.45 million for the Southern Feeder Road - $3.45 million for the bridge and $3 million for the next stage which will ultimately link it to the Mitchell Highway. The Southern Feeder eases congestion, makes our roads safer and allows easier access to the hospital, Cadia mine and the sporting fields at Jack Brabham.

It also makes it easier for our farmers to get their produce to market. It’s a great partnership between the three tiers of government and a testament to the skill of Orange City Council’s staff and contractors who’ve been able to deliver it. Congratulations to Mayor Reg, the councillors and everyone at Orange Council who worked so hard to bring the project together - it’s a winner!

RUNS ON THE BOARD √ $3,930 for Orange Scouts √ $9,000 for the Spring Hill Activities Group to support community initiatives √ $10,000 for the Millthorpe Village Committee to improve the safety of Richard Lane.

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√ $55,732 for Millthorpe CWA

Work will soon commence on Stage 3 - the Dairy Creek Road Section.

√ An extra $2.3 million for Calare communities in the Drought Communities Extension Program

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√ $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

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INVESTING IN EDUCATION Last week I attended the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Education Council.

There was a lot on the agenda including an agreement to collectively invest $50 million over four years to establish the National Evidence Institute.

√ $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

• Curate and translate evidence of what works in the classroom.

√ $2.5 million for new classrooms at Catherine McAuley Catholic Primary School

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Libraries help combat loneliness — JONATHAN ROE —

Central West Libraries have reopened their branches around the district and now want to know what their members missed most while they were closed due to Government COVID-19 shutdown.

embers are being asking to respond to an online national survey, which has already shown some interesting results. After book borrowing, social interaction has been the biggest loss felt by the community during the shutdown of public libraries, 44 per cent missed having expert, friendly help from library staff; 40 per cent missed being around other people; 36 per cent missed participating in events and activities for adults, and 20 per cent missed taking part in storytimes with other families.

Sue McKerracher, CEO of the Australian Library and Information Association who are conducting the survey, said it shows public libraries fill a role beyond just distributing books. “Even before the pandemic, governments were concerned about the mental health problems linked to loneliness. These concerns have been heightened over the last three months during the lockdown. Libraries clearly have an important part to play in promoting a greater sense of belonging,” Ms McKerracher said. Results from the Orange postcode have been

overwhelmingly positive, describing the library as ‘a sanctuary.’ “What it is really demonstrating is that we are more than just books for a lot of people,” said Central West Libraries Manager Jan Richards. “That is, it is about social contact and being able to come into the library to sit and read a newspaper, to use our technology, and as a place where they can say hello to people. A

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lot people have indicated from our postcode that one of the things they missed most was seeing the library staff and begin able to talk to them. “What it has demonstrated across the country really is the social impact of libraries and how we help address loneliness.” The Missed My Library Survey can be found on the Central West Libraries website homepage www.cwl.nsw.gov.au

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Australia’s earliest scientific photographs are revealed in a new exhibition

— JONATHAN ROE —

Orange Regional Museum has reopened this month with new photography exhibition, Capturing Nature: early photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893. Capturing Nature is a touring exhibition created by the Australian Museum in Sydney. It was set to open at the Orange Regional Museum in March,1but21/01/13 of course 3:37 the museum was Nooters Club A5 flyer.pdf PM shut due to COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings. The exhibition features 65 large-format photographic prints showcasing the scientific discoveries of Australian Museum scientists between the 1850s and 1890s, while also telling the story of the advent of photography in the young colony, less than 20 years after the birth of photography in Europe. The images range from the initial tentative experiments in the 1850s to the time when photography was becoming an indispensable part of museum practice in the early 1890s. The subjects vary from a large sunfish and the flipper of a sperm whale to a gorilla and the fragile bones of a flamingo. Most of the specimens photographed at the museum are by

taxidermist, Henry Barnes and his son, Henry Barnes Jnr with the help of the Australian Museum’s pioneering Curator Gerard Krefft. Photography at the time was expensive and complicated, so every photograph was carefully planned. The animals were first prepared and posed and then positioned for best natural light and least shadow. The photos were taken in and around the museum, mostly in the courtyards and gardens to best exploit the precious light required by the photographers’ rudimentary cameras. Alongside the specimens, the figures of scientists can often be seen as a gauge of scale. Exhibition curator Vanessa Finney explained that through their photography, Krefft and Barnes were spreading the knowledge of Australian science.

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“In these days of instant digital images, it’s hard to imagine the effort that went into creating photos during photography’s first century and a half. Each single image was precious — and painstaking to create,” Ms Finney said. “Their photographs disseminated to the world the image of Australia and its fauna at a time of great international enthusiasm for the fledgling colony’s unusual plants and animals.” Beautiful, haunting and sometimes strange, Capturing Nature is not only a unique record of early Australian science, but also brings to life the story of one of humankind’s greatest inventions. Capturing Nature is showing at Orange Regional Museum until Sunday 2 August 2020. The Museum is open 9am-4pm daily and entry is free.

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COUNCIL AT WORK Tourists encouraged to ‘love local’ following COVID-19 travel restrictions easing

Orange Regional Museum opens its doors with new photography exhibition easing Australia’s earliest scientific photographs are revealed in a new exhibition, Capturing Nature: early photography at the Australian Museum 18571893, that opened to the public at Orange Regional Museum on Monday 1 June 2020. Capturing Nature is a touring exhibition created by the Australian Museum (AM) in Sydney. It features 65 large-format photographic prints showcasing the scientific discoveries of Australian Museum scientists between the 1850s and 1890s, while also telling the story of the advent of photography in the young colony, less than 20 years after the birth of photography in Europe. The images range from the initial tentative experiments in the 1850s to the time when photography was becoming an indispensable part of museum practice in the early 1890s. The subjects vary from a large sunfish and the flipper of a sperm whale to a gorilla and the fragile bones of a flamingo. Most of the specimens photographed at the museum are by taxidermist, Henry Barnes and his son, Henry Barnes Jnr with the help of the AM’s pioneering Curator Gerard Krefft. Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said he is pleased to see the Museum open its doors with a new exhibition on display. “The exhibition had been set to open in March, but was unable to open until last week due to COVID-19 shutdowns. It’s great to know that both local residents and visitors can now enjoy all that our Museum has to offer,” Cr Kidd said.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said accommodation may be hosted but they will spend more in cafes, restaurants, attractions, shops, gifts and on local produce.

“My top tips for showing the love to our local businesses are showing my guests what Orange has to offer. Whether that’s a visit to one of our many fantastic wineries, a hike around Federal Falls to see the waterfall, a bite to eat downtown at our restaurants, or a quick shopping trip downtown. The list is endless,” Cr Kidd said. An American Express Shop Small report in 2019 measured the ‘Boomerang Dollar’ which is the value of consumer spending within small businesses that flows back into the local community. Of each dollar spent with small businesses, 45 cents are reinvested back into the local community. The money spent flows back into the salaries of residents, payments to local suppliers, charities, schools and sponsorships. The other positive effects of supporting local businesses are the

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Mayor Reg Kidd encourages travellers to support local businesses as travel restrictions begin to ease.

- Tune into ‘The Orange Podcast’ to get up to date information about what is happening around your city at https:// www.buzzsprout. com/1069972

A new $30k tourism campaign ‘We want you back’ will be rolled out this month, a partnership between 10 LGAs (local government areas), Orange360 and Central NSW Joint Organisation. It features Orange, Blayney, Cabonne, Cowra, Bathurst, Oberon, Forbes, Lachlan, Weddin and Parkes.

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*According to Tourism Research Australia visitation to Central NSW year end December 2019.

Construction of the new toilet block in Robertson Park is now complete. The $195,000 toilet block contains 3 separate toilet cubicles, including one accessible toilet and change table. The building is made of similarly-coloured brick and materials to match the nearby CWA hall. The toilets feature a skylight, a paved pergola entrance, and exterior CCTV to monitor activity in the park surrounding the building. Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said he is pleased to see the toilet block come to life, now ready to serve the community and passing visitors. “It may have taken a few years to get the toilets here, but it’s great to see them here now. This will mean local residents have an alternative to the public toilets located in the cultural precinct at Cook Park. These toilets will entice both single vehicles and large busloads of travellers to stop right here in the CBD to stretch their legs, get a bite to eat downtown and use the loos before they head off again,” Cr Kidd said. Cr Glenn Taylor along with a number of other Councillors, has been championing the construction of the new toilet blocks for some time and said he too

- The Orange City Future City Strategy is currently on exhibition. Have your say online at https:// yoursay.orange.nsw. gov.au/future-city

health benefits of local fresh seasonal produce, the environmental impact of low travel miles, the social aspect of getting to know the people behind the product and maintaining the region’s unique character and pride. In 2019 there were 2.8 million domestic overnight visitors who stayed 7.2 million nights in Central NSW and spent $1.3 billion. The majority of visitors to the region came for the purpose of Visiting Friends and Relatives and Holiday (35% each), followed by Business (21%).*

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- The next Orange City Council meeting will be held on Tuesday 7 July 2020. Watch the meeting at https:// www.orange.nsw.gov. au/meetings/livestream/

As domestic travellers begin to visit the regions, they will begin a spending spree worth $1.3billion to the Central NSW economy*, a huge boost for local businesses and will directly benefit the entire community. With a majority 35% of travellers visiting friends and relatives, it is the local hosts who will play a vital role in this transaction.

“Small businesses reinvest in the local economy at a higher rate than chains do, so I’m encouraging everyone to ‘love local’ and get out and spend wisely in our community,” Cr Reg Kidd said.

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Q: What is happening at the corner of Lords Place and Franklin Road? A: Construction is under way on a project that will include: • the installation of pedestrian blisters at the intersection

is pleased to know that the long-awaited project is now complete. “It’s fantastic to see the toilets here. This has been something the community have been asking for, for years and I’m glad I could be a part of making that become a reality, along with a number of my fellow Councillors. One concern the community had was that the toilet block wouldn’t compliment the heritage of the park, but it’s easy to see that the new facilities compliment it nicely,” Cr Taylor said. The toilets will be open during daylight hours only, with the exception of night time events. The Sir Neville Howse memorial that was removed for the construction of the toilet block is still to be relocated.

• a raised pavement platform on the crest of the hill approximately 50 metres south of the intersection • an improved surface with the addition of hotmix asphalt through the intersection The project is set to be complete by the end of June.

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A Day for Beyond Blue

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...I THINK THE MAIN REASON I BOUGHT THE STORE IS SO I COULD MAYBE, DO BETTER, DO BETTER THINGS FOR PEOPLE...

— MELISE COLEMAN —

On Saturday June 27, Nextra in the Orange City Centre will be hosting a Beyond Blue Day from 9am-3pm.

he aim of the day will be raising funds to help with suicide prevention and supporting mental wellbeing of everyone, as we know, times at the moment have been tough for everybody. Store owner, Tracey Pluis explained, “My main motivation for this fundraiser is due to losing one of our good friends recently, so we are doing it in his memory. if we can save one life from doing this, its achieved something. We will be donating 10% of all sales of the giftware range on the day and we will have Beyond Blue pamphlets there so if anyone just wants to come in and grab a pamphlet no fuss,

they are welcome to just come in and grab one. There will also be a raffle drawn on the day with products and services from other businesses involved, (for sale at Nextra now, $2 each or three for $5), with some lucky door prizes as well.” “I think the main reason I bought the store is so I could maybe, do better, do better things for people, and use it as an avenue to assist others. You don’t buy small businesses to get rich that’s for sure,” Tracey laughed, “But you can certainly use it to assist others.” Tracey and her team have a goal of raising $2,500 on the day. The money will then be given to Beyond Blue where it will then be dispersed to different programs for those in need.

“We are just trying to do what we can to raise some important funds for a really important topic. If we can provide money towards a service, which people, in their weakest moment, can call, then to me, that’s an important thing.” For the kiddies (and the big kiddies) there will be delicious cupcakes and balloons as well. Tracey continued, “We will be in crazy costumes and we will make an additional donation ($3.00) a person, anyone that comes dressed vibrantly in blue. Maybe you can’t help financially or buy raffle tickets, but if you come in a crazy blue outfit like a Smurf, we will make an extra donation.” Let’s get behind a great cause Orange.

BUSINESSES INVOLVED INCLUDE; • The Snack Shack • Local Handyman, Sam Roberts • A•J Personalised Creations and Craft And more!

People wishing to can also donate to the fundraiser through this link https://workplace-fundraiser.everydayhero.com/au/nextra-orange-fundraising-day/wizard/share

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Can You Solve Colin’s Word Puzzles? — MELISE COLEMAN —

Colin Richardson is a self-proclaimed word puzzle enthusiast, he has lived in Orange for seven years now and says it’s the longest he’s ever lived anywhere his whole life, having called New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South East Asia and Africa home, just to name a few. “I like words, I like word puzzles,” Colin smiled, “Making them is sometimes more fun than solving them, it’s a process as you see how many words you can crowd into the one puzzle. The first time I created a Find-A-Word was just to simply see if I could do it. When we were living in Zaïre (now renamed

Democratic Rebublic of Congo), we had electricity on our station for maybe one and a half hours a night and that was it. We could never get enough diesel to run the generators. The station we were at had an air strip so power was needed most of the time. So, in any case, there was no TV, there was radio to some extent, but you make your own entertainment. That’s when I completed one of the puzzles, and since then I have completed four or five. The process is quite fun and interesting to do. Basically, to make a long list of names and see which ones you can fit in. It takes days, first of all you’ve got to get the list of words you want to use

...The first time I created a Find-AWord was just to simply see if I could do it...

on your topic. I might have had 200 or so words in a puzzle but I had 300-400 names to pick from,” Colin laughed. “One of the making techniques I used was alphabetical lists and then breaking it down by the length of the names.” Colin admits his puzzles are a little challenging. “Mine can be backwards, forwards, up or down, diagonally or in any direction. Now and then I give it to family members to have a go at, though it has to be people who are really interested in word games to get the biggest kick out of it.” You’ll find Colin’s Find-a-Words in our Yourspace section this week. Give it a go, can you complete it?

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Orange’s super cute businessman, Charlie — JONATHAN ROE —

“I’ve got lots of ideas,” says eight-year-old Charlie Halliday, who is showing signs of being a budding entrepreneur.

s any experienced businessperson will tell you a truly successful business idea is one that sees a problem and provides a solution — and that is just what Charlie has set out to do with his new part-time business venture. “Since there’s doggy day cares, why aren’t their kitty day cares too, where cats can play together?” Charlie asked. And so Charlie’s Kitty Day Care was born. For a small fee, Charlie will look after any kitten under the age of 7 months. Hours are currently limited to Monday afternoons, but he is open to negotiation and will even offer a better rate for regular customers. “We put it up on Facebook and in just a few minutes it already had 28 likes, it was pretty popular,” he said.

“I’ll use the money from what I get to buy things for the cats, more blankets and maybe some other stuff like a little play area or one of those scratching posts.” Charlie said he was also inspired by his young cat Evie, who joined the family just months ago after their 17-year-old cat Hervey went missing for over three weeks. “We felt so sad, he was our only cat, so we got a new cat to keep us company, but then Harvey got found and now we have two kitties!” he said. Talking with Charlie about his new business you do start to get the impression that money is not his main motivation. “I also love the idea because I get to snuggle with cats and play with them. I love cats!” Well, they do say you’ve got to love what you do! You can find ‘Charlie’s Kitty Day Care’ on Facebook.

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Keeping Ben’s Dream Alive — JONATHAN ROE —

“He never would have expected me to carry on with it and stick to it,” says Daniel Quarmby, owner and head coach of United BJJ and Boxing Orange. See, five years ago, running a martial arts gym wasn’t something Daniel ever dreamed of, that was the dream of his brother, Ben. A promising mixed martial art fighter, Ben Quarmby was undefeated both as an amateur and professional and looked set for a career in the top ranks of the sport. But, at the age of 29, Ben was diagnosed with a rare skin cancer and sadly he passed away in September 2015. ‘It was called Merkel Cell Carcinoma, it is really aggressive and most commonly found in elderly people who have been in the sun their whole life, so it just didn’t make sense how he got it,” said Daniel, who first started learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu just as a way to spend more time with his brother. “He was always in the gym since he was 14, even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still was in the gym every afternoon. So, the only way I could spend time with him was to train with him.” As Ben grew sicker, Daniel found himself taking on more of the teaching, and when he passed, Daniel decided to keep his brother’s gym going. “I sort of took over then and people came and went a little bit. I built a shed at home and moved the gym over to my house and slowly more people started coming and we slowly built it up over the years until we got to the stage where we thought we could get a proper business space.” Eighteen months ago, United relocated to One

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Strength Gym in Moulder Street, the move to a more visible location attracting new members. “Slowly. We have been getting more people come and we haven’t had that many people drop off. We were able to add more classes and we started kid's classes but we sort of grew out of the space,” said Daniel, who had lined up a new, larger premises Peisley Street just prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. And for those of you unaware, it’s hard to find an activity with less social distancing than Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ); a form of submission wresting originating in Japan and spread to the world via Brazil, the aim of BJJ is to get your opponent to yield through the use of joint locks and strangle holds. “You can’t get a more close contact sport,” said Daniel, who has been unable to train and run classes since March 23. “It has been hard, we were so busy before this. Six days a week I was in the gym, but all of a sudden, I had all the afternoons and spare time on weekends. So I’ve been doing online seminars and watching videos and stuff like that myself just trying to keep my Jiu Jitsu brain going.” While running a martial arts gym may have started as his brother’s dream, it is most certainly Daniel’s passion now. Like so many who give Brazilian Jiu Jitsu a try, he

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became completely hooked. “I think it is a beautiful thing that you can learn to control somebody without punches and kicks,” he said. “I love the physical side of it, and also the mental side of it. It is like trying to solve a puzzle that is constantly changing. And it is such a hard thing to learn, that you never get bored with it because there is always something new.” Daniel has also discovered that he enjoys teaching the art just as much as his own training. “I love seeing people come in not knowing anything, and at the end of the class they go away having learned one thing or having learned something about themselves; how they react in a bad situation like when somebody is on top smothering them or things like that. I love seeing the kids learn; they get better socially and build more confidence.” Social distancing restrictions have been easing every week and United BJJ and Boxing will be opening their new Peisley Street gym on July 1. And you can be sure to find Ben Quarmby’s picture in pride of place on the gym wall. “He never would have expected me to carry on with it and stick to it,” said Daniel. “And I wish he was here. There’s always things I want to ask him, but I really wish that he could see what I’m doing here now.”

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NAME: ROB DRAGE How long have you worked as a Business Coach? I began my consulting / coaching business in 2010. Based in Western Sydney, I trained and operated as an affiliate to an international consulting group. In 2016 I went solo and began offering services directly to clients with an emphasis on “business beyond the bottom line.” Asking business owners and CEO’s to not only know their numbers, product, systems, processes, customers – but understand and leverage the influences/behaviours/ethics within and outside of the business that impact the bottom line.

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‘I ’m predicting a resurgence’ south west Queensland’s last newspaperman sees opportunity in News Corp closures — JONATHAN ROE —

Here at Orange City life we believe that local independent media is best placed to serve the interests of regional Australia As you may have read, more than 100 of News Corp’s community mastheads will cease printing at the end of the month, but in Outback Queensland the Warrego

Watchman’s James Clark sees the demise of company-run newspapers as an opportunity for a resurgence of local media that really cares about the communities they serve. “I’m looking like the Stephen Bradbury of newspapers. I’m the last one standing,” laughs James, who can now claim to have the last remaining printed newspaper in the entire southwest of Queensland.

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The Warrego Watchman, based in Cunnamulla, will soon be one of just two newspapers being printed west of Toowoomba, and the only Queensland paper for more than 600 kilometres. “All the way out to Chinchilla and Roma, they’ve stopped the lot. I did a little jig when they announced it!” James purchased the Warrego Watchman 11 years ago from second-generation newspaperman and former mayor of the Paroo Shire, Ian Tonkin. “He was rolled in the election, he wanted to get out of town, so he put his newspaper up for sale and like an idiot I bought it!” said James, an experienced journalist, who had initially returned to Cunnamulla to take on the family sheep station. “My brother wanted to leave and I’d had a gutful of big cities. I worked out I had about 12 or 13 years, I reckon, just in big cities — London, Sydney, Hong Kong and then five years in Paris — and I was sick of it.” In between battling a temperamental printing press, James expanded the coverage of the Watchman to the surrounding three shires, an area of 300,000 square kilometres, even opening up an office in the neighbouring town of Charleville to go head to head with The Western Times. Despite having what James considered a superior product, he found it hard to pick up sales in Charleville, where people still thought of the Watchman as ‘the Cunnamulla paper’. “The Watchman has definitely been the better read but people tended to pick it up out of habit,” he said. “The Western Times hadn’t had anyone there for three years, they just ran it from Roma. And before they always just had a kid there, straight out of uni, no idea, not terribly interested and it showed. “Now that they are gone, the road is wide open and next month people are going to be wandering in looking for something to read and the only thing to read will be the Watchman, the Cunnamulla paper, so I’m looking to double the sales!” And that’s not all James has in mind: Roma and St George to the east will soon be without a printed newspaper and he has his sights set on being there to fill the gap. “Roma, that’s quite a big area. In the four core shires that I cover I’ve only got 6,000 people scattered through that and they’ve got 10,000 just in that Maranoa Shire and I would have thought you could sustain a weekly newspaper there. So I’m lining up Roma, I’m lining up St George, and probably Blackhall and Tambo,” said James. “I can see a total takeover of southeast

Queensland from Roma and St George west!” But, if these mastheads are ceasing printing due to financial reasons, why does James believe he can make them a success? “Because we are interested, and they are not… I don’t think they realise, at least out here, print has got a lot of legs in it left. People tell me over and over and over again that they still like to get the print paper and I’m predicting a resurgence! “I think this bail-out by the big boys leaves it wide open for people to assume local control of their newspapers again. And if there’s someone interested and invested, and determined to make a good product, it should do better.”

...I’m looking like the Stephen Bradbury of newspapers. I’m the last one standing,” laughs James... Not that James is saying you will make your fortune in a small-town newspaper, but that has never been his aim. “This is a paper that has never been about money, up-selling people or trying to squeeze ads out of people, it is mostly about trying to keep the stories going, because I like doing the stories and I think they are worth printing and people seem to appreciate it. “I’ve got this little plane I get around in and you go up 5000 feet and think, how good is this! I’m doing journalism in the far reaches of the channel country, it doesn’t get any better! “But I could use a hand. I’ve been writing the whole thing myself for the last two months, every word. If you are up for an adventure, this is the best little newspaper you’ll ever work for. It is an iconic part of the world and you’ll do stories here as good or better than any you’ll do anywhere else!

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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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HARVEST JACK He left for Brewarrina straightaway, hoping to be there Christmas Day – when there’d be less chance of any trouble from the police at his arrival. He knew Snow McGlynn wouldn’t make any formal objection to him leaving; he’d just think that’s what blackfellers do, go walkabout or whatever. Jack wasn’t entirely sure what it was he was doing, except that it was better than doing nothing – and doing it on his own. He needed help. More help than the Lovelees, lovely as they were, could ever provide. If he was going to find his daughter, if he was going to find himself, he needed some strength of numbers to even begin to face the challenge. He needed other blackfellers, just like him. If he stayed at Sunshine, he’d only be perpetuating his mother’s life, and his grandmother before that: living on his own land but at what cost? What pain was it that kept his mother from telling him she was raised right there at Kiriella? He’d never know. That’s what that photograph meant most to him: the raggedy black woman and her white-boss friend, they look happy enough smiling for the camera, but they’re not really friends. Friends are equal – man

to man, spirit to spirit, dust to dust, in every law. Equality: that was something not so much worth fighting for as a fight he could no longer ignore. He had money in his pocket, enough to start something. Start along this path, wherever it might lead. The Seven Sisters would guide him, through this night and all nights to come, as they always had, his mother with him every step. Jack Bell walked and walked towards the rising sun, a sun that touched his face like loving hands and shimmered up the Darling, all over this land: his home, in every leaf, every feather, every grain of sand. He was ready to take it back.

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Snow McGlynn couldn’t look at a corella without thinking of Jack Bell, and since Jack’s technique for upsetting their daily roost worked so well, he didn’t see too many anymore. He often wondered where Jack went, missing the silence of his company, his easy competence at any task. He probably missed him in ways he couldn’t speak of, if he let his mind go there – and he didn’t. His mind stayed mostly with his trees, and it paid off quicker than he’d ever imagined it might. His first saleable crop of the Eureka lemons came at the end of

January, 1922 – and not only were they unexpectedly abundant, they were lipsmackingly beautiful. The following year, he got seventeen tons of lemons in all; eight tons of oranges; five tons of grapefruit – and paid off just over half his development advance. He was doing extremely well, luck falling his way on every count: that year saw the whole district struggling in drought, but thanks to the overhead sprinkler system Art Lovelee set up for him, his citrus was not only viable but sold at a premium. The year after that, 1924, he bought all his new stock from the Lovelees’ nursery – fine young trees they were. They had quite an operation going together, Snow and Art; with the Kiriella melons, plums, apricots and strawberries fetching decent prices as well, they combined resources and invested in a cooling system for Snow’s packing shed. Art purchased a truck they could share, too, to get their cases of produce up to the rail – it had ‘SUNSHINE FRUIT CO-OP’ painted in bright orange lettering up the side. Art would make him drive it, and laugh at him getting up in the cab, calling him a communist every time. Snow didn’t mind. They were forging an industry there in fruit that would quietly blossom and grow for decades to come, and they both knew it. Even still, it wasn’t until almost Christmas 1925 that Snow got around to changing the front gate on his property so that it no longer said ‘Copeland’s Corner’, whoever those Copelands might have been. It wasn’t until then, with his loans paid off, that the place was really his. But he didn’t put his name on the gate; he just called it ‘The Corner,’ as it was generally known anyway;

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nothing and no place would ever seem his enough for him to want to put his name on it. He finally bought a sofa, though, and a good couple of beds for the spare room, for when his mum came up for a visit, sometimes his sister and her kids as well. There were times, for sure, now and again, that he felt the absence of a family of his own. But then his old mate Stu Egan would bring along his – having married a nice girl from Condo and settled not far from there at Yarrabandai. They had three kids already, and Jesus, were they brats – spoiled as. Stu couldn’t tell them no for anything. The two elder ones’d tear up the rows, making a mess, whingeing and crying and carrying on. But Stu was so happy, Snow didn’t mind too much. He fixed up the old wharf of its broken timbers and rusty nails, so all the kids could play down there. And Snow could chuck them off it, into the river, for a bit of fun; chuck the old dog off after them. When he was alone, and it was a bit too quiet in the night, he’d think about Moz. But it was all right, now. Mostly.

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‘Mumma!’ Grace clasped her daughter’s hand to cross the road, for the post office. Such a small town, Bourke, but today it seemed as frantic as pre-Christmas Piccadilly Circus – or perhaps Grace really had left behind all trace of pressed-together Englishness now, changing her perception of what constituted a crowd. The street here was wide and sandy, a strip of desert complete with stray camel parked in the centre of it, oblivious to pedestrian and motor traffic alike. ‘Mumma! Pick me up!’ Her daughter, Eliora, was three and a half and too big to carry – or too big in Grace’s state of advanced pregnancy. The baby wasn’t due for a month yet, but she was huge this time: too heavy and too hot. I’m not doing this again, she promised herself with the novelty of all this warm weather having well and truly worn off. ‘Mumma! Sore feet!’ the child began to wail.

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Grace dragged her along: ‘Sore feet? You don’t know the meaning of sore feet, Ellie.’ ‘Yes, I do!’ Her daughter sulked: ‘You’re mean, Mumma.’ ‘Mean?’ Grace laughed. ‘You don’t know the meaning of the word mean, either, Ellie.’ ‘I do!’ The little girl dragged down with equal force on her mother’s hand. Dear Lord, Grace sighed. What was the child going to be like at fifteen when her wilfulness was highest? ‘Eliora Lovelee?’ Her motherin-law had peered into the bassinette at first inspection of the baby: ‘What is she, a lolly?’ Too sweet, and how she was: the prettiest picture-book child with a halo of gold curls and great big blinking-thinking blue eyes. Now she was a little pain in the rear. Not true, Grace scolded herself, and then scolded Art and whoever invented the rule that children can’t accompany men anywhere unless it involves playing some sort of ball game or the purchase of ice-cream. He was only at the labour hire, seeing about getting in a gang of fruit pickers for the Christmas strawberries and stone fruit, while Grace was picking up her catalogue order from Foy’s department store, in the city – complete delivery of yuletide, from tinsel to toy tea set, from bonbons to new maternity brassiere – half a dozen parcels, for which she’d need both hands. ‘Be a good girl, darling, and we’ll go and have a chocolate milkshake when we’re finished …’ Oooh, yes – they’d have one of them anyway. The chocolate milkshakes at the American Candy Shop Café were the reason she had her mail delivered to Bourke, rather than the one-horse outpost that was North Bourke, nearer Sunshine. Like mother, like daughter, Ellie smartened up at the promise of chocolate anything and without further ado they entered the blessed cool of the tall, grand portico of the Post & Telegraph. Outlandishly grand, it always seemed, this building, with its two-foot-thick iron lace trimmings and chequered marble floor, a monument to days gone by when the wool trade made this town five times its present size, before drought and flood and flood and drought again, and cattle baron Sir Sidney Kidman more recently buying up all the small holdings he could get his hands on, any Soldier Settlements gone bust and any Crown land further outback that might have been left to the full-blood, tribal blacks. ‘Won’t stop till it’s all a wasteland,’ so Art would say at any mention, of the quiet war that sets greed upon nature, one that never seems to make the front page of any paper.

‘Mrs Lovelee, good morning.’ There, at the central counter, was Mr O’Reilly, the assistant postmaster with half a smile for her beneath his black eyepatch from whatever screaming piece of military metal smashed that side of his face. He turned and called over his shoulder to one of the postboys sweeping the floor up the back, snapping a finger at him: ‘Barlow – take Mrs Lovelee’s parcels out to her car. There they are.’ ‘Thank you, Mr O’Reilly – that’s very kind.’ Grace was very grateful. ‘More necessary than kind, I think.’ He chuckled softly at her burden of babes, reaching over the counter with a bull’s eye peppermint for Ellie.

...‘Won’t stop till it’s all a wasteland,’ so Art would say at any mention, of the quiet war that sets greed upon nature, one that never seems to make the front page of any paper... ‘Say thank you,’ said Grace, and her heart clenched every time she gave her daughter this ordinary instruction, her thoughts winging back to little Gordie Brock, for the grapevine chat through the labour agency that told her his mother had taken her own life, drowned herself, not long after he was born. She’d been a nurse, at a repatriation hospital, one who married an angry, wounded soldier; no need for further gossip. Originally from this very town, her name had been Caroline Forrest, before she married, a name that rang a bell somehow, a faint bell. But they all did, didn’t they? ‘Thank you.’ Ellie blinked up at the eyepatch man with her big baby blues, and took the peppermint, even though she didn’t like it. Good girl. ‘Now, I’m sure there’s some letter mail come in for you as well,’ Mr O’Reilly said. ‘I’ll check, save you going around to the box.’ He left them to do just that, and she was grateful for this kindness, too – their post office box was below knee level, somewhat inconvenient for those barely capable of crouching or bending, and she just remembered Art had the key. Never mind, here was Mr O’Reilly, coming back, a couple of envelopes with him: ‘There you are.’

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‘Thank you.’ She glanced at them as she took them from him: the one on top was a receipt upon payment from one of their seed suppliers, she knew without opening it; but the other, addressed in handwriting she didn’t recognise, looked somehow important, its small, neat block lettering somehow personal; she flipped it over and saw the return: J. BELL, and a street in Redfern, Sydney. Jack. She knew it was him immediately, wherever he was, and she tore the envelope open there and then.

even than the Board in New South Wales. But we will keep trying. I will find my little girl one day. In the meantime, I have begun to study the law myself. I am not permitted to enrol at any college or university, but that doesn’t prevent me from educating myself. It’s a long road, but I’m on it. Anyway, I wanted you to know that your goodness towards me has come to some good. I hope to see you again when I return to Bourke, with the AAPA – possibly next year. With respect and great fondness, Jack

Dear Grace, It has been a while. I think of you and Art often, but I have not had much to say until now. I am in Sydney these days, working at the Eveleigh Railyards. When I left your place that night, I went out to Brewarrina, thinking I should be with my own people. It is a sorry place, full of too many who have had too much taken away. There are no real jobs and no hope for the children being raised there. There is only servitude and little or no pay. Some other men and I decided to try our luck in the city. Redfern is a place now where a black man can work as any other man, labouring with the railways, chopping sleepers with a broad-axe, or sometimes carting produce up to the markets, doing the heavy work whitefellers don’t want to do, so we were able to get permission to go without too much trouble. Whenever I see the name ‘Sunshine Fruit Co-Op’ stamped on a crate I smile, knowing it’s you there. It has been the best decision, me coming to Sydney. Last year I met a man called Fred Maynard who has begun a movement called the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association. He is an inspiration to me and many others here as well, a black man speaking out with force and fine language on matters of equality in the law, the right to vote, to have opportunities for education, and fair wages. We are a political organisation, and thanks to the efforts of our Secretary, Mrs Elizabeth McKenzie-Hatton, who has travelled the state all year with our message for justice and fairness, we have now grown to eleven branches and five hundred members. Elizabeth is a few years older than you, but you share the same spirit. She is trying to help me find my daughter, Mary. We haven’t had any luck with this as yet. The Queensland Aboriginal Protection Board is less helpful

‘Mumma!’ Ellie was dragging on her hem now. ‘Let me see! What is it? Let me see!’ Grace showed her: ‘It’s a letter from a friend.’ Ellie scrunched up her nose: ‘I can’t see.’ ‘You will one day,’ Grace promised her. ‘What see?’ Ellie asked her, doubtful and scowly and possibly about to scream for that milkshake. Grace promised her a good deal more than that: ‘Sunshine, darling.’ She smiled for all good things, touching the top of her daughter’s sweet head with the letter, gold curls brushed and blessed with Jack’s words. ‘It’s just a little sunshine on a page.’

AUTHOR NOTE Sunshine is a fictional place, an imagined hamlet outside the town of Bourke, in far north-western New South Wales, on the edge of Australia’s red desert centre. Everything that happens in the story happened in this country, though. The Soldiers Settlement Plan, devised by commonwealth and state governments during and after World War I, was a great idea at the time, and while there were some successes, like that enjoyed by Grace and Art Lovelee, and Snow McGlynn, by the mid-1920s it was clear that the scheme had been a failure, as it had been for those like Ross Brock, who were sold unworkable land. It was certainly another devastating blow to those Aboriginal people moved off their country to make way for it, but their experiences weren’t officially recorded. Similarly, the experiences of Aboriginal soldiers during that war were not recorded, and their contribution to the Light Horse regiments in Palestine, in particular, has until recently been ignored. It’s impossible to know how many Aboriginal soldiers served, with estimates ranging from five hundred to a thousand, but it’s beyond doubt that the country they returned to shunned them. Men came home to find themselves homeless, unemployable and, in some instances, their children ‘removed’ by the various state Aboriginal Protection Boards. Jack Bell’s situation was tragically too true, for some. But Jack’s resilience is also inspired by the real-life founder of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, Charles Frederick Maynard; he wasn’t a soldier, but he was the first Aboriginal political activist to organise mass protest and gather the intellectual power of Aboriginal people for justice in a formal sense.

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‘I wish to make it perfectly clear on behalf of our people,’ he wrote to Premier Jack Lang in 1927, ‘that we accept no condition of inferiority.’ He laid the foundations for the fight for Aboriginal self-determination and equality, which continues today, and it’s astonishing to me that he’s not a household name. Fred Maynard was helped by the indefatigable white activist, Elizabeth McKenzie-Hatton, who had begun her social work as an Evangelical Christian church missionary but whose understanding of and advocacy for the plight of Aboriginal people routinely brought her into conflict with the church and the Aboriginal Protection Board. Fred and Elizabeth are shining examples of what can be achieved together when love and justice are placed at the centre of action. For the curious, the Goethe poem referred to by Grace on p.79 is ‘Gefunden’ (‘Found’). Some readers might also recognise the small boy, Gordie, as Gordon Brock from the earlier novel, This Red Earth. And as always, the National Library of Australia’s vast database of newspapers, journals and photographs has been an invaluable resource for both historical fact and the flavour of the times. Gratitude is an inadequate word for the thanks I owe my editor, Alexandra Nahlous, not only for her ever soulful insights and word-wrangling, but for her belief in the importance of Australian stories. Thanks, too, to UK agent Barbara Levy, who sent very timely and kind words on the manuscript along with the permission to reproduce the exquisite Siegfried Sassoon quote that sits among the epigraphs to this book. My thanks as always also to designer Alissa Dinallo, and publishing consultant Joel Naoum, for making this book both beautiful and possible. And to the greatest champion of Australian voices ever, Selwa Anthony, your love for this story sends it out into the world with the best magic there is. Sunshine is my bittersweet tribute to the spirit of togetherness and understanding that really does sit at the heart of Australia – if only we’d let it shine a little brighter, and for everyone. And above all this is my love song to that glorious blue sky, red dirt country where my muse de bloke, Deano, my own darling husband, was born.

THIS WEEK WAS THE CONCLUSION OF SUNSHINE. KIM AND OCLIFE HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED IT! 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 published with permission of the author. Some phrases and words have been altered from the original, for a general audience. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the author. The characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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THUMBS UP to the staff who work behind the mall coffee bar at Scrumptious Cafe. Always pleasant, always efficient and never compromise their standards. Much appreciated by a regular customer.

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