ORANGE CITY
NEWSWATCH
LOCAL NEWS DELIVERED WITH — INTEGRITY — WISDOM — BALANCE Saturday 22 August, 2020
www.orangecitylife.com.au
ISSUE No. 14
FREE
Talking POINTS
with BOB HOLLAND
The easing of water restrictions will bring some relief for the community and it’s encouraging that the dam level is up. On the downside, it’s likely that solving Orange’s water security needs for the future will go back onto the back burner until the next desperate situation.
Council’s soft-touch on parking
Vietnam Vets commemorate the past
Orange Council has confirmed what many locals have observed over recent times; parking officers are going gently, gently on fines.
Bitterness is gone but the memories remain for local Vietnam Veterans attending the recent commemoration day at Orange Cenotaph.
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Are we being led astray on COVID-19?
CYMS juniors enjoying rub-of-the-green
Columnist Jeanine Bird examines the politics, power, and money of “Big Pharma” and the coronavirus crisis
Cancellation of Group 10 rugby league senior’s competition has not dented the enthusiasm or competitiveness of Orange CYMS Juniors.
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Judging by the feedback we get after each issue of Newswatch comes out, and the number of letters we’re receiving, our new free newspaper is starting to gain a following, and a growing one at that. We do want to be respected and valued, an influence for good, and a voice of reason, but we fully appreciate not everyone will agree with us on everything. When that happens, we’ll at least try to give other points of view fair treatment. Regular readers would know I’m generally disappointed with the way our Councillors perform, but that said, you have to feel for them over the Covid situation. At this week’s Council meeting they discussed the dilemma they have over who they could or should allow into the City. The reason for the discussion was a request for funding to help stage Wine Week in October. Clearly there is no black and white answer but to their credit, they did make the only decision they could, that is they have no authority in the matter and their only course of action is to follow State Government directives. Someone told me that our Mayor has said that our parking officers have been going gently, gently during Covid. If that’s true it raises a heap of questions, like during normal times, how can you argue it’s not just revenue raising? Or why the need to go gently, gently when there must surely be more available parking spaces due to less people out and about? Parking issues are a hot topic for many people across Orange, me included but based on my experience good sense rarely prevails at City Hall even when the evidence for change or variation is as plain as the nose on your face.
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Wheels of justice catch-up — after two-decade chase!
very briefly The wheels of justice, as they say, grind very slowly and very small. A two-decade tax fraud probe recently ended in jail time for the scheme promoter. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) came to an end with 60-year-old Mr Philip Northam sentenced to six-years jail in the District Court of Queensland at Brisbane. Mr Northam was arrested by the AFP on a warrant issued in 2008 when he re-entered Australia in November 2018 after living in Vanuatu for a number of years. Mr Northam was a key promoter of an intricate tax evasion scheme which was designed to strip Australian companies of their assets and leave them in a position where they were unable to pay their tax liabilities. The illegal scheme concocted a way for companies to transfer all assets of the company to its previous controllers, leaving the company an empty shell which was unable to pay its tax debts.
Astley latest victim of coronavirus
Canobolas should copy Silver City’s mulloch café success
The coronavirus has achieved what a World War failed to stop…
Reader Meryl Hillan has a novel idea for revitalising Mt Canobolas; a restaurant atop of the mount with the stunning 360 degree views of the Central Tablelands.
The competition yearly features fiercelycontested competition with all of the schools getting-behind their various school teams in a variety of sports.
She cites the famous “Broken Earth Café-Restaurant” cited atop the famous mulloch-heaps of Broken Hill as an example of how a bit of creativity can be used to make use of a natural feature of the landscape. “It is a restaurant overlooking the city on top of the mulloch heaps that were left from the mining in the city,” she explained of the famous heaps of rock and rubble outside the Silver City.
The Astley Cup — the 80-year-old sporting tri-series between Bathurst, Orange and Dubbo High schools — has been cancelled for the first time in 80 years due to COVID-19 restrictions.
A compilation points scoring system decides who is the annual winner with the three schools having a fair share of the spoils over the decades.
Mr Northam probably though that, after so many years out of the country, the chances of his being charged were relatively-slight. But everyone knows about the inevitability of death and taxes, George Harrison once penning a Beatles song on the subject when he found out that the sixties super-group were paying an effective 95 per cent tax rate on their earnings…
OH NO — “BEE R” EMB ARG OED!
Embargoes are a type of restriction placed on media releases and other news so that information is not released before-time; such as for federal Budgets, sensitive financial information that could affect markets, or background notes to a court case that could prejudice a fair hearing. Newswatch recently received such an embargoed media release for: International Beer-Drinkers Day! — “urging Aussies to enjoy raising a glass in the age of Coronavirus.” One could imagine high-powered brewing industry execs signing-off on this particularlyexplosive missive with the worried warning: “If this gets out early, anything could happen!”
“BABY GIRL” COULD BRING HOPED-FOR WET SPRING Locals looking for further lifting of water restrictions can more than hope this year with some factual basis. We could be in for a wetter than average spring due to the socalled “La Nina” effect. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has raised its El Niño-Southern Oscillation Outlook to La Niña ALERT status meaning the chance of a La Niña occurring this year has increased to 70 per cent, roughly three-times the normal likelihood. The Bureau’s Manager of Climate Operations, Dr Andrew Watkins, said “La Niña” typically results in above-average winter-spring
rainfall for Australia, particularly across eastern, central and northern regions. “It typically also brings cooler and cloudier days, more tropical cyclones, and an earlier onset of the first rains of the wet season across the north,” Dr Watkins said. The terms “El Nino” (Spanish for “baby boy”) and La Nina (“baby girl”) comes from changes in water temperatures off South America noted by fishermen around Easter each year indicating better or worse fishing conditions — water temperatures that affect rainfall in eastern Australia.
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“Hanging Gardens of Orange” wonder of the modern world Keen to make the sobriquet “the colour city” a reality, Councillor Scott Munro is going after a “hanging gardens of Orange” look. He wants to establish a community garden where annual flowers can be propagated by volunteers before placement around hanging baskets in Orange “This is the type of look I’m after for Summer Street,” the green-thumbed City rep said. “This photo is in Macquarie Street, Sydney,” he added. He wants the “trial hanging Pots On the street outside Robertson Park” to become the norm throughout the CBD.
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GENTLY, GENTLY APPROACH TO PARKING DURING CORONAVIRUS — By DAVID DIXON —
Orange Council has confirmed what many locals have observed over recent times; Council’s parking officers are going gently, gently on fines for overstaying parking limits in the CBD.
But beware! After a long refit for Council’s new vehiclebased mobile parking unit — the much-feared “Robocop” — is back on the beat!
“During the early months of the pandemic, Orange’s main shopping area was noticeably quiet, so the demand for parking turn-over in parking spaces wasn’t as great.”
“Our parking officers haven’t been as high a profile of late as in normal times,” Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd admitted.
Mr Reeder said that, with life returning to normal, so will the routines of Council’s hi-viz boys and girls in blue. “Orange residents know that’s very different now, and drivers should be respectful about the rules and thoughtful about their parking routines.”
“What we’re trying to do is we’re just supporting people in these rough times. We’re just trying to work in with the community in these really tough times,” he added.
The newly-refitted mobile parking unit — known and feared as “Robocop” because of its seeming lack of human agency — is also now back on the beat.
Sightings of parking officers in Orange have definitely been few and far between since late March when the coronavirus quarantines began to bite, with a recent Newswatch staffer (accidentally) parking all-day in the one-hour zone in Lords Place only about 150 metres from the Council Chambers without any penalty. he recent low-profile of the Council parking officers and the absence of the mobile parking unit has raised questions about whether Orange’s sometimes onerous parking restrictions — only half-an-hour for most of Summer Street and an hour for adjacent streets — are excessively-tight. Despite the low-profile approach, Orange City Council’s parking officers are continuing to enforce parking regulations, especially around schools and other high-turnover areas, Orange City Council Communications Officer, Allan Reeder said. “ hese regulations are about making sure there’s steady turn-over, to share the available parking spaces fairly between drivers who want to use them, and for the benefit of local businesses. “It’s also about trying to make sure areas such as school zones are as safe as they can be, and to minimise the risks by encouraging parents to park safely,” he explained. Mr Reeder added that Council had introduced a number of
s Party’s over for illegally-parked vehicles and drivers overstaying timed parking limits, Orange Council has confirmed.
The first unit, which involved a vehicle fitted with a digital camera that recorded car number-plates at regular intervals, was burnt-out in a fire at Council’s McLachlan Street Works Depot in June 2019 which also partially-destroyed the administration building at the site.
s “Robocop,” Council’s ‘marked parking officer car’ is now back on the beat!
changes in response to the COVID pandemic.
“The new unit (known officially as the ‘marked parking officer car’) been fitted-out and it’s been back-up for a couple of weeks,” Cr Kidd said. “The marked parking officer car has been out and about in Orange, keeping up the profile of this important work in school zones and the CBD,” Mr Reeder added. “There are no warnings when it comes to a safety problem,” he emphasised.
“Council’s parking officers have been issuing more warnings for timed parking zone offences. If drivers don’t respond to warnings, the option of a fine is still there. The usual paid parking charges for the Ophir Carpark have (also) been waived for the time being,” he said.
Cr Kidd said that the chronic issues of parking spaces is one that Council is seeking to address with proposals for a new multi-storey car-park in Peisley Street. “We’re after a government grant to do that; if we get it, we’ll build it,” he said.
He added that the relatively-deserted streets in the CBD during the first phase of the coronavirus lockdown had meant fewer parking issues to police.
“At the end of the day, all of us complain about lack of parking… with people with cars, you can never have enough parking,” Cr Kidd concluded.
s Questions about whether Orange’s sometimes onerous parking restrictions — only half-an-hour for most of Summer Street and an hour for adjacent streets — are not excessively-tight.
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s Parking shortage? “At the end of the day, all of us complain about lack of parking…with people with cars, you can never have enough parking,” Mayor says.
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nA small COVID-restricted ceremony marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Orange.
POIGNANT CEREMONY REMEMBERS ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR II END IT WAS A SMALL COVID-RESTRICTED CEREMONY IN A REGIONAL CITY FAR-REMOVED FROM THE FIGHTING THAT RENT COUNTRIES APART, BUT THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY TO MARK THE END OF WORLD WAR II WAS HELD IN ORANGE RECENTLY.
surprise attack on Pearl Harbour and invasion of British and French colonies in Asia. Australia became a base for millions of American soldiers during the war as the might of the US-economy — ten-times that of Japan — wore down the fanatical Bushido code of the indoctrinated Japanese soldiers. While the European war ended with the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945, the Japanese militaristic government continued to resist.
Blasting of the two atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few days earlier saw the fanatical Japanese Nationalistic Government finally succumb on August 15, 1945 when Emperor Hirohito made an historic radio broadcast, the first by a member of the Royal family, declaring defeat in the six-year long conflict that spread from South America to the Arctic Circle.
Meanwhile, Allied scientists (Including Australians) led by the Americans in New Mexico were developing a frightening new weapon that released the destructive power of the stars, nuclear fission, knowledge based on the physics discoveries of ironically, a German Jew, Albert Einstein. After the United States suffered, and inflicted, horrendous casualties in their invasion of the small Japanese island of Iwo Jima, newly-installed US president Harry Truman, authorised the use of the “atomic bomb” against, first Hiroshima, and then Nagasaki.
“One million women and men served, when the population of Australia was only just seven million,” Orange Mayor, Councilor Reg Kidd said. The war was the first in which Australia was directlythreatened with the very real chance of Japanese invasion of the mainland after the attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour in December 1941 and the surrender of the British Garrison (with a large component of the Australian Army) at Singapore in early 1942. Coastal cities as close as Sydney came under direct attack from shells and the infiltration of Japanese minisubmarines with our northern capital, Darwin receiving more bombing tonnage than that at Pearl Harbour over a number of months. Although Australian casualties were not quite as horrendous as the bloodbath on the Western Front from 1914–18, Australians suffered heavily in early fighting against the German War Machine in Africa and in stopping the Japanese advance on Port Moresby on the Kokoda Track. Bitter island-to-island jungle-fighting throughout the South Pacific to remove stubborn Japanese resistance
While many in the Imperial Japanese Army even then determined to fight-on, the radio broadcast-intervention of the Emperor — considered a deity in Japan — saw the Japanese finally surrender.
also led to the loss of thousands of Australian lives. “We should not forget Darwin and Broome were heavily-bombed, Sydney Harbour was attacked, with horrific fighting in Papua New Guinea and the final loss of more than 40,000 Australian lives,” Cr Kidd said. While the war was effectively-declared with the Nazi invasion of neutral Poland in September 1939 with Australian soldiers famously holding-back General Erwin Rommel’s feared Afrika Korps at Tobruk, our focus turned to the Pacific following the Japanese
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All of this loss and drama though, was in the past at the small ceremony in Orange at the Cenotaph last week. “We had just a handful there,” Cr Kidd said. The local RSL, the State and Federal Member, two Vietnam Veterans, and another four people,” Cr Kidd added. “I think it’s terribly-sad that more people aren’t allowed to attend these events due to the coronavirus. “I really missed the (cancelled) Anzac Day services this year, it means a lot to me and I haven’t missed one in years,” he said. “COVID has put severe restrictions on what should have been a time to reflect, and to thank our lucky stars for our freedom... Lest we Forget!” Cr Kidd said.
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SPIRIT OF THE BLITZ IS ENSURING SAFE, SOUND — AND HAPPY! — LOCAL NURSING HOMES Local nursing homes are showing the spirit of the blitz during the current coronavirus crisis with residents, nursing, and care staff keeping their chins-up during this toughest of times.
Both Gosling Creek Aged Care facility and Opal Cherrywood Grove are “alert but not alarmed” — following all Government protocols around the coronavirus to the letter to ensure their residents’ safety.
General Manager of Opal Cherrywood Grove, Suzie Gardner said that keepingup with the “constantly evolving situation in NSW” was the key to ensuring safety of residents.
Essential-only visits, face-masks at home, working remotely, and stringent infection control practices, are just part of the invisible walls that facilities have put in place to protect everyone.
“We are adhering to the NSW Government’s requirements and continuing to nurture our thriving community of residents in our care home. We continue to practice hypervigilance in our care homes, and in our movements outside of the care home.
“While community transmission of COVID-19 remains low in NSW, it is still with us and the unpredictability of the
Genny recently won the hunt for “cheeky monkey”. This has become a very popular and competitive, activity encouraging residents to stay active at Cherrywood Grove.
and infection control practices.” He said though that keeping everyone connected with their lives is just as important.
Hazel Doherty at Gosling Creek Aged Care facility keeping in touch with her son on the phone.
pandemic means we cannot afford to become complacent,” Gosling Creek Aged Care General Manager Danny Oakenfull said. “As we know, elderly Australians are the most vulnerable to COVID-19 and that means our priority is to prevent the virus from entering our home,” he added. In line with the advice from State and Federal health authorities, Gosling Creek has a number of processes in place to keep our residents and staff safe. “That includes limiting visitors to ‘essential visits’ only, and health screening for anyone who enters the home,” Mr Oakenfull said. “In addition, staff are required to wear masks while in the home, and adhere to regular hand sanitisation, physical distancing and infection control practices. We also provide staff with masks for traveling to and from work.
“From a safety perspective, we have a robust COVID-19 plan in place, and it is audited regularly. Every team member and visitor must complete our active
“Keeping our residents active and socially-connected, including regular contact with family is so important. COVID has meant we have had to rethink how we do that. For instance, we have moved the church services online via video link. We have also reconfigured our activity zones into physically-distanced activity nooks that include a library, sewing machine, radio, and board games. “Zoom Zumba classes are extremely popular. Residents can enjoy the active dance class in person from the lounge area, and seated Zumba is on offer for people who are less mobile. “We have also organised weekly window entertainers so residents can continue to enjoy much-loved performances from a safe distance. Just recently, we organised an indigenous dance group to perform in the outside courtyard, with residents watching from the dining room or undercover patio.”
Les and Helena enjoy talking to their loved ones and have quickly-mastered how to use our care home’s iPads at Cherrywood Grove.
Cherrywood Grove is also ensuring that residents locked-down can continue to have opportunities for fun, Ms Gardener said. “Our residents are like everyone else in the community during COVID restrictions and having something to look forward to each day and continuing to participate in the things they enjoy doing, is vital for their wellbeing.” While still taking callers to the facility, friends and family are asked to think first about whether their visit is really necessary.
Arthur Hart engrossed in an audiobook series at Gosling Creek Aged Care facility.
health screening every time they enter our home, which is one of our strongest lines of defence. “All team and visitors are required to ensure hand and respiratory hygiene at all times and to practice spatial distancing as much as practicable while in our home.
Les and Helena enjoy talking to their loved ones and have quickly-mastered how to use our care home’s iPads at Cherrywood Grove.
“We continue to welcome visitors at Opal Cherrywood Grove, however while there is still community transmission in NSW, we ask that people who do not need to visit in person consider alternative ways of connecting. “It is vital that we continue to support the Orange community and, therefore, we are admitting new residents into our home through the pandemic. “Our team continues to focus on maintaining meaningful connections between loved-ones while families stay home to keep our residents safe. Where it is not essential to visit in person, families are connecting using technology we have in our home, such as Zoom, Skype, or FaceTime calls, through window visits or email, postcards, letters, and phone calls. “For many families, we have seen the joy of FaceTiming in the evening to say goodnight or of Zooming with family for an occasion that may otherwise have been missed. Residents have enjoyed learning to use the new technologies and these important connections have become part of life in our homes, just as they are in most households,” Ms Gardiner said.
“All staff must wear personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, when providing care, and adhere to regular hand sanitisation, physical distancing
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Singing in the rain; Stage Four is here!
Soaker hoses, pools, and car-washing are back on… What’s out, what’s back-in, what hasn’t changed, a summary of Orange’s new Level Four water restrictions include:
LAWNS
• No watering.
RESIDENTIAL GARDENS
• No sprinklers. • Only micro-sprays, drip systems, soakerhoses. Limited daily hours, two days a week only (Wednesdays and Sundays, 4–6pm). • One hand-held hose with a trigger-nozzle for up to half-an-hour on those two days.
WATER FEATURES
• Water features can be topped-up.
NEW TURF • No.
SWIMMING POOLS
• Pool covers must be used. Topping-up only between 7–9am and 6–8pm any day.
POP-UP CHILDREN’S POOLS
Locals embracing water-wise is rewarded with new easing GOOD DISCIPLINE OF LOCALS HAS BEEN REWARDED WITH STEADY, REGULAR WINTER RAINS SEEING THE EASING OF ORANGE’S WATER RESTRICTIONS TO LEVEL FOUR. Orange City Council announced the lowered restrictions as the combined water storage-capacity reaches 40 per cent. Early this week, the total water storage level was at 39 per cent with the Level Four trigger imminent. Stage Five water restrictions are the highest that Orange City Council has ever had to impose with the highest level, Stage Six, considered at one point during the recent drought. Timely rains, however, forestalled this most drastic of restrictions. Orange City Council CEO, David Waddell said that Council was easing restrictions to Level Four from Level Five as the storage reached the 40 per cent milestone.
WASHING CARS AT HOME
“Given the recent rain, we have had a huge increase in the amount of water flowing into Suma Park Dam from natural inflows in Summer Hill Creek. As of (last) Monday morning, it was flowing at the rate of 57 megalitres per day,” Mr Waddell said.
BATHS AND SHOWERS
“By comparison, earlier in the year, there was a total of 183 megalitres of natural inflows into the dam during the three months between mid-February to Mid-May.
• May be used.
• Washing cars with bucket only on lawn from 9–12 noon, any day. • Suggested limit of five-minute shower. One bath per-day.
WASHING MACHINES • Full loads only.
EVAPORATIVE COOLERS
• Only to be used from 7am to midnight daily.
KEY DIFFERENCES FROM LEVEL FIVE TO LEVEL FOUR:
• Micro-sprays or soaker-hoses on gardens are permitted for two-hours on two days per week; • Within those two-hour periods, buckets, watering cans, drip systems, or a hand-held hose with a trigger nozzle for 30 minutes, two days per-week; • Topping-up of swimming pools permitted; • Washing cars at home on the lawn, with a bucket between 9–12 noon permitted.
“This, combined with our storm-water harvesting schemes and the Macquarie Pipeline, means we can realistically strive to reach 50 per cent storage in the next couple of months. But, we’ll need residents to continue to be careful with Level Four restrictions. “I’d also like to thank the Water Minister (Melinda Pavey) for her continued support for water projects in Orange and the region throughout this really tough time.” Mr Waddell said that the self-discipline and community spirit of locals had also played a central factor in the easing of some of the restrictions from Level Five (see attached story on new water-use restrictions.)
n IN COMING WEEKS: “Water, Water, everywhere…” How “liquid gold” holds the key to Orange’s future.
Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said that — due to the recent rain — water levels in our catchments had risen a total of four per cent in only one week. “That’s phenomenal,” Cr Kidd said. “We can all let out a collective sigh-of-relief as we have tackled the worst of the drought and we’re coming-out the other-side.” “I’d like to congratulate the residents of Orange for being so diligent in their responsible use of water over the last 18 months and, indeed, before the drought.” He said though that, while the new 40 percent capacity level is an improvement, much still needs to be done. “I’m again asking Orange residents to keep-up the good work. Let’s all work together to get our storage levels to 50 per cent.” Cr Kidd believes that a half-full storage system will get us through the coming warmer months when rainfall is typically lower and less-reliable. “Fifty per cent will give us the breathing-room we need to get us comfortably-through summer. “I’d like to thank Water Minister, Melinda Pavey, for her enormous help given to Orange and the region in regard to water projects and long-term water sustainability,” Cr Kid concluded.
“The contribution of Orange residents and businesses has also been crucial in getting us through the worst drought on record. “Looking at the forecast, we will likely reach 40 per cent within the next few days. As soon as this milestone is reached, Council will announce the easing of restrictions. Keep in touch with Council via its website and social media accounts for announcements.”
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n “ Rain, rain, don’t go away… the Ploughmans Wetlands are full to overflowing in a good sign for Orange’s water network.
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MUM AND DAD PROPERTY-OWNERS HARDEST HIT BY RENT RELIEF CALLS RENT RELIEF CALLS FOR CBD AND RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTIES HURTS THE RETIREMENT NEST-EGGS OF MUM AND DAD INVESTORS, A LOCAL LANDLORD SAID. Main street landlords are easy targets for criticism over the coronavirus-linked economic downturn hurting many main street businesses, the long-time local property-owner added. The lessor is supported by former wellknown realtor and life-long local, Jan Savage, who said that many of the problems in Orange’s CBD are due to long-term issues that are not directly related to rents or the coronavirus. She said that calls for “rent moratoriums” and rent holidays ignore the continuing cost to the owners of these buildings. “When families invest in real estate, it’s as superannuation,” Ms Savage said. “While they say the property is ‘owned’ by a landlord, it is actually ‘owned’ by the bank to whom they have to pay the mortgage,” she said. “As well as the bank payments, there’s also insurance, rates, which — by the way — are horrendous on commercial properties, upkeep, power bills, the whole lot,” Ms Savage explained.
The lessor agreed, saying that calls to reduce commercials rents ignores the continuing costs of these properties to “mum and dad investors”. “Our family have been brokers for years and years and we only get about $50,000 income from that business. “Lots of small businesses are seeking rent relief, but who else is foregoing income to subsidise other businesses?” the lessor said. “Why are we the only ones expected to provide relief, why have they targeted us?” the lessor asked. She said that giant insurance companies are to blame for much of the high-rents for main street small businesses. “The rent on two of our buildings went-up about 330 per cent recently, from $2000 to more than $6000. “And if your building is vacant, your rent can also go up as the insurance companies say, ‘vacant properties are a greater risk,’ it’s unbelievable,” the lessor said, adding that, the current Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman’s Office inquiry showed how widespread the problem is. “I saw that inquiry was being held and I thought, ‘gosh, it’s not only me, it’s everyone’,” the lessor said. “If you want to look at the reason for high rents in the main street, you can start there,” the lessor added.
...Most people who own commercial premises either as a family, young or old, form a company. So, a property may be listed under a company, it doesn’t mean the company is rich! Ms Savage believes that occupancy rates in Orange’s CBD, with about 15 per cent of shop-fronts vacant, has been a longrunning issue for the Colour City. “There’s always been vacancies in the topblock, we’ve still got a bunch of old shops there, it’s always been a dead-area in many ways,” she said. Ms Savage used her and her late husband Ron’s own business experience as both owners of their own property and as real estate agents as an example to show how complex the issue is. “We ‘owned’ our own building in that sense. The same as many of the others were ‘owned’ but when we say ‘owned’; yes, they were family-owned businesses who ‘owned’ the buildings. “Actually, it was the bank that ‘owned’ the building or buildings as they are mortgaged. So, in effect, businesses, or building-owners, rarely ‘own’ the buildings outright. “They have mortgages to pay, huge rates, and massive insurances to pay. so, looking at owning a commercial investment, it is often impossible to lower rents (one of our family still own a property),” she said.
n Well-known former realtor Jan Savage. Says that many of the problems in Orange’s CBD are due to long-term issues that have nothing to do with rents or the coronavirus.
Ms Savage believes that families buy a commercial building simply as an investment in their future: “Quite often, the building is passed down from family to family, but these families are not wealthy themselves,” she said.
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“Sometimes, it has been passed to them in a huge state of disrepair, and the repairs and upgrades on commercial older buildings or new are horrendous; a loan is necessary for that. “So, add on the costs of upgrades, mortgages, insurances, rates… landlords do not make money out of commercial investments. The only money to be made is when the investment is sold in around 20 years and, if the market is strong and the mortgage okay, then there is a profit,’ she added. “Often the investment is made by parents who may have run a business and they invested in the building for the children. It is seldom a very rich investor who owns all buildings outright.” Many tenants, she said, see a company name on a title and believe that they are dealing with a large city-based conglomerate. “Most people who own commercial premises either as a family, young or old, form a company. So, a property may be listed under a company, it doesn’t mean the company is rich!” she said. Ms Savage said that decision-makers must keep their heads during the coronavirus and consider proposals like rent relief in a cold and realistic economic light. “We’ve got to get the balance right, I know everyone is suffering, but we can’t get all emotive over these things,” she said.
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BOB: I see that Tuesday night’s Council meeting considered some information about the progress Council is making on the long list of projects it is committed to over the next 4 years. I wondered what you thought of the information provided to Councillors and the community from your experience. AMANDA: Council is committed to a large capital program over the next four years, including a spend of some $79 million in the current year. It is difficult to find information of the size of the capital program that Council has delivered in recent years. This is promoted as a large capital program as a strategy to boost infrastructure spending to help the Orange economy recover from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.
AMANDA SPALDING with Bob Holland
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years. I wondered what you thought the information to Councillors and the feedback from Councillors seekingofinformation onprovided an ongoing community from your experience. basis about the numerous projects staff are working on. The is difficult difficult to monitor progress when there are no TP 67% Trending Positively ItIt is Amanda: Council is committed to a large capital program over the next four years, including to monitor progress when there are no milestones against which to measure. I Executive has brought together the total project list for the 2020milestones against which to measure. I have commented on MNC a spend of some $79 million in the current year. It is difficult to find informationhave of the commented size of on this issue before and received feedback sharing my concern. 5% Marginal or No Change 2023 yearsprogram in a consolidated to assistinwith resourcing to this the capital that Council form has delivered recent years. Thisand is promoted as aissue large before and received feedback sharing my concern. MFT 2% Measured for the First Time The Delivery Program should be the single point of reference for all elements of Council’s capital program a strategyrequired to boost infrastructure spending to help the Orange economy understand theassequence to deliver our ambitious capital The Delivery Program should be the single point of 12% Trending Negatively recover for fromthe theyear.’ impact of the COVID-19 crisis. operations. ‘Because the Delivery Program is the key accountabilityTN mechanism for each budget reference forimportant all elements of Council’sall operations. ‘Because DI 7% Delayed Implementation council, it is that it embrace aspects of the council’s operations. The aim is to I was perturbed with the flimsy nature of the information provided by the CEO as part of the Many councils lag several months behind on delivering the Delivery Programthat is the key accountability create document councillors and staff mechanism should regard as their RIFY central reference for in Future Years 7%point Results Council business paper if this is the method that is being used to control expenditure of aover what is planned in their capital One council I decision makingitand performance monitoring.’ Integrated $200 million over 4 years. ‘This report programs. responds to feedback from Councillors seeking for each council, is important that it embrace all(Department aspects of of Local Government 100% information an constantly ongoing basis18 about the numerous staff are workingPlanning on. council’s The and worked at on was months behindprojects on delivering ReportingThe Manual) the operations. aim is to create a document that Executive brought together the total project the 2020-2023 a its capitalhas program which always made list meforwonder why years in Orange councillors and staff should regard as their central reference point different documents that Council does not achieve this as there are various consolidated form to assist with resourcing and to understand the sequence required to City we didour notambitious stop adding the program for 12 months so we deliver capitalto budget for the year.’ contain elements be in the Delivery Program and its monitoring reports including for decision makingthat andshould performance monitoring.’ (Department could catch up!! While that council was poor at planning the Activate Orange Plan. I am aware that some Council staff do take on board some of the prop Local Government Integrated Planning and Reporting Many councils lag several months behind on delivering what is planned in their of capital I am aware that some Council staff do take on board some and delivering projects, it was very good at18reporting on the improvements that we write about, and I am glad to see that there is m programs. One council I worked at was constantly months behind on delivering its capital IManual) notice that Council considered a report on the progress of the Delivery Program andimprovements that we write about, and th of the proposals for program which always made wonder why wecharts did not stop adding for 12 progress of projects withmediagrams and as part of to the program th th in the 4 Quarter Progress Report as there are a lot more actions tha Operational Plan for the 4 Quarter of the year that ended on 30 June 2020. They are not months so we could catch This up!! While that council was poor at planning am glad to seeofthat thereand is more truth in reporting in the with a status Amber the quarterly review. achieved accountability in that and delivering required to do this so we should consider whether it is a Igood use of resources. It is Red, at least partly as a result of changes projects, it was very good at reporting on the progress of projects with diagramsactually and charts of COVID-19 restrictions. are also some which 4th Quarter Progress Report as there are a lot moremeasurements actions Councillors could abuse quarter for Councillors poor also report on the actions in the quarter rather than a cumulative report on what has been There as part of the quarterly review.staff Thisritually achieved every accountability in that couldaabuse For usual example: than that are marked with a status of Amber and Red, achieved over the whole year. The requirement is actually: performance. staff ritually every quarter for poor performance. ...The aim is to create at least partly as a result of changes to services as a result of The kind of visuals we provided for each project were: The Colour City Caravan Park received a red status against the m document thatof assessment to determine The Delivery Program a must include a method the effectiveness COVID-19 restrictions. are average also someof measurements occupancy rate at anThere annual at least 50%’ as the total of each activity detailed in the Delivery Program in achieving objectives. The General councillors and staff which is an improvement. For example: 24.2% for the quarter. The cabins were 47.5% for the quarter. Manager must ensure should that progress reports are provided to the council, with respect to the regard as their Progress of Project A principal activities detailed in the Delivery Program, at least everyThe 6 months. Colour City Caravan Park received a red status against the central reference Bob: I of think I heardoccupancy Councillor Duffy commenting at the measure ‘Maintain rate at an annual average of atCouncil meet point... website containing out of date information. I know you have had issu Quarter 4 50%’ as the total occupancy was 24.2% for the quarter. The Some more useful charts to report on progress could be like this:least you have any comments about this? cabins were 47.5% for the quarter. Quarter 3 Amanda: It Councillor is difficult to find commenting what you want on Council’s websit BOB: I think Yes. I heard Duffy at the Orange City Council does not achieve this as there are out of date information. For example, in writing this column I searche Quarter 2 Council meeting about Council’s website containing out various different documents that contain elements that check on the size of the capital program and was presented with lots of date information. I know you have had issues with the mostly relate to the previous year’s budget. I recommend an overhau should be in the Delivery Program and its monitoring Quarter 1 website do you have any comments about this? ongoing process of removing out of date information. reports including the Activate Orange Plan. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120% AMANDA: Yes. It is difficult to find what you want on Council’s I notice that Council considered a report on the progress I was particularly concerned that there is still a link to the Evocities we Achieved Planned website and there is a lot of out of date information. For of the Delivery Program and Operational Plan for the 4th that Orange left the Evocities program some time ago and seems to b example, in writing this column I searched for the budget to Quarter of the year that ended on 30th June 2020. They to move anywhere but Orange!! check on the size of the capital program and was presented are not actually required to do this so we should consider with lots of Blog Posts that mostly relate to the previous whether it is a good use of resources. It is also a report The kind of visuals we provided for each project were: year’s budget. I recommend an overhaul of the website and on the actions in the quarter rather than a cumulative This is a simplistic visual, but as we can see Project A is not an ongoing process of removing out of date information. report on what has been achieved over the whole year. The progressing as planned. This can be as a result of a number requirement is actually: I was particularly concerned that there is still a link to of issues including poor planning and prioritisation or The Delivery Program must include a method of assessment the Evocities website despite the fact that Orange left insufficient resourcing. to determine the effectiveness of each activity detailed in the the Evocities program some time ago and seems to be It seems that over the last 20 years there has been a Delivery Program in achieving objectives. The General Manager encouraging people to move anywhere but Orange!!
| Saturday 22 August, 2020 |
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HE RTS FOR ORANGE
— BOB HOLLAND —
Last week we launched our Hearts for Orange initiative, it’s an initiative that I believe is a good one at any time, but perfect in the times we find ourselves in right now. Life for many people right now has been described like being in a war, many are in a battle for survival, some it’s the biggest battle they’ve ever faced. Both business owners big and small, and ordinary people from all walks of life find themselves in places they’ve never been and with challenges they’ve never had to face. Uncertainty about all manner of things is in everyone’s thoughts. Like all wars however, they are winnable and often are won against the odds. More often than not, I suspect they are won through great strategic planning
coupled with teamwork, unforeseen circumstances working in one’s favour and possibly a measure of good luck thrown into the mix.
community pride and involvement Next let me remind you of the Team’s part, this is where you come in:
Our Hearts for Orange initiative is what I believe a great strategic plan for helping Orange get through Covid in better shape than most. We the community are the team who need to provide the teamwork to give the plan its best chance. The unforeseen circumstances and good luck could be anything, they could work in our favour or against us, only time will tell that on that one. If you missed our launch last week, let me first remind you of the Strategic Plan. We call them our aims: Create more jobs - by - helping businesses prosper - by - fostering
...If you have a heart for Orange, spend your money where your heart is!...
We need to “better” SUPPORT OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES. Paying lip service won’t cut it, we need to live it! All of us, from our local government, our civic
leaders, our major businesses right down to our neighbours and ourselves, we all need to spend EVERY DOLLAR POSSIBLE here in Orange - no excuses! If you have a heart for Orange, spend your money where your heart is! Finally, the unforeseen circumstances and good luck components, although we have no real control over these, we can influence them. How you ask? Good luck is sometimes likened to reward and reward is often attributed to effort. How well we (the community) do our part, will determine how much reward or good luck the overall strategy gets. Orange can win this war, Hearts for Orange is a good strategy, we have the team to do it, are you with me?
Get tested for any symptom, every time. Help stop the spread of COVID-19. If you have just one symptom, no matter how mild, get tested immediately - even if you’ve been tested before. Testing is safe, easy and free at public clinics. So, if you have any of the following, get tested today.
Juli, Registered Nurse
> Fever
> Coughing
> Loss of smell
> Sore throat
> Shortness of breath
> Loss of taste
To find your nearest testing clinic visit nsw.gov.au or contact your GP
| Saturday 22 August, 2020 |
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6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 10.00 Rage. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 The Sound. 1.30 Father Brown. 2.15 Devil’s Advocate. 2.30 Back In Time For Dinner: 1980s. 3.30 Escape From The City: Central Coast, NSW – The Owens. 4.30 Landline. 5.00 Back Roads: Girgarre, Victoria. 5.30 Midsomer Murders. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.20 Last Tango In Halifax. 9.20 Endeavour. 10.50 Death In Paradise. 11.50 Rage.
6.00 France 24 English News First Edition. 6.30 Al Jazeera. 7.00 BBC News. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.10 Trevor McDonald’s Indian Train Adventure. 3.55 Australia With Julia Bradbury. 4.25 A Glorious Way To Die. 5.25 Inside The SS. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 The Flying Scotsman: A Legend Reborn. 8.30 MOVIE: Platoon. (1986) Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe. During the ’60s, a young, naive soldier encounters the horrors of war on his tour of duty in Vietnam. (MA15+) 10.40 The Vietnam War. 3.55 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. 4.25 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.
Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 9.00 Play School. 9.30 Sesame Street. 10.20 Dot. 10.45 Hoopla. 11.05 Baby Jake. 11.40 Sally And Possum. 12.10 In The Night Garden. 2.05 Grandpa In My Pocket. 2.35 Arthur. 3.05 Molly And Mack. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle. 4.30 Bob The Builder. 4.55 Fireman Sam. 5.20 Zog. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective. 6.55 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 The Stand Up Sketch Show. 8.55 QI. 9.55 The Hollowmen. 12.45 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 1.25 Motherland. 1.55 Friday Night Dinner. 2.25 Close. 5.30 Postman Pat Special Delivery Service. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.
(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 Croatian News. 9.30 Serbian News. 10.00 Dutch News. 10.30 Hungarian News. 11.00 NHK Japanese News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 The Good Doctor: Korea. 1.10 Raised In The System: Youth Behind Bars. 2.05 New Girl. 2.30 Insight. 3.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 3.55 PBS News. 4.55 The Carmichael Show. 6.40 Only Connect. 7.40 Stargate SG-1. 8.30 Robert Kirkman’s Secret History Of Comics. 9.25 Fear The Walking Dead. 11.05 21st Century Sex Slaves. 12.00 MOVIE: 1984. (1984) 2.00 VICE Guide To Film. 2.25 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Basketball. WNBA. Indiana Fever v Chicago Sky.
Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.55 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Ice Stars. 12.50 Horrible Histories. 1.20 The Dengineers. 2.20 TMNT. 2.45 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 3.05 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 3.35 Dragon Ball Super. 4.00 Wow That’s Amazing. 4.30 Hardball. 5.00 Hank Zipzer. 5.25 Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 6.00 Cleopatra In Space. 6.30 Utopia Falls. 7.15 Taking The Next Step. 7.45 The Zoo. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Little Big Awesome. 8.35 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. 8.50 Find Me In Paris. 9.15 The Legend Of Korra. 9.35 Detentionaire. 10.00 Close. 5.40 The Bagel And Becky Show. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.
6.00 ZooMoo Lost. (66) 7.00 Kitty Is Not A Cat. 8.00 Hook, Line And Dinner. 9.00 Reality Cupcakes. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Sugar Dome. 12.00 Guy’s Big Bite. 12.30 Mystery Diners. 1.30 Restaurant: Impossible. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 MOVIE: Race To Witch Mountain. (2009) 7.00 MOVIE: Ice Age: The Meltdown. (2006) Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary. 8.50 MOVIE: While You Were Sleeping. (1995) Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman. 11.00 Bridezillas. 12.00 MOVIE: Dance, Girl, Dance. (1940) 2.00 Home Shopping. 3.00 Hook, Line And Dinner. 4.00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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SBS (3) 6.00 France 24 English News First Edition. 6.30 Al Jazeera. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 George Clarke’s Shed Of The Year. 3.55 Great British Railway Journeys. 4.25 Cycling. Criterium du Dauphiné 2020. Highlights. 5.25 The Battle Of Normandy. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Lost Pyramids Of The Aztecs. 8.30 The Virus: What Went Wrong? 10.10 Michael Mosley: Coronavirus Special. 11.05 Diagnosis On Demand. 12.15 How To Lose Weight Well. 2.05 World’s Best Diet. 3.50 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. 4.20 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.
Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 2.05 Grandpa In My Pocket. 2.35 Arthur. 3.05 Molly And Mack. 3.30 Play School. 3.55 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.10 Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle. 4.30 Bob The Builder. 4.55 Fireman Sam. 5.20 Thomas. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective. 6.55 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.15 Live At The Apollo. 10.00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 10.35 Insert Name Here. 11.05 The Stand Up Sketch Show. 11.30 Would I Lie To You? 12.00 W1A. 12.30 The IT Crowd. 12.55 Women On The Verge. Final. 1.25 Gavin & Stacey. 2.00 Close. 5.30 Wallykazam! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.
(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 The Good Doctor: Korea. 1.10 After The Shootings. 2.05 New Girl. 2.40 PopAsia TV. 3.40 ABC America: World News Tonight. 4.05 Insight. 5.05 Yokayi Footy. 5.40 Takeshi’s Castle Indonesia. 6.35 Abandoned Engineering. 7.30 Why Does Everyone Hate The English? New. 8.30 MOVIE: Star Trek: First Contact. (1996) Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner. 10.30 MOVIE: The Admiral: Roaring Currents. (2014) 12.30 MOVIE: Red Dawn. (1984) 2.35 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.
Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.30 Massive Monster Mayhem. 11.55 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Ice Stars. 12.50 Horrible Histories. 1.20 The Dengineers. 2.20 TMNT. 2.45 Prank You Very Much. 3.15 The Wonderful World Of Puppies. 4.00 Wow That’s Amazing. 4.30 Hardball. 5.00 Hank Zipzer. 5.25 Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 6.00 Cleopatra In Space. 6.30 Utopia Falls. 7.15 Taking The Next Step. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Little Big Awesome. 8.35 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. 8.50 Find Me In Paris. 9.15 The Legend Of Korra. 9.35 Detentionaire. 10.00 Rage. 2.00 Close. 5.40 The Bagel And Becky Show. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.
6.00 ZooMoo (66) Lost. 7.00 Kitty Is Not A Cat. 8.00 Beach Eats USA. 8.30 Ten Dollar Dinners. 9.00 Reality Cupcakes. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Sugar Dome. 12.00 Iron Chef America. 1.00 Guy’s Grocery Games. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Mystery Diners. 4.00 Restaurant: Impossible. 6.00 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Futurama. 8.00 The Simpsons. 8.30 First Dates Australia. 9.30 Marrying Millions. 10.30 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 11.30 Geordie Shore. 12.30 Ex On The Beach. 3.30 Ten Dollar Dinners. 4.00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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WIN (8) 6.00 Reel Action. 6.30 Entertainment Tonight. 7.00 WhichCar. 7.30 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 8.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 9.00 Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On. 9.30 Studio 10: Saturday. 12.00 Jamie & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club. 1.00 My Market Kitchen. 1.30 Healthy Homes Australia. 2.00 Pooches At Play. 2.30 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 The Living Room. 4.30 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Family Feud. 7.00 To Be Advised. 9.30 Ambulance. 10.40 One Born Every Minute. 11.50 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 6. Darwin SuperSprint. Highlights. From Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin. 12.50 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Hour Of Power.
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Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 12.00 Smashhdown! 12.30 Bakugan: Battle Planet. 1.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.30 The Road Trick. 2.00 The Xtreme Collxtion. 3.00 Peaking. 3.35 BattleBots. 4.35 MOVIE: Take The Lead. (2006) 7.00 MOVIE: Legally Blonde. (2001) Reese Witherspoon. 9.00 MOVIE: Fifty Shades Darker. (2016) Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Kim Basinger. 11.20 Heroes. 12.15 Manifest. 1.10 Wife Swap US. 3.00 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 3.30 Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters. 4.00 Bakugan: Battle Planet. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.50 Littlest Pet Shop: A World Of Our Own. 5.10 Yu-GiOh! VRAINS. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!
Fish Of (63) 6.00 The Day. 6.30 The Big Adventure. 8.00 Home Shopping. 9.00 Alaska’s Ultimate Bush Pilots. 9.30 Idiot TV. 10.00 Alaska’s Wild Gourmet. 11.00 American Restoration. 11.30 Life Off Road. 12.00 Storage Wars. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 2.00 American Restoration. 2.30 Fishing And Adventure. 3.00 Boating. 2019 P1 Offshore Powerboat Championships. 4.00 Graveyard Carz. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Graveyard Carz. 8.00 Football. AFL. Round 13. Fremantle v Sydney. 10.30 MOVIE: RocknRolla. (2008) 12.55 America’s Hardest Prisons. 2.05 Late Programs.
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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 The Doctors. 9.00 Jake And The Fatman. 10.00 MacGyver. 11.00 Diagnosis Murder. 12.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 1.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 2.00 One Strange Rock. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Driven Not Hidden. 4.00 WhichCar. 4.30 Mighty Machines. 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 MacGyver. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 6. Darwin SuperSprint. Highlights. 11.20 NCIS. 12.15 Law & Order: SVU. 1.10 48 Hours. 2.05 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 5. Austrian Grand Prix. Replay. 4.05 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 6. Spanish Grand Prix. Highlights. 5.05 The Doctors.
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(82) 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Dora The Explorer. 6.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 7.00 PAW Patrol. 8.00 Totally Wild. 8.30 Kuu-Kuu Harajuku. 9.05 Butterbean’s Cafe. 9.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 10.00 PAW Patrol. 11.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 12.00 Family Feud. 1.10 Man With A Plan. 2.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 To Be Advised. 5.00 Will & Grace. 6.00 MOVIE: Music And Lyrics. (2007) Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett. 8.05 Kojak. 9.05 Columbo. 10.35 MOVIE: I Hate Valentine’s Day. (2009) Nia Vardalos, John Corbett. 12.25 Friends. 3.30 100% Hotter. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 Family Ties.
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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Surf Patrol. 1.30 Beach Cops. 2.00 To Be Advised. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Sydney Weekender. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Farmer Wants A Wife. 8.30 7NEWS Spotlight: Catching A Madman. 9.45 Between Two Worlds. 11.45 Liar. 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
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WIN (8) 6.00 Mass For You At Home. 6.30 Hillsong. 7.00 Leading The Way With Dr Michael Youssef. 7.30 Fishing Australia. 8.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 8.30 The Living Room. 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday. 12.00 Family Feud. 1.00 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn. 1.30 Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On. 2.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 2.30 Australia By Design: Architecture. Final. 3.00 Australia By Design: Interiors. Final. 3.30 WhichCar. 4.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 6. Darwin SuperSprint. Highlights. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Sunday Project. 7.30 Family Feud. 8.30 FBI. 10.30 NCIS. 11.30 The Sunday Project. 12.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.
TV Shop: Home (52) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Amazing Facts Presents. 7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 In Touch Ministries. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey Presents. 9.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 The Avengers. 11.00 MOVIE: Money Talks. (1932) 12.30 The AFL Sunday Footy Show. 2.35 MOVIE: Odette. (1950) 5.00 MOVIE: How To Murder Your Wife. (1965) Jack Lemmon. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 New Tricks. 9.50 The Brokenwood Mysteries. 11.50 Above Suspicion. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Dangerman. 2.30 Adventures In Rainbow Country. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.
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Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 12.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. 12.30 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.00 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 1.30 Rivals. 2.00 Amplified. 2.30 American Idol. 5.30 MOVIE: The Spy Next Door. (2010) 7.30 MOVIE: The Mummy. (2017) Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella. 9.35 MOVIE: Constantine. (2005) Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf. 12.00 Heroes. 1.00 Manifest. 2.00 Wife Swap US. 3.00 Power Rangers Super Beast Morphers. 3.30 Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters. 4.00 Bakugan: Battle Planet. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.50 Ninjago. 5.10 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!
Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Big Angry Fish. 7.30 Home Shopping. 9.30 Timbersports. 10.00 American Pickers. 11.00 Creek To Coast. 11.30 Fishing And Adventure. 12.00 The Fishing Show. 1.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. 2.00 Shipping Wars. 2.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 3.00 Fishy Business. 4.00 Merv Hughes Fishing. 4.30 Counting Cars. 6.00 Football. AFL. Round 13. West Coast v GWS Giants. 8.30 MOVIE: Die Hard 4.0. (2007) Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant. 11.10 Hardcore Pawn. 12.10 Ice Road Truckers. 1.05 Counting Cars. 2.30 Shipping Wars. 3.00 Full Custom Garage. 4.00 Late Programs.
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6.00 Animal Tales. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Sports Sunday. 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show. 1.00 Netball. Super Netball. Melbourne Vixens v Giants. 3.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 15. Newcastle Knights v North Queensland Cowboys. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 The Block. Return. 8.50 60 Minutes. 9.50 Nine News Late. 10.50 Cold Case: New Leads Wanted: Jane Furlong. 11.50 Mysteries And Scandals: Who Killed Chandra Levy? 12.40 Rivals. 1.05 The Baron. 2.05 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Animal Tales. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.
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6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. 7.30 Leading The Way. 8.00 David Jeremiah. 8.30 Mums At The Table. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 NBC Today. 12.00 The Yorkshire Vet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Dr Harry’s Craziest House Calls. 3.30 Escape To The Country. 5.30 M*A*S*H. 8.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys. 10.40 MOVIE: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. (2016) 12.30 The Durrells. 2.30 Casino Confidential. 3.00 Shadow Of Doubt. 4.00 Million Dollar Minute. 4.30 The Yorkshire Vet In Autumn. 5.30 Home Shopping.
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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 The Key Of David. 8.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 6. Darwin SuperSprint. Highlights. 9.00 The Doctors. 10.00 Star Trek. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 MacGyver. 1.00 Family Feud. 2.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 3.00 One Strange Rock. 4.00 Pooches At Play. 4.30 What’s Up Down Under. 5.00 Judge Judy. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 6. Styrian Grand Prix. 11.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 6. Darwin SuperSprint. Highlights. 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 Reel Action. 3.30 Monster Jam. 4.00 Car Crash Global: Caught On Camera. 5.00 The Doctors.
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(82) 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Dora The Explorer. 6.35 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 7.05 PAW Patrol. 8.00 Totally Wild. 8.30 Kuu-Kuu Harajuku. 9.05 Butterbean’s Cafe. 9.30 Scope. 10.00 PAW Patrol. 11.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 12.00 Neighbours. 2.30 Murphy Brown. 3.00 Fresh Off The Boat. 4.00 Rules Of Engagement. 5.00 The Masked Singer Australia. 7.30 Friends. 9.00 MOVIE: The Great Gatsby. (2013) 11.30 Will & Grace. 12.30 Friends. 2.00 100% Hotter. 3.00 Will & Grace. 4.00 Fresh Off The Boat. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.
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6.00 News Breakfast. (2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Landline. 11.00 The Repair Shop. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Marcella. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.15 Media Watch. 9.35 Q+A. 10.40 ABC Late News. 11.10 Fight For Planet A: Our Climate Challenge. 12.15 Late Programs.
6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 First Civilisations. 3.00 Alex Polizzi: Chef For Hire. 4.05 Great British Railway Journeys. 4.35 Britain’s Most Historic Towns. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The Blitz: Britain On Fire. 8.30 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. 9.25 Miniseries: Hungry Ghosts. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games. 12.45 Transfer. 4.00 Late Programs.
Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Father’s Nightmare. (2018) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Farmer Wants A Wife. Final. 8.30 9-1-1: Lone Star. 9.30 Chicago Fire. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Absentia. 12.00 Black-ish. 12.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.10 The Block. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. 8.45 Celebrity IOU. New. 9.45 Nine News Late. 10.15 100% Footy. 11.15 Lethal Weapon. 12.05 Tipping Point. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning (8) Programs. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.15 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Masked Singer Australia. 8.45 Have You Been Paying Attention? 9.45 Just For Laughs Uncut. 10.15 Just For Laughs. 10.45 The Project. 11.45 Late Programs.
Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 The IT Crowd. 8.55 W1A. 9.30 Intelligence. 9.50 Get Krack!n. 10.20 Parks And Recreation. 10.45 Schitt’s Creek. 11.10 Workaholics. 11.55 Plebs. 12.15 Murder In Successville. 12.50 The Office. 1.20 Please Like Me. 1.45 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 2.35 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.
(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Look Me In The Eye. 12.55 Front Up. 1.55 American Boyband. 2.50 Cyberwar. 3.55 WorldWatch. 4.20 This Week. 5.15 Where Are You Really From? 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 Difficult People. 10.15 Sex Toys For Grown-Ups. 11.15 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 This Rugged Coast. 11.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 American Crime. 2.00 Honey I Bought The House. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Foyle’s War. 10.40 Mafia’s Greatest Hits. 11.50 Late Programs.
Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Easy Eats. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.55 Antiques Roadshow. 3.25 MOVIE: Arabian Adventure. (1979) 5.25 The Rockford Files. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Heartbeat. 8.40 Midsomer Murders. 10.40 The Killer Affair. 11.40 Late Programs.
Morning (81) 6.00 Programs. 9.00 Planes Gone Viral. 10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver. 12.00 NCIS. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Law & Order: SVU. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 Law & Order: SVU. 11.20 NCIS: New Orleans. 12.15 Late Programs.
Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.10 Kids’ Programs. 5.00 Hank Zipzer. 5.25 Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 6.00 Cleopatra In Space. 6.30 MythBusters Junior. 7.35 Kung Fu Panda. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Little Big Awesome. 8.35 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. 8.50 Find Me In Paris. 9.15 The Legend Of Korra. 9.35 Detentionaire. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.
6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 12.00 Iron Chef America. 1.00 Guy’s Grocery Games. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Futurama. 5.30 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. 9.30 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell. 10.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 11.30 Late Programs.
Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Ice Road Truckers. 1.00 Ink Master. 2.00 Ax Men. 3.00 Buccaneers & Bones. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Life Off Road. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 American Pickers. 8.30 MOVIE: The Dark Knight Rises. (2012) Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway. 11.50 Late Programs.
Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.00 Robot Wars. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Ultimate Rush. 1.00 The Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 The A-Team. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 Big Bang. 7.30 Territory Cops. 8.40 MOVIE: Twins. (1988) Arnold Schwarzenegger. 10.50 Big Bang. 11.15 Malcolm. 12.15 Miami Vice. 1.10 Robot Wars. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Evolution. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Kids’ Programs.
(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Crocamole. 9.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 10.00 PAW Patrol. 11.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Charmed. 2.00 Cheers. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Seinfeld. 9.00 Two And A Half Men. 10.30 Seinfeld. 11.30 Late Programs.
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6.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Rivals. 12.30 The Garden Gurus. 1.00 Netball. Super Netball. Collingwood Magpies v NSW Swifts. 3.00 Netball. Super Netball. Queensland Firebirds v West Coast Fever. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Getaway. 6.00 Nine News Saturday. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 MOVIE: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. (2018) Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard. Dinosaurs are saved from a volcanic eruption. (M) 10.00 MOVIE: Pacific Rim: Uprising. (2018) John Boyega, Scott Eastwood. Giant monsters threaten the world. (M) 12.05 MOVIE: The Rover. (2014) Guy Pearce. (MA15+) 1.50 Explore. 2.05 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Global Shop. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.30 Wesley Impact.
6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 8.00 Travel Oz. 9.30 NBC Today. 11.30 Mighty Ships. 12.30 Air Crash Investigation. 1.30 A Moveable Feast. 2.00 Intolerant Cooks. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. 5.00 Sydney Weekender. 5.30 The Yorkshire Vet In Autumn. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Honey I Bought The House. 12.30 Escape To The Country. 1.30 Sydney Weekender. 2.00 Creek To Coast. 2.30 Weekender. 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.30 A Moveable Feast. 4.00 Intolerant Cooks. 4.30 Travel Oz.
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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Air Rescue. 1.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 1.30 Farmer Wants A Wife. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Border Patrol. 7.30 MOVIE: Dunkirk. (2017) Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh. During World War II, an evacuation mission is launched to rescue Allied troops who are stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk even as they fall under attack from the advancing German forces. (M) 9.45 MOVIE: Deja Vu. (2006) Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel. After a bomb explodes on a ferry, an ATF agent uses advanced technology to investigate. (M) 12.30 Home Shopping.
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TVguide 6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.00 Four Corners. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Rosehaven. 1.30 Patricia Piccinini: A Dark Fairytale. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 8.30 Fight For Planet A: Our Climate Challenge. 9.35 The Great Acceleration. 10.30 ABC Late News. 11.00 Q+A. 12.10 Late Programs.
6.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 (3) First Civilisations. 3.00 Great British Railway Journeys. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.35 Britain’s Most Historic Towns. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Great Asian Railways Journeys. 8.35 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. 9.30 Miniseries: Hungry Ghosts. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 Bad Banks. Final. 12.00 Greyzone. 3.25 Hugh’s Fat Fight. 4.30 Full Frontal. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.
Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Insert Name Here. 9.00 Sick Of It. Return. 9.30 Schitt’s Creek. 10.15 The Trip To Italy. Final. 10.45 Parks And Recreation. 11.05 Schitt’s Creek. 11.30 Workaholics. 12.15 Plebs. 12.40 Murder In Successville. 1.10 Black Books. 1.35 QI. 2.10 Close. 5.30 Wallykazam! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.
(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 State Of Terrorism. 1.00 Front Up. 2.00 American Boyband. 2.55 Cyberwar. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 Where Are You Really From? 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Dave Gorman: Terms And Conditions Apply. 9.20 Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath. 11.00 Sex Right Now. New. 11.30 The Looming Tower. 12.25 Late Programs.
Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 3.05 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 3.35 Junior Vets. 4.05 Wow That’s Amazing. 4.30 Malory Towers. 5.00 The Next Step. 5.25 Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 6.00 Cleopatra In Space. 6.30 MythBusters Junior. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Little Big Awesome. 8.35 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. 8.50 Find Me In Paris. 9.15 The Legend Of Korra. 9.35 Detentionaire. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.
6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 9.00 Food Network Star. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Sugar Dome. 12.00 Iron Chef America. 1.00 Guy’s Grocery Games. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Futurama. 5.30 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 MOVIE: The Hangover Part II. (2011) Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms. 10.40 MOVIE: Due Date. (2010) 12.40 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.00 Q+A. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.40 Media Watch. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.05 Think Tank. 5.05 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. 8.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 9.00 Rosehaven. Final. 9.30 Planet America. 10.05 QI. 10.35 ABC Late News. 11.05 Four Corners. 11.55 Late Programs.
6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 2.00 First Civilisations. 3.00 Railway Journeys UK. 3.30 Julius Caesar Revealed. 4.35 Britain’s Most Historic Towns. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Tony Robinson: Britain’s Ancient Tracks. 8.30 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. 9.25 Miniseries: Hungry Ghosts. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 24 Hours In Emergency. 11.55 MOVIE: Hide And Seek. (2014) 1.25 Years And Years. 3.40 Late Programs.
Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Friday Night Dinner. 8.55 Gavin & Stacey. 9.25 The Letdown. 9.55 The Thick Of It. 10.30 Intelligence. 10.55 Parks And Recreation. 11.15 Schitt’s Creek. 11.40 Workaholics. 12.20 Plebs. 12.45 Murder In Successville. 1.15 QI. 1.50 Blackadder The Third. 2.25 Close. 5.30 Wallykazam! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.
(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 State Of Terrorism. 1.00 Front Up. 2.00 American Boyband. 2.55 VICE Does America. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 Where Are You Really From? 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 MOVIE: Free Fire. (2016) Brie Larson. 10.10 MOVIE: Seven Psychopaths. (2012) 12.10 MOVIE: Eureka. (1983) 2.30 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Late Programs.
Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 3.05 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 3.35 Junior Vets. 4.05 Wow That’s Amazing. 4.30 Malory Towers. 5.00 The Next Step. 5.25 Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 6.00 Cleopatra In Space. 6.30 MythBusters Junior. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Little Big Awesome. 8.35 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. 8.50 Find Me In Paris. 9.15 The Legend Of Korra. 9.35 Detentionaire. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.
6.00 ZooMoo (66) Lost. 7.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 Big Food Truck Tip. 8.30 Ten Dollar Dinners. 9.00 Food Network Star. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Sugar Dome. 12.00 Iron Chef America. 1.00 Guy’s Grocery Games. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Futurama. 5.30 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Cold Case. 10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.05 Think Tank. 5.05 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 The Heights. 8.30 Escape From The City. 9.30 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. 10.00 Would I Lie To You? 10.30 ABC Late News. 11.00 Louis Theroux: Law And Disorder In Philadelphia. 12.00 Late Programs.
6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 2.00 Over The Black Dot. 3.00 First Australians. 4.00 Great British Railway Journeys. 4.35 Britain’s Most Historic Towns. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. 8.30 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. 9.25 Miniseries: Hungry Ghosts. 10.25 SBS News. 10.55 Tin Star. 12.40 MOVIE: Les Misérables. (2012) 3.30 Hugh’s Fat Fight. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 Late Programs.
Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Hard Quiz. 9.00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 9.30 Motherland. 10.25 Flowers. 10.50 Schitt’s Creek. 11.35 Parks And Recreation. 12.00 Schitt’s Creek. 12.20 Workaholics. 1.05 Plebs. 1.30 Murder In Successville. 2.00 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 2.50 Close. 5.30 Wallykazam! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.
(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 10.00 Basketball. WNBA. Los Angeles Sparks v Minnesota Lynx. 12.10 VICE World Of Sports. 1.00 Front Up. 2.00 American Boyband. 2.55 Does America. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 Where Are You Really From? 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 James Cameron’s Story Of Science Fiction. New. 9.20 Full Frontal. 9.45 Letterkenny. 10.35 Late Programs.
Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 3.05 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 3.35 Junior Vets. 4.05 Wow That’s Amazing. 4.30 Malory Towers. 5.00 The Next Step. 5.25 Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 6.00 Cleopatra In Space. 6.30 MythBusters Junior. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Little Big Awesome. 8.35 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. 8.50 Find Me In Paris. 9.15 The Legend Of Korra. 9.35 Detentionaire. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.
6.00 ZooMoo (66) Lost. 7.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 Big Food Truck Tip. 8.30 Ten Dollar Dinners. 9.00 Food Network Star. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Sugar Dome. 12.00 Iron Chef America. 1.00 Guy’s Grocery Games. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Futurama. 5.30 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.30 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 The Great Acceleration. 1.55 Fight For Planet A: Our Climate Challenge. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 MotherFatherSon. 9.30 Marcella. Final. 10.20 ABC Late News. 10.45 The Virus. 11.10 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 11.40 Late Programs.
6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 2.00 The Point. 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 The Untold Story Of Mesopotamia. 4.30 Britain’s Most Historic Towns. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Greek Island Odyssey With Bettany Hughes. 8.30 Secrets Of The Railway. 9.25 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 10.20 SBS News. 10.50 The Late Session. 11.45 MOVIE: The Trials Of Muhammad Ali. (2013) 1.25 Late Programs.
Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Absolutely Fabulous. 9.00 The Office. 9.30 Black Books. 10.00 Blackadder The Third. 10.30 Parks And Recreation. 10.55 Schitt’s Creek. 11.15 Workaholics. 12.00 Plebs. 12.25 Murder In Successville. 12.55 Sick Of It. 1.20 The Thick Of It. 1.50 Flowers. 2.20 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.
(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 High Tech Airport. 1.00 Front Up. 2.00 Cut-Off. 2.55 Dead Set On Life. 3.20 Yokayi Footy. 3.55 WorldWatch. 5.20 Sloths Save The World. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 RocKwiz Salutes. 9.30 The Good Girls’ Guide To Kinky Sex. 10.25 Trigonometry. 11.15 Full Frontal. 11.45 Taboos And Subcultures. 12.35 Dragula. 2.30 NHK World English News. 3.00 Late Programs.
Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 3.35 Junior Vets. 4.05 Wow That’s Amazing. 4.30 Malory Towers. 5.00 The Next Step. 5.25 Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 6.00 Cleopatra In Space. 6.30 MythBusters Junior. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.25 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.45 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.10 Fruits Basket. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Detentionaire. 10.20 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.
6.00 ZooMoo (66) Lost. 7.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 Big Food Truck Tip. 8.30 Ten Dollar Dinners. 9.00 Food Network Star. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Sugar Dome. 12.00 Iron Chef America. 1.00 Guy’s Grocery Games. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Futurama. 5.30 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.
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Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Jesse Stone: No Remorse. (2010) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Inside The Crown: Secrets Of The Royals. 9.30 ABBA Forever. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Deadly Dates. 12.00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Late Programs.
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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 MacGyver. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver. 12.00 NCIS. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Law & Order: SVU. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 CSI: Miami. 9.25 Elementary. 11.20 The Mentalist. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 Star Trek: Voyager. 3.15 Star Trek: Enterprise. 4.10 The Mentalist. 5.05 The Doctors.
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(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 7.00 PAW Patrol. 8.00 Totally Wild. 8.30 SpongeBob SquarePants. 9.00 Crocamole. 9.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 10.00 PAW Patrol. 11.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Charmed. 2.00 Cheers. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Seinfeld. 9.00 Mom. 10.30 2 Broke Girls. 11.30 Late Programs.
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6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Bachelor Australia. 8.30 Tommy. Final. 9.30 Bull. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.
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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver. 12.00 NCIS. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Law & Order: SVU. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.15 MacGyver. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 Jake And The Fatman. 3.10 MacGyver. 4.05 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.00 Diagnosis Murder.
9GO!
(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 7.00 PAW Patrol. 8.00 Totally Wild. 8.35 SpongeBob SquarePants. 9.00 Crocamole. 9.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 10.00 PAW Patrol. 11.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Charmed. 2.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Seinfeld. 9.00 2 Broke Girls. 11.30 Late Programs.
NINE
6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Bachelor Australia. 8.40 Gogglebox. Return. 9.40 Law & Order: SVU. 10.40 This Is Us. Return. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Late Programs.
9GEM
Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver. 12.00 NCIS. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Law & Order: SVU. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 10.30 NCIS. 11.30 SEAL Team. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 4.00 Late Programs.
9GO!
(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 Scope. 8.35 SpongeBob SquarePants. 9.00 Crocamole. 9.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 10.00 PAW Patrol. 11.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Charmed. 2.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Seinfeld. 9.00 Carol’s Second Act. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 10.30 The Middle. 11.30 Late Programs.
NINE
6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Living Room. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Living Room. 8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.00 Just For Laughs. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping.
9GEM
Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 6. Styrian Grand Prix. Replay. 9.30 WhichCar. 10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver. 12.00 NCIS. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Law & Order: SVU. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger. 10.30 Elementary. 11.30 CSI: Miami. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Late Programs.
9GO!
(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 Totally Wild. 8.35 SpongeBob SquarePants. 9.00 Crocamole. 9.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 10.00 PAW Patrol. 11.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Charmed. 2.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Seinfeld. 9.00 MOVIE: Divergent. (2014) Shailene Woodley, Theo James. 11.35 Late Programs.
6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Celebrity IOU. 2.00 The Block. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. 8.40 Halifax: Retribution. New. 10.25 Nine News Late. 10.55 Timeless. 11.45 When TV Goes Horribly Wrong. 12.40 Tipping Point. 1.30 A Current Affair. 2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Late Programs.
7TWO
TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Heartbeat. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Carry On Constable. (1960) 5.25 The Rockford Files. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 Poirot. 10.40 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 11.40 The Rockford Files. 12.45 Late Programs.
7MATE
Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.00 Robot Wars. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 The Bionic Woman. 1.00 Xena. 2.00 Friday Night Lights. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.30 Regular Show. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 Big Bang. 7.30 MOVIE: Lethal Weapon 3. (1992) Mel Gibson. 9.55 MOVIE: Training Day. (2001) 12.15 Miami Vice. 1.10 Robot Wars. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Evolution. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Polly Pocket. 5.10 Rainbow Rangers. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!
PRIME7
6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Live Well For Longer. New. 2.00 The Block. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 Emergency. 9.30 Botched. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 New Amsterdam. 11.50 Dr Christian Jessen Will See You Now. 12.40 Tipping Point. 1.30 A Current Affair. 2.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Sydney Weekender. 12.30 Intolerant Cooks. 1.00 American Crime. 2.00 Honey I Bought The House. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Air Crash Investigation. 4.30 Medical Emergency. 5.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Rosemary & Thyme. 8.30 Inspector Morse. 10.50 Air Crash Investigation. 11.50 Late Programs. Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 9.00 Storage Wars. 9.30 American Restoration. 10.00 Pawn Stars. 10.30 Shipping Wars. 11.00 American Pickers. 12.00 Ice Road Truckers. 1.00 Ink Master. 2.00 Ax Men. 3.00 Buccaneers & Bones. 3.30 Shipping Wars. 4.00 Merv Hughes Fishing. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Aussie Salvage Squad. 9.30 Demolition NZ. 10.30 Scrap Kings. 11.30 Late Programs. Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Smoke Screen. (2010) 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 America’s Got Talent. 10.15 The Latest: Seven News. 10.45 Autopsy USA. 11.45 Surveillance Oz. 12.15 MOVIE: Deep Family Secrets. (1997) 2.00 Late Programs.
7TWO
TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 New Tricks. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.10 Antiques Roadshow. 3.40 MOVIE: Operation Bullshine. (1959) 5.25 The Rockford Files. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 11.00 Mark Of A Killer. 12.00 My Crazy Obsession. 1.00 Late Programs.
7MATE
Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.00 Robot Wars. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 The Bionic Woman. 1.00 Xena. 2.00 Friday Night Lights. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 Big Bang. 7.30 Young Sheldon. 8.30 MOVIE: War Of The Worlds. (2005) Tom Cruise. 10.45 Big Bang. 11.10 Young Sheldon. 12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 Robot Wars. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Evolution. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Polly Pocket. 5.10 Kids’ Programs.
PRIME7
6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Explore. 1.15 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 16. Parramatta Eels v South Sydney Rabbitohs. 9.45 Golden Point. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Murdered By Morning. 11.50 The Fix. 12.40 Tipping Point. 1.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 The Yorkshire Vet In Autumn. 8.00 Honey I Bought The House. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Creek To Coast. 12.30 Weekender. 1.00 American Crime. 2.00 Honey I Bought The House. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Air Crash Investigation. 4.30 Mighty Ships. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Coroner. 8.30 Lewis. 10.30 A Confession. 11.30 Mighty Planes. 12.30 Redrum. 2.00 Home Shopping. Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 8.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 9.00 Storage Wars. 9.30 American Restoration. 10.00 Pawn Stars. 10.30 Shipping Wars. 11.00 American Pickers. 12.00 Ice Road Truckers. 1.00 Ink Master. 2.00 Ax Men. 3.00 Buccaneers & Bones. 3.30 Scrap Kings. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons. 8.30 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.30 Late Programs.
Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Sweet November. (2001) 2.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 America’s Got Talent. 8.30 MOVIE: The Intern. (2015) Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News. 11.30 MOVIE: Cop Out. (2010) 2.00 Late Programs.
7TWO
TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 As Time Goes By. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.10 Antiques Roadshow. 3.40 MOVIE: The Titfield Thunderbolt. (1953) 5.25 The Rockford Files. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Kalgoorlie Cops. 8.40 Reported Missing. 9.50 To Be Advised. 10.50 Chicago Med. 11.50 Late Programs.
7MATE
Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.00 Robot Wars. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 The Bionic Woman. 1.00 Xena. 2.00 Friday Night Lights. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 Big Bang. 7.30 American Idol. 9.20 MOVIE: Whitney. (2015) Yaya DaCosta, Arlen Escarpeta. 11.05 Big Bang. 12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 Robot Wars. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Evolution. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Polly Pocket. 5.10 Rainbow Rangers. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!
PRIME7
6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 MOVIE: When Harry Met Sally. (1989) 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 16. Sydney Roosters v Brisbane Broncos. 9.45 Friday Night Knock Off. 10.35 MOVIE: Platoon. (1986) 1.00 Hayley & Lauren’s Adelady. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 The Yorkshire Vet In Autumn. 8.00 Honey I Bought The House. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 To Be Advised. 1.00 American Crime. 2.00 Honey I Bought The House. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Mighty Ships. 4.30 Medical Emergency. 5.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Brit Cops. 1.30 Cry Wolfe. 2.00 Late Programs. Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 9.00 Storage Wars. 9.30 American Restoration. 10.00 Pawn Stars. 10.30 Shipping Wars. 11.00 American Pickers. 12.00 Ice Road Truckers. 1.00 Ink Master. 3.00 Alaska’s Ultimate Bush Pilots. 3.30 The Simpsons. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Football. AFL. Round 14. Richmond v West Coast. 9.30 The Front Bar. 10.30 MOVIE: Blade. (1998) Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff. 1.00 Late Programs.
Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Teacher’s Crime. (2008) Art Hindle, Ashley Jones. 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 8.30 MOVIE: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. (2015) Judi Dench. 11.00 To Be Advised. 12.30 Home Shopping. 6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 American Crime. 2.00 Honey I Bought The House. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Mighty Ships. 4.30 Medical Emergency. 5.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Air Crash Investigation. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 11.30 Late Programs.
7TWO
Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Animal Tales. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.55 Antiques Roadshow. 3.25 MOVIE: Up The Chastity Belt. (1971) 5.25 The Rockford Files. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Poirot. 8.40 MOVIE: A Walk Among The Tombstones. (2014) Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour. 10.55 The Commander. 12.25 Late Programs.
7MATE
Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.00 Robot Wars. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 The Bionic Woman. 1.00 Sliders. 2.00 Friday Night Lights. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.00 Malcolm. 6.30 MOVIE: Inkheart. (2008) 8.30 MOVIE: The Dark Knight. (2008) Christian Bale, Heath Ledger. 11.30 Heroes. 12.30 Rivals. 1.00 Robot Wars. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Evolution. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Polly Pocket. 5.10 Rainbow Rangers. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!
Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 9.00 Storage Wars. 9.30 American Restoration. 10.00 Pawn Stars. 10.30 Shipping Wars. 11.00 American Pickers. 12.00 Ice Road Truckers. 1.00 Ink Master. 3.00 American Grit. 4.00 American Restoration. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.00 Friday Night Countdown. 7.30 Football. AFL. Round 14. Western Bulldogs v Geelong. 10.15 AFL Post-Game Show. 11.00 Armchair Experts. 11.30 Late Programs.
| Saturday 22 August, 2020 |
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BIRD’S-EYEview with JEANINE BIRD
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Can We Stop Being Scared Now?
Many Drs Say So – Why Aren’t We Being Told? Are the Pigs in control of our global “Animal Farm,” that we are NOT to be trusted to think for ourselves? Why is it that many well qualified Drs, nurses and researchers are being ignored by authorities world-wide – and actually taken down from social media under the guise of “factchecking” when they’ve tried to alert us to Covid-19 treatments that work? In fact, it could be argued that Orwell’s “1984” is being played out on the big Covid stage for a global audience. Indeed, we are not to receive any information NOT vetted by the Covid Ministry of Truth – which seems to be an unholy alliance between the likes of Facebook, Youtube, and Google “fact-checking” for the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and their fiscal buddies Big Pharma. They want to develop a vaccine come hell or high water, and to hell with the lives of those who might be saved with something that costs just a few cents or dollars, from which they can make nothing much. Our Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) blindly follows the FDA. Where are the researchers in our TGA, Australian governments and health departments? I have previously mentioned Dr Richard Bartlett, one amongst many Drs in the US who’ve spoken out about alternative, AND SUCCESSFUL TREATMENTS for Covid-19, but have been “fact-checked” and taken off social media. Dr Bartlett did an interview (TV) with “America, Can We Talk,” which has now been “removed for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.” Big Brother’s Ministry of Truth hard at work! A group of US Drs claiming to be treating Covid 19 successfully with hydroxychloroquine and combinations, gave a media conference on the steps of the Supreme Court of the US to alert the general public that there ARE answers out there. TrialSite News reported (4/8/20) on Aussie researcher Prof. Thomas Borody’s reasearch where he’s put three FDA & TGA approved drugs together to save lives. One of them is Ivermectin, most commonly used as a drench for livestock. He actually has a few letters after his name taking up a line or two, but read the introductory para to the TrialSite article, “Well-Respected Australian Researcher: Consider Triple Therapy (Ivermectin, Zinc, Doxycycline) for COVID-19:”
Thomas Borody MB,BS, BSc (Med), MD PhD, DSc, FRACP, FACP, FACG, AGAF, touts FDA and TGA approved Ivermectin, which he reports to use regularly in his hospital as it evidences positive results for COVID-19 and should be used immediately to fight the pandemic. The developer of the world’s first cure for peptic ulcers, which saved millions of lives worldwide, employed the same methodology to come up with the Ivermectin triple therapy. With over 30 formal clinical trials, many dozens of observational real-world initiatives and hundreds to possibly thousands of doctors already using the medicine, a particular momentum gains speed for additional randomized controlled trials and, just as importantly, a more serious dialogue about the potential of this approach for pragmatic and economical treatment options for COVID-19. Now, wouldn’t you think some of our bureaucrats in the health/government departments here would look at that instead of blindly adhering to the vaccine “money trail” and locking down a whole nation, bankrupting businesses, casting aside jobs, and scaring the blazes out of people who believe the Ministry of Truth (read “Ministry of Lies” if
you’re not familiar with “1984”). Australia should listen to Prof. Borody, renowned internationally in his fields, who is credited for not only saving 18,000 Aussies from premature death due to his triple-therapy cure for peptic ulcers, but saving the Aust. Govt $10 billion. Instead of listening to the “$10 Billion Man” our governments are hell-bent on spending tens of billions shutting down industries and isolating people who don’t need to be isolated. That’s not counting people who will lose their homes and businesses when banks foreclose, taking their equity in their hard work and dreams. Nor does it take into consideration those who have already, and people who will if this madness isn’t addressed, commit suicide for the prior-mentioned reasons. Hells bells, we are so stupid that we can’t even do something simple and common-sense-like as isolate those WITH Covid-19 and let everyone else get on with it! People in border areas can’t move, and the latest highlighted incident of a mother from Lismore being separated from her new-born bub when it was flown to Brisbane, is beyond the pale! And how simple COULD it be, not according to me, but according to Prof Barody, whose pleading for our governments to safeguard their workers and save people has been totally ignored! He says:
“If nothing else, make it available in aged care homes immediately. Our elderly are at the highest risk and this is a very safe option especially when we have nothing else except ventilators.” “Also, our frontline workers deserve more protection with a preventative medication like this, and as emergency treatment if they test positive.” “An Ivermectin tablet can cost as little as $2 – which could make it by far the cheapest, safest, and fastest cure for Australians and the Australian economy.” Prof. Borody believes it’s a potential life-saver now because the 3 medications are already approved, and “don’t need pre-clinical or clinical trials, nor additional TGA approvals unless the aim is to combine in a single capsule... Patient treatment programs (in the US and elsewhere) indicate it can work within 4-6 days.” So why isn’t it available to aged care homes when they have nothing else? Or to our front-line workers? It’s not just Prof Borody either. Dr Judy Mikovits is worth a search too. She’s a top molecular virologist who says that Covid testing returns an “80% false positive” result. She once worked under Dr Anthony Fauci, who she says delayed the publication of work she did with Dr Frank Ruscetti to replicate the work of French virologist Luc Montagnier to isolate the HIV virus. Fauci delayed to allow his protege, Robert Gallo to publish and take the credit, and in so doing, allowed AIDs to spread globally, and helped Fauci’s 1984 promotion to his current position of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. She denounces Fauci, saying he stole her proprietary research not once, but twice. She has written a book “Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science.” Texas Senator Bob Hall has a facebook page video clip where he interviews quite a few Drs using alternate treatments SUCCESSFULLY. Then, there’s Prof. Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health says hydroxychloroquine, zinc and antibiotics such as azithromycin or doxycycline work too!
| Saturday 22 August, 2020 |
Can you see a pattern here? Cheap and cheerful cures exist, brought to us by common-sense clever Drs and researchers, but denounced by the Ministry of Truth. I’m sure YOU can see the pattern, as you’re infinitely smarter than bureaucrats and health officials, not to mention pollies, who should be doing their own research now, and screaming from the roof-tops. Except, that’s right, they’re not even allowed to participate in parliament – we have the “National Cabinet” instead of the Federal Parliament; and in Victoria, Dogged Dan and a couple of mates making decisions while their parliament is more or less suspended for the duration! Prof. Harvey Risch, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health wrote an article published in The Washington Examiner (and other places). This is worth reading, so that YOU, the reader, can decide if all this passes YOUR smell-test, or is it more about the money than our lives? Do we wait for the fallout, when multi-national corporates buy up Australia, and banks foreclose on our businesses, assets and property because people have gone broke? Lastly, let’s not forget the Tanzanian President and Dr of Chemistry, who sent in covert “Covid” samples from pawpaw, goat and quail, all of which came back positive. Tanzania kicked WHO out too. Of a population of 59.7m, they had 509 cases, with only 21 deaths – 0.00004%. I researched copious figures for myself which shows that in Australia, the number of Covid-19 cases (to population) is 23,558 or 0.092% (of our 25.5m population). The number of DEATHS (to population) is 421, or 0.00165%. Contrast cancer deaths: 48,099 (2020 est.) or 0.19% p.a., and heart (CVD) deaths p.a. are 27,740, or 0.1088%. To put that into perspective, ALL Australian deaths p.a. are 0.6215% (158,493). It’s worth noting that there are not one, but two zeroes after the decimal and before reaching the “one” in the Covid figure - which usually registers on statistics as “0”%. Zip. Zilch. Now, look at available figures for our normal flu seasons – in 2018, of 58,847 cases, there were 125 deaths – 0.0005%. In 2017, of about 250,000 cases 1,163 died – 0.0046%. Compared with 0.00165% for Covid, notwithstanding the lengths we’ve gone to, do we really have a pandemic? By mid March, many Drs in the field were saying there were better ways to treat it than with WHO guidelines, which were killing people. Ooops... if we don’t kill people off and generate a cry for a vaccine, then there’s no money in it for WHO funders, so keep running the pandemic fear campaign? How DO people running these organisations sleep at night? Allowing people to die unnecessarily by covering up cures because they don’t make money, or not allowing people to research what others are doing is unacceptable, unlawful, and unconscionable. God Almighty Himself gave us freewill – ie, we may accept or reject Him. Big Brother gives us no such licence – we’re spoon-fed and denied research (by “fact-checking” & discrediting) so our only choice is “their” way. We’re told we need a global vaccine, and must rush in to accept inadequately tested “flu-shots” when alternatives with long-term histories of safe use exist. If you want to discount using hydroxychloroquine because Trump did, and US Drs say it works with zinc and asthma medications, then listen to Prof Borody who says another treatment exists that does work, needs no authorisation, and could be given to at-risk people now. Here is Prof. Risch’s article outlining the vilification people like him face for standing up for common sense and exploring answers. Explore online; hopefully information hasn’t been “fact-checked” by Big Brother’s Ministry of Truth before you get there!
BIRD’S-EYEview with JEANINE BIRD Hydroxychloroquine works in high-risk patients, and saying otherwise is dangerous
work in those who have just started to have symptoms, or those sick enough to require hospitalization?
Author: Prof. Harvey Risch for Newswatch, published in VO in the Washington Examiner (12/8/20).
The second thing to know is that most low-risk patients survive without treatment. Low risk means you are under age 60 and have no chronic conditions such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, have no past treatment for cancer, are not immunocompromised, etc. High risk means you are over 60 or you have one or more of those chronic conditions. High-risk patients need immediate treatment when they first show symptoms. One should not wait for the COVID-19 test result, which can take days and can be wrong. Again, when Fauci and others say that randomized controlled trials show no benefit for hydroxychloroquine, you must ask: In which group of patients?
As of Wednesday, some 165,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19. I have made the case in the American Journal of Epidemiology and in Newsweek that people who have a medical need to be treated can be treated early and successfully with hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and antibiotics such as azithromycin or doxycycline. I have also argued that these drugs are safe and have made that case privately to the Food and Drug Administration. The pushback has been furious. Dr. Anthony Fauci has implied that I am incompetent, notwithstanding my hundreds of highly regarded, methodologically relevant publications in peer-reviewed scientific literature. A group of my Yale colleagues has publicly intimated that I am a zealot who is perpetrating a dangerous hoax and conspiracy theory. I have been attacked in news articles by journalists who, ignorant of the full picture, have spun hit pieces from cherry-picked sources. These personal attacks are a dangerous distraction from the real issue of hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness, which is solidly grounded in both substantial evidence and appropriate medical decision-making logic. Much of the evidence is presented in my articles. To date, there are no studies whatsoever, published or in pre-print, that provide scientific evidence against the treatment approach for high-risk outpatients that I have described. None. Assertions to the contrary, whether by Fauci, the FDA, or anyone else, are without foundation. They constitute misleading and toxic disinformation. What do you need to know to evaluate these smears against hydroxychloroquine? The first thing to understand is that COVID-19 has two main stages. At the first stage, it is a flu-like illness. That illness will not kill you. If you are a high-risk patient and begin treatment immediately, you will almost certainly be done with it in a few days. When not treated, high-risk patients may progress. The virus then causes severe pneumonia and attacks many organs, including the heart. In this second stage, hydroxychloroquine is not effective. So, if you are told that hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work, ask this question: In which patients? Does it not
Every randomized controlled trial to date that has looked at early outpatient treatment has involved lowrisk patients, patients who are not generally treated. In these studies, so few untreated control patients have required hospitalization that significant differences were not found. There has been only one exception: In a study done in Spain with low-risk patients, a small number of high-risk nursing home patients were included. For those patients, the medications cut the risk of a bad outcome in half. I reiterate: If doctors, including any of my Yale colleagues, tell you that scientific data show that hydroxychloroquine does not work in outpatients, they are revealing that they can’t tell the difference between low-risk patients who are not generally treated and high-risk patients who need to be treated as quickly as possible. Doctors who do not understand this difference should not be treating COVID-19 patients. What about medication safety? On July 1, the FDA posted a “black-letter warning” cautioning against using hydroxychloroquine “outside of the hospital setting,” meaning in outpatients. But on its website just below this warning, the FDA stated that the warning was based on data from hospitalized patients. To generalize and compare severely ill patients with COVID-induced pneumonia and possibly heart problems to outpatients is entirely improper. In fact, the FDA has no information about adverse events in early outpatient use of hydroxychloroquine. The only available systematic information about adverse
events among outpatients is discussed in my article in the American Journal of Epidemiology, where I show that hydroxychloroquine has been extremely safe in more than a million users. It is a serious and unconscionable mistake that the FDA has used inpatient data to block emergency use petitions for outpatient use. Further, already back in March, the FDA approved the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine for hospitalized patients, for whom it is demonstrably less effective than for outpatients. If hydroxychloroquine satisfied the FDA criteria for emergency inpatient use in March, it should more than satisfy those criteria now for outpatient use, where the evidence is much stronger. I can only speculate about the cause of the FDA’s recalcitrance. Hydroxychloroquine is an inexpensive, generic medication. Unlike certain profit-generating, patented medications, which have been promiscuously touted on the slimmest of evidence, hydroxychloroquine has no natural financial constituency. No one will get rich from it. Further, it seems quite possible that the FDA, a third of whose funding comes from drug companies, is under intense pressure from those companies to be extremely conservative in its handling of hydroxychloroquine. If hydroxychloroquine is used widely and comes to be recognized as highly effective, the markets for expensive and patented COVID-19 medications, including intravenous drugs that can only be used in the hospital, will shrink substantially. Whatever the reason for the FDA’s stonewalling on hydroxychloroquine, this much is certain: Americans are dying unnecessarily, the economy is in disarray, and the threads that bind our society together have frayed. I am speaking out, but where is everyone else? Where are our elected officials, including those who are themselves physicians? Some, including Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, have been discussing evidence of the drug’s effectiveness, but where are the rest? This issue should not be a partisan one. If our elected officials are not willing to pry open the FDA, we must elect new officials. Why are we silent? The time to speak is now.
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Vietnam Vets: commemorating and remembering the past BITTERNESS IS GONE BUT THE MEMORIES REMAIN FOR A GROUP OF LOCAL VIETNAM VETERANS ATTENDING THE RECENT COMMEMORATION DAY AT ORANGE CENOTAPH. Many recall without rancour the slights that they were subject to on return from our most controversial of wars but one in which they conducted themselves with professionalism, courage, and a sense of stoic duty that seems lost in the mists of the past 50 years. Formerly Long Tan Day — named after Australia’s most famous action in the 10-year conflict — Vietnam Veteran’s Day has only been held since the mid-1980s. This is not just to acknowledge the ultimate sacrifice of the 521 Australians in the jungles, bush, and villages of South Vietnam, but also to heal the unseen wounds of these servicemen and women. “I was regular army,” Garry Roach says to distinguish from the “regular” and “National Service” (conscripted) soldiers of the Australian forces. “I was there in 1967–68; we viewed it that we were doing our duty, it was that simple” he said. Bryan Hutchinson who “toured” Vietnam in 1970 was one of the thousands of conscripts drawn-out of a macabre lotto ballot depending on your birthdate. For about 200 National Servicemen who died during the 1962–75 conflict, the “winning” numbers meant that you, indeed, lost. That the sons of so many wealthy, well-connected Australians were able to gain “deferment” through either attending university, marriage, or from vague medical conditions, was one of the reasons for the increasing unpopularity of the conflict at home. Bryan was in Vietnam at the crucial moment when Australian public sentiment turned against the war with huge “Moratorium” marches held in most capital cities, events which seemed strangely-distant to the Australians based in Phuoc Tuy province. “Over there, you didn’t think about it, you didn’t think
about politics, you don’t worry about it,” he said. The only thing that rankled, the men said, were strikes by Australian postal workers and other unions that stopped the sending of mail and other goods to the troops in protest at the war. Another local, Noel Clegg was also deployed relatively early-on in Australia’s involvement from 1966–67 before public opinion had turned against Australia’s involvement. “There’s no point in recriminations now, being bitter will kill you,” Bill Murphy said. “I was there from the start of the Tet Offensive in April 1969,” Clark Bell said of the major Vietcong/North Vietnamese campaign that is credited with turning world opinion against the US-led war against the communist North Vietnamese. “Would you believe that, after I came back, I went into an RSL and they said, ‘you have to be signed in by a World War I or World War II veteran?’ We weren’t in a ‘real war,’ we were only a ‘peacekeeping force’ they told me.” Abuse from radicalised university students towards soldiers was common-place at the time, he said, but believes that now is a time of healing. He said that the view of Australia’s 1965–75 involvement (the last Australian combat units were withdrawn in 1972) in the conflict had changed for the better.
here for the Vietnam Veteran’s ceremony, and she said: ‘Thank-you very much for what you did’,” another of the men said. Conscripts, who were often tacitly-allowed to remain back in Australia if they told their commanding officers that they objected to the war, mostly chose to remain in their units due to a sense of camaraderie and mateship. “If you didn’t want to go with your unit, you could tell your officer and no-one would know,” another of the men said. “It was like parachuting, I didn’t want to jump-out of a perfectly-good Caribou (army transport plane) but everyone else was, so I shut my eyes and ran at the hatch,” another added. “In the end we got through it, and I believe that the army made me a better person, it gave me the confidence that I simply didn’t have.” New Zealander David Pepper-Edwards recalls being on one of the artillery guns (Royal New Zealand Artillery 161st Battery) that saved the Australian platoons at Long Tan
“The early rejection that we suffered, that was a long time ago, everything’s different now.“ He said that most Australians who remember those divisive times see now that the abuse of individual Australian troops was wrong. “When we were abused by everybody, that doesn’t exist anymore. A lot of people have seen their ways. They realise now that it wasn’t the soldier’s fault, it was the government that sent us,” he said. Most of the men agreed, saying that since the late 1980s, Australians views of the men facing the conflict, have changed. “I think so, I asked a young woman today ‘where’s the cenotaph?’ and she asked ‘why’, and I said I was coming
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nN ew Zealander David Pepper-Edwards recalls being on one of the artillery guns (Royal New Zealand Artillery 161st Battery) that saved the Australian platoons at Long Tan.
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firing almost on the Australian’s own positions as they came under withering North Vietnamese attack after being ambushed in a rubber plantation in August 1966. “I remember it vividly, I was just 19, but I can recall it all pretty well,” he said. “We started up as fire management batteries and then it went to ‘danger close,’ which meant you had no margin of error, you had to have everything right or you could land on your own positions,” he said. He still remembers the way that many of the soldiers were treated, with mail strikes denying them postal packages and letters from home. “I left the army and never talked about it, I can’t say ‘no, there is no anger left’ I didn’t want apologies from everyone, but from the people who protested, who abused the soldiers,” he explained. “I had a friend who was marching in Sydney, this woman came-out and threw a bucket of red paint all over him and called him a ‘baby killer,’ and he’d been over there building schools and housing and the like. “And the Army, they made him pay for the dry-cleaning, to clean his own uniform,” he concluded. NOTE: Timothy Joseph Cutcliffe, from Orange, serving in the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR), died of wounds in South Vietnam on August 25, 1967, aged 21 years.
n Old soldiers at the recent Vietnam Veterans Day. Remembering friends and a distant conflict, from left, Garry Roach (Artillery); Clark Bell; Noel Clegg (6th RAR), Tony Luscombe (HQ AAAGV); Philip Clark (7th RAR); Bryan Hutchinson (7th RAR) and Bill Murphy (7th RAR/Dee Platoon).
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SAVE YOUR RETIREMENT… BUCKETS ARE THE ANSWER! It’s amazing how a few weeks can feel like a few months… It feels as though we’ve been living through this coronavirus nightmare for a long time already! that when a downturn occurs, a ‘balanced’ fund within their I’ve been working in financial those growth investments have superannuation. This can be services since 2002, so I’ve seen time to recover. particularly dangerous for those a few financial crises during While nothing can protect us in the retirement risk zone, those two decades and in that from feeling some emotions that is, five years either side of time, I’ve learnt a lot. Not only when we see our life savings retirement. a lot about how investment going down, it’s incredibly As you move closer to markets work, but also how reassuring to know that when retirement, at retirement and human emotions work. it does happen, a strategy had during retirement, it’s important With all the craziness going on already been put in place to deal to put some strategy behind at the moment, many people with it. how your retirement savings are are understandably concerned Now, imagine if that strategy set up. A retiree with all their about their retirement savings. was combined with saving money sitting in a balanced Sadly, many people are making thousands of dollars a year in investment option in retirement the wrong decisions in how to investment fees! would mean that right now they deal with this crisis, acting on If these sound like the sorts of are being forced to sell shares at emotion and not realising the things you want when it comes the worst possible time in order long-term implications of their to your retirement savings and to meet their income needs. decisions. you value independence when Sadly, many people are flooding I love helping people get their it comes to advice, then head to super fund call centres to move financial futures on the right I was reading the NRMA’s Open Road magazine thewealthtrain.com.au other day and and their book an all of their super savings to cash, track but also helping them comparison between two vehicles grabbed my attention. online appointment today. robbing themselves of seeing make sure they don’t derail from There is no mistaking the their money recover when that track when the going gets seriousness the coronavirus things back up again… tough. I can guarantee this from Now, which I’m not suggesting youofnever buy a Here are a coupleyou of quotes the go article: crisis, botharticle from apoints health and they will! won’t be the last time we see new car. But as the NRMA out, • “Unless looks and status are a primary economic perspective. However, A better strategy isyou to break up a brand dark economic times… in fact, can get new $30,000 car that’s concern, the $30,000 car is the logical the decisions you are retirement savings essentially into short, the equal I guarantee all my clients there of a $50,000 car.making What choice over the $50,000 car.” rightwith? now will have a huge medium and long term ‘buckets’ will be times when their money car can your ego live • “down. TheseMoments vehicles have number impact on what your future to ensure that when something will go like a surprising I promise, there is no judgement here. I of similarities and are almostlike inseparable looks like in 5, 10 and 20 years this happens, there is no these are a good opportunity can’t stress enough that value for money is in performance, fuel from now. need to be selling out of growth to remind my clients whyride, theirhandling, dependent on what’s important to you. and build assets (i.e. shares and property) moneyeconomy, is investedquietness, the way it comfort is. Stay safe! while they are down.I realise that some people love cars! There Manyquality.” people will be finding are some beautiful machines out there. For This type of strategy ensures themselves in Cars aresimply one ofsitting the bigger-ticket items Daniel
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Clover Hill remembered by Jan Savage
My Botanic Gardens Some of my fondest memories are of this area. In fact, it took me a long time to come up here because the recall was still so fresh in my mind, good and bad times, I remember them all. I grew up with three sisters and a brother: Maureen, Ruth, Linda, and Ray. I said ‘goodbye’ to my late husband Ron, up here as well. Some of my most peaceful memories are of here. My sisters and I would get up to a lot of trouble. Things were different then, kids lived outside. Ours was not a large, imposing homestead. It was just a house, we had steers, cattle, horses, milking cow, sheep, ducks, and chickens. “I remember climbing over the sliprails into the yard where my grandfather, Albert, kept his bull. We used to get into trouble for that as well! Those days are, when as a child, myself and my siblings now continue to reminisce over time and again. Our grandfather, my father’s father and his step-mother owned “Clover Hill” which was the property name of the land , now known as the Botanical Gardens. The property was later sold by our grandparents to the Johnson family, and later the Nivens took ownership followed by the Bathurst Orange Development Assoc and Council. Our days as children were filled with adventure, swimming in the dam in all our clothes, chasing chickens and ducks, chasing grand-dad’s steers aided by our uncle at times and Dad, climbing into the paddock with the bull, aided once again by our older male relatives — one who had lost an eye to a steer. Riding a horse, sitting in grand-dads “men’s shed” watching the men brew tea and use old tins as mugs (which we refused to use) and
listening to their tall country stories, which we now realise were fabricated to amuse us children that were a captive audience. We also were spoilt with wonderful home-made scones and meals all made on a fuel stove at the house. Sundays, we could sit in the “parlour” at the front of the home where large family portraits hung, and our Gran showed us her best garments and a fur. We had to sit and be young ladies! A far cry from what we did outside with the men. It was a great time, a time of freedom and country. Those are memories I will (as my family will) always cherish. We did however not relish milking the cows or walking in the area used by the cows for milking! We did enjoy the huge hay and feed shed… I love to revisit these memories in my mind when I attend the gardens, my late husband was farewelled there, a friend held a farewell there and I see so much joy when I watch families coming in to walk and enjoy nature. Enjoying the botanical delights, listening to the choirs of birds. I would not like to see large gatherings such as pop concerts. This also is not in the interests of surrounding residential developments. However, I would really enjoy the ongoing support of a culture trail that would consist of sculptures, sensitive to the environment, as well as art exhibitions at the centre, and Conservatorium music supplied again. I continue to enjoy the beauty that now surrounds the gardens, the peace and tranquillity as I walk and meditate on the peace and the quiet amongst the gardens. The gardens that I am so familiar with, that bring back memories to me as a child. I also enjoy watching others from the community enjoy the walks, and past music recitals from the conservatorium, the culture and creativity of music and nature, the past art exhibitions held in the room that stands on the area that once
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housed the original farm house, surrounded by a fence post that reminds me still of past days. The gardens also should be also an area where dogs are kept on leashes, I did have an experience a while back with an unleashed dog. Garden expos and art shows should be encouraged. It is a wonderful area that can be utilised as a nature reserve and a space that can be utilised by the community as part of our heritage. It is a great asset for our wonderful city and I do enjoy my personal time there, knowing I can be close to nature and space in Grandad’s old place, and I really do get so much out of watching others enjoy the space. It is now one of our main assets of our city and with the money that has been spent openingup the area, it is a real investment and asset to our city. It is still important that the flora is maintained for future generations, and the more it is used it will be appreciated, but within the natural context of its surrounds. There are other areas that are right for other projects. Grandad Albert and Alice Cantrill would be so amazed it they could see “Clover Hill” now, and the land holds so many memories and stories from that family alone and the four brothers and their families — who were part of that story. But most of all, they would be delighted to know that generations could enjoy the country that they loved. I’m really passionate about our city. As Councillor Scott Munro said, I’d hate to see this become a ‘Disneyland’; it would absolutely ruin it. I love the way that you can walk and enjoy nature. Sometimes here, you see just the masses of birds everywhere. It’s just a beautiful spot for people to feel they’re out in nature, but they’re still in the middle of suburbia, it’s the place of quiet meditation. I love it.
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Tony Agland
With the utmost of sadness, we wish to inform Tony’s family and friends after a tenacious fight for almost 3 years he succumbed to his illness, now peacefully at rest. Tony will be sadly missed by his wife Daph, his two sons Jamie and Nick whom he was always so proud of. His much adored grandchildren Jade, Owen, Cooper, Jake, Ethan, Oscar, Archie and Alannah. A loving husband, father and brother. Master Auto Electrician Loyal to his friends A proud Rotarian Labour for the back teeth Motor Sport Fanatic
Aged 70 years A private cremation has been held.
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CYMS league juniors enjoying the rub-of-the-green in 2020 comp CANCELLATION OF THIS YEAR’S GROUP 10 RUGBY LEAGUE SENIOR’S COMPETITION HAS NOT DENTED THE NUMBERS, ENTHUSIASM, OR COMPETITIVENESS OF THE JUNIOR LEAGUES WITH ORANGE CYMS JUNIORS HAVING A BUMPER YEAR. Players, parents, coaches, and supporters, have all adhered to the coronavirus restrictions in place with the newly-announced ban on “inter-regional sport” unlikely to impact the Central Tablelands-based competition. “We’ve still been going; it is only the senior’s comp that is not running” Nerissa Clarke from CYMS Juniors explained. “We’re running an eight-week home-and-away series and a two-week finals series with our grand finals on Saturday, September 19.” Nerissa said that the local junior league powerhouse was surprised at the enthusiasm of the kids to get back onto the field in 2020 — this such star-crossed of sporting years. “We’ve hardly seen any drop-off, we have a total of 380 kids across 27 teams in all competitions,” she enthused.
“I just think the kids were very keen to get back into it. That’s why we’ve seen such positive player numbers.” Teams, she explained, range from mini-football (under-nine’s down) to mod-league (aged nine to 12 years); to full international rules (as in the seniors) from ages 13 and up. “We’ve also got a strong representation of league tag-teams. These are fully-girls’ sides and they range from ages eight to under 16s,” she said. The club has put a special focus on complying strictly with all of the coronavirus sanitisation, social distancing, and spectator limits required of all junior sport in NSW. “We’ve put in quite strict regulations with spectator and player areas roped-off, it’s required a lot of manpower, but everyone’s been very good. There has also been a limit of one parent per player to attend,” she said. To avoid the usual log-jams of parents, kids, coaches, and support staff at nights, training sessions have also been staggered so that everyone is not coming and going at the same time. “There’s no cross-team training or touch or anything, they all stay in their particular groups. There’s no mixing at training and we have attendance sheets. We also sanitise the footballs, the gear, their
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hands, we sanitise everything. “Also, at training, we’ve asked parents to stay in their cars and they’ve all complied… there’s a lot more parental involvement in sport than in the old days, but everyone’s understood.” Nerissa added that as these protocols are the new normal for, not just sport, but all aspects of our lives, everyone at the Club has been obliging. “You go to a supermarket, everywhere you go, there’s these things in place so we’ve all had to change how we do things.” Nerissa said that one inadvertent benefit of the cancellation of the seniors Group 10 comp was that the under 18s, who would normally play as a curtainraiser to the seniors, have been playing on the Saturdays with the juniors. She said that the high-standard of play in the NRL under new rule changes — with a number of former Central Tablelands juniors including Canobolas High’s Jack Wighton featuring — has also enthused local league fans — “It has definitely made the game a lot quicker.” The current success of the competition-leading Penrith Panthers has also lifted local spirits. “The Panthers are our caretaker club and it’s been great to see players coming-through with so many local kids doing well,” Nerissa concluded.
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BUS NETWORK SHORTCOMINGS I am sending in my comments/submission regarding the Orange bus network, I currently still drive my car and chauffeur the dog and have no OTHER MEANS of transport other than future-use of taxis. THEREFORE, my car is my life-blood. However, as I am in my 70s, the time will come when I will need to avail myself of the bus service of Orange. I live in North Orange, a vastly-expanding subdivisional area and outside what is called the “CBD.” Therefore, a continuing service is highly-necessary. The local council and Housing Plus — in their combined wisdom — (you can laugh now) are placing residents on the external extremes of ORANGE. Some of these residents will be social-economic and will not have the means of daily travel unless an efficient and comprehensive bus service is available. It would also be very nice to see bus shelters indicating where the BUS will actually stop and not have travellers stand on the side of a road with arms extended showing their intent to the driver. Yes, there are SOME bus shelters in the town area if you look, but come outside the main town centre, EVEN A SIGN INDICATING A BUS STOP, is hard to find. Orange City Council envisages the township/population of Orange expanding, thus the first thoughts needed are: what are the infrastructures that will support those proposed ideas? Presently, Orange suffers due to lack of water availability or lack of storage mechanisms to cover the community’s expanding needs. So please give a thought to community future needs, community growth, future availability of work, and possible lack of money being circulated as there are only so many tax-payers in the system. Thank-you for this opportunity to express my thoughts, hopefully they will be well-received.
Roslyn McGroder
TACKLING REAL ISSUES MARK WAKELEY writes: Absolutely love the newspaper. Finally, a paper not afraid to tackle the real issues facing Orange. After reading your article on the new DPI site. Little mention has been given to what plans are there for the old ambulance building on the site. Currently, it’s definitely an eyesore! Keep up the good work.
SAVE BLOOMFIELD SITE! MERIAN RICHARDSON writes:
All the beautiful parks and green lands around the Hospital should be kept for the enjoyment and relaxation of all, including wildlife, as he mentions.
“SHOCKED” AT RATE INCREASES
They should be designated as local heritage parks while the sports stadium is built elsewhere, such as adjacent to the industrial estate!
We would like to congratulate you and your team. Both the “Life” and “Newswatch” are an enjoyable read, providing positive encouragement for all who live in this beautiful city.
KEITH’S TWO BOB’S WORTH KEITH RAWSTHORNE Writes: Dear Bob, I certainly support your drive to get Orange moving, but along with much good I see some “devil in the detail.” May I have my two Bob’s worth? It may surprise Orange people that here is the Medical Centre of the Central West. The “Base” (Hospital) has been the medical centre for Parkes, Forbes, Condobolin etc. for as long as I can remember, and that’s eighty years since I first came to Orange as a baby, and have recently moved to live here for that Specialist service. BUT I never see this great facility promoted. Would it not be a good idea to brighten Orange up a bit to encourage these patients and their families to stay a few hours and shop? Why is hospital furniture being manufactured in Lake Cargellico and not in Orange? One of those neglected businesses you mention? The Hearts for Orange is a great idea, congratulations! BUT 200 kms is too wide a net to cast, as that includes Parkes, Forbes Wellington, Canowindra who all have their own version of “shop locally” and would resent the intrusion of the “big town, big budget” centre, which I assure you, would cause a negative reaction.
Yesterday, we received our land rates and were shocked to see that they had increased by 19 per cent or $489 per annum. I initially thought there may have been a typo as 1.9 per cent would appear to be a more realistic increase. I phoned Council this morning and they advised that they cannot increase rates by more than 2.6 per cent per annum as determined by Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART). They advised that our rates increase is due to an increase in land values as determined by the NSW Valuer General and that our 19 per cent increase was legitimate. This is how local government has been determining rates for a very long time. I believe this archaic rating system is most unfair on residents who happen to live in an area with increasing land values. I am very concerned for inner-city ratepayers who cannot afford such massive increases. Perhaps it is time to think of a better way to pay for council services, as an increase in land values does not mean an increase in expendable income. A rise in land values is only realised if, and when, a property is sold, and I would hate to think people may be forced to sell their homes.
I have been surprised by the number of couriers delivering parcels to homes in my street. This is mostly business that has been done out of Orange. Surely Orange has the commercial critical mass to set itself up as an “online shopping centre” and bring that money into the town? Council support for such an enterprise would be preferable to willy nilly throwing out $50 bills. Election time coming? Mt. Canobolas is unique, and should be preserved in as natural a state as possible (think orchids) while making it available to more visitors. It needs a thorough tidy up at the top; better roads (both) and better signage. Commercial enterprise should be restricted to the bottom of the mountain where there is plenty of space. Botanic Garden is another great lovely, restful, learning place. It could do with some more interesting plants, better labelling and resting places for those who want to just enjoy the ambience. BUT no permanent art works; one man’s art can be another man’s poison, so stick to botanics, and respect the flora and the fauna.
I totally agree with the well-written article by David Dixon in the August 15 Newswatch.
Kind regards, T Gardiner
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