Issuu

NEWSWATCH

ORANGE CITY

LOCAL NEWS DELIVERED WITH — INTEGRITY — WISDOM — BALANCE Saturday 31 October, 2020

www.orangecitylife.com.au

“GO WEST” FOR RING-ROAD, AND GROW WITH ORANGE!

“Go West” they told the pilgrims; and former councillor Neil Jones believes it is the only solution to Orange City Council’s Southern Feeder Road dilemma. Current Council work on Ploughmans Lane to upgrade it to eventually link to the Southern Distributor will simply not work. Bold plans involving moving the whole Southern Feeder bypass west of the city, he believes, is the only effective way to overcome the current proposal’s short-comings.

•

Council in the mid-2000s had failed to plan ahead by buying land and protecting a corridor that could have made the Orange ring-road a reality and were now trying to fudge the problem with ad hoc solutions involving suburban streets. “These are unsuitable urban roads not designed for heavy traffic, I mean Ploughmans Lane does not have approval for B-doubles for starters.” A Greens councillor from 2008-2017; he said the fatal error in Council’s plans occurred when they failed in not tying-up land that subsequently became the Wentworth Estate and where the ring-road could have had a seamless route unimpeded by direct access from residential and other developments.

For our full report, turn to page 3.

ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN — THE 2020 AMERICAN ELECTION Turn to pages 16–17 for our US election wrap

RTS

FOR ORANGE

ISSUE No. 24

FREE

Talking POINTS

with DAVID DIXON Newswatch must be doing something right (or very wrong!) if our increasing correspondence with readers is any sign. This week we feature two full-pages of Letters to the Editor spilling from our Back Page onto page 19. While the singular views of columnist, Jeanine Bird, continues to divide readers, (see Birds Eye View on page 12), we at Newswatch still support that rather-quaint old-fashioned concept of “freedom of speech”. The truth, as it normally does, will eventually all come-out in the wash. Have you noticed that each weekend and, even during the week, the increasing numbers of well-heeled visitors — often over-dressed for our rather mild spring weather with layers of anoraks, scarves, beanies, and overcoats — enjoying the sights, sounds, food, and heritage of our fair city. With visitor numbers on the up by about 40 per cent from previous years, is it not time that some of our finest eateries started looking towards staying open on Mondays? Everyone knows the long hours and struggle to survive that hospitality has endured these past eight months, but even a roster system to keep a few going, or switching to Tuesday closings, would be preferable to tourists forced to munchdown fast food before heading for home. If you’re not doing anything Saturday (today) and want to get-out in the fresh air for a good cause, Ploughmans Wetlands Care Group are having a community planting day from 10–12noon. The event will be followed by a free barbecue with those interested asked to meet at the Picnic Shelter in Ploughmans Lane. Everyone is welcome but should wear a hat, gloves, and sturdy shoes. For more info, call Neil Jones on 0419 224 461.

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! Like us on Facebook for your chance to win great prizes

Puppy scams and rising cost of unconditional love

very briefly A Newswatch staffer recently relayed a story about a family member paying $3500 for an admittedly-cute chocolate Labrador puppy (pictured).

Water, Water team is everywhere!

Proving Carl Jung’s theory of synchronicity is no coincidence, water expert Cyril Smith recently posed for Newswatch for a “Water Water Everywhere” feature, just as Council’s top water team arrived on the scene!

Cyril is pictured here with Reece Nicholson and Trent Cain, who were busy making sure that The Colour City continues to receive the water quality that we deserve.

A colleague showing surprise at the cost, was informed of the explosion in the price of pedigree dogs since the coronavirus lockdown saw many of us seeking that unique unconditional love that comes from “man’s best friend”. Cocker spaniels and cavoodle puppies can go to $5000 with some breeds costing upwards of $7–9000, he was told. Thankfully, many of the cruel practices of the past with production-line puppy factories are less common as the industry that was once know for its lack of oversight but has now come under increasing regulation. But buyers are urged to beware of “puppy scams” whereby people deposit money for a dog that simply does not exist! Still, if you’re looking for someone who never judges you for your sloppy habits or for coming home late, there are worse places than the local pound to find a friend that will, rarely, let you down!

AUSSIE HALLOWEEN PINE ANOTHER BILBY OF AN IDEA

They may not take off like the bush Christmas or the Easter bilby, but Queensland pineapple growers have hit on a neat promotional idea, the “Spooky Pineapple” instead of the traditional carved American pumpkin for Halloween. After battling drought, fire, and hailstorms, as well as the challenges COVID-19 have presented this year, the growers have asked families to start what they are hoping is a new Aussie tradition. Umm, while Newswatch loves a sweet Aussie pineapple as much as the next punter, we think that, with Halloween almost over, we’ll still be forking-out for a big orange American pumpkin again next year.

St Marks is back! ENDING SEVEN-MONTH SHUTDOWN

Pet desexing program saves an old heartache Unwanted kittens and pups being dumped were one of the constant heartaches that used to plague our society. Those days are mostly behind us now with 30 pets recently microchipped and desexed through Orange City Council’s desexing program. The program offered heavily discounted pet desexing , microchipping and lifetime registration to eligible pensioners. Canobolas Family Pet Hospital desexed 30 cats and dogs through the program, which Mayor Reg Kidd said was a good result. Orange City Council’s Companion Animals Community Committee Chair Stephen Nugent said the program was a success and Council would investigate making it an annual opportunity. “Ideally, every cat and dog in Orange should be microchipped, desexed and registered and I’m pleased Council was able to assist some members of the community in making sure their pets have this important procedure,” Cr Nugent said. | Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

For those who love an idyllic country church, Millthorpe’s St Marks Anglican Church is back in businesses after a sevenmonth lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. The beautiful blue-stone church on the main thoroughfare into the historic village will holds its first service since March this Sunday from 10.30am. Regular services will now be held again each Sunday from November 1. Social distancing and sanitising rules will also apply with the communion wine served in individual thimbles and the singing of hymns still out. With a limit on service numbers though, parishioners wishing to welcome back regular services will have to book a pew beforehand. To book your spot or for more information, contact the Reverend Shirley Lewis on 6332 4402.

NEWS

“Go west” now for ring-road — former councillor believes “Go West” is the only solution to Orange City Council’s Southern Feeder Rd dilemma, former councillor Neil Jones believes. Current Council work on Ploughmans Lane to upgrade it to eventually link to the Southern Distributor will simply not work, he argued Bold plans involving moving the whole Southern Feeder bypass west of the city, he said, is the only effective way to overcome the current proposal’s short-comings. Council in the mid-2000s had failed to plan ahead by buying land and protecting a corridor that could have made the Orange ring-road a reality and were now trying to fudge the problem with ad hoc solutions involving unsuitable suburban streets, Mr Jones said. “These are unsuitable urban roads not designed for heavy traffic, I mean Ploughmans Lane does not have approval for B-doubles, for starters.” A Greens councillor from 2008-2017; he said the fatal error in Council’s plans occurred in the mid-2000s when they failed in not tying-up land that has subsequently become the Wentworth Estate and where the ring-road could have had a seamless route, unimpeded by direct access from residential and other developments. “It was the Council before I was elected that made the decision to abandon the route of the Southern

Distributor, that’s why there is still this strip of land from Escort Way to Cargo Road, and through the western part of the Ploughmans Wetland to Stirling Ave that is still owned by Council,” he said looking-over the proposed route. “It should have then headed south beyond the current Stirling Ave and over Ploughman’s Hill to behind Towac Racecourse, but the necessary land was never acquired by Council to complete the western corridor of the Southern Distributor Road. The privately-owned land then became part of what is now the Wentworth Estate,” he said. Unforeseen growth in south-west Orange had now left Council with no easy options for completion of the long-planned ring road to take heavy and passing traffic off the city’s roads. At the time of the decision to abandon the proposed route and instead use Ploughmans Lane, a 2003 Council report stated that there would be virtually no bypass traffic on this route, and it would carry very little traffic. “The issue is, if they want to avoid problems at Ploughmans Lane, they’ll have to run-it out through properties further west of Orange,” he said. He has penned a letter in response to last week’s Newswatch report on page six that had the heading “Ploughmans work

Orange City Council has missed the bus on the Southern Feeder Rd dilemma and must now “go west” for a solution, former councillor Neil Jones believes.

another piece of ring-road puzzle”. “The report would have readers believe that this upgrade to Ploughmans Lane (the proposed Southern Feeder Rd), will provide a quick, safe and easy by-pass around West Orange. He then details his concerns over upgrading of current urban roads to link the southern and northern distributor at the Forbes Road. “Unfortunately this can never be achieved, as unlike other parts of the Northern and Southern Feeder Roads, Ploughmans Lane is a suburban street, with numerous residential driveways directly fronting Ploughmans Lane, with driveway access to Oak Tree Seniors Village, and a major entry to an expanding Wentworth Golf Club.”

s Highlighted areas show the planned route of the Orange ring-road; the pink line the current plans, the blue shows where the original route was to go.

“With a 50km/hour speed limit restriction, and limits to heavy vehicle use, a dog-leg intersection with Cargo Rd, an intersection with Boyd Place and a very busy intersection with Stirling Ave, a narrow and potentially dangerous railway crossing, and an intersection with Canobolas Rd, quite apart from all the residents’ vehicles, and those of golfers and seniors and all their visitors, Ploughmans Lane will become a nightmare for all users.

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

“The opportunity to have a relatively unimpeded proper ring road around the city was lost when a previous Council abandoned a section of the proposed Southern By-pass (or Southern Feeder Rd as it is now called) which avoided direct impacts by residential development, in favour of using the existing suburban street, Ploughmans Lane.” “Now is the time to identify a new route for a true Southern By-pass which goes from Pinnacle Rd, around the back of Towac Racecourse and proceeds beyond the urban fringe, unimpeded by residential developments, and links to Cargo Rd and Forbes Rd,” he concluded. Council though views Ploughmans Lane as a major component of the Southern Feeder Road’s link to the Northern Distributor Road with the Colour City eventually having a near ring-road diverting bypass traffic off our suburban streets, councillors at the launch of the project said. The 900-metre-long upgrade work on Ploughmans Lane began earlier this month and is expected to take another month to complete, dependent on weather. The $400,000 cost has been shared by the NSW Government’s Fixing Local Roads Program ($300K)

NEWS

HOPE AND LIFE AS BOWLING CLUB SAYS “NO” TO EX-SERVIES MERGER “There was a feeling that the ExServices would be getting a multimillion-dollar complex for basically a five-year commitment.” The Club’s committee had advised members to oppose the merger after developing their own alternative plans to get the struggling club out of their financial plight. “We now move on with the Board’s business plan to revive the Club,” Mr Southcombe said. He said that plans to work together with other sporting groups in Orange had been put on-hold during the lengthy negotiations with the ExServices Club, but could now be revived.

PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER SPORTING GROUPS IN ORANGE IS BACK ON THE MENU FOR ORANGE CITY BOWLING CLUB FOLLOWING REJECTION OF A PROPOSED EXSERVICES’ CLUB AMALGAMATION. More than 200 members attended last week’s special meeting on the merger with about two-thirds voting in the negative. “The members voted down the amalgamation, it was about 65 per cent against,” Secretary Manager, Neil Southcombe said.

“There was a total of 219 members here, 143 were against and 76 for. There were a few speakers with a couple for and a few against.”

“Some sporting clubs have reached-out to us; we’re looking at partnerships with other clubs,” he explained.

He said that the debate was as civilised “as could be expected” with an information meeting the previous week having already nutted-out the details of the proposed merger. “There were a number of factors discussed, it got to the point where the members felt they were being asked to give-away the club’s land and assets — the core property of the Club,” he said.

He said that these would be more partnerships and cooperative arrangements without the sense that the deal with the Ex-Services Club was a take-over of the Bowling Club by a far larger entity. “Some of the members certainly see it that way.” Other proposals suggested for the Bowling Club — like many throughout Australia struggling with an ageing member-base and less people interested in lawn bowls as a lifestyle — include a name change and becoming a broader community club. “In the end we didn’t want to give-up our properties and the club here; it’s quite a big block and can be sub-divided if we wanted to,” Mr Southcombe concluded.

Where there’s hope there’s life. Orange City Bowling Club’s recent rejection of a proposed Ex-Services’ Club merger will see the Club seek other avenues to survive.

NOW IS THE TIME TO GET

FINANCIALLY FIT IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY OR TOO LATE TO GET FINANCIALLY FIT

IT’S ALL ABOUT

YOU

Your LOCAL station

News, music and views that LOCALS

Affordable, local and independent financial advice

want to listen to and enjoy and 107.5 FM is now live streaming across the world via our website www.fm1075.com.au

BECOME A MEMBER OR SPONSOR TODAY! Email us: community@fm1075.com.au Telephone us: 02 7202 9455 or 0435 047801

CALL 0411 484 464 TO BOOK YOUR FREE INITIAL APPOJNTMENT OR HEAD TO WEALTHTRAIN.COM.AU

Over 30 years: 107.5FM presenter Gordon McMillan

Daniel McGregor (1253135) and Wealth Train (1258202) are authorised representatives of Independent Financial Advice and Education AFSL 520963

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

NEWS

FLYING VISITORS OVER NATIVE WILDLIFE, STADIUM LOCATION OPPONENT SAYS VISITING FLYING FOXES TRUMP NATIVE WILDLIFE FOR ORANGE CITY COUNCIL, FOUNDER OF A PETITION OPPOSING SITING OF A NEW SPORTS STADIUM IN SOUTH ORANGE BELIEVES. Tilly Green said that it is “revealing” that Orange Council is prepared to consult with locals over the flying fox “clouds” that appear in the district for a few months each year, but refuses to allow public consultation over the proposed $25 million sports stadium planned for the decommissioned Ex-Services Golf Club at Bloomfield. Opponents of the siting of the proposed stadium at south Orange say that the natural parkland area — slowly reverting to pasture-land after the closure of the golf course — is a perfect location for a green reserve for the growing south Orange population and the adjacent public and private hospitals. Council recently sought views about community attitudes to the flying foxes by encouraging locals to participate in an online survey. Orange City Council’s Environment and Sustainability Policy Committee Chair, Councillor Stephen Nugent said that Council wanted to gauge public perceptions of the species and wanted to seek feedback on ideas for managing the flying-foxes. “By participating in the survey on Council’s: yoursay.orange.nsw. gov.au website, you will help guide management actions for the plan,” Cr Nugent said.

“We’d like to hear from all sections of the community, people who have been directly affected by the presence of Flying-foxes in their yards, near their homes and in public parks,” he concluded.

z Orange Council is more concerned with visiting flying foxes than resident kangaroos at the site of the proposed sports stadium in south Orange, founder of a petition opposing the precinct believes.

Ms Green believes that Council’s bat review, and the draft flood plan also up for public consultation, show that Orange can survey the public on their wishes when it suits them and they are interested in the results. “It is revealing that that they are happy to consult on the little things, a few hundred flying foxes coming each year, but a ‘big-ole’ $25 million spend of public money doesn’t warrant the same input,” Ms Green said. “What’s more important to Orange locals; a few hundred annual flying foxes visiting our city, or the site of a $25 million sport stadium?” she asked. She said that the stadium proposal that was hastily-announced during the 2019 State Election motivated her to create a change.org petition opposing the siting of the sports precinct at Bloomfield. Making the funding conditional on construction of the stadium constituted a “sports rort” that overruled her reticence about making a public stand on the issue. “In NSW legislation, it is not permitted for candidates/parties to bribe voters in electorates with special offers,” she said.

closure of the Ex-Services Golf Club. Her petition states: “No community consultation has been undertaken for this enormous facility despite the potential impact on the Orange regional area. We ask that the OCC create a community driven committee to reassess the usage of the funds from the NSW Government. “Is this really the best use of $25 million for our region? What about suggestions of a redevelopment of the old Bunnings site on Bathurst Road into

an all-weather skate park-roller skatePCYC-indoor sports facility?” “I’m just an interested community member who thinks that Council should be creating an online submission to allow community consultation and to assess feedback and change their plans, then put it out for comment again,” Ms Green said. “If it’s good enough to consult the community over flying foxes, then why not this huge stadium nobody asked for?” she concluded.

Her opposition to the proposal is to its haste, seeming lack of consultation, and the siting of the sports precinct in a beautiful green space area created by the

Interested in what’s happening in Dubbo, Wellington and the Orana Region? Read the full digital edition of Dubbo Photo News FREE each Thursday  www.dubbophotonews.com.au

Thinking of Painting,

think Up&Down

Painting...

We’re not happy until you are. Residential - from one room to the whole house New houses to repaints, No job too big or too small Fully licenced and Insured Local family business

UP & DOWN

Call today for a no obligation free quote

PAINTING

0448 600 095 upanddownpainting@gmail.com

Lic. No. 340514c

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

REAL MEN Don’t hit women!

REAL MEN Love and protect their wife/partner!

Let’s make Orange a Domestic Violence FREE City. For help call Lifeline

131 114

NEWS

Last stragglers leave old DPI for “Orange Workplace Hub” It’s taken a few weeks, but the last staff recently vacated the old Department of Primary Industries building in Kite St that has served as the headquarters for the Department for nearly 30 years. “The tenancy on Kite Street has not been extended. All staff have been relocated to the Ian Armstrong building,” a spokesperson for Minister for Agriculture and Western NSW, Adam Marshall confirmed. Opening of the “world-standard” Orange Workplace Hub was held in early September with few staff at that time having made the move. The new Department of Primary Industries building is on Prince Street and cost in the order of $75 million and is an 8500 square metre open-plan facility officiallynamed the “Ian Armstrong Building” in recognition of the former Minister for Agriculture. The “hard opening” — before any staff had actually moved-in — showcased innovative features including “collaborative work areas”; open seating and lounge areas for staff to congregate for projects; and even an in-house coffee-shop; that are designed to reflect a more flexible work environment.

than the traditional desk and seat arrangements of the past, Deputy Secretary of Property and Development NSW, Leon Walker said at the opening. Minister Melinda Pavey paid tribute to the former Director-General saying, “Kevin Sheridan led the way out here.” “To think we are going to have more than 880 people working from here… it’s going to be a great place for our people to work,” she said. As well as DPI, staff from other departments including Premier and Cabinet, Education, and Regional NSW, are also working from the facility. She assured staff that building was “100 per cent COVID safe” and that the “hot-desk” arrangement whereby staff shared facilities as required encouraged a collaboration and helped avoid the “silo mentality” of different departments working in isolation. “It’s a modern, fit-for-purpose building that was “predominantly” within its $75 million budget.

The first afternoon performance is planned for Friday, November 27, and expressions of interest for musicians close on Monday, November 9. Orange Mayor, Cr Reg Kidd said that “Future Tunes” was a great way to get people out and about in the Central Business District (CBD) while supporting local musicians. “We know the local musicians have done it really tough this year given the closure of entertainment venues over the last few months, and we know CBD businesses took a hit too, so we thought let’s do something to help both as best we can,” Cr Kidd said. “Future Tunes is a paid gig for local musos but it also encourages people to come into the CBD after work, listen to some live music and then head out into the CBD to have a beer, grab some dinner, check out the local wine bars, whiskey bars and cocktail venues.

Further information will come out in the following weeks. Council aims to attract a mix of musical genres and different artists for each session. Council is also seeking expressions of interest from food and drink vendors who are keen to set up a stall for any of the three proposed dates, 27 November, 18 December, and 15 January 2021. Local musos can apply through Council’s website at: Orange.nsw.gov.au.

OPEN HOUSES

36 Newport street 35 Matthews Avenue 38 Torulosa Way 14 McIntosh Street 97 Sampson Street 10 Girrawheen Place 38 Catania Street 21 Louie Lane, Spring Creek 149 Woodward Street 12/198 Byng Street 28 Anzac Place 41 Molong Road 186 McLachlan Street 19 Flood Street, Cudal 1 Queensbury Close 18 Boronia Crescent 69 Nubrigyn St, Euchareena 2 Buna Street 69 Nubrigyn St, Euchareena 20 James Dalton Ln, Windera 605 Bowan Park Road

“Future Tunes”, a series of afternoon, outdoor, live music performances to bring together the Orange community, while supporting local musical talent, in a relaxed, casual setting.

All events are COVID-19 safe, free, fun, and family friendly. Tickets will need to be secured to comply with public health orders, but more information will be available in the coming weeks.

The new Prince St building has been designed to create “a more agile working space… with a 5.5 green star rating,” rather

10.00 - 10.30am 10.15 - 10.45am 10.15 - 10.45am 10.15 - 10.45am 10.30 - 11.00am 10.30 - 11.00am 10.45 - 11.15am 11.00 - 11.30am 11.00 - 11.30am 11.00 - 11.30am 11.00 - 11.30am 11.00- 11.30am 11.15 - 11.45am 11.30 - 12.00pm 11.45 - 12.15pm 11.45 - 12.15pm 12.30 - 1.00pm 12.30 - 1.00 pm 12.30 - 1.00pm 1.00 - 1.30pm 2.30 - 3.00pm

But that is about to change with an invitation to all local "musos" to put their hand-up to be considered for a paid gig in Robertson Park, as part of Council’s Future City Plans.

The event will begin late afternoon and will feature two 45-minute performances and will wrap up at about 7.30pm.

While the new purpose-built Agriculture Department building was being constructed in east Orange, a number of staff were temporarily-housed at the old mental health facilities at Bloomfield with the finished building opened in January 1992.

ADDRESS

If music be the food of love, then local musicians haven’t been getting much affection lately with most live music shut-down for the coronavirus pandemic.

“We have a series of dates planned and if it goes really well it might encourage some retail businesses to stay open a little longer and take advantage of the passing trade.”

The move closes the 30-year decentralisation of the old Department of Agriculture from central Sydney in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

TIME

GET OUT THAT OLD GUITAR, FOR NEW “TUNE” CONCERT

4 3 3 4 3 4 5 4 4 2 3 2 1 3 4 3 4 3 4 4 3

2 1 1 2 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2

2 2 1 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2

SATURDAY, 31 OCT, 2020

PRICE RANGE

AGENT CONTACT

$680,000 - $700,000 $429,000 $349,000 $749,000 $740,000 $819,000 $670,000 - 700,000 Contact Agent $495,000 $285,000 $405,000 $405,000 Auction Auction $749,000.00 $429,000 $315,000 $179,000.00 $315,000 Contact Agent $2,000,000 - $2,200,000

Ash Brown Orange Real Estate Michael Wright Adam Savage Marie Fox Chris Tyack Ash Brown Alistair Miller Orange Real Estate Chris Gryllis Real Est. Jacob Evans Adam Savage Marie Fox Jen Stojanovic Ash Brown Adam Savage Michael Wright Chris Tyack Michael Wright Ash Brown Ash Brown

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

0417 663 687 02 6360 0300 0421 360 948 0419 232 416 0412 166 132 0438 258 590 0417 663 687 0413 717 114 02 6360 0300 6362 5999 0428 130 789 0419 232 416 0412 166 132 0473 401 666 0417 663 687 0419 232 416 0421 360 948 0438 258 590 0421 360 948 0417 663 687 0417 663 687

NEWS

DON’T LAUGH, ORANGE COULD FLOOD, LOCAL ADVOCATE SAYS OF RISK PLAN Climate change makes flooding a greater risk to Orange than most people realise, a local advocate for taking the issue seriously said. Robert Alford urges locals to take a look at Orange Council’s Flood Risk Management Plan which is now on exhibition. “Unless we push it, most people won’t even know that it’s on exhibition,” he said. “Yet it’s so critical to Orange; they’ve redone the flood management plan under draft parameters and the community needs to be aware of that.” Having worked for the Ophir Electricity for years, he knows that that the rising floodwaters can have on vital infrastructure. Looking-over the Telstra exchange adjacent to the south Orange stormwater drain that runs under Kite St, he points to flood doors for the ground floor of the exchange that are inoperable. “in the past, Kite Street was all flooded, this is the CBD area, and it could happen again,” he said. He said that, while flood mitigation over the years had reduced the chance of major flooding in the town, it had not prevented it completely. “Council to its credit has done a lot in slowing down the water flow at flood times from Blackmans Swamp area to Kite St, but it’s the big-risk floods that I’m concerned about,” he said. The creation of retention basins has slowed the flow of water substantially from what it did in the past, but if the water comes in faster than it can be dispersed, it will flood the whole lower part of town around Kite St. He believes that flooding of the exchange could create havoc with communications not just in the area but for large parts of western NSW. He said that a fire 12–18 months ago on a

fibre optic cable in the district took-out the top-line communications service all the way to Western Australia.

1 in 100-year flood event: • 129 dwellings that are located in the Blackmans Swamp Creek catchment would experience above-floor inundation, as would 66 commercial/ industrial buildings and nine public buildings.

He said that a Transgrid sub-station in East Orange could also be in danger of flooding if we have a greater than one in a hundred-year flood. “With climate change, we are going to see adverse weather that we have never had before,” he said. Orange City Council put the draft Flood Risk Management Study and Plan on exhibition for community comment saying that this is the latest step in a long-term process aimed at preventing potential flood damage in Orange is. The plan outlines a range of solutions to prevent flooding and avoiding damage to property. The solutions include: • Building earthworks such as levee banks or detention basins, which would slow the movement of floodwaters, preventing damage. • Changes to planning measures such as Development Control Plans which would restrict construction in floodprone areas or affect the kind of building which could be built. Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said the Council wants to hear the view of the community before these changes are locked in. “The NSW Government wants all Councils to look at the local risk of flooding and set out some clear strategies to prevent potential damage,” Cr Kidd said. “The earlier steps in this process where we outlined the scientific findings saw the council host community meetings in 2019 where local residents could look at maps of flood-prone areas and find out if their

Climate change makes flooding a greater risk to Orange than most people realise, Robert Alford, a local advocate for taking the issue seriously, said. property could be affected.” “That was the science. That stage showed the scale of the problems. This next stage looks at the solutions. “The Council wants to hear the views of the community as we consider a priority list for flood mitigation work in one part of Orange or another. “It won’t be possible to build any new critical infrastructure in a flood zone, so the Council wants to know these locations. “Potential changes to the Development Control Plan might affect what kind of extension someone can build in their backyard, so they’ll want to know and have their say.” The flood study finds that in the event of a

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

• At the same level of flooding, a total of 49 dwellings that are located in the adjacent Ploughmans Creek catchment would experience above-floor inundation, as would one commercial/ industrial building and one public building. The total flood damages in Orange resulting from a 1% AEP flood event would amount to $24.5 Million, increasing to $408 Million for a PMF event.” Plans to investigate an early warning system that would alert residents in the event of a major flood are also proposed in the plan. Residents can find out more about the Flood Plan and Study at: https://yoursay.orange.nsw.gov.au/floodrisk-management-plan Mr Alford said a new spirit of community cooperation, could be one of the unattributed benefits of the pandemic that saw large parts of our society shutdown for long periods. “If we’re going to bring our community back from COVID, we must work together as a team, otherwise, some people won’t make it,” he said. “Orange has got terrific potential, if we all work together,” he emphasised. Submissions on the draft flood plan close Tuesday, November 17.

NEWS

“Arts Cooperative” TO PUT ART IN ORANGE

Art should be as synonymous with Orange as quality, wine, heritage, and good food, a collective of local groups believe. Representatives of half a dozen local art societies from the developing “Arts Cooperative” met with Council staff recently to help make Orange’s proposed “Art Explosion” pop-up Christmas Art Festival a reality. “This is for some of the arts groups in Orange who support the idea can meet with staff so they can explain what Council has to offer,” distinguished Orange-based painter, Hank Spirek said of the gathering of our art groups. Relatively new to Orange, Hank is proposing vacant shopfronts in the main street be turned-over to local artists to exhibit their works at peak tourism and shopping occasions. After a recent address to Council on the proposals, he organised the meet between the local groups and Council staff to try and progress the idea. “I just want to hear what they have to say.

“To progress towards making art an integral part of the Orange’s heritage with art festivals and the like,” she said. David Mason from Orange Art Society said that: “all the artists groups getting together is a great thing, because holding your own displays is an expensive thing.”

n “Leaders of the developing “Arts Cooperative” before meeting with Council this week; believe that art should be as synonymous with Orange as good food, wine and heritage.

It would be great to get Council to support the artists and fill the empty shopfronts to display some of our works,” Fayah McKenzie representing three artist groups (the Wilderests, Orange Art Society, and the Orange Fauves) said. “It would be wonderful to have more art facilities, and more spaces for art,” Phil Salmon from the Colour City Creatives said. Man, he believes, does not live on bread alone and art could become the next big tourism thing for the district: “After you’ve

eaten and drunk, you want to peruse some great local art,” he said. “It would be good to see the Orange community get behind artists, it would be some way to help the landlords and us… to have more emphasis on the arts,” Judy Kich from the Wilderests and Orange City Creatives said. Kaye Partridge from the Fauves and Orange Sketchers added that: we are all looking for an opportunity for exhibiting our art, for it to get more for that and the Orange economy.”

Hank thanked Council staff Nick Redmond and Ellie Bryce for their time and support to the proposal. “The Council staff met with representatives of seven Orange Art Groups representing over 100 local artists. “Leaders of this developing ‘Arts Cooperative’ were very pleased with the support for the Pop-Up Art exhibitions concept demonstrated by Mr Redmond and Ms Bryce. “Orange art groups have long been searching for ways to showcase the wide and wonderful range of art available in Orange and now, thanks to Council, pathways forward on this issue may have been found. “It’s now a case of whether artist’s, with council’s help, who are having a go will receive community support,” Hank concluded.

“Heidi” shades local polis at Showground “If you want a friend in politics, get a dog”, former US President Harry S Truman is supposed to have said when someone asked him about political relationships. Well, “Heidi” the Labrador recently stole the limelight at a recent announcement on new fencing for the Showground by some of our own local politicians. The announcement for the new fencing is for the arena at the Orange Showground and is designed to make the facility safer and more secure for users. The arena is the centre-piece of the annual Orange Show, as well hosting several community events throughout the year, and doubles as a leash-free pet exercise area when not in use. The old timber-and-wire fence had become unstable as the wooden posts had rotted. The new, stronger 1.2-metre-high double-top-rail steel fence, installed by Bluedog Fences, is designed to blend into the surrounding heritage landscape and is fitted with dog mesh to keep pooches contained. Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said

the improvements would make the Orange Showground a much better venue for a wide range of users. “The showground is used by thousands of people each year, from the hundreds of people that turn out to the Orange Show to equestrian events, car shows, and swap meets, not to mention the people who come to use the leash-free area,” Cr Kidd said. “This new fence makes the arena much safer for all users and provides an area that really complements all the surrounding facilities at the showground.” The arena fence now boasts four springloaded, self-closing pedestrian gates, one on the eastern side, two on the western side and one on the southern side coming in from the caravan park. It also now has three six-metre-wide gates, which will improve access for event organisers. Funding for the project came from Phase 1 of the NSW Government’s Showground Stimulus Funding Program to fund maintenance and improvement works at showgrounds around the state and is part of the government’s $2.3 billion COVID stimulus package. Orange Showground received $174,000, which funded the arena fence replacement

n “ Heidi” leads the way at the announcement for new safety fencing at the Showground with Orange Show Society President Peter Naylor; Orange Mayor Reg Kidd; and Member for Orange Phil Donato coming up the rear.

as well as the installation of a new security fence along the showground’s Leeds Parade boundary, installed by Tablelands Contracting. Member for Orange Phil Donato said by funding shovel-ready projects, the program aimed to help stimulate local economies affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Showgrounds often have old infrastructure that would fall into disrepair without sufficient funds for maintenance

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

and improvements,” Mr Donato said. “The objective of this program is to boost regional communities by keeping locals working, while enhancing showground facilities and ensuring public safety at these sites.” Orange Showground has also received funding under Phase 2 of the program, which will partly fund the installation of a canteen, as well as toilets and showers at the Naylor Pavilion.

3699

EACH

99 EACH

CAPTAIN MORGAN SPICED, BUNDY UP RUM, SMIRNOFF RED

24pk Stubbies

BYRON BAY BREWERY 24pk Stubbies

700ml

1299

EACH

Varieties

EACH

Varieties

3799

EACH

XXXX GOLD 30pk Cans

ROBIN HOOD HOTEL

EACH

PRINTHIE

24pk Stubbies

EACH

GREAT NORTHERN SUPER CRISP

TEMPUS TWO

EACH

WILD TURKEY & COLA 10pk Cans

99 EACH

TOOHEYS NEW 30pk Cans

30 Burrendong Way | Tel. 6363 1999 | www.robinhoodorange.com.au

Many more specials available in store. Specials available from the 29/10/20 until 01/11/20 or while stocks last. THE ROBIN HOOD HOTEL SUPPORTS THE RESPONSIBLE SERVICE OF ALCOHOL.

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

TVguide

aBC (2)

SBS (3)

Saturday, October 31

6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 10.00 Rage. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Pine Gap. 1.25 Grantchester. Final. 2.15 Ask The Doctor: Weight Loss. 3.00 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Lee Lin Chin. 3.30 Big Weather (And How To Survive It) Ready Together. Final. 4.30 Landline. 5.00 Australian Story: About A Boy. 5.30 Midsomer Murders. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Victoria. 8.20 Shetland. 9.20 Endeavour. 10.50 Poldark. 11.55 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. 2.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Round 1. Skate America. 4.05 The Last Day Of World War One. 5.05 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 10. Highlights. 5.35 Hitler’s World: The Post War Plan. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 Trains That Changed The World. 8.30 Portillo’s Greatest Railway Journeys: Railways And Nationhood. 9.30 MOVIE: Charlie Wilson’s War. (2007) Tom Hanks, Amy Adams. A congressman conspires to support Afghan rebels. (M) 11.20 Fourth Estate: The NY Times And Trump. 4.00 Trafficked In America. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 12.50 Twirlywoos. 1.05 Baby Jake. 1.20 Pablo. 1.35 The Furchester Hotel. 2.05 Grandpa In My Pocket. 2.30 Arthur. 3.05 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 3.30 Play School. 3.55 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.20 Becca’s Bunch. 4.55 Luo Bao Bei. 5.20 Room On The Broom. 5.55 Go Jetters. 7.05 The Deep. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Rose Matafeo: Horndog. 9.30 QI. 10.30 Mock The Week. 11.00 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 11.45 Would I Lie To You? 12.15 Staged. Final. 12.35 Friday Night Dinner. 1.00 I’m Alan Partridge. 1.35 Absolutely Fabulous. 2.05 Live At The Apollo. 2.55 Close. 5.30 Postman Pat Special Delivery Service. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

Hong Kong (31) 6.10 News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Romanian News. 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 Spookers. 1.30 Hunt For The Trump Tapes. 2.25 New Girl. 2.55 Jungletown. 3.45 ABC America: World News Tonight. 4.10 PBS News. 5.10 Monty Python’s Flying Circus. 6.20 Only Connect. 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.15 The X-Files. 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 11. 3.35 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. 7.30 SheZow. 7.55 Spirit Riding Free. 8.20 The Deep. 8.40 Miraculous. 9.00 Good Game Spawn Point. 9.25 Hank Zipzer. 9.55 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 10.45 Cleopatra In Space. 11.05 Adv Of Puss In Boots. 12.00 TMNT. 1.55 Ghost Patrol. 2.45 The Dengineers. 3.15 Larry The Wonderpup. 3.35 Little Lunch. 4.05 Malory Towers. 4.35 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.05 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.30 Miraculous World: New York, United Heroez. New. 6.40 All Hail King Julien. 7.00 Horrible Histories. 8.30 Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir. 9.15 Camp Lakebottom. 10.00 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 It’s Academic. (66) 7.00 Spit It Out. 8.00 The Pioneer Woman. 8.30 Food Truck Nation. 9.00 Crazy Cakes. 10.00 Kids Baking Championship. 11.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. 12.00 Mystery Diners. 1.45 Restaurant: Impossible. 4.45 MOVIE: Mighty Joe Young. (1998) Bill Paxton. 7.00 MOVIE: The Jewel Of The Nile. (1985) Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner. 9.15 MOVIE: Michael. (1996) John Travolta, William Hurt, Andie MacDowell. 11.25 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 12.25 Restaurant: Impossible. 1.30 Mystery Diners. 2.00 Home Shopping. 3.00 The Pioneer Woman. 3.30 Food Truck Nation. 4.00 Crazy Cakes. 5.00 Kids Baking Championship.

aBC CO

aBC ME

SBS VLNd

7FLIX

aBC (2)

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 France 24 English News Second Edition. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 E-Cigarettes: Welcome Back, Big Tobacco. 3.50 The Honesty Experiment. 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 11. Highlights. 5.30 Nazi Megastructures. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Rise Of Empires: Mayans. 8.30 Biden V Trump: The Choice 2020. 10.30 Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times. 12.10 Origins: The Journey Of Humankind. 3.50 The Doctor Who Took Kids Off Drugs. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 11.40 Sally And Possum. 12.10 In The Night Garden. 12.50 Twirlywoos. 1.05 Baby Jake. 1.20 Pablo. 2.05 Grandpa In My Pocket. 2.30 Arthur. 3.05 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 3.30 Play School. 3.55 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.20 Becca’s Bunch. Final. 4.55 Luo Bao Bei. Final. 5.20 Octonauts. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 7.05 The Deep. 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 Gruen XL. 10.50 Adam Hills: Happyism. 11.40 Rose Matafeo: Horndog. 12.40 Would I Lie To You? 1.10 Upstart Crow. Final. 1.40 The Thick Of It. 2.15 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 8.00 Maltese News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 Croatian News. 9.30 Serbian News. 10.00 Portuguese News. 10.50 Urdu News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 John McCain: Maverick. 1.00 Does America. 1.25 Rise. 3.05 France 24 English News Second Edition. 3.35 Trump’s Law. 5.40 Takeshi’s Castle Indonesia. 6.00 The A350: Star Of The Skies. 7.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.20 Fake News: A True History. 9.35 How French Women Like It. 10.35 Full Frontal. 11.05 South Park. 11.45 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 12. 3.35 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 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.45 Bear Grylls: Survival School. Final. 1.10 The Dengineers. 2.00 Almost Naked Animals. 2.25 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.50 Get It Together! 3.15 Fierce. 4.05 Lost In Oz. 4.35 Find Me In Paris. 5.05 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 The Wonderful World Of Puppies. 7.15 Operation Ouch! Ouch! Awards. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Best Bugs Forever. 8.45 School Of Rock. 9.15 Prisoner Zero. 9.40 Miraculous. 10.00 Rage. 2.00 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 It’s Academic. (66) 7.00 Spit It Out. 8.00 Cake Hunters. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Crazy Cakes. 10.00 Kids Baking Championship. 11.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cupcake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Mystery Diners. 4.00 Restaurant: Impossible. 6.00 The Simpsons. 6.30 MOVIE: Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties. (2006) 8.15 MOVIE: Message In A Bottle. (1999) Kevin Costner. 11.00 V. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Cupcake Wars. 4.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 5.00 Kids Baking Championship.

aBC ME

WIN (8) 6.00 Reel Action. 6.30 Entertainment Tonight. 7.00 The Living Room. 8.00 Bondi Rescue. 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. 11.00 Horse Racing. Melbourne Cup Carnival. Victoria Derby Day. Featuring the $2 million Victoria Derby (2500m). From Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne. 6.00 10 News First. 7.00 Rugby Union. Tri-Nations. Round 1. Bledisloe Cup. Game 3. Australia v New Zealand. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 10.00 999: What’s Your Emergency? 12.00 Law & Order: SVU. 1.00 Blue Bloods. 2.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Hour Of Power.

7tWO

Newstyle Direct. (52) 6.00 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 The Baron. 11.30 MOVIE: Saraband For Dead Lovers. (1948) Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson. 1.30 MOVIE: Ski Party. (1965) 3.30 MOVIE: Love Story. (1970) 5.30 MOVIE: Foreign Intrigue. (1956) 7.30 MOVIE: Johnny English. (2003) Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, John Malkovich. 9.15 MOVIE: Mission: Impossible. (1996) Tom Cruise, Jon Voight. 11.30 Silent Witness. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

7MatE

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 1.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.30 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 2.00 Soapbox Racing. Red Bull Series. Round 6. Replay. 3.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.30 Liquid Science. 4.00 BattleBots. 5.00 MOVIE: Casper. (1995) 7.00 MOVIE: Hotel Transylvania. (2012) Adam Sandler. 8.50 MOVIE: Addams Family Values. (1993) Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd. 10.45 MOVIE: Get Out. (2017) 12.45 Heroes. 1.40 The Horn. 3.00 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 3.30 Mega Man: Fully Charged. 4.00 Bakugan: Armored Alliance. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.50 Rev & Roll. 5.10 Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 8.00 Travel Oz. 9.30 NBC Today. 11.30 Vasili’s Garden. 12.00 The Bowls Show. 1.00 Fresh TV. 2.00 Sydney Weekender. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Grand Final. 5.00 Horse Racing. Golden Eagle Race Day. 5.30 Building The Dream. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Peter Andre’s 60 Minute Makeover. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 Creek To Coast. 4.30 Weekender. 5.00 Home Shopping. The Next (63) 6.00 Level. 7.00 Big Angry Fish. 8.00 Home Shopping. 9.00 Blokesworld. 9.30 The Weekend Prospector. 10.00 Life Off Road. 10.30 Timbersports. 11.00 World’s Craziest Fools. 12.00 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 9. Sydney Thunder v Adelaide Strikers. 3.30 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 11. Brisbane Heat v Hobart Hurricanes. 7.00 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 12. Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Stars. 10.00 MOVIE: It. (2017) Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher. 1.00 World’s Craziest Fools. 1.30 Doomsday Preppers. 3.30 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. Replay. 4.30 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 9.00 The Doctors. 10.00 MacGyver. 11.00 Diagnosis Murder. 12.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 1.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 2.00 Motor Racing. Dunlop Super2 Championship. Highlights. 3.00 Mission: Impossible. 4.00 Judge Judy. 4.30 Mighty Machines. 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 MacGyver. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 SEAL Team. 11.20 NCIS. 12.15 Law & Order: SVU. 1.10 48 Hours. 2.10 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 12. Portuguese Grand Prix. Highlights. 3.05 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 12. Teruel Grand Prix. Replay. 4.35 iFish Summer Series. 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS VLNd

7FLIX

WIN BOLd

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. 8.30 Becker. 9.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.30 Cheers. 11.30 Charmed. 1.30 Frasier. 2.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 Rules Of Engagement. 4.00 Carol’s Second Act. 4.30 The Middle. 6.00 Columbo. 7.30 Kojak. 8.30 Spyforce. 9.30 The Big Bang Theory. 10.30 The Middle. 12.00 The Flash. 2.00 Charmed. 3.00 Family Ties. 4.00 Cheers. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 Cheers.

WIN PEaCH

PrIME7 (6)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line. 1.30 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 15. Melbourne Renegades v Sydney Sixers. From Sydney Showground Stadium. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Sydney Weekender. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Beat The Chasers. New. 8.30 Crime Investigation Australia: Most Infamous: The Girls Who Knew Too Much – Sallie. 9.50 Killer Tapes: The Murder Of Rhys Jones. 10.55 Autopsy USA: James Gandolfini. 12.00 Medical Emergency. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Global Roaming. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Sports Sunday. 11.00 Ultimate Rush. 12.00 World’s Greatest Man Made Wonders. 1.00 MOVIE: Pontiac Moon. (1994) (PG) 3.00 The Block. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 RBT. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 The Block. 8.30 60 Minutes. 9.30 Nine News Late. 10.30 See No Evil: Fire Angel. 11.30 Born To Kill? Class Of Evil: Graham Young – Mad For Murder. 12.20 Grand Hotel. 1.10 Rivals. 1.35 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Take Two. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

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 Pooches At Play. 8.30 The Living Room. 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday. 12.00 The Bachelorette Australia. 2.20 Farm To Fork. 2.40 Junior MasterChef Australia. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Sunday Project. 7.30 Junior MasterChef Australia. 9.00 FBI. 10.00 FBI: Most Wanted. 11.00 NCIS. 12.00 The Sunday Project. 1.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

7tWO

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 Getaway. 11.30 MOVIE: Our Miss Fred. (1972) 1.30 MOVIE: Quiet Weekend. (1946) 3.25 MOVIE: Frankie And Johnny. (1966) 5.15 MOVIE: Donovan’s Reef. (1963) John Wayne. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 Chicago P.D. New. 9.40 Chicago Fire. 10.40 Chicago Med. 11.40 License To Kill. New. 12.35 Adventures In Rainbow Country. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

7MatE

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 1.30 Rivals. 2.00 Surfing Australia TV. 2.30 Dance Moms. 3.30 Clarence. 3.45 MOVIE: Stormbreaker. (2006) 5.30 MOVIE: The Phantom. (1996) 7.30 MOVIE: G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. (2009) Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans. 9.50 MOVIE: The Expendables. (2010) Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham. 11.50 Heroes. 12.50 MOVIE: Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher. (2014) 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. 3.00 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 3.30 Mega Man: Fully Charged. 4.00 Bakugan: Armored Alliance. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.50 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 5.10 Lego City Adventures. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 NBC Today. 12.00 The Yorkshire Vet. 1.00 Harry’s Practice. 1.30 Vasili’s Garden. 2.30 The Bowls Show. 3.30 Escape To The Country. 5.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Martin Clunes: Islands Of America. 8.30 Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railways. 9.30 Mighty Trains. 10.30 Paddington Station 24/7. 11.30 Best Gardens Australia. 12.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Secret Lives Of Stepford Wives. 2.30 House Of Horrors. 3.00 A Crime To Remember. 4.00 House Of Horrors. 4.30 Honey I Bought The House. 5.30 Home Shopping. Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 The Next Level. 7.30 Home Shopping. 10.00 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 14. Sydney Thunder v Brisbane Heat. 1.30 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 2.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 3.00 The Fishing Show. 4.00 World’s Craziest Fools. 4.30 Counting Cars. 6.00 Last Stop Garage. New. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: Lethal Weapon 3. (1992) Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci. 11.00 Housos 2020. 11.30 Regular Old Bogan. 12.00 Blokesworld. 12.30 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 1.00 World’s Craziest Fools. 1.30 Counting Cars. 2.00 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Rugby Union. Tri-Nations. Round 1. Bledisloe Cup. Game 3. Australia v New Zealand. Replay. 11.00 Australia By Design: Architecture. 11.30 Australia By Design: Interiors. 12.00 Mission: Impossible. 1.00 MacGyver. 2.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 3.00 Hotels By Design. 3.30 Healthy Homes Australia. 4.00 Fishing Edge. 5.00 iFish. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.20 48 Hours. 11.20 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 NCIS. 4.00 Mighty Machines. 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 The Doctors.

WIN BOLd

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. 9.00 Neighbours. 11.30 Charmed. 1.30 The Neighborhood. 2.30 Man With A Plan. 3.30 The Middle. 5.00 Rules Of Engagement. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Gogglebox. 10.00 Man With A Plan. 11.30 2 Broke Girls. 12.30 Friends. 1.30 The Flash. 3.30 Charmed. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

WIN PEaCH

6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.00 Landline. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Gruen. 1.35 Squinters. 2.00 Unforgotten. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Classic Countdown. 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 Big Weather (And How To Survive It) 12.10 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 WWII’s Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails. 2.55 Alex Polizzi: Chef For Hire. 4.00 The Supervet. 4.55 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 12. Highlights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 The Great House Revival. 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. 10.20 SBS News. 10.50 DNA. 11.35 The Bridge. 1.45 The Red Line. 3.25 Late Programs.

Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Terror In The Woods. (2018) 2.00 Manhunt. 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 SAS Australia. 8.30 The Rookie. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Chicago Fire. 12.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Getaway. 1.30 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 MOVIE: Casino Royale. (2006) Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench. 11.35 Nine News Late. 12.05 Lethal Weapon. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (8) Programs. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Junior MasterChef Australia. 2.30 Entertainment Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 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 Junior MasterChef Australia. 8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 9.30 Melbourne Cup Preview Show. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 8.50 Luke Warm Sex. 9.25 Detectorists. 9.55 Hang Ups. 10.20 The Inbetweeners. 10.45 Schitt’s Creek. 11.10 Red Dwarf. 11.40 Josh. 12.10 Chandon Pictures. 12.40 The IT Crowd. 1.05 Please Like Me. 1.30 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 2.20 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Scientology And The Aftermath. 12.50 Trump’s First Year. 1.40 Figure Skating. ISU World Championships. Men’s. Replay. 3.10 Balls Deep. 4.00 WorldWatch. 4.25 This Week. 5.20 Woman With Gloria Steinem. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 In Search Of... 10.15 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Australia’s Best Backyards. 11.00 Make It Yours. 11.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Honey I Bought The House. 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 Criminal Confessions. 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 ER. 1.00 Death In Paradise. 2.10 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 3.15 Antiques Roadshow. 3.45 MOVIE: No Limit. (1935) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Grantchester. 8.40 Midsomer Murders. 10.40 See No Evil. 11.40 Late Programs.

Morning (81) 6.00 Programs. 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: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 13. Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Highlights. 11.20 NCIS: New Orleans. 12.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 4.15 Odd Squad. 4.35 Find Me In Paris. 5.05 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Best Bugs Forever. 8.45 School Of Rock. 9.15 Prisoner Zero. 9.40 Miraculous. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cupcake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Big Bad BBQ Brawl. 3.30 Restaurant: Impossible. 4.30 One Tree Hill. 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. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Last Stop Garage. 3.00 The Weekend Prospector. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 World’s Craziest Fools. 4.30 Goldfathers. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 American Pickers. 8.30 Housos 2020. 9.05 Regular Old Bogan. 9.35 MOVIE: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. (1999) 11.40 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Quantum Leap. 2.00 The A-Team. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Kalgoorlie Cops. 8.40 MOVIE: I Am Legend. (2007) Will Smith. 10.40 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 11.40 Tattoo Fixers. 12.35 Social Fabric. 1.40 Surfing Australia TV. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Rules Of Engagement. 1.30 The King Of Queens. 2.30 Carol’s Second Act. 3.00 Becker. 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 10.00 Two And A Half Men. 11.00 The Middle. 11.30 Late Programs.

aBC

MONday, November 2

NINE (5)

6.00 Global Roaming. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Rivals. 12.30 Award Winning Tasmania. 1.00 World’s Greatest Man Made Wonders. 2.00 The Block. 4.30 The Garden Gurus. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Getaway. 6.00 Nine News Saturday. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 MOVIE: Mamma Mia! (2008) Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep. A young woman invites three of her mother’s former boyfriends to her upcoming wedding on a Greek island. (PG) 9.40 MOVIE: Pitch Perfect 2. (2015) Anna Kendrick, Hailee Steinfeld. An a cappella group struggles to rebuild its reputation. (M) 11.50 MOVIE: A Few Less Men. (2017) (MA15+) 1.30 Award Winning Tasmania. 2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Global Shop. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.30 Wesley Impact.

SuNday, November 1

6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 The World This Week. 11.00 Compass. 11.25 Songs Of Praise. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline. 1.30 Gardening Australia. 2.30 Victoria. 3.30 Don’t Stop The Music. 4.30 The Mix. 5.00 Antiques Roadshow. 6.00 The Sound. Return. 7.00 ABC News Sunday. 7.40 Restoration Australia: Clydesdale. 8.40 Miniseries: Roadkill. 9.40 Doc Martin. 10.25 Killing Eve. 11.10 Silent Witness. Final. 12.10 Doctor Who. 4.00 Silent Witness. Final. 5.00 Insiders.

aBC CO

PrIME7 (6)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Horse Racing. Golden Eagle Race Day. 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: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. (2016) Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Asa Butterfield. Raised on stories about a home for children with special abilities by his grandfather, a teenager realises there might be some truth to the tales after the old man perishes at the hands of a monster. (M) 10.00 SAS Australia: Uncensored. 11.00 MOVIE: The Gumball Rally. (1976) Normann Burton, Michael Sarrazin, Gary Busey. A motley group of people takes part in a nonstop car race from New York to Long Beach, California. (M) 1.30 Home Shopping.

aBC CO

aBC ME

SBS

SBS VLNd

7FLIX

PrIME7

7tWO

7MatE

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

NINE

9GEM

9GO!

WIN

WIN BOLd

WIN PEaCH

TVguide 6.00 News Breakfast. (2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Blue Water Empire. 2.00 Unforgotten. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Classic Countdown. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Outback Ringer. 8.30 Brock: Over The Top. 9.30 Searching For Superhuman. 10.25 Insert Name Here. 10.55 ABC Late News. 11.30 Q+A. 12.30 Cleverman. 1.25 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 (3) WWII’s Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails. 3.00 Secrets Of The Bermuda Triangle. 3.55 Escalation Sensation. 4.25 Who Do You Think You Are? 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Railway Journeys UK. 8.35 Insight. 9.35 Dateline. 10.05 The Feed. 10.35 SBS News. 11.05 Cardinal. 11.55 Bad Banks. 1.55 The Day. 4.30 Full Frontal. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. Return. 9.10 Ghosts. 9.40 I’m Alan Partridge. 10.10 Frontline. 10.40 The Inbetweeners. 11.05 Schitt’s Creek. 11.30 Red Dwarf. 12.00 Josh. 12.30 Chandon Pictures. 1.00 Small Tales And True. 1.25 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 1.45 Detectorists. 2.15 QI. 2.55 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath. 1.40 Does America. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 Woman With Gloria Steinem. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. 9.25 We Are Who We Are. New. 11.25 Escorts. 12.15 Danny’s House. 12.40 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 13. 3.40 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.50 The Next Step. 3.15 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.40 The Dengineers. 4.15 Odd Squad. 4.35 Find Me In Paris. 5.05 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Best Bugs Forever. 8.45 School Of Rock. 9.15 Prisoner Zero. 9.40 Miraculous. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Spring Baking Championship. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cupcake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Big Bad BBQ Brawl. 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: Pay It Forward. (2000) Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment. 11.00 Bones. 12.00 Late Programs.

6.00 News Breakfast: (2) USA Votes. 10.00 USA Votes: Election Day Live. 1.00 USA Votes: Election Results Live. 4.00 USA Votes: Election Day Special Coverage. 6.00 USA Votes: America’s Decision. 7.00 ABC News. 8.00 Hard Quiz. 8.30 Gruen. 9.05 Reputation Rehab. 9.40 Planet America: USA Votes Special. 11.40 The World. 12.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 1.20 Four Corners. 2.05 Media Watch. 2.20 Doc Martin. 3.05 Killing Eve. 3.50 Rage. 5.30 News Breakfast.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 11.00 SBS News Special: US Election 2020. 4.00 Dateline. 4.30 Great Irish Railway Journeys. 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 13. Highlights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 Walking Britain’s Roman Roads. 8.30 The Royals And The Tabloids. New. 9.30 The Good Fight. Final. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 24 Hours In Emergency. 12.00 MOVIE: Rodin. (2017) 2.10 Vikings. 3.05 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Friday Night Dinner. 8.55 Archer. Final. 9.20 Rosehaven. 9.45 Frontline. 10.15 The Thick Of It. 10.45 The Inbetweeners. 11.10 Schitt’s Creek. 11.35 Red Dwarf. 12.05 Josh. 12.35 Free Agents. 1.05 QI. 1.35 The Catherine Tate Show. 2.05 Hang Ups. 2.35 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath. 1.40 Donkmaster. 2.55 The Ice Cream Show. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 Woman With Gloria Steinem. 5.40 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.10 Alone. 7.00 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.25 MOVIE: The Fifth Element. (1997) Bruce Willis. 10.40 Chaos: Election 2020. 11.35 Escorts. 12.05 Danny’s House. 12.40 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 14. 3.40 Late Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Ridiculous Cakes. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 Cake Hunters. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Spring Baking Championship. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cupcake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Big Bad BBQ Brawl. 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. 10.00 Planet America: USA Votes Special. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 Reputation Rehab. 2.00 Unforgotten. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Classic Countdown. 5.05 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Scottish Vets Down Under. 8.30 Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure. 9.20 Death In Paradise. 10.20 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 10.50 ABC Late News. 11.20 Louis Theroux: Savile. 12.40 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 (3) WWII’s Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails. 3.55 Five Billion Pound Super Sewer. 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 14. Highlights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The Great Fire Of London. 8.30 Secrets Of The Tower Of London. Final. 9.25 Fargo. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 24 Hours In Police Custody. 11.55 Whiskey Cavalier. 4.00 Railway Journeys UK. 4.35 Full Frontal. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Hard Quiz. 9.00 Mock The Week. 9.30 Reputation Rehab. 10.00 Flowers. Final. 10.30 Finding Joy. 10.55 Ghosts. 11.25 The Inbetweeners. 11.50 Schitt’s Creek. 12.15 Red Dwarf. 12.45 Josh. Final. 1.15 Free Agents. 1.45 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 2.35 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath. 1.45 Donkmaster. 3.00 The Ice Cream Show. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 Woman With Gloria Steinem. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 Full Frontal: 2020 Election Special. 9.45 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 10.35 Australia Come Fly With Me. 11.35 Late Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Ridiculous Cakes. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 Cake Hunters. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Spring Baking Championship. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cupcake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Big Bad BBQ Brawl. 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 News Breakfast. (2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Outback Ringer. 10.30 Scottish Vets Down Under. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 2.00 Unforgotten. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Classic Countdown. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 Vera. 10.00 Mum. 10.35 ABC Late News. 10.50 Gruen. 11.25 Rage.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 2.00 The Point. 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Hidden Restaurants With Michel Roux Jnr. 4.25 Great Irish Railway Journeys. 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 15. Highlights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 Secrets Unearthed. 8.30 The Wonderful World Of Chocolate. Return. 9.20 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 10.10 SBS News. 10.40 Celebrity Mastermind. 11.40 Miniseries: Dead Lucky. 3.50 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Gruen XL. 9.15 Absolutely Fabulous. 9.45 The IT Crowd. 10.15 The Catherine Tate Show. 10.45 The Inbetweeners. 11.10 Schitt’s Creek. 11.35 Red Dwarf. 12.05 Corey White’s Roadmap To Paradise. 12.35 Free Agents. 1.05 Archer. Final. 1.25 Flowers. Final. 1.45 Finding Joy. 2.20 Small Tales And True. 2.50 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath. 1.40 Donkmaster. 2.35 Rise. 3.25 The Ice Cream Show. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 Woman With Gloria Steinem. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders. 9.20 Over 18. 10.20 Vagrant Queen. 11.05 The Feed. 11.35 Escorts. 12.05 Danny’s House. 12.35 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 16. 3.35 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 3.15 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.40 The Dengineers. 4.15 Odd Squad. 4.35 Find Me In Paris. 5.05 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.45 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.10 Fruits Basket. 9.30 Prisoner Zero. 9.55 Miraculous. 10.20 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Ridiculous Cakes. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 Cake Hunters. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Spring Baking Championship. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cupcake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Big Bad BBQ Brawl. 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.

TuEsdAy, November 3

ABC

ABC CO

ABC ME

WEdNEsdAy, November 4

ABC

ABC CO

ABC ME

THuRsdAy, November 5

ABC

ABC CO

ABC ME

FRIdAy, November 6

ABC

ABC CO

ABC ME

sBs

sBs VLNd

7FLIX

sBs

sBs VLNd

7FLIX

sBs

sBs VLNd

7FLIX

sBs

sBs VLNd

7FLIX

PRIME7

Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Mommy Group Murder. (2018) Helena Mattsson. 2.00 Manhunt. 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 SAS Australia. 8.30 MOVIE: Logan. (2017) 11.30 Blindspot. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

NINE

6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 10.00 Horse Racing. Melbourne Cup Day. 5.30 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Junior MasterChef Australia. 8.30 Ambulance Australia: Ultimate Emergencies. 10.00 NCIS. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 The Project. 2.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 3.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Melbourne Cup Preview Show. 9.00 Mission: Impossible. 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: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 MOVIE: Phar Lap. (1983) Tom Burlinson, Richard Morgan, Judy Morris. 10.55 CSI: Miami. 11.50 Late Programs.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 The King Of Queens. 8.30 Becker. 9.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.30 Cheers. 11.30 Frasier. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Rules Of Engagement. 1.30 The King Of Queens. 2.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 Becker. 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 10.00 Mom. 12.00 Frasier. 12.30 Late Programs.

NINE

6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 11.00 10 News First: America Decides 2020. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Bachelorette Australia. 8.30 The Masked Singer USA. 9.30 Bull. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Desperate Housewives. 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 The Trump Show. 9.50 Who Is Donald Trump? 10.50 Nine News Late. 11.20 The First 48. 12.10 Tipping Point. 1.05 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 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 ER. 1.00 Grantchester. 2.10 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 3.10 MOVIE: Mine Own Executioner. (1947) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 Halifax f.p. 10.40 Uncovered: Killed By Hate. 12.35 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 The Nanny. 12.30 Malcolm. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 The A-Team. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Along Came Polly. (2004) 9.20 MOVIE: The Heartbreak Kid. (2007) Ben Stiller. 11.35 The Nanny. 12.05 Miami Vice. 1.00 Ultimate Rush. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 11.00 (5) Nine News Special: US Presidential Election 2020. 5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 Rugby League. State of Origin. Game 1. Queensland v New South Wales. 10.10 State Of Origin Post-Match. 11.10 Nine News Late. 12.10 New Amsterdam. 1.00 The Garden Gurus. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 8.30 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Sydney Weekender. 12.30 A Moveable Feast. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Honey I Bought The House. 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 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector Morse. 10.50 The Investigator: A British Crime Story. 12.00 Late Programs. Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 American Pickers. 2.00 Wardens. 3.00 Pawn Stars Australia. 3.30 Life Off Road. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Megastructures. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Aussie Salvage Squad. 10.30 Big Easy Motors. 11.30 Late Programs. Sunrise. (6) 6.00 10.00 US Election 2020. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 My House And Other Animals. 8.30 MOVIE: Honour. (2020) Keeley Hawes. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Surveillance Oz. 11.30 Blindspot. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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 ER. 1.00 New Tricks. 2.10 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 3.10 MOVIE: Fear Is The Key. (1972) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 11.00 Uncovered: The Cult Of Yahweh Ben Yahweh. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Dangerman. 2.30 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Quantum Leap. 1.00 Sliders. 2.00 Baywatch. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: End Of Days. (1999) Arnold Schwarzenegger. 11.00 The Nanny. 11.30 Malcolm. 12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 Road Trick. 2.05 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Desperate Housewives. 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 Paramedics. 9.40 Chicago Med. 10.40 Nine News Late. 11.10 A+E After Dark. 12.05 Tipping Point. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Travel Oz. 8.30 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Creek To Coast. 12.30 Weekender. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Honey I Bought The House. 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 The Coroner. 8.30 Lewis. 10.30 Jonathan Creek. 11.40 Disappeared. 1.30 Cry Wolfe. 2.00 Home Shopping. Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 8.30 Pawn Stars. 9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wardens. 3.00 Pawn Stars Australia. 3.30 Life Off Road. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Megastructures. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 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: The Tenth Circle. (2008) 2.00 Code Blue: Murder. 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. 8.30 Britain’s Got Talent. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 The Amazing Race. 12.00 Blindspot. 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

NINE

6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Horse Racing. Melbourne Cup Carnival. Oaks Day. 6.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Bachelorette Australia. Final. 9.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 This Is Us. 12.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.30 The Project. 2.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 3.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning. Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 13. Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Highlights. 9.00 Mission: Impossible. 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: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 10.30 SEAL Team. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Quantum Leap. 1.00 Sliders. 2.00 The A-Team. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Under Siege. (1992) 9.40 MOVIE: The Punisher. (2004) 12.05 Miami Vice. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 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 Desperate Housewives. 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 Escape To The Chateau. 8.30 MOVIE: Twister. (1996) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes. 10.45 MOVIE: Into The Storm. (2014) 12.30 Tipping Point. 1.35 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

9GEM

WIN

WIN BOLd

NINE

6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Bachelorette Australia. 3.00 Judge Judy. 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 The Graham Norton Show. 9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 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 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 Mission: Impossible. 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: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 Elementary. 11.30 CSI: Miami. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 NCIS. 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 5.00 Jake And The Fatman.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 The King Of Queens. 8.30 Becker. 9.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.30 Cheers. 11.30 Frasier. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Rules Of Engagement. 1.30 The King Of Queens. 2.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 Becker. 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 10.30 Supernatural. 11.30 The Middle. 12.00 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Quantum Leap. 1.00 Sliders. 2.00 The A-Team. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.45 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo. (2002) 7.30 MOVIE: The Last Airbender. (2010) 9.30 MOVIE: Hellboy II: The Golden Army. (2008) Ron Perlman. 11.55 Heroes. 12.50 Peaking. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Polly Pocket. 5.10 Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

WIN PEACH

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 ER. 1.00 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime. 2.10 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 3.10 MOVIE: Kind Hearts And Coronets. (1949) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Poirot. 8.40 MOVIE: From Here To Eternity. (1953) Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra. 11.05 MOVIE: The Miracle Worker. (1962) 1.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Dipper’s Backyard BBQ Wars. 3.00 Pawn Stars Australia. 3.30 Life Off Road. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 World’s Craziest Fools. 5.30 MOVIE: Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. (1970) 7.30 MOVIE: X-Men: The Last Stand. (2006) Hugh Jackman. 9.40 MOVIE: X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (2009) Hugh Jackman. 12.00 Late Programs.

WIN BOLd

9GO!

7TWO

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Travel Oz. 8.30 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Fresh Escapes. 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 The Hotel Inspector. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Australia’s Amazing Homes. 11.30 Late Programs.

WIN

9GO!

7MATE

Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Code Blue: Murder. 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: Crazy Rich Asians. (2018) Constance Wu. 11.00 To Be Advised. 12.30 Home Shopping.

WIN PEACH

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 Mission: Impossible. 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: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 9.25 MOVIE: Swing Vote. (2008) Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll, Kelsey Grammer. 11.50 NCIS. 12.45 Late Programs.

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 ER. 1.00 As Time Goes By. 2.20 Antiques Roadshow. 2.50 MOVIE: Lady Caroline Lamb. (1972) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime. 8.40 MOVIE: Agatha Christie’s Evil Under The Sun. (1982) Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Jane Birkin. 11.05 Silent Witness. 12.25 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wardens. 2.30 Savage Wild. 3.00 Pawn Stars Australia. 3.30 Life Off Road. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Megastructures. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. (2007) 10.15 MOVIE: Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach. (1988) 12.15 Late Programs.

WIN BOLd

9GEM

7TWO

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Travel Oz. 8.30 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Vasili’s Garden. 12.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 House Of Wellness. 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 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Brit Cops. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Late Programs.

WIN

WIN PEACH

WIN

WIN BOLd

WIN PEACH

BIRD’S-EYEview with JEANINE BIRD

Phantom Call

2020 Melbourne Covid Cup Don’t let the truth spoil a bit of fun – horses aren’t finalised until tonight, Saturday 31/10/20; this was written a week out from the Cup with the best guestimate of horses, and on the premise that Schabau won the Hotham Handicap. The Chosen One Dan Andrews

Verry Elleegant Izzi Peregrine

Anthony Van Dyck Reg Kidd

Master of Reality Bob Katter

Dashing Willoughby Stratum Albion Anthony Albanese (Albo) Andrew Gee

Sir Dragonet Scott Morrison

Vow And Declare Pauline Hanson

Twilight Payment Daryl Maguire

Prince Of Arran Jack Wighton

Finche John Barilaro

Steel Prince Robbie Katter

Oceanex Amanda Spalding

Avilius Jodi McKay

Tiger Moth Donald Trump

Warning Clive Palmer

True Self Bob Holland

King of Leogrance Joe Biden

Persan David Dixon

Russian Camelot Annastacia Pallachook (aka Palaszczuk)

Mustajeer Mark Latham

Surprise Baby Gladys Berijiklian

Miami Bound Freckled Eggs AKA Deb Frecklington

Schabau Phil Donato

It’s a beautiful Flemington Spring day for the 160th richest, most famous two-mile handicap Cup in the world - the 2020 Melbourne Covid Cup. For the first time ever there is no crowd on account of new sponsor Covid which pays people to stay away. Nevertheless, it’s a more colourful spectacle than it might have been, with people exuberant to be emerging from Covid lockup. Most will be watching on TV as BBQs and friends are banned: Victorian Premier Dunno Dan’s sending drones over to ensure compliance. Nevertheless, the roses are looking spectacular and …... They’re at the Barrier for another sensational Cup ….. it’s the Aussie dream where legends are made, and today will be no different. Already in the barriers are Verry Elleegant, Sir Dragonet, Oceanex, Persan, Anthony Van Dyck and Avilius. Vow And Declare’s throwing his head a bit but Pauline Hanson’s settled him down and he’s in. Russian Camelot with jockey Annastacia Pallachook given a little shove by stewards, while down the other end, Freckled Eggs gets Miami Bound in. They say this Qld election may be a fowl race, with Pallachook and Freckled Eggs battling for pecking-order supremacy. That other election’s Joe Biden is trying to manipulate King of Leogrance barrier-ward, but he’s kicking up wanting more grants before he complies; stewards have him licked and locked now; Master of Reality an old hand - smoothly moved in by Bob Katter; Phil Donato calmly moves Schabau in; Steel Prince, The Chosen One, and Finche are in. Stewards trying to catch Twilight Payment – Daryl Maguire’s locked in on him now; Jack Wighton on Prince Of Arran a possible raider; True Self looking a bit skittish but jockey Bob Holland’s got him nicely under control. Stewards having a bit of trouble with the other US contender Tiger Moth as Donald Trump feels the sting of rebellious Irish blood; in now, as are Clive Palmer after getting a Warning, Gladys on Surprise Baby, Latham on Mustajeer moves in; Dashing Willoughby looks a bit decentralised but Andrew’s getting there. Just one stray to come, Albo seems lost on Stratum Albion, but stewards set him straight. All in now. Starter is comfortable on his stand, waiting for them to settle …. And they’re off, a nice even start with most flying out of the barriers well to contest the 2020 Melbourne Covid Cup. Most of the field have foreign breeding somewhere and been avoiding Covid like the plague. Russian

Camelot shot out with Pallachook happy to have foreign nags with big bucks, while Freckled Eggs is Miami Bound on the fence, Verry Elleegant gracefully thread through the middle by Izzi Peregrine, Jodi McKay on Avilius right up on Surprise Baby, Mark Latham on the other side Mustajeering The Chosen One with Dan onboard given a Warning by Clive who’s not gonna take it any more. Albo straying wide on Stratum Albion, but King of Leogrance wanting the lion’s share of the lucre is Dashing Willoughby but can’t get round Robbie Katter on Steel Prince; and here comes Twilight Payment to the rescue with a deal as Pauline Vows and Declares True Self is The Chosen One. They’ve covered the first 1,000 metres and Sir Dragonet is on a fishing trip near Oceanex but outrun by Jack’s Prince of Arran taking hearts for Orange to Surprise Baby pinching Finche who’s Miami Bound with Katter’s Steel Prince hoping for balance of power; Vow And Declare – Pauline wants in too as Master of Reality flies by Warning Tiger Moth. But they’ve picked on the wrong man, Trump’s sitting pretty, calculating when to move. Here comes Schabau doing a switcharoo, now closing Avilius in on the rails, Anthony Van Dyck’s mall being spurred on by Reg with OCL’s stablemates True Self in close Persan …... it’s all about the challenge as they come up to the 2000 metre mark at David Dixon’s Long Point Crossing - Persan taking on Mustajeer and masking The Chosen One. ICAC comes through Warning a Twilight Payment’s not acceptable even if Surprise Baby shredded the evidence and Russian Camelot dealt with King of Leogrance to enhance the financial tranche. Pallachook and Freckled Eggs are fighting it out in Qld on Russian Camelot and Miami Bound amidst Warnings of voter fraud and death taxes, with Steel Prince coming through cleaning up on water and jobs in North Qld. Sir Dragonet sent home as was Stratum Albion while Master of Reality stirs the possum on funeral restrictions boxing Russian Camelot in on the rails where she’s put coal. The Greens are AWOL confined to the rails, boxed in on the coast and Pauline’s pushing Vow And Declare on the border nightmare and business failures. Sir Dragonet slipping right back with the $30m land steal and Stratum Albion coming last. As they come down the straight now the field’s fairly bunched up, but here comes Phil’s Schabau looking for a coup on the outside, Tiger Moth has Trumped it up to

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

Airforce One and is fairly flying along with Izzi’s Verry Elleegant, Bob thinks True Self can do better, China’s hooked Dangerous Dan and The Chosen One who’s dropped back. Cash4Visa’s taken Twilight Payment out along with Surprise Baby injured in the Colour City Art Explosion; Finche is feeling the pinch, Freckled Egg’s becoming scrambled and Pallachook’s pecking order is falling apart. Gee whizz, Dashing Willoughby’s Miami Bound making a move for the summit on decentralised Mount Canobolas overlooking Oceanex on spec for the building boom. I think Izzi’s too young to bring Verry Elleegant into land. But here comes Prince of Arran from nowhere, taking on Tiger Moth and True Self; Steel Prince still in there, Schabau galloping through strongly tussling with Dashing Willoughby’s breeze, Persan’s dropped back, Anthony Van Dyck’s detained out on the ringroad where Covid can’t keep the parking police down; Mustajeer’s had a Master of Reality check in the mall and Avilius can’t come to the party. Pauline’s lit a box of red-heads under Vow And Declare hoping to get there, but will be beaten by the lazer show. It’s close for the front-runners as they thunder down the straight towards the finish line, Trump’s got the whip out to Tiger Moth’s Airforce One saddle-cloth, True Self ’s having a free speech run on accountability, Jack Wighton’s all hands ‘n’ heels on Prince of Arran looking like a raider he is; it’s neck and neck, anyone’s race; Schabau’s broken through, Dashing Willoughby trying hard may have done his dash, Tiger Moth buzzing through on the inside, True Self ’s big heart for Orange striking out for the finish line; who knew Schabau would come through but no DallyM here ‘cause Prince of Arran’s stolen it from under his nose fair and square as he fairly sprints for the finish line. But True Self ’s not out yet, there’s more than one way to skin a cat; Tiger Moth won’t be beaten either and it’s close, going to be a photo, Tiger Moth, True Self, Prince of Arran, it’s a photo finish - Tiger Moth by a half nose with a dead-heat for second between True Self and Prince of Arran, with Schabau flying through 4th, Dashing Willoughby 5th, and the rest of the field catching up. What a Cup! Covid couldn’t keep them down, punters are happy, Champagne and Cartier watches all round! Bob’s eyes are fairly working overtime, Jack’s nearly taken a trifecta in 2020, and Trump’s making America great again, again and taken the Melbourne Cup to prove it!

FOODforTHOUGHT

PaulTIERNEY LIFEandTIMES with ANGUS GIBB

MUSIC FOR COMPANY

��

Need something to keep replaced. But … online these days you going in these lonely is just too peachy to ignore. All you have to do is type in one idea, like days? … stay tuned. ‘The awesome 80s’ and you’re set I’ve got my dear ol’ dad to thank I still remember driving into Orange spoke about the day, bible. In the Gospel for anin entire maybe longer. for it. I’ve been a music ‘fan’ since for the first time almost twelve months From Van Halen, to the Vapours, to of John, he spoke with a woman who my earliest memories. I must have Tears For Fears, to Spy V Spy … it’ll ago. It was hot, drybeen andabout dusty. The was drawing water from a well when 3 or 4, but I can still get played for you, no problems. effects of the drought were seen begging mum hetosays this: “Everyone who drinks this fondly remember I typed in ‘Rock’ just to see what endlessly rewind the reel-to-reel everywhere. I remember seeing a flock water will be again, but whoever would thirsty happen, and found a playlist we had the Beatles of sheep that weretape looking soofgaunt and ‘White drinks the water I give them will never that goes for over 6 hours called Album’ to dry. play the called thin. The dams were bone To songs top that Ithirst. ‘Pure Rock &water Roll’, I was andthem still Indeed, the I give ‘Buffalo Bill’ and ‘Ronky Racoon’. it off, during the afternoon a huge dust am, in music heaven. The only two Then he introduced us to Elton,will The become in them a spring of water annoying things have been (i) having storm blew through. What a difference Beach Boys, Hot August Night,welling to up to eternal life.” What Jesus to stop doing my real work for a 12 months has made. It ahas name few.been We certainly had the is sayingminute here is while we need to that find out the name of a new coolest and loudest stereo in the incredible to see the transformation water forsong life,aswe will always need I am continually educated, street, and the other kids would of the landscape as the drought has (ii) leaving thethirst keyboard to play more. Weand find that our is never over Isosee wesmiles could play Acca broken. Each timecome it rains, air guitar when songs like ‘Panama’ be truly quenched because something Dacca and Sherbet at ear-blistering on the faces of people. Each time it or ‘Kickstart My Heart’ come on. levels, whilst doing air guitar. Good

Water for Life:

is missing. Our lives are never truly be rains, there is a sense of hope. As our On the and radio, they’ve been times. satisfied. We areTVnever truly content water storage levelsGetting have continued to talking about making playlists of my drivers’ licence as we drink from the well of our ‘songs you play when you’re lonely rise and our watermeant restrictions have I could play music in the own longings forbut success, happiness, or alone’, that’s just garbage. been wound back we have car on my all ownbeen as loud as I liked fulfillment or love. We will always I’m never alone when the music be and I did. go-to reminded just how…much weMy rely oncassette in is blasting, I’m at peace. Late lastthe needing another drink. But in theto 80s hadat ZZ Top, found Big water for life. You Subaru only need look Tuesday arvo, just before the Country, early Midnight Oil, Aussie hope that Jesus offers is that those who out the window at the green grass, or awesome rain came, I jumped Crawl, The Knack and of course drink from the living water, the good the full dam to seeFlock thatof water gives life. on the ride-on, stuck the buds in Seagulls as big tunes. This news that saves, never be But we always need to keep myJesus ears and had will my phone in my ‘alone time’ on wasdrinking. some of my fave thirsty again. In Jesus you can drink pocket, ready for an internet playlist. We need to refill our drink of bottles. We a school kid memories going from I hooked into a list of by has one deeply and be satisfied. Hesongs alone to anfor adult. get parched and long more. All of of current faves, a relatively new water for life and he has promised that I’m water alone again this week, working us know that we need for life, Aussie band called Ocean Alley – and from home. thirsty? Weird. Fun. Novel.those Am I who drink deeply from the gospel but why do we keep getting screamed out the lyrics at the top of gonna sick himself of it? Who knows. Am This was something thatget Jesus will havemy true life thatmowing lasts forever. lungs whilst for almost 2

I sick of my own company yet? Nope. Lovin’ It. My lovely wife made banana hours. Bliss. Alone. Not lonely. A couple of songs I might add to bread to go with my (many) morning my extended playlists next week coffees. My computer and work setwill include ‘Mad World’ by Tears up (see last weeks’ column) is aces. for Fears, the song by John Lennon Oh, and the music … it’s goin’ on out where he says ‘Strange Days Indeed, here on the outskirts of Millthorpe, DAVID DIXON Peculiar Mama…’, Onion Skin by I’m telling you. Can you hear it? with Most Boom Crash Opera (‘these here are These days, ten bucks a month crazy times’), and The Doors ‘People will get you access to a billion Are Strange’. a mate maybe withI know another 45 who’d per cent How many times insongs, Orange havemore, you and there’smental health, add ‘Here I go Again on my own’ by no ads if you pay for it. I’ve still got saying it has both positive and negative glanced-over at the car next to you at the Whitesnake. The list is endless. the hundreds of vinyls and CDs

WE CAN DO better

effects. traffic lights and seen the driver furtively Music – you’re never lonely, even in pride of place, and the music staring, eyes down, reading or sending text we alone. still feed beast on my computer won’t ever be Why then, whendo you’re Turnthe it up. Loud. messages on their smart phone? that many of us feel has led to us being

��

lonelier, more anxious, and less contented You shake your head as the lights change with our own lives? and you see them cruise-off, one eye on the road and the other still down at their screen, Social media, I-phones, tablets, and feeding an addiction that has become an the like seem to have almost snuck-up ) really realising their wise accepted part of our lives(u fornt so il many oth us er without our advised on Australians. long-term impact.

WE ARE OPEN

Let’sTalk Talk Money Let’s Money

with Daniel McGregor with Daniel McGregor

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! I’ve been working in financial services since 2002, so I’ve seen a few financial crises during those two decades and in that time, I’ve learnt a lot. Not only a lot about how investment markets work, but also how human emotions work. With all the craziness going on at the moment, many people are understandably concerned about their retirement savings. Sadly, many people are making the wrong decisions in how to deal with this crisis, acting on emotion and not realising the long-term implications of their decisions. I love helping people get their financial futures on the right track but also helping them make sure they don’t derail from that track when the going gets tough. I can guarantee you this won’t be the last time we see dark economic times… in fact, I guarantee all my clients there will be times when their money will go down. Moments like these are a good opportunity to remind my clients why their money is invested the way it is. Many people will be finding themselves simply sitting in

a ‘balanced’ fund within their superannuation. This can be particularly dangerous for those in the retirement risk zone, that is, five years either side of retirement. As you move closer to retirement, at retirement and during retirement, it’s important to put some strategy behind how your retirement savings are set up. A retiree with all their money sitting in a balanced investment option in retirement would mean that right now they are being forced to sell shares at the worst possible time in order to meet their income needs. Sadly, many people are flooding super fund call centres to move all of their super savings to cash, robbing themselves of seeing their money recover when things go back up again… which they will! A better strategy is to break up retirement savings into short, medium and long term ‘buckets’ to ensure that when something like this happens, there is no need to be selling out of growth assets (i.e. shares and property) while they are down. This type of strategy ensures

that when a downturn occurs, those growth investments have time to recover. While nothing can protect us from feeling some emotions when we see our life savings going down, it’s incredibly reassuring to know that when it does happen, a strategy had already been put in place to deal with it. Now, imagine if that strategy was combined with saving thousands of dollars a year in investment fees! If these sound like the sorts of things you want when it comes to your retirement savings and you value independence when it comes to advice, then head to wealthtrain.com.au and book an online appointment today. There is no mistaking the seriousness of the coronavirus crisis, both from a health and economic perspective. However, the decisions you are making right now will have a huge impact on what your future looks like in 5, 10 and 20 years from now.

ONE SIMPLE QUESTION

Do you have a plan? I know you have dreams, but do you have a plan. Remember, hope is not a plan! Stay safe! Daniel

As with building a house, when it comes to I know you have things you are hoping will building a financial house, it pays to get some happen… you want to get your house paid If you’d to find out more about how INDEPENDENT advice could help you manage cashsome flow, payexpert off the mortgage faster, the most out quality help, advice andgetthe off,like you want to raise your family,financial you want of super and investand wisely, then get in touch on 0411 484 464 or to wealthtrain.com.au benefit ofhead experience. Use the right materials, to travel, you want to retire, many more Daniel McGregor is the man behind Wealth Train and is a member of the Independent Financial Advice and Education. Thisand advicespend may not bemoney suitable to you it the right labour inbecause the right things. contains general advice which does not take into consideration any of your personal circumstances. All strategies and information provided are general advice only. places, save it in others, and you get results. Daniel McGregor and Wealth Train are authorised representatives of Independent Financial Advice and Education AFSL 520963 Are you making those things happen on purpose? Or hoping things will just fall into place over the years?

It’s potentially not an overstatement to say that there’s never been a more important time to have a financial plan. We are living longer, we are borrowing more, things are reasonably unstable… no one saw 2020 coming! Despite these things, when it comes to money, there are tried and true methods that have always worked and will continue to work.

Help with Grant Applications

Get your financial house well designed and built and it will provide you with the ability to live out many years of happy memories. Just like a house, your financial house will change over time. You’ll make modifications, maybe renovate, some things will need to be replaced over time.

Most people also want a garden, so I’ll leave And an addiction it is — unlessboard you’re ws Yugio jigsa , paint, it was funh,being able to catchyou with a popular Chinese proverb, “The gameas, miniaturesFirst, For retail of ied. goss or sports news, hostage negotiator or you’re everyone keepwith best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The uard – plenty to up theoccup latest and Vangmoney Magicwiring for your child’s life-saving operation in second best time is now.” If you want success to er then we got into the habit of long, You wouldn’t get in your car and randomly e “stuck at home” we are happy to deliv For thos and growth in the future, the best time to act Switzerland — no-one really needs to be in the Oran LGA drive off without a reasonable idea of the text largely-meaningless ad-nauseum ge your door is now. reading or sending texts while driving, ide. To discuss your grant application and how outs direction you needed to head. You wouldn’t nce dista and a reasonable conversations with family and friends, and crossing the road, or running smack-bang One simple question, do you have a plan? build a house without detailed plans. Your I can help you succeed call Amanda Spalding finally we’re flitting, browsing wildly from us a call or message us Give to financial house deserves something similar if into other pedestrians, as happened me Give me a call if you’re ready to work with an one meaningless influencer on fashions and FRIDAY you want it to stand securely and deliver the the other day. independent financial adviser on designing music to the -6pm latest K-Pop sensation. 11am lifestyle you want. MONDAY AMANDA SPALDING WEDNESDAY the financial house you want and deserve. Yet, in the past 10 years11am or so,- we just - 4pm Each year — for one whole month while 6pmhave11am SATURDAY Similar to building a house, building a CONSULTING 11am— - 4pm accepted the increased and now almost allon holidays I turn off all devices, don’t TUESDAY: THURSDAY financial house is relatively straight forward pervading intrusion of technology our - 6pm Closed into 11am SUNDAY look at any twitter feeds or news, get my0417 288if246 you follow a plan. Build it from the ground 11am -3pm aes@amandaspaldingconsulting.com lives. For all this, is there anyone who would weather from looking-out the window, and up with solid foundations and then give it a See you in store claim that we are more-aware, connected, keep in touch with family and friends on little maintenance on a regular basis. informed, or happier than we were before the old-style telephone. the smart phone took-over our171 lives? Summer St Orange | TFor 02 6361 “30 years of executive management experience and success in applying for funding” the0524 first week, I’m nervously sales@gamesnmore.com.au More than one-third of respondents in an http://gamesnmore.com.au wondering what’s happening that I’m If you’d like to find out more about how INDEPENDENT financial advice could help you manage American Psychiatric Association survey missing out on. For the next three and a cash flow, pay off the mortgage faster, get the most out of super and invest wisely, then get in 14 view 2 — 8 APRIL, touch on 0411 484 464 or head to wealthtrain.com.au. This advice may not be suitable to you recently said that they social2020 media as half, I feel like I’m on a beautiful, secluded because it contains general advice which does not take into consideration any of your personal harmful to their mental health. island with my thoughts my own and that circumstances. All strategies and information provided are general advice only. the world is a wonderful place. Try it once, The survey found just five per cent view Daniel McGregor and Wealth Train are authorised representatives of Independent Financial Advice & Education AFSL 520963 you’ll feel better! social media as being positive for their

Knowhow can be the difference between success and failure

Stay safe! Daniel

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

CITYwatch

AMANDA SPALDING with Bob Holland

Please consider me! BOB: Last week Amanda and I talked about the upcoming Local Government Elections in September next year and said it would be good to start hearing from potential candidates now, rather than just in the last few weeks leading up to the election. I suggested it would be good to come up with a “mock” application form, publish it in City Watch and then invite those who are prepared to state their interest now, to fill it in so we can publish it in Newswatch over coming weeks. If nothing else, it will help those candidates who take up the opportunity, to start their campaign rolling. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone takes up the offer at this early stage, but if you don’t try these things you’ll never know. So, for better or worse, let’s give it a go. Amanda, what’s your best guess as to whether many people thinking about standing next year will actually announce their intentions at this early stage? Why? AMANDA: This is a tricky question. The election will be held on 4th September 2021 and the term will be a 3 year term to September 2024, so people need to think about whether they want to make this commitment a long time in advance. I like the idea of getting people talking about this openly as it would be good if like-minded people could get together so that we have fewer tickets and less than the 88 candidates who stood in the last elections in 2017 much to everyone’s confusion. Candidates, groups and third party campaigners are required to comply with various requirements that can be found on the NSW Electoral Commission’s website; https:// www.elections.nsw.gov.au/About-us/Media-centre/2020NSW-Local-Government-elections-bulletins https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/About-us/Forms-andFact-sheets/Fact-Sheets These requirements may seem complex but hopefully they will not deter people from standing for election. Orange City Council has left resources in place on its website to guide potential candidates despite the postponement of the elections for a year. https://www. orange.nsw.gov.au/elections/ BOB: One of the reasons we’re trying this is because it can be so hard for good intentioned and suitable candidates to become known well enough in the community, and what they stand for, for sufficient people to actually vote for them. Do you have any thoughts on what potential candidates should start doing now, so that they have at least a fair chance come polling day? AMANDA: I don’t really feel qualified to advise on this matter, but what I would recommend to potential candidates is to get a copy of Ruth McGowan’s book ‘Get Elected’. As I mentioned in last week’s column John Howard said ‘you can’t fatten a pig on market day’, so potential candidates do need to have established their authenticity and credibility in the local community over a period of time, through volunteering and helping others. I do think people need to have good reasons for standing for election to any organisation. I have seen too many people standing for election as office bearers in organisations so that they can promote their businesses or themselves, rather than wanting to achieve something for

the organisation and its members. To quote JFK ‘ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.’ Your offer for people to present themselves in City Watch is a generous opportunity for potential candidates to make themselves, and what they stand for, known to the readers. BOB: Of course, media advertising is used widely in the getting elected process and sadly, often it is those with the deepest pockets that spend the most and often get elected. It’s almost like trying to buy your way in. Why does Clive Palmer’s name come to mind about now? How could a potential candidate who can’t afford such publicity best approach the task? AMANDA: There are rules about how much candidates can spend and there is a Fact Sheet on the NSW Electoral Commission website that says that for the 2021 Local Government elections expenditure caps are for expenditure from 1 July 2021. The caps are calculated on the basis of the number of enrolled electors. At the 2017 election Orange had 29,131 enrolled electors so I am assuming that we have now exceeded 30,000 in which case the expenditure caps are: Number of enrolled electors for local government area Non-mayoral candidates and groups that do not include mayoral candidates Number of enrolled electors for local Government area

30,0001 – 50,000

Non-mayoral candidates and groups that do not include mayoral candidates

$36,000

Mayoral candidates in undivided areas

$45,000

Mayoral candidates in undivided areas

$12,000

Elected representatives do need to be resilient and be able to understand that, for example, public interest journalism seeks accountability and should not be taken personally. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) definition of corruption includes partiality in which a public official ‘improperly exercises his or her official functions in a partial manner’. So, candidates for election do need to feel sure that they are sufficiently resilient not to take criticism personally, so that they will make unbiased decisions. BOB: Like I said, it will be interesting! I have come up with our “mock” Application form. I think by now, readers will have the drift of what I’m attempting so if you’re considering standing for Orange City Council next year, feel free to use these questions as a basis for your “mock” application. If you’re happy for me to publish your answers, email me your answers and include a photo of yourself if you’d like that included. Email me at bob@oclife.com.au QUESTIONS: 1. Name 2. Are you going to stand for election as Mayor and a Councillor? 3. Are you going to stand as Councillor only? (ignore questions 5 and 6) 4. What do you think are the main issues facing Orange City over the next Council 3 year term 2021 – 2024 5. How would you aim to tackle those issues as Mayor to make a difference?

# A third party campaigner is an individual or entity that incurs more than $2,000 in electoral expenditure for a local government election in NSW during the capped expenditure period. Electoral expenditure is only expenditure that has the dominant purpose of promoting or opposing a party or candidates or influencing the vote at an election. I imagine that there are few independent candidates or groups who will have these kind of resources available. However, social media is a very powerful, free or cheap tool to reach a lot of people. Unfortunately, it seems that some keyboard warriors are determined to use social media to defame people. We should all fact check whenever we can and treat with suspicion rants that are aimed at destroying reputations.

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

6. In less than 100 words describe why you should be elected as the Mayor of Orange City. 7. Describe how you have been involved with the Orange community and how you would bring your experience into your role as a Councillor or Mayor. 8. As a Councillor or Mayor how would you facilitate communication between the local community and the governing body? 9. How will you ensure that your decisions are not biased by your personal feelings? 10. What would you like your time as Mayor or Councillor of Orange City Council to be remembered for? 11. What do you do to have fun? If you have any comments, suggestions or questions about anything you read in City Watch, email Amanda at aespalding2@bigpond.com or call her on 0417 288 246. FOR THE RECORD: Amanda Spalding was recently employed by Regional Life Group Pty. Ltd. Her role being Executive Officer of Hearts for Orange, an initiative of Regional Life Group Pty. Ltd., set up to specifically market, and support Orange’s retail sector. Amanda works out of our office in Lord’s Place but does not work for our publications of Orange City Life or Newswatch, she is however, and has been for some time, a freelance contributor.

NEWS

ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN — One of the most controversial and important elections in American history — between President Donald Trump and contender Joe Biden — will be held next Tuesday, November 3, (US time) with the results filtering through to Australia from about lunchtime Wednesday.

FAST FACTS ON A UNIQUE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM THE PRESIDENT

four years in power.

The United States (of America) operates a democratic system of Government that it is many ways foreign to the British-origin Westminster parliamentary system that operates in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

The Republican Party is also known as the GOP, or the Grand Old Party. In recent years, it has stood for lower taxes, gun rights and tighter restrictions on immigration.

The President, for instance, does not sit in the Parliament — in the United States it is called “Congress” — but is elected directly by the electorate every four years. The president, however, is not elected on an absolute plurality of votes, but on a State-by-State winner-take-all approach through an Electoral College system. This leads to a situation where one or both of the two houses, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, can be controlled by the Party hostile to the President. THE PARTIES American politics for 150 years has been controlled by two giant political parties with smaller groups rarely receiving more than a few percentage points of the vote. The Republicans are the conservative political party with their candidate, President Donald Trump, hoping to secure another

Support for the party tends to be stronger in more rural parts of America. Former Republican presidents include George W Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Nixon. The Democrats are the liberal political party in the US and their candidate is Joe Biden, an experienced politician bestknown for serving as Barack Obama’s Vice-President for eight years. Both men are in their 70s — Mr Trump would be 74 years old at the start of his second term, while at 78, Mr Biden would be the oldest first-term president in history. ELECTORAL COLLEGE Both candidates compete to win Electoral College votes. Each state gets a certain number of Electoral College votes based on its population and there is a total of 538 up for grabs, so the winner is the candidate that wins 270 or more.

“Degeneration

of the rule of law”

Art and words by VICTOR GORDON

This means voters decide statelevel contests rather than the national one, which is why it’s possible for a candidate to win the most votes nationally — as Hillary Clinton did in 2016 — but still be defeated by the Electoral College. WHO VOTES AND HOW DO THEY DO IT? If you’re a US citizen and you’re 18 or over, you should be eligible to vote in the presidential election, which takes place every four years. Voting, unlike Australia, however, is not compulsory. However, lots of states have passed their own laws requiring voters to show identification documents to prove who they are before they can vote. These laws are often put into place to guard against voter fraud. Due to the State-by-State nature of the electoral system — the US does not have a centralised Electoral Commission as Australia does — voting can sometimes be shambolic and open to manipulation with claims of ballot-box stuffing, missing ballots, “harvested” ballots from unwilling voters, and pay-to-vote schemes. Due to the coronavirus, the explosion of postal voting

“I am an artist living in Orange. The current threat to the American constitution and the degeneration of the rule of law in the USA over the last four years — demanded a socially-aware artist’s response. One way or another, the November 2020 elections in the USA will affect the entire world. Australia, as the quasi-51st State of the USA, is directly-impacted (for instance, by blindly following the USA’s lead on continuing to ignore or addressing climate change). Unlike the light-hearted parody in my earlier 1992 USA election painting, I felt compelled to respond aesthetically to this election in a politically-loaded sculpture — that directly addresses current fascism in the USA. More akin to the gravitas I accorded my anti-Apartheid art of the 80s and 90s, it specifically recalls the not-too-distant history of the white mob lynching of black Americans in the South — but in a stark racial role reversal. Sporting typical symbolic paraphernalia — a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap and fashionable rebel flag pins (on the temples of

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

including mailed ballots to voters using out-of-date voter registrations, problems with the US postal service, and allegations of multiple voting, a close election is likely to see a number of court hearings over eligibility which will ultimately be determined by America’s highest court, The Supreme Court. WHO ELSE IS ELECTED? Voters on Tuesday, November 3, will also be choosing new members of Congress when they fill in their ballots. Democrats already have control of the House so they will be looking to keep hold of that while also gaining control of the Senate. If they had a majority in both chambers, they would be able to block or delay President Trump’s plans if he were to be re-elected. All 435 seats in the House are up for election this year, while 33 Senate seats are also up for grabs.

RESULTS It can take several days for every vote to be counted, but it’s usually pretty clear who the winner is by the early hours of the following morning. In 2016, Donald Trump took to the stage in New York at about 3am to give his victory speech in front of a crowd of jubilant supporters. The last time the result wasn’t clear within a few hours was in 2000, when the winner wasn’t confirmed until a Supreme Court ruling was made a month later. The new president is officially sworn into office on 20 January, 2021 in a ceremony known as the inauguration, which is held on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington DC. After the ceremony, the new president makes their way to the White House to begin their fouryear term in office.

his dark glasses), this clean-cut young white man identifies himself as a Trump supporter. The pair of buffalo horns mounted on the car tyre recall the roughneck frontier cowboy spirit of the South-west. But, isolated from the herd, this individual’s life is clearly threatened — he is now the lone objectified target — the potential violent end-trajectory of an inverted bigotry. His head is positioned within the circle of the car tyre — a conveniently knotted and ready-to-go noose around his neck, forms a secondary circle — and a sturdy stool provided. Circumstances appear very differently when the shoe is on the other foot — and this gives cause for deep inner reflection. Adorned with buffalo horns, the elephant in the room is the rise in demand for a universal return of the death penalty. On the reverse of the black tyre is a warning written lovingly in white — indicating the dire consequences of the election — “We will always remember the 3rd of November.” The key to the work is just that — a wind-up key — inserted into the back of the scarified [red]neck’s white head.”

COMMENT

by DAVID DIXON

THE 2020 AMERICAN ELECTION DON TO TRUMP THIS “NEW NATION, CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY” Former Prime Minister Paul Keating once said that Australians wanted their political battles to look like a David Attenborough-style nature documentary

with the zebra and the lion fighting to the death on the dusty African savanna.

his Australian love of combative politics might go some way, then, to explaining our current fascination with the cage-fight brutality of American Presidential elections.

It wasn’t always this way, though. During the 1980 American presidential election between incumbent Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan, I recall only seeing one single mainstream television news story on the event. The story was presented with that “curious events around the world” reporting style on a matter that doesn’t really impact on their viewers’ lives, with the story predicting a comfortable Reagan win. The forecast proved prescient with Reagan winning more than 50 per cent of the total vote and an overwhelming victory in the Electoral College (see attached article). By my reckoning, this lone news item at the end of a Sydney bulletin all those years ago was probably more accurate than the thousands of stories published in Australian media over the current presidential poll. Because most of the news that Australians hear about next week’s election in the United States is simply, and factually, wrong. We are now in an almost inconceivable reality where — as Australian’s interest in American Presidential elections has exploded due to factors like the internet, social media, and our increasingly-integrated world — the quality of news, analysis, and coverage of this event has eroded alarmingly. US President Donald Trump’s pugnacious competitiveness and willingness to goad his media and political opponents with personal and sometimes degrading insults such as “Crooked Hillary”, “Cryin’ Chuck”, “Sleepy Joe”, and “Fake News” has led to most western journalists, reporters, and

editors becoming totally obsessed with his destruction.

surrounds his every move.

For more than four years since Donald Trump first announced his unlikely canditure, the Australian public — much like their American cousins in that regard — have had their intelligence insulted with a confected series of “crisis” that, they were assured, would lead to the imminent humiliation and downfall of Donald John Trump.

Backstabbing former staffers, incompetent appointments, a Twitter personality that sometimes appears out of control, treacherous Republican colleagues that loathe his coarse public persona, a once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic, riotous destruction in America’s cities, he seems to view all as the challenging moves of a business opponent, rather than a death-knell for his leadership.

Remember the much-vaunted State-by-State re-count in 2016 that would pull Hillary Clinton over the line? Trump’s “illegitimacy” in losing the popular vote; an Electoral College rebellion that never happened; the “Russia, Russia, Russia” scam; the flapping, failed impeachment (based — ironically after the recent release of Hunter Biden’s emails — on claims by Trump that Joe Biden and his family sold access and influence to foreign powers); the coronavirus; and the George Floyd riots. These, we were told with barely-repressed glee by our preening media, were all going to derail his presidency. Each “the walls are closing-in” pronouncement, after eventually fading-away and rarely being mentioned again, was followed almost immediately with a new supposed calamity that would spell the end of Trump’s insurgent attack on America’s political elites and their media mouthpieces. Various opponents, failed pundits, and outright scammers — Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, the Bush clan, Bob Mueller, Michael Cohen, Michael Avenatti, and Adam Schiff — were presented as the white knights that would right the wrong of Trump’s election. Rather than wilting under this almost-constant barrage of hostile press — objectively, 97 percent of media reports on the Trump presidency in American media have been negative — he seems instead to thrive on the chaos that

Sanctimonious cries from poe-faced elitists that his election represents a threat to democracy, erosion of civilised norms, abrogation of world leadership, corruption of the great office of the President, have been shown to be factually wrong and nothing more than a rationale for their own insurrection, supported, appallingly, by elements within the US intelligence community. In 2016, I pleaded with a friend who had a betting account — something which, due a family history of punting, I’ve always avoided — to put $20 on Trump to win about 304 Electoral College votes. My workmate responded that he had no intention of wasting his money on such a folly. In 2020, I am even more sure of Trump’s re-election, up as he is against the ultimate tainted Washington insider in Joe Biden — a waxwork figure invalid who has, unbelievably, almost given-up campaigning. I predict that Trump will win a swathe of states across the American south, mid-west, industrial north, and south-west. He will be the first Republican to win the popular vote (with around 52 per cent) in a generation with a solid, though not landslide-territory, 350-electoral college votes. Such is the state of the American polity, however that — after election night — no-one knows the course of events for what Lincoln called this “new nation, conceived in Liberty”.

The stakes couldn’t be higher – 2020. Mixed media sculpture — car tyre, buffalo horns, MAGA baseball cap, sunglasses with attached southern rebel flag pins, wind-up metal key, wooden stool by Peter Lowe and a length of rope. H190 x W107 x D36 cm PHOTO CREDIT: VINCE LOVECCHIO

SPORTSwatch

The

Barracker

LITTLE ATHLETICS IS BACK AFTER LAST SEASON’S STATE LOCKDOWN FINALE

Nagging feeling each Melbourne Cup: is horse-racing as cruel as bull-fighting? Everyone loves a bet on the Melbourne Cup; going through the fields, claiming to have a friend of a cousin who straps for one of the syndicates, the office sweep and the chicken dinners, but there’s always that nagging feeling in the back of your mind. That is, is horse-racing by its very nature a cruel pastime that should be consigned to history like bear-baiting, dog-fighting, and hare-coursing? An Orange City Life reader believes so, recently giving the horse-racing industry a definite: “Thumbs Down” to the “riders who beat horses to win a race, be it harness racing, or horse racing for trophies, money and glory.” This weekend saw two horses being mercilessly beaten so badly, one in a race and another in a harness race featured on the news. When are owners, trainers and jockeys going to take a lead from the best riders and drivers who very seldom raise the whip or crop at all? “This is a barbaric practice and what was evidenced this weekend on the news was downright cruel,” the reader went on. Animal welfare advocates agree, saying that the industry is inherently cruel and recent efforts to reduce suffering are only window-dressing to placate the guilt of punters, fans, and the wider community. Citing such issues as the risk of injury and sometimes, catastrophic injury and death through trauma broken neck or emergency euthanasia; the striking the horse with a whip, the culling of uncompetitive animals the isolation and close confinement of many racehorses and such unusual restrictions like tongue-clamping to stop the horse

“choking” during the race. Add to that the deaths of horses at successive Melbourne Cups, highprofile doping scandals and exposés into alleged animal cruelty, and it’s clear that animal welfare issues are not just the provenance of animal liberationists. Many high-profile Australians applauded the banning in NSW of greyhound racing by Premier Mike Baird due to continuing animal welfare issues. But some of these celebrities saw nothing wrong with being seen at the Members’ Enclosure at major race meetings. But, in many ways, horse-racing is inherently crueller than the dish-lickers chasing a fake hare around a track for 40 or so seconds. For one, the greyhound, although manipulated, is a willing participant in the sport, he wants that lure! He doesn’t have to be whipped, blinkered, tethered, and controlled to take part, and he doesn’t have another animal on his back or is forced to pull a buggy holding a human driver. While race-horses after a major race like the Melbourne Cup look utterly drained and near total exhaustion, most greyhounds look like they would happily run-around again if they got the chance. Greyhound racing, of course, is a sport for the working man and woman without the celebrity big money and cache of owners from the Middle East or European billionaires sipping champagne in top-hats and designer dresses. But underneath all that glamour and celebrity and money, doesn’t horseracing have a heart as dark as any of the sports like bull-fighting that no civilised person would dare publicly-support?

Little Athletics is back; and local kids can still sign-up for this fantastic weekly sporting experience. Last season ended with a whimper rather than a bang with some local representatives heading down to Sydney for the State finals already on the road when the nationwide lockdown went into effect in mid-March. Weekly events for the local group are now back-on each Friday evening at Waratah’s Sports complex in north Orange as we enter our postCOVID-19 recovery. “Our numbers are down a little bit from previous years,” Registrar Emma Davis said. “It could be parents that don’t know we’re back, that sort of thing.” Like all sport, the club has instituted a COVID Safety Plan signed-off by Little Athletics NSW to ensure the lowest possible risk of cross-infection from the virus. “We’re making sure that children are always social-distancing, sanitising equipment between use, and making sure the kids sanitise their hands,” Emma added. Little Athletics is a unique sporting experience that involves kids gaining familiarity with a range of track and field events while increasing their fitness and self-confidence.

(personal best), it’s all about PB’s and trying their best.” The Friday get-together at Waratah’s starts at around 5.30 and lasts for about an hour with no compulsion to attend each week. “We have over 150 children registered, but not all are there every night, we might have 120–130 for each week, and our registrations are still open,” Emma said. Local Championships head, Carrie Keegan, said that the local group — as with most of our summer sports — was caught unawares by the “big lockdown” in March with their season abruptly cancelled. She explained that participants, as well competing at the local events, can also aim for Zone, Region, and State Championships, with last season’s finale ending before it began. “We had 19 athletes that had progressed to the State Championships, some were already on the road to Homebush when it all got cancelled,” she explained. “That was disappointing, but this is another year, and the kids are really getting back into it,” she said enthusiastically.

“We have children from five years to Under 17s, they do four different events each week on a fourweek rotation, two track and two field,” Emma explained.

In other good news, the national body recently announced that supermarket chain, Coles, had extended their partnerships with the group with top athletes, including Sally Pearson and World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber, urging Aussie kids to dust-off their running shoes and get back on the track this summer.

“The idea is that they try everything and it’s not about winning; every child works on their PB

For registrations, go to the Little Athletics website: LANSW.com.au

Bathurst and Orange Inter-district Cricket Competition Draw One-day

Orange City

Rugby Union

1:30pm

Bloomfield Oval

Bathurst City

Cavaliers

1:00pm

Sportsground

CYMS

St Pats Old Boys

1:30pm

Riawena Oval

Centrals

Kinross

1:00pm

Wade Park

City Colts

Centennials Bulls

1:30pm

Loco Oval

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

THEBACKpage

reception@oclife.com.au

z CONTINUED FROM PG 20

Lane (proposed Southern Feeder Rd), will provide a quick, safe, and easy by-pass around West Orange.

ball-sized dispensers on dams to leak material onto the farm dam’s surface to slow evaporation, oil on troubled water!

Unfortunately, this can never be achieved as, unlike other parts of the Northern and Southern Feeder Roads, Ploughmans Lane is a suburban street, with numerous residential driveways directly fronting Ploughmans Lane with driveway access to Oak Tree Seniors Village and a major entry to an expanding Wentworth Golf Club.

“Seemed like a good idea at the time”, as the politician said about the Franklin River but, in 60 years, no progress has been made.

With a 50km/hour speed limit restriction and limits to heavy-vehicle use; a dog-leg intersection with Cargo Rd; an intersection with Boyd Place; a narrow and potentially-dangerous railway crossing; and an intersection with Canobolas Rd — quite apart from all the residents’ vehicles and those of golfers and seniors and all their visitors — Ploughmans Lane will become a nightmare for all users. The opportunity to have a relatively-unimpeded proper ring-road around the city was lost when a previous Council abandoned a section of the proposed Southern Bypass (or “Southern Feeder Rd”, as it is now called) which avoided direct impacts by residential development in favour of using the existing suburban street; Ploughmans Lane. Now is the time to identify a new route for a true Southern By-pass which goes from Pinnacle Rd, around the back of Towac Racecourse and proceeds beyond the urban fringe, unimpeded by residential developments, and links to Cargo Rd and Forbes Rd.

NEW IDEAS ON ANSON ST MALL Are you still with us “Reggie the Kidd”? Last week, I offered some advice on Council’s numerous plans for a mall in Anson Street and, with more thought, I’ve come up with another idea, which may well have been already-considered, given the “Melbourne Cup field” options still under review by Council. How about the mall starting at the southern intersection of Anson with Summer Street and finishing near the Woollies car-park entrance? That would bring the main shopping centre closer to the mall and add atmosphere to the CBD. Vehicles could still enter and depart the car park from Anson Street (via Kite Street), the taxi stand could remain where it is, with drivers simply making a U-turn to start their journey. With a larger mall, you could perhaps welcome the “buskers” to provide entertainment and music — local artists could exhibit their works — introduce a Sunday “soap box” whereby orators can have their say on any subject (maximum time restriction — and a lifetime ban on this newspaper’s CUCKOO BIRD). Our high street is lacking flair. A new mall is a wonderful opportunity to liven up the “grand old town”. Owen Dally

PLOUGHMANS LANE IS NO SOUTHERN FEEDER The story in last week’s Newswatch, “Ploughmans work another piece of ring-road puzzle”, would have readers believe that this upgrade to Ploughmans

Neil Jones

THINK OUTSIDE THE ROMAN SQUARE ON WATER SECURITY Newswatch must be congratulated for its wide coverage of significant issues; the ‘naysayers and NIMBYS” have stirred their hornet’s nests. Well done for “getting into water”, the supply of which is vital to Orange’s progress. I am disappointed there is not much thinking outside the square, such as, to dam or not to dam, and to build bigger, longer pipelines. This is ancient Roman technology. In my life of farming, I was always responsible for my own water supply. It was a major investment and management issue. Old hands told me, “a good dam, in a 20-inch rainfall, must be 20-feet deep”, to last a two-year dry-period supplying livestock, domestic, and evaporation. Evaporation was the big consumer in my situation stealing up to two metres off the top of the storage every year. It would be less, but still significant, in Orange. Evaporation consumed more than livestock and domestic, so here’s the point; it seems no one is interested in curtailing this massive waste of water. Water evaporates over the total surface of the storage where the still water is warmest (by old Sol). What to do? It seems that slowing evaporation is too hard for modern thinkers, so let’s go “outside the square”. As far back as the 1960s, researchers experimented with a system of anchoring soccer

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

But let’s get right “outside the square” — My deepthinking old mate says, how about utilising all those indestructible plastic containers by rolling them into broad sheets to cover stored water? They could be floated on old (plastic, of course) milk bottles, and rise and fall with the water level. Save water and reuse plastic. Nah, lets stick with the Romans! Keith Rawsthorne

I ADHERE TO THE CROWN AND THE COMMONWEALTH My name is Glen Constable, a living, breathing man and I adhere to the Crown and the Commonwealth. I read the article on “positions of mayor and councilors” and have a few questions. Also, I’m sending through a link by Wayne Glew for you to look at please. I’m a 40-year resident of Orange, born and bred. I like how you’re asking good questions concerning this area. I’m currently studying the Commonwealth Constitution of Australia and know that the Australian Government does not exist. It’s a Parliament, not a government. You made mention of bringing new faces to the Council, which I think is overdue, however under the Commonwealth, who gives these newbies the authority of power? The Australian government? Who gives the Orange Council authority over the people? Does the Australian Government and all the states and governing bodies, councils have abn’s? Yes, they do and that is a corporation, its fraud, why is this so? What do you know about Magna Carta and the 1901 Federation? Why did Whitlam remove the Commonwealth Constitution from the education? I think this next question was from “Amanda”. How can we get the best out of our council? Simple, tell the truth! The other two points I’d like to mention is the “position description” for mayor and councilors. These are from the 1993–1994 Australian Act proposed by Hawke in the early 80’s, I think? Two referendums for Local Government recognition and the people said “no”. The “organisation” snuck the Act through. Is this treason or not, sir? In the link I’m sending it clearly points out that the Australian government is in a state of fraud, lies and treason: https://youtu.be/CHTnv_SvCQ4 I thank-you for your time, Mr Holland. Glen Constable

THEBACKpage

reception@oclife.com.au

TRAFFIC QUESTIONS ON PROPOSED MALL

I moved to Orange in the middle of last year and was grateful for the Orange City Life magazine which has helped me to get to know the local area and keep up-to-date with local events and people.

Just a quick thought regarding the proposed mall effectively blocking Anson Street. Has there been any further inquiry as to the traffic entering and exiting the Woolworths carpark in Sale Street if, and when, the Anson Street entrance is no longer? God help those poor drivers conducting this entry/ exit if it actually happens! DW Morton

“FULL MONTY” EXPOSURE ON THE COVID-19 SCAM The COVID-19 scam has been exposed; warts and all! After reading some of the comments on The Back Page of the Saturday, October 17 , Newswatch in relation to Jeanine Bird’s (JB) column in the Newswatch of October, 10 titled: “We’ve been sold a pup!”, I had to go back and re-read the article in case I missed something. But no, what I found was as I had originally read, a well-researched and factual article by JB making us aware of what is really going-on behind the scenes regarding COVID-19 and what the media is not reporting. These are not JB's opinions or theories; but information presented and supported with factbased evidence coming from the likes of Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, Professor Michael Levitt and our own highly-qualified Professor Thomas Borody. The information in the article is also supported by our own local, Dr James Pretion who went so far as to congratulate JB on the truth of it. No-one is denying it is a serious illness. The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) have now released a report that the evidence shows under 50s suffer no more symptoms than from the common flu and 50 per cent of them have no symptoms at all. It is the over 50s, especially the elderly and the sick, that are vulnerable and need to be protected. If the experts are now recommending, we open-up the economy of the world but protect the vulnerable, then maybe this is the way forward. I, for one, prefer to listen to the science the experts are presenting rather than “Dr” Bill Gates. Unless it’s backed-up with hard facts, any criticism of JB's article is just an opinion. Julie Pont

TIME FOR ANOTHER LOCAL, NOT A “BIRD’S-EYE” VIEW I’m writing to you regarding the regular “Bird’s Eye View” column which appears in Newswatch each week.

Some months ago, when you announced in Orange City Life that you were going to start a free newsbased weekly publication, I felt interested and pleased that there would be, in your own words, a free publication devoted to “local news delivered with integrity, wisdom and balance”. I’ve only been able to pick-up Newswatch in person on an irregular basis but, in the past few days since the publication of your issue of Saturday, October 24, I have caught up online with most of the weekly issues. I’m writing because I feel distressed, disappointed, and very concerned that such a significant proportion of Newswatch is given every week to the opinions of one person and that those opinions are presented in ways that are, at best, unhelpful and, at worst, verging on slanderous misinformation. Let me explain my concerns using your own stated goals for your paper: LOCAL: As I understand it, Jeanine Bird is not an Orange resident. I am certainly willing to be corrected if this is not right, but her page certainly fails to address local issues. In fact, last Saturday’s piece was an extended (and distastefully-partisan) discussion of American politics. The space takenup by this could have been far more profitably and relevantly used to meet your goal of local content by local people. INTEGRITY: Even if Ms Bird’s opinions were locally-based, her habitual lack of reliable sources, repetition of fringe “conspiracy theory” rhetoric; and vituperative personal attacks on those she disagrees with, do not meet any definition of “integrity” at all. Last Saturday’s piece, for example, made a number of outlandish claims for which she failed to cite reliable sources and also included a number of quotes whose provenance a five-minute internet search would have shown-up as dubious in the extreme. Opinion pieces are not “free for alls”. Even if something is published as an opinion piece, it should meet certain standards of probity and professionalism. Ms Bird’s do not.

extreme writings of the kind that Ms Bird appears to specialise in. Could I earnestly ask you to consider replacing “Bird’s Eye View” with a local opinion page? In a town the size of Orange there will be many, many talented and interesting people who could contribute views from all points of the political and ideological compass. In closing, I do want to assure you that my concerns do not spring from a simple disagreement with Ms Bird’s politics. In fact, there may be some matters that I might agree with her on in principle. Rather, her lack of local connection, her disregard of the norms of civil discourse, and her failure to support her opinions with reliable evidence and good sources disqualify her, in my opinion, from making a helpful contribution to your paper and to Orange in general. We can do much better than this. Lydia Smith

“THANK-YOU” TO HEARTS FOR ORANGE CAMPAIGN We wanted to write and thank Bob Holland for the efforts that he has put into the “Hearts for Orange” campaign. We often feel a bit neglected as a retailer as we are not the kind of store that tourists visit, so do not benefit from the efforts to attract more tourists to the Orange region. The “Hearts for Orange” initiative, and particularly the “Big Orange Citywide Home Improvement Spectacular” means a lot to us in attracting customers and feeling that some people care! The professionalism that Bob and his team show and their attention to detail is of the highest degree as we go down life’s journey. It’s a privilege to be a part of the “Hearts” program.

BALANCED: Under any definition of balance, a newspaper should strive to present all sides of a question and allow a multiplicity of voices to be heard. The fact that Ms Bird’s page appears every week in every issue, and that she is apparently given free rein to voice the most bizarre and troubling views without the paper giving equal space to more accurate and moderate opinion pieces on a regular basis is not balance. Mr Holland, I admire your wish to give Orange an alternative to regular news outlets, and I think your stated aims are excellent ones. However, by continuing to give Ms Bird what I can only call a “pulpit” each week, you risk sabotaging your own aims. It would be such a great pity if this ambitious enterprise were to founder because people start to associate your publication with unreliable and

Dave and Di Shearing Amber Orange

z MORE LETTERS ON PAGE 19

About The Back Page… The Back Page is where we make space for you our readers to contribute Comments, Feedback or Letters etc. to share with other readers. If you have something to say, we’d love to share it. Of course, we reserve the right to choose what we publish but if we think something is helpful and not unreasonably offensive, there’s every chance you ‘ll see your contribution here. Keep in mind however, we’ll always look at everything we publish from wanting to maintain our integrity, wisdom and balance perspective.

EMAIL YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO: reception@oclife.com.au or send via the Contact us tab on our website www.orangecitylife.com.au

ORANGE CITY

General disclaimer: Whilst every care is taken in preparing this publication, we cannot be held responsible for errors or omissions. The publisher accepts no responsibility for letters, notices and other material contributed for publication. The submitter accepts full responsibility for material, warrants that it is accurate, and indemnifies the publisher against any claim or action. All advertisers, including those placing display and classified or advertorial material, warrant that such material is true and accurate and meets all applicable laws and indemnifies the publisher against all liabilities that may arise from the publication or such material. Opinions expressed in the publication are not necessarily those of the publisher. The editor, Bob Holland, accepts responsibility for election comment. Articles contain information of a general nature – readers should always seek professional advice relevant to their particular circumstances. Complaints: Regional Life Group Pty Ltd trading as Orange City Life has a policy of correcting mistakes promptly. If you have a complaint about published material, contact us in writing. If the matter remains unresolved, you may wish to contact the Australian Press Council. © Copyright 2018 Regional Life Group Pty Ltd. Copyright in all material – including photographs and ads – is held by Regional Life Group Pty Ltd or its providers and must not be reproduced in any form without prior written permission from the Publisher. Printed for the publisher by Spotpress Pty Ltd, 24-26 Lilian Fowler Place, Marrickville, 2204.

| Saturday 31 October, 2020 |

NEWSWATCH % 6361 3575 Published by Regional Life Group Pty Ltd ABN 28126968287