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Forgiveness John’s key to lost years

Imagine becoming friends with someone seeking your execution for a murder you didn’t commit? Forgiveness is the key to making sense of a life torn apart by the wrongful conviction for the murder of his girlfriend in 1963, John Button has found. Despite the confession of a notorious serial killer to the crime a few years after his sentence, John spent the next 38 years trying to clear his name before he received a full pardon decades later. John — who now lives a quiet life in Orange— is the subject of a current streaming service documentary on his wrongful conviction for the murder of his girlfriend on his 19th birthday. • For full interview, turn to page 7.

Mountain biking could save our Mount, former Canobolas Trust member says. • For full report, turn to page 3.

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That greatest of fears, that we would take a long time to get back to our old socialising habits, seem unfounded with hundreds of locals boking for the free concert in Robertson Park on Friday evening. While not an actual “sell-out”(locals had to book their seats to ensure that COVID-19 restrictions were not breached, hundreds still took the opportunity to hear former Flying Emus frontwoman Genni Kane and her band, The Hip Replacements, reprise some of the greatest songs of our lives. The concert was the first in a series put on by Orange Council to try and get us back into the habit of listening to live music. Two more “Future Tunes” gigs will be held on future Fridays, December 18 and January 15. Like our little paper and what we are trying to do in news, features, and commentary? Well, why not also like us on Facebook, and see our great news in e-form: Facebook. com/newswatchorange Orange City Council is asking residents to be its eyes and ears and help curb incidents of vandalism in the city. Orange Mayor Reg Kidd and Deputy Mayor Glenn Taylor are reminding the community of a Council initiative which rewards people for information leading to the conviction of anyone found vandalising. Cr Kidd said the initiative had been in place for a number of years. “Vandalism costs the community hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. “Some of this vandalism has ramifications for safety including emergency services who take longer to arrive at an address because street signs are missing, or decreased visibility at night because lights have been smashed or the destruction of toilets and bins creating unsafe environments for children who need to use the services.”

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Kinross’ new junior head

very quickly “I got home and found, to my utter surprise, that they were actually grown in China… can you believe that?”

THINGS ARE STARTING TO MOVE AGAIN While 2020 has been a rather static year in the world of travel, things in the industry are finally starting to move again.

The airline formally known as “Fly Corporate” that normally provides services between Orange to Brisbane and Melbourne, recently changed its name to “Link Airways”. A reader found this out recently when they tried to go to the website previously used by the airline. In other transport news,

Once were cricket warriors…

Great American writer and social commentator, Tom Wolfe said once that men leave their happiest memories out on the sporting fields of their youth. Feeling again the thrill of bat and ball at the opening of new seating at Wade Park recently, were Orange City Council Sports & Recreation Committee Chair, Councillor Jason Hamling; Member for Calare, Andrew Gee; and Orange Mayor, Cr Reg Kidd. The seating was installed through a grant from the Australian Government.

“Her broad professional experience across a range of leading independent schools will begin a new era for primary years education at Kinross Wolaroi School.

Mrs Hayward holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary) from Sydney University, a Certificate of Gifted Education from UNSW, a Graduate Certificate in Assessment for Learning from ACER, and a Graduate Certificate in Mathematics from Western Sydney University.

Reader Roxy was rather unhappy after purchasing some peaches at one of our major supermarket chains recently.

“They said that it was only because they couldn’t get any locally-grown product at the moment, and that they would go back to Australian grown later this season. I’ll be checking-up to see that is true,” she added.

“We look forward to the positive impact Mrs Hayward will bring to our Junior School as she inspires and motivates our students, capitalising on their innate sense of wonder,” Kinross Wolaroi School Principal, Dr Andrew Parry, said.

“Mrs Hayward comes to Orange from Tara Anglican School for Girls in North Parramatta where she is currently the Deputy Head of Junior School,” Dr Parry added.

Coals to Newcastle, peaches to Orange

Querying said market-leading retailer, she was told that the importation was a short-term issue due to a local supply shortage.

Kinross Wolaroi School recently announced appointment of Mrs Denise Hayward as the new Head of Junior School from January 2021.

Australia Wide Coaches which provided (up to March) a daily service to Sydney and back, have announced their return as of Friday, December 4.

The service will operate initially to Sydney on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with returns on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. “We are receiving an overwhelming number of emails from passengers wanting the service to resume so we thought the recommencement timing was now right,” a spokesperson said.

Stretchers, trampolines and fans

HEARTS AND MINDS: WARTIME PROPAGANDA Seems about right for 2020… a touring exhibition from the Australian War Memorial is giving Orange residents an insight into life during times of war. Hearts and minds: wartime propaganda explores how wartime propaganda posters were used during the First and Second World Wars. The exhibition displays 39 framed posters selected from the Memorial’s world-class poster collection to allow comparisons between different nations and their approaches to propaganda over time. It includes some of the world’s most iconic propaganda posters created by leading graphic artists of the twentieth century, including:

An eclectic collection of local groups recently shared in $299,829.00 in funding for local projects in the Orange electorate. Monies included St John Ambulance’s Orange branch getting a new stretcher; money for Orange City Council to fit out a kiosk at the Naylor Pavilion; toilets, fans, and gutters at Orange Guide Hall; training room refurbishment at Orange PCYC; and money to Orange Country Women’s Association for maintenance of their hall floor and upgrade of gas supply infrastructure.

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• The famous “I Want You” US Army poster created by James Montgomery Flagg and featuring the character of Uncle Sam. • “The Blonde Bombshell” poster created by Abram Games, which was banned by the British Government during the Second World War for being too risqué. • The now iconic “Keep Calm and Carry On” British national security poster.

NEWS

Mountain-bike money could rescue Mount, former Trustee Rescuing Mount Canobolas will take more than simply good intentions and the hope of Charles Dickens’ legendary-character, Mr Micawber that “something will turn-up” Robert Alford believes. Former member of the Mt Canobolas Trust, he believes that the proposed mountain bike riding trails could be the “something” that provides money to resurrect our greatest natural feature. Mr Alford was responding to recent announcement of the newly-formed Canobolas Conservation Alliance that aims to stop the mountain-biking proposals dead in their tracks. “My main concern is that it’s not going anywhere, you’ve got these older conservationists trying to keep it what they call ‘pristine’, but it’s not going to work,” he said. He said that having a series of mountain bike trails, subject of a current Councilfunded environmentalist assessment of the proposal, could be the way to restore the Mount’s eco-system, he believes. “The mountain bikes are a good way to get that to work, the benefits will ensure that money will wash-off for restoration work on the Mount,” he argued. “It will allow groups to take ownership of the issue.” He said that the time for closing-up large sections of Mt Canobolas to maintain its

Land Trust that ran the area until the late 1990s, he said “we could never get the money to do anything, we had one permanent staff member and one or two others that helped, and that was for a vast area,” he said.

current state are past. “Stop closing it up, it’s no longer pristine, there’s lot of degraded land up there, blackberries, ivy, other weeds, feral animals.” Mr Alford says that Council’s assessment is the right place to start with the mountain-bike proposal.

He said that his experiences on the Trust had shown how great the challenges are on the Mount. “It’s suffering the impacts of the real-world intruding on it. Blackberries ivy, pest animals, all coming from outside.”

“Council are doing their best with their half a million (dollar) environmental survey. I’ve seen our visitor businesses skyrocket, people are coming here looking for somewhere to go,” he said. He said that one of his plans is for an education platform for the young to learn about the unique sub-alpine features of the Mount. “It would be a great place for schools to educate the next generation to take-up the role, to care for the location.”

Former member of the Mt Canobolas Trust, Robert Alford believes that the proposed mountain bike riding trails could be the “something” that provides money to resurrect our greatest natural feature.

“It needs to be managed, it’s a terrific environmental resource, you could have school groups, mountain-bikers, backpackers, all enjoying this special place,” Mr Alford said.

for pedestrians, and its unsafe for cars,” he added.

He said that a top-of-the-mountain plan also needs to be put in place to re-imagine the “tired old facilities up there, there’s nothing. It’s a hodge-podge, it’s dangerous

He said that creating something special on Canobolas’ 1400m peak would require “$100,000 to get shovel-ready, $1 million to do,” adding that money from mountainbikers would be the ideal way to raise the money. For more than a decade on the Crown

These problems are not going to go away,” he added. Mr Alford said that coronavirus lockdowns and travel bans had reinvigorated Australian’s interest in enjoying the great outdoors in their own backyard. “People need to find somewhere to get away from COVID with fresh air, to walk, relax, and get some stability in their lives. People need to have an escape.” He said that it is time for a new generation to take stewardship of the natural area. “The next generation will do it differently, we need the young to get educated and see it first-hand, we all have take accountability for what it has become,” he concluded.

Get your skates on for that perfect pushbike Yen for the great outdoors on two wheels these Christmas holidays? Well, it’s time to get your skates on if you want the latest line in bicycles, that great 19th century invention that is suddenly very hot in our post-COVID world.

“If you see a new bike at the top of a Christmas wish list, the time to head to the bike shop is now, otherwise you may miss out,” said Mr Richards.

With industry claims that “a global shortage of bicycles” could see Australians miss-out on their favourite top-ofthe-line new mountain or racing bike this yuletide, Rod Farrell from DG Cycles says, that’s not quite the case.

Melbourne bike shop VeloCycles has reported that many bikes on order are taking a long time to arrive in Australia and that stock may be exhausted soon. Walkers Wheels in Montmorency has sold out of bikes, but a shopfront sign says they are still open for servicing.

“New bikes are more popular then ever, but it’s not like we are running out of stock,” he explained. “But if you want that particular ‘purple no.16 model’, you may not get exactly what you want,” he said. “We’ll still be receiving bikes into the new year; we won’t really have an ongoing flood of bikes until we see the 2022 bikes from about the middle of next year,” he said. “If people are patient, they will get their bike,” he added. Bicycle Network CEO Craig Richards said people should visit their local bike shop as soon as possible.

“People are used to putting in the early order for the turkey or seafood, but this year you should add a bike to the list of November jobs.”

“If you can’t get a new bike for a loved one, you could give them a servicing IOU or gift card to restore their old clunker back to its original glory,” added Mr Richards. Companies that have been able to continue to produce enough bikes have then been stumped by logistics issues, with shipping delays slowing down the flow of products from the factory to shop floors. While it is expected that Santa’s elves are working hard to assist bike companies in making some new bikes, the shipping delays have also made correspondence with the

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“Sales are up from this time last year, we’re still selling plenty of bikes at the moment,” Rod Farrell says. North Pole difficult. With a total of 632,044 bikes imported into Australia between January and August, Rod says that sales are still very strong. “Sales are up from this time last year, we’re still selling plenty of bikes at the moment,” Rod concluded.

WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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Top of the Orange Greens ticket for 2021 Council elections, Melanie McDonnell: “If we got two up from our ticket elected, that would be phenomenal.”

Connectivity the key for Melanie’s green dream Connectivity between Colour City’s growing suburbs and the town centre is the key environmental issue facing Orange, Greens local government election candidate, Melanie McDonell believes. Melanie was recently announced as top of the group’s ticket for the 12-month delayed 2021 Council election after current environmental rep, Stephen Nugent announced that he will not stand next September.

She said that providing better integration between our old town centre and the new suburbs springing-up to the west and north of Orange, is a key environmental challenge facing the growing city. “I want to get Orange better connected,” she explains. “I’ve been here 10 years and we need better connectivity,” she said. Orange’s booming suburbs, she believes are far too car-dependent with such simple answers as good footpaths, bikefriendly roads, and regular bus services, lagging too far behind development.

Until now, she said that she had never considered a role in government. “Absolutely, Stephen approached me and said he didn’t want to run again for personal stuff and asked, ‘would I throw my hat in the ring?’ They’re big shoes it fill,” she said.

“There’s a lot of young families, and there’s simply no proper footpaths to get around on,” she said. “Kids aren’t able to ride their bikes to school because their parents won’t let them because it’s too dangerous. All throughout Orange, we need better connectivity.”

The local group is likely to run a sixperson team with hopes of getting a couple-up in the 12-councillor chamber being elected in September 2021.

Melanie believes that the new emphasis on local living that has become a feature of the coronavirus lockdown could see a boom in candidates for next year’s vote.

“If we got two from our ticket elected, that would be phenomenal,” Melanie said enthusiastically.

“Next year, I think we’ll have an even bigger field than last election,” she said.

Melanie has served a nine-year apprenticeship — since returning to Orange after completing a nursing degree — on Council’s Environmental Sustainability Committee.

With an environmentally-sound house in west Orange (with a 7.3 environmental rating) Melanie believes in a practical approach to the local environment. “It’s super-insulated and I designed it

“I encourage other women to run for Council, it would be good to have a wider representation of people on Council,” she said. myself to be as enviornentally-friendly as possible,” she explained. Another string to Melanie’s bow is a love of music with the Principal Bassoonist with Orange Symphony Orchestra having one of her compositions, Requiem and Exaltation, performed in a performance for local composers. With only one woman currently on Orange Council — first-termer Joanne McRae — she supports calls for more women and other less-well-represented groups to run for Council. “I encourage other women to run for Council, it would be good to have a wider representation of people on Council,” she said. “Currently, we don’t have a level of diversity on Council which truly represents the reality of the Orange community in 2020, which is 51 per cent

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female, includes many young families, tree-changers, First Nations families, people with a disability, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds. “I would love to see some strong competition for the September 2021 Council elections, with each of these groups represented and a range of experience amongst the candidates.” Melanie says she is looking forward to a Council which represents the wonderful diversity of the Orange electorate. “Many of our current councillors have spent years, and in some cases decades, in the role. “While this is a commendable level of service, I’m excited to see where new faces and fresh ideas may be able to take Orange in the years ahead. We have an incredible pool of talent in Orange and we really need to direct that into the Council to deal with the growing challenges we face and take advantage of the many exciting opportunities available”. “Mel will be a great lead candidate and excellent Councillor if elected. My decision not to run for a second term was a difficult one but this is a great opportunity to elect a young, progressive woman who shares my views and commitment to the Orange community,” Cr Nugent concluded.

WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

INCREASING WOMEN, MINORITIES AIM FOR LOCAL COUNCIL, ADVOCATE Now’s the time for women with a spirit of service to come forward and represent their communities at next year’s local Government elections, a local women’s advocacy group believes.

running for Council to contact the CWWF who can provide practical support and encouragement. “We can provide mentoring for candidates, we can have a conversation and networking support,” she explained. While everyone has a view on the shortcomings of their local government reps, the job is no walk across a field, Cheryl says.

With Orange Council’s only elected female councilor, Joanne McRae still unsure about whether she will stand again next September, the Colour City needs more women and minorities represented at the local level, Cheryl Pope from the Central Western Women’s Forum (CWWF) believes. Cheryl is leading the group’s campaign aimed at increasing diversity on Colour City’s Council. “But it’s not just women, diversity in Council is a project that were currently mounting,” she added. “It’s about giving women a voice and helping them to be equipped to reach their potential,” Cheryl said in explaining the Forum’s aims. “Since COVID, we’ve had ZOOM meetings with the Governor, Margaret Beazley and Kate Carnell from the Small Business Ombudsman’s Office.” The CWWF works to show local women how to make their mark on their communities. “It’s about understanding opportunities and what other women’s journeys have been and how to find your voice,” she said. And it is this vein that the project to encourage local women and other under-represented groups to put their hands-up for Orange Council’s 12-month delayed election in September 2021 was born. “We see there’s an opportunity to encourage people from

“It can be a bit of a reality check, it’s a really difficult job. It’s a big commitment, would you believe that Council has about $1.3 billion of assets under management?” “A lot of people get involved not understanding the entirety of it. There’s not much professional development for councilors and they don’t understand its complexity as a business.”

Now’s the time for women with a spirit of service to come forward and represent their communities at next year’s local Government elections, local women’s advocate Cheryl Pope believes.

diverse backgrounds to add their voices, skills, and passion to the electoral process.” Cheryl says that long-term studies have shown that it is not just the participants, but the group that benefits from a range of views on any issue. “Orange is a vibrant and ever-changing population, and it is well-proven that if you have a diverse groups of people in decision-making, you have more innovation and the best possible decisions,” she said. “There’s never been a lot of women on Orange Council, and I think that has been reflected in some of the outcomes,” she added. Cheryl encouraged local women who are interested in

Cheryl said that many women’s initial reticence compared to men to put themselves forward for promotion tends to discourage them from offering themselves for leadership roles. “There’s a lot of people interested in their community, and possibly about Council. But if you want to make a difference to your community, here’s the opportunity.” Orange City Council will be holding a series of forums in March, April, and May next year for those who are interested in running for Council to explain in detail the work, roles, and duties of a Councilor. While next September might seem a long way away, Cheryl says that for those who have never run for Council before, there’s no time to waste. “Now’s the time to get started,” Cheryl concluded. •Cheryl can be contacted on 0428 435 593.

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w Possible creation of a pedestrian mall in Anson St between Summer and Kite Streets is one of the most contentious of the “Future City” plans.

NORTH ORANGE DRIVERS REJOICE! NEW ROUNDABOUT FINALLY OPENS

Regular north Orange drivers get their bypass back from next week with the $5.5 million roundabout at Hill Street and William Maker Drive finally opening to traffic. Work on the roundabout began in February and involved a road realignment of Hill Street, which meant building an entire new road from the Orange Botanic Gardens entrance to align with William Maker Drive. Wet weather, welcome in most regards, however delayed the project by several weeks with the roundabout initially expected to be completed in late October. Final landscaping and tidy-up work on the project are likely to be finished by Christmas. Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd thanked Orange drivers for their patience during the construction: “This roundabout will be one of the biggest in our region and will be taking up to 15,000 vehicles a day. “Local contractor, Hamcon Civil, has had a tough job building a new road and a new concrete roundabout all while dealing with traffic. “They’ve kept the Northern Distributor Road open and they’ve done a great job under the circumstances.” Orange City Council’s Infrastructure Chair, Cr Jeff Whitton said he was pleased the only hold-up to peak hour traffic, after next week, would be the 40km/h work zone speed limit. “The roundabout will be open to traffic, weather permitting, but it’s still a work site,” Cr Whitton said. “The section, which used to be Hill Street, will undergo some drainage work, guard rails will be installed, and it will be line-marked to become an overflow car park for the Orange Botanic Gardens precinct. “The end is in sight, but for the next couple of weeks, avoid the area if you can, if you’re taking the kids to touch footy, avoid Anson Street and use the roundabouts at Burrendong Way or Leeds Parade to access the Northern Distributor Road.” Further layers of hot-mix asphalt on the sections leading up to the roundabout are expected to be laid soon. Council is able to open the roundabout to traffic after these further layers of asphalt are down, a final layer will be laid from about Monday, December 7.

“Overwhelming support” for Future City plans, forum hears “Overwhelming support” for Orange Council’s innovative “Future City” proposals to revitalise the CBD had been received at the public consultation phase, a recent public forum on the project heard. About 40 locals attended the first of two public forums to answer ratepayer questions over the multi-million-dollar initiative. Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said that the forum was designed to tap public opinion for the projects to make Orange a more “walkable” pedestrian-friendly city. “We take these very seriously. There’s suggestions sometimes that we don’t have enough of these types of events,” Cr Kidd said. “We’re simply trying to get a feel for what the community wants.” Nick Redmond from Council added that the public comment period of the project had found: “overwhelming support for the Future City initiative.” Three tranches of projects are involved in the program with possible creation of a pedestrian mall in Anson St between Summer and Kite Streets one of the most contentious of the plans. Other topics covered at the forum included proposed speed limit changes in the CBD down to 40km per hour, public art projects, and business support measures.

The event included a question-and-answer session at the conclusion. The Future City project is about supporting current businesses and creating a CBD which will attracts new investment, a Council spokesperson said. The public forums followed-on from similar events held for business-owners and other major stakeholders. “We heard from a range of business-owners and managers, listened to their opinions, received their input, and have made a series of tweaks and changes to our designs to accommodate as many people as possible,” Cr Kidd said. “We’re now keen to hear from all members of the community about our three-year plan. “The Future City project is about more than a mall in Anson Street and a revitalisation of McNamara Lane, it’s about digital support for CBD businesses, improved traffic flow in the area, creating more parking on the outer blocks of the CBD and improving walking and cycle access from suburban areas. “We’re calling on artists to put in submissions to create public art, we have live, local music gigs up and running, we’ve improved the lighting and we’re working on a lot of underground infrastructure updates. “It’s about making the CBD a place where people want to be, want to stay, and can easily and safely navigate,” Cr Kidd said.

This final layer of hot-mix asphalt work is expected to occur at night to limit the impact on drivers. The road will not be closed during this work, but it will be under traffic control so expect delays. For the next two weeks, there are still several traffic restrictions in place: The current traffic arrangements are: • No right turn at Hill Street / Northern Distributor Road • No right turn at William Maker Drive / Northern Distributor Road •L eft turn from Northern Distributor into William Maker Drive is open but will be closed off during working hours next week as contractors complete the asphalt on the roundabout.

w Locals recently attended the first of two public forums to answer ratepayer questions over the multi-million-dollar Future City initiative.

•S till no exit from William Maker Drive onto the Northern Distributor Road. Weather permitting, all traffic restrictions should be removed before the end of November.

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Forgiveness John’s key to his lost years of innocence Imagine becoming friends with someone seeking your execution for a murder you didn’t commit? Forgiveness is the key to making sense of a life torn apart by the wrongful conviction for the murder of his girlfriend in 1963, John Button has found.

Successes of the “Innocent Project” includes overturning a couple of murder convictions with the opaque legal system seeming to take every step to oppose their work.

Despite the confession of a notorious serial killer to the crime a few years after his sentence, John spent the next 38 years trying to clear his name before he received a full pardon only in 2002.

“We’ve got two cases at the Stage of Appeal, but we can’t get hearings for the appeals, they keep refusing the hearings.

John — who now lives a quiet life in Orange after coming east to see his grandchildren — is the subject of a current “Stan” streaming service documentary on his wrongful conviction for the murder of his girlfriend Rosemary Margaret Anderson on his 19th birthday.

Spending five bitter years in prison during the mid-1960s before his releases for good bahaviour, John said that the long nights were the hardest of times.

“I had quite a bit to do with the series, they flew me back over to Perth to do the filming initially but, due to COVID, they had to do the rest from here,” he explained. From the very beginning, he claimed he was innocent. Rather than be consumed by the tragedy of his lost youth, John has spent the last decades running an investigative support group which aims to clear the names of others who suffered the same fate as himself after being wrongfullyconvicted. “I do a lot of talks in universities, schools and to social groups on my case,” he said. “One of the things I wanted to start was an ‘Innocent Project’, I did it myself but now it has moved into the law school at Edith Cowan University which involves taking students to the crime scene and looking at transcripts and things,” he explained. He said that, in any legal system, there are a number of innocent people who have their lives upturned by wrongful convictions. “It may be only a few per cent, but there are a lot of people in jail. While society believes that it is better for a guilty man to go free than for an innocent man to be convicted, that’s not how the system works; and mostly it’s on the evidence of the police,” he said ruefully. “I spend my life helping others and trying to change the system. That’s why I’m fighting for a better system,” he said.

“Both of the people died in prison, but we’re still working to overturn their convictions,” he said.

John Button has found that forgiveness is the key to making sense of a life torn apart by the wrongful conviction for the murder of his girlfriend in 1963. “There was a lot of bitterness and frustration… I had a lack of understanding; it was a constant thing. You would walk back and forth in your cell, thinking ‘why did I say that?’ ‘Why did the police do this?’ ‘Why, Why, Why?’.” To keep his mind off his predicament, John kept busy taking as many courses as possible in prison, maths, radio technology, and even a brickbuilding course which, for reasons of security, he wasn’t allowed to have any practical experience with. Six months after he was arrested, convicted serial killer, Eric Edgar Cooke was hanged for committing eight murders. Before he died, Cooke also confessed to murdering Anderson. Two appeals followed, one to the Supreme Court, the other to the Federal Court but, on both occasions, Eric Edgar Cooke’s confession was rejected. He said the hardest thing was finding that the serial killer who had killed his girlfriend, Eric Cooke, had actually-confessed to the murder soon

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into his sentence, ironically being the last person hung in Western Australia. “He confessed about six months after I went into jail and we had appeals but the court just called him a liar. It took 39 years to clear my name,” he said with a touch of sadness. John served five years of a 10-year jail sentence, before being released on bail. Forty years later, his conviction was over-turned, and he was declared innocent. After his release from prison, he struggled for years writing a self-published book after finding faith in God, a decision that he said ultimately saved his life. “I was putting it all down on paper, it took me seven years to write it, I was trying to get rid of the anger and the bitterness and the frustration, but now I try and look for the good in people,” he said. “It took me a long way to realise my only hope was in God, I couldn’t fix this myself, I was very depressed, frustrated wanting to prove my innocence, so I said ‘you’re the only one that can help me,” he explained. He said that it took a bestselling book by Estelle Blackburn, “Broken Lives”, (1998) about his and another innocent man, convicted for Cooke’s killings, Darryl Beamish, before the case garnered enough publicity for the legal profession to take their claims seriously. “I eventually got a full-pardon in 2002,” he said. His story has another redemptive thread, meeting and marrying his wife, Helen, who always believed in his innocence. “I married in 1968 a wonderful woman who believed in me and trusted me and is looking after me,” he said. His faith even allowed him to become friends with the Police Prosecutor in the trial, Sir Ronald Wilson, who later became a Justice on the High Court. “He practically begged the jury to hang me, we’ve now become good friends, he later apologised to me for everything that happened,” John concluded.

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UP, UP, AND AWAY FOR LOCAL TRAVEL AGENTS POST-COVID Has any industry been more affected by the COVID-19 lockdowns than the travel industry? For local agent, Nicole Fallon, 2020 has been a long, hard slog and she is only now just seeing some light at the end of the tunnel.

travel agents are losing money by keeping their businesses open as they try to do the right thing for their customers,” Ms Carnell added.

“It all started in February/March and its been a bit of a run since then,” she said. “We’re only just coming out at the other end now,” she added hopefully.

Nicole however is optimistic that the international lockdowns could have the effect of creating a boom once the worst of the pandemic is over, as it appears to be in many countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

Buckling down in autumn — like most small businesses — she saw a short, sharp lockdown as the likely trajectory before we all got back to our lives.

“For us, we definitely fell that we’ve come out the other side. While 2021 is still likely to be affected, we think that 2022 is going to be crazy,” she said. “We think people will be looking at a lot of travel, once the restrictions are lifted.”

“I never imagined that that it would go on this long, however we’ve been open every day throughout this time,” she said. “In that regard, we’ve been very grateful for the Government help.”

Ms Carnell said that it was sad irony that the industry had been experiencing boom-times before the coronavirus.

Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell, though says that more should be done for the industry calling for a critical Federal Government support package for travel agents who have been decimated by the COVID crisis. Ms Carnell says close to 1300 distressed travel agents completed a recent online survey and have been clinging by a thread as they wait to hear if there will be a lifeline announced by the Federal Government. “These travel agents, most of whom are small businesses, need help now,” Ms Carnell says. “Our survey showed that the situation is dire for these travel agents – 98 per cent of which told us their revenue has plunged by more than 75 per cent since COVID restrictions were introduced in March. “More than half told us their revenue is down by over 100 per cent, meaning they have been paying out more in refunds, including previously made revenue, than they are selling in new business. “It’s clear these small businesses are in a world of pain and a support package should be announced as a matter of urgency. Nicole explained that one of the hardest aspects of the disruptions and cancellations from COVID-19, was the complex issue of trying to unravel and return deposits for locals booking trips that they were eventually unable to take. “In simple terms the money that we took isn’t ours,

“Sadly, nearly all (98 per cent) of the travel agents impacted by the COVID restrictions have reported their businesses were growing prior to this crisis. “At this early stage, we are still consulting with the industry regarding what assistance is required, but it is clear that a targeted response will be needed.” we sent it straight on to the providers; we’re like an agent that’s working for the benefit of our clients,” she explained. “If you’ve booked with that wholesaler on a sightseeing tour, they’re pretty much in the same situation, they have used the money to book other providers on your behalf,” she said. Ms Carnell agreed, saying that travel agents have worked hard to negotiate refunds from travel companies and airlines for their customers. “Travel agents have been faced with enormous challenges to get back the deposits paid to travel providers such as offshore cruise ship or tour companies on behalf of their customers. “A number of travel agents have complained about Qantas specifically, in terms of the length of time it is taking to refund customers,” Ms Carnell said. “If these small business owners were to walk away now, customers would be unlikely to get a refund. That said,

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Nicole says, however that, while the lockdowns have gone on far longer than anyone had anticipated, it is hard to see how the authorities could have handled the pandemic any differently. “They’ve been trying to do the best they can, it was a tricky situation for everyone,” Nicole believes. “There’s now a bit of confidence about the development of a vaccine, so that’s one thing,” she said. While the situation still makes grim reading for 2020, Nicole believes and hopes that the worst is now behind the industry. She said that the uncertainty around international travel and the border closures could have an unintended consequence of travellers deciding to use established agents rather than booking online themselves. “A lot of people booked their trips themselves that were then cancelled, and they lost all their money,” she said. “We’ve got a lot of loyal clients and we feel we can handle the current situation the best we can,” she said. “It’s all about supporting local businesses,” Nicole concluded.

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POP-UP ART SHOP FIRST STEP IN LIFTING PROFILE OF LOCALS Launch of Orange’s first pop-up art-shop on the weekend, is the opening step in raising fine culture to the same level as good food and wine for the Orange region, local art groups believe. Colour City Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd’s launching of the shop in the Summer Centre on Saturday morning (November 28) showed a new spirit of cooperation among the city’s previously self-contained art groups, participants said. “I think it’s a great initiative, bringing all the art groups together like this has been wonderful,” Jenny Davidson from the Colour City creatives said. The event, she said, could be the start of a beautiful friendship for the Orange art scene, thanks in part to the building’s owner who provided the shopfront at pepper-corn rates. “I hope it will, I’d like to thank the landlord, Paul Saunders for making this happen,” she added. Distinguished local artist and the driving force behind the proposal, Hank Spirek, revealed that Mr Saunders — on hearing of Hank’s proposal for disused shop-fronts to host short-term pop-up art displays — had immediately offered the unleased premises fronting the Summer Centre car-park. “There will be four groups of artists each with their own ‘pod’… there will not be any

featured artists, it’s about all the artists in Orange that rarely get a look in from the elites,” Hank explained of the Summer Centre shop-front exhibition. Cr Kidd — a strong supporter of the innovative proposal to utilise vacant shopfronts in Orange to display local art works — has confirmed for the official opening from about 11am. “It will be like a regular store. It will be open to the public with COVID marshals making sure we don’t exceed 18 people in the space at one time,” Hank explained. “We’re going to work on a commission basis for art-works sold, so the more we move, the more we make.” David Mason from Orange Art Society said that the pop-up has lifted spirits in the local art community which, like many other sectors of our economy and culture, has suffered due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. “This has been so important for everyone, it’s a good start,” he said. Kaye Partridge from the Society added that the pop-up should be seen as the firststage in developing the profile of the local arts scene. “This is the first step to looking to the future; of making Orange an arts centre,” she said enthusiastically. She said that there is no reason why fine art couldn’t join food and wine as iconic attractions for Orange’s tourism industry. “We should be looking at an

z Happy together, Local artists at the launch of the first pop-up art shop for the Colour City. From left, (sitting) Glen Southwood, Jenny Davidson, David Mason, Kaye Partridge, Hank Spirek, and Fayah McKenzie.

amalgamation with the Wine and Food Week events by having an arts festival at the same time,” she explained. Glen Southwood from the Art Society said that the high-profile location of the shopfront will offer unprecedented opportunities for locals to display their works to a greater audience than their base opposite the Harris Farm carpark. “This gives us a chance not only display our works, but to be where many more people can see our work,” she said. “It’s a case where the locals don’t know where they’ve got to go to find us. But it’s nice to look out and see people from

Sydney and elsewhere coming in and having a look,” she added. Hank added that the building is essentially theirs until development of the adjacent hotel complex starts in the next three-four months. His vison is for a handful of the City’s empty shopfronts to be used around annual events like Christmas to display the works of the diverse local arts community. “We’re always looking for other possibilities,” he added. “If other businesspeople are prepared to offer us sites around town, that would be great,” Hank concluded.

ROLLOFHONOUR Jonathan Roe speaks with PATRICK RAFTERY When Patrick first went into business, advertising his services was strictly controlled – even down to the size of the sign in his window. While laws around advertising have changed, he still finds that maintaining a high level of service and getting good ‘word of mouth’ is vital.

Local podiatrist Patrick Raftery’s career extends back 35 years in the Central West. His practice has been a fixture in Sale Street since 1987 and we think he is a fitting candidate for our Newswatch Roll of Honour. “I started Podiatry in 1985 at Grenfell, Cowra and Canowindra Hospitals. I actually just saw an advertisement in Sydney saying Grenfell, Cowra Canowindra Hospitals were looking for a podiatrist so I applied and got it, said Patrick, who never imagined he would still be calling the Central West home some 35 years later. “No, I didn’t kind of plan to move to Orange. I thought maybe Canberra or somewhere else, but Orange wasn’t on my radar. Now that it is, I’m happy I’ve been here for such a long time. Since setting up his practice in Sale Street, there have been quite a few changes in the neighbourhood — the hospital relocated, the building of the DPI’s new office, pharmacies that have grown, shrunk and grown again. “The only constant has been Tony Littlefield, the Barber next door, he’s been there ever since before I was here,” said Patrick, who believes providing consistent service has been the key to growing a successful practice.

“Most of my new business is through word of mouth; someone has been here and had a good result and told someone else about it… I do a little advertising to make sure people know I’m still around more than anything. And I do have some people who promote my services but most of it is word of mouth.” “Like any other business, you just have to have a consistent business and consistent reputation, people know they can come in have something done and it is going to work,” he said. “Well 80, 90 percent of the time — there’s always failure, no matter what you do there’s always someone you can’t please and that’s in any business. I think anybody who goes and tries to get 100 per cent of their business perfect all the time is doomed for failure. So, we just make sure we are trying to give customers the best service we can.”

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Having run his own practice for nearly 35 years, Patrick said he is probably too set in his ways to work with others, although that may change when he starts to think forward towards retirement. “I decided a long time ago that I didn’t want the hassle of having other people around. Sure sometimes it’s a hassle when I need a break or a holiday, but I’ve been very lucky being a sole practitioner, that you can switch things around to make sure you fit in most things,” he said. “But I’ve always enjoyed it; I don’t mind coming to work everyday. If I didn’t, I would have given it up long before now.”

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Adopt a Roundabout?

There’s no doubt about it, without a drought, making things grow is much easier. Have you noticed how pleasant it is now doing trips around many of our City’s roundabouts? Several are bursting with colour and its hard not to feel good just driving around them. Those with flowers look spectacular whereas those with green shrubs not quite so fabulous. Newswatch wonders if Council has ever considered a scheme where local community clubs or groups adopt a roundabout and take responsibility for the appearance and upkeep. Some years back, there was something similar where parts of highways were adopted by businesses, groups, and more. Just a thought.

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6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 10.00 Rage. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Pine Gap. Final. 1.30 Re-Frame. New. 2.30 The Sound. 3.30 Searching For Superhuman: Spark Of Life. 4.25 Landline Summer. 5.00 Basketball. WNBL. Round 3. Adelaide Lightning v Sydney Uni Flames. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Victoria. Victoria must fight against her better judgement to decide where to place her allegiance. 8.20 Shetland. Final. 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. Cup of China. 4.10 Gourmet Farmer. 4.40 Coast New Zealand. 5.35 Nazi Megastructures. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Secrets Of Our Cities: Kalgoorlie. 8.30 Portillo’s Greatest Railway Journeys: Railways And War. 9.30 MOVIE: Destroyer. (2018) Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan. An LAPD detective, still traumatised by an undercover assignment years earlier, must revisit her past. (MA15+) 11.40 The New Pope. 3.35 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. 4.25 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 The Wiggles Live At Hot Potato Studios. 10.45 Wanda And The Alien. 11.05 Daniel Tiger’s. 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 Dot. 5.05 Dinosaur Train. 5.20 We’re Going On A Bear Hunt. 5.55 Go Jetters. 7.05 The Deep. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Greg Davies: The Back Of My Mum’s Head. 9.55 Mock The Week. 10.30 Doctor Who. 3.55 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Postman Pat Special Delivery Service. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 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 MOVIE: Annie Hall. (1977) 1.40 New Girl. 2.55 Insight. 3.55 ABC America: World News Tonight. 4.20 PBS News. 5.20 Monty Python’s Flying Circus. 6.30 Only Connect. 7.40 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 The X-Files. 11.05 Miniseries: Hungry Ghosts. 12.10 MOVIE: Code 46. (2003) 1.50 Vikings. 2.45 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.50 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.45 Deadly 60. 1.10 The Dengineers. 1.40 Larry The Wonderpup. 2.00 Almost Naked Animals. 2.25 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.50 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 3.10 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 3.35 Dragon Ball Super. 4.05 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.05 School Of Rock. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 The Wonderful World Of Puppies And Kittens. 7.10 The Zoo. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.30 Almost Naked Animals. 8.45 So Awkward. 9.15 TMNT. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 10.00 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s Academic. (66) 7.00 Spit It Out. 8.00 Food Truck Nation. 9.00 Crazy Cakes. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 Ultimate Summer CookOff. 12.00 Mystery Diners. 1.45 Restaurant: Impossible. 4.45 MOVIE: Miracle. (2004) 7.30 MOVIE: Robin Hood. (2018) Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn. 10.00 MOVIE: Seven. (1995) Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow. 1.00 Home Shopping. 2.00 Fringe. 4.00 Smallville. 4.30 Crazy Cakes. 5.00 Chopped Junior.

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Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 9.00 Play School. 9.30 Sesame Street. 10.20 Charlie And Lola. 10.45 Wanda And The Alien. 11.05 Daniel Tiger’s. 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 Dot. 5.05 Dinosaur Train. 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. 9.10 Live At The Apollo. 10.00 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.40 Doctor Who. 3.40 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 10.00 Portuguese News. 10.50 Urdu News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 Hoarders. 12.50 Atlanta. 1.55 New Girl. 3.40 France 24 English News Second Edition. 4.10 MOVIE: Invaders From Mars. (1986) 5.55 Running Wild With Bear Grylls. 6.45 The Jeff Bezos Empire: The Rise And Reign Of Amazon. 7.50 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Lost Gold Of World War II. 9.20 United Shades Of America. New. 10.10 Vogue Williams: Obsessed With Perfection. 11.10 Sexplora. 11.35 Hernán. New. 12.30 MOVIE: Hard Eight. (1996) 2.20 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.30 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.45 Deadly 60. 1.10 The Dengineers. 1.40 Larry The Wonderpup. 2.10 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 2.25 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.45 Get It Together! 3.10 Teenage Boss. 3.40 Horrible Histories. 4.10 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.05 School Of Rock. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 The Wonderful World Of Puppies. 7.10 The Zoo. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.45 Teenage Boss. 9.15 TMNT. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 9.55 Rage. 3.55 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s Academic. (66) 7.00 Spit It Out. 8.00 My Grandmother’s Ravioli. 8.30 Food Truck Nation. 9.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 10.00 Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meals. 10.30 Hook, Line And Dinner. 11.00 Chopped Junior. 12.00 Chopped. 2.00 Celebrity Food Fight. 3.00 Mystery Diners. 4.30 Restaurant: Impossible. 7.30 My Crazy Birth Story. 8.30 First Dates Australia. 10.30 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 11.30 Bridezillas. 12.30 Mystery Diners. 1.00 Smallville. 5.00 Restaurant: Impossible.

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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 River Monsters. 2.00 The Real Seachange. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.00 Sydney Weekender. 3.30 Creek To Coast. 4.00 Weekender. 4.30 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. Fish Of The (63) 6.00 Day. 7.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 8.00 Home Shopping. 10.00 MXTV. 10.30 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 11.30 Life Off Road. 12.00 Raceline TV. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 2.00 Engineering Connections. 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 4.00 Storage Wars Canada. 5.00 Engineering Connections. 6.00 Pawn Stars. 7.00 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Final. 10.30 MOVIE: Chain Reaction. (1996) Keanu Reeves. 12.45 Alcatraz. 2.00 Esports. LPL Pro. CounterStrike: Global Offensive. Season 3. Week 2. Replay. 4.00 Roll With It. 4.30 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 9.00 The Doctors. 10.00 MacGyver. 11.00 Diagnosis Murder. 12.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 1.00 Truck Hunters. 2.00 Car Crash Global: Caught On Camera. 3.00 Driven Not Hidden. 3.30 Fishing Edge. 4.00 By Design Heroes. 4.30 Mighty Machines. 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 MacGyver. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 SEAL Team. 12.15 Law & Order: SVU. 1.10 48 Hours. 2.10 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.05 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 15. Portuguese Grand Prix. Replay. 4.35 iFish. 5.00 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Surf Patrol. 1.30 MOVIE: Will You Merry Me? (2008) Wendie Malick, Cynthia Stevenson, Tommy Lioutas. 3.30 Border Security: America’s Front Line. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Sydney Weekender. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Beat The Chasers. 8.40 MOVIE: The Holiday. (2006) Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law. Two women, who live on opposite sides of the Atlantic, meet online and impulsively switch homes for Christmas. However, shortly after arriving at their destinations, both find the last thing either wants or expects. (M) 11.25 Autopsy USA: Mama Cass. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Ultimate Rush. 11.00 Karl Meltzer: Made To Be Broken. 12.00 World’s Greatest Natural Wonders. 1.00 Garden Gurus Moments. 1.15 Getaway. 1.45 MOVIE: Mermaids. (1990) Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins. 4.00 Wild Metropolis. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Kalgoorlie Cops. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 60 Minutes. 8.00 RBT. 9.00 MOVIE: London Has Fallen. (2016) Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart. Terrorists launch a concentrated attack on the leaders of the Western world who are gathering in London. (MA15+) 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 Killer On The Line. 12.20 Grand Hotel. 1.10 The Healthy Cooks. 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 Australia By Design: Interiors. 8.30 The Living Room. 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday. 12.00 Destination Dessert. 12.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 1.00 Farm To Fork. 1.30 Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On. 2.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 2.30 Left Off The Map. 3.00 My Market Kitchen. 3.30 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn. 4.00 All 4 Adventure. Return. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Sunday Project. 7.30 The Graham Norton Show. 8.30 FBI: Most Wanted. 9.30 Blood And Treasure. 11.20 The Sunday Project. 12.20 NCIS. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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MOVIE: My Little (53) 6.00 Pony: Best Gift Ever. (2018) 7.00 Kids’ Programs. 1.00 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 1.30 Dance Moms. 3.30 MOVIE: Flight Of The Navigator. (1986) 5.20 MOVIE: Space Chimps. (2008) 7.00 MOVIE: Ghostbusters. (1984) Bill Murray. 9.10 MOVIE: RoboCop. (1987) Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox. 11.10 The Top 100 Video Games Of All Time. 12.10 Tamara’s World. New. 1.10 Bromans. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 3.30 Childs Farm. 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 The Thrill Of The Chase. 11.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 The Yorkshire Vet. 2.00 Vasili’s Garden. 2.30 The Bowls Show. 3.30 Escape To The Country. 5.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 MOVIE: Ben-Hur. (2016) Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell. 12.15 Jodi Arias: An American Murder Mystery. 1.15 Natalie Wood: An American Murder Mystery. 2.15 I’d Kill For You. 4.30 Dates From Hell. 5.00 Home Shopping. Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 7.30 Home Shopping. 10.00 Timbersports. 10.30 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. King Of Wings. 11.30 My Fishing Place. 12.00 The Fishing Show. 1.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 2.00 Raceline TV. 3.00 Engineering Connections. 4.00 Bushfire Wars. 4.30 Graveyard Carz. 5.30 Counting Cars. 6.00 Detroit Steel. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: Kingdom Of Heaven. (2005) Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons. 11.25 Tattoo Nightmares. 12.00 Hardcore Pawn. 12.30 Blokesworld. 1.00 Counting Cars. 1.30 Late Programs.

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(82) 6.00 Broke. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Middle. 9.00 Neighbours. 11.30 Charmed. 1.30 The Neighborhood. 2.30 Broke. 3.30 Man With A Plan. 4.30 The Middle. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Friends. 10.00 Man With A Plan. 11.30 2 Broke Girls. 12.30 Mom. 1.45 The Flash. 2.40 Charmed. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

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6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.00 Grand Designs. 11.00 The Recording Studio. Final. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Gruen. 1.35 Squinters. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Father Brown. 5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. Final. 8.30 In The Face Of Terror. 9.15 Media Watch. 9.35 Q+A. Final. 10.40 ABC Late News. 11.10 Harrow. 12.05 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 The Employables. 2.55 Perspective Shift. 3.30 Alex Polizzi: Chef For Hire. 4.35 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 World’s Most Luxurious… New. 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.25 Life And Birth. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 DNA. Final. 11.50 Outlander. 2.55 Japan’s Secret Shame. 3.55 Late Programs.

Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Secret Of The Nutcracker. (2007) Bill Baksa. 2.00 The Secret Daughter. 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. Final. 8.30 Station 19. New. 10.30 Chicago Fire. 12.30 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 Desperate Housewives. 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 Gold Coast Cops. 8.30 MOVIE: Raiders Of The Lost Ark. (1981) Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies. 10.50 Nine News Late. 11.20 Lethal Weapon. 12.10 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (8) Programs. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Graham Norton Show. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Three Veg And Meat. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Bondi Rescue. 8.30 All Aussie Adventures. 9.30 Just For Laughs Australia. 10.30 Kinne Tonight. 11.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 8.50 Luke Warm Sex. 9.20 Detectorists. 9.50 300 Years Of French And Saunders. 10.40 Gruen XL. 11.30 Wasted. Final. 11.55 Inside No. 9. 12.25 Squinters. 12.50 Red Dwarf. 1.20 Threesome. 1.45 The IT Crowd. 2.10 Sando. 2.35 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 3.25 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 RuPaul’s Drag Race. 1.45 Beat The Internet. 2.10 Game Of Bros. 2.40 Australia’s War On Feral Cats. 3.10 Hunting Hitler. 4.00 WorldWatch. 4.25 This Week. 5.20 The Gadget Show. 5.50 The Joy Of Painting. 6.20 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 MOVIE: Bros: After The Screaming Stops. (2018) 11.15 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Larry The Wonderpup. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Adventure All Stars. 11.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Foyle’s War. 10.40 Killer Tapes. 11.50 Late Programs.

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 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 Death In Paradise. 2.10 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 3.10 MOVIE: The Siege Of Pinchgut. (1959) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Grantchester. 8.40 DCI Banks. 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 L.A.’s Finest. 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 15. Bahrain Grand Prix. Highlights. 11.20 NCIS: New Orleans. 12.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 3.15 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.40 The Dengineers. 4.15 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.05 School Of Rock. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.45 Teenage Boss. 9.15 TMNT. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 9.30 Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meals. 10.30 Hook, Line And Dinner. 11.00 Chopped Junior. 12.00 One Tree Hill. 2.00 Code Black. 3.00 Mystery Diners. 4.00 Restaurant: Impossible. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. 10.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 11.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Detroit Steel. 1.00 Graveyard Carz. 3.00 MXTV. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Storage Wars Canada. 4.30 Outback Truckers. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 SAS UK. 8.30 MOVIE: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. (1981) Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence. 10.30 MOVIE: Speed 2: Cruise Control. (1997) 1.05 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Tamara’s World. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. (2013) 9.55 MOVIE: Ted. (2012) 12.05 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 1.00 After The Raves. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 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.

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6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Award Winning Tasmania. 12.30 Rebound. 1.00 The Healthy Cooks. 1.30 Animal Embassy. 2.00 The 54th Annual Country Music Awards. 4.00 The Perfect Serve. 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 Good Onya Mate: Rural Aid Concert. 10.30 MOVIE: Red Dog: True Blue. (2016) Bryan Brown, Levi Miller. A man recounts the story of his dog. (PG) 12.10 MOVIE: Cadillac Man. (1990) Robin Williams. A salesman’s job is threatened. (M) 2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Global Shop. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.30 Wesley Impact.

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6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 The World This Week. 11.00 Compass. 11.30 Songs Of Praise. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline Summer. 1.00 Back Roads. 1.30 Gardening Australia. 2.30 The Mix. 3.00 Basketball. WNBL. Round 3. Sydney Uni Flames v Townsville Fire. 5.00 Antiques Roadshow. 6.00 The Sound. 7.00 ABC News Sunday. 7.40 Restoration Australia: Mittagong, NSW. Final. 8.40 To Be Advised. 10.10 Total Control. 11.00 Killing Eve. 11.45 No Offence. 12.35 Endeavour. 2.05 Rage. 3.15 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. 5.00 Insiders.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Surf Patrol. 12.30 Beat The Chasers. 2.00 MOVIE: Oh, Christmas Tree. (2013) Sarah Lancaster, Eric Johnson, Colin Mochrie. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 MOVIE: Frozen. (2013) Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel. A princess searches for her sister. (PG) 9.00 MOVIE: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald. (2018) Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Johnny Depp. When the wizard Gellert Grindelwald plots to raise an army of his fellow magic users to rule over non-magical beings, Newt Scamander’s former professor, Albus Dumbledore, seeks his help to stop him. (M) 12.00 How To Get Away With Murder. 1.00 Home Shopping.

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TVguide 6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.00 Grand Designs. 11.00 Gardening Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 No More Boys And Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Father Brown. 5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Outback Ringer. 8.30 Wild Australia: After the Fires. 9.30 Searching For Superhuman. Final. 10.30 Insert Name Here. Final. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 1.55 The Employables. 3.00 Perspective Shift. 3.35 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.35 Shaun Micallef’s Stairway To Heaven. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 World’s Most Luxurious… 8.30 Addicted Australia. 9.30 Where Are You Really From? 10.00 The Feed. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 Why We Hate. 11.50 The A Word. 12.55 Magic Johnson: The Announcement. 2.25 MOVIE: Dallas Buyers Club. (2013) 4.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 9.10 Ghosts. 9.40 I’m Alan Partridge. 10.10 Frontline. 10.40 Inside No. 9. 11.10 Squinters. 11.35 Red Dwarf. 12.05 Threesome. 12.30 Green Wing. 1.20 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 1.45 Detectorists. 2.15 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 RuPaul’s Drag Race. 1.50 Beat The Internet. 2.15 Game Of Bros. 3.00 Hunting Hitler. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 The Gadget Show. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Escaping Polygamy. 9.20 Adult Material. New. 11.10 Final Space. 12.00 MOVIE: Manhunter. (1986) 2.10 The Movie Show. 2.40 RT News In English From Moscow. 3.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 1.10 DinoTrux. 2.05 Make It Pop! 2.25 Find Me In Paris. 2.50 The Next Step. 3.15 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.40 The Dengineers. 4.15 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.05 The Next Step. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.30 Almost Naked Animals. 8.45 Teenage Boss. 9.10 TMNT. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 The Zoo. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 The Zoo. 8.30 Spit It Out. 9.00 Match It. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 One Tree Hill. 2.00 Code Black. 3.00 Powerless. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Modern Family. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 MOVIE: The Happening. (2008) Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo. 10.30 MOVIE: Project Almanac. (2015) 1.00 Late Programs.

6.00 News Breakfast. (2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Q+A. Final. 11.00 Gardening Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.40 Media Watch. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Father Brown. 5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. 8.30 Gruen. 9.05 Reputation Rehab. 9.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.20 QI. 10.50 ABC Late News. 11.20 Media Watch. 11.40 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 2.00 The Employables. 3.00 Perspective Shift. 3.35 Little Bang’s New Eye. 3.50 Breaking The Biz. 4.30 Shaun Micallef’s Stairway To Heaven. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 World’s Most Luxurious… 8.30 Inside Cadbury: Chocolate Secrets Unwrapped. 9.30 Miniseries: The Sister. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 24 Hours In Emergency. 11.55 MOVIE: Dr Knock. (2017) 1.55 Vikings Special: The Saga Of Floki. 2.45 Vikings. 3.40 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Friday Night Dinner. 8.55 The IT Crowd. 9.20 Rosehaven. 9.45 Frontline. 10.15 The Thick Of It. 10.45 Inside No. 9. 11.15 Squinters. 11.45 Red Dwarf. 12.15 Threesome. 12.35 Green Wing. 1.30 The Catherine Tate Show. 2.00 300 Years Of French And Saunders. 2.55 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Child Genius. 2.05 Beat The Internet. 2.30 Game Of Bros. 3.00 Hunting Hitler. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 The Gadget Show. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 MOVIE: Notorious. (2009) Jamal Woolard. 10.40 MOVIE: Flash Gordon. (1980) 12.40 MOVIE: Desperado. (1995) 2.30 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Late Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 The Zoo. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 The Zoo. 8.30 Spit It Out. 9.00 Match It. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 One Tree Hill. 2.00 Code Black. 3.00 Powerless. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Modern Family. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Criminal Minds. 12.30 Fringe. 1.30 Fresh TV. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Smallville. 5.00 Time After Time.

6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 Reputation Rehab. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Father Brown. Final. 5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Scottish Vets Down Under. 8.30 Griff’s Great Kiwi Road Trip. 9.20 Death In Paradise. 10.20 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 10.50 ABC Late News. 11.20 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. 12.10 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 2.00 The Interviewer. 2.15 Kill Off. 3.00 Beautiful. 3.50 I Am Emanuel. 4.25 Focus On Ability Film Festival. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 World’s Most Luxurious… 8.30 Empire With Michael Portillo. 9.25 Fargo. Final. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 24 Hours In Police Custody. 11.55 On Becoming A God In Central Florida. 4.20 Full Frontal. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 4.20 Dot. 5.05 Dinosaur Train. 5.20 Octonauts. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Wild 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 Superwog. 10.25 Finding Joy. 10.50 Ghosts. 11.20 Inside No. 9. 11.50 Squinters. 12.20 Red Dwarf. 12.50 Threesome. 1.10 Green Wing. 2.10 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Child Genius. 2.00 Beat The Internet. 2.25 Game Of Bros. 3.00 Hunting Hitler. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 The Gadget Show. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 MOVIE: #Female Pleasure. (2018) 11.05 Addicted Australia. 12.05 The Longest Day In Chang’an. 12.55 Dragula. 2.45 Deutsche Welle. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.30 Move It Mob Style. 12.05 Dino Dana. 12.25 Odd Squad. 12.45 Move It Mob Style. 1.10 DinoTrux. 2.05 Make It Pop! 2.25 Find Me In Paris. 3.00 My Life. 3.35 MY:24. 4.00 The Dengineers. 4.30 DisRupted – The Legend of Burnout Barry. 5.05 DisRupted – And Then Something Changed. 5.30 DisRupted – Rocky & Me. 6.00 Katy. New. 7.45 Doctor Who. 8.50 Teenage Boss. 9.20 TMNT. 9.40 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 10.05 Rage. 11.05 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 The Zoo. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 The Zoo. 8.30 Spit It Out. 9.00 Match It. 10.30 House Rules. 1.00 One Tree Hill. 2.00 Code Black. 3.00 Powerless. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Modern Family. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Bones. 12.30 Fringe. 4.30 How I Met Your Mother. 5.00 Time After Time.

6.00 News Breakfast. (2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Outback Ringer. 10.30 Scottish Vets Down Under. 11.00 Gardening Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 2.00 Griff’s Great Kiwi Road Trip. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 A Berry Royal Christmas. 5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 Reef Live. 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.05 Mum. 10.35 ABC Late News. 10.50 Gruen. 11.30 Rage.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 2.00 Spina Bifida And Me. 3.00 Great British Railway Journeys. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.30 Shaun Micallef’s Stairway To Heaven. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 World’s Most Luxurious… 8.30 The Wonderful World Of Chocolate. 9.20 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 10.15 SBS News. 10.45 Country Music. 11.50 Nox. 2.55 Miniseries: Dead Lucky. 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 Wild Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Gruen XL. 9.15 Absolutely Fabulous. 10.00 The IT Crowd. 10.30 The Catherine Tate Show. 11.00 Inside No. 9. 11.30 Squinters. 11.50 Red Dwarf. 12.20 Threesome. Final. 12.45 Green Wing. 1.40 Finding Joy. 2.05 The IT Crowd. 2.35 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Postman Pat Special Delivery Service. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Child Genius. 2.05 Beat The Internet. 2.30 Game Of Bros. 3.00 Hunting Hitler. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 The Gadget Show. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone. Final. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders. 9.20 Ina Loves Porno. 10.10 Vagrant Queen. 11.00 The Feed. 11.30 Natural Wines With Clovis. 12.20 Jerry Springer: The Opera. 2.35 NHK World English News. 3.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.25 Find Me In Paris. 2.50 The Next Step. 3.15 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.40 The Dengineers. 4.10 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.25 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.45 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.10 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 9.55 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

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(82) 6.00 Charmed. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 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 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Three Veg And Meat. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Royals Revealed: Diana, Camilla & The Crown. 8.30 Bull. 10.30 The Masked Singer USA. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Desperate Housewives. 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 Driving Test. 8.30 Kath & Kim. 9.40 Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year. 10.40 Nine News Late. 11.10 The First 48. 12.05 Tipping Point. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

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Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 ER. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. Return. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. Return. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Night My Number Came Up. (1955) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 MOVIE: The Bone Collector. (1999) Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah. 11.10 The Disappearance Of Maura Murray. 12.10 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Tamara’s World. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Little Fockers. (2010) 9.30 MOVIE: Knocked Up. (2007) 12.05 Miami Vice. 1.00 Visions Of Greatness. 2.05 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 3.30 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

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6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Desperate Housewives. 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 Paramedics. 8.30 Kings Cross ER. 9.30 Chicago Med. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 11.50 Tipping Point. 12.45 Garden Gurus Moments. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Sydney Weekender. 12.30 Vasili’s Garden. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Funniest Cutest Kittens Ever. 4.30 The Real Seachange. 5.00 Medical Emergency. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector Morse. 10.50 Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence. 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 Ax Men. 2.00 Limitless. 2.30 Engineering Connections. 3.30 Life Off Road. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Great Lake Warriors. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Full Custom Garage. 9.30 Counting Cars. 10.30 Big Easy Motors. 11.30 Late Programs. Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Star For Christmas. (2013) 2.00 The Secret Daughter. 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 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 7.30 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly. Return. 8.30 AACTA’s Best Of The Decade: Australia Decides. 10.00 MOVIE: Last Cab To Darwin. (2015) Michael Caton. 12.30 Late Programs.

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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 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: School For Scoundrels. (1960) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 11.00 Silent Witness. 12.30 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Tamara’s World. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: Underworld. (2003) Kate Beckinsale. 11.00 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 The Break Boys. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 3.30 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 4.00 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Larry The Wonderpup. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Creek To Coast. 12.30 Weekender. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Cutest Ever Puppy Party. 4.30 The Real Seachange. 5.00 Medical Emergency. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Coroner. 8.30 Lewis. 10.30 Jonathan Creek. 11.40 Brit Cops. 1.30 Medical Emergency. 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 Limitless. 2.30 Engineering Connections. 3.30 Life Off Road. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Outback Truckers. 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.

PRIME7

Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Christmas Mix. (2014) 2.00 The Secret Daughter. 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 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 7.30 Highway Patrol Special. 8.30 The Front Bar: Cricket Edition. 9.30 The Amazing Race. 11.30 Autopsy USA. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

(82) 6.00 Charmed. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 1.30 Medium. 2.30 The King Of Queens. 3.30 Seinfeld. 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 2 Broke Girls. 12.00 Frasier. 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

NINE

6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Jamie Oliver’s Ultimate Veg. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Three Veg And Meat. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 This Is Us. 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.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 15. Bahrain 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 L.A.’s Finest. 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.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Frasier. 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 1.30 Medium. 2.30 The King Of Queens. 3.30 Seinfeld. 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 Carol’s Second Act. 11.00 The Middle. 12.00 Frasier. 12.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Living Room. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Three Veg And Meat. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 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 To Be Advised. 10.30 Hughesy, We Have A Problem. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Home Shopping.

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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 L.A.’s Finest. 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 Evil. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 NCIS. 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 5.00 Jake And The Fatman.

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(82) 6.00 Charmed. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Frasier. 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 1.30 Medium. 2.30 The King Of Queens. 3.00 Seinfeld. 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 Nancy Drew. 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Desperate Housewives. 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 Great Getaways. Return. 8.30 Race Across The World. Return. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 World’s Wildest Flights. 12.25 Tipping Point. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Tamara’s World. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. (1995) 9.30 MOVIE: American Pie 2. (2001) 11.30 The Nanny. 12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 3.30 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 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. 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 Small Gift, Big Heart. 8.00 Escape To The Chateau. 9.00 MOVIE: Killers. (2010) Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Selleck. 11.00 MOVIE: The Ex. (2006) 12.40 Tipping Point. 1.30 Late Programs.

7TWO

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 ER. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Fallen Idol. (1948) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Earth From Space. 8.50 MOVIE: Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. (1984) William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan. 10.55 MOVIE: Strange Invaders. (1983) 1.00 Late Programs.

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Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Tamara’s World. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 MOVIE: Loch Ness. (1996) 7.00 MOVIE: Aliens In The Attic. (2009) 8.45 MOVIE: Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. (2011) Shia LaBeouf. 11.50 The Top 100 Video Games Of All Time. 12.45 Urbex: Enter At Your Own Risk. 1.40 After The Raves. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 3.30 Kids’ 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 House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 3.00 River Monsters: Amazon Titanic. 5.00 Under The Hammer. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Dog Patrol. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Australia’s Amazing Homes. 11.30 Property Ladder UK. 12.45 The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 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 Mega Marine Machines. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 Outback Truckers. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 2020 Sport Australia Hall Of Fame. 8.30 MOVIE: Alien 3. (1992) Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance. 10.55 American Dad! 11.55 Late Programs.

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Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: The National Tree. (2009) 2.00 The Secret Daughter. 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 Summer. 8.30 MOVIE: Home Alone. (1990) 10.45 MOVIE: Getaway. (2013) Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight. 12.30 Home Shopping.

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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 L.A.’s Finest. 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. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 NCIS. 3.10 MacGyver. 4.05 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.00 Elementary.

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 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Halfway House. (1944) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Poirot. 9.30 The First 48. 10.30 The Price Of Duty. 11.30 Westside. 12.30 Antiques Roadshow. 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 Limitless. 2.30 Mega Marine Machines. 3.30 Life Off Road. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Outback Truckers. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 8.30 MOVIE: The Long Kiss Goodnight. (1996) Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson, Brian Cox. 11.00 American Dad! 11.30 Late Programs.

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7TWO

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Larry The Wonderpup. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Hospital. 1.10 Medical Emergency. 1.35 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Funniest Ever Toddlers. New. 4.30 The Real Seachange. 5.00 Under The Hammer. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Wedding Surprises: Caught On Camera. 12.30 Late Programs.

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BIRD’S-EYEview with JEANINE BIRD

COOKING UP COVID, SHONKY SCIENCE, GMO VACCINES AND A PANDEMIC TO BRING IN THE GREAT RESET Let’s not waste a good pandemic or let the crisis go to waste! This is the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) cry echoed by Prince Charles and many world leaders. The United Nations (UN), World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) along with the global financiers who run the global central bank system certainly won’t – in fact, they are more than ready to use the COVID-19 “pandemic” as cover for bringing in their plan, The Great Reset. More and more groups, professors, epidemiologists and doctors across the world believe that the “pandemic” is contrived, lock-downs aren’t necessary, it’s more dangerous to wear masks than not; and many are bringing global lawsuits. More evidence is being dug up which points to COVID-19 being lab-created. Through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, US Right To Know procured emails (quote from their website): Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27 prominent public health scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin” was organized by employees of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit group that has received millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Hmmm! “Believe the Science”, say the shonky scientists? A conspiracy being cooked up to condemn “conspiracy theories”, or put that denigrating label on anyone who smells a rat? Wouldn’t want people to know they’ve cooked up a genetically modified COVID-19 – best cover up their own conspiracy by getting in first and labelling truth-seekers conspiracy theorists! I reckon they’re lab rats! Never fear, they’ve got a genetically modified vaccine all fast-tracked and ready to go, filled with baby foetus and GMOs that alter YOUR DNA. Who knows what that might cook up in our bodies over a long (or short) period of years – it may never be identified as the “source”, just like mesothelioma took many years (and much resistance) to be connected to asbestos. Of course, the simple thing we could all do is take Vitamin A, D and zinc to prevent it, and if we get it, never fear, Prof. Thomas Borody says a course of tried and true Ivermectin, Doxycycline and zinc kill it dead – no hospitalisation, it just goes away. Hydroxychloroquine and zinc do the same thing. Will our pollies listen? No, they just vilify Craig Kelly for bringing it up in (federal) parliament.

Have you noticed globally we’re all getting a version of a “Green New Deal”? Yes, even here in NSW! Biden embraced it and will implement it; Trump rejected it. Just another elite dictate coming from banksters and the UN …... all tied up with “climate change” and “green energy” which are intertwined and inextricable from finance. Why? Oh yes, because under the cover of the planned Covid19 “pandemic”, or plandemic as some call it, they’ll be ushering in a “reset” because their debt-based fiat currency can’t go on. Bankers win, you lose. It’s been done before, usually under cover of wars they engineer. (Trump’s just proven that peace is possible, everyone else said “impossible” because they want to keep shipping black money and arms around so they can run drugs and buy dictatorships, oil and resources for the elites. Think Biden’s threat of withholding a $1b loan to Ukraine if they didn’t stop investigating Biden’s son’s role in Barisma.) Blame anyone but the bankers – they always have something or someone else to blame – like the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), or the “recession we had to have”. And, to control people, we must “flood” them with information to scare them – good “Flooding” suggestion at WEF by (calls herself Australian) Jane Halton, so fellow Aussies could be locked up, bankrupted, indebted, masked and restricted in the name of the Great Reset! Remember US/German Barrister Dr Reiner Fuellmich exposed the “Panic Paper” which called for children to be made feel responsible for their parent’s and grandparent’s death if they don’t follow the corona-virus “rules”. Rules, of course, set by the non-qualified UN elites, given to “health professionals” who blindly pass on highly-questionable “world’s best practice” to governments everywhere. Pretty shonky, but pollies everywhere are brainwashed with this unscrupulous [non]science ushering in the “new normal”. So our elected officials, instead of having the guts to do their own research and stand up to these dictatorial health Nazis, actually defer to them, masking and locking down countries, states and PEOPLE! All for no good reason, it would appear, than to usher in their great reset, by creating a depression (which they’re already talking about to prepare us), implementing policies whereby businesses fail and you lose jobs, your equity in your homes or property etc., and you won’t blame anyone, because no-one’s to blame! (if they can successfully point you in another direction!) You’d want to hope Trump’s team prove the massive fraud – which it appears they won’t have trouble doing. (Gotta love that Sidney Powell who’s gonna “release the Kraken”. I can’t wait!) Trump, love him or hate him, is the only one standing between you and possible bankruptcy – or at least a great loss of your equity. Oh well, the WEF say you’ll own nothing, but be happy. CAUTION!

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When someone tells you it’s for your own good, it probably isn’t! Trump’s taking on the central bankers, and they’re not happy – they’ve been fighting him for 4 years with everything they’ve got. They’ve financed both sides of all wars over the last two centuries at least, so the media’s a cinch; they have the wherewithal and want to keep control. Our own Federal government is complicit. For starters, they’re vilifying Craig Kelly (yes, even his own Liberal team). ScoMo’s backed down on coal and is going more “green”. Now, Mathias Cormann (complicit in dismantling the grower-owned wheat board) is flying around the world in an air-force jet lobbying to become Secretary General of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). ScoMo says it’s justified flying him round the world in an RAAF plane costing more than $4,000/ hour, because had Cormann flown commercial, “he would have got COVID”. Oh dear, had ScoMo done his homework, or listened to Craig Kelly, he could have just taken Vit A,D & zinc to prevent that, and a few scripts for Ivermectin, Doxycycline and zinc in case he gets it, then jumped on commercial flights after all, thus saving the taxpayer megabucks. A bit of research and ScoMo would have known that while “case numbers” are being blasted at us to scare us, hospitals aren’t full of people at all – everyone’s getting better! They’re out on the streets all over Europe rallying against a new round of lock-downs, but is that being reported by our compliant media here? Barely. No, ScoMo would rather borrow from the banks when they don’t need to, indebting us and future generations. Depressions are bankster made, policy assisted (interest, wars, taxes, virus) and are like an octopus or spider’s web, protruding into everything, corrupting and eroding all, even extending to your savings or equity in your home. Socialism, totalitarianism, control, “new normal”: call it what you will. Move over ScoMo! Help to implement your policy is here from the quasi-PM. Upstart QANTAS Capitano Jumped up Joyce announced no-one will be able to travel overseas until they’ve had the COVID JAB! Exactly what ScoMo wants anyhow – mandatory vaccines which justify his deals with the corrupt corporations making the vaccines (yes, look up the mega-fines most of them have paid for shonky practices). Now that the Great Reset is out in the open, I leave you with a quote from great Fabian Bob Hawke: “I have asserted it proudly. I am a Socialist. I believe that ultimately the people of Australia will be best served when the means of production, distribution and exchange are removed from private ownership and are owned by the people.” “ ….. to this stage, the Australian people have not been prepared to democratically make the decision to have a socialist society.” (Fin Review 1/3/71) Are we there yet?

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CITYwatch

with BOB HOLLAND

HOUSTON, I HAVE A PROBLEM! How do you tell a City that they’ve stuffed-up and are continuing to do so? Now there’s an attention-grabbing statement, eh, what? Before I start, however, let me say that the “stuffed-up” I’m referring to is just one function that our City Council has responsibility for, and that’s the only issue that concerns me, I’m not suggesting they’ve stuffed up overall. Also, if what I’m about to say wasn’t so important and if more people knew more about the subject, I wouldn’t have to take such extreme measures to make my point. It’s a topic that few have a good understanding or knowledge about, and often those who claim to, show by their actions that they really don’t. I continue to bang this particular drum, because I know without a shadow of a doubt, that our City is likely losing millions of dollars of retail turnover each year as a result of our Council’s failing. The issue I’m referring to is the marketing of our City. Like I said, marketing is a not a subject that most people, business owners aside, know much about or even care about, but nonetheless, marketing is one of the two most important things that can make money for a business, be it a corner store or a City like Orange. The other is staff. In my view, it is totally irresponsible by our Council not to make the way they go about marketing our City an absolute top priority, and to ensure that we’re getting maximum results. They simply aren’t doing that, and if they say they are, they aren’t doing anywhere near as well as they ought. Keep in mind at this point, Council will throw up what Orange 360 is doing and how well we fare in the tourism area. I have no argument there and never have, my argument has always been “what about all the other sectors?” Hospitality is just one small part of our overall visitor offering and our visitor offering includes a hell of a lot more people than just those who we think of as tourists, those who come here for a wine or food festival or even just while touring the country. How can anyone think that funding Orange 360 for up to a million dollars a year, just to see the lion’s share of their promotional money/work/efforts go towards the hospitality sector, is fair by any standards? I find that totally insulting and offensive to the rest of us business owners. Orange needs to market (advertise if you prefer) to that myriad of other people who could be lured here for reasons other than traditional tourist pursuits. For example, we have two fabulous golf courses that keen golfers will come to play on, we have the opportunity to market Orange as an ideal place to hold weddings.

We have a major shopping centre with a shopping population in the hundreds of thousands, all we have to do is give people outside Orange reasons to come here to shop and not go elsewhere. Of course, we have medical, educational, sporting and entertainment facilities that people will come to when the need arises, the right shows or events are being held. Yes, I know people come to them already but that’s not marketing, that’s just letting nature takes its course. Marketing ensures 50, 100 or 1000 more people come to these events that may not otherwise. Put very simply, our City’s marketing strategy should be full on and constantly setting out to get more people coming to Orange more often, no matter what the reason. This will never happen as well as it could or should until we get some serious marketing savvy happening. It’s on that note, that I’d like to give you some examples of why I say Orange Council has failed us. Council has done several things over time but at the end of the day, most have shown no real marketing know-how and the results bear this out. At its heart, all marketing should have a customer generating emphasis. At the end of the day it’s real money spending customers that make the difference, not pretty surroundings. One example is the Shop Orange Gift Cards. These have been a monumental flop and one only has to look at the branding or artwork to see how dull, uninviting they are compared to what other cities have done. The concept has been problem riddled from day one and unfortunately, we’re stuck with them. It’s a case of a good concept mishandled. Last year a new website called Think Orange Region was launched with a lot of fanfare. I doubt if many reading this have heard of it and I’m certain it would not have reached the expectations Council had for the site. If you google Think Orange, you get a Church in the US or somewhere. Who would think to google Think Orange REGION? The Orange 360 website would no doubt be the far superior site, yet to my knowledge, the Think Orange Region website is not even linked to it. The last time I looked the Think Orange Region website had about 25 Facebook likes. Does that sound like it was done by someone who knows what they are doing? Council recently gave away $50,000 in shop Orange gift cards as a marketing initiative. Talk about a thought bubble! No true marketing person would have done that in that manner. It served very little purpose and would have hardly done what Council was hoping to do, that is help

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small business on a broad scale. In my view, it was a lame exercise where $50,000 could have been far better spent. Council is currently talking about spending $50,000 on Christmas decorations, they’ve put old photographs in empty shop windows and they’re talking about helping fund small businesses with setting up websites. These are all secondary initiatives, without a clear advertising strategy at its foundation, all these are just watered-down wishful thinking and will have little impact on what the real objective should be - to get more people coming to Orange more often! Now we are faced with Council’s “Future City” grand plans which again are primarily all about cosmetic changes. I can’t see anywhere in the plans where a sizeable budget for marketing or advertising our shopping or other non-hospitality sectors is planned, once the changes have occurred. Also, Council obviously does not know that there is something called the Marketing Mix that has been around for years. The definition says: The marketing mix refers to the set of actions, or tactics, that a company uses to promote its brand or product in the market. The 4Ps make up a typical marketing mix - Price, Product, Promotion and Place. ... Price, Product and Place talk about creating a product that people want, at a price they’ll pay and being easily accessible. Most of the Future City plans would generally fit into these. Promotion however, is a key component because it includes the advertising, public relations, and promotional strategy, crucial in any business plan. The goal of promoting a product (or city) is to reveal to consumers why they need it and, in our case, why they should come here. You can see now why I, as a marketing expert, enthusiast or just a concerned citizen with extensive knowledge about such things, has a problem. Boring as this topic may seem to many reading this, let me assure you that if and when our Council gets their act together, and starts taking their marketing advice from people who have clearly demonstrated that they know what they’re talking about and are skilled enough to carry it out, Orange will be far better off for it. We aren’t talking just thousands or tens of thousands of missed retail spending each year here, we’re talking millions, probably many millions!

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Andrew Gee versus CSU in Uni battle Support by Local Federal Member, Andrew Gee for an independent assessment of Charles Sturt University’s financial position continues the public feud between the Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education and the University.

at Orange with Mr Gee saying that he is only concerned for CSU’s financial well-being.

Minister Gee believes, however, that the University has been, at best opaque, in its financial assessment of its true financial position while the University argues that the Mr Gee recently welcomed announcement of the Tertiary Minister is singling-out the local institution at a time when Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) decision many tertiary institutions are struggling due to COVID-19 and the shutting down of many of their campuses. to investigate “a range of issues” relating to the regionalbased education provider. We present here both sides of the issues in our special The rural NSW University has one of its major campuses

three-page feature on “Andrew Gee versus CSU”.

In-the-red CSU “committed” to financial transparency Charles Sturt University believe that they have been as open, honest, and transparent as possible in their review of their financial crisis over their projected $50 million deficit for 2020. The University denies claims by Local Federal Member and Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education, Andrew Gee, that the University has “reneged” on its own resolution to: “work cooperatively with the Australian and New South Wales Governments”. This follows completion of a KPMG report into the University’s sustainability following a resolution to examine their books following revelation of their financial situation. The review focused on the University’s financial position in 2020, as well as the performance to-date of the University’s “Sustainable Futures” budget remediation program which aims to have a balanced budget by December 2021. “The review broadly confirmed the University’s figures and approach were appropriate and accurate,” a University spokesperson said. The spokesperson said however, that the University Council deemed the report itself to be commercial-inconfidence and so resolved to not publicly-release the full report: “as to do so would place the University at a competitive disadvantage and also undermine our legal obligations to the accountancy firm.” (See attached summary) The spokesperson said that, in order to demonstrate openness and transparency, the University voluntarilyshared the full report with the NSW Audit Office and has also circulated a summary report of the key findings. “We are committed to presenting the detailed findings of the summary report to all our community and government stakeholders and have been heartened and encouraged by their support thus far.” The University said that they had organised to meet Mr Gee to present the detailed findings of the audit, but that he: “cancelled the meeting at short notice”. (Mr Gee’s office said that the University’s unwillingness to present the full audit at their meeting was the reason for its cancellation) CSU believes that it is being unfairly-singled out by Mr Gee for criticism despite the whole university sector facing financial pressures from the coronavirus lockdowns and the absence of fee-paying

overseas students.

return the University to a balanced budget.”

“The University has made good-faith attempts to address the concerns the Minister for Regional Education has repeatedly and publicly-aired,” the spokesperson said.

The University also denied that it had failed to meet the pledges of its own resolution to: “work responsibly and collaboratively on the consideration, adoption, and implementation of the recommendations arising from the audit with the two governments.”

“We note that, despite other regional universities facing similar or greater financial challenges and job losses than Charles Sturt, the Minister for Regional Education has not made similar requests of those institutions.” The public attacks from Mr Gee endangered CSU’s continuing viability, they say. “We remain concerned that these attacks risk significant adverse commercial consequences at a critical stage in our student-recruitment cycle and, at a time, when we are in major commercial negotiations with national and multi-national industry partners. “While we are yet to receive formal correspondence from TEQSA, we understand that the matter is likely to involve a request for information which is similar to that which we have already shared with government stakeholders. “We recently provided TEQSA (as did all Australian universities) with our detailed financial reports up to 30 June 2020 and will continue to work cooperatively with them. This is in addition to our providing the full report of the recently completed review of our financial position to the NSW Auditor’s office.” “We remain confident that any request for additional information will further validate our position. “Charles Sturt University is proud to be a leading anchor institution for our region, building regional workforce capability, contributing to the social and economic prosperity of our communities, and continuing to be the leading university in Australia for graduate employment outcomes according to the Good Universities Guide.” The University denies that it has not released all or any major elements of the KPMG audit, saying: “we have voluntarily shared the full report with the NSW Audit Office.” “As further evidence of transparency, we circulated a summary of the review’s findings to our community and State and Federal Government stakeholders and have received positive and supportive responses.” Far from indicating problems with the University’s finances, the audit had showed that CSU was on the right track, the spokesperson said. “The review showed our financial figures were appropriate and accurate and that our Sustainable Futures budget remediation measures are on course to

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“We continue to meet with State and Federal Government stakeholders to brief them on the review’s findings and have been heartened by their positive and supportive responses,” the spokesperson said. The spokesperson also denied claims that they had failed to adequately inform the Minister, Mr Gee of the contents of the report into CSU’s financial plight. “The Minister has been sent a summary of the review and was offered by the University the chance to be walked-through the report in detail, but he cancelled the meeting at short notice. “All other government stakeholders accepted this invitation to go-through the report in detail, and a number of those meetings have already occurred. “The summary of the review has also been sent to our community and government stakeholders.” The spokesperson did not directly answer allegations that the University had enlisted a prestigious international corporate communication firm, “FTI Consulting” to handle its messaging on this issue. “All communications in regards to the Sustainable Futures program have been handled in-house but, as is common in the sector, we have occasionally drawn on outside expertise.” With about 100 full-time equivalent positions to be lost in the University, the spokesperson could not say how many of these will be from the Orange campus, saying that establishment next year of the School of Rural Medicine will see staff increases. “It is too soon to know how many of the voluntary separations announced last month will be from Orange or any of our other campuses. We are still working through this process. “We are also making final preparations to welcome the first cohort to the School of Rural Medicine in Orange next year. This course will see a large number of teaching and administrative roles filled, at both the Academic and Research Hub on campus and the Clinical Skills Education Centre at Bloomfield Private Medical Centre.” Universities Australia has forecast that more than 21,000 jobs will be lost in Australian universities by the end of the year with Charles Sturt’s job losses accounting for a little more than one per cent of those.

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RESOLUTION The Council resolved to agree to commission an independent and external audit of the financial performance and financial position, including a pre, during and post COVID-19 impact analysis of the university The council resolves to agree: 1. The audit will assess the impact of the financial impact of the university’s sustainable futures program. 2. The audit will also include a pre, during and post COVID-19 data analysis of student enrolments. 3. The audit be undertaken to ensure community confidence and government trust in the University’s finances and forward projections. 4. The University work in collaboration with the Australian and New South Wales Governments regarding the appointment of the independent and external auditor. 5. The auditor will undertake the audit and analysis reporting back to Council, for Council to provide report to the Australian and New South Wales Governments. The Council resolves to agree that it will work transparently and cooperatively with the Australian and New South Wales Governments as the independent and external audit is undertaken and will work responsively and collaboratively on the consideration, adoption and implementation of the recommendations arising from the audit with the two governments.

Inquiry into CSU‘s bo Long-standing concerns over Charles Sturt University’s financial transparency has culminated in a recently-announced investigation by the Federal oversight agency for the tertiary sector.

Public critic of CSU’s commercial transparency — Local Federal Member and Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education, Andrew Gee — welcomed a recent Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) decision to investigate “a range of issues” relating to the regional-based education provider.

position, as the University’s Council passed a resolution which agreed to provide the Australian Government with one. I then had a meeting with CSU about the report, but they did not provide me or the Australian Government with a copy in accordance with the resolution. CSU then wrote back to me declining to provide a copy of the report.

“Last week in Senate Estimates, a representative of TEQSA said that they were undertaking an investigation of CSU and indicated that their work would be finalised in 2021,” Mr Gee said recently.

“Our communities are entitled to transparency, particularly when the Australian Government is providing an $18 billion funding guarantee to universities to support them through the COVID-19 pandemic, and an additional $400 million for the country university sector under the Jobs-ready Graduates Package.

“Charles Sturt University (CSU) receives hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money every year and as a consequence, it’s accountable to the Australian taxpayer,” Mr Gee added. Mr Gee claims that the university had previously reneged on an important resolution (CN143/1) (see attached) to “ensure community confidence and government trust in the University’s finances and forward projections”. “I have called on CSU to carry out a full, independent and transparent external audit into their finances and to provide that report to Government. A report was prepared by KPMG and CSU initially agreed to provide this report to the Government.

“I have already met with the Acting Vice-Chancellor to discuss the KPMG audit report once, but there is little point in further meetings until CSU and the Acting Vice Chancellor honour their commitments to make the report available to the Australian Government. The fact that this commitment has been reneged on is very worrying. “The CSU community is facing hundreds of job losses. This is a very serious issue for our region.

“Now the Acting Vice-Chancellor and CSU have reneged on this and are refusing to release the report.”

“What I want, and what our community rightly expects, is for CSU to deal with the concerns around its financial position in an open and transparent way.

He said, instead that the University had provided a summary of its financial findings which fell far short of its promise to “work transparently and cooperatively with the Australian and New South Wales Governments” on the issue.

“The purported ‘summary of findings’ that the University has provided is not comprehensive in nature and begs the question as to what information CSU is seeking to withhold from the public.

“I asked for a copy of the KPMG report into CSU’s financial

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“This is all about ensuring taxpayers and the Government

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ooks timely, critic Gee believes have trust and confidence that taxpayer’s money is being properly spent to ensure that the University continues to grow and prosper.”

defied its own resolution CNL 143/1 on the matter and backtracked on promises to fully open its books.

The extraordinary continuing public spat between the University and the Minister has now seen the oversight agency for all universities in Australia called in. “TEQSA’s work will provide the Australian Government and the community with confidence. “There has been enormous community concern over the future of CSU, particularly when it is shedding jobs in big numbers. “I am now awaiting the conclusion of TEQSA’s work and, like everyone, I want to see an outcome that allows CSU to grow and succeed. “If the independent regulator finds a clean bill of health – there won’t be anyone happier than me. If, however, TEQSA finds that there are issues that need to be addressed then the community will expect this to occur. It is critical that we have a country university sector that can continue to deliver for our communities and educate our country workforce now and into the future. “I am a champion of CSU and all regional universities, and I want to see a strong and successful university in our community.” “CSU is not above scrutiny. I am doing my job as the Minister for Regional Education and I am going to keep doing it. I make no apologies for that.” Mr Gee’s comments follow reports earlier this year that financial “head-kickers” had been brought in to get Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) budgetary woes under control. A recently-confirmed deficit at the University of nearly $50 million for 2020 also indicates a deeper malaise within the institution, a long-time former Council member believes. The one-time senior administrator described as

“Charles Sturt University (CSU) receives hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money every year and as a consequence, it’s accountable to the Australian taxpayer,” Mr Gee said.

implausible suggestions that the coronavirus crisis is the cause of CSU’s sudden financial distress. The deficit for the University was claimed to be as high as $80 million with a suggestion that the university didn’t itself know its exact financial position. However, CSU, with one of its main campuses on Leeds Parade, previously enjoyed a proud record of financial probity and careful utilisation of resources, council member from 2007–2015, Richard Hattersley said. The University’s financial situation became a political issue after Mr Gee publicly-accused the University Council of being in “disarray” over their finances. Earlier this year Mr Gee called for a “rigorous, open and transparent audit of the financial performance and financial position of the University,” saying that CSU has

CSU hit-back at the allegations saying that it had enacted a “Sustainable Futures” financial remediation package that includes reducing course subjects by 600; 10 per cent pay cuts to senior executives; and reducing operational expenditure; with the aim of dissolving a current $49.5 million deficit by the end of 2021. A spokesperson said that the university had fulfilled its legislative requirements regarding reporting of its financial position to the NSW Government and has been consistently-transparent with its financial position at all times. Financial auditors KPMG had also been retained to assess and advise on the university’s financial position. “It’s important for the community to be aware that the University has annual financial audits of our financial statements undertaken by the NSW AuditorGeneral, consistent with the financial audits of all NSW universities,” the spokesperson said. “Outcomes of these external financial audits are publiclyavailable. Further, we are transparent with our financials, published through our annual report each year. The KPMG work is currently underway, and we will share the relevant outcomes when available,” they concluded. Mr Hattersley said though that CSU’s assurances did not answer the quite-reasonable demands from the Federal Member for Regional Education, for full transparency over their financial position. “Andrew Gee is right on the money. The University has been asked to carry out a full audit and to provide the results to both the State and Federal Governments, and that’s not what they’re proposing” Mr Hattersley said during the audit process.

KPMG review summary of Sustainable Futures program The University Council received and considered a report on the review of the University’s financial position and the impact of the Sustainable Futures program, undertaken by KPMG, at the meeting held on 30 September 2020. The report is commercialin-confidence and Council have deemed that it is not appropriate for the full KPMG report to be publicly disclosed. BACKGROUND • I n October 2019, Charles Sturt prepared a 2020 budget that showed a deficit of $16.2m. • I n March 2020, as a result of COVID-19 impacts, an informal reforecast for 2020 was prepared that showed a higher deficit on a full-year basis of $49.5m.

• Th e Sustainable Futures program was established to reshape and reposition the University to ensure Charles Sturt delivers excellence in a way that is financially and academically sustainable. The Council appointed the Transformation Taskforce to oversee the program and budget remediation. • I n April 2020, a full-year reforecast was prepared that incorporated COVID-19 related impacts and the efficiencies generated by the Sustainable Futures program. The revised budget deficit for 2020 was set at $22.4m. • I n June 2020, the Council agreed to commission an independent review of the University’s financial position pre- and post-COVID-19 and assure the achievement of the $22.4m deficit in line with the Sustainable Futures objectives.

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SUMMARY KPMG’s review indicated that the University is on track to achieve the revised deficit of $22.4m (2020 full-year position). The review highlighted potential adverse changes of between $5m to $7.5m which may impact the 2020 year-end position; however, this will likely be offset by other factors, including higher than budgeted student load income and once-off investment income, totalling greater than $5.5m. Adjustments will continue to be made as the Sustainable Futures initiatives are implemented and the Taskforce will continue to monitor and report to the Council on progress against the program objectives. Work will also continue to strengthen the University’s financial controls and budget management processes.

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CRICKET BLAST FUN ON AT WADE PARK It’s the latest mod-cricket game to get kids playing and enjoying our national sport from an early age. Local “Cricket Blast” comp is being held at Wade Park every Tuesday afternoon involving 10 teams and about 70 youngsters aged from about seven to nine years. The game is the latest extension of the Kanga cricket, Milo cricket modified form of the games to get children fit and off their devices for a few hours each week. “The aim is that, everyone gets a bat, everyone gets a bowl, everyone gets to be wicket-keeper, and everyone gets to field,” organiser Matthew Tabbernor explained.

Golden arm for batting practice

Orange CYMS Under 16’s “Gold” cricket team recently had fun at their training run firing-up a bowling machine to send down some swinging off-breaks. Everyone had a bat with the aim to reach the most runs in a couple of “overs”.

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Later than you think to oppose, support $25 million sports site Are you a sports fan and have an opinion of the proposed $25 million Orange Sports Precinct? Now’s the time to have your say! While supporters of the proposals say that the south Orange site adjacent to the Sir Jack Brabham Sports fields are the ideal location for the precinct, opponents believe that the site should be preserved as a green area in a fast-growing area of Orange. Recent premature placement of the development application for first stage of the proposal — removal of about 513 trees form the site adjacent to Brabham Sports fields — shows that, for both supporters and opponents of the proposal, it is later than you think. As well as a new marquee field — a rectangular football field with a 1500 seat grandstand and raised mounds to sit 8500 fans — the new sporting precinct will include cricket and multi-purpose fields and an athletic field and track with covered seating. The finalised DA is now likely to be advertised in early-December, Orange City Council says, following a campaign by opponents to have the precinct relocated to its original proposed north Orange site. “The DA for the proposed removal of trees, to make way for the new sports precinct, is the first of a number of steps towards gaining planning approval for this project,” Orange City Council Communications Officer, Allan Reeder said. “It’s an important project and it’s important the community gets access to good information about the proposal,” he added. “The DA is a large document. It includes an independent environmental assessment and details the numbers and kinds of trees proposed to be removed. “This DA document was inadvertently-lodged before it was complete. The DA has now been withdrawn,” he explained. “It will be lodged when it is complete and once all required documents have been added. It’s expected that will happen in early December, when it will be available for community comment,” Mr Reeder concluded.

Supporters of the proposal say that rising sports stars and local clubs in Orange will benefit from first-rate regional sports infrastructure. Upper House MP Sam Farraway joined Orange Mayor Councillor Reg Kidd earlier this year at the site alongside the Jack Brabham sporting fields as geotechnical engineers drilled test holes across the site to prepare for construction. Mr Farraway said the Government had made the commitment to fund the $25 million project at the time of the last election. “It was always going to happen,” Mr Farraway said. “It was a question of when it was going to happen.” Orange City Council’s Sport & Recreation Committee Chair, Cr Jason Hamling said at the time, that he was delighted that work could now go ahead full-steam on the new precinct.

z Aerial map and plan showing placement of the proposed south Orange sports precinct. Removal of more than 500 trees as part of first stage of the proposal likely to come-up for public comment in early December.

“This new precinct is going to make Orange a regional centre for sport across Country NSW,” Cr Hamling said. “I’m confident it will out-shine the sporting venues in other nearby central west centres.” In due course, planning approvals for major elements such as the main field and grandstand would likely be assessed by a Regional Planning Panel rather than Orange City Council. The timeline for the precinct project estimates the first elements, a specialist athletics track alongside Huntley Road, would be completed by late next year. It’s estimated the main field and grandstand would be completed by the end of 2022. Concept plans for the project show the sporting precinct would be built on the northern half of the former golf course and would include more than 1400 car parking spaces across seven car parks. Opponents of the proposal includes former mayor of Orange, Tim Sullivan who believes that the new stadium could become a $25 million white elephant for the Colour City.

An outdoor staff supervisor who helped develop the gardens at the site proposed for the sports stadium also believes it should be preserved as a unique green space in the growing south Orange area. Chuck Frame said that the grounds were created by thousands of manhours by patients and staff in the 1960s and contained many unique tree species that should be preserved. Long-time south Orange local Julie Pont said that the permanent loss of “a ready-made botanical garden on our doorstep” should see other sites considered for the precinct before any

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further work continues. Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd recently told Newswatch, that: “a major project like this is still subject to the normal checks and balances, planning assessments and opportunities for community input.” Mr Sullivan said Council should revisit their original plans for the stadium complex in the fast-growing area around the northern distributor. “I mean, I was former president of CYMS, I love football as much as anyone, but if it is built, it should go in north Orange,” he said.

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GARDINER ROAD SHOULD BE NEXT FOOTPATH TASK I was stunned to read in the Saturday, November 21, Newswatch the article on page 2 regarding the money to be spent on new footpaths throughout the city. While I fully support this programme, I simply cannot understand the Council’s reasoning for not having the eastern-end of Gardiner Road listed on next year’s works programme. I see from Council’s future footpath programme, that this section of Gardiner Rd is likely to take up to three years to be completed. Prior to the latest plan, it wasn’t even on any future works programme. The eastern two blocks of Gardiner Rd are two of the narrowest and busiest sections of road in the whole City area. I have written to the Council several times outlining the dangers of pedestrians using the “goat track” that passes for a footpath there, and have seen many times that pedestrians prefer to walk on the road surface rather than the rutted and often-muddy footpath surface. I have even, on several occasions, personallywitnessed women with toddlers in strollers or prams walking on the road because it is nearimpossible to do otherwise. Will it take serious injury or death to open Councillors’ eyes? Orange City is one of the highest-rated shires in the whole of NSW and, most likely, the whole of Australia. I have noted that there have been many sections of footpath laid on much wider and quieter streets than Gardiner Rd and, when asking why, have had no reply except that there was no money; but there seems to be plenty for other purposes. It is my hope that with the restricted travel due to the Coronavirus, Council members will, instead of visiting London, Paris, New York, etc. travel around our State and see for themselves what other towns are doing to beautify and attract tourists to their areas instead of imposing water

restrictions that will do nothing to enhance the Colour City image that they are trying to promote. Do the profits of developers and real estate agents have more importance by expanding the city area far beyond its water capacity? Far from being the “Colour City”, it is rapidly becoming the “Drab City”. Just take the time to look at Cook Park and compare it with the parks in many towns smaller than Orange. What was once the jewel in Oranges crown is becoming run-down and uncared for and one beautiful park-like area in south Orange is destined to be ripped-up and replaced with a football stadium and, most likely, a massive paved carpark. Shame on you Orange City Council! Robertson Park once had a beautiful flower display, but that seems to have gone by the board. The elderly have to stand now as there is less and less seating in the CBD and I don’t have to mention toilets. I must congratulate Bob Holland for having the intestinal fortitude to print the varied opinions aired in these pages. As a footnote, I must praise Jeanine Bird for having the guts to publish her views which many Australians share. Good on you Jeanine and keep up the good work! We are rapidly losing our freedoms and right to air our opinions, but most are oblivious of this.

Barry Potter

Why is this, I wonder? Could it be that the mainstream media in the US AND Australia — both of which are controlled by a handful of people (“toe the partyline, journalist, or you are out of a job!”) are engaged in skewed-reporting? Thank goodness for independent research journalists such as Jeanine Bird (JB) who aren’t afraid to dig deep for the truth and Newswatch which isn’t afraid to publish it. Easy to cherry-pick one of the silly comments Trump has made in his term in office, but the runs on the board show he is a genuine person who loves his country and the American people. Biden on the other hand... go do your own research to see what sort of a human being he, and the members of his family for that matter, are. You don’t have to dig too deep and you won’t like what you find. If anyone has an alternative case to put forward; I’d love to hear it. Backed by appropriate and honest evidence, of course. I don’t just want to hear someone’s “opinion”. When JB has all her eggs hatched at the end of this crazy period in history, there will be people with egg on their faces for sure! But one of them won’t be JB… Julie Pont

BIRD GETTING THE WORM ON SKEWED MEDIA BIAS It’s interesting that the polls indicate that, if Australians voted in the US elections, Biden would get huge support at election rallies and Trump would get little to no support. Yet, leading up to the elections in the US, the

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opposite happened with Trump getting massive numbers attending and Biden barley any.

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Ash Brown

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11.00 - 11.30am

33 Byng Street

$950,000

Chris Tyack

0438 258 590

11.15 - 11.45am

20 James Dalton Lane Windera

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Ash Brown

0417 663 687

11.30 - 12.00pm

10 Blanche Ave

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Roger Burrell

0438 017 416

11.30 - 12.00pm

69 Nubrigyn Street, Euchareena

$315,000

Michael Wright

0421 360 948

11.30am

21 Louie Lane, Spring Creek

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Alistair Miller

0413 717 114

11.45 - 12.15pm

105 Forbes Road, Orange

$449,000

Jacob Evans

0428 130 789

12.15 - 12.45pm

9 Eungella Place

$530,000 - $550,000

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

1.00 - 1.30pm

3 Amaroo Crescent

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Ash Brown

0417 663 687

1.00 - 1.30pm

13 Camellia Place

$850,000 - $900,000

Roger Burrell

0438 017 416

1.00 - 1.30pm

34 Walkers lane

850-900

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

1.00 - 1.30pm

20 Calvert Lane, Forest Reefs

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Stephen Townsend

0427 631 957

1.15 - 1.45pm

52 Moulder Street

669,000

Ash Brown

0417 663 687