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LOCAL NEWS DELIVERED WITH — INTEGRITY — WISDOM — BALANCE Saturday 20 March, 2021

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WORKER’S REVOLUTION! Tom McCutcheon is in the vanguard of a revolution that is transforming our working lives. It’s working-from-home, and it offers unbounded opportunities for those wanting to move to Orange from the big smoke. The trend mirrors recent launch of the Federal Government’s $5-million “Move to More” initiative encouraging people to flee our big cities for regional living. With Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd predicting that Orange region can sustainably support 60,000 in the future, there’s bright days ahead for the Colour City!

• Turn to page 4–5 for our special feature. TREES TREATED BETTER THAN BATTLERS

FAIRBRIDGE KIDS SERVED ADOPTED COUNTRY They were not even Australian citizens, and yet dozens served and three of them died for their adopted country. Dedication of a new Military Memorial near Fairbridge Farm at Molong commemorates the 96 boys from the facility who served in Australia’s war and peacetime armed services.

East Orange residents facing eviction from their homes have a question. What’s more important, trees or people?

• Turn to page 3 to find the answer!

• Turn to page 7 for our memorial special.

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• No wonder there’s delays over the report into Council’s contentious plans to chop 513 trees from south Orange for the controversial sports precinct. A total of 170 submissions were received on the proposed tree destruction and stadium that is to take their place. That’s more than double the figure that Newswatch was told only a few days before submissions closed. With initial suggestions that the report into the tree removal— first stage in Council’s plan to tap a $25 million offer from the State Government for the sports stadium idea — could come before Council in March, that has now been pushed back to April, May. If the contentious plans get delayed any further, it could run into the September Council elections or even later. Which would be very interesting indeed! • And so, it starts… with us all doing so much more online since the pandemic hit 12-month’s ago, both Blayney and Molong are losing their last banking branches — with “Which Bank?” soon to close their doors. While we’ve all been told that the lockdowns, quarantine measures, travel restrictions, and other disease-suppressant rules, have saved many lives, I have a hunch that we are only now starting to see the unforeseen consequences of putting our lives on hold to combat the pandemic. • Newswatch was surprised recently to find locals in a street straw-poll almost evenly-split on those intending to get the coronavirus vaccine and those against. Local online comment on the vaccine also shows a fair amount of local resistance to a jab that corporate pollsters assured us — 75 per cent of the country were just dying to receive! Take it from someone who has studied the subject, polls are rubbish. They are only accurate if a vast majority of people approached are willing to participate, and that simply is no longer the case.

WHO WILL YOU VOTE FOR IN SEPTEMBER? Between now and then, we’ll keep you up to date with who’s who and what’s what... ORANGE CITY

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Message from the Publisher….

NEWSWATCH to cease It is with some regret that I announce that the final issue of our NEWSWATCH Newspaper will come out on March 27.

very quickly Talking of local media… Orange Regional Museum has welcomed a major film archive detailing 20 years of the region’s history from the sixties to the eighties. Prime Television has donated the archive, which includes approximately 180 hours of locallyproduced 16mm news, sport and current affairs footage dating from 1962 to 1982, when Orange’s local TV station operated as CBN-8 and Midstate Television.

Real estates struggle amid housing boom Riddle me this, Newswatch keeps hearing reports of how local realtors are struggling, despite the local housing boom that sees properties sold often on the same day that they list. The problem for the traditional real estate agent of course is that, with properties running hot, no-one is taking any listings, one of their main sources of income. Local news media are also taking a hit, with real estate one of their big-sellers. And so to the demise of Newswatch itself… (see right)

“Keeping people in jobs is important to me” In making this decision, I have considered a number of options, talked to my team, and come to the decision that we should stick to our knitting, and that’s our Orange City Life magazine. Closing altogether was also one option but keeping people in jobs is important to me as is what I believe to be the valuable contribution Orange City Life makes to the City. Other businesses who also derive business from us were also on my mind. Sadly, to do this also requires us to reduce our staff numbers and that sees some of our team leaving. This hurt but is unavoidable. Some people may think that combining the two publications is one way to go, but this is not an option and defeats the spirit and purpose we set Orange City Life up for in the first place. We will however transfer a couple of NEWSWATCH features across to OC Life including the TV Guide, The Council Game and a couple of columns. We’ll also look at introducing new features to make OC Life even more enjoyable in future. We started NEWSWATCH on the back of the Jobkeeper subsidies, mainly to show what a good local newspaper can do. I had hoped that things might improve over time to enable us to keep it going. Sadly, that hasn’t happened, and I’m forced to let it go. NEWSWATCH had its knockers but it also had its fans, and David Dixon did a superb job producing the lion’s share of the stories each week. He’s a true professional and I want to acknowledge his efforts.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd has thanked Prime Television for the gift. “The dozens of 16mm film canisters have just arrived. They seem to be in fantastic condition considering their age, but we’re only beginning to imagine what local events might’ve been captured in local news coverage.

I hope NEWSWATCH made a positive difference while it appeared and that some gains may have occurred and be ongoing from what we did. For now, though, it’s onward and upward with Orange City Life where we’ll continue our tradition of trying to bring out the best in people.

“This week in 1962, Orange-based broadcaster CBN Channel 8 went to air for the first time. There’d been test patterns and sound testing in the preceding weeks, but on St Patrick’s Day, 17 March 1962, the company, called Country Television Services, put the first full-length program to air,” Cr Kidd said.

Forget Harmony Day; come for the Samba!

With the Jobkeeper subsidies ending at the end of March, our business, like so many others, will have to make changes, we simply can’t overcome the great drop in advertising turnover that has occurred during the pandemic, and not returned. Our industry is one, like the travel industry, that has suffered more than most as a result of the pandemic.

Finally, thanks to all those who contributed to NEWSWATCH in some way, you all did good!

Bob Holland PUBLISHER.

“Fittingly, the theme colour of Locals can warm-up with the sizzling Brazilian Samba this weekend as Orange Harmony Day is orange, but come along in whatever bright colours you have and celebrates International Harmony Day. be a part of this inclusive celebration,” On Saturday, March 20, the south Cr Kidd said. court, between the Orange City Library “The Orange community is a diverse and the Orange Regional Museum community and Harmony Day is will be a sea of colour as special guest, about celebrating that diversity, while dancer Fattisha Kamara, showcases her bringing cultures together with a festive high-energy, Afro Brazilian, and Afro event. Caribbean Candombe performance. “Our annual celebration attracts Orange Mayor Reg Kidd encouraged hundreds of people and is always a everyone to attend and wear bright really fun afternoon for the whole colours. family.”

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TREES’ BETTER HEARING THAN EAST ORANGE BATTLERS FACING EVICTION PROPOSED EAST ORANGE PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GRABBED THE ATTENTION OF NSW UPPER HOUSE MP FOR THE AREA, SAM FARRAWAY MLC WHO LAST YEAR MET THE LOCALS ONSITE TO HEAR THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.

East Orange residents facing eviction from their homes have a question. What’s more important, trees or people? They want an open-forum to discuss their 1950s-style Public Housing bungalows threatened with redevelopment — as was recently accorded for trees in Anson St, regenerating parkland in south Orange, and proposed mountain bike trails for Mount Canobolas. They believe that a series of 16-personlimited “Community Information Sessions” on proposals by the Housing Department to redevelop their properties in Spring Street in east Orange into medium density housing are designed fob them off. The meetings, they say, offer them less consideration than that afforded to trees, parks, and nature reserves. “Orange City Council held a public forum to discuss the removal of trees in Anson St weeks ago where 90 people attended, why only 16 at each of these events?” one asked. Residents of the properties first heard of the proposed redevelopment with letters six months ago “a bolt from the blue” local campaigner Andrew McDougall said. “The letters were delivered by hand to make sure they got them. That someone turned-up that morning with a letter saying, ‘you are going to be evicted’ was a bolt from the blue for all of them.”

Now the series of meetings being held next Tuesday have the same sense of a fait accompli, he believes.

Locals have formed a “Hands Off East Orange” committee to oppose the relocation and redevelopment.

“We have a range of concerns,” he told Newswatch. “Instead of ‘community consolation sessions’ as we were promised, we’re now offered ‘community information sessions’, which are quite different.”

He said that Orange Council’s adoption of the Newman Park Heritage Area adds another reason for Public Hosing to look elsewhere for their new developments.

He said that anger in the tight-knit community of mixed public housing and privately-owned properties “keeps bubbling away”. A moratorium before Christmas on further progress on the redevelopment indicated that any further consultations would occur mid-year. Limiting attendee numbers also indicates a divide-and conquer approach designed to reduce the community’s ability to lobby for change, he added. “We were told that it would not be until mid-year and a proper meeting with all the residents forum that would allow us to express what are concerns are,” Mr McDougall said. “If it’s about a true consultation, then they should have it at the agreed time later in the year,” he added. Owner of historic local home, Strathroy, he said that the village feel of the Spring St area would be destroyed by construction of medium-density villa and multi-unit complexes. “They’re family homes, it’s a neighbourhood,” he said.

Local Deanne Phillips added that the NSW Land and Housing Corporation had promised a public meeting on the proposal. “This is now being minimised to information sessions, with limited numbers of 16 attendees at a session,” she said. “This, of course, minimises the ability for concerned citizens of east Orange and Orange in general to have any impact as to what the issue are for us.” “It appears that the LAHC is only interested in discussing opportunities to renew and increase “social housing in East Orange!” Ms Phillips said that “destruction” of the “heritage streetscape” with construction of high-density multilevel townhouses is “destined to deliver ghetto hot-spots repeating Public Housing disasters of the past.” Another local, Judy Swann, said that limiting the size of each of the five meetings at Orange Ex-Services Club, was to keep the events “small and quiet” to reduce objections of the locals to the development. “These 1950s solid brick homes will be

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destroyed!” Ms Phillips added. “Families that have lived in these homes for up to 28 years will be relocated against their will.” Ultimately, she said, the aim of the redevelopment is “the destruction of our heritage streetscape in a designated Orange City Council conservation area.” Resident Justine Dunn lives in an historic 19th century workers cottage beside three of the homes targeted for redevelopment and said last year that appeals to the Land and Housing Corporation for information have gone unheeded. Living opposite some of the affected properties in the historic Victorian house “Strathroy”(1884) — home of the East Orange municipality’s first two mayors Josiah Parker and James Bonnor — she said that the area has a friendly village feel with everyone getting-on. “Why are you destroying these houses? They want to cram as many houses as possible into this area. They should just show us the plans, we have no idea what they are doing.” She said that those opposing the development understand that public housing is a public asset, but the top-down nature of the decisions is its worrying feature. “All of these houses are 1950s homes, they’re really solid and double-brick, they’re lovely places,” she said.

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by DAVID DIXON

TOM’S JOB-FROM-HOME A WORKER’S REVOLUTION

needing your concentration, is easier at home as well,” he explained. He said that, while return-to-work orders for businesses in Sydney’s CBD are the remit of Government health experts and dictates, he believes that work-fromhome could become the “new normal”, interspersed with office work.

Tom McCutcheon: Part of the succeeding-fromhome vanguard transforming our working lives. “COVID forced everyone to make it work”.

“My team tries to get into the office for a couple of days each week for meetings and collaborative work. This is still open for discussion with my bosses, but I’d like to try to get into the office a couple of days a fortnight, say two consecutive days. Just to be a bit more part of the team.” He said though that working from home is not for everyone, for those in the service industries and who work on a collaborative basis. Olivia added that their four-bedroom, two-storey house provided the privacy that many people may not have. “It allows for us to have an allocated space for Tom’s work, there’s a boundary there that the kids know when he closes the door,” she said. “Another hint would be to make the extra effort to get involved with the community, to make-up for normal social interactions that most get at work,” she explained. “You can get into the habit of staying in your home and not getting-out and meeting people, you have to make that effort sometimes,” Tom added.

TOM MCCUTCHEON IS IN THE VANGUARD OF A REVOLUTION THAT IS TRANSFORMING OUR WORKING LIVES. And it’s a transformation in how we live and commute that points to the brightest of futures for the Colour City. It’s workingfrom-home, and it offers unbounded opportunities for those wanting to move to Orange from the big smoke. The trend mirrors recent launch of the Federal Government’s $5-million “Move to More” initiative encouraging people to flee our big cities for regional living. For Tom though an actuary (premium and risk-assessor) with a large international accounting firm in Sydney who recently came to Orange with his family, the benefits were immediate. “I didn’t miss the commute that’s for sure…45 minutes in the train from Sutherland to Town Hall,” he said of the crowded peak-hour trip each day from his place in Sydney’s southern suburbs to the CBD.

While working-from-home is an idea as old as the personal computer, it took the impetus of the first coronavirus lockdowns to show the possibilities for many professional people who previously believed they needed to go into the office each day to get their work done. “If you’d asked me two years ago, could I do this from home, I would have said, ‘no,” Tom said. “But COVID forced everyone to make it work with new technology like Zoom calls and the like,” he added. He and wife Olivia, along with children Dan And Kate, took time-off during the pause of the first coronavirus lockdown to reassess their lives, deciding to moveback to Orange where Olivia grew-up before pursuing her art administration career in Sydney. Working with complex algorithms to assess premiums, reserves, and liability, his work is perfectly-suited to high-speed and secure internet access and flexibility that we now take for granted. “I’m pretty lucky with the work we do, much of it is writing reports and working alone, you’re not always collaborating with other people, not all the time,

anyway,” he explained. “Our company were also lucky in that we were already set-up to work remotely. We do work at client’s sites with our own laptops and VPN network (a secure, confidential online business system).” He said though, that going from a focused, reasonably high-pressure, work environment to working from home in slippers, did take a little getting used to. “I did miss incidental conversations that you have at work, the buzz in the office that you get when you go in each day, and some aspects of the work were harder, setting-up for meetings, that sort of thing. “It took a little bit for the family to settle in as well,” he said, with his children thinking initially that Daddy home, meant play-time, occasionally bursting-in on work meetings! Having his kindergarten and pre-school children at home though has provided him with rewards that the office-bound parent misses. “I can come down and spend time with the kids, have lunch with them, read to them when I have a break, that sort of opportunity you just don’t get otherwise. “Some of the solo work, where you’re

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Heeding this warning, he has taken-on an assistant coaching role with one of the city’s rugby teams — something he says he wouldn’t have had the time to do while on the commuting treadmill in Sydney. Advice Tom offers to those thinking of making the plunge into working from home — work set-hours each day, don’t be available at all times, and make sure you take the normal breaks that most of us have when not chained to an office desk. “Let people know that you’re taking a break for lunch, that you aren’t going to answer their email right-away, that you’re not online all the time,” he explained. “It is harder to switch-off, to not think, you’ll just go-back and finish something-off.” One of the surprising impacts of his move-back to the bush after leaving Narromine 20 years ago, was the sensation of homecoming on returning to the central west. “I had this feeling, we’d just packed-up the house, and were coming over the mountains, I did get this sense, ‘this does feel like home’. “It was this sense of belonging — it wasn’t something I hadn’t noticed I wasn’t getting or that I’d missed, but I had it as I returned,” he recalled.

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Mayor star of “push to the bush” campaign

Orange was the star-turn at a recent push to the bush campaign launch to entice Sydney-siders to the Colour City.

And this is only the start. Orange can support a regional population of 60,000 sustainably, Orange Mayor Reg Kidd believes.

Colour City’s number one salesman was recently the spokesperson for an international radio broadcast as part of the Federal Government’s $5-million “Move to More” campaign to encourage city-dwellers to go west. “I was interviewed on Radio National, and it went all around Australia, and to the Pacific as well. Orange was chosen, not Toowoomba or Murwillumbah or Tamworth,” Cr Kidd said proudly. “It was Orange.” The lifetime local believes that technology and social trends allowing more high-fliers to work from home is only one of a number of changes that will see regional cities boom. “I work from home, and my son recently returned from one of the world’s financial centres and is also now working from home. He’s bought a house in Orange and is living in Orange,” he added. Faster and reliable communications will be the key to how many wealthy young professionals decide to move bush, he added. “That is the critical thing, connectivity and reliability; it’s getting better all the time, but it has to,” he added. He said that the 12-month coronavirus pandemic has been central to the work-from-home revolution that has allowed the benefits of this long-proposed social change to become reality.

“I think we have a beautiful regional centre and I think we’ll see growth better than for the major cities. We’ve got 42,000 here now, in say 20 years, we’ll be looking at 60,000 at two per cent per year,” Cr Kidd said.

RAI chief executive Liz Ritchie said the campaign would capitalise on the changing sentiment towards the bush, driven by the pandemic and the increase in working-fromhome conditions.

He said that innovative water projects will ensure that a city growing at this rate doesn’t suffer the crippling water restrictions that have become part of our way of life in dry seasons.

“We are on the cusp of a major paradigm shift towards regionalisation,” Ms Ritchie said.

“We were the first Council to look at stormwater harvesting, now everyone is doing it, we’re always looking at innovative ways to improve our water availability, but we’ve also got to look at water use, that is an area where we also lead,” he said. Projects including Phase II of the Blackman’s Swamp Creek project involving constructing a new offline wetland upstream of the existing extraction point for Stage I of the project that was finished more than a decade ago. “We’ve also got releases from the Spring Creek Dam across to Suma Park and to the filtration plant.” These and other initiatives — including the pipeline to eventually link Orange to the giant Wyangala Dam in Cowra Shire —are aimed at doubling Orange’s long-term water supply, he added. The “Move to More” campaign, Cr Kidd added, is perfectlytimed to lead NSW and Australia out of the pandemic lockdowns that have overturned the century’s old countrycity drift. Created by The Regional Australia Institute and funded by the federal government, the $5-million Move to More initiative is designed to promote the regions as an attractive alternative to capital city living, with opportunities for a more affordable lifestyle and a better work-life balance.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has been part of it, it has shown people right across government that people can carry on from home, it’s a changing world.”

The campaign includes a website featuring 1700 regional cities and towns of all sizes, with detailed information about average house prices, number of job vacancies and the number of hospitals, medical clinics, schools, gyms, and pubs.

He said that his 30-year passion for decentralisation could get even greater impetus as workers make qualityof-lifestyle choices seeking a better home-work balance.

Move to More also features commercials, print ads, billboards, and social media advertising across Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth.

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“Regionalisation is a vision for our future - a future that is more balanced, more equitable, more sustainable and more prosperous for our entire nation.” Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack regional Australia offered “so much that capital cities just cannot” - a big backyard, less time commuting, more time with loved ones and a stronger sense of community. “If COVID-19 has taught us one thing, it is the fact that regional Australia has wonderful, vibrant go-ahead areas,” Mr McCormack said “I always say that regional communities are big enough to get a good cup of coffee and small enough to still. Move to More is similar to the Evocities campaign, run by a collection of major regional cities, which faced questions about its effectiveness and value. However, Ms Ritchie said RAI was an evidence-based organisation and its recent research found one in five citydwellers were interested in moving to the regions. “The campaign is measured on raising the level of awareness about the opportunities that exist and creating a new brand for regional Australia that is powerful and positive,” she said. “[Our research] tells us very clearly that 30 years from now, we will be a nation of mega-cities, and we will have an under utilised and under invested regions. “So we called for an intervention, and this campaign is that intervention.” The campaign will run for two years, however Ms Ritchie would like to see it run “for the next two decades”. RAI has already identified more than 54,000 jobs currently advertised in regional Australia. “We’re in one of the most beautiful cities in Australia, why wouldn’t you want to move here?” Cr Kidd concluded.

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RATEPAYERS TO PONY-UP FOR HERITAGE MAKE-OVERS, ORRA Ratepayers’ money should not be going to wealthy main street property owners wanting to upgrade building frontages and restore heritage buildings, Orange Residents and Ratepayers Association believes. Applications close Friday for the Future City grants of up to $5000 designed to: “upgrade building frontages or reinstate heritage items on CBD properties”. While Orange Council said that about a dozen businesses had already been in touch on the grants, ORRA head Amanda Spalding said a good bit of old-fashioned common-sense should have been applied to the scheme. “While many main street property owners aren’t wealthy, many of them are. Should ratepayers be paying-up to restore buildings that are essentially commercial, money-making premises?” she asked. “This is only a small example, but it is indicative of a Council that needs to focus more on targeted help to groups within the community that need it most,” she added. The scheme however has proven successful with many local shop-owners showing interest in the restoration grants, Orange City Council Communications Officer, Allan Reeder, said. “Council is offering grants of $5000 to upgrade building frontages or reinstate heritage items on CBD properties,” he said, adding that there had been “good interest from local businesses in the new grants program from the Future City Assistance Fund.” He added that the scheme is designed to restore some of the former glory of heritage buildings in the CBD area. “The funding, part of Council’s Future City plans, is designed to showcase the city’s beautiful buildings, enhance the CBD, support retail, and give a boost to local tradespeople. He said that, rather than being a free-ride for property-owners, they would have to match Council’s money on any works. “Grants are available to building owners who are able to match Council’s financial contribution, and grants of $10,000 are available in exceptional circumstances. “About a dozen businesses have been in touch to find-out more and discuss their plans. It’ll be up to them to talk about their plans when they’re ready. “Some are looking at a new paint-job on their frontage while others have bigger plans. They are all offered the option of talking with Council’s independent heritage consultant at no charge,” Mr Reeder added. He said that the businesses will now need get back with an application by Friday, March 26 to be eligible.

Locals Gary Scovell and Donna Swiatkiwsky at the Albert Street waterway. “It’s disgraceful, with the childcare centre there, it stinks and must be unhealthy for the kids.”

Ratepayers’ money should not be going to wealthy main street property owners wanting to upgrade building frontages Orange Residents and Ratepayers Association head Amanda Spalding believes. Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said the Future City Assistance Fund was available to owners of commercial buildings in the CBD area, and included repairs, conservation or reinstatement of heritage items and painting upgrades. “Future City is about creating a CBD Orange residents can be proud of,” Cr Kidd said. “We want the best regional CBD in New South Wales, a place where people want to spend time, gather and support local businesses. The Future City project is also about creating a CBD which will attract new investment.” “This latest initiative of Future City is designed to upgrade existing buildings to lift and brighten the CBD. “We have a total pool of $200,000 for the Future City Assistance Fund of the Future City plans.” Grants are available to building owners who are able to match Council’s financial contribution, and grants of $10,000 are available in exceptional circumstances. Orange City Council’s Employment and Economic Development Committee Chair, Cr Tony Mileto said businesses would need to employ local tradespeople for the upgrade works. “We’re interested in funding projects which will have a significant impact on the visual amenity of the CBD, with items such as upgrading or reinstating awnings, or verandas and external painting jobs,” Cr Mileto said. Anyone who owns a commercial building in the Orange CBD, bordered by Peisley Street in the east, Hill Street in the west, Kite Street in the south and Byng Street in the north, who is interested in applying for the Future City Assistance Fund should contact council’s Engagement Officer Ellie Bryce on ebryce@orange.nsw.gov.au

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Drain no way to border local childcare centre

Waterways and drains near local childcare centres and pre-schools should have top priority for maintenance and repair, ratepayer Gary Scovell believes. He is a regular walker over the drain that runs adjacent to the Albert Street Children’s Centre in west Orange and is horrified at the condition of the waterway. “The vegetable matter grows right up to the back-fence of the childcare centre,” he said pointing out the overgrown, rubbish-filled drain. “Just look at it? It could have rats, snakes, mice, other vermin, and the children play right-up to that back-fence… it simply hasn’t been maintained,” he said. “I’ve lived here since ’95, and this is the worst that I’ve seen it,” Mr Scovell said. He is so worried about the condition of the area, that he approached Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd on the issue. “The week before last I told him, and Reg said, ‘we’ll get something done about it’,” Mr Scovell added. He said that the long weed-filled drain also represents a flooding

risk as garbage tangled in the undergrowth blocks waterflow through the utility.

"This waterway runs down to and under Burrendong Way road. However, because of the overgrown and choked waterway, the water doesn’t,” he said. Local Donna Swiatkiwsky agrees, saying “it’s disgraceful, with the childcare centre there, it stinks and must be unhealthy for the kids. “Council is doing a fantastic job with the new footpaths they’re putting in, but not with this!” she concluded.

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MILITARY MEMORIAL ON FAIRBRIDGE KIDS’ SERVICE TO ADOPTED COUNTRY They were not even Australian citizens, and yet dozens served and three of them died for their adopted country. Dedication of a new Military Memorial near Fairbridge Farm at Molong commemorates the 96 boys from the facility who served in Australia’s war and peacetime armed services. Fairbridge was one of the multitude of children’s homes set-up in the 20th century in Australia for British children to supposedly get a new start at life in a new country. Many of the homes, however, were later found to be plagued with physical and sexual abuse, allegations that children had been effectively stolen from their parents, and suggestions that the children were essentially used as cheap labour on local farms. Former Fairbridge Farm boy and author, David Hill, said though that it was amazing the number of these children who signed-up to serve their adopted country. “Over 900 boys went through the school, and 96 served Australia in the armed forces,” he said. “It’s extraordinary, in terms of the sheer number of Farbridge kids who served in the armed services,” he said. Many of the boys that had raised in the dormitory-style housing and collective society of the school, probably found the regimentation and order of the armed forces lessoppressive than children raised in family units. Also, many simply had no other options in life. “In this memorial, we include some of the quotes from the kids and their attitudes to the military,” Mr Hill said. “Some said they joined the armed services because they had nowhere else to go, another said, ‘everyone thought the food was terrible, but not after what I was used to,” he said. Mr Hill — former managing director of the ABC — said that that this contribution to our national defence had been previously unrecognised. “There has never, ever been any acknowledgment or recognition of this amazing contribution… and none of them were Australian, they were all of English backgrounds. There was a bloke who went to the Vietnam War, he was conscripted, and they gave him a passport. “But then when he came back from the war, they took it of him!” he said. The memorial is being incorporated

into the Fairbridge Park Memorial on the Molong Road opposite the site of the now-abandoned and derelict farm school. “We built this park to commemorate the Fairbridge kids, and this memorial has now added to it,” Mr Hill explained. The new memorial was designed by Leonard Lynch, “probably Australia’s foremost garden architect,” Mr Hill said. Author of a controversial history of Fairbridge, in 2007 “The Forgotten Children” that catalogued the abuse and mistreatment suffered by many of the children at the home, he says that local attitudes had changed “180 degrees” from the time when he could not book a venue in the town for its launch. He and supporter, Wade Marlow, at the time held an impromptu launch of the work at the local railway station. “We put a box of the books in the back of his ute and had the launch outside Molong Railway Station on a Sunday afternoon.” Since then, he said, Australians have become far more forthright and understanding of the abuse of minors in church and institutional homes. “It’s been an absolute 100 per cent total turnaround with an appreciation that bloody terrible things happened at places like that,”

Mr Hill said. “The NSW and Federal Governments and the organisation itself have all recognised that these things occurred, and compensation was ultimately paid to many of the boys who suffered in these places,” Mr Hill said. The movement to send British children to Australia by groups like Dr Barnardo’s; often involved poor parents being pressured into signing documents that effectively handed their children over to these organisations. And yet these children, as men, were then happy to sign-up and defend their adopted country. “Very few farms in Australia have made such a significant contribution to the defence and security of the nation,” Mr Hill concluded. • Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge was the founder of a child emigration scheme from Britain to its colonies and the Fairbridge Schools (including the one at Molong). He founded the “Society for the Furtherance of Child Emigration to the Colonies”, which was afterwards incorporated as the “Child Emigration Society” and ultimately the “Fairbridge Society”. • An Irishman, Dr Thomas John Barnardo originally established his charity that became a series of homes to save destitute children from the industrial cities of Britain and Ireland.

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Former Fairbridge Farm boy and author, David Hill, to attend dedication of a memorial for those who served. Said that it was amazing the number of children who signed-up to fight for their adopted country.

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CHARLES STURT UNIVE FROM VITICULTU experience and has represented Australia in rowing and mountain bike events,” she said. “Matthew spent significant time observing and assisting in our group clinics, and we then sat down and unpacked the salient concepts of exercise relevant to active ageing. “From this, we developed a program to support older adults, focusing on developing strength and flexibility at their own pace, because there is overwhelming evidence that older adults derive many physical and cognitive benefits from strength training,” Dr Stott said. Mr Cordery said recently that the group is “excited” to be launching the new skills-based program at the Charles Sturt Gym in Orange with a sister program running at CSU Bathurst. “Our aim is to give participants the knowledge and skills toolbox to enable them to safely engage in ongoing exercise either in group sessions or in their own space at home,” he said. So far, so good, but Dr Stott said that these programs are not all plain-sailing.

With an Active Living Longer (ALLong) member, Dr Eevon Stott: “What we’re trying to do is focus on the educational component of exercise.”

New "exercise literacy" course for fitness knowledge in 2021 Star jumps, push-ups, touching your toes, “burpees”… the exercises you learnt at school and sport in the 1970s might not be the ones you need now. Dr Eevon Stott from Charles Sturt University believes so and has developed an exercise regime for the 2020s that incorporates all we currently know about our body’s exercise requirements. Locals are now invited to take part in her unique and innovative program that offers older participants the chance to update their “exercise literacy” to this dayand-age. “What we’re trying to do is focus on the educational component of exercise,” Dr Stott, CEO of Active Living Longer (ALLong) explained. She said that many older people are unable or simply reticent about joining a hip exercise group at the local disco-themed sports centre where buff twenty-somethings in skin-tight lycra show-off their supremely-sculptured abs, pecs, and deltoids. “We’re teaching people how to do these exercises themselves, so that they can be done at home, but with the option of continuing in a supervised environment for as long as the member wishes. “What we also do is show you enough to develop your own knowledge; to find out where you want to take your own

plan,” Dr Stott added. Knowledge of how we should exercise, she explained has changed dramatically from the high-impact “flog till you drop” philosophy that many baby-boomers and Gen-Xers would have been subjected to from sadistic PE teachers and bullying football coaches when young. “The challenge is — in the last 40–50 years — a lot has changed in what we know about the human body and the best way to keep fit in our older years,” Dr Stott said. The central west not-for-profit organisation created the program to support active ageing in regional NSW and is being trialled at Charles Sturt University in Orange. Commencing operations in 2018, Active Living Longer migrated to programs delivered online as we all entered lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote learning remains an available option for those not living near Orange or Bathurst. Face-to-face sessions though resumed when pandemic restrictions were lifted and the need for a program targeting the changes in movement and motor learning with ageing became apparent. Dr Stott explained that the new program is the brainchild of ALLong exercise science practicum student, Matthew Cordery. “He may be an undergraduate student with the Charles Sturt School of Exercise Science, Sport and Health, but Matthew brings with him 20 years of pedagogical

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“One of our members, who is an engineer by training, took us through high school maths. With his assistance, we calculated that there were 10 to the power of 55 possible combinations of exercise.” Our human attraction to the novel and the seeminglysimple in areas of diet and exercise — the next “wonder” exercise, or “super” food — makes understanding and sticking to the known and the proven far harder than it could be. “It’s a surprisingly-complex field, and the inherent complexity of exercise, and diet, results in the new fad exercises and the new fad diets, and everyone thinks that they’ve found the key to health and fitness” Dr Stott said. The exercise program being held in both the local gyms, has a complementary online model but, with reduction in the COVID-19 restrictions, has moved back to person-on-person. “Our online model conveys the theoretical knowledge which sets a firm foundation so that when we are able to meet, it becomes a training of both the mind and the body. “What we really do is equip people with exercise literacy. Coaching is certainly part of the vernacular. We have structured our program so that, over time, key learning points are conveyed to our members even though they may not be aware of it,” Dr Stott explained. The aim is to eventually provide people with the skills, knowledge, and training to run their own exercise programs at home, or to then embark in a program at a local gym with greater confidence in their abilities and knowledge. “People can get really comfortable with us but, in the end, our role is to allow them to go on and develop their own program for their health and fitness,” Dr Stott said. “Before COVID, we used to say that whatever you learn here with us can be applied to any other gym or at home or on your next cruise. We leave out the cruise bit now!” Dr Stott said.

Want to get involved? Contact Dr Stott at: eevon.stott@activelivinglonger.org.au or call 0408 721 752 to find-out more!

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ERSITY: INNOVATORS URE TO AEROBICS The wines, they are a changin’ “agroecology” researcher says Social movement is changing agriculture in Australia and how we utilise our natural environment for our food, fibre, wine, and wear. Award-winning Charles Sturt University student, Anne Johnson is exploring these industry-defining changes through a long-term study on innovation in the wine industry.

viticultural practices in Australia have changed and improved by examining case studies of industry innovators, what they have done, and the impacts on the environment and their enterprises. “My project will include, studying how growers have implemented these changes, and their impact on their own operations and the wider environment,” she explained.

The former Department of Primary Industry researcher was recently-named recipient of Wine Australia’s Dr Tony Jordan OAM Award for 2021. She will now spend three years exploring the benefits of “agroecology” in Australian viticulture and barriers to its adoption. But this is all part of a seismic shift in how we produce what we eat and wear, she believes. “A social movement is changing agriculture in Australia. “There’s a cultural change, a paradigm shift in how we operate. We are now redesigning how we go about things.” And this change can all be summarised in the phrase, “agroecology”. Mrs Johnson said her PhD — through the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre — will study the adoption of agroecology. That is, the use of nature’s ecosystem in farming practices and how to understand what discourages growers from embracing its use more broadly. “Ecology is the interacting of things, elements in the natural world, the natural processes, agroecology is using these natural processes to benefit an agricultural process,” she explained. “But it’s not just for viticulture; I’ve been involved in agroecology in other fields of agriculture as well,” she added. “I see the importance of these innovations to the industry as a whole,” she added. Mrs Johnson aims to study how

...A social movement is changing agriculture in Australia.”

“As the grape and wine sector adapts to and mitigates the effects of climate change, agroecological practices can improve resilience and sustainability. Around the world, agroecology is delivering environmental, economic, and cultural benefits in a number of agricultural industries and my work will identify and promote the viticultural practices that are delivering those benefits,” Mrs Johnson said. “In addition to the biophysical benefits in the field, which are commonly-studied, there are many human factors that influence decisions, and my research aims to take a holistic look at this to provide a model for future research strategies into social impacts of sustainability that could be extended across the entire sector. “It was a surprise and a great honour to be awarded this scholarship particularly since Dr Jordan saw the importance of sharing knowledge of good wine-making practices and helped to establish Charles Sturt University’s wine research and education program.” Wine Australia General Manager Research, Development and Extension, Dr Liz Waters said Mrs Johnson’s research will support the Australian grape and wine community to grow its sustainable practices. “Mrs Johnson’s research will contribute to the increasing body of work on

sustainability for the Australian grape and wine community and will help us to better understand how we can adapt to be more resilient to future challenges,” Dr Waters said. “This year, we received many excellent applications for our scholarships, and we were delighted to see so many emerging researchers aiming to provide innovative solutions for our grape and wine community.” Applicants for Wine Australia’s annual scholarships presented an exciting array of topics, with the successful 10 candidates investigating key areas for Australian grape growing, winemaking and business. The scholarship recipients are undertaking their studies at Charles Sturt University, The University of Adelaide, and Flinders University. Living and working now in Orange for a number of years, she has a preference for the local high-altitude quality wines that the Colour City is now famous for. “I do drink wine, but in moderation. I enjoy sampling the various fine wines from around the Orange region,” Mrs Johnson said. Hers is one of a number of exciting projects currently at Charles Sturt University, she said. “There’s always good stuff going on here at the University,” Mrs Johnston concluded.

Her three-year project will take her to major grape-growing area including Canberra and the Riverina to see how innovators and first adopters are changing viticulture in the 21st century. A side-assignment will also include original work in trialling some of the practices in controlled farm environments. “Another project as part of the study will include filed trials on local farms and vineyards on these innovative practices,” Mrs Johnson added. Her Award, named in honour of the late Dr Tony Jordan OAM, recognises the most outstanding applicant of Wine Australia’s annual scholarships for postgraduate students in the fields of wine, viticulture, and wine business research.

Orange-based Charles Sturt PhD student Anne Johnson has been awarded a prestigious scholarship for her research to investigate the adoption of agroecology, the use of nature’s ecosystem services, in viticulture.

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6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 10.00 Rage. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 STC Wharf Revue: Celebrating 15 Years. 2.25 Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds. 3.25 Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal: Castaway. 4.30 Landline. 5.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 13. Macarthur FC v Western United. From Campbelltown Stadium, Sydney. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.30 Call The Midwife. 9.30 Harrow. 10.25 Miniseries: Apple Tree Yard. 11.20 Press. 12.20 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. 2.05 MOVIE: Hurricane. (2015) Pascal Orsolini. 3.35 Cycling. AusCycling Mountain Bike National Championships. Highlights. 4.35 The Story Of God With Morgan Freeman. 5.35 Hitler’s Last Year. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. 8.30 MOVIE: The Blues Brothers. (1980) John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd. Two brothers try to reform their blues band. (M) 10.50 MOVIE: No Country For Old Men. (2007) Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones. 1.05 MOVIE: Qissa. (2013) Irrfan Khan, Tillotama Shome, Tisca Chopra. 3.00 Caged. 4.05 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 12.15 In The Night Garden. 12.45 Clangers. 2.15 Get Grubby TV. 2.30 Wallykazam! 3.00 Curious George. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.35 Octonauts And Operation Deep Freeze. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.15 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 9.50 Would I Lie To You? 10.25 Why Are You Like This. Final. 10.50 High Fidelity. 11.20 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 12.05 Escape From The City. 1.00 Romesh Ranganathan: Irrational Live. 1.55 This Country. Final. 2.25 Way To Go. 3.30 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 8.00 Romanian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 Croatian News. 9.30 Serbian News. 10.00 Dutch News. 10.30 SBS Courtside. 11.00 Basketball. NBA. Memphis Grizzlies v Golden State Warriors. 1.30 VICE World Of Sports. 2.00 New Girl. 3.00 Insight. 4.00 PBS News. 5.00 ABC America: World News Tonight. 5.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 4. South East Melbourne Phoenix v Adelaide 36ers. 7.30 Australia In Colour. 8.30 The X-Files. 9.20 Romulus. 11.25 Dateline. 11.55 Insight. 12.55 MOVIE: Orgazmo. (1997) 2.40 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. 11.25 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.40 Deadly Pole To Pole. 1.10 The Dengineers. 1.50 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 2.05 Danger Mouse. 2.20 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 2.45 Radiant. 3.10 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 3.35 Dragon Ball Super. 4.00 Step Up To The Plate. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.55 The Zoo. 7.40 All Hail King Julien. 8.05 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.35 Wishfart! 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Close. 5.45 Winston Steinburger.

6.00 It’s Academic. (66) 7.00 ZooMoo Wild Friends. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed. 10.00 SA Weekender. 10.30 Creek To Coast. 11.00 Weekender. 12.00 The Mentor. 2.00 Bride And Prejudice: The Forbidden Weddings. 4.30 MOVIE: Pleasantville. (1998) 7.00 MOVIE: Romancing The Stone. (1984) 9.15 MOVIE: The Jewel Of The Nile. (1985) Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner. 11.30 MOVIE: The Boy Next Door. (2015) Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth. 1.20 Home Shopping. 2.20 Fresh TV. 3.00 MOVIE: George White’s Scandals. (1945) Martha Holliday, Joan Davis, Jack Haley. 5.00 Life Sentence.

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Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 11.40 Sally And Possum. 12.00 Teletubbies. 12.15 In The Night Garden. 12.45 Clangers. 2.15 Get Grubby TV. 2.30 Wallykazam! 3.00 Curious George. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle. 4.35 Thomas. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: Louis And The Brothel. 9.30 Pilgrimage: Road To Rome. 10.30 Catalyst. 11.30 Laura’s Choice. 12.30 You Can’t Ask That. 1.00 Restoration Australia. 1.55 Way To Go. 3.00 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Waffle The Wonder Dog. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 10.00 Portuguese News. 10.50 Urdu News. 11.30 SBS Courtside. 12.00 Basketball. NBA. Milwaukee Bucks v San Antonio Spurs. 2.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 10. Melbourne United v Illawarra Hawks. 5.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 10. Sydney Kings v Cairns Taipans. 7.00 Monty Python’s Flying Circus. 7.35 Abandoned Engineering. 8.30 Planet Expedition. 9.25 Wet Markets Exposed. 10.15 United Shades Of America. Final. 11.05 Sexplora. 11.30 Das Boot. 1.40 New Girl. 2.30 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. 11.25 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.40 Deadly Pole To Pole. 1.10 The Dengineers. 1.50 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 2.15 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 2.40 Prank You Very Much. 3.05 Top Chef Jr. 3.55 Step Up To The Plate. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Play Your Pets Right. 6.55 The Zoo. 7.20 Operation Ouch! 7.40 All Hail King Julien. 8.05 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.35 Wishfart! 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Winston Steinburger.

6.00 It’s Academic. (66) 7.00 ZooMoo Wild Friends. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed. 10.00 SA Weekender. 10.30 Creek To Coast. 11.00 Weekender. 12.00 Zumbo’s Just Desserts. 1.15 Instant Hotel. 2.30 Weird, True And Freaky. 3.40 Ultimate Tag. 8.30 First Dates Australia. 10.30 Bridezillas. 11.30 Splitting Up Together. 12.30 Weird, True And Freaky. 1.40 MOVIE: The Falcon’s Adventure. (1946) Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward S. Brophy. 3.00 MOVIE: Step Lively. (1944) Frank Sinatra, George Murphy. 5.00 Life Sentence.

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Newstyle Direct. (52) 6.00 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 Edgar Wallace Mysteries. 11.50 The Avengers. 12.50 MOVIE: The Bargee. (1964) 3.00 MOVIE: Odette. (1950) 5.25 MOVIE: Pony Express. (1953) 7.30 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 5. Queensland Reds v Western Force. 9.45 Super Rugby Post-Match. 10.00 MOVIE: Platoon. (1986) Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe. 12.25 My Favorite Martian. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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The Next (63) 6.00 Level. 7.00 Fishy Business. 8.00 Home Shopping. 9.00 Billion Dollar Wreck. 10.00 Shipping Wars. 10.30 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 11.00 WSL Presents. 12.00 On Tour With Allan Border. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 8. Geelong v GWS Giants. 3.00 Shipping Wars. 5.00 Billion Dollar Wreck. 6.00 Megastructures. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Godzilla. (2014) Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston. 10.00 MOVIE: Demolition Man. (1993) Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes. 12.25 Tattoo Nightmares. 1.00 Shipping Wars. 2.00 Billion Dollar Wreck. 3.00 Megastructures. 4.00 Late Programs.

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(82) 6.00 Frasier. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 The Middle. 11.30 The Amazing Race Australia. 2.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 3.30 Friends. 6.00 Columbo. 7.30 Kojak. 8.30 Spyforce. 9.30 The Big Bang Theory. 10.30 The Middle. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 2 Broke Girls. 4.00 Mom. 4.30 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 Beach Cops. 1.30 MOVIE: Michael Jackson: Searching For Neverland. (2017) Navi, Chad L. Coleman, Sam Adegoke. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Sydney Weekender. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 7NEWS Presents: Ivan Milat – Buried Secrets. 9.10 MOVIE: The Equalizer 2. (2018) Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders. A retired CIA black ops operative is forced back into action when his friend is murdered and he seeks revenge on the culprits. (MA15+) 11.40 World’s Deadliest. 12.40 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 2. Sandown SuperSprint. Highlights. From Sandown Raceway, Melbourne. 2.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Sports Sunday. 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show. 1.00 Women’s Footy. 2.00 Driving Test. 2.30 Motor Racing. Targa High Country. 3.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 2. Wests Tigers v Sydney Roosters. From Campbelltown Sports Stadium, Sydney. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 Married At First Sight. 8.30 60 Minutes. 9.30 Nine News Late. 10.00 Australian Crime Stories: The X Factor. 11.10 Forensics: The Real CSI: Mixed Profiles. 12.20 Young, Dumb And Banged Up In The Sun. 1.10 Motor Racing. Targa High Country. Replay. From Victoria. 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 Good Chef Bad Chef. 8.30 My Market Kitchen. 9.00 Australia By Design: Innovations. 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday. 12.00 All 4 Adventure. 1.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. 2.00 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn. 2.30 Roads Less Travelled. 3.00 The Amazing Race Australia. 4.30 Farm To Fork. Final. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Sunday Project. 7.30 The Amazing Race Australia. 8.30 FBI: Most Wanted. 10.30 The Sunday Project. 11.30 Bull. 12.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.30 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 12.00 Bakugan: Geogan Rising. 12.30 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 1.30 Clarence. 1.45 Dance Moms. 3.45 MOVIE: Aliens In The Attic. (2009) 5.30 MOVIE: Meet Dave. (2008) 7.30 MOVIE: Star Trek Into Darkness. (2013) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto. 10.05 MOVIE: Star Trek: Insurrection. (1998) Patrick Stewart. 12.10 Generation X. 1.20 Dance Moms. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 5.10 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 NBC Today. 12.00 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes. 1.00 1 Man And A Bike. 1.30 The Zoo. 2.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 4.30 Escape To The Country. 8.30 Miniseries: Flesh And Blood. 10.30 Caught On Dashcam. 11.30 Property Ladder UK. 12.45 The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 Home Shopping. Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 The Next Level. 7.00 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 7.30 Home Shopping. 10.00 Fishing. Australian Championships. 11.00 Fishing. Australian Championships. 11.30 River To Reef: Retro. 12.00 Sunday Footy Fest. New. 12.30 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 8. Richmond v West Coast. 2.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. 3.00 Football. AFL. Round 1. GWS Giants v St Kilda. 6.00 Last Car Garage. 6.30 Border Patrol. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers. (2002) Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd. 12.10 The Fishing Show. 1.05 Blokesworld. 1.30 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Bondi Rescue. 8.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.00 Scorpion. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Australia By Design: Innovations. 2.30 Buy To Build. 3.00 Fishing Edge. 4.00 Fishing Australia. 5.00 iFish. 5.30 Bondi Rescue. 6.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.20 48 Hours. 11.20 Hawaii Five-0. 12.15 NCIS: New Orleans. 1.10 Elementary. 2.10 Instinct. 3.05 Star Trek: Voyager. 4.05 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.05 The Doctors.

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The (82) 6.00 Brady Bunch. 7.00 Cheers. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Neighbours. 11.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 1.00 The Amazing Race Australia. 2.15 Everybody Loves Raymond. 3.30 Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Friends. 10.30 2 Broke Girls. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Mom. 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 11.00 Grand Designs New Zealand. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Death In Paradise. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow. 5.10 Grand Designs New Zealand. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.15 Media Watch. 9.35 The Hunt For Gaddafi’s Billions. 11.05 ABC Late News. 11.40 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 2.05 The Clinton Affair. 3.05 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.05 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The Secret Life Of Lighthouses. 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.25 The Story Of The Songs. 10.20 SBS News. 10.50 Outlander. 11.55 Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games. 1.40 Asylum City. 3.10 Late Programs.

Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Forgotten Evil. (2017) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Inside Chernobyl. 9.00 9-1-1. 10.00 The Rookie. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News. 11.30 Station 19. 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 Getaway. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 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 Married At First Sight. 9.00 Under Investigation. 10.00 100% Footy. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 Prison Women. 12.15 Tipping Point. 1.10 A Current Affair. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (8) Programs. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Amazing Race Australia. 2.00 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. Return. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Amazing Race Australia. 8.40 Hughesy, We Have A Problem. 9.40 Becky Lucas: Live At Enmore Cafe. 10.40 The Graham Norton Show. 11.40 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.00 Earth’s Tropical Islands. 10.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 10.50 Escape From The City. 11.50 Extras. 12.20 Would I Lie To You? 12.50 Parks And Recreation. 1.10 Reno 911! 1.35 Finding Joy. 2.00 Josh. 2.35 Close. 5.05 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 NBA. Memphis Grizzlies v Golden State Warriors. Replay. 2.00 60 Days In. 2.50 Curse Of Oak Island. 3.40 Tulip. 3.55 WorldWatch. 4.20 This Week. 5.15 The Joy Of Painting. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Forged In Fire Latin America. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 10.15 Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia. 11.05 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 10.40 MOVIE: A Date With The Falcon. (1942) 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 1 Man And A Bike. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Judge John Deed. 10.30 Autopsy USA. 11.30 Late Programs.

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Death In Paradise. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Carlton-Browne Of The F.O. (1959) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 London Kills. 8.40 The Bill. Return. 10.40 Three Days To Live. 11.40 Late Programs.

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Hawaii Five-0. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 To Be Advised. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 48 Hours. 3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 Instinct. 5.00 Nash Bridges.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! The Life Fix. 7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Catch. 2.00 The Real O’Neals. 3.00 Splitting Up Together. 3.30 The Goldbergs. 5.00 How I Met Your Mother. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 Ultimate Tag. 9.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 10.00 Ramsay’s Costa Del Nightmares. 11.00 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell. 12.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Ax Men. 1.00 Graveyard Carz. 2.00 Counting Cars. 2.30 Last Car Garage. 3.00 American Restoration. 3.30 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 2. Sandown SuperSprint. Highlights. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 8.00 Pawn Stars UK. 8.30 MOVIE: The Rock. (1996) 11.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Parenthood. New. 1.00 A Night With My Ex. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 The Break Boys. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: John Wick. (2014) Keanu Reeves. 10.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 11.30 The Nanny. 12.00 Decades. 1.00 Big Heads. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

(82) 6.00 Cheers. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 The Big Bang Theory. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 11.00 The Conners. 12.00 Late Programs.

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6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 Winners. 11.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 12.00 Weekender. 12.30 Creek To Coast. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Sydney Weekender. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.15 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 3.45 Property Ladder UK. 5.00 Horse Racing. Golden Slipper Day and Mornington Cup Day. 6.00 Border Security: International. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Weekender. 4.00 Creek To Coast. 4.30 Sydney Weekender. 5.00 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Horse Racing. Golden Slipper Day. Featuring five Group 1 races, including the $3.5 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m). Mornington Cup Day. Featuring the $350,000 Mornington Cup (2400m). 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 7.30 Football. AFL. Round 1. Brisbane Lions v Sydney. From the Gabba, Brisbane. 10.30 7NEWS Presents: Ivan Milat – Buried Secrets. 12.40 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 2. Sandown SuperSprint. Highlights. From Sandown Raceway, Melbourne. 1.30 Home Shopping.

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TVguide News (2) 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. 10.45 Ward One. 11.00 China Love. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Call The Midwife. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow. 5.10 Grand Designs New Zealand. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Foreign Correspondent. Final. 8.30 EXPOSED: The Ghost Train Fire. 10.00 To Be Advised. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.35 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 1.00 PBS News. 2.05 The Clinton Affair. 3.05 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.10 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Great Australian Railway Journeys. 8.30 Insight. 9.30 Dateline. 10.00 The Feed. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 The Point. 12.00 The Pier. 12.55 Borgen. 4.25 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.05 Staged. Return. 9.25 Extras. 10.00 Fisk. 10.30 High Fidelity. 11.00 Brassic. Final. 11.45 Live At The Apollo. 12.30 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 1.00 Parks And Recreation. 1.20 Reno 911! 1.45 Finding Joy. 2.10 Josh. 2.45 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Basketball. NBA. Milwaukee Bucks v San Antonio Spurs. Replay. 2.00 60 Days In. 2.55 The Curse Of Oak Island. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Asia’s Next Top Model. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 VICE Investigates. 9.30 25 Siblings And Me. 10.35 Rise Up. New. 11.30 VICE Investigates. 12.35 News. 1.00 Mimi. 1.15 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Volta a Catalunya. Stage 2. 3.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Step Up To The Plate. 4.35 Odd Squad. 4.55 Hank Zipzer. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Catch. 2.00 The Real O’Neals. 3.00 Splitting Up Together. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 MOVIE: Dumb And Dumber To. (2014) Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle. 10.45 MOVIE: Kick-Ass 2. (2013) Chloë Grace Moretz. 12.50 90210. 2.00 Modern Family. 3.00 Late Programs.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.40 Media Watch. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow. 5.10 Grand Designs New Zealand. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. 8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 9.00 Fisk. 9.30 Melbourne Comedy Festival 2021: The Gala. 10.30 Staged. 10.55 ABC Late News. 11.25 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 (3) Dateline. 2.30 Insight. 3.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 4.05 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 Tony Robinson: Britain’s Ancient Tracks. 8.30 Australia In Colour. 9.30 Departure. 10.20 SBS News. 10.50 Romulus. 12.45 The Night Manager. 1.35 Counterpart. 3.35 The Murder Of Sadie Hartley. 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.00 Laura’s Choice. Final. 10.00 Restoration Australia. 11.00 Pilgrimage: Road To Rome. 12.00 Louis Theroux: Louis And The Brothel. 1.00 Parks And Recreation. 1.25 Reno 911! 1.45 Finding Joy. 2.10 Josh. 2.40 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Round 1. Skate America. Replay. 2.05 60 Days In. 2.55 The Curse Of Oak Island. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Vs Arashi. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Wellington Paranormal. 9.00 MOVIE: Paper Moon. (1973) 10.55 MOVIE: Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life. (1983) 12.50 News. 1.15 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Volta a Catalunya. Stage 3. 3.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Step Up To The Plate. 4.35 Odd Squad. 4.55 Hank Zipzer. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Catch. 2.00 The Real O’Neals. 3.00 Splitting Up Together. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 MOVIE: The Perfect Storm. (2000) 11.15 The Guardian. 2.30 Splitting Up Together. 3.00 MOVIE: A Woman Rebels. (1936) 5.00 Life Sentence.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 10.30 Gardening Australia Presents. 11.00 To Be Advised. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow. 5.10 Grand Designs. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Back Roads. 8.30 Q+A. 9.35 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. 10.05 Aussie Inventions That Changed The World. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 2.05 The Clinton Affair. 3.05 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.10 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The World’s Busiest Stations. 8.30 Michael Mosley: What’s My Diagnosis. 9.35 Shadowplay. 10.40 SBS News. 11.10 24 Hours In Police Custody. 12.05 The Good Fight. 1.00 SS-GB. 3.45 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.15 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.55 Hard Quiz. 10.25 The Weekly. 10.55 You Can’t Ask That. 11.25 Earth’s Tropical Islands. 12.25 Parks And Recreation. 12.50 Reno 911! 1.10 Finding Joy. Final. 1.40 QI. 2.10 Brassic. Final. 2.55 Josh. 3.25 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Round 1. Skate America. Replay. 2.05 60 Days In. 2.55 Jungletown. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 NBL: Overtime. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Taskmaster Norway. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 American Runestone: A Viking Mystery. 10.10 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. 11.05 The Feed. 11.35 Over The Black Dot. 12.30 News. 12.55 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Step Up To The Plate. 4.35 Odd Squad. 4.55 Hank Zipzer. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30 Voltron: Legendary Defender.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Catch. 2.00 The Real O’Neals. 3.00 Splitting Up Together. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 Cold Case. 9.30 Without A Trace. 10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Bones. 4.30 Splitting Up Together. 5.00 Life Sentence.

News (2) 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Q+A. 11.05 Aussie Inventions That Changed The World. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Back Roads. 1.30 Outback Ringer. 2.00 Poldark. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow. 5.10 Grand Designs. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 Vera. 10.00 Keeping Faith. Return. 11.05 ABC Late News. 11.20 The Vaccine. 11.35 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 12.05 Fisk. 12.35 Rage.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.10 (3) The Clinton Affair. 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 4.05 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 Gangs Of Pompeii. 8.30 The Royals In Wartime. 9.25 The Blitz: Britain On Fire. 10.15 Going Places. 10.45 SBS News. 11.15 Elvis Presley: The Searcher. 1.05 Project Blue Book. 4.25 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.05 Michael Gow’s Away. 10.35 Brush With Fame. 11.05 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 11.55 Catalyst. 12.50 Parks And Recreation. 1.15 Reno 911! 1.35 Man Like Mobeen. 1.55 Gary And His Demons. 2.20 Josh. Final. 2.50 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Inside Heston’s World. 2.00 60 Days In. 2.50 The Curse Of Oak Island. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 The Joy Of Painting. 5.35 Shortland Street. 6.05 If You Are The One. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Sex Trafficking In America. 9.30 How Sex Changed The World. 10.20 Sex In The World’s Cities. 11.20 Yokayi Footy. 11.55 News. 12.20 24 Hours In Police Custody. 1.15 Burlesque Boys. 1.45 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 1.45 The Next Step. 2.10 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Step Up To The Plate. 4.35 Odd Squad. 4.55 Hank Zipzer. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 MOVIE: The Legend Of The Five. (2020) 8.30 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.50 Fruits Basket. 9.15 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.40 Radiant. 10.05 Close. 5.30 Voltron: Legendary Defender.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Catch. 2.00 The Real O’Neals. 3.00 Splitting Up Together. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 Cold Case. 9.30 Without A Trace. 10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Bones. 4.30 Splitting Up Together. 5.00 Life Sentence.

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Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Mommy, I Didn’t Do It. (2017) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Britain’s Got Talent Best And Worst. 8.30 The Good Doctor. 9.30 The Resident. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Station 19. 12.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.10 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Amazing Race Australia. 8.30 NCIS. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Final. 10.25 NCIS: New Orleans. 11.20 To Be Advised. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 48 Hours. 3.15 JAG. 4.10 Star Trek: Voyager. 5.05 Diagnosis Murder.

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(82) 6.00 Cheers. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Mom. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Judging Amy. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Cube. 8.30 Bull. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 The Garden Gurus. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 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 Married At First Sight. 9.10 Botched. 10.10 Australian Scandal. 11.10 Nine News Late. 11.40 Labour Of Love. 12.30 Our Lives: Extraordinary People. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

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TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 London Kills. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Chase A Crooked Shadow. (1958) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 The Closer. 9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 10.40 Law & Order. 11.40 Shades Of Blue. 12.35 Late Programs.

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Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Parenthood. 1.00 A Night With My Ex. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Mission: Impossible. (1996) 9.45 MOVIE: S.W.A.T. (2003) 12.05 Decades. 1.00 Big Heads. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Surge. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 5.10 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 My Way. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 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 Married At First Sight. 9.00 Amazing Grace. 10.00 New Amsterdam. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 The Enemy Within. 12.15 Tipping Point. 1.10 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Suspects. 11.30 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 12.30 Pie In The Sky. 1.30 Late Programs. Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 American Pickers. 9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.20 Ultimate Tag. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Outback Opal Hunters. 10.30 Mighty Rivers. 11.30 Late Programs. Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Surrogate’s Nightmare. (2017) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 Ambulance: Code Red. 9.30 Born To Kill? 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 The Front Bar. 12.00 MOVIE: Total Stranger. (1999) 2.00 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 New Tricks. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Carry On Constable. (1960) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 The Nick. New. 11.50 Heartbeat. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

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Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: Mercury Rising. (1998) Bruce Willis. 10.45 Police Ten 7. 11.45 The Nanny. 12.15 Decades. 1.15 Surfing Australia TV. 1.55 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 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 Destination WA. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 3. Penrith Panthers v Melbourne Storm. 9.55 Thursday Night Knock Off. 10.40 Nine News Late. 11.10 Manifest. 12.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 1.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Make It Yours. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries. 8.30 A Touch Of Frost. 10.50 Dog Patrol. 11.50 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Home Shopping. Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 8.00 American Pickers. 9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.20 Ultimate Tag. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Classic Restos: USA Edition. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons. 9.00 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Fiancé Killer. (2018) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 MOVIE: Peter Rabbit. (2018) Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne. 9.30 MOVIE: We’re The Millers. (2013) Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts. 11.50 The Latest: Seven News. 12.30 Late Programs.

(82) 6.00 Cheers. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 2 Broke Girls. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Judging Amy. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Headline News. (8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Amazing Race Australia. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Bondi Rescue. 8.00 Territory Cops. 8.30 Gogglebox. 9.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 This Is Us. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 9.30 L.A.’s Finest. 10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.30 Elementary. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Nash Bridges. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 4.00 Jake And The Fatman. 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager.

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(82) 6.00 Cheers. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Friends. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Judging Amy. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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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 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Living Room. Return. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. 9.10 To Be Advised. 10.10 Just For Laughs. 10.40 The Project. 11.40 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 MacGyver. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 L.A.’s Finest. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Nash Bridges. 3.00 JAG. 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 MacGyver.

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(82) 6.00 Cheers. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 The Conners. 10.30 Charmed. 11.30 The Big Bang Theory. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Judging Amy. 4.30 Home Shopping.

Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Young Sheldon. 8.30 MOVIE: Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. (2011) Shia LaBeouf. 11.35 Young Sheldon. 12.00 Generation Youtube. New. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 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 Amazing Grace. 2.00 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 Rugby League. NRL. Round 3. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Sydney Roosters. 9.55 Golden Point. 10.40 MOVIE: Collateral. (2004) 1.00 Surfing Australia TV. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

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Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Miracle Hospital. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: Carry On Cowboy. (1966) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet. 8.40 MOVIE: He’s Just Not That Into You. (2009) Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Aniston. 11.05 MOVIE: Two Weeks Notice. (2002) 1.00 Late Programs.

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Kids’ Programs. (53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Young Sheldon. 5.55 MOVIE: Happily N’Ever After. (2006) 7.30 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda 2. (2011) 9.20 MOVIE: Along Came Polly. (2004) Ben Stiller. 11.10 MOVIE: Date Movie. (2006) 12.50 Bridezillas. 1.50 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 So You Think You’d Survive? 3.00 American Restoration. 3.30 The Food Dude. New. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Friday Night Countdown. 7.30 Football. AFL. Round 2. Geelong v Brisbane Lions. 10.30 AFL Post-Game Show. 11.00 Armchair Experts. 11.30 Late Programs.

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Sunrise. (6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Indiscretion. (2016) Mira Sorvino, Cary Elwes. 2.00 House Of Wellness. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 8.30 MOVIE: Geostorm. (2017) Gerard Butler. 10.45 To Be Advised. 12.30 Home Shopping. 6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Highway Cops. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Property Ladder UK. 1.00 The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.20 NCIS. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 48 Hours. 3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 Instinct. 5.00 JAG.

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 As Time Goes By. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Last Days Of Dolwyn. (1949) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo. 8.30 Emergency. 9.30 Call The Midwife. 10.40 See No Evil. 11.40 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 So You Think You’d Survive? New. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Football. AFL. Round 2. Carlton v Collingwood. 10.00 AFL Post-Game Show. 10.30 MOVIE: The Town. (2010) 1.05 Late Programs.

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6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Creek To Coast. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Andrew Denton’s Interview. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Late Programs.

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SAVE YOUR RETIREMENT… BUCKETS ARE THE ANSWER! It’s amazing how a few weeks can feel like a few months… It feels as though we’ve been living through this coronavirus nightmare for a long time already! that when a downturn occurs, a ‘balanced’ fund within their I’ve been working in financial those growth investments have superannuation. This can be services since 2002, so I’ve seen time to recover. particularly dangerous for those a few financial crises during While nothing can protect us in the retirement risk zone, those two decades and in that from feeling some emotions that is, five years either side of time, I’ve learnt a lot. Not only when we see our life savings retirement. a lot about how investment going down, it’s incredibly As you move closer to markets work, but also how reassuring to know that when retirement, at retirement and human emotions work. it does happen, a strategy had during retirement, it’s important With all the craziness going on already been put in place to deal to put some strategy behind at the moment, many people with it. how your retirement savings are are understandably concerned Now, imagine if that strategy set up. A retiree with all their about their retirement savings. was combined with saving money sitting in a balanced Sadly, many people are making thousands of dollars a year in investment option in retirement the wrong decisions in how to investment fees! would mean that right now they deal with this crisis, acting on If these sound like the sorts of are being forced to sell shares at emotion and not realising the things you want when it comes the worst possible time in order long-term implications of their to your retirement savings and to meet their decisions. y our super is working really hard and you It feels like we only just had Christmas, yet income•needs. you value independence when Sadly, many people are flooding I love helping people get their understand what it’s doing Easter is now just around the corner. it comes to advice, then head to super fund call centres to move financial futures on the right ou’re confident that you will be and ablebook to an •y of us, Easter to of have a super savings wealthtrain.com.au their to cash, trackFor butmost also helping them is a time all you want to, whentoday. you want break thederail pause button after getting appointment robbing themselves of retire seeingthe wayonline make sureand theyhit don’t from to first stage the year the way. There is no mistaking the money recover when thatthe track when theofgoing gets out of their seriousness of the coronavirus things go back up again… tough. I can guarantee you this •y ouwhich have protection in place in case For many, it’s a chance to have a long, long crisis, both from a health and they will! won’t be the last time we see something goes wrong weekend, or a school holiday getaway with economic perspective. However, A better strategy is to break up dark economic times… in fact, the family. •y ou’re lowdecisions fees for the quality youbest are making retirement savings into short, paying the I guarantee all my clients there both and outside super Here’s thought tomoney ponder… medium and long terminvestments rightinside now will have a huge ‘buckets’ will be timesa when their impact on what your future to ensure that when something will go down. Moments like •y ou’re taking advantage of opportunities Most Australians spent more time planning looks like in 5, 10 and 20 years like this happens, there is no these are a good opportunity to save tax their last holiday than they’ve EVER spent from now. need to be selling out of growth to remind my clients why their planning their financial future! • your financial future is on the right track! assets (i.e. shares and property) money is invested the way it is. safe! In people my experience, one of the reasons so are down.Like most things in life, confidenceStay while they Many will be finding is many people spent time This planning type of strategy ensures themselves simplyhaven’t sitting in incredibly important. Over many years, Daniel I’ve

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BIRD’S-EYEview with JEANINE BIRD

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MR SQUIGGLE WAS RIGHT… IT IS ALL UPSIDE-DOWN! (For all links, go to online version of this article) “The world’s up-side down, Miss Jane, it’s all up-side down”… so said legendary Australian television marionette “Mr Squiggle” — who made thousands of doodles come-tolife with his pencil-nose. Sadly, Mr Squiggle’s enchanting ability to draw figures upside-down that made sense when turned the right-way up, has long since gone. Our world though is more upside-down than ever with lots of “squiggly” intersections everywhere linking its craziness. I got to thinking just how far we can stretch our incredulity — what we actually swallow — and how did we get to this point? Controlling us In simple terms, there are people around the world who just can’t help themselves — they like to control us all. Let’s start with the financial world; the global bankers who set-up and manage or control the central banking system everywhere. This is a MAJOR form of control, and it’s also elusive. We don’t notice, because we’re accustomed to just accepting that say, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was caused by things very much outside our control. It was. But why though? Oh yes, it’s because we have forgotten what generations before us knew, especially in Australia with our own Commonwealth Bank’s inception. We’ve let those who control the money, control our lives — dictating what we can and can’t do. To borrow or not to borrow; and charging us interest for the privilege. As I’ve said before, banks have preferential terms of trade. They can just create credit to release into our economy by lending, simply known as “quantitative easing”. They make everything sound difficult when it’s not really. We should not need this “fiat currency” (no intrinsic value) system. Australia would be very able to create its own credit to run our nation but, instead, we borrow from private banks who borrow from other banks (“you have to keep your system going”), and we “have to” pay them interest, so we raise taxes to do so. If we went back to doing this for ourselves as a nation — or reinstating our “State” Banks — we could do away with this corrupt system. (We’re sovereign if we do; owned if we don’t.) Then we have the World Bank and all their subsidiaries and alliances. Some years ago, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) did some serious research on the World Bank. They estimated 3,350,449 people were either forced out of their homes, deprived of some or all of their land, or had their livelihoods damaged, by one of nearly 1000 projects funded or administered by the World Bank over a 10-year period. In 2015, the New American reported: “World Bank- and United Nations-backed “carbon credit” schemes to enrich cronies while purportedly dealing with alleged “global warming” have led to numerous well-documented atrocities against the poorest Africans, Latin Americans, and people worldwide. Last summer, for example, UN and World Bank

carbon projects in Kenya resulted in ancient Sengwer communities having their homes torched by troops to make way for trees that would allow Westerners to purchase carbon offsets to assuage their misplaced guilt about CO2 emissions. A coalition of more than 65 non-profit organizations denounced the tragedy as “genocide.” And this: The New American reported in 2011, for example, a UNaccredited carbon-credit “company” funded by the World Bank and the EU was exposed in 2011 brutally-evicting tens of thousands of Ugandan farmers to plant trees — again for carbon credits. Homes were burned to the ground, at least one with an eight-year-old child inside who burned to death, as residents were terrorised and threatened with execution if they refused to make way for the World Bank-backed carbon schemes. Authorities and the crony “company” involved in the atrocities said it was all for a good cause — fighting global warming — the New York Times reported at the time.” I recently mentioned the Congolese experience of Katanga at the hands of the UN. The UN hadn’t changed by 2011, and they still haven’t, but it’s worse now because of China’s Communist Party (CCP) placing their people into positions of power in the UN. That’s similar to how Goldman Sachs have put their people into Prime Ministerial positions around the world, or in charge of Treasuries or decision-making governmental positions. Often, they are rewarded with a big bonus from the bank when they LEAVE the governmental position, so bribery isn’t called what it really is. So, is it such a stretch to believe that these people want to take your property, jobs, savings, and income as espoused by the World Economic Forum (WEF) now? It’s easy to search what they’re up to, and you should. Because they’re so interlinked acting in concert with banks, they can cause a recession where you lose these things. They’ve done it before if it suits their purpose. COVID-19 and the WHO So why don’t WE consider Covid-19 as warfare? Some US military sources — and others — are now saying that. China takes a long view; we go from election-to-election and think nothing of leasing-out Cockatoo Island to the CCP or selling Darwin’s port (99-year lease). Bill Gates, largest funder of the WHO since the US pulled out (maybe not now that Joe Biden is taking them back in), has been exposed for funding CCP-linked BGI Genomics which US officials say mines the DNA genomics of Americans. WOW! That means that every Covid-19 swab takes your DNA and who knows WHO has it and, if the WHO has it, Gates and the CCP have access to it! They can track and map us, especially with all the “tracking” they suggest (and we’ve implemented), and the “vaccine passports” they want to bring in. Add that to Twitter, Google, Amazon, Facebook and other corporate censorship for daring to talk-about the fact that COVID-19 can be treated inexpensively; a rigged election; or shutting-down President Trump’s accounts for tweeting that

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he wasn’t going to Joe’s inauguration! Is this a type of warfare against us? We have to ask! Now that people are dying and getting-ill with serious reactions from the vaccines, there is even a little bit of mainstream media (MSM) coverage. Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Italy, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, France, Spain, Germany, Ireland and now Indonesia have suspended the AstraZeneca vaccine while associated bloodclotting is investigated. The EU is also investigating after a 43-year-old naval officer and a 50-year-old policeman died in Italy after vaccinations. I did a list of COVID-19 markers but, as it’s long, I’ll hold for this week. However, something to ponder — the link between high-profile people like Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci who was recently outed for directing US research funding linked to China’s Wuhan CV19 origins. Fauci also says “There are things, even if you’re vaccinated, that you’re not going to be able to do in society. For example, indoor dining, theatres, places where people congregate.” Oh, and wear masks, despite the fact you’re vaccinated! That’s also despite the fact the WHO (p31) says masks make no significant difference for influenza-like illness. “Fortifying” elections Time magazine outed the secret history of the global shadow campaign by a cabal of well-funded people and organisations that worked to oust Trump and that was okay because it wasn’t electoral interference, it was just “fortification.” Is it so hard then, to believe that the a similar group (many of the same players) is interested in controlling us via a vaccine, bypassing normal protocols and accountability by instilling fear about something thousands of top doctors and researchers say is no worse than the normal flu, and easily treatable in the early stages? (1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8,9) Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci forecast the pandemic, the WHO made a lot of money, Gates has patents or investments in contact tracing and digital ID with vaccines technology and wants to depopulate the world on account of climate change to a number HE thinks is sustainable. Huge criminal multinational pharmaceutical companies have been fined billions for corrupt, unconscionable, criminal activities, including kickbacks. (J&J; all; drugwatch) Yet, our governments pay them squillions to force a vaccination on us, even though they know that human foetal and adult tumour cells in vaccines may cause cancer down the track? Watching the Plandemic series may enlighten some, or listening to ex-Pfizer VP Dr Michael Yeadon or Dr Wodgard explain the Pfizer is a female sterilant. Just a week ago, vaccine-related miscarriages doubled in the UK. Our PM, Scott Morrison is proud of his “No Jab, No Play” policy in schools and kindy; he’d like to mandate COVID vaccines now, and may do that with a “No Jab, No Pay” as a quasi-mandate. Do we really want that? We need to question how easily our freedoms are being eroded. Could Mr Squiggle put them back?

CITYwatch

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AMANDA SPALDING

WORK ALERT! Orange City Life and NewsWatch have been running Work Alert for a couple of months and thought it was time to review what we have learned. We ask people to send us information if they see something that needs Council’s attention. They go into a weekly draw for a $50 Ashcroft’s IGA Gift Voucher. Our aim has been to draw Council’s attention to work that needs to be done to make Orange even more beautiful. We have received Work Alerts from a number of people on a variety of different topics. We have drawn these to Council’s attention. For some issues we have received a quick response from Council, on others, we have received nothing at all. We have heard back from some community members that their issue has been dealt with by Council. So, there has been a mixed bag of the good, the bad, the ugly and the complete silence!! I shall leave it to you to decide which category these examples fall into. 1. We reported to Council on 19th February that the drain at the bottom end of the showground in Margaret Street (opposite RFS) had lots of long grass caught up on the cross bars of the drain. Should a heavy downpour occur most of this grass will be washed into the drain causing blockages and flooding in the area. We heard back on 19th March that the drain had been sorted out by Council. 2. We also reported to Council on 19th February comments from a member of the local community that they would love to see a bridge installed adjoining ribbon gums relative to the summerset wetlands walking path. All the footpaths in ribbon gum estate lead to dead ends. We heard back from Council on 1st March that a shared pedestrian / cycling bridge is in the current financial year’s budget for the northern end of Somerset Park, above the V-notch weir near the Northern Distributor Road. Survey work, request for quotation and appointment of a contractor to design, fabricate and install the bridge have all been completed. The bridge is in the final stages of design to permit fabrication and installation to occur before the end of this current financial year. 3. One person sent in 5 issues close to the CBD and we received a very quick response from Council: There is no lighting in railway car park east Orange. You are correct and there is no budget for the same, you are welcome to make a budget submission when the draft budget goes

out for public comment in April. Footpath needs attention all of Endsleigh avenue. Agreed footpaths generally need attention right across Orange. We inspect the CBD footpaths on a monthly basis and all other paths on an annual basis. All trip hazards are highlighted and the worst sections are picked up in targeted routine maintenance. Our renewal plan under the Asset Management Plan covers the next 20 years and is prioritised in line with a matrix adopted by Council and accepted by our insurers. Under projected budgets Endsleigh Avenue, while listed, is some years away from being addressed. However, if there is a particular section or trip hazard you have concerns with, we can look to schedule that under targeted maintenance. Please reinstate seating benches on CBD corners. Why were they removed? The matter is in hand. The timber seats were removed due to their deteriorating condition leading to safety concerns and the imminent replacement with new street furniture under the Future Cities program. We hope to see the new seating in place soon as the procurement process has commenced. Pedestrian island needed between Factory Espresso and Quest hotel. This is a component of the revitalisation of McNamara Street and linking the Quest through to Summer Street. These works are planned to be delivered in the current financial year. Lack of pedestrian safety at roundabouts needs to be addressed. There is a balance to be achieved which the Future Cities Program is looking to address, particularly in the CBD. Future Cities is looking at a number of options to increase pedestrian safety including a 40kmph zone within the CBD adopted by Council to approach Transport For NSW for the lowering of speed limits. Other proposals include one lane in and one lane out on the Byng and Lords Street roundabout and a number of mid-block crossings. Last year we reconstructed the blisters at the March and Hill Street roundabout to convert it to one lane in and one lane out to address a specific pedestrian safety concern at that intersection and it is now working well. Woodward Street / Molong Road and Coronation Drive / Summer Street roundabout has both a pedestrian crossing on the Coronation Drive leg and a signalised crossing on the Molong Rd leg. 4. The walkway near Kathmandu is a

disgusting mess. The nice graffiti has been ruined by filthy words and scribbles. Maybe not the Council’s responsibility but one that should be addressed. I have out of town visitors all the time and feel ashamed every time we walk through. This was reported to Council on 1st March and Council responded on 11th March. Even though it is a ‘public’ space in that sense, that walkway is owned and maintained by the nearby privately-owned shopping centre. Your concerns have been passed on to the centre management with a request for action. With regards to the damaged murals, I can also pass on news that this location is on the list for the for a future stage of the public art project happening as part of the Future City CBD upgrade project. 5. We received two work alerts concerning Council’s bulky goods pick up as there is still lots around streets that have not been collected and many mattresses lying around. These were sent to Council on 9th March. Council’s response was immediate, on 9th March. Thank you for your enquiry relating to mattresses left behind from the recently provided bulky waste kerbside collection service. These items like others listed on the information pamphlet delivered to households advising of the impending service were nominated as an excluded waste item not eligible for collection. Council was mindful of the capacity of the residents to afford a range of resource recovery opportunities with the bulky waste service and therefore concentrated on the most common items people would have to present which was those listed within the scrap steel, white goods and residual waste items on the pamphlet. Three separate vehicles were required for these waste streams and provision of a fourth was deemed too costly for the householder to afford. Mattresses are also a recyclable item at the Ophir Road Resource Recovery Centre and to salvage these would require another separate vehicle pass to collect these items. To alleviate this problem, the Council resolved to provide residents with the opportunity to access a free waste disposal voucher from Council’s customer service counter which can be presented to the weighbridge at the Ophir Road facility with up to two cubic metres of waste (approximately a 6’x4’ box trailer load) until 30 June 2021. Residents could effectively deliver their mattress with other residual waste items at no cost should they have any re-

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maining non-eligible waste items that were not collected from the scheduled kerbside bulky waste service. 6. Council was subsequently asked about how residents without vehicles could take up the opportunity of getting a disposal voucher for the resource recovery centre and how could they get their bulky waste there? If those persons could provide proof of residency for the property in question to our customer service team in person or via a friend/family member, we will mark that off against this property address and issue the voucher that needs to be presented to the weighbridge when delivering the waste. The person may have to engage someone to deliver the waste on their behalf if they don’t have a means of transporting the materials. The following Work Alerts have not received a response from Council yet: 7. 15th February Footpath and driveway Lords Place near to Bletchington Public School need attention. The road is very busy at school drop off and pick up times. There are deep potholes on the road in the driveway, and the footpaths are being pushed up by trees and impassable by people with strollers or wheelchairs. 8. 18th February the road from Canobolas High School past the cemetery to Bathurst Road needs attention 9. 19th February Tree across walk track at Hinton Reserve in Linen Service side fence line. 10. 19th February I often have lunch in Cook Park and would like to see the tables and seats pressure cleaned. They are looking really grotty and wouldn’t cost council anything. 11. 5th March There are several issues which need Council’s attention in North Orange, including: 1. Rutherford Place Street sign is currently missing. 2. Gutters collapsing in Holman Way, Greerlyn Way and Terry Turner Drive. 3. Terrible “Wear and Tear” on roads in Terry Turner Drive, Holman Way and Rutherford Place. 12. Council informed 15th March 2021 Huntley Road needs to be fixed. The edges of the road are appalling and very dangerous with the potholes (particularly after rain).

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The Council Game

What happened at Council on 16th March 2021? The answer is that not a lot happened at Council on 16th March as there was very little content on the agenda, but the meeting lasted for 2 hours.

Council motions to the National General Assembly (of the Australian Local Government Association) being held in Canberra in June. Council agreed to submit motions on climate change, the rights of women and on regional media and TV licences.

The only items on the agenda were: 1. Statement of Investments – February 2021 2. Update on Outstanding Resolutions of Council including

Questions Taken on Notice and Notices of Motion 3. Projects Activities March 2021

4. Wood Bank Usage There was also a late item concerning proposed Orange City

officials into disrepute b) is contrary to statutory requirements or the Council’s administrative requirements or policies c) is improper or unethical d) is an abuse of power

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Amanda Spalding

Councillors managed to make the Council meeting on 16th March last for 2 hours, even though there was little content on the agenda, by asking operational questions that really could and should be asked by Councillors outside the Council Chamber. There was an interesting variety of comments about staff, running from congratulating individual members of staff, to urging staff generally to get a move on! Councillors may have remembered that a large proportion of the 550 staff working at Council will also be voters in the Orange local government elections in September. Deputy Mayor Councillor Taylor’s outburst in the media on Saturday saying about the staff: ‘I’ll give bouquets when they deserve it and I’ll throw bricks at the bastards when our priorities seem to be totally wrong’ is totally unacceptable and a clear breach of the Code of Conduct. It is quite difficult to find the Code of Conduct on Orange City Council’s website and NSW brought a new Model Code in a couple of years ago with which all Councils must comply. It included new anti-bullying provisions: General conduct 3.1 You must not conduct yourself in a manner that: a) is likely to bring the Council or other Council

e) causes, comprises, or involves intimidation or verbal abuse f) involves the misuse of your position to obtain a private benefit g) constitutes harassment or bullying behaviour under this code or is unlawfully discriminatory. The Deputy Mayor has clearly conducted himself in the manner outlawed in several of the areas described and I look forward to hearing what action is to be taken. So, what are the sanctions? Failure by a Councillor to comply with the standards of conduct prescribed under this code constitutes misconduct for the purposes of the Local Government Act (LGA). The LGA provides for a range of penalties that may be imposed on Councillors for misconduct, including suspension or disqualification from civic office. A Councillor who has been suspended on three or more occasions for misconduct is automatically disqualified from holding civic office. I am concerned that it seemed to come as a surprise to Councillor Taylor that there are poor people in Orange who cannot afford to heat their homes in winter. He said that we are a very fortunate community and an affluent community and “I am surprised that people are going cold in winter.” Having been on the Council for 26 years it is a concern to me that this is a surprise to him. It is estimated that 4,800 people in Orange live with significant economic disadvantage. Many of those people are working age and children.

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It was agreed that the wood bank will continue with agreement to provide $10,000 funding for the current financial year. It also agreed to consider providing an annual allocation as part of its upcoming budget process.

Around 10% of the people in Orange who live with severe economic disadvantage are working a full-time job. In addition, youth wellbeing is a major issue in Orange and there are higher rates of children in their first year of school who are considered developmentally vulnerable 12.5% compared with 9.6% in NSW. Why don’t Councillors have this at the forefront of their minds? The Local Government Act’s purpose is to enable councils to carry out their functions in a way that facilitates local communities that are strong, healthy and prosperous. I look forward to seeing Council’s End of Term Report in August to see the measures of how much of this has been achieved. There is a culture of only saying positive things at Orange City Council and disagreeing loudly with anyone who has the audacity to question the spin often used by Council in the media, Council meetings and in the blog posts on its website. Spin is not transparency or accountability. There was also an issue that came up concerning the ‘Trotting Track’ during which the Mayor seemed to be offering it as an ideal place for arsonists to ply their trade. I was also concerned that the decision that had been taken by Council quite recently to provide $20,000 p.a. for 10 years, that is $200,000 in total to the Harness Racing organisation, was being questioned by the Mayor and other Councillors. I was unable to find that decision in the business papers, so I am not clear about the conditions that were applied to this financial contribution, but the attitude of Councillors in the meeting worried me that the conditions applied did not seem to be adequate. Are we getting best possible public value as required by the Local Government Act?

THE COUNCIL GAME

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Gerald Power Wood Bank: I think it’s a good idea for a wood bank and it will definitely continue support those who have a wood fireplace! But when they call it for the needy?? Are they speaking about low income in social housing?? Well, I may stand corrected- But most of the social housing tenant I’m aware of have gas or electricity. I’m aware of homes that put their ovens on to stay warm in winter. I’ve met an elderly couple that during winter they only turn their heater on during the evening and to reduce the power bill, catch the bus into town and move about the city malls to stay warm and then catch the bus home in the evening. Food for thought- We have amazing food bank and now a wood bank! How do we support those that have high power/ gas bills during winter is the biggest challenges facing Orange households in our cool climate region!

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Josh Girle-Bennett Councillors discussed proposed changes to lot sizes in Shiralee Estate at a recent Council meeting. The question I would like to ask residents of Orange City Council is this… Do we want to become the next Sydney? Overpopulated, not adequately planning for future growth and severely lacking the most basic infrastructure? Average lot size sizes on the fringes of Sydney in new developments such as Marsden Park, Schofields and Kellyville Ridge are on average less than 400 square metres. These three relatively new suburbs are home to over 40,000 residents. By 2032, these suburbs are each projected to double in population. Just like Orange City Council, Sydney councils are behind the eight ball when it comes to the bigger infrastructure and planning picture. It is estimated that standard commute times will increase by up to 15 minutes a day when these suburban centres double in population. Sadly, there are too many similarities between what Orange is on track to experience without appropriate planning and what these Sydney suburbs are

Shiralee Estate is at its fifth stage and almost all blocks have sold. The demand for affordable land in Orange is outstripping supply at an unprecedented level. Councillor Nugent asked if the proposed changes in lot sizes will affect cycleways and pedestrian movement. Not only do we need to ensure that we have adequate cycleways and pedestrians, we also need to ensure that future Master Plans take into consideration the needs of adequate infrastructure such as wide streets, functional roundabouts and traffic lights. I believe lot sizes should not be anything less than 500 square metres in Orange. Once again, the ratepayer loses and the developers win. We need to put a stop to this.

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Steve Peterson With not a lot discussed at Council this week, I thought I would raise some other topics. I became a quadriplegic three years ago on Tuesday after I was hit by a car riding my bicycle to work as a doctor in the Orange emergency department. I have learnt much over the past three years and have a newfound appreciation for accessibility in public spaces. If elected to Council this would be something I can contribute particular insights and experience about. Cook Park and Robertson Park have great community events which are held on the grass ‘islands’ between foot paths. There is an edge between footpath and grass which can be very hard for a wheelchairs, prams, 4 wheel walkers or similar to get over. At low cost some of those grass islands could have a section of the edge be a slope instead of a vertical rise to help wheels make it up. On one occasion six firefighters at an Australia Day function at Cook park physically lifted my 200kg chair over the edge which I was very grateful for, but not a long-term solution! Speed humps can be a pain if very steep and substantial. One at Bloomfield hospital actually dislodged part of the car I was travelling in when the speed hump impacted the bottom of the vehicle. If speed humps have a gap of about a meter between the curb this makes it easier for wheelchairs, bicycles for prams to go past. Some of the bigger ones could be reduced in height when the road is next maintained. Tree roots and other damage to footpaths can lead to bumpy journeys. This is an ongoing problem and footpath maintenance does occur. If I’m on Council I would have a particular interest in the repair of some of the worst footpaths in the CBD area to see if they can be made smooth again.

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Listening to the discussion at most recent Council meetings has been hard going at the best of times and usually it’s the Councillors remarks that often sound silly or are off the mark. At this week’s Council meeting however, I have to give the award for the most stupid remark to a Council staffer. Council was discussing issues that Councillors had raised over the last couple of years, issues that had not yet been dealt with. The fact that so many things are still outstanding is an issue in itself. Councillor Taylor raised the issue of seating in the CBD which was still on his outstanding list. Once again, he gave a detailed explanation of why more seating was needed, as if we don’t already know, and then asked if some temporary seating couldn’t be put back until the Future City plans kicked in. Pretty simple and straight-forward and clearly needed one would think. The Director responsible responded with words to the effect - Council has been accused of not consulting with the community so we’re consulting with business owners to see where they want the seats placed? If that’s not the dumbest and most lame response, I don’t know what is. That’s our Council at work people.

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Melanie McDonell Michelle Obama famously said, “when they go low, we go high”. When it comes to some of our current Councillors, the ‘low’ is sometimes unimaginably so. Firstly, Cr Taylor’s grossly inappropriate comments in Saturday’s Central Western Daily showed an utter lack of respect and leadership expected from one in the role of Deputy Mayor, and especially someone with over 20 years’ experience as a Councillor. On Monday, thousands of women and supporters marched across the country in the March 4 Justice, calling for an end to gendered violence. Tuesday evening’s Council meeting saw Cr Munro make a tone-deaf pronouncement, at times inaudible due to his failing microphone and inability to remember to speak into it. Not for the first time his fellow Councillors were left asking whether he was for the motion or against, such was the lack of point. Instead of grasping what Monday’s march

THE COUNCIL GAME was actually about, he rambled on about domestic violence, which while part of the issue, it was not the sole focus of the march. Then, unbelievably he finished with “we’re all good men here, oh… and Cr McRae”. Our Mayor referred to the Council as “gentlemen”, and promptly got angry when he was called on it, but then this is nothing new. In such an environment, finding a way to “go high” can be at once both easy and challenging. There’s another saying “Never wrestle with a pig; you get dirty and the pig likes it”, and while tempting as it is at times to sling the mud right back, nothing good will come of it. The time has long passed where out of touch, misogynistic and disrespectful behaviour will be ignored. As each week passes, the Orange community is gifted more reasons why the majority of current Councillors have had their time. This September, Orange has the opportunity to “go high” and elect a Council which is mature and respectful. September 2021 is the time.

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Greater Good With winter approaching, the issue of Council running a Wood Bank again came up. Councillor Glenn Taylor initiated this last year and it obviously helped a few people with their wood heating needs. It’s a noble initiative but brings with it a lot of other issues and creates problems and I don’t think this should be a Council responsibility. For me, I would suggest Council see if they can arrange for one of those services like the Salvos for example, to manage a wood bank facility as part of their overall helping those in need services. They are better placed to set up a service, negotiate a good deal for any wood supplies, encourage community donations, and so on. They are also well placed to know who most needs such help and issue the wood efficiently. I also think the wood should not be free but sold cheaply and subsidized by community donations. Council may still choose to donate to the Wood Bank, without having the responsibility of running it. Even $10,000 worth of wood would be a drop in the bucket, and this doesn’t help those without wood fires. If the Salvos or similar was running it, donations overall may be much greater than $10,000. Council also mentioned there is already government help available for people with gas or electric heating and that this help should be better promoted. Helping those who need it is a whole of community responsibility and wood should be treated in the same way as food and other provisions are for those in need, but not by our Council.

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attempt to reinforce the idea that men need to be proactive in calling out poor behaviour in this context, as well as refraining from such behaviour themselves.

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Daniel McGregor It’s hard not to feel a bit dispirited watching an Orange Council meeting. Of course, there are certain things that have to be discussed that are no doubt going to be quite boring to the majority. However, listening to councillors discussing whether a rhinoceros statue should be at Lake Canobolas or the Adventure Playground hardly inspires. Hearing of $200,000 potentially being given to Orange Harness Racing but then hearing that councillors have no idea what’s going on, think fact checking might be a good idea, that discussions sound as though they are taking place in a back bar somewhere and that we can’t just keep putting money into a bottomless pit hardly inspire confidence. Then hearing people making silly statements that are then labelled as the equivalent of throwing petrol out there and inciting a riot, hardly inspires trust or belief. As one councillor said, there are a lot of things going on in Orange, lots of positives. Orange is a great place to live! We all know that, that’s why we choose to live here. But something’s missing. It’s not something big, we have a great lifestyle, but we seem to be missing some of the vision other major regional cities have. There was talk at the start of the council meeting of Orange losing out to Albury at the Sustainable Communities Tidy Towns Awards over the last weekend. Read this for a moment and see if it inspires: ‘At the weekend event, AlburyCity also won awards for our organics recovery operations, the Renewable Energy Hub at the Albury Waste Management Centre, our education program Halve Waste and infrastructure improvements at the Albury Waste Management Centre along with a highly commended for the Repair Café, which helps people to repair and recycle goods that would otherwise be thrown out.’

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Frances Kinghorne There has been a lot of debate in recent weeks about gender equity, harassment of women and violence towards women. At this week’s council meeting, one councillor spoke briefly on the subject in, I think, an

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What struck me about this speech was not so much the content, but the somewhat uncertain delivery. It showed that people can struggle to be confident expressing an opinion on this subject, which, while part of a complex social problem, should actually be pretty straightforward. Perhaps they’re concerned about political ramifications or adverse community commentary. People who haven’t experienced sexism, harassment or violence would obviously find it difficult to relate to how it must feel to be intimidated in this way. It must be horrible for those affected and we should all be saying loudly and clearly that it is completely unacceptable. It’s very simple. There is no need for paternalism, tokenism, self promotion or politicisation. I also think it actually minimises the importance of the issue by expanding the commentary to include irrelevant and often trivial factors, and inaccurately suggesting that every woman has suffered in some way in this context. What we need to do is stop pontificating and try to do something to help find a solution. Let’s think more broadly about what can actually be done & develop strategies that may allow our society to evolve beyond this. If it’s still currently an issue, then what we’ve been doing so far hasn’t been effective enough. Should this be a local government issue? If it happens locally, we should be contributing positively to the process, whether it is constitutionally recognised or not.

Nic Drage and Theo Crane unfortunately had no comment due to work commitments

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ABSENCE MAKING HAWKS LADIES FOND OF THE FOOTIE Absence makes the heart grow fonder — at least for Orange Hawks players denied a run after last year’s cancelled Group 10 rugby league competition. Both the men’s’ senior and women’s tag league teams all have good rosters for this year with the Open Women’s side recently winning the Canowindra Knock-Out. “No, it’s been great, we haven’t lost anyone from last year,” Club Secretary Andrew Blinka said of the senior men’s side. “In the end, they’re footie players and they can’t wait to get into the season…they just missed it,” he said. Andrew is particularly happy about the women’s league tag numbers, a sport that has only existed as part of the Group 10 format for four years. “The player numbers are very good — allowing for the fact that we had the last year off. The girls are also keen to get back on the paddock and have a run,” he added. As in other footie codes, interest and commitment of the women players has been a pleasant surprise for sports traditionally associated almost exclusively with men. “Absolutely 100 per cent, to what they were used to — mostly only as spectators — it’s been great to see how they’ve taken the game on,” Mr Blinka said.

selling raffle tickets, helping-out in our social events, it’s been great,” he said. Women’s league tag coach Steve Pearson said that the game is the perfect link between touch football and the moreserious tackle competition for women, that many country clubs are now establishing in the district. “Many of the girls play touch in summer, which is very strong in Orange. League tag is good because it is a stepping-stone to rugby league that some of the girls like to step into,” Mr Pearson said. He has recently stepped-up as Hawks Women’s league tag coach after leaving the Under 18s side with only one loss in three years at the top. He said that the women’s teams are easy to coach with most able to transfer the skills they’ve learnt in touch to tag. “Most play in representative touch teams, so you don’t have to teach them how to pass or anything; they’re pretty easy to coach generally and listen to what you say,” he said. In a sign of the strength of the Orange league, local girl Lilly Baker recently signed with Glebe for one of the women’s tag teams in the NSW Cup. Steve got involved with the women’s tag teams when the competition first stared and now his own children are involved.

Hawks senior league tag side took-out the Canowindra Knock-out, beating Orange CYMS in the grand final 14-6.

“It’s good, I enjoy it. I’ve got three daughters and they all play league tag,” he said.

kicking-off until the Anzac Day weekend, Hawks are going on the road with all teams travelling to Wagga Wagga next weekend to take-on the famous Group Nine Kangaroos in the Riverina.

With the eight-team competition not

“We’re pretty good for players across all

“They’re all so active in the club as well,

grades, but we can always do with more,” Mr Blinka said. Anyone interested in becoming part of the Orange Hawks footie teams or operation, can contact Andrew Blinka on 0402 279 733.

Tag an alternative league that has really taken-off League Tag is a modified noncontact form of rugby league that is a bridge between touch football and tackle rugby league. It replaces traditional tackle rugby league with the removal of one of two tags carried on an opponent’s hips that are attached directly to specific League Tag shorts with Velcro patches. The game is popular with women and girls and retains almost all other rules of traditional rugby league (such as kicking). A number of additional rules are also added relating to the specific issues associated with a tag-based game. League Tag was developed by the Western Australian Rugby League for the 2002 season after the demise of the women’s tackle competition. The first League Tag competitions

in NSW started in the late 2000s. League Tag competitions for ladies are held throughout winter across all Country Rugby League Groups in New South Wales at senior level, whilst most areas also have junior competitions for girls starting from as young as under 8s. Other leagues, including mixed leagues, also exist in spring and summer months. There are now over 9000 female players registered in country New South Wales League Tag competitions. The rules of League Tag are largely the same as standard rugby league, including field goals, goal kicking and kicking in general play. The most significant changes are a reduction of players per side from 13 to 11 and elimination of scrums, whilst additional rules such as prohibitions on grabbing clothing, fending of tags, and performing 360-degree turns are added. Games are normally played over two 25-minute periods.’

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When going gets tough, Golden Bowl gets going!

I just wanted you to know that I and many others are thankful for your introduction to Jeanine Bird in Newswatch. I respect your courage to introduce a very different narrative to that of mainstream media, especially after reading comments from other readers. I’m embarrassed to admit, that I also believed everything I saw and read from printed and electronic media. After finally realising that things were not adding-up in so many ways, I have turned my back on the drivel emanating from the endless flow of talking head experts paraded out to push the message. I really feel for society, particularly the elderly who live in constant fear as a result. Accordingly, I have developed an interest in alternative views, and the more I read, the more I am convinced we live in a world of illusion and lies, both locally and globally.

shed, land around the airport for a processing plant that didn’t eventuate. Just to question how a corner shop and house affect visibility on a roundabout, if this is true, then there at least five more that need to be removed, Officeworks is one such. Nonsense!

There is a saying in business. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Take a look at the Golden Bowl Chinese Restaurant on Lords Place. Marvelous publicity, marvelous 7-star food, marvelous atmosphere. A great time.

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Watch out this PC new world order! 'Queensland doctor Thomas Lyons was conducting an eyesight test with six children when he said he made the discovery.

Why are these people not afforded the same exposure? I think it is essential to have a balanced view before destroying people’s lives, businesses and the country’s economy, as is happening now.

He showed the children drawings of animals and people and asked them what they saw. Dr Lyons said four of the children refused to use the terms ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ while all six of them became stressed.

A perfect example is vaccinations. If it doesn’t cure or stop the spread, why is it being pushed so hard? Surely there isn’t a hidden agenda is there?

“These children, without the knowledge or permission of the principal and parents, had been taught by teachers that the words ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ had some kind of bad magic and to utter them would somehow harm people,” said Lyons.

I have no desire to push my views onto anyone as we all have a right to our opinions ( for now at least). Please mate, don’t stop her columns, we need this information to be more accessible to the public. I love the way Jeanine presents her views and hope it encourages more people to investigate for themselves. I applaud anybody that can respect and listen to other opinions without denigration. If people don’t agree, they are under no obligation to read, just turn the page or even better, research for themselves. Thank-you Bob, Thank-you Jeanine.

Phil Alexander

I’d like to add support to Lee Pickett’s letter regarding the pine trees on the former County Club golf course, both this and John DaRins letter are excellent.

Ian Donald

If anyone is interested, they can easily find many wellcredentialed experts who contradict what is being pusheddown our throats.

If people feel it is the answer, go for it, but I will not be one of them.

Maybe our CEO can explain some of these matters, that’d be interesting.

The food at the pubs has taken a dive. Except at Spring Hill. Check them out. The Railway Hotel is on fire. Subsidies by big business is holding Australia back!

What happened to free speech?

I have no faith in something that’s being released so soon without the mandatory checks and balances normally applied to vaccines.

How our Council gets grants with so much investment is intriguing, yet Cr Duffy is sure that, without selling the assets, the projects can’t be completed.

A COVID-19 survivor. A business placing Australia ahead of the world. Our “hearts” should be with these young Australian businesswomen and men.

Watch out, this PC and new world order culture has to be stopped in its tracks. It is absolute madness! Push-back by refusing to comply and use proper language. Read the article below...

My suspicion is only reinforced by the censoring of opinion in social media.

Moving on, why is it now necessary to sell these strategic assets when Council has almost $50 million in the general fund, part of the $180 million Council has.

“Lacking direction” is the norm for Council

“Watching a six-year-old have a panic attack over use of gender-identifying language is disturbing,” he added. It comes in the wake of the Australian National University directing staff to say ‘chest-feeding’ instead of ‘breastfeeding’ and ‘gestational parent’ in lieu of ‘mother’. Compiled by APN from media reports.

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Why does Council buy “assets” to then sell? The recent news that Orange Council is to sell assets in order to fund some pet projects, the planetarium and conservatorium of music, begs the question. Why did Council buy assets for no strategic purpose, then label them as such to justify purchasing them? These include one house for no known purpose, the Aspros shop (to improve visibility on a roundabout,) the Williams

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Referring to last week’s Newswatch edition reporting on the Council meeting’s lack of direction. Unfortunately, this is the norm. As reported by Amanda Spalding, the Council meeting was disorganised and lacking leadership and direction. An example was given by Mr Bill Walsh who stated, a Councillor of 10-year's standing, seconded a motion, and then proceeded to speak against it. Where was the chairperson to control and direct procedures? These behaviours have become almost normal practice; and embarrassing . The generous renumeration councillors receive; surely requires more attention to detail and procedure. Councillors are elected to represent the residents of Orange, yet examples of separate councillor’s responses to letters, demonstrates a lack of personal neglect on their behalf. For instance, I wrote to five councillors with concerns; no acknowledgement or reply was received, this was arrogant, rude, and dismissive. I approached two councillors in person. One said “I have not had time to read it” the other, when approached said, “ I cannot discuss this with you “. I wrote to the Ombudsman through our local member and was advised such issues should go through the General Manager. This was done in November 2019, and still, waiting for a reply. In my opinion, Amanda Spalding has the experience and character required to overturn the lack of community respect and performance by this Council. Amanda has “runs on the board” with other councils and has “bottle” to go with it in this “man’s club”. For Orange to go ahead, new councillors need to be elected (and not retired or previous councillors).

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