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40th party for Michelle Delutis

●●●●● Dwight Yoakam■ Tickets go on sale on Friday,September 14 for the Palais The-atre concert when Dwight Yoakamand Lee Kernaghan will performon Monday, November 12. Con-tact Ticketmaster, 136 100.

What’s On In Melbourne★ Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett will today (Wed.) launch a

Beyond Blue anti-discrimination campaign against young gay folk.

★ The Melbourne Cabaret Festival will produce an EP featuring oneof the hit shows from its 2012 season. Spanky and Robert Tripolino

will enter a studio to professionally record five tracks from their hit showCandice McQueen: Nasty.

★ Closing drinks for the Other Worlds exhibition being held at the DaleyGallery, Trinity Grammar School, Kew, will be held from 4.30pm

this Friday (Sept. 7). Works are being featured by artists including KyokoImazu, Hyun-Ju Kim and Damon Kowarsky.

★ Cinema Nova will host a ‘Monster Fest’ of movies for 10 days fromOctober 31, advises Amanda Kuhn.

●●●●● Michelle Delutis, pictured with Suzanne Carbone, enjoyeda Moroccan theme for her 40th birthday party held at theweekend.

Increased stake

●●●●● James Hogan■ Melbourne-born James Hogan,CEO of Etihad Airways, has raisedhis company’s stake in Irgin Aus-tralia to 10 per cent, following ap-proval by the Foreignh InvestmentReview Board.

Melbourne Moments

Around Town■ Jannick Zester and Steve Powelllast night (Tues.) hosted the officialopening of their new pub, The Wolfand I Windsor, formerly the SwanHotel Windsor.

An A-List of guests attended, en-joying canpes, drinks and entertain-ment.■ Disability film festival, The OtherFilm Festival , has announced a line-up of local and international guestsfor the five-day event presented byArts Access Victoria at Arts House,North Melbourne Town Hall fromSeptember 19-23. Carl McIntyre andChuck Bludsworth will attend.

News in brief■ Jodi Crocker, Media RelationsManager at Crown Melbourne, saysthe sponsorship agreement withMelbourne Storm has been extendedfor a further 12- month period.■ Kathy Lane from Fireworks PRsays there is a large program of enter-tainment this weekend (Sept. 7-9) atthe Festival of Performing Arts inLorne. Artists include Cosmo Cosmo-lino, Captain Frodo and Ross Hanna-ford.■ David Frazer’s oil p[aintings willbe on display at the James MakinGallery, Collingwood, from Thurs.

●●●●● Ian and Neville Bliss were atKevin Trask’s 70th birthday atQPO on Saturday. More on P6.

Artists For Orphans

●●●●● Michael Leunig

■ Works by artists Michael Leunigand Larry Pickering will be amongstthose put to auction at An EveningOf Opera And Art to be held atKyneton Racecourse on Saturday,October 6.

Tiffany Speight, most recentlyin Marriage of Figaro, will perform.

Art is also being donated by RegMonbassa, Maggie Millar, RoseWilson, Louise Otten and HelenCottle.

Tickets,. at $25 each, are avail-able from Roni Wildeboer, 0424 938931.

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The BuzzTony flies solo

LINDA LEAVESCIRCUS OZ

●●●●● Linda Mickleborough

■ Linda Mickleborough is leavingas General Manager of Circus Oz. atthe end of this year.

Linda has described her time inthe job as “an incredible adventure”

“I would like to particularly ac-knowledge the strength of the creativecollaboration with my fellow Execu-tive members Artistic Director, MikeFinch and founding member TimColdwell.”

When Linda took on the position in1993, the company had few full-timeemployees and was in a precariousfinancial position.

Circus Oz now employs 40 full-time people including 13 performingartists, and has a substantial workingcapital reserve.

Linda has overseen the mountingof Circus Oz Big Top and theatre sea-sons in all Australian capitals.

More than 3 million people haveseen Circus Oz in that time.

■ Comedian Tony Moclair tookover the 3AW midnight-dawn pro-gram at the weekend, replacingAlan Pearsall who is presentingthe weekday overnight shows.

Tony also works as an actorand writer, and has broadcast on3RRR’s Breakfasters, on whichnew Drive host Tom Elliott hasappeared for some years.

Moclair has also appeared onair in the guise of Tony Kelly,Guido Hatzis. He has previouslyappeared on Triple M’Crud,Triple J and Nova Adelaide.

He has also worked on 774ABC with Rachel Berger, as a sum-mer ‘breakfast’ presenter.

●●●●● Tony Moclair

Bow-tie affair

●●●●● Christie Whelan-Browne

■ Melbourne actress ChristieWhelan looks great in anything ...but we can add bow ties to the list.Her husband Rohan Browne hasstarted a news business, His Hand-some Self, which is being promotedon Facebook.

★ Adriana Stadler, based in Bern, Switzerland , will be the FootscrayCommunity Arts Centre international artist-in-residence from Sep-

tember 28-October 10. She will give a free talk at 2pm, Saturday, October6, at the Gabrielle Gallery, 46 Moreland St, Footscray.

★ Melbourne TV-radio veteran Dan Webb is enjoying a month-longvisit from his son, who lives in Brazil, and works as a lecturer on

biodynamic horticulture.

★ Marion Joseph, publicist at the Arts Centre advises that the CapeTown Opera will perform this Friday (Sept. 7). A the second gala

performance, on Sunday (Sept. 9), will feature excerpts from MandelaTrilogy – a musical tribute to the life of Nelson Mandela.

★ Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek are being replaced on their Nova100 breakfast program this week by ‘Maz, Dan and Shane’.

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At the Palais

Straight from the heart♥ E-Mail: mark@localmedia.com.au

Mark Richardson

SMALL CREATURE COMFORT■ When we think of the larger ani-mals at the zoo, elephants, giraffes,lions, tigers, rhinos, hippos, gorillasand zebras generally spring to mind.

When we think of smaller species,seldom do we reel off names such asthe Regent Honeyeater, the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby, the New HollandMouse, the Spotted Tree Frog or theEastern Barred Bandicoot; and foralarming reason.

These smaller and unique speciesare found nowhere but south-easternAustralia and among some of ZoosVictoria's top 20 'Threatened Species'.

Tragically, they are being pushedto the brink of extinction by habitatloss, introduced species, infectiousdiseases, fire and climate change.

Zoos Victoria's three zoos -Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctu-ary, and Werribee Open Range Zooare committed to restoring viablepopulations of our most endangeredspecies in the wild through captivebreeding and reintroduction programs,to ensure that no Victorian terrestrialvertebrate species becomes extinct.

Sir David Attenborough cel-ebrated the remarkable work by thezoo's breeders at the Melbourne Zoolast month by admiring one of oursmaller and fragile species, The LordHowe Island Stick Insect, which hasbeen saved by from the brink of ex-tinction.

With the clock ticking, WerribeeOpen Range Zoo's General Manager

ZoologicalPorch

Thoughtsof Life Sciences, Madelon Willem-sen, is responsible for the zoo's entireanimal collection and passionateabout their 'Fighting Extinction', andon her 'Zoological Porch' explainedwhy their slogan 'Not on our watch!'has become more than a statement -it's a critical call to action to raiseawareness to save many of our en-dangered species.

When did you first fall in lovewith animals?

I grew up in Arnhem in Hollandjust near the Burgers Zoo. When Iwas 11, my mum bought me a zoopass and each day after school I rodemy bike to the zoo to hang out withthe animals.

What studies did you undertake?I started with Biology and com-

pleted a Masters in Animal Behaviourand Physiology in 1998. In 2011 I fin-ished my Masters in Project Manage-ment.

When did you commence work-ing in Zoos?

As soon as I graduated. I workedin the Amsterdam Zoo as aBehavioural Biologist in 1998 for twoyears before moving to Australia.This huge move was for my love of

the Australian marsupials.What is an Animal Behavioural

Biologist?I studied the behaviour of ani-

mals in their exhibits and I increasedthe opportunities for animals to dis-play natural behaviours.

A monkey for ex ample, must beable to climb and brachiate to trees.

A meerkat must be able to digand sit on rock and see that theirmobis are safe.

An important part was creatinginteresting ways of finding food andchallenge animals' minds to do dif-ferent things each day which iscalled behavioural enrichment.

I always kept the natural envi-ronment in mind for each animal.

You furthered your studies inMasters of Project Managementand in May 2012, awarded theGrosvenor Master of Project Man-agement Award and the Royal In-stitute of Chartered SurveyorsProject Management Prize at theDesign, Architecture and BuildingPrize Ceremony in Sydney; obtain-ing the highest weighted markacross the course and recognisedfor high achievement in ProjectAppraisal and Finance. How doyou apply these skills at the zoo?

My position as a GM is complex,and involves managing the day today operations, staff, a large bud-get, conservation efforts and plan-ning the long term strategy of ourentire animal collection.

My Masters has given me a goodinsight in strategic management oforganisations and appropriate deci-sion making in a situation.

I also learnt to self-reflect andtake on the appropriate role in a teamto get the best outcome.

Sometime down the track I'd liketo investigate the varied success ofzoo conservation and recovery pro-grams, to learn why some are suc-cessful and the pitfalls of those thatare not.

What is one of the biggest con-servation and recovery programsyou are currently working on?

One of the programs involvingtime, resources and a lot of energyis the recovery of the EasternBarred Bandicoot.

We are aiming for a zoo free ofrabbits, foxes and cats by building alarge feral proof fence around it.

This will allow us to breed andrelease Eastern Barred Bandicootsin the zoo as they are extinct on themainland and only exist in othermanaged reserves at the moment.

●●●●● Madelon Willemson. Inset: Eastern Barred Bandicoot

How do you inspire people tohelp save our native species fromextinction?

The Eastern Barred Bandicootis a good example. They are quiteelusive and by hand-rearing them,they become quite tame. They arenocturnal and not orientated towardspeople so we need to condition them.

We can create an area where theconditions are favourable for theirsurvival and they can roam free, theydo really well and can breed up tofive times a year.

By exhibiting them, we can helpcreate emotional connections by visi-tors actually seeing them. We arealso planning to introduce Brush-tailed Rock-wallabies, Leadbeater'sPossums and Lord Howe IslandStick Insects into our collection soonwith similar recovery programs.

What are the best ways we canall help you fight extinction?

Come to the zoo and become zoomembers. There are different thingsyou can do like safari tours or slum-ber safaris with plenty of animal in-teraction at night.

We are aiding in the protection ofZebras by selling traditional beadedbracelets and necklaces made inMelako, Africa.

The money raised provides fami-lies in Melako with an income sothey no longer have hoofstock com-peting with Zebras.

We have another program ofrecycling mobiles phones called,'They're Calling On You', to helpraise money for the rangers who areprotecting the population of theMountain Gorillas in the Demo-cratic Republic of the Congo.

What is your Porch Thought ofThe Day?

I feel very honoured to be work-ing with the extraordinary staff atWerribee Open Range Zoo and ZoosVictoria, and other organisations thatare also incredibly passionate aboutsaving the Eastern Barred Bandi-coot.

We want to do everything we canto protect this creature and other en-dangered native species, that's whyour 'Fighting Extinction' campaignis so important.

We've identified the animals wethink are most at risk and we aredoing all we can to prevent their ex-tinction - we don't want to lose theseamazing creatures forever, not onour watch!

- Mark Richardson

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MORNING MELODIESAT HAMER HALL

■ Take one popular classical musicconductor, add a singer in her prime wholights up the stage whenever she appearsand add a dash of youthful talent andwhat do you have?

The answer is the next Morning Melo-dies concerts, with a title to reflect thewinter we have just all endured, as theshow is called Singin' in the Rain andMore with Victorian Opera.

The concert has been devised by re-tiring Victorian Opera music director Ri-chard Gill, a man who loves nothing bet-ter than sharing his passion for musicwith a packed Hamer Hall.

The singers will be the mezzo-so-prano Roxane Hislop and young tenor ofthe moment, handsome Daniel Todd.

The audience will be taken back tothe golden age of Broadway and Holly-wood, with Roxane and Daniel perform-ing songs from Lerner and Loewe,Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kanderand Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, theGershwins and Irving Berlin - all show-biz royalty of the 20th century.

There are two performances of Sing-ing' In The Rain and More with Victo-rian Opera on Monday (Sept. 10) at 11amand 1.30 pm.

Bookings and information:artscentremelbourne.com.au or 1300182 183

- Julie Houghton

●●●●● Andrew Raiskums conducting Gloriana

St John Passion at South Yarra

■ This Sunday (Sept. 9) is a red-letter dayfor lovers of big choral works.

Gloriana Chamber Choir is presentingBach's St John Passion with an impressiveline up of soloists.

Mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell will bejoined by rising young soprano HannahDahlenberg, tenor Tim Reynolds, recentlyheard in Victorian Opera's Double Bill andyoung baritone Matthew Tng.

This performance marks the debut ofyoung tenor Jacob Lawrence in the role of theEvangelist, making this event a bit of a familyaffair, as Jacob's mother is harpsichordistElizabeth Anderson, who will also be part ofthe performance.

Completing this line up is popularMelbourne bass-baritone from SongmakersAustralia, Nicholas Dinopoulos as Jesus.

Gloriana Chamber Choir director AndrewRaiskums is delighted he has been able toattract such a fine line up of soloists.

"The St John Passion is a massive work,much-beloved of Bach aficionados but alsoanyone who loves good music, and this is oneof the best groups of soloists I have workedwith and I have an astonishing array of periodinstrumentalists involved.

“The choir is sounding superb, and as thiswork is so popular, we have had to move fromour usual concert venue to Christ ChurchSouth Yarra to accommodate all the players,singers and audience." - Julie Houghton

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●●●●● Philip Brady and Kevin Trask, with Kevin’s daughter Natalie Kennan ●●●●● Gerry Murray, Cate Trask and Mandy Murray at the birthday party

●●●●● Sandra McCurdy and Robert Williams at QPO for Kevin Trask’s birthday

Friends gather at QPO for Kevin Trask’s birthday

●●●●● Reg Gorman, Kevin Trask and Henri DeGorter

DeputyLordMayorvisits■ City of MelbourneDeputy Lord Mayor CrSusan Riley visited theBox Hill studios ofcommunity station3WBC FM to appearon the Life And StyleProgram hosted byYvonne Lawrence,2pm Mondays.

Photo: Bob Richardson

Russian National Ballet tours

●●●●● The Russian National Ballet Theatre will tour Swan Lake and Sleeping Beautyacross Victoria from October 22-November 7, with performances at Warragul,Monee Ponds, Sale, Shepparton, Bendigo, Warrnambool and Ballarat. TGhe Rus-sian National Ballet Theatre - with more than 50 performers - was founded withthe support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. They will pro-vide full-lenth classical performances.

Drought and rain■ French-Vietnamese choreographer, Ea Sola,brings her internationally revered work Drought andRain (re-creation 2011) to the Arts CentreMelbourne on Thurs.-Sat, September 20-22.

Exploring traditional Vietnamese song anddance in a contemporary framework, Drought andRain will see 12 elderly Vietnamese womenpresent their experiences of the Vietnam Warthrough compelling movement, music and gesture.

Commissioned by the Edinburgh Festival,Napoli Teatro Festival Italia and Sadler’s Wells inLondon, this production is a recreation of Sola’s1995 work.

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●●●●● Barry Friedlander (Chaim) and Toni Joel (Kelly) in JYM TheatreCompany’s production of Chaim’s Love Song, being presented atthe Phoenix Theatre, Elwood until September 9. Photo: Des McMillan.

■ One of the world’s greatest choirs –The Vienna Boys Choir - is returning toAustralia for a special national tour.

The Choir will perform at four Victo-rian venues (Geelong Performing ArtsCentre, Hamer Hall, Monash Uni andFrankston Arts Centre) from Septem-ber 27-30.

A highlight of the tour will include thepremiere of a new Australian work bycomposer Elena Kats-Chernin.

Based on the much-loved Australianpoem, My Country by DorotheaMackellar, the piece has been speciallycommissioned for the choir for this visit. In its first tour of Australia since 2005,the Vienna Boys’ Choir will feature 25carefully chosen choristers between theages of 9 to 14 performing a wide rangeof its inspiring repertoire from the Re-naissance to works by composers suchas Mozart, Johann Strauss and Schubert.

For more than 500 years the ViennaBoys Choir (or Wiener Sängerknaben)has been an enduring symbol of Europe,having performed woks of composerssuch as Fux, Salieri, Haydn, Brucknerand Schubert (who was himself a cho-rister) as well as conductors such asClaudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein,Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Sir GeorgeSolti.

Chaim’s Love Song

●●●●● Yvonne Malikand Caroline

Ferguson GRAND DESIGNS

Melbourne Observationswith Matt Bissett-Johnson

■ JYM Theatre presents its inaugu-ral play season by staging MarvinChernoff’s charming play Chaim’sLove Song until September 9 at thePhoenix Theatre, 101 Glenhuntly Rd,Elwood.

The company is excited to be tack-ling a new style of show.

Producer and company founderShlom Eshel says: “Over the past 10years JYM has grown from strength tostrength.

“I have a dedicated team and manysupporters … it was the right time toexpand.”

JYM provides a connection to theJewish community for many of itsmembers and provides a unique op-portunity for individuals who, for reli-

gious reasons (such as inability to per-form on the Sabbath), may not be ableto participate in mainstream compa-nies.

Directed by Brendan Cohen,Chaim's Love Song is a poignant, heart-warming comedy about laughter andtragedy, the power of memory and oursearch for love and meaning.

When an elderly Jewish man meetsa young Gentile woman sitting on hispark bench, an unlikely friendshipblooms from awkward beginnings.

Tickets: $35 Opening Night all tick-ets; General adult $33, Conc/group 10+$30, Tues. $30 all tickets.

Bookings: www.jymtheatre.com ,tickets@jymtheatre.com or 0408 024224.

●●●●● Elena Kats-Chernin and members of Vienna Boys Choir

The choir is one of the world’s mostactive musical ensembles and performsmore than 300 concerts a year.

While providing the music for theSunday Mass in Vienna’s ImperialChapel – which they have done since1498 – the choir also tours internation-ally, performing each year in some ofthe world’s finest concert halls.

Elena Kats-Chernin has been inVienna rehearsing with the young choirwho are excited by their up- coming tour.

“I love the clarity and agility of thosevoices. They can be bird-like as well asearthy, depending on the registers andthere is much vocal colour to inspire acomposer.

“VBC is an incredible ensemble, theperfection of their singing is second tonone and I feel free to write challengingtextures.”

This is an unique opportunity to expe-rience the beauty of 25 of the world’syoungest voices in one of the world’s old-est musical traditions.

See the website for dates, venues andbooking information:

www.viennaboyschoir.com.au

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TO PERFORMAT FOUR VENUES

●●●●● Les Cooper

Big day

■ Freemasons willthrow their doors opento the public on Satur-day, Sept. 15, for anopen reconsecreationceremony for theDuke of RichmondLodge, to be held at theWaverley MasonicCentre, StephensonsRd. The 4pm eventwill be followed drinksand a banquet hostedby Master Les Cooper.

Back again

■ Davina (CarolineFerguson) and Lay-Lah (Yvonne Mailk)will perform a secondseason of their AnArab Awakening In AToorak Cellar show atThe Portland Hotel,127 Russell St, as partof the 2012Melbourne FringeFestival between Sep-tember 26 and Octo-ber 14.

Bookings:melbournefringe.com.au or call9660 9666.

■ Grand Design LiveMelbourne will be at theMelbourne Convention and Ex-hibition Centre from September21-23.

The show will feature KevinMcCloud, Peter Maddison,Shaynna Blaze, Andrew Winter,Bryce Holdaway and CharlieAlbone (The LifeStyle Chan-nel).

Grand Designs Live is billedas one of the best places to gofor great advice, inspiration andtips for the home. The show willinclude free workshops with ce-lebrities. ●●●●● Charlie Albone

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For with leading Melbournepublicist DI ROLLE

I love my job!I love my job!

ED LOVES VISITING HERE

●●●●● Ed Byrne

■ One person wholoves coming toMelbourne is EdByrne.

No, not Cookiefrom 77 Sunset Strip!Boy that ages me!

I am talking aboutthe comedian EdByrne. As an observa-tional stand-up Ed isunrivalled.

He has notchedtwo decades of stand-up with multiple ap-pearances on Conanand The GrahamNorton Show.

Since gaining in-famy for his notoriousslamming of AlanisMorissette and her hitsingle Ironic, (see it onYouTube)Ed Byrnehas transcended hiscontroversial begin-nings to become‘comedy’s Holy Grail’selling out tours andresidencies to farreaching audiences inthe UK, France, Sing-apore and Bermuda!

Trust me, this guyis very funny and veryclever.

I will be goingalong to see him at theAthenaeum Theatre,Monday, October 22.

The Guardian inLondon said of him:“his wit won deafen-ing cheers and footstomping” – ticketsavailable throughTicketek, 132 849www.ticketek.com.au

Romantic■ Let me tell youabout an excitingyoung man who iscoming to perform atMelbourne RecitalCentre.

His name isNemanja Radulovic,Serbian-born, violiniste x t r a o r d i n a i r e ,recognised in Europeas ‘The InternationalRevelation of the Year’at the Victories de laMusique (EuropeanAssociation of ArtistManagers).

●●●●● Nemanja Radulovic

mother Alyson, laugh-ing with my sister Debiwho has the driestsense of humour andjust absolutely cracksme up, laughing withmy sister Jacky - sheand I are blessed toshare the best sense offun when we are to-gether.

Watching the foot-ball makes me happy,particularly when itsCollingwood and theyare winning.

Reading VanityFair magazine on theplane or in bed. I lovethat.

Swimming. Wash-ing my face in verycold water. I love that.

Hot showers, theymake me happy.

Reading books, Ilove reading books,

I love watchingtelevision, that makesme happy, particularlywhen it’s JohnStewart, StephenColbert or ChelseaLately.

I even manage toget a laugh out of thelatest Big Brother se-ries, my secret televi-sion watching!

It’s good to reflecton a question like that.

I think it’s impor-tant to reflect on ev-ery day.

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●●●●● Gina Rinehart

■ Drink less and work more, or drink moreand work less?

I had to listen very carefully to what theworld’s wealthiest woman, the very privi-leged Gina Reinhart, recommended,

Oh dear she does polarise people.At first I thought maybe she has a point

and then I thought, no, mean spirited andjudgemental.

I work hard and drink less certainly as Iam getting olderm but by Jiminy Cricket, mostAustralians I know work damn hard and doenjoy a drink at the end of the day. I feel theydeserve it.

A cold beer at the end of the day neverhurt anyone. So I don’t know about Gina.

I do try to like her and admire her in someways but she certainly packs a punch whenshe makes statements like that.

I was lucky to meet a visiting Italian jour-nalist during the week and she was sayinghow expensive it is here. Car parks particu-larly. She couldn’t believe the cost of carparks.

One of the things she did say was what abeautiful city Melbourne is.

I felt very proud showing her some of thesights in Melbourne, particularly theMelbourne Recital Centre which she adored.

She said our lifestyle was to be enviedeven though it was a little costly.

And she is right, we have a wonderful city,so much so that people, particularly enter-tainers, love coming here.

Important rituals■ I love ritual and when I lose someone spe-cial in my life I light a candle.

I lit three candles this past week when Iremembered Princess Diana, Michael Jack-son for his birthday, and my dear father Peterwhose first Father’s Day passed without him.

I do try to like Gina

Aged 26, Nemanjawill astound with hisvirtuosic aplomb andflair not to mention hisflowing raven mane.

He looks like adashing 19th centuryromantic virtuoso onstage and sends con-cert audiences intorapture wherever heperforms in the world.

He began his mu-sical studies in 1992.He has won many in-ternational prizes.

He plays a violinmade by J.B.Vuill-aume in 1843.

He will play withEnsemble Liaison atthe Elisabeth Mur-doch Hall on Thurs-day, September 20 aspart of their Local He-roes 2012 series,

I know I will be atthis performance.Tickets $50 ($40 con-cession) bookings visitmelbournerecital.com.auor phone 9699 3333.

Happiness■ And for a com-plete change of pace,I received a blog in myinbox from The Hap-piness Project writtenby Gretchen Ruben inNew York.

I enjoy reading her

notes every Fridaynight when they comein.

Her latest washeaded “You KnowWhat Detracts FromHappiness? Rushing”– and I thought abso-lutely, it really reso-nated with me.

One of the ques-tions asked was“What’s a simple ac-tivity that consistentlymakes you happier?”

I love this question.Laughing would haveto be mine. Laughingwith friends, laughingat television, GrouchoMarx movies, memo-ries of my father,laughing with my

Visit to 3AW

●●●●● Melbourne Observer Birthday Bul-letin columnist Greg Newman (Centre)dropped by for a late night visit to 3AW,and met with Phlip Brady and BruceMansfield.

Greg enjoyed a brief on-air interviewwith Andrew McLaren about the ori-gins of Jocks’ Journal, the radio in-dustry publication which Greg edits.

Greg and Phil enjoyed a midnightsnack at Pie Face in Spencer St.

●●●●● 3AW newsman Gary McQuade withGreg Newman.

Musica Viva

■ Musica Viva has launched its 2013 Con-cert Season■ Karin Schaupp and Pavel Steidl■ Morgenstern Trio and Christopher Moore■ Tokyo String Quartet■ Jian Wang and Bernadette Harvey■ Elias String Quartet■ Angela Hewitt■ Academy of Ancient Music and SaraMacliver■ With featured works by Peter Sculthorpe,Ross Edwards, Carl Vine and MatthewHindson

Musica Viva says its International Con-cert Season 2013 is an outstanding showcaseof the organisation's trademark combinationof exciting Australian debut appearancesalongside welcome return tours.

Across the seven tours next year, ac-claimed international music stars will bringtheir vital skills to national audiences, provid-ing unforgettable musical experiences.

The Tokyo String Quartet will give theirsixth tour with Musica Viva, having sharedmore than 30 years of history with Austra-lian audiences.

This will also be its last, as the group isretiring.

Carl Vine, Musica Viva's Artistic Directorcomments: 'We are deeply honoured that theTokyo String Quartet, the world's pre-emi-nent quartet, has chosen to tour with MusicaViva for the finale of its 40-year career.”

Australian audience favourite and re-nowned Bach pianist Angela Hewitt returnsfor her first national recital tour, performingperhaps the composer's most remarkablemusic, The Art of Fugue.

In a season of great collaborations, Aus-tralian soprano Sara Macliver joins the Acad-emy of Ancient Music, directed by RichardEgarr, for a tour celebrating the group's forti-eth anniversary in 2013.

There is also an exciting new collabora-tion with Czech master guitarist Pavel Steidljoining Australia's Karin Schaupp for a spe-cial concert exploring the history of the guitarduo.

These two charismatic performers willbring Australia's most popular instrument tolife in a delightful interplay between friends.

Season performances will take place inAdelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne,Newcastle, Perth and Sydney.

ConfidentialMelbourne

Whispers

Rumour Mill

Hear It Here First

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Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless

■ Retired churchmanMal Garvin, most re-cently in the headlinesover misconduct allega-tions made by DerrynHinch, has taken a side-ways swipe at the ‘Hu-man Headline’.

Garvin took to Face-book to comment, afterHinch’s contract was notrenewed at 3AW.

“Noticed that DerrynHinch has been given hismarching orders from3AW.

“Last time that hap-pened I gave him a job.Iwonder who will thistime”

Garvin was Manag-ing Director of Mel-bourne radio station3AK, leaving millions ofdollars in unpaid debts.

Garvin was in chargeat the station which col-lapsed financially, leav-ing many staff withoutleave or superannuationentitlements.

Go Homer!

●●●●● The famous nude Chloe overlooksLegacy children Ron Barassi and RussellMorris with Legacy's oldest and longest-serving President of the Legacy Widows,Myra Healey, 95, at the launch of LegacyWeek at Young and Jackson’s Hotel

●●●●● Mal Garvin

●●●●● Zero Mostel

■ The share price forFairfax Media this weekcollapsed dangerouslynear the 40-cent mark.The same shares weremore than $6, a decadeago. Ten Network sharesfell under the 40-cent marklate last week.

Some media observerscomment that the sadshare prices are like ascene from The Produc-ers. ‘ It’s an ill wind thatblows nobody any good.’

‘So, you’re an accountant?’

JP takes Forum account

●●●●● J P Bolton

■ The Rumour Millhears that Melbournepublicist J P Bolton hastaken over the publicityaccount for A FunnyThing Happened On TheWay To The Forum,which opens at Her Maj-esty’s Theatre on Octo-ber 20.

J P is said to be takingover the account from themuch-respcted SuzieHowie.

●●●●● Derryn Hinch

“In the name of whathe thinks is autonomy,heis often known to bite thehand that feeds him. I stillwish you well Derryn.

“We never did finishthat chat about psycolog-ical (sic) dramas.

“May be over a cup ofcoffee some time.”

A Garvin friend,Gerard Bongiorno, said:"Never heard you have adig before."

Garvin said: “Yes Iusually chose to remain

silent ... history will even-tually make sure the truthwill come out.

“I would love to chatwith him some time.”

Garvin has not alwaysbeen so keen to talk withHinch.

In 2010, Hinch la-belled Garvin as “repul-sive” and “hypocritical”,detailing allegations thatGarvin had betrayed avulnerable young woman.

Garvin’s Fusionorganisation found he hadacted inappropriately.

AIRPORT CAR PARKRIP-OFF: EDITOR

●●●●● Homer Simpson■ Whispers hearsthat The Simpsonsmay return to the6pm weeknighttimeslot on Channel10 from next year,followed by Neigh-bours at 6.30pm.

Hold thephone

Legacy Week launches

●●●●● Ron Barassi with Legacy's Byrce Phillips

●●●●● (From left): Colonel Andrew MacLean;Lieutenant Commander Allan Jenkins, Com-manding Officer, HMAS Cerberus; and LtColJohn Butler-William; with Myra Healey.

&SharpShort

■■■■■ Fairfax Media’s market capitalisation fell un-der $1 billion on Monday to a new low of 42 cents. Itprices The Age newspaper business at several hun-dred million dollars at best.

■■■■■ APN News & Media Limited CEO Peter Myersfell on his sword this week, resigning to “pursueother interests”. His company was in the red for$319 million. The company has wished him well.

●●●●● Observer Editor Ash Long’s car parkingdocket from Tullamarine Airport. It was chargedat $119,rather than the sign-posted $115. Howmany others were ripped off - at $4 a pop?

■ Melbourne Observer Editor Ash Long wonders howmany motorists were ‘ripped off’ at Tullamarine Air-port ‘s car park at the weekend.

New signs have been erected, listing higher prices.Long drove in at 4.48am Saturday, and left at 11.28amSunday, taking it into the 2-3 days zone ($115).

Instead of $115, the machine charged $119.Long says he approached two Airport Car Park

staff: “They had a care factor of zero. They said I couldfill out a form if I wanted to pursue a refund.”

■ They must be atalkative bunch ofCouncilloors at theCity of Hume, inMelbourne’s north-ern suburbs.

The nine Coun-cillors have rackedup phone bills total-ling $46,991.15.

Cr Jack Ogilvieand Cr Adem At-maca each hadphone bills of morethan $10,000. Don’tthey have cappedphone plans out thatway?

In Court

■ W h o l e s a l e rQuality Food Worldof Mordialloc is toface the FederalMagistrates’ Courton November 5, ac-cused of having un-derpaid 46 employ-ees by a total of$316,795.

The Fair WorkOmbudsman saysthe employees wereunderpaid on mini-mum hourly rates,casual loadings,public holiday payand overtime.

HARK THE HERALD ‘ANGELS’

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Thought For The Week■ “When a man answers the phone he reaches for apen. When a woman answers she reaches for a chair.”

Observer Curmudgeon■ “Temper is a funny thing. It spolis children, ruinsmen, and strengthens steel.”

Text For The Week■ “Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge orputs up security for debts; if you lack the means topay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.”

- Proverbs 22:26-27

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What does Freemasonry Mean to You?Ask any Freemason what the organisation means

to them and you will get a different answer:brotherhood, community service, self-improvement.

But what does the average person on the streetthink about Freemasonry? We spoke to a few well-known personalities, to get their view on the matter.

Dan Brown, author of The Lost Symbol"In a world where men do battle over whose

definition of God is more accurate, I cannotadequately express the deep respect andadmiration I feel toward an organisation in whichmen of differing faiths are able to 'break breadtogether' in a bond of brotherhood, friendship andcamaraderie."

Andrew Bolt, Herald-Sun columnist"I know almost nothing about Freemasons other

than that Mozart was a member."Dianne Butler, News Limited TV Critic"Everything I know about the Masons I learnt

watching The Simpsons!"Alison Rae Jones, Director La Prima Opera"I have to admit to very little understanding of

the Freemasons society. Some men I greatly respectare members, however I have never talked to themabout it.

“Perhaps I have performed in too many Mozartoperas and like to keep the mystery of Freemasonryalive?

“My sense is they do similar, fine humanitarianwork to Rotary and Lions Clubs. I will be inclined tofind out more when women can become members."

Dan Ryan, Sports Broadcaster"I really admire and appreciate the values and

morals of the Freemason society. What theyrepresent and what they believe in is very worthwhile and it's certainly something I see in a positivelight.

“We should all aspire to be the very best humanbeing possible. However, I do believe there is stilla lack of understanding on what Freemasonry is allabout and it remains unclear how someonebecomes involved in the organisation."

Mark Bolton, Ladder General Manager"We have been working with Freemasons for over ayear now and have found them to be a very generousorganisation in time, money and spirit.

“I still have a lot to learn regarding the history ofthe organisation but am impressed by theimportance of equality, benevolence and traditionto the Freemasons."

Matthew Finnis, AFL Players' Association CEO &Ladder Board Member

"The financial support provided by theFreemasons in recent years has greatly assistedLadder in their battle to address the issue of youthhomelessness.

“While there has historically been muchmystique regarding the Freemasons, in myexperience their generosity has certainly shownthey have a strong sense of community and desireto help those less fortunate."

Father Bob Maguire"Catholics have always had a disjointed view of

the Freemasons due to advisories in Rome issuinginstructions to avoid joining the Freemasons onthe grounds that it is 'Godless'.

“My experience of the Freemasons over 50 yearsis that it is a benevolent group driven by secularhumanism at its best and inspired by spirituality, ifnot religion."

What does Freemasonry

Dan Ryan, sports broadcaster

TV Times suspended■ In line with a number of other newspapers, theMelbourne Observer is suspending publication ofits TV Times program guide.

We are experiencing difficulty in securing up-to-date program information from the networks toassemble a meaningful guide for our readers.

Television stations seem reluctant to air programsat advertised times, and there are many changes atthe last minute. We recommend that where pos-sible, readers use Electronic Program Guides ontheir digital TVs or cable sets.

mean to you?

●●●●● Len Baker

■ Our harness racingcolumnist Len Baker istouring the MargaretRiver region of WesternAustralia.

We expect Len’s col-umn will return in ourSeptember 19 edition.

Trottingaround WA

●●●●● Bryan Simpson

●●●●● Don Kinsey■ Long Shots was intro-duced to the group by ourfriend, Don Kinsey, aformer executive of theHerald-Sun radio station3DB.

The luncheon group,meeting at the RACV CityClub, included memberssuch as Keith Dunstan,Geoff Hook, Dan Webb,Mal Walden, Chris deFraga, Gerry Devine andDes Anderson.

Photos are on Page 40.Bryan Simpson told

me his newspaper careerstarted as The TaranakiHerald, the same paperwhere Derryn Hinch hadhis start as a teenager.

Bryan’s career wenton The New Zealand Her-ald in Auckland, beforegetting ‘the call’ to joinHWT.

Radio ads■ This week sees the90th anniversary of the

Promo pricenears end

■ Our special price re-duction for the MelbourneObserver will come to anclose at the end of thismonth.

Our cover price willreturn to the regular costof $2.95 per copy.

If you want to securecopies of the Observer atthe cheaper price for thenext year, fill out the cou-pon on Page 35.

●●●●● Rhonda Palmer

Theatre news■ Eltham Little Theatrewas gracious in acknowl-edging the work of ourcolumnist Cheryl Thread-

gold. ELT’s newsletterChookas said: “Chookasis very sad to hear that thatthe 3AW CommunityTheatre segment wasbroadcast for the last timeon Wednesday, August15.

“The segment hasbeen supporting commu-nity and independent the-atre for just on 21 years.

“The segment was thebrain child of legendaryMelbourne radio pre-senter Keith McGowan.

“For the last sevenyears the wonderfulCheryl Threadgold, whohas been a fabulous sup-porter of ELT, presentedthe segment with passionand enthusiasm.

“Cheryl has been in-credible in her support ofeverything that ELT hasdone and she is a truechampion of communitytheatre.

“Keith retired in Julylast year and the program

●●●●● Cheryl Threadgold

is to be broadcast on a na-tional network. Unfortu-nately local Melbournetheatre news is not a na-tional interest story so thesegment has beendropped.”

Our thanks■ Eltham Little Theatreeditors Beth Klein andCarol Owen continued:

“Not all is lost however- Cheryl will continue topromote and advertise in-dependent and commu-nity theatre news in hercolumn Independent andCommunity Theatre inthe Melbourne Observer.

“Chookas encouragesall of you to support whatCheryl does for commu-nity theatre and buy theMelbourne Observer and,even better, let the editorknow just how much weappreciate news aboutMelbourne’s independentand community theatre bywriting to the editor andletting the publisher knowjust how much we appre-ciate it.”

Thanks ELT.

Radio waves■ Elsewhere this weekwe report on Tony Mo-clair’s debut on 3AW.Listenmers have their sayon Page 34. Will Tony bereplaced already by MikeBrady?

As my colleagueYvonne Lawrence says,on Page 13 (at right), ra-dio is a brutal business.

BRUTAL TRUTHS OF RADIO

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■ Radio can be brutal. Deadlines, interviews: the highsand lows, ratings that dip, and of course the ego thatgets out of hand, can all take its toll if you let it.

It’s true; you really must keep your feet on the groundbecause you can be a rooster one day and a featherduster the next.

I felt for Derryn Hinch, not only was he a colleaguewhen I worked at 3AW, but because I’d also been onthe receiving end of being told that my program wasbeing axed to make way for a sports program.

And here I was at the top of the totem pole, but itwas such a blokey station then. Come to think of it, itstill is!

Who needs enemies?■ It’s the no warning that gets to you. Being top ofyour time slot keeps you from even thinking that yourprogramwill end.

It was shattering being called into the boss’s officeand told that my last program had really been my last.

And when I said that I still had my Sunday programI was surprised to learn that Mansfield and Bradywanted to add my time to theirs, so it was a done deal.

At the time I asked myself why would I need en-emies when I had friends such as Mansfield and Brady.But it was only momentarily.

Not being allowed to say goodbye to listeners washard, but if that was the directive from managementthen so be it.

Sacked 15 times■ It is my feeling that although Hinch brags aboutbeing sacked 15 times; it is his way of saving face atyet another sacking. It’s his way of coping.

Derryn, there has to be a message there somewhere.Why did you have to mention that Tom Elliott was

replacing you?Was it just to be first with the news?Was it to destroy Elliott before he started if in fact

you knew for certain? You have been known to givecredibility to a rumour before.

And why would you go to air about Steve Vizardbeing used as a fill-in. Voice how you feel to the pow-ers that be, but not on air.

If he was so angry about it, then talk to manage-ment, but don’t question their directive on air.

They run the station and not the broadcasters.

Concern about jobs■ Many years ago Tony Bell saved 3AW when it wason its knees. He took the tough decisions and of coursestaff were nervous.

But only those who weren’t pulling their weight hadreason to be concerned about their jobs.

When I look back, the sackings were necessary.Bell knew what every member of staff should be doingand if he or she was freewheeling, they faced the con-sequences.

Derryn’s loyal listeners have been taken out of their

comfort zone and reacted, as one would expect, buthopefully they will not take out their disappointment onthe advertisers or indeed his replacement.

Give the person a chance.I hope we are not going to hear how Derryn has

been to jail, done community service, been under housearrest etc, etc, ad nauseum?

That’s Life■ Remember when Margaret Fletcher’s program wasdumped? She walked out, with head held high, andnever ever made any public comment.

Changing community attitudes can be difficult, butif you have a microphone on a top rating station, thenyou will draw crowds and create publicity for yourcauses. It’s not all that hard.

I’d like to think that Derryn would step back, take arest and not write to papers and appear on televisionabout his sacking.

Let it go and think about tomorrow.Something tells me that Derryn won’t have a holi-

day, and he will pop up on television and in newsprintstill talking about his dismissal.

But in Derryn’s words: That’s life.

Dementia in animals■ Last night I attended the AGM of 94.1FM radio sta-tion. It wasn’t a long meeting, and I think we were allanxious to get home and out of the blizzard, whichseemed to be blowing us along the street to our car.

I walked with friend Ken Lyons and I mentioned tohim that Moosh, my cat, was in the grip of dementia.

Ken told me that one of his dogs used to sit in acorner and face the wall. Goodness knows what hewas thinking, but it’s heartbreaking to see your much-loved animal behaving in a strange way.

Moosh seems to be sleeping around the clock, butjust when I think he is never going to wake up he disap-pears and brings in a mouse that he has caught.

Where does he find a mouse in the middle of theday?

Sometimes he sits in the hall and lets out the loudestyowl and we know now he is having a feline seniormoment and has lost his bearings.

We pick him up, give him a cuddle, which is thesignal to start his motor up, and he purrs at full strengthwhen we reassure him everything is okay.

You’d think that he’d know it was mealtime becauseof hunger pains, but he plays with his food, although hehasn’t lost an ounce in weight.

Heartbreaking to watch■ Moosh has become very particular with his groom-ing and washes himself non-stop. He’s also becomevery clingy.

He can’t stand to see you read a book or the paper,and endeavours to get between you and what you areattempting to read

We are keeping a log of his behaviour to take to thevet, but meantime, we are making him feel safe andloved.

Ken and I agreed that it is heartbreaking when youranimals grow old and become ill. At least we are ableto do something to ease their suffering, something thatwe can’t do for our loved ones at present.

I know it is a very cold winter, and food is scarce forour wildlife, because a squadron of ringtail ‘Ninja’ pos-sums have attacked my loquat tree and eaten every lastyoung leaf and bud.

The tree is completely denuded of foliage exceptthe small fruit, which is just forming. No doubt they willbe next on the menu.

I think I would rather have had them eat the bushrose that has gone out of control than the loquat tree.But never mind, we can’t always have what we want.

Galloping to Christmas■ Spring has begun, and soon the spring racing carni-val will be on, culminating with the Melbourne Cupearly November, and then it’s down hill at a gallop toChristmas.

Already mince pies have appeared in the supermar-kets!

Have you noticed that as you get older, time flieseven faster?

Tragic isn’t it?- Yvonne

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VB returns

Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - Page 13

■ Victoria Bitterwill return to its origi-nal full strength andfull flavour from Oc-tober.

Changes to thepackaging, market-ing and recipe, witha resultant change inalcohol strength ofVictoria Bitter areamongst a raft ofchanges intended torestore Australia’smost iconic beer“back to its best”.

Concert■ The MaroondahSingers will stagetheir annual concertat the KarralykaTheatre, Ringwood,.at 2.30pm on Sun-day, September 16.

Guest artists in-clude Jordie Howell,a soprano; DrJohnAtwell on piano;and AndrewWrigglesworth, aninternationally re-nown guitarist knownforhis traditionalAmerican fingerpicking style.

“Funds raisedfrom this will enablethe choir to continueto operate, and per-form aroundMelbourne andthroughout thestate,” says Merri-lyn Velcek.

Tickets: Renata,9725 6541.

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Showbiz News

Melbourne Theatre Co announces 2013 season■ Brett Sheehy, Melbourne TheatreCompany’s Artistic Director, has announced hisinaugural MTC 2013 Season and the celebra-tion of the Company’s 60th anniversary year.

MTC Chairman Derek Young said: “As oneof Australia’s leading arts practitioners, we aredelighted that Brett Sheehy’s artistic vision willdrive MTC into the next exciting period of ourhistory.

“We see his strong theatrical background,focus on mentoring and passion for Australianwriting and artists reflected in his inaugural sea-son ensuring MTC remains one of Australia’sflagship arts companies now and into the fu-ture.”

Brett Sheehy brings a wealth of experienceto the Company with 10 festivals to his credit.

Recently he was appointed an Officer of theOrder of Australia (AO) for his distinguishedservice to the arts.

Artistic talent includes celebrated actors

Alison Bell, Catherine McClements, RobynNevin, Philip Quast, Pamela Rabe, JackiWeaver, David Wenham; award-winning direc-tors including Neil Armfield, Lee Lewis, SimonStone, Nadia Tass, Alkinos Tsilimidos; and be-hind-the-scenes creative talents.

“We welcome three new additions to theMTC artistic team in 2013 – Associate ArtisticDirector Sam Strong, Associate Director LeticiaCáceres and Literary Director Chris Mead.”

Melbourne Theatre Company celebrates theopening of its 2013 season and 60th anniversaryyear with the Australian premiere of The OtherPlace by Sharr White.

Catherine McClements and Philip Quast starin this tory of the slow unravelling of a brilliantmind, directed by multi-award-winning film andtheatre director Nadia Tass with original musicby Paul Grabowsky.

Robyn Nevin stars in Other Desert Cities byAmerican playwright Jon Robin Baitz, creator

of the hit TV series, Brothers and Sisters.Direct from London’s West End, Owain

Arthur stars in Richard Bean’s One Man, TwoGuvnors, based on Goldoni’s The Servant ofTwo Masters, with songs by Grant Olding.

Making her first return to MTC since hercelebrated Oscar nomination, Jacki Weavershares the stage with Pacharo Mzembe in theAustralian premiere of Solomon and Marionby award-winning South African playwrightLara Foot.

Celebrated actor David Wenham stars op-posite Anita Hegh in Arthur Miller’s master-piece, The Crucible.

The premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith’snew play True Minds, commissioned byMelbourne Theatre Company, is a witty storyabout love and dysfunctional family relation-ships, directed by Peter Houghton.

Playwright David Williamson takes on thegreatest media mogul with Rupert.●●●●● Brett Sheehy

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■ I remember Sir Eric Pearce and Kevin Sand-ers co- hosting the live moon landing broadcaston Channel Nine in 1969.

I think just about everyone in Australia hadthe afternoon ‘off work’ and children came homefrom school early so that we could watch thehistoric event.

Sir Eric Pearce was a wonderful newsreaderand a pioneer in Australian broadcasting andtelevision.

Eric Pearce was born in 1905 in England. Inhis teenage years Eric worked at Barclays Bankin London.

He had a love of theatre and was involvedwith The Crystal Palace Theatre before he joinedthe BBC as a newsreader.

When Eric came to Australia in the 1940s heworked at many radio stations as a manager andbroadcaster.

His first radio job was at 2CH in Sydney. Ericcompered many radio shows for 3XY includingOpera For The People and Crofts Radio Revels.

After his war service he became chief an-nouncer at 3DB. He was station manager at 5KAin Adelaide where he hired Happy Hammondas the breakfast announcer.

In the 1950s he was back at 3DB in a mana-gerial role and also compered many shows. Heemployed the legendary Geoff McComas whilstat 3DB.

When television began Eric Pearce and DanWebb were hired by HSV-7 and were amongst

WhateverHappened

To ...Sir EricPearce

By Kevin Traskof 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

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●●●●● Kevin Trask with Sir Eric Pearce

a team for three years until Eric retired and BrianNaylor became the main newsreader.

Eric would always sign off the news with hisfamous catchphrase,"God bless you, and you"the second "you" being directed at his wife.

In 1979 he went to England with his wifeBetty to receive his Knighthood. He was madea Knight Bachelor for his services to televisionin the Commonwealth of Australia.

During the 1980s he worked as a volunteer at3RPH. Sir Eric told me that one of the highlightsof his life was meeting the Pope.

Sir Eric was involved in many charities andwas a patron of the Deaf Blind Association.

Sir Eric Pearce House in Richmond, whichsupports the elderly, was named in his honour.Peter Smith would often take him out for coffeeand a chat which Sir Eric enjoyed very much.

He continued to work at Channel Nine asnews advisor and head of correspondence up tohis death in 1997 at the age of 92.

I wonder what Sir Eric would have thoughtabout the material being shown on televisionthese days.

- Kevin TraskThe Time Tunnel - with Bruce & Phil-

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■ When I moved down from AliceSprings a few years ago, I wasn't surehow regular my visits back and forthwere going to be, so I decided to befuel-consumption savvy, and pur-chased a Hyundai Getz for my jour-neys.

Now, 270,000 kms later, and manythousands of dollars saved in fuel,there's been a change of plan.

Another four-wheel drive has nowre-entered my life.

In Alice I always had Patrols, andfinally a Ssangyong 4WD, and, whilstI became attached to the Getz, thetemptation of taking over my sonJonas's X-Trail, was too much for me!

Whilst it doesn't have low range,it's nevertheless a four-wheel drivewith plenty of clearance, and I countedthe times in the past decade when I'veneeded low range, and it wasn't many.

The last time was when I droveKeith and Angie McGowan out to PalmValley - the roughest road I've everbeen on - a tank would have been abetter alternative!

I now spend some time on my bushblock in Gippsland, and the X-Trailwill be just perfect for driving acrossthe river ford, and up and down themountain tracks.

So, an ex-Getz!

■ There are a few Aboriginal artshops in my vicinity in the city centre,and I often spy a few dots as I wanderby.

There is currently talk about the di-minishing investment value of Ab-original art.

When I first moved to AliceSprings, the Todd Mall was full ofAboriginal art shops. It was claimedthat about $11m was spent on this arteach year.

I couldn't ever see this lasting inforever, and more recently quite a fewof the shops have closed.

Probably the most famous of all Ab-original artists was a mate of mine,Clifford Possum, whose works soldfor tens, and hundreds, of thousandsof dollars.

He would often drop in to my shopto say hello.

And often he would borrow moneyfrom me, and at one stage he owedme $350. He came in on this particu-lar day, and instead of cash he offeredto square up by giving me a Rolexwatch instead.

He had just come back from a tripto London with Germaine Greer, so I

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thought that maybe it was a genuinearticle. But I had just come back fromHong Kong, where everything offeredwas a ‘copy watch’.

So I opted for the cash instead.Unfortunately my friend died the

next week. I never got my $350 andto this day I don't know whether hewas offering me a genuine Rolex worththousands!

■ In 1990 a local Coober Pedy girl,Karen Michel, disappeared without atrace, and has been missing ever since.

Obviously foul play is suspected,and this ‘cold case’ has just been re-opened. It seems that there is a sus-pect who is now supplying a DNAsample.

In the same year a young Germanbackpacker was murdered and throwndown a shaft.

Even though Coober Pedy has areputation for being a ‘wild west’ town,these are two isolated incidents, andin actual fact it's very safe to walk thestreets.

A visitor or a law abiding local hasnothing to ever worry about.

There have, admittedly, been many

other incidents involving property,whereby miners may have had a dis-agreement, and gelignite is produced.

Police cars have been blown up,and the courthouse has experiencedthe same fate on a couple of occa-sions; the Acropolis nightclub and thenewspaper office and several bulldoz-ers and a house or two as well!

No personal danger, but quite spec-tacular!

■ Good old Northern Territory drink-ers! Firstly, one Darwin magistrate sen-tenced a drink driver to a three-monthjail term for his eighth drink drivingconviction. His reading was 0.141.

A subsequent magistrate reviewedthe original sentence, and said that jailshould be a ‘last resort’, and there hadbeen a significant gap between the firstconviction and the last two. So, no jailand $1000 fine.

Then another gentleman wascaught for his 14th drink driving con-viction-he got a six-month suspension!

Yet another driver parked his carin the middle of the road. He wasfound asleep with his motor still run-ning - he was 0.116

Then, whilst taking this driver to thewatch house, they encountered anotherwho stalled in front of them. They in-vestigated and found him fumbling withhis keys - he was .131.

Then an 18-year-old. P-plater, whoshould have been double zero,swerved in front of the same officersand and mounted the kerb. He was0.184

Finally, the 48-year-old gentlemanwas trying to get his car out of the Hid-den Valley carpark. He was 0.241.

Nothing changes!

■ I was testing my CB radio the otherday, and whilst I only use it rarely inthe city, to contact truckies in the vi-cinity to find out about any road block-age which I may be stuck in, it's es-sential in the bush.

I always check on the state of theroad up ahead from approaching roadtrain drivers, or how many roos arehopping about.

My original CB he was a VHS, withthe truckies' channel being "eightAmerican". The local idiots' channelwas 11.

These days it's UHF. And thetruckies are all on channel 40.

My mate Kerry Rickards a fewyears ago was part of the OutbackBallooning team. All the pilots and

ground crew kept in touch via theirCBs, which were also tuned to chan-nel 40.

One morning Kerry heard a lady'svoice crackling across the air waves:"I'm just driving into Alice Springs tow-ing a caravan and I've just hit a kan-garoo. I don't know what to do! ShouldI turn around and go back and see if

it's all right?"A reply immediately greeted her -

a friendly truckie: "I'm just behind youin a road train lady, and about 20 ofmy wheels have just run over him andhe won't be feeling too well! So Iwouldn't bother!"

- Nick Le Souef‘The Outback Legend’

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■ Listening to Labor MPs and their media maggot mates huffingand puffing about sexist and misogynist insults makes me want topuke.

Where were these wonderful, perfect people when Pauline Hansonwas being verbally and physically attacked in the most vilest ways?

I never heard Hanson insulting whites, blacks and Asians.“All Australians should be treated equally” would hardly excite

even the most politically correct anti-discrimination commissioner orwould it?

Gillard called Tony Abbott “Jack The Ripper” but where werethese sensitive darlings then? Jack The Ripper murdered prostitutesin the most gruesome way.

Gillard's racist “He's just a big Greek bullshit artist” statementwas never commented on by any of those raging multiculturalists onboth sides of parliament.

Gillard is starting to look safe for the time being and it's going to bea hard grind to the line and those Libs who were starting to eye offministerial offices had better get off their backsides and start puttingin the hard yards.

Abbott has too many wishy-washy people around him and hemust start cracking the whip given that he saved the Coalition fromcertain disaster.

Every Lib and their offices must bust their guts for Abbott and theAustralian people.

- John Pasquarelli:, kojak@mmnet.com.au

●●●●● A Hyundai Getz in the Outback

our first TV personalities in Melbourne.At the televised opening ceremony of Chan-

nel Seven on November 4, 1956 Eric Pearcestated:

“We dedicate this station to the full service ofthe community. To Australian life - the happyfamilies in the homes - we promise to serve youfaithfully and well.”

Eric Pearce presented quiz programs and pre-sented the news on HSV-7.

He was 51 at that stage and was well re-spected. When GTV-9 offered him a position asa newsreader in 1957 Eric changed stations andstayed at Channel Nine for the rest of his career.

He made regular appearances on InMelbourne Tonight with Graham Kennedy and

was a great sport in comedy sketches. His vio-lin playing was featured in many comedy rou-tines - he loved a bit of fun.

In the 1960s he would read the news at 6.30pm and the cameras would be wheeled into thenewsroom after IMT had finished for Eric toread the late news.

Eric told me in a radio interview that onenight when Bob Horsfall was compering IMTthe show finished early and Eric was asleepwith his feet on the news desk when the cam-eras arrived.

Eric told me, "They had no mercy thesepeople; they put the camera on me, asleep."

He compered several editions of IMT whenGraham Kennedy was on holidays. In 1961 hepresented A Call From Eric Pearce on 3AK.

Eric was joined by Peter Hitchener on theChannel Nine News in 1976 and they worked as

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■ Mebourne radio station 3AW lastweek moved the popular CastlereaghLine serial to 11.50pm weeknights, atthe conclusion of the Nightline pro-gram hosted by Bruce Mansfield andPhilip Brady.

The 910-episode serial is midwaythrough its course, and had been go-ing to air at 4.45am in the AustraliaOvernight program hosted by AndrewMcLaren and Mark Petkovic.

3AW only had rights to broadcastthe serial in Melbourne, so there werecontractual problems in playing theserial within a program that was alsobeing heard in Sydney, Brisbane,Canberra and regional markets.

In Sydney, the serial is heard onThe Bob Rogers Show on 2CH.

The Castlereagh Line is syndicatedby Grace Gibson Productions. Man-ager Bruce Ferrier says the series isthe most popular ever marketed byhis company.

The Castlereagh Line was pennedby Ross Napier, an Australian radioand TV writer, also well known forhis work on the TV series Skippy theBush Kangaroo, for which he wrotea large number of episodes and servedas a script editor.

The Castlereagh Line has a musi-cal theme which features more thana dozen vocal variations, each men-tioning numerous stops along theroutes.

The vocals for these themes wererecorded by Australian performerJohnny Ashcroft. The words weresung to the tune of Lily Bolero.

The story opens with CarlottaClemens and her friend Elizabeth(‘Mouse’). Carlotta’s mother, ahousemaid, has died, and Carlottaapplies for a job as a governess for LJ Logan on a cattle station in northernQueensland, near Normanton.

The story has Carlotta sailing toTownsville, making her way to Char-ters Towers, then aboard a dray for400 miles to Logan’s property.

Carlotta discovers that she hasbeen taken to the property under falsepretences, that there are no children,and that Logan intends her to be hiswife. He rapes her.

When Logan tried to repeat theeffort on a later night, she strikes himon the temple with a red-hot poker.Logan dies.

“Him bad man, missus. Plnetybad,” says Gilly, the aboriginal farmhand who helps her make her escapeaboard the mare Sovereign, completewith a haul of valuable opals.

★ ★ ★Carlotta’s first love interest, Jim

Holly, is introduced as he meets bush-ranger Ned Kelly near Wangaratta.

But first Holly marries Janet Cro-zier, who becomes increasingly rest-less on the farm.

Pregnant, she leaves him and goesto Melbourne.

Holly is ‘set up’ as he tries to de-liver a message to Kelly’s sister, Kate.

REVIEW by Ash Long, Editor

●●●●● The Castlereagh Line tells the story of an early Australian stagecoach line

THE CASTLEREAGH LINETHE

STORYSO FAR

Written byRoss Napier■ The Castlereagh Line waswritten by Ross Napier.

Unusually, the radio serialcame first, and then followed thenovels.

Napier was one of Australia'sleading radio writers from the1950s to 1970s.

He began working forAssociated Programs on thehalf- hour drama series AddressUnknown.

He lived for a time inLondon, then returned toAustralia in the 1950s and wentto work for Grace Gibson, theradio producer, working on mostof her dramas, particularlyPortia Faces Life.

When television arrived inAustralia, Gibson combatted itby making five-minute dramas,and Napier was one of her mainwriters of these until the 1970s.■ Alias the Baron - radio■ You Can't Win (1953) - radio■ Borrasca - radio■ Desiree - radio■ Famous Fortunes - radio■ Forever's A Long Time -radio■ Address Unknown (1954) -radio■ Portia Faces Life (1950s-70)- radio■ The Tilsit Inheritance -1960s, radio■ Emergency Line (1964) -radio■ Skippy The Bush Kangaroo -TV series - writer and scripteditor■ The Intruders (1969) - film -original story■ I Killed Grace Random(1970) - radio■ My Father's House (1970s) -radio■ Without Shame (1970s) -radio■ Goodbye Gwynnevere(1970s) - radio■ The Castlereagh Line (1982)- radio■ The Castlereagh Line (1984)- novel■ The Castlereagh Way (1985)- novel■ The Castlereagh Rose (1985)- novel■ The Colours of Castlereagh(1987) - novel■ The Castlereagh Heritage(1988) - novel■ The Castlereagh Cross(1992) - novel

Copies of the CastlereaghLine books are available in Mel-bourne from Merryl Williams,Rainy Day Books, 1301Mountain Hwy, The Basin.

●●●●● The Castlereagh Line storyhas been serialised in six books

Lottie announces to Jack that she isexpecting their child.

The pair arrive in Tamworth, plan-ning to settle. Jack teams up with horsetrader Mat Gore. The pair talk ofplans to set up a coach service toTenterfield, with Mat to organise thehorses, and Jack to grease the neces-sary palms to win the necessary mailcontracts.

Gore (40 per cent) , Seager (40 oercent) and Lottie (12½ per cent) put incash, Jack’s gold and Lottie’s opalsto start the enterprise, to be namedthe Castlereagh Coach Company,named after the Castlereagh River.

They enlist the co-operation ofParliamentarian Simon Summers topull strings in Sydney, in return for a7½-per cent share.

★ ★ ★‘Mouse’ appears as a house guest

at the Tamworth residence of CharlesHamilton, of the property ‘Broad-meadows’.

The Quimby and Hamilton fami-lies have a long association, and‘Mouse’ and Lottie meet by coinci-dence.

Seager proposes to Lottie, andthey plan to go to Gunnedah for awedding ceremony, even though theyhave pretended to be husband-and-wife.

At the last moment, Jack delaysthe marriage. A 45-seater coach ar-rives in town as part of the Castle-reagh Coach Company’s launch.

Charles Hamiklton expresses hisdesire to work independently from hisfamily’s wealth, and leans on Lottieto put in a good word with Seager andGore, to appoint him as a driver forthe Castlereagh Line.

Simon Summers returns fromQueensland where he has tried toexert influence in winning mail con-tracts in that state.

God-fearing Godfrey Manning,the Postmaster-General, refuses toplay. Seager pursues Grace, 27-year-old spinster daughter of Manning.

Grace’s brother, Roger, knows thetruth about Seager’s intentions, butdies after falling from a train. Seagerhad boarded the train at the lastminute.

Meanwhile, Lottie delivers a son,Gordon, at Tamworth. CharlesHamilton looks to buy Lottie’s shares,but his sister Edwina Hamilton saysshe will tell the world that Lottie andJack are not married.

Charles Hamilton proposes toLottie. ‘Mouse’ has a blazing row withLottie.

★ ★ ★Jim Holly is released from jail with

a Queen’s pardon. News of him be-ing set up has reached authorities.

Holly meets with Mat Gore in aQueensland pub.; they had workedtogether on Cobb and Co.

In Queensland, Lottie arrives af-ter reading that Jack Seager is to marryGrace Manning. Lottie is bashed andraped, and the wedding goes ahead.

Charles Hamilton again proposesto Lottie, but Edwina instead offers a£500 annuity to Lottie if she doesn’t.‘Mouse’ tells Lottie that she will tellall if Lottie marries Charles.

Mat Gore also proposes to Lottie.Lottie plans to meet with Jack at a

remote house. She has a pistol.And then ...

Holly is sentenced to 15 years’ jail,accused on conspiring with the KellyGang, and being involved with stolencattle.

★ ★ ★Carlotta arrives in Cloncurry, and

adopts the name ‘Lottie Long’. Shetakes on the job as a barmaid.

Enter a giant of a man, with big,bushy black beard, John ‘Jack’Seager.

They team up.Seager shoots fivemen dead, in a dispute over gold.Seager and Lottie make their way toLongreach, then Goondiwindi.

Seager tells of his plans to start acoach service that exceeds the Cobband Co. network.

Sovereign has a foal, Golden, and●●●●● Review to be continued

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Leehane, John Francis. 10 MarconiCt, Research. $245.88.Legge, Geoffrey. 10 Fisher Cl, Ber-wick. $658.19.Leung, Hung Chong. 25 Sier Ave,Hoppers Crossing. $321.98.Loechel, Reginald J. 1 Nilmar Ave,Wodonga. $298.00.Loveridge, Barbara L. 17 Phillip St,Horsham. $291.00.Lowe, E. 395 Manningham Rd, Don-caster. $313.49.Ludlow, Jean Hake. 8 Walker St,Hampton. $752.80.Luke, Robert Kenneth. 4/9 RaymondSt, Somerville. $425.50.Mackinnon, Dayle Lee. Box 374Drummond Rd, Shepparton. $240.00.Marks, Beryl Mavis. 51 Pope Rd,Blackburn. $777.90.Matthews, Grace Victoria. 56 Pak-ington St, St Kilda. $584.20.McCann, Stewart Wayne. 17 RussellSt, Casterton. $341.00.McCarthy, George R. 8 Walker St,Moonee Ponds. $591.00.McDermott, R B. 4 Major Rd,Northcote. $303.81.McDonald, R D. 43 Milborne Cres,Eltham. $2343.39. $2579.74.McFarlane, Neil John. 44 CroquetteSt, Geelong West. $381.60.McGrath, D J. 87 Springvale Rd, GlenWaverley. $233.37.McGregor, Angus A. 9 Trevor St,Ballarat. $283.00.McGuiness, Mary R. 32 Leaonard St,Sunshine. $474.30.McKenna, Stella Daphne. 606Nepean Hwy, Carrum. $348.00.McLennan, Ian Francis. 3 Belson St,Malvern East. $276.78.McLennan, Ian Munro. Stock Ex-change Building, 422 Lt Collins St,Melbourne. $22,896.91.Meloury, William J. 118 The Ter-race, Ocean Grove. $343.60.Meyer,Werner Wilhelm. Box 1123,Swan Hill. $441.00.Mits, Frank. Toogoolawah, CrystalCreek Rd, Alexandra. $580.27.Morrissy, T. 1 Merrigum Ct, Highton.$234.40. $359.00.Muntwyler, Martin Stuart. 10/56 Prin-cess St, Kew. $223.00.Murphy, Daniel Brian. Lot 18 PindariDr, Bayswater. $844.90.Murray, James Lindsay. 8 PaperbarkAve, Sunbury. $1817.50. $1817.50.Nadesapillai, Subanesan. 6 Weir St,Kew. $245.29.Neely, Robert James. 1 CumminsLane, Mt Eliza. $439.84.Nelson, Ronald C. 54 Dundas Rd,Maryborough. $401.00. $490.00.Newton, Ross David. 178 JasmainePl, Maunganui. $541.36.Nguyen, Lisa. 51 William St, StAlbans. $300.00.

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Hamilton. $3816.82.Schwartze, Bernd Hans Otto. 34Glencairn Ave, Ringwood. $439.00.Shepherd, Thomas Charles. 27 Fair-bairn Rd, Toorak. $1060.10.Sinclair, Pauline Joy. 7 Eric Ct, GlenWaverley. $474.00.Spafford, Harry G. 71 Old ElthamRd, Lower Plenty. $500.00.Swadesir, R G. 1 Hillside Pde,Strathmore. $2143.65.Szuty, Stanley. Val;dermar. Post Of-fice, Bonbeach. $990.33.Thompson, Katy Lauren. 4 ClaytonCt, Shepparton. $306.59.Thompson, Robert. 8 Maylands Cres,Glen Waverley. $603.48. $1130.76.Thornton, Gerald Francis. 1/42Briggs St, Caulfield. $229.33.Thornton, M J. 1 Garrett St, Colac.$458.09. $701.26.Thoseby, Andrew. 34 Empress Rd, StKilda East. $216.02.Todd, Frederick B. 32 Trigg St,Geelong West. $891.90.Tram, Thi Hue. 30 Clarke Rd, Spring-vale. $346.80.Tran, Nguyen Mot Doi. 10 VallottaCt, Noble Park. $200.00.Turner, Blake. Unit 2, 23 Hume Ave,Melton. $3251.18.Unthank, Robyn Lee. 246 MacleodRd, Patterson Lakes. $306.00.Verbi, John. 31 Pelham St, Carlton.$270.68.Walker, Denise Joy. 70 Callender Rd,Noble Park. $320.00.Wallace, Arthur Gordon. 1/90Windsor Cres, Surrey Hills. $1955.90.Waller, G J. 6 Charolais Ct, Shepp-arton. $434.52.Waterworth, Rupert G. 2A GardenSt, East Geelong. $1403.90.Watson, Bruce W. 1 Donalds Cl,Kilsyth. $3686.34.Watts, M. 40 Begonia Rd, Garden-vale. $234.94.Wei, Jessie. 39 Karnak Rd, Ashburton.$600.00.Weller, P. 100 Boorook Rd, Coorie-mungle. $696.80.

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