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Mary Moody
Mary Moody is an Australian author who trained as a journalist at '' The Australian Women's Weekly'' and was a long time presenter on Gardening Australia. She has written more than forty gardening books and five memoirs – ''Au Revoir'' (2001), ''Last Tango in Toulouse'' (2003), ''The Long Hot Summer'' (2005), ''Sweet Surrender'' (2010) and ''The Accidental Tour Guide'' (2019). She also appeared as a panelist on the chat show ''The Catch-Up'' on the Nine Network in 2007. Moody lived in the rural hamlet of Yetholme, near Bathurst from 2000 to 2016. Following the death of her husband David she moved to an extended family home in Blackheath Blackheath may refer to: Places England *Blackheath, London, England ** Blackheath railway station **Hundred of Blackheath, Kent, an ancient hundred in the north west of the county of Kent, England *Blackheath, Surrey, England ** Hundred of Blackh ... where she holds Open Garden weekends and continues her writing. Moody also leads cultura ...
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The Australian Women's Weekly
''The Australian Women's Weekly'', sometimes known as simply ''The Weekly'', is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by Mercury Capital in Sydney. For many years it was the number one magazine in Australia before being outsold by the Australian edition of '' Better Homes and Gardens'' in 2014. , ''The Weekly'' has overtaken '' Better Homes and Gardens'' again, coming out on top as Australia's most read magazine. The magazine invested in the 2020 film '' I Am Woman'' about Helen Reddy, singer, feminist icon and activist. Editor-in-chief Nicole Byers told Film Ink "Helen’s story of adversity and triumph is nothing short of inspirational. ''The Weekly'' has been telling stories of iconic Australian women for more than 80 years and we're delighted to be supporting the film production". History and profile The magazine was started in 1933 by Frank Packer and Ted Theodore as a weekly publication. The first editor was George Warnecke and the initial dummy was laid out b ...
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Gardening Australia
''Gardening Australia'' is an Australian lifestyle television program which suggests and promotes organic and environmentally friendly ways of gardening. It is created by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and airs on ABC TV, in an hour-long weekly show each Friday evening. A monthly magazine, ''Gardening Australia'', was spawned by the show. History The series has its origins in 1969 as ''It's Growing'', with five minute segments broadcast ahead of the Sunday night news on ABT2 in Hobart. It was hosted by Peter Cundall, an experienced gardener with a passion for growing plants using organic methods. He had hosted a gardening talkback segment on ABC radio in Hobart since 1967. It was renamed ''Landscape'' in 1972 and extended to 15 minutes per episode. The format was adapted into ''Gardening Australia'' in 1990, broadcast nationally with the format expanded to 30 minutes per episode. It was still hosted by Cundall with other gardening experts from around Australia. Ste ...
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The Catch-Up
''The Catch-Up'' was an Australian daytime live television talk show on the Nine Network created by Mia Freedman. The show featured a panel of women as co-hosts, with Libbi Gorr, Zoe Sheridan, Mary Moody and Lisa Oldfield. It premiered on 26 February 2007 and was produced at Channel Nine's studio in Willoughby. The concept of ''The Catch-Up'' was to showcase women discussing views, news and gossip with each other as well as with their guests. The program followed a similar format to '' The View''. The show was under pressure even before it began. The Nine Network decision to cancel its broadcast of the US soap opera ''The Young and the Restless ''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City, Wi ...'' after 33 years to make way for the program caused outrage amongst fans of show wh ...
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Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. From 2017 to 2021, the network's slogan has been "We Are the One". Since 2021, the network has changed its slogan back to the iconic Golden Era slogan "Still the One". As of 2022, the Nine Network is the second-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, and ahead of the ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS. History Origins The Nine Network's first broadcasting station was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as TCN-9 on 16 September 1956 by ''The Daily Telegraph'' owner Frank Packer. John Godson introduced the station and former advertising executive Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, ''This Is Television'' (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, G ...
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Yetholme, New South Wales
Yetholme () is a village in New South Wales, Australia, originally known as Fryingpan and Frying Pan. The town is near Frying Pan Creek. It is situated east of Bathurst and west of Lithgow. Naming Within the Bathurst regional local government area, the designated village is within the parish of Yetholme, and county of Roxburgh; which mirrors the Scottish village namesakes of Kirk Yetholm and Town Yetholm, within the Scottish parish of Yetholm, and the former Scottish county of Roxburghshire (now Scottish Borders). The name was in use for the Australian parish by 1834, when Charles Marsden was given a claim for land of at Dirty Swap, Fish River. Yetholme village's 'Fryingpan' name was to change in 1866 when the church district was divided: :We have been able to relieve the Hartley clergyman from the charge of the extreme western part of his district by attaching it to O'Connell. Formerly, the district of Hartley extended to within ten miles of Bathurst, and was abou ...
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Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council. Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in Australia and had a population of 37,191 Estimated resident population, 30 June 2019. in June 2019. Bathurst is often referred to as the Gold Country as it was the site of the first gold discovery and where the first gold rush occurred in Australia. Today education, tourism and manufacturing drive the economy. The internationally known racetrack Mount Panorama is a landmark of the city. Bathurst has a historic city centre with many ornate buildings remaining from the New South Wales gold rush in the mid to late 19th century. The median age of the city's population is 35 years; which is particularly young for a regional centre (the state median is 38), and is related to the large education sector in the community. The city has had a modera ...
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Blackheath, New South Wales
Blackheath (postcode: 2785) is an Australian town located near the highest point of the Blue Mountains, between Katoomba and Mount Victoria in New South Wales. The town's altitude is about and it is located about west north-west of Sydney, north-west of Katoomba, and about south-east of Lithgow. Blackheath has a vibrant artistic community and hosts two monthly markets – the Blackheath Growers Market and The Blackheath Community Market, as well as annual Christmas markets, antique markets and bimonthly craft markets. The town has many community activities, such as the Blackheath Philosophy Forum, which was founded in 2002 to arrange public discussion forums on philosophy and related topics. As Blackheath has grown, more and more shops have appeared. Various shops from the late 1800s still stand in Blackheath. History The surrounding areas of Blackheath were thought to be a summer corroboree meeting place for peoples of the Darug, Gundungurra and Wiradjuri nations. ...
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David Hannay (producer)
David Hannay (23 June 1939 – 31 March 2014) was a New Zealand Australian film producer. He worked with Greater Union and was an independent producer from 1977. Biography Hannay was born in Wellington and attended Scots College. His first job in the industry was as an extras casting assistant for film ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll''. Hannay produced his first feature film The Set in 1968 and then moved to television and became head of production for Gemini Productions from 1970–73 and 1975–76. In 1974 he was general manager for The Movie Company, a production subsidiary of Greater Union. From 1977 he was an independent producer and was involved in almost 50 film projects including cult classics Stone (1974) and The Man From Hong Kong (1975), Human Rights Australia Film Award winner Mapantsula (1998), Naomi Watts' first feature film Gross Misconduct (1993) and family film Hildegarde (2001) which starred Richard E. Grant and Tom Long. Hannay was passionate about encou ...
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