But of course in this modern age you have to comply with certain regulations and it
was eventually decided the ship should be built to the highest possible standards which
is a Class 1A Commonwealth Department of Transport survey standard.
When you're looking at Class 1A standards then you're looking at very expensive equipment.
Of course a ship of this nature had never been built before.
She's in fact the only Class 1A wooden sailing ship in the world.
Well David that brings us perhaps to Colin and the finishing touches of a Class 1A ship.
But how tricky has it been given the deadline to get it finished?
Not very tricky at all.
We've got a very helpful board of management who are very keen.
The state government's come in to help and all the volunteers are more than helpful so
we've also got a very good crew on board.
So it hasn't been tricky.
Setting up any ship ready for departure is always an involved process.
How much work in those last days at Dry Dock though?
Well the Dry Dock wasn't too much.
Mainly checking out the propeller and we put a coat of anti-fouling on while we were there.
Still a few finishing touches to put in to the inside but I think today proved a lot
of people wrong, all the skeptics.
She is a beautiful ship and she does sail well.
Colin, it sounds like you've brought a touch of calm to the entire proceedings.
Well it's also great what a half a million dollars can do as well you see.
That helps a bit.
It brings us up to today for both of you.
Tell us what more you've discovered as a result of going to sea.
Well going to sea today I've found out how good the crew were and how much support there
is with this project.
A lot of people that came out today, George Herbert for instance, one of the riggers,
Pep Manthorpe, an ex harbour master here, all very helpful.
Our crew is very young and these people have a lot to teach us so it's been a good day
for me.
Well David finally, finally we'll have to say just if I could just butt in the very
fact that the ship sailed without any auxiliary power for two hours just under sail and she
performed faultlessly.
And looked beautiful and it pleased a lot of people.
Finally will we make it to that first fleet and back to Sydney for 1998?
Oh of course we will.
I mean now that we're on this last stretch we'll be leaving for the first fleet on April
the 5th and there'll be more about that in the future.
But yes we'll be leaving on April the 5th and we're heading for Portsmouth.
Thank you gentlemen.
We wish you well and all those who sail in her.
The one and all, an historic day for South Australia as well.
Well next we have a touch of the Blarney, the ancient Irish tradition of storytelling.
That's on State of Fear after the break.
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March the 17th St Patrick's Day so what better time to spin you a true Irish yarn.
Well to the Irish storytellers are known as Shunnockies.
But sadly they're a dying breed.
One of the few remaining Shunnockies was introduced to us by Dr. Rhianach O'Egan from Dublin University
College.
Dr. Jack Smith found him in a remote corner of the Emerald Isle.
In a land of legends this is a man of myth.
Stories like this have been passed from generation to generation, recounted thousands of times.
At 89 Porrick O'Near is one of Ireland's few remaining Shunnockies or storytellers.
He spins his web of fantasy in his native tongue of Gaelic.
Once Porrick would have held an exalted position in the community but today the art and tradition
that he represents is all but dead.
There are a lot of factors I think mitigating against the storytelling tradition in this
area.
For example the younger people are leaving the area before they have a chance to take
the stories from their parents or from their grandparents and also with the introduction
of television and radio and so on.
They have a wealth of stories which portray the folklore tradition, the storytelling tradition
of Ireland which dates back thousands of years.
An old woman who was here a long time ago and she had one son and the son's name was
Connor and his mother was rearing him and looking after him and he had never left the
house at all.
And the woman of the house had made trousers and tweed for him and she had made bread and
the cake of bread she made she had made it in two halves.
And the two halves that she made there was a big half and a little half and she said
to him which would you prefer the small half and my blessing or the big half and my course
and he said he'd prefer the small half and her blessing.
Torik is a native of Phoenix Island just off the coast of County Galway in Ireland's Wild
West.
This is the Connemara district where language and lifestyle is still pure Gaelic.
Torik and his 80 year old sister Breen moved to the mainland 20 years ago.
Their surroundings are humble but their culture is rich.
Torik, where did your stories come from?
At home in Phoenix, the island for a very long time.
Your father told you the stories.
Everyone on the island had stories.
There were 21 houses on the island and in each of the houses stories were told.
Do you tell them often now?
They cover all kinds of subjects.
They cover mythological tradition.
They cover heroic tales.
A great deal of religious tradition.
There's definitely an art in storytelling and it's not everybody who can pick up a story
from a shanafe and retell the story.
Torik has a wealth of tales stored in his head.
The telling of them is aided by a glass of the local moonshine brew, kuchin.
But at least in these parts, Torik is the end of the line.
He has no children to pass his stories on to as his father did to him.
A long time ago when we'd be telling stories, the younger people would listen.
They'd remember the stories but nowadays people don't remember them at all.
They're not sufficiently interested in them.
Not only are the stories disappearing but with the stories along with the language,
the Irish language is disappearing.
Is that sad for you?
It's very sad.
Well fortunately for folk lovers and particularly the Irish, all is not lost.
Dublin University now has a team of people going around the country recording the shanakis
on video for posterity.
After the break it's back home where you spend a day looking at what must be one of the most
exciting jobs in Adelaide.
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Christine Davie is one of the state's, indeed Australia's, quietest achievers.
Her list of accomplishments is as long as your arm.
The most noticeable was an MBE for her pioneering role in one of the toughest male dominated
industries in the world.
For Christine, the recognition she's gained over the years hasn't been sought because
the modest career woman says she's simply done her job.
Three years ago her work brought her to South Australia and 20 years after receiving her
MBE she's still only one of a handful of Australian women who've chosen this unusual line of work.
And as Kaye Mathieson discovered, there's more to Christine Davie than meets the eye.
It's nearly always dark when I get up because I've got an awful lot to do before I actually
come to work.
So I have to start myself off fairly well and that's usually with a cup of coffee and
a bit of Dad and Dave.
With the horses, they've got to be fed and derugged or rerugged or whatever in the morning.
The chooks have to be fed and pat the dog.
There's a fair bit to do before I start off.
Christine Davie lives on an idyllic property shadowed by Mount Lofty with a menagerie of
pets she calls her family.
Each day she leaves the country life behind with an old friend called Jeremiah.
My car, what did someone call it the other day, they called it my British off road vehicle
which happens to be a mini motor called Jeremiah.
Work for Christine Davie is no ordinary 9 to 5 job.
Instead of driving a disc she flies for a living.
I drifted into it because I learnt to fly simply for fun.
Then I thought I've done all this I might as well get a commercial licence and having
got a commercial licence it seemed logical to get a job.
Jobs were too a penny at that stage because there was a shortage of pilots as opposed
to now and it's very hard to get jobs.
For the past three years Christine has flown for Lloyd Aviation and a small part of her
work involves ferrying news crews around the state.
Christine we're going to a property called Cad Lunga on the southern outskirts of Clare.
My directions are that it's 11 miles south east of Clare and one mile west of Mintero.
Oh right, I'm glad you said what we can find on the map.
But flying wasn't Christine's first career choice.
For several years she was an Olympic snow skier representing Australia on ski slopes
around the world before taking to the skies in her home state New South Wales.
In search of better work Christine moved to the Northern Territory and spent 18 years
flying for the company Con Air.
During this time she became the first woman in Australia to become a commercial airline
captain flying everything from small Cessnas to the larger DC-3s and Fokker Friendships.
While working out of Alice Springs Christine also received an MBE but modest as she is
she doesn't like talking about it.
Oh crikey, it's a long time ago.
I swiped that one, didn't I?
But Christine's commendations and experience at the time was not enough to get her a job
flying with a major Australian airline.
The only one I ever did actually apply for was Qantas and my reply back from Qantas was
just one paragraph which said we do not employ female pilots which was fine in those days
but it wouldn't work now.
Also after more than 20 years flying fixed wing aircraft she made the change to helicopters
and it's a decision Christine has never regretted.
Fixed wing can be terribly boring simply because you're restricted to going from airport to
airport.
At one time I spent I think it was two years going between Alice Springs and Airs Rock
and you know that was all I did and there's nothing more boring.
I had 90,000 different ways of getting between Alice Springs and Airs Rock.
But there's no time for boredom these days.
When not working for the media she's probably flying rescue one, a duty shared with other
Lloyd pilots.
I prefer rescue work because it can be very challenging.
On the other hand there's not a lot of it.
What makes a helicopter pilot?
I suppose helicopter pilots have to be terribly independent creatures.
So you throw them back on your own resources an awful lot and so I think you have to be
extremely independent to either do it or to enjoy it.
But just how safe is it?
Well that's extraordinary to me how many people believe that once the engine stops they crash
but they simply don't.
Well we put it to the test all the time because we're required every six months to practice
auto rotations as they're called and we go up there and we shut the engine down.
You know once you're committed you're committed you can't just start the whole thing up again.
So obviously we survive it so we're all here to tell the tale.
While flying might be her first love the home in the hills and the family of pets comes
a very close second.
I'm not a city person I can't stand all that concrete and millions of people and I hate
it.
So if I could I'd live further away because of the job.
That's about as far as I can get.
Despite the distance she has to travel to work and her love of the outdoors no amount
of money could persuade Christine to give up flying.
I think helicopter pilots fly for love rather than money.
Christine another occasional but important member of the State of Thirteen.
By the way there was a Beyond 2000 touch to that story behind the scenes.
Some of the shots inside the helicopter were taken with what this must surely be the smallest
video camera on the market.
In fact it is it's just out for a couple of months from Sony mainly designed for security
work and microscopes and so on but comes in handy.
They're getting smaller all the time.
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Have you ever heard of a pep rally?
Well it's a gridiron term and basically the aim of the event is to introduce American
football players to their fans before the game.
Obviously gridiron players are unrecognisable with their helmets on.
So the newest South Australian team, the Eagles, will have this state's first pep rally on
Friday night even though the season's just ended.
You see the aim of this particular rally is not only to introduce the players but to introduce
the game itself and to raise money.
Stephen Butler went along to Thebet and Noble for a training session with the Eagles and
their cheerleaders the Iglets.
I love running the ball.
It's just the experience and feeling of running and getting past all the players and going
for the touchdown of course.
American football or gridiron has come to South Australia with the hype of the professionals.
There's action and hard physical contact.
There's the padding so strange to Australian football players and there's the cheerleaders.
In a lot of American films we see the cheerleaders want to go out with the captain of the football
team.
Is that the case with you?
No not really.
How can you say such a thing?
How have South Australian players taken to gridiron?
That's been fantastic.
I've been from the States obviously with the accent but I've been here 13 years and I have
enjoyed over those years watching Aussie rules and looking at the athletic capability of
Aussie rules and saying hey these guys could really fit into gridiron football quite well
because they have really good techniques and they're quick and all that type of thing.
They've picked it up tremendously well and South Australia in particular probably plays
the highest standard of gridiron in Australia wide even though there are leagues in the
other states.
There's 11 people on our team at one time on the ground and if one man doesn't do his
job the whole team sort of doesn't go any further.
It's something different to Australia so I mean you see it on TV but to play is actually
a lot different.
It gives me a chance just to play something different because I've played most other sports
and it's been really good.
If you're going to do a pass make sure it's an end this way because it doesn't spread
all over hell.
The South Australian competition has grown from four teams to five and next season it'll
be six but there's one gridiron tradition that we haven't yet seen.
It's what the Eaglets are training for, Friday night's pep rally.
Do you know what a pep rally is?
Kind of.
I understand it to be a situation where the players, the cheerleaders and the crowd all
get involved as one.
The whole idea of a pep night is while the fans are watching the guys playing the field
and they're sort of that far off area and not personal contact with them.
What a pep night allows the public to do is get in personal contact and be able to talk
to the players, be able to talk to the cheerleaders and realise that they're real people underneath
those helmets and they're not total animals and it takes a lot of brains to play the game.
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, who's the greatest in the world?
Go Eaglets!
They just motivate the whole team, you see them on the sidelines, they do a really, a
lot of job, you know they just keep the team going.
It's outrageous compared to what I usually do.
What do you usually do?
I work at a nursing home.
A lot more life here?
Yes, definitely a lot more, yeah.
This is the part of me, this is the part of me, yeah.
If you want to get into it a bit more, the pep rally for the Eagles is on this Friday
night at the Old Lion.
To tomorrow night on State Affair, Graham Ryan from the RAA joins us.
He has a look at the new Mazda 121 and then tomorrow night, Living Aviation History as
well.
Planes of all sizes and ages line up in tribute to South Australia's famous Flying Smith
Brothers.
That's tomorrow night on State Affair.
Just a little more about the RAA report.
It'll be on the new Mazda 121.
Another of our car segments on State Affair, we'll see how it runs.
Well on the St Patrick's Day, that's all from me.
Have a drink for the Conlands and all the Irish and I'll see you tomorrow night.
Good night.
Tonight on State Affair we'll be on the move in old aircraft and new cars.
But first, Port Misery.
It's regained its notoriety.
This time because of plans to bulldoze the area which was the landing site for many of
our state's pioneers.
Then it was infamous for its twisted mangroves and accompanying smells.
Well now the remnants of those mangroves could be history, well and truly.
The Port Adelaide Council and the state government wants to provide a $50 million housing development,
marina and parkland.
Conservationists say the area should be preserved because of its heritage value.
But the joint government committee behind the plan argues the project will help put the
port back on the map again.
Kay Matheson reports.
We feel that this area of mangroves is a very important remnant of what greeted the early
settlers when they arrived in South Australia.
The government is not in a position to be saving a small area of mangroves at this stage.
And this is what the fight's all about.
A small group of mangroves which the conservation council says is important to the state's history.
When many of the state's first settlers set foot in South Australia they did so after wading
through the swamp and mangroves that was once called Port Misery.
In recent years the area has turned into a 16 hectare rubbish dump for everything from
old carpet, rubble and bitumen and even spare engine parts.
So when plans for the multi-million dollar scheme were revealed last year it's easy to
see why many port residents were in favour of the development.
But the conservation council says the project, known as the old Port Reach, which includes
housing, a marina and a park, would destroy an integral part of the state's history.
We really need to cherish sites like this.
It's a very important historic site.
It used to be called Port Misery and to build anything there and do anything with it would
be a bit like the Americans building housing on Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrim Fathers
first landed from the Mayflower in America.
The Port Adelaide council bought 10 hectares of the land for $1.3 million.
The other 6 hectares is owned by the state government.
Neither the two government authorities decided on the type of development they preferred,
although no guidelines have been established.
The size and nature of the project will depend on the developer who presents the best planning
ideas to the committee.
But what of the mangroves?
I guess the argument is because they are a small area of mangroves, I think you've seen
yourself they're pretty small, whether or not because they're small and because they're
the last does that necessarily mean that they should be preserved.
Now we are not in a position to be saying that they should be at this stage.
The National Trust has recorded the land and what remains of the mangroves on its register,
but it hasn't classified the area, which means little can be done to prevent the trees being
pulled out to make way for the development.
While conservationists are against the plan, they would like to see the entire 16 hectare
property turned into parklands.
Every now and then there's a spot where we have to decide that an area is of sufficient
historic importance, not to get greed in, build boating marinas or housing complexes
or whatever.
Our subsequent descendants would be aghast if they knew we took this decision to develop
an area of such historic significance.
Well perhaps there is a middle way where we can preserve some of that vital part of our
history and still clean up some of the mess.
We understand a developer will be appointed by the committee within the next six months
and work at Port Misery is expected to begin within the next year.
Well after the break opposition to the Joe campaign hits the streets, graffiti on Joe,
next on State Affair.
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So far in the sometimes farcical Joe for PM campaign, most of us south of the tropics
have simply been bemused bystanders.
I've only seen one Joe for PM sticker on a car since we all got one in the mail.
But not everyone's taking his onslaught lying down.
In Sydney's suburbia there's emerged a sometimes covert force determined to keep Joe north
of the Queensland border.
They call themselves the White Chalk Brigade and under the cover of darkness they're spreading
the word.
They're dedicated, they're determined.
I've always had this feeling of him as being an insidious, clumsy, crude sort of fellow
who didn't follow the rules.
I don't compromise.
I've set my policy up and I don't compromise.
Sir Joe VLP-Peterton.
He might be flavour of the month everywhere else but the thought of him becoming Prime
Minister simply chills the spines of these women.
I mean first of all I thought it was funny and then when I heard 60 million had been
put aside for his campaign I started to get worried.
Until Joe went on the hustings these ladies were leading contented lives.
Their children grown up, they were back in the workforce with enough time to enjoy a
midweek morning tea.
What it's called white work and the bit that I get all excited about is the hem stitch,
this little tiny piece here.
Penny will go blind doing this.
It all looks very middle class and it is except this is a gathering of the White Chalk Brigade.
The White Chalk Brigade is the opposite to the White Shoe Brigade because we aren't wealthy
people we're actually asking for small donations to buy the chalk or for legal representation
if needed.
At the end of a hard day's work instead of going home to make dinner for the kids they
make a detour.
Riding on the footpath is said to be not a legal activity and so we feel a bit worried
about it but we're willing to take that risk to get our message around.
Are you a radical do you think?
No, I'm not a radical.
How would you describe yourself and your group then?
I think we're just middle class, middle aged housewives and we have children and we're
concerned for their future.
My kids think it's marvellous they think I've joined the Graffiti Artists and they're very
proud of me.
One of my children is doing social work and he's a bit of a radical and he thinks it's
great.
He's always saying you're just a bourgeois middle class woman mum, you know critical,
critical and I feel you know I've gained some sort of seal of approval from him.
We did ask a lawyer what our position was and he said yes you could be said to be defacing
public property.
He said he would defend us and I said what would we plead and he said well you could
plead insanity or you could throw yourself at the mercy of the court.
So I think we'll be looking for a woman lawyer.
The White Chalk Brigade don't hit any pavement indiscriminately.
They aim for maximum impact.
The Sydney headquarters of the National Party is a favourite, so too Dalgety's.
I like to chalk on banks actually because I think that they illustrate the fact that
people don't have far less money in banks if Bill Kepederson gets into power in this
country at national level.
I think just ordinary people, middle of the road people like myself, are realising that
they have to do something, speak up and say this is what's happening, let's think about
it and consider it, don't let it just happen and regret it later.
It'll be quite funny if it wasn't so serious.
Coming up next, our motoring segment.
This week Graham Ryan looks at the new Mazda 121.
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Now to our motoring report, you'll recall last week in the first of this series Graham
Ryan took the new Jaguar through its paces, a car that the manufacturer says will turn
the top end of the luxury car market upside down.
Well tonight Graham looks at a car that most of us could contemplate, the new Mazda 121
dubbed already as the fun machine.
It's the latest from the big Japanese manufacturer and it says this vehicle will turn the small
car market upside down.
Graham looks at the new 121 and compares it with Mazda's top of the range model.
Today we're in style again in the Mazda 929 which is a flagship of the Mazda fleet, priced
at under thirty thousand dollars.
The 929 gives plenty in the way of luxury with a very lavish interior, very much up
in electronics with electronic fuel injection, management system of the engine and we do
have controls such as power windows, central locking system and all those features to go
with the car itself.
Pop up headlights on the vehicle and the low roof line, in fact it's about fifty millimetres
lower overall than the standard sedan.
MX has come only in white and overall a very smart motor car.
From style to fun, Mazda are now entering a new era of the market with a 1.3 litre fun
top super deluxe 121.
The front wheel drive vehicle will compete against Verena, Charade, Corolla and Poltar.
In the 121 there is an enormous amount of interior room.
You can rake the rear seat for a reclined position, remove the head rest right and fold
the seat forward in a split fold style.
One of the outstanding features that is unique to the car is a rear seat slide, increasing
the boot and carrying space.
One of the outstanding features with Mazda is that they are honing in on the convertible
market where they are a very popular vehicle, particularly here in South Australia with
our sunny climate, no good in Melbourne of course, but it's the best of both worlds because
it's more than a sunroof and it opens up more or less the entire roof area.
Also with Mazda the riding qualities are extremely good, perhaps a little firm in some ways,
but this is where we get good riding qualities.
Steering rack and pinion are very precise, a good short gear change action.
As far as the engine is concerned it's a single overhead camshaft and for those who are not
mechanically minded it's the one shaft driving all valves, belt driven and that's to reduce
noise.
Very economical engine with its 1.3 litre power, it will return around 7.4 litres per
hundred kilometres for running like we're doing here at the moment, but for those not into
the metric aspect of it that's about 38 miles per gallon, very economical unit.
It is a compact car and this is where we get the advantages of all the interior room.
It does have a bit of a front wheel drive characteristic, so on heavy acceleration it
tends to pull to the straight ahead position, but this is not only applicable to Mazda as
many other front wheel drive vehicles have that steering characteristic.
In summary the Mazda Super Deluxe with the sunroof priced at around $14,500 is fairly
expensive but there again this is the top of the range.
The tax models are priced from $11,500, they're aimed basically at the under 25 age group
and perhaps more so for the females.
A lovely car for the ladies.
Oh now about the ladies, I wouldn't mind myself but sadly they don't come as part of the reports.
Periodically Graham will pop up on State of Fair by the way with more about what for most
of us is the second biggest investment in our lives.
Mr. State of Fair, next we take to the skies as a tribute to our aerial pioneers.
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No doubt most of you would know of South Australia's Flying Smith Brothers, Ross and Keith.
The World War I pilots remembered as the first to fly from England to Australia within 30
days.
Well on Sunday, a major trust fund will be launched to commemorate the famous brothers.
A big aircraft display at the Adelaide International Airport will celebrate the occasion.
The money comes from the estate of the late Lady Anita Smith, the wife of Sir Keith.
Its aim?
To advance South Australian aviation science.
Stephen Butler has this report which includes previously unpublished photographs of Sir Keith
and Sir Ross Smith.
I guess the most notable feature about it is fairly coarse controls and it's got the
large steering wheel control cabin, very coarse movements.
It's like a heavy tiger mouth, very noisy in the cabin and that motor in front belches
out an enormous amount of heat.
John Trelaw's Waco is just one of about 30 military and civilian aircraft which will line
up on the International Terminal Tarmac on Sunday.
Most airplanes vary somewhat but there isn't really anyone quite like this.
This display will be a tribute to the famous South Australian flying aces Sir Ross and
Sir Keith Smith.
As you can see the Waco is not a young aircraft.
It was built in 1936 in Ohio but it's a good deal younger than the Smith Brothers Vickers
Vimy which flew them to international fame in 1919.
In 1919 the Australian Government through the Prime Minister Billy Hughes offered a
prize of 10,000 pounds for the first Australians who could fly from England to Australia in
less than 30 days.
The Smith Brothers took up the challenge.
This photograph from the State's Mortlock Library was taken on the day of their departure
from England.
The Smiths are in the flying helmets.
They flew with two engineers, sheers and Bennett and made the arduous journey in 28 days finally
touching down at Darwin on December 10th.
This photograph was taken the day they landed on Australian soil.
They won the prize.
They were the only crew to really complete the course.
They won 10,000 pounds.
We think that's probably worth close to half a million dollars today and they split that
between them.
All four crew members received 2,500 pounds and the Smiths were fated around Australia.
Even in modern day Adelaide monuments to them abound.
There's their actual Vickers Vimy at Adelaide Airport.
It's housing currently under renovation.
And at Adelaide Oval there's this life-size statue of Sir Ross Smith.
After their successful flight and after they'd been knighted they set out to plan a round
the world flight.
It was unfortunate that during the testing of the aircraft for that round the world flight,
Ross Smith and also James Bennett were actually killed.
Keith Smith always wanted to perpetuate the memory of Ross Smith who was killed much earlier
in life and on his death Lady Smith took up that challenge and set out to establish a
fund that will commemorate both brothers.
Sunday's static aircraft display will launch that fund to be known as the Sir Ross and
Sir Keith Smith Fund.
That will be used to advance the science and education of aeronautics in South Australia
at the bequest of Lady Anita Smith.
It's expected the fund of some millions of dollars will earn 300 to 400 thousand dollars
a year to help South Australian aviators.
The air show at Adelaide Airport will include model aircraft featuring a scale version of
the Smiths Vickers.
It is a 1 7th scale model, 3 metres in wingspan, weighing about 10 kilograms and it flies beautifully
just like the original.
Surveys show only about 5% of Australians regularly use air travel.
So from the age to the modern, a new Qantas 767 will likely be a popular feature for those
wanting to walk through it on Sunday.
It's a long flight from the Vickers and the Waco.
How long can yours go on do you think?
I'll depend on it sir.
I guess it mainly depends on the enthusiasm of the owner and the depth of the pockets.
You can see it on Sunday.
The trust fund incidentally will be administered by Elders' Trustees so it's in safe hands.
And there's a nice display of Smith memorabilia in the Mortlock Library if you'd like to see
more.
And by the way I didn't know this until I was looking at that display today but the
first ever Melbourne to Adelaide flight was made by Ross Smith.
He did it in 1920 in the same Vic as Vimy.
Took him 7 and a half hours.
Well Les Worthington of Modbury is a very busy man these days.
Les is a mechanic and his garage is always full with cars that need repairing.
Engine faults, a little bit of panel beating, gearbox problems.
Actually transmissions are Les' specialty.
And it would be fairly safe to say that as exclusive mechanics go, Les Worthington is
the busiest in Adelaide.
Hello.
Hello Les.
It's John mate.
I'm having a few problems with the gearbox in the Audi.
Oh what's the symptoms?
Crunching the gearbox tends to be slipping a bit too.
It doesn't sound too good.
No look could you put me in today sometime?
We're pretty flat out at the moment.
What it could do is if you could possibly drop it in after midday.
Okay then I'll do that.
Thanks very much Les.
Bye bye.
Here's the Audi.
Thanks very much Les.
Oh thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot.
See you later.
I'll see you later.
I know you thought he worked on the real ones.
Well to Les, these are the real ones.
His garage for radio control model cars is going great cogs.
Well over the past 12, 13 months it's become so popular.
You know there's just quite a few cars out there.
People sort of haven't got the techniques or know enough about these cars to get them
sort of either assembled or repaired.
Main problems are gearboxes, transmissions, motors, I don't know any sort of adjustments
or any sort of work that needs to be done in these cars before they're out.
Like out on the road, are there good drivers and bad drivers with this sport?
Yeah definitely.
Seeing kids the way they've driven their cars around, there are good and bad drivers.
Whatever the problem, it ends up with Les, a man with a lot of patience.
Well basically it's like a mini service station basically where you do all your mechanical
repairs and all your services on the cars.
Main problems are gearboxes, transmissions.
Some gearboxes are fairly simple to put together.
Some are more difficult, more involved, depending on whether you've got limited slip diffs on
some gearboxes and others you just straight gearboxes, that sort of thing.
But the complexity of it does vary from one car to another.
When I first got into it seven years ago, there was only sort of one basic car and that
was it.
But now you've got rear wheel drives, which is your standard type of car.
You've got front wheel drives, four wheel drives, four wheel drives with four wheel
steering and you know it just gets more and more comfortable.
There's clubs sprouting up all over Australia and the sport is flourishing, which means
Les won't be short of work.
Another pall-making prank in the making.
Tomorrow night on State of Fair, the high cost of surgery.
If it had been some other kind of operation, fair enough, but not just for a splinter.
Four hundred dollars to remove a splinter.
Now the medicos going over the top, we'll find out tomorrow night on State of Fair.
So I'll see you then.
Good night.
I'm sorry about the shock talk, Miss.
Oh, that's okay.
Well, two things.
The office have had a letter signed by George Baxter on behalf of the Cooper's Crossing
Progress Association expressing dissatisfaction at your appointment.
Secondly, the Sydney Press are wanting comments on strong rumours that the community of a
certain midwest town is outraged, unquote, about the behaviour of a certain unnamed new
flying doctor.
What rumours?
That this flying doctor failed to respond to an emergency call and was thereby responsible
for the death of a child.
What?
They also say that this same flying doctor was involved in the landing of an RFDS aircraft
on a road, thus endangering the lives of innocent people in a car.
Bloody hell.
I told them it was a heap of garbage that certain things have been taken out of context
and maliciously jumbled up.
Well, did they buy that?
Well, for the time being, but I thought you'd better know straight away.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Well, I'd better get along.
Oh, great work today, by the way.
Good night, Liz.
Good night.
I just don't understand this.
I mean, it's got to have come from Baxter, but he didn't know about the road landing.
Tom, I told him.
What?
Well, don't look at me like that.
What do you mean, you told him?
I'm sorry, I didn't realise it was half a...
When was this?
Last night.
You were with Baxter last night.
No, I came in...
While I was away.
What?
Well, that's fine.
If you want to run around with Baxter, that is fine.
Wait a minute, I'll have dinner with whoever I like.
George Baxter of all people.
Tom, if you'd let me explain...
You just tell him all the dirt you can think of.
Thanks for dinner.
Hey, Tom.
Hey, Dusty.
Feel like a real drink?
Not right now, mate.
I've just had some bad news.
All kinds of bad news.
But at least it's off the front page.
The whole tone of the thing is more joke than accusation.
Yeah?
Well, I'm not laughing.
You didn't hear the galassers.
Oh, they were having a field day.
And what's more, they believe it.
They actually believe it.
Well, there is a spark of truth in it.
After all, we did land on the road.
An emergency.
We had no other option.
Yes, I know.
But when a black like George Baxter fans that spark, whoosh, you got a bushfire.
Why the hell did she have to tell him?
Look, why don't you take a day or two off?
Get the whole thing out of your head.
I mean, even doctors are entitled of a break now and again.
And go where?
Well, do the clinic run to Mumba and drop in at Corinda Bella on the way back.
Oh, no.
Well, you'd be doing me a favor.
I mean, Beth's due for a checkup.
No, thank you.
A man would have to watch every word he uttered in front of little Miss Bucketmouth out there.
What are you doing?
I'm just trying to find the right angle.
OK.
There.
Come look, Beth.
Why do you want to take pictures of an old Drudder creek bed?
Because it says something.
What?
Right.
I can use the Land Rover.
Because you're dumb as well as deaf.
What does it say then?
Well, it says that this is a very difficult country to come to terms with.
Beautiful in a way, but you have to be very strong to survive or be a part of it.
Oh, is that all?
Yeah.
Sally, your mother says you should come.
School of the air.
You should be home too, Lucy.
Mom said I can help Liz.
What are the sheep doing?
What are the sheep for?
For young Doug to kill and dress so someone can cook them for people to eat.
Diana blames you because her and Doug might be split up.
Me?
Well, she reckons you're the one making Dad sell the property.
Liz?
Just a second.
I thought you should see this.
Charlie the mailman bought it.
Oh no.
Afraid so.
These are very good.
You should send them to the state.
Your agency friends would love them.
What?
This is garbage.
I know.
Pure garbage.
According to Charlie, a lot of the locals are lapping it up.
Haven't seen you in a while.
Lizzie.
Haven't seen Liz neither.
You should be so lucky.
What did you say?
I'm sorry.
What did you say?
Oh it doesn't matter it's not really important.
You and that little shiller are still cooking on each other aren't you?
I think that's our business.
I don't know about that.
Do you mind if I get in my car?
She's a good bird mate.
You're doing the wrong thing boy.
Do you mind?
She thinks you're bloody Christmas if you want to know.
Great.
I'm really pleased to hear that.
Now can I get in my car?
Look what's the blue about anyway?
Thank you.
Look Tom.
Look, Tom, I don't like to see me mates fighting.
Especially with each other.
Well, your mate just happens to have a big mouth.
What do you mean?
She told Baxter we bought a plane down on the main road.
She never?
She did. She said she did.
She never? She told me.
Baxter just happened to hear it.
We were having a drink.
Her and me, laughing and joking.
She was telling me what a great bloke you were.
Baxter just happened to get his bloody great ears in the way.
You've got to wake up yourself, mate.
She's all right, I'm telling you.
Stop to think, Blay.
Mm-hm.
Hey, can I help you with the developing?
Well, if you put the horses up first.
Deal.
Come on.
It's OK, come in.
Well, hurry up, close the...
Hello?
Hi.
Oh, I'm not ruining anything, am I?
Oh, no, I haven't started yet.
Liz, listen, I'm...
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, too.
I should have realised you'd never intentionally say anything.
No, I should have kept my mouth shut.
No, it was my fault, really.
Really, I understand.
Will you please let me finish what I came here to say?
I should have known.
I should have at least been reasonable.
And I certainly shouldn't have let you walk out like that.
Oh, I...
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Drug trafficking and corruption next in cover-up.
Steven, but she's innocent.
There is nothing I can do.
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Annie and Mac turn their hands to music videos.
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There they go.
They make a nice couple.
In all that fresh air and Australian sunshine.
They don't do too bad in the dark, do they?
Now, Tom, you tell this horse to behave itself.
Tell her I'm a New York girl and I ride cats on horses.
It's all right for her.
Doug, we have to get out.
Leave. It's the only way.
Yeah.
Let's play, son.
Well, when?
When we get a chance.
Even if we walk out with nothing and have to hitch our way to Brisbane.
Well, I've got a school friend there.
We could stay with her. She'll help us.
Just three weeks. Give me three weeks, OK?
We're back to Cooper's Crossing, the rodeo.
I can knock up the championship again this year.
That's 300.
Oh, Doug.
A last line between fertility and desert.
Is it wrong to want to sell now while there's still something left to sell?
Sounds like good business sense.
Yeah, I know.
It was so easy in New York.
Mother would sit there with the accountant, with the figures and the record.
Sit there and try to dream up another excuse to hang on a little longer.
For me, the message used to just scream off the page, get out, sell.
It's not that easy, is it?
Nothing ever is.
And now that I'm here, I can see what it means to Aunt Rosemary and Uncle Vern.
And to my mother, too.
You think I'm being brainwashed?
Too long in the bush.
What is that supposed to mean?
Losing touch with reality?
I don't think I've been too long in the bush.
Oh, oh, oh, sit down there.
Whoa, sit down there, boy.
Sit down there, boy.
Sit down there.
Whoa.
Whoa, sit down there.
Sit down there, boy.
You'd better watch him.
He gets a bit toey.
Excuse me, you all right?
You'd better get these things back to the house.
Give your mother a hand.
She's flat out.
Hey, Kelligan.
Keep him still.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Stop!
I'm talking.
Get Kelligan.
Go on.
You all right?
I think I've done my half.
I'm sorry.