You don't communicate.
It's just unbelievably unnecessary and we all think that it just shouldn't happen.
To ram the message home, a symbolic explosion on Sydney Harbour.
New South Wales Premier Bob Karp says today's poor turnout doesn't mean we're getting
bored with the nuclear issue.
The rain might have beaten us today but the spirit of Australian protest against what
the French have done to our ocean will go on.
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Josie McCray, 10 News.
But the rain couldn't stop some real pedal power in Sydney today where thousands celebrated
the start of Bicycle Week.
They'd been pumped up for this event for weeks.
A 28 kilometre ride from the city across the Harbour Bridge out to Home Bush Bay and back.
Organisers say 6,000 riders took part in the event and most completed the ride despite
the conditions.
Well the soaking rain has brought joy to country areas.
Jubilant farmers in New South Wales say the weekend's rain has raised hopes of saving
their grain crops although a bit more would remove the threat of huge losses.
It couldn't have come at a better time for crops like this.
Grain growers in the northern half of New South Wales had been close to turning their
cattle and sheep onto their wheat crops to salvage some value out of them.
Today they were glad they didn't.
This rain is just fantastic.
It's terrific to see the rain and it will really just give farmers that lift and we
just are hoping that it is the end of the drought.
Time will tell whether that hope is well founded.
Indeed, there's a need for far more rain over a wider area before the drought can be declared
dead.
The falls have been perfect for most of the New South Wales wheat crop but Queensland
has missed out again.
The best falls for farmers fell in central west New South Wales around Condobolin and
Coonabarabran.
But around Narrabri in northern New South Wales, little change from when these pictures
were taken a month ago.
Dry ground and dry rivers.
Industry experts say the rain this weekend has been good enough to keep hopes high for
all our total wheat crop.
We were looking at a downgrade on the yields and the volume of wheat.
This will arrest that and it can only be a big plus for Australia's bottom line.
Daryl Anderson, 10 News.
It's not often a major star like Barbara Streisand visits Australia so sometimes we just have
to make do.
In fact this Barbara Streisand is Shane Tonks, a member of the uniquely Australian Barbara
Streisand Association, the only one of its type in the world.
The club gets together once a year to swap stories about their idol and trade memorabilia.
It's also an opportunity for the best singers in the club to show the world Barbara isn't
the only Streisand who can belt out a tune.
Mondays back to work weather details are after the break.
A unique debut in Melbourne and Bill Woods with Sports Tonight.
Coming up North Melbourne's convincing win in the AFL semi-final we have basketball,
our hockey team's doing well overseas, we've got rallies and the Sea Eagles leap into the
grand final but only after a tough one against the Knights.
7.30 Monday on the show that's got it all.
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Some of the most spectacular scenery in Australia.
Tonya Toddman has some clever ideas for kids parties.
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Watching professionals tap dance their way into a frenzy is captivating.
Ross Greenwood explains why a home infantry makes good sense.
It's easy to take your home and possessions for granted.
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Today saw more good soaking rains in many areas of eastern Australia, but many drought
areas missed out with the rain mainly between Brisbane and Sydney, while other major centres
were fine or overcast today. Perth had a few more showers, but it was fine elsewhere apart
from some cloud in Hobart. The clouds over the central eastern districts are breaking
up but more are moving into Western Australia. That high should edge further into the Tasman
tonight while a cold front swings over the southwest. So the forecast for tomorrow. Conditions
should begin to clear in Sydney that top their 19 degrees. As the rain moves north it should
leave the rest of the east coast fine, Canberra's top 18, Melbourne 20. Elsewhere around the
country should be fine and mild as well. Apart from Perth, the forecast there 19 degrees
and showers. They should continue down quite warm and 33 degrees. Well Melbourne put on
a fine day for the public debut of two tiny and very rare creatures. These cute fellows
are golden lion tamarins, a highly endangered species from Brazil. The future of their species
rests with them, so they've come to Melbourne Zoo's international breeding program. While
they were the centre of attention today, a toy bunny held theirs. The zoo hopes the tamarins
will settle in and start reproducing. That could prevent their extinction and even see
their kind return to their native Brazilian jungles. And that's the news to this minute.
David Johnston will have our next National Bulletin on 10 at 11.30 tomorrow morning.
But stay with us now for a full round up of all the day's top sporting action with Sports
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On Sports Tonight Sunday, September 17, North kills off the Eagles season, the Roos now
a win away from the grand final. Manly Cops are battering from the Knights but qualifies
for the first all Sydney grand final of the 90s. Our hockey players beating the world
overseas. Bring on Atlanta. So stop right there. Sports Tonight's ready to bring you
all the Sunday hits.
Hello, welcome to this Sunday Sports Tonight. I'm Bill Woods. Also tonight, a new Melbourne
Cup contender, the latest Rally Australia news and lots more. But first, AFL. And the
West Coast season is over. North Melbourne completely outplaying the Eagles today at
the MCG. The Roos led from the opening minutes and they didn't let the Eagles back in the
game. North winning a place in a preliminary final by a margin of 58 points.
With the loser bowing out, there were no big pardons from the word go. And it was the Kangaroos
who started impressively. Even though Matera got two for the quarter, North had by far
the better of the opening and should have been more than 12 points up at the first break.
The Eagles threw their best at North early in the second quarter. Two goals in the first
five minutes to Gehrig, cutting the deficit to just two points. But North was equal to
the challenge, kicking the last four goals of the second term. And although the Roos
called on a bit of luck along the way, they thoroughly deserved a 25 point lead at the
long break. That was always going to prove tough for West Coast, but when North kept
it rolling, the contest was on the verge of becoming lopsided. One of the Eagles' only
two goals for the quarter came from a dreadful umpiring decision, whereas North was doing
it with strength, skill and persistence and the Kangaroos had it parceled up at three-quarter
time, the margin out to 43 points. The whole pattern of the match was basically summed
up by two pieces of play in the final turn. North, smooth and direct. While the Eagles'
day was typified by Hetty's miss from 20 metres out. In the end, North's winning margin was
58 points and they've given Carlton notice that they'll need to fight every inch of the
way to secure a grand final berth, but the Eagles have disappointing end to their reign
as the competition's champion side. There's a lot of talk that if I don't kick any goals,
North are going to lose and all that sort of stuff. I mean, I didn't kick a goal today
and John Longmore only kicked three and all our other goal kickers come from on the ball
and guys like Glen Archer, Brett Allison and on ballers. So, I mean, it was a very even
performance today and one that I'm sure all the North supporters and the media should
have a good look at. We were very committed today. We knew we'd win today. There's only
one more game we can get into the grand finals. So, we gave it our all and fortunately for
us a lot of boys were in the form at the right time. I guess everybody's been focusing on
the forward line and certainly we probably are a lot to blame, but I guess the side as
a whole today didn't play as well as what we wanted to and I guess we have to look at
the whole team in general and, you know, just hope to improve next year. I mean, this to
us is just devastating. We never expected it and you never think about finishing in
the second week of the finals and we sort of always plan for another two weeks. So,
for us it's extremely disappointing. So, it's down to the final four and a grand
final spot beckons for each of next week's preliminary final winners. On Saturday afternoon
Geelong will do battle with Richmond at Waverley Park. The Cats looking to play in their fourth
grand final in seven seasons. The Tigers their first in 13. And then on Saturday night, minor
Premier Carlton lines up for, hopefully for them, its 15th consecutive win against North
Melbourne under lights of the MCG. Well Manly has put the night's season to an end, but
only after a very physical semi-final at the Sydney football stadium today. Firm favourites,
the Sea Eagles struggled to break through Newcastle's defence for most of the match.
The Sea Eagles eight point victory sets up the first all Sydney grand final since 1988.
They face the Bulldogs next Sunday. Doubts over the fitness of Manly captain Jeff Turvey
were dispelled when he led the strongly fancied Sea Eagles onto the Sydney football stadium
against the needled up injury hit Newcastle Knights. It didn't take long for those two
adversaries Mark Carroll and the Knights Paul Harrigan to come together. Early nerves played
havoc with the players handling. 19 minutes into the match Manly's Matthew Ridge ran the
gauntlet on the fifth tackle. His conversion made it 6-0 and the Sea Eagles looked in control
until three minutes from half time. The Knights kicking game finally came good in controversial
fashion. Replays confirmed the decision by the in-gold touch judge to award the try to
Robbie O. Davis was correct and it was 6-4 in favour of Manly at the break. Like in the
first half, the second was a no-frills grinding contest with the courage of Matthew Ridge
typifying the struggle. He battled on bravely with a rib injury. So too did captain courageous
Jeff Turvey with his neck problem. It didn't stop him setting up the match winner with
15 minutes remaining. Ridge's conversion had Manly safe at 12-4 and that became the
full time score. It was probably more defence than attack today and there was plenty of
forced errors by both sides. The possession rate was fairly even. So Paul and Malcolm's
side were beaten today. They didn't have the ideal preparation for a game of this nature
but I figure that we had everything going for us from the point of view of all the players
being available. We needed that sort of game for the two weeks, the lay off we've had for
the last two weeks. We needed that sort of game for preparation. Taking to a grand final.
But I don't think that sort of form is going to be enough to win the grand final. The mistakes
were very costly and a lot of them forced errors really cost the margin of victory I
thought. I don't think you have to soul search too much to find out that the mistakes were
the fatal coup there because they were working pretty hard and they had a lot more possession
than us and they concluded a bit better than us. We tried hard but just due to those errors
that finally got us and when they scored their tries they were fairly easy because we were
tied. Manly are now into their 13th grand final against the Sydney Bulldogs. Knights
captain Paul Harrigan leans towards the dogs. Manly are going to play just as consistent
as that next week regardless of the weather. Canterbury they want it, they really want
to win. If they can have their possession and their completion is very high I think
they can match it physically with Manly. As I said before the key to it all is the will
and they really want it so I think if they do those things they can go very close. Still
lots more to come on sports tonight. Our hockey victory is overseas. Mick Dewan blasting his
opponents and the Rio track. Plus the Mitsubishi Challenge heads into playoff mode. The picture
coming up. An epidemic among local children. This virus is highly infectious and it gets
completely immune to it. Hospitals have been inundated but doctors have responded with
successful new treatments. Also on Monday an outback success. They'll come up to us
first and see if we can diminish whatever problems there are. New bridges for groups
that haven't seen eye to eye. Eye witness news. First at five. Monday nights on ten.
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Welcome back. Australia's Olympic hockey preparation looks pretty much on target with some strong
overseas results from our men's and women's teams. The Kookaburras going through the Six
Nations tournament in Italy undefeated, they beat the Host Nation in the final. And in
South America the Hokie Roos also unbeaten. They're in tomorrow's final after beating
Argentina today. No doubting who the crowd was behind, the home side scored the opening
goal of the match. A spot in the tournament final assured Australia didn't have to win
this game, but the Hokie Roos came out much more determined in the second half. Renata
Farrell's equaliser hotly disputed by the Argentinians who argued the ball was outside
the circle when the shot was made. The scorer though had no doubts. It was just rolling
towards the circle and I felt like I just waited as long as I could and hit it and I
felt it was over the line and the goalie actually I think stepped over the ball and let it go
thinking it was outside. So I mean that's the way it goes and I was quite confident
that it was in the circle. No question over the Hokie Roos' second goal, strike player
Jackie Pereira right on the spot with just one minute left on the clock. Undefeated in
the tournament, the Hokie Roos will play South Korea in tomorrow's final. They're strong
favourites after beating the Koreans 4-2 earlier in the week. Because they are, for me they
are the best team. They are like a machine, they always run and press and it's very, very
difficult to play against them. Ozzie Michael Dewan set the fastest time in qualifying to
grab pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix but just minutes after leaping off the
bike Dewan blasted the Autodromo Nelson PK Circuit as a safety risk for riders. He says
if it's wet for the race he and the rest of the field will battle to stay upright but
he will abide by the decision of the riders if they vote before the race. While the Mitsubishi
Challenge settles down for the playoffs, NBL officials admit they're considering taking
basketball into the summer. Chairman Mal Speed and General Manager Bill Palmer are examining
several options, one of which is a summer league. But it depends on venues, clubs, sponsors
and fans. Meantime the quarter finals are just a few days away and it should be one
of the closest on record.
Perth Wildcats won the minor premiership and their reward was a first round match up with
a playoff nemesis. The Melbourne Tigers have stumbled into eighth place this season but
they beat Perth in the 92 quarter finals and again in the 1993 final. They seem to lift
for the big games, this will be a highly emotional series. South East Melbourne finished second
but faced similar problems. Their opponents Illawarra scored a double victory against
them in the space of a week in the regular season. The Hawks however entered the playoffs
on a four game losing streak and may be affected by the news that coach Alan Black is headed
for Sydney at the end of the season. One of the formed teams is defending champion North
Melbourne on a five game winning streak. The latest was against their playoff opponent
Brisbane last night in Brisbane. The Bullets led the league for much of the season but
have struggled to the finish. Their problem seems to be putting four solid porters together.
The formed team of the league though is Adelaide including a nine game streak with a win over
the Hawks last Friday. Newcastle looked like a championship team when they won an overtime
game against the Kings but without home court advantage the Falcons will need to lift to
beat the Sixers.
Coming up on sports tonight, what's in store for the future of Australian sport? We have
golf, boxing and the Rally Australia has a new leader but just who it is, we'll let you
know in a moment.