8.35 Saturday night, off-peak, a satirical drama about the members of a business association on their weekend away.
There goes our next chairman.
I suppose there'd be no point in my saying I was terribly frisky.
Hello.
This is a good morning, Ferry.
I don't understand. Is why you need to impress them?
I would have thought you'd have grown out of them by now. I have.
I should have come.
Off-peak, 8.35 Saturday night on ABC.
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Good evening again, I'm Alan Nielsen with the National Newsbreak.
A rescue party tomorrow will try to reach the scene of a plane crash in rugged country in Papua New Guinea.
A number of Australians are reported to be among the passengers on the aircraft,
to Douglas Airways Britain Norman on a flight from Port Moresby to Kokoda.
However, the weather is bad and rescuers aren't expected to get to the site until tomorrow morning.
A city block was threatened in Brisbane today when fire swept through a five-storey building.
Hundreds of people were evacuated when firefighters thought the blaze was getting out of control.
The old Rich's building on the corner of Wharf and Adelaide streets was being demolished.
It was the biggest fire brigade turnout since the Tower Mill blaze of late last year.
The four floors of the Rich's building, the former home of Radio 10, began to burn before midday.
Workmen on the roof were the first to be threatened.
We got a call from other blokes that was fired in there.
So we just got out the water tank and come down, quick as we could.
At the request of firemen, police blocked off city traffic and cordoned off fascinated onlookers.
The seat of the blaze was above the reach of ground-based firemen,
so extension platforms carried the bulk of the load.
Within an hour, it was under control, but senior firemen had taken it very seriously.
It's within the heart of the city of Brisbane.
Under those circumstances, we consider it a risk to the remainder of the city,
and that's why we brought in, as you can see, a fair amount of equipment
to make sure it doesn't come and get outside the bounds of this building.
There was a risk of this fire spreading.
There was a definite risk in the early stages.
At one point, there were fears that gas leaking from a ruptured pipe
may have posed a danger to the public, but the leak was soon halted.
Industrial and business leaders in South Africa have urged the government
to end the state of emergency.
They say if the government doesn't remove the causes of the current unrest,
capital will continue to flow out of the country.
In the past two days, South African police have killed more than 20 people.
Sir Jobe Alki-Peterson has rejected allegations of improper loan-raising dealings
by the Queensland Government.
The Premier described the report in the National Times as a giant beat-up.
He said the allegations of secret commissions had been investigated
by federal and state police and found to be without foundation.
The National Party is urging the government to review award provisions
that guarantee preference of employment for union members.
The party state management committee has reaffirmed the party's policy
opposing compulsory union membership as a requirement for employment.
Liberal leader Sir William Knox says question time in the Queensland Parliament
has become a mockery.
Sir William says although Parliament has been sitting for a fortnight,
only 53 questions have been answered by government ministers.
The Education 2000 debate has brought a flood of letters
into Queensland's education department.
Today was the last day for public comment on proposals
to change our education system.
When the deadline had passed, the department had more than 500 submissions,
and one of them was from the Queensland Teachers' Union.
The union submission spells out 67 recommendations and alternatives
to the Education 2000 Plan, but union president Lyle Schotner says
extra money, access for disadvantaged groups,
and the industrial rights of teachers also need to be considered.
Under the Education 2000 Plan, students from pre-school to year 3
will be grouped together.
Intermediate schools will include years 4 to 10,
and grades 11 and 12 will be incorporated into senior colleges with TAFE.
It's the intermediate schools and senior colleges the union opposes.
We see social concerns that many parents have about the age range
of students that would be mixing, and frankly we just can't see
what benefits are achieved that would justify the enormous expenditure
on resources if there's any intention of rearranging structures.
A passenger on a light aircraft over Normanton in the Gulf of Carpentaria today
was ecstatic when the plane's wheels finally hit the ground.
23-year-old Graydon Furby had a lot to do with getting them there.
He twice leaned out of a Cessna 210 to force the plane's landing gear into position.
200 metres from the ground, Mr Furby opened the door on the aircraft's port side
and stood on the retracted undercarriage to free a landing wheel.
He then opened the door on the starboard side to do the same thing.
However, the starboard wheel wouldn't lock, so Mr Furby pushed it into position again
and secured it with a seatbelt.
The rest of the landing went without incident.
And we'll have more news in the weekend national tomorrow night at 7.
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