The plots are all the same. It's love and death and sex and let's get drunk.
They play a different character in a different opera almost every night.
Do they see themselves making it into the spotlight or is it enough to mingle with the stars?
To be next to the world's greatest voices is fabulous.
Some faces in the crowd reveal the ambitions, dreams and experiences of performing
in the shadow of the stars, 8.30 Wednesday.
If achievement counts, Dr. Margaret Somerville could be Australia's favourite daughter.
Professor of Law and Medicine, bioethicist and prize winning cook,
she is now head of department at Canada's McGill University.
Her opinion on the ethics of medicine and biochemistry have caused hot debate amongst scientists.
They're so intrigued with what they're doing that they don't see the surroundings of what they're doing.
Robin Williams talks to Dr. Margaret Somerville next on the Quantum Interviews, 10.30 tonight.
Some of Australia's best known and most popular actors deliver their finest performances
when the ABC presents its outstanding new seven part drama series, Seven Deadly Sins, 9.30 Tuesday on your ABC.
Back by popular demand, an enchanting film about life and death in kangaroo society.
Young roos come to know their part of the valley intimately.
The best tracks, shortcuts, fence crossings, good water and safe places to rest.
Meet Jaffa and the rest of the mob and discover the richness of their world
in an extraordinary program that shouldn't be missed.
Kangaroos, Faces in the Mob, 8.30 next Wednesday, ABC.
Everyone's a sinner on Seven Deadly Sins, 9.30 Tuesday, ABC.
Here is a broadcast for the Liberal Party for the federal election.
If the Australian economy is going to recover, then business must recover, but particularly small business must recover.
We should never forget that small business is really the backbone of Australia.
It's average Australians, it's average families.
They're the generators of wealth, they're the generators of jobs in Australia.
And in recent years, their life has been made incredibly difficult by a government that does not understand small business.
So fight back sets out to change all that. Petrol excise, for example.
Small businesses often have business vehicles and they've hit very heavily by 26 cents a litre on petrol excise.
So we'll scrap that.
Sales tax, a lot of sales taxes that get built into the cost structure of small business.
They should be scrapped too.
Capital gains tax should be lowered.
It should recognise that people do build up goodwill in their business and they should get fair value for that.
It should certainly encourage them to build their business and expand their business without a tax penalty as it does today.
And of course, people like to use their businesses as a form of preparation for their retirement, as a substitute for superannuation.
So capital gains tax has got to be changed to make sure that those things don't happen.
Today there are some 750,000, maybe 800,000 small businesses in Australia.
If each of those businesses just employed one more person, we'd basically solve the unemployment problem.
And imagine what it would be like if we create the environment where small businesses open, new ones emerge and take on more and more people.
It's about time in Australia we all stopped and recognised one simple fact.
Small business is the generator of wealth in this country.
Small business is the generator of employment in this country.
So if we're ever going to recover in Australia, if we're ever going to have a decent and sustainable recovery from this, the worst recession in 60 years, we've got to set out to rebuild small business.
Authorised by A-Rob, Liberal Party, Canberra.
Good morning, welcome to First Edition. I'm Kate Dunstan.
ABC now presents a complete National News Bulletin, wig days at 6.30am.
Using the full resources of ABC's news force, First Edition brings you the latest in local and overseas news, plus a special coverage of national and international business.
For the first news of the day and special reports from home and abroad, join Kate Dunstan and Australia's most comprehensive early morning news programme.
First Edition, tomorrow at 6.30am.
Good evening, Daniel Cooper in the ABC Newsroom.
The Bosnian ambassador to the United Nations has claimed that famine-stricken inhabitants of eastern Bosnia have resorted to cannibalism to survive.
The claim has not been independently confirmed, however, relief convoys are still cut off from the area 11 months after the start of the civil war.
The Northern Territory Government has refused to support Australia's first international television service, ATVI.
Because the Government doesn't have editorial input, it's concerned the Darwin-based ABC service won't be sensitive enough to Asian audiences.
And more than 1,000 people gathered today to pay their last respects to Fred Hollows.
The man who brought healing to remote Aboriginal communities is at rest night at the outback town of Burke.
Tomorrow's weather, fine and hot with a top of 36. That's all from me. Stay tuned for the official launch of ATVI.
The good news is that Australia's becoming more and more productive. The bad news is fewer workers are needed to do it.
If you're 45 and over and lose your job, will you ever be wanted again? That's Lateline 10.30 tonight.
For these men, this will be the hardest three weeks of their lives.
Three weeks of relentless physical and mental stress to earn the right to wear the famous red beret.
It's said to be the toughest...
No, no, no, no, don't touch them all!
...and most grueling selection course in the world.
You should spin from the start to the finish line.
Share the experiences of a group of soldiers as they struggle for membership of Britain's elite.
ATVI Company, 8.30 Sunday, ABC.
When you get behind the media hype who can really tell you what's happening on any day during the selection from one end of the country to the other?
We can.
7.30 reports Paul Lyman, part of ABC's Canberra team.
She's got everything. Handsome hunk of a husband with a great sex life according to her.
And a disabled son.
He can't talk, he can't walk, and his mother believes he's also intellectually disabled.
Husband's family say it's an act of God.
I don't think he's ever been properly assessed.
At his age? The sooner we see him, the better.
Look at the life coming from those beautiful brown eyes and tell me that's not intelligence. For goodness sake, Peggy, forget it.
Quality Australian Drama, GP, 8.30 Tuesday, ABC.
There's something for everybody on everybody.
Aussie kids are involved in almost two million accidents every year.
Now the education system is playing its part in a unique prevention program.
Find out how.
And the high kicking, high energy entertainer Jackie Love limbers up in our celebrity checkup.
And Jeff the Chef transforms the humble mushroom into a taste sensation.
Remember, there's something for you on everybody.
8 o'clock Thursday, ABC.
Is this the unwanted trash of Britain's glory?
Children whose only crime was to be the poor, the unloved, the orphaned of Mother England.
Coming soon, The Leaving of Liverpool on ABC.
Hi! It's a doubleheader for sports fans.
On Monday night, Don Lane introduces one of the most keenly fought competitions in the world, American College Basketball.
On Tuesday, it's American College Football with all the thrills and spills.
American College Basketball and Football, 11 o'clock Monday and Tuesday on ABC.
He has impeccable and perfect timing.
It's cornball stuff and that's funny.
This is the funniest man.
The focus of all this praise, Benny Hill.
He developed his own brand of humor through television.
Though it wasn't always easy.
Next week's script.
So why become a comedian?
Surrounded by beautiful girls.
Everybody loves him.
That's for me.
The unmistakable comedy of the late great Benny Hill.
Clown Imperium, 8.30 Wednesday, ABC.
Next on Couchman, Industrial Relations New Zealand style.
Which, if the Liberals have their way, will be the blueprint for our future.
In the end, it's going to mean that you're going to click worker against employer to gain the competitive advantage in the economy.
The Act has given us a big step forward and we're going to use that flexibility jointly with our staff.
That people in small workplaces have no protection.
We don't get an opportunity to negotiate.
Couchman from New Zealand after the Wednesday special on ABC television.
In the far west where civilisation clings to the highway across the desert, alcohol and aborigines have come into violent collision.
The problem's not a new one, but after a spate of deaths, the people of Yalitur are determined to stop booze destroying their community.
Death is just the tip of the iceberg.
I mean, there's a lot of family violence that wouldn't happen if alcohol was around.
We could close our source of supply, but that's not going to solve the problem.
That's the 7.30 report next week.
Monday night, Douglas the Program, the whole country will be talking about sex.
8.30 Monday on ABC.
Sunday Stereo Special, brings you the story of love, tragedy, beauty and sacrifice.
Similcast on ABC FM.
From the State Theatre Melbourne, an Australian opera, Esso Night of the Opera.
Graham Murphy's production, Puccini's music, Turandot.
8.30 tonight on ABC.
Quantum Summer of Science, bringing you the best of quantum for 1991, begins Wednesday.
With the tracking of flying fox by radio tag.
A visit to Richmond Swarm.
This is frog heaven.
And a swim with a grey nurse.
This is what David calls cracking, the shark equivalent of a slap in the face.
Quantum Summer of Science, 8 o'clock Wednesday on ABC.
It was the death of film star Rock Hudson that finally put AIDS in the spotlight.
Each one of these quilt panels represents another less famous death.
And behind each are personal stories of caring and courage born out of despair.
Sometimes I would just look at him, marvel at him.
Because watching him was like watching someone actually eat life.
Commemorating World AIDS Day, this remarkable film is introduced by Ida Butrose.
Join me for a very special story.
The Academy Award winning Common Threads, stories from the quilt.
Wednesday at 8.30 on ABC.
82 lives lost.
What really happened when Voyager was cut in half by HMAS Melbourne?
It remains Australia's greatest peacetime naval disaster.
Why did two royal commissions fail to find an answer?
And why are Voyager survivors still suffering 28 years later?
The whole thing seems to have been some sort of a massive cover-up.
Voyager, the cruel legacy, next on Four Corners, 8.30 Monday, ABC.
No, not yet. But we'll be back next Monday night after Four Corners.
And to include your local media outrages, please send them to this address.
Tuesday night's award-winning drama returns with GP.
Congratulations, Will.
Alasha fidry.
With all the warmth.
One more monkey and I'll have a fit.
The humour and the tragedy.
Call the police.
GP continues its outstanding record of hard-hitting stories, unusual characters and uncompromising honesty.
Be surprised.
Make an appointment with GP, 8.30 Tuesday on ABC.
The ABC is proud to present its stunning new drama.
We need a car, Jake.
Phoenix.
Welcome to the world of Maisie Cross.
You know what the coolest?
Phoenix.
Radon target.
Operation Bloody Phoenix.
Go, go, go, go, go!
The public is entitled to feel safe from its own police force.
And who keeps the force safe from the bloody public?
Compelling television drama.
Phoenix.
And the riddle begins, 8.30 Thursday on ABC.
And I got to drink it, and there lies my...
A big country, a huge compilation of Australia's finest country writers and singers.
Bringing together traditional favourites like Slim Dusty and Smokey Dawson,
with contemporary heroes from James Blundell to Paul Kelly.
A big country is unique in Australian music.
A big country, available now on CD and cassette from ABC shops, ABC centres and all good record retailers.
All at once, my child.
9.20 Saturday, it's Clive James at the Playboy Mansion.
The bunnies might be gone, but the playmates were still here.
The enigmatic Clive James talks candidly with Hugh Hefner.
I've never gotten sick of it.
And is there for the crowning of the 1987 Playmate of the Year.
Clive James at the Playboy Mansion, 9.20 Saturday, right after America's tribute to Bob Hope, only on ABC.
Good evening. India and I do in the Adelaide newsroom.
There's continuing pressure tonight on tourism minister Barbara Weiss to stand down
over a possible conflict of interest over poker machines.
Even though Miss Weiss admitted today she had breached strict Cabinet guidelines,
she strongly denies any allegations of wrongdoing.
The National Crime Authority's final report on South Australia has found no evidence of organised corruption.
The report cleared 56 officials and police officers of corruption.
And in Islamabad, doctors have advised local cricket fans with a weak heart to avoid television and radio sets
during tomorrow night's World Cup final between Pakistan and England.
The advice follows the death of an elderly fan who died while watching Pakistan's exciting clash
with New Zealand on Saturday.
Now to the weather and it'll be fine and warm. Adelaide's top 30 degrees.
That's all for me. More news at half past ten.
Storming into banks with guns, that's pretty violent.
Phoenix.
I could show you some real bloody maggots, girl.
If you got it.
The best drama series produced in 35 years of Australian television.
This is Major Crime.
Phoenix. 8.30 Thursday on ABC.
One, two.
From the award winning team, they brought you the duty men.
Great, this is what we love to do.
Get your hands up!
This time they go behind the scenes of the world's most powerful drug busters, the Drug Enforcement Agency.
There are more people in jail today on drug related crimes than there were in the entire prison population ten years ago.
Meet the extraordinary people fighting the drug war. DEA. 9.30 Thursday on ABC.
We know there were five. Burgess, McClain, the first two, Philby, the third, you're the fourth, who's the fifth?
James Fox.
I suppose it is part of your functions for Anthony to prove that my pictures are fake.
Brunella Scales.
Too many people suspect.
And Jeffrey Palmer. Star in A Question of Attribution. 8.30 Wednesday.
I once had a photograph of Burgess with his head under one of their kilts. This one?
MI5's investigation of Sir Anthony Blunt. Double agent.
Awfully able man. That's the tragedy of it.
Who is he?
A friend.
You will be named.
An intriguing premier. Outstanding British drama. A Question of Attribution. 8.30 Wednesday. ABC.
What a word to the rapes corner.
Not a word, Mr. Brennan.
Phoenix.
They grab me and they belt me and they kick me and they rape me and they scare shit out of me
and some bastard lawyer gets up and makes it look like I wanted it.
What if you could help us catch these animals for something else?
Something that would see them put away for a long, long time.
They've killed someone, haven't they?
This elevator.
Phoenix. 8.30 Thursday on ABC.
Oh, definitely the same blokes.
They have erased my tapes. They've made me disappear and next it's gonna be me.
That stiff on the stretcher was probably our next president.
John Travolta, Nancy Allen and John Lithgow star in your Friday night thriller.
Nothing to prepare you for the chilling climax of Blow Out.
Then at 10.30.
Live and Sweaty is back and there's nothing you can do about it.
Blow Out and Live and Sweaty. Friday night on ABC.
Good evening, I'm Kerry O'Brien.
Tonight on Lateline we look at a radical plan to keep nine out of ten Australian children in school till the end of year 12
and then try to persuade them all to go on to a dramatically different tertiary structure.
How will it work and will it guarantee jobs for our kids?
That's coming up after the news.
Good evening, Clive Hale with ABC National Late Edition News. Thank you for joining us.
The United States, Britain and France are delaying moves for sanctions against Libya after Tripoli's decision to hand over two men suspected of the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing in 1988.
Libya says it will hand the men over to the Arab League.
Libya's apparent climb down came as the United Nations was ready to consider a series of sanctions if the two men accused of the Lockerbie bombing were not handed over.
Libya's ambassador met the UN Secretary General who played a central role in plans to deliver the two men to the Arab League.
France also wants Libyan cooperation after the bombing of one of its passenger planes.
Western diplomats said if this means full Libyan compliance with UN Resolution 731 it will be welcomed.
But Libya must also renounce terrorism and cooperate with investigators into the French bombing or else a further resolution imposing sanctions will go ahead.
United Nations investigators in Baghdad have confirmed that Iraq has destroyed a number of its long-range Shqad missiles.
The leader of the team said inspectors had seen the remains of a number of demolished missiles at sites around Baghdad over the past two days.
A car bomb exploded outside a police station in a Protestant area of Belfast on the 20th anniversary of direct British rule in Northern Ireland.
Eight people were injured but as Liz Forster reports the toll could have been much worse.
The residents of Pakenham Street were moved out just before the bomb went off.
They returned to find their homes devastated.
In several houses directly at the back of the police station walls and ceilings had come down.
I think it's terrible. People should go to their beds and sleep in that or people sleeping steady couldn't no less carry on it's awful.
I mean we had a home now we have no home. We don't know what we're going to do at all.
The bomb had been left in a taxi in an alleyway at the rear of the police station.
It was spotted by a security force patrol just before a telephone warning was given.
Police immediately began clearing the area and minutes later the bomb exploded.
A nuclear plant in Russia has been shut down after a radioactive gas leak.
Authorities said the leak from a reactor near St Petersburg didn't warrant protective measures outside the plant.
It was rated three on a scale of seven. The Chernobyl incident accident was at the top of the range.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorobachev has accused Russian President Boris Yeltsin of moving too fast on economic reforms.
And has slammed the United States for pursuing an outdated superpower policy.
In an interview in the Washington Post he also said the Commonwealth of Independent States was at crisis point.
Mr Gorobachev says his worst fears about the disintegration of the Soviet Union are coming true.
And he's likened the atmosphere in the CIS to that of an insane asylum.
Mr Gorobachev's comments come days after the summit of CIS leaders in Kiev
heard the Ukraine's President Kravchuk launch a bitter attack on the Commonwealth.
He told the summit that the Commonwealth had failed to solve a single serious economic, political or military problem within its borders.
In particular nothing had been done to stop the bloodshed in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh
where more than 1500 people have died in the past four years in fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
Albanians have thrown off the shackles of communism. Official figures show that the Democratic Party had a landslide win in the weekend's election with 65% of the vote.
The ruling Socialist Party, formerly Communists, collected less than one fifth of the vote.
All night the streets of Tirana had resounded to the exuberant strains of Europe's newest Democrats.
And by the early hours it was clear that a fledgling party just 15 months old, who had dared to challenge Albania's Stalinist masters, were about to take control.
It wouldn't be an enviable job if the country is in chaos, as yet another power cut hit the capital Tirana, even counting their votes had to be done in candlelight.
But today Albanians were able to forget the pain of everyday life as they took to the streets to celebrate a victory the size of which promises to surpass even their own expectations.
Australia's former ambassador to Chile, Malcolm Dan, is to face seven charges under the Public Service Act relating to property dealings while on posting in Santiago.
Mr Dan's already been found guilty on three counts of misconduct overseas after importing and selling luxury motor vehicles.
Budget rent a car to continue to trade in Australia as a fully franchised operation.
The International Parent Company will establish a centralised reservation system and is offering new franchises at the 67 outlets which closed last week.
30 corporate staff will be kept on, but another 400 will lose their jobs.
Budget has declared a moratorium on royalty payments to help 200 franchise operators re-establish their businesses.
The Australian share market dropped back today after another quiet session partly influenced by a weaker Japanese market.
Amcor dropped 8 cents and Santos lost 10, but Western Mining picked up 8.
The market indicator was down more than three points, but the Australian dollar remained steady.
Now let's take a look at tomorrow's national weather for you.
Some showers for Brisbane, also showers for Perth. A late storm expected for Darwin should be mainly fine in Sydney, fine also in Adelaide and the other capital cities.
That's ABC News at this minute. I'm Clive Hale. Thanks for being with us around Australia on 8th edition.
We're back again tomorrow, but right now stay with us for late night.