Just over a century ago, this homemade machine trundled across a Victorian wheat field and
changed farming forever.
This was the Sunshine Harvester.
It ended the backbreak of gathering the golden grain.
A special edition of Countrywide at a special time tells again the story of a man and his
machine.
H.V. McKay, the Sunshine Man, is next on Countrywide, 5 past 10, Wednesday night.
Remember the man from Snowy River, all the rivers run, Farland, the thrill of the Olympic
Games.
Now ABC Records brings you the themes from all of these in a superbly arranged album
featuring Bruce Rowland with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
In this sparkling, digitally recorded album, we're transported to some of the most beautiful
and exciting scenes ever seen on the screen.
A marvellous addition to your collection from all record retailers displaying this Windows
sticker and your ABC shop.
Leading Australians talk about their favourite television programme.
It's a show with significant policies.
It's got credibility.
And jokes.
And people like me.
It's good on taxa form.
It moves with pace.
It's a show with a lot of
And ladies and gentlemen, it'll put a smile on your face.
Yep, no doubt about it, you can always rely on politicians for a good laugh.
Vote 1, yes, Minister.
7.55 Mondays on ABC.
8.25 Saturday.
Join ABC for all the action and perfection of international ice skating when skaters
from around the world compete in Skate Canada 1984.
Exciting amateurs from 13 countries perform for the top honours in figure skating, pairs
and ice dancing.
Skate Canada.
Poetry on ice.
8.25 Saturday on ABC.
Hello again from Ralph Neill in Melbourne for the National.
Another 100,000 chickens infected with the rare form of influenza will be destroyed in
Victoria.
The Federal Government announced tonight that more farms in the quarantine area near Bendigo
had been affected with foul plague.
However, despite the new outbreak, the Government says there is no evidence of the disease spreading
beyond the Bendigo area.
The County Court jury hearing charges against BLF Secretary Norm Gallagher has retired for
a second night without reaching a verdict.
Mr Gallagher has pleaded not guilty to 43 charges of corruptly receiving secret bribes.
Today the jury presented a list of questions to the judge presiding at the trial, Judge
Waldron, and further questions will be dealt with tomorrow.
The Victorian ski season officially opens this weekend with resorts promising everything,
even skiable snow.
As the guest reports, big snowfalls have been reported and most resorts will have at least
some lifts operating.
Victoria's Mount Buller Resort was deserted today, except for the maintenance crews busy
grooming more than half a metre of pristine powder snow ready for the weekend onslaught.
The last time there was this kind of snow so early in the season was 1977, and the last
time the resort saw good snow all season was four years ago in 1981.
Resort managers aren't pinning their hopes on this year's early start, but they say it's
a good sign.
It is certainly a very good start so far, but the prospects, it's the weather and in
the mountains you never know of course, but we've all got our fingers crossed for a very
good year.
In other news tonight, encouraging economic news on two fronts today for the Government.
The trial of High Court Judge Lionel Murphy enters its second day, and the former New
South Wales Corrective Services Minister, Rex Jackson, and three others are to face
trial.
The weather now, overnight and morning fog patches, frosts inland, and fine tomorrow
except for scattered showers in the east and coastal drizzle.
The top temperature forecast for Melbourne tomorrow is 15 degrees after an overnight
low of six.
We'll be back in about an hour and a half from now.
Seven thirty Saturday, David Attenborough explores the world of the birds in life on
earth.
The amazing world of the birds in life on earth, seven thirty Saturday on ABC.
In just ten weeks, the Japanese had gained an empire.
Special Operations Executive found itself with unlikely comrades, the Malayan Communist
Party.
Together they embarked on a number of daring assignments.
The Communists were a highly organised and disciplined group.
With the Japanese surrender, the British found themselves at loggerheads with their former
comrades.
Thousands of well-trained armed guerrillas were now poised to remove their colonial masters.
Sunday at seven thirty, the final chapter on ABC.
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