The program no Australian can afford to miss.
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, it affects your hip pocket.
Tuesday, May the 12th, the night you win or lose.
Budget 98.
We cross to Peter Costello in Canberra as he hands down the budget.
Then Jim Middleton will highlight the main points before Kerry O'Brien in discussion with the key players.
Budget 98, affecting all Australians.
This is Liz Jackson reporting from Washington DC.
What you had here was a crisis of enormous proportion.
Time for the crisis busters.
We don't have any wish to create instability in Indonesia.
The money men meant to cure the Asian crisis.
Financial problems in those countries has an effect on the Australian economy and on Australian jobs.
Logie Award winner Liz Jackson investigates the men from the International Monetary Fund.
8.30 tonight.
It's party time.
And I intend to present the best possible face.
After we've drunk that lot, it won't be our faces we'll be presenting.
And they all have a merry old time.
He thinks I'm rigid.
Till things get out of hand.
The very idea of two people having, having sex.
Then it's one in all in.
Don't tell me, Bernice.
After 11 years of marriage, do you still find me attractive?
Sometime never. 9.30 tonight.
5 past 10 tonight on McFeast Live.
My goodness, such guests popping into your lounge room.
Australian Democrat, Natasha Stott-Despoir, Mikey Robbins, Mark and Nick Seymour.
You know, crowded house, hunter and collector's brothers.
5 past 10 tonight.
Don't miss it.
I'm sure she must get dizzy.
McFeast Live.
Good evening. Michael Smith with an ABC News break.
The Maritime Union is considering returning to court
over Patrick's decision to close its operation at Port Adelaide.
The Stevedore & Company is planning to wind up its Adelaide business
within a fortnight, claiming it's unprofitable.
It says the operation was under threat even before the waterfront dispute.
And the loss of a major contract last week was the final straw.
An unemployed Melbourne man and his family have appeared in court
accused of laundering $50 million through Israeli bank accounts.
Narkom Goldberg and his wife Rita and two sons, Herschel and Naftali,
are facing more than 400 charges of money laundering, tax evasion
and social security fraud.
They maintain they were collecting charitable donations for visiting rabbis.
And hundreds of Boeing 737 airliners are being grounded and recalled
in the United States.
The manufacturers are checking for a possible fuel pump wiring problem
in some of the older aircraft.
Both Ansett and Qantas use 737s, but they say their aircraft
haven't logged enough flying hours to have developed the problem.
The jets being grounded in the US have flown more than 40,000 hours.
Adelaide's weather, staying cloudy with a chance of a shower or two,
20 tomorrow after dropping to 15 tonight.
I'll be back with more news for you in an hour.
Next Tuesday I'll actually be in Northern Ireland putting together
a special program for Tuesday week.
Meanwhile, Tuesday is Budget Night here in Australia,
so no room for us on May 12th, but Foreign Correspondent will be back
on May 19th from Ireland. See you then.