It's gonna bust our balls. It's gonna be huge.
Ain't cause we made her huge.
Christ, Nile will come along now with all her money and about 10 shows she can go on.
Does the ABC think that if they sink to the level of the commercial stations,
the government will wind up the 8 cents a day to 10?
Not a hope.
The pollies will probably praise you for being with it.
Please sell it to a commercial station,
even if one of them would take it, or stop it altogether.
Or you will go blind.
But Ron Christie of North Hobart was in no doubt.
From someone who once worked on the front line,
went to the back line and now is hanging on the line,
never was there a truer display of life in the industry than displayed in front lines.
Tonight on Frontline.
Growing doubts.
Growing doubts over Ozzie Aydwerker, some actuality and then...
Desert angel or desert devil?
Beautiful. That's my girl.
Nile, Desert angel is out.
Why?
You were right, mate.
They can shove their checkbook journalism right up their jacksies.
But, Aunty, don't let Rob leave home like Andrew did.
Hold him as long as you can.
He's talented.
The whole crew are.
I can remember when there was only one current affairs program on Australian television.
Well, it is Tuesday and GP time.
The episode on mental health has provoked a good deal of debate
with many appreciative letters, faxes and phone calls to backchat.
But I think this 0055 phone call from Gwen from Melbourne best sums it up.
Stop it, mother!
I very much feel for my family.
And it showed me a level of understanding of how demanding I can be upon them.
But please, GP and backchat and viewers, not all schizophrenics
will try to take their own life when they get ill. They might just become a bit irrational.
They need help and understanding.
They don't need to be depicted always as being suicidal or frantic and crazy.
OK, but I've been better for six months now, and you're still here most of the time.
Do you think I enjoy being like a bad lady running between your place and mine?
I do have a life of my own to lead, you know.
Well, go and leave it, Mum.
I'm all right.
Well, you know where I am, if you need me. Yep.
Mum, please!
Sometimes they're coping quite all right.
Please give us credit. Please give us credit for when we do cope all right.
And could there be some positive things on TV about schizophrenia
and people who are coping well? Please.
Thank you for that, Gwen. Your full name was, of course, supplied.
And I have a little housekeeping to do on GP.
When I said recently that I was declaring a moratorium on the gay debate,
it was only for that particular backchat. I mean, how could I be so presumptuous?
Backchat has always been driven by your input, so there's been reaction to those people
who said they were sick of gay issues being shoved down their throats.
I've always felt there have been more elegant ways of expressing that.
However, over to Marion McKay of Tarrack, Melbourne,
who unfortunately fluked a bad telephone line.
I am a 43-year-old woman who is heterosexual,
and I am just absolutely astonished at the number of bigoted morons you have watching GP.
I think the show's fantastic.
I think that it's about time some show showed homosexuality in a realistic way.
It's just one of those things, isn't it?
Oh, come on. It doesn't bother you that your only surviving son is gay?
When I was a kid, you warned me about homosexuals.
You said it was worse than having foot and mouth.
Well, I don't think you got foot and mouth.
I didn't expect you to jump for joy.
Well, I can't.
I think the doctor, whatever his name is, is gorgeous.
Three or four shows have just brought me to tears.
And I applaud you for your wonderful effort.
And so ends a solidly Australian product-oriented backchat.
Quite right, too. Good night.
MUSIC
Those glasses actually allow him to peer right through a patient's skull and see a brain tumor.
You don't have to be a computer boffin to be astounded by the revolution that began with the silicon chip.
This is the beginning of holographic television.
Hot Chips is a hot new series that invites you to enter the world of information technology.
Take your favorite book and start turning the pages.
Hot Chips starts 8 o'clock Wednesday, ABC.
Their neighborhood was a combat zone.
So we're just gonna have to take care of it ourselves.
Don't you worry about a thing.
So he was hired to protect them.
Does this happen every day?
The security guard killing someone.
But the solution became worse than the problem.
Who did this to you?
I want you out of here.
Martin Sheen.
You're making a mistake.
The man is dangerous.
And Lou Gossett Jr. in the thrilling story of an urban nightmare.
The Guardian.
8.30 Friday, ABC.
The 7.30 Report.
It brings you current affairs from around the world, Australia and Queensland.
It's our state.
They're our stories.
It's your 7.30 Report.
Good evening, Narelle Matlin.
Oil giant Exxon has been found guilty of recklessness.
The company responsible for the disastrous oil spill in Alaska in 1989
now faces a potential payout of $20 billion.
A member of the Abinudal terrorist group claims he blew up the Pan Am jet
which killed 270 people over Lockerbie.
The US and Britain have been trying to extradite two Libyans.
They suspect the Palestinians' confession is a ploy to get Libya off the hook.
Two teenagers are resting comfortably tonight
after spending three days lost in rugged bush northwest of Mackay.
The two 15-year-olds were airlifted by helicopter this morning,
but not before rescuers went looking for two adults who were involved in the search.
And two teenagers have appeared in a Melbourne court
following the death of a motorist on Sunday night.
The youth have been charged with manslaughter and recklessly causing serious injury.
Good night.
Younger women hear the word feminism and think it means not shaving under your armpits
and that's pathetic.
Attitude checks out women in Australia and how feminism today embraces femininity.
Before I started working for Women's Forum,
I didn't realize how many women loved perthing.
And it's just, and they do.
Who the hell can really figure out what they're about?
One day they're happy, the next day they're crying
and they're trying to like, you know, bludgeon your head with some blunt instrument.
You can buy a vibrator and you can take it home
and you don't have to make a breakfast in the morning.
Attitude, 9.30 Wednesday.
The most immediately impressive thing about America
is not its size, nor its wealth, nor its exceedingly pleasant weather.
No, what's most striking about America is how dumb it is.
According to Jonathan Ross, Americans realize how dumb life really is.
So they may as well join in.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in Mr. and Mrs. America's relentless search for pleasure.
You think us Yanks don't know how to have fun?
Jonathan's having plenty.
Jump next on Americana, 9.30 Thursday.