This Everton Park robbery, $10,000 was handed over.
The daring mid-morning bank raid could well have been a professional job according to
a police spokesman.
The robbers were well armed and foiled the bank's security camera system by using a spray
can on the lens.
The bandits in their early 20s entered the branch at 10.45.
One headed straight for the closed circuit camera and sprayed it with grey paint rendering
it useless.
The other armed with a sawn off shotgun threatened bank staff using obscene language and demanded
money.
The robbers got away with a plastic bag stuffed with banknotes totalling $10,000.
Some local boys saw them escaping on foot down a side lane which led to the Brookside
shopping centre car park where police believe they may have left by car.
Detective Sergeant Warren Smithers of the Consulting Squad.
We are making sparrows at the moment.
Door to door knocks.
We are not, we haven't any definite information as to the amount of trouble at the moment.
Was anybody threatened at all when they arrived in the bank?
Yes, I understand sir.
Were they both armed?
Not that I only wanted to, but you understand?
Yes.
Was anybody hurt?
No.
Police have spent the day searching for two men in their early 20s of tall, medium build,
one of dark European appearance with shoulder length dark hair, the other with red curly
hair.
Cathy Davis, National Nine News.
Is Bob Hawke privately telling people he'll be Australia's next Prime Minister?
It's been reported that during a trip to America, Mr Hawke reputedly was saying Bill Hayden
had given a confidential undertaking.
According to the report, if Hayden did not do well in the next election, he would relinquish
his position to Hawke.
In Canberra today, Mr Hayden denied any such deal.
Yeah, I don't believe this story because it's an extraordinarily damaging story and Bob Hawke
is too good a labour man to do that sort of damage to the Labour Party.
The second thing is that although Malcolm Fraser and I don't share many things in common,
we share this much in common.
He's not going to resign for anyone, including Andrew Peacock, and I'm not going to resign
for anyone, including Bob Hawke.
I intend to be Labour's next Prime Minister after this election and Lionel Bowen will
be my deputy.
The Prime Minister has lectured state Premiers on the so-called red peril and defence issues.
According to the acting New South Wales Premier, Mr Ferguson, Mr Fraser was preparing for a
car key election and it was wrong for the states to make financial sacrifices.
However, Liberal and National Party leaders applauded Mr Fraser's line.
The Premiers are now on their way home and late this afternoon appeared satisfied.
By the end of the day, five of the six states, New South Wales being the exception, were
going home reasonably happy with the size of their slice of the national money cake
and as Prime Minister Fraser was heard to say to Treasurer John Howard, five out of
six at one of these conferences is pretty good.
As the day began, all six states were expressing varying degrees of outrage and horror at Mrs
Fraser and Howard.
In total, the states were asking for $3,000 million for major projects like power stations,
roads, electrification and the like.
Canberra was offering exactly half of that but by mid-afternoon, Canberra had upped the
ante by 5% an extra $60 million.
Everyone eventually, except New South Wales Deputy Premier Jack Ferguson, voted to take
the extra money and the reaction to waiting newsmen and a few distant demonstrators was
predictable.
At their news conference, Mr Fraser and Mr Howard were also predictable.
They claimed that the states were getting a very good deal, better in fact than the
states had expected and none of the predictions of trouble in the states would come to pass.
No state has introduced a draconian budget at any time over the last five years.
In nearly every year, most states have had some tax cuts over the last five years.
A number of them have had very significant reductions in taxation.
An investigation by police, fire brigade and oil company officials so far has failed to
find the cause of yesterday's explosion at the Clyde oil refinery in Sydney.
The blast destroyed $2 million worth of equipment at the Shell installation and injured 10 men,
one seriously.
No one at Shell is prepared to speculate on what caused the explosion and fire.
Investigators say it could take months to find the answer.
There are only two of these butane de-asphalting units in the world and if there's a design
fault, Shell engineers intend finding it before any more are built.
This is what the Clyde unit looked like before yesterday's accident.
It cost around $14 million to build, it was commissioned just two months ago and its purpose
was to improve the refinery's petrol output.
Today, the seat of the blaze, the furnace, lay in ruins.
The explosion split it open with such force, this five tonne steel and concrete wall was
thrown 10 metres through the air.
The rebuilding of all of this will cost somewhere between $1 and $2 million and contrary to
earlier claims, petrol output will be affected, although only slightly.
Shell estimates their output will be down by about 3%.
The National Party will field two candidates in the seat of Lockyer in this year's election.
The sitting Liberal, Tony Burke, will be opposed by 40-year-old Gatton farmer Tony Fitzgerald
and 32-year-old Downlands college teacher Terence Day.
Mr Burke said he was pleased the National Party had not been able to field a full football
team.
After this break, the debugging of Government House and Soviet heavies, including Leonid
Brezhnev, visit the Olympic Games complex.
The United States National Broadcasting Company has filed a $78 million insurance claim with
Lloyds of London to cover losses resulting from the company's decision not to televise
the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
An NBC spokesman says the company was insured for 90% of the $87 million, American, in the
year.
It agreed to pay the International Olympic Committee and the Soviet Organising Committee
for American television rights to the Games.
In Moscow, President Leonid Brezhnev is confident the Games will be a success after making an
inspection of the facilities.
The traffic stopping parade of big black Zill limousines provided an extraordinary site
for rush hour motorists.
Their destination, the various Olympic sites around the city.
Leonid Brezhnev and company were making a personal inspection visit.
They wanted to see for themselves that all is in readiness.
First stop was the new indoor swimming complex.
They tried out the plastic bucket seats and no doubt found them a welcome relief from
the usual hard benches of most Soviet sports arenas.
The nearby massive indoor sports stadium seemed at times to overwhelm them.
This will be the site of Olympic boxing and basketball.
A movable soundproof wall divides one sports venue from the other.
China was on to the Olympic village on the city's southwest outskirts.
When the Olympics are over, this will become home for 14,000 Muscovites.
A task news agency later reported the Soviet leaders highly appraised the Olympic structures
and expressed confidence the Moscow Games will be successful.
President Carter has returned from an eight-day European trip saying the United States and
its allies agree that the Afghan crisis could be solved only by a total withdrawal of Soviet
forces and he's again dismissed as inadequate, a Kremlin announcement that some Soviet forces
were being pulled out of Afghanistan.
On his way home, President Carter stopped over in Portugal.
He says talks with the Portuguese government had bolstered his confidence in the unity
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
While the president met Portugal's leaders, the first lady and Amy went up to nearby St.
George's Castle.
Government House has received people from all walks of life for some time.
It's had, rather from time to time, it's had some unwelcome visitors too.
They're the West Indian drywood termites and the governor, Sir James Ramsey, being overseas,
debugging is now underway.
Portugal Company has been engaged to perform the massive task.
Reinforced nylon sheets were placed over the whole building and all the openings were sealed.
The gas, methyl bromide, was then pumped into the building.
Rentakill claimed the gas is 100% effective in eradicating the termites.
The operation is being supervised by the state government forestry department and a 24 hour
guard will be mounted during the operation to ensure nothing goes wrong.
The insects are believed to have infested the building by way of a cupboard which was
brought from Parliament House.
The termites have been found in three main sections of the building, in the roof timber,
the cork bathroom and also in the wine cellar.
The covers will be on the building for about 30 hours and once they've been removed it'll
take about two days for the residual gas to dissipate and the total cost of the overall
operation about $25,000.
Gail Campbell, National Nine News.
Vietnamese forces today appeared ready to strike at guerrilla camps on the Thai-Campuchian
border after a two day push into Thailand.
Military sources said the forces were moving into positions that suggested they intended
to hit two Kamo Rouge bases near the Thai border in western Kampuchea and one in the
north.
The Kamo Rouge guerrillas opposed the Moscow backed government in Phnom Penh.
The strike into Thailand on Monday and Tuesday provided political reverberations around the
region.
China said it was premeditated and designed to exert pressure on the current meeting of
foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur.
Well she's more than 120 years old and has had a facelift and looks better than ever.
She is a Swedish film star, a grand old lady known as Klarborg.
Klarborg is reputed to be the oldest sailing ship in the world still in service.
She's the star of the movie World Safari.
Her present owner and master, 36 year old Ove Lina from Sweden, bought her in 1965.
The 40 meter Klarborg has two timber masts more than 25 meters high and carries more
than 400 square meters of sail.
Klarborg began her career as a cargo carrier in the Baltic Sea and now spends her days
sailing around the world.
Well we looked for a boat for about half a year and we couldn't find any sort of suitable
and somebody told us about this old thing sitting up in the harbor, being left sort
of to Ratawai and the price was right.
Did you have to do much work on it?
Oh yeah, we spent two years solidly working on it.
And how does the old vessel hold up to the high seas?
Oh very good, she's very good.
Ove helps pay for the upkeep of the vessel by doing charter work and television commercials.
The Klarborg will be in Brisbane for several weeks and she'll be open for inspection each
weekend.
Gail Campbell, National Nine News.
There's been a trail derailment at the bayside suburb of Lota.
The engine and first carriage of an outbound passenger train left the tracks close to the
end of the line railway station but no one aboard the train was injured.
Eye witnesses say the diesel engine is lying almost on its side and a section of track
was torn up in the incident.
Railway spokesmen said there should be no disruption to rail services.
99 new crime fighters were added to the Queensland Police Force today in a colorful ceremony
at Oxley.
The inductions of probationary constables represented the biggest in the force's 119
year history.
It was a heartening sight for the state government's recruiting drive which hopes to attract 400
more like these newcomers within two years.
Among the sea of blue ranks a variety of backgrounds from all over Australia and overseas including
New Zealand, Britain, Canada and Germany.
The four women present though are all Queenslanders.
For some of the 19 year olds their first job, for others including Philip Carworth, a former
school teacher and licensed pilot, a new start at the age of 40.
For Police Commissioner Terry Lewis the day brought back memories of a less formal induction
ceremony 31 years ago in Roma Street, Brisbane.
He said it was all over in minutes and he was out on the beat.
Not so today and the children present found a welcome respite from the lengthy proceedings
with Academy mascot Laguna Flesh.
For retiring officers some with over 35 years experience behind them this was their final
parade as they stepped down to let the new arrivals fill their shoes as officers in the
Queensland Police Force.
Ted Henningham, National 9 News.
And coming up next we have nine sports.
Tonight Wimbledon Day 4 and the All Blacks in Australia shape up for their test at Bellymore.
And Thomas.
Thanks Don and first up Rugby.
Australia will be going for their fourth consecutive win over the All Blacks when they clash in
the second test at Bellymore tomorrow.
New Zealanders have had to make extensive back line changes, a legacy of their 13-9
loss to Australia in the first test.
In the test last Saturday Australia looked sharper in the backs resulting in the winning
try being scored from set play.
All Black coach Eric Watson at this morning's final training session at Bellymore paid a
tremendous amount of attention to back line play.
With the inclusion of Bruce Roberts at its centre there seems certain to be more stability
in the All Black three quarter line.
Australia on the other hand had an easy run today.
Coach Bob Templeton obviously is satisfied that the Australians are as ready as ever.
Australian team manager Dr Ken Donald is definitely not underestimating the All Blacks and he's
expecting a tough encounter tomorrow.
New Zealand sides come back very well.
You've beaten New Zealand side, really comes back well.
We've seen that many times.
We've got great respect for them and we're expecting a really tough one.
How are we going to get ball from the line out tomorrow?
Well we can improve there.
We didn't perform as well on the line outs as we expected.
There was a lot of loose ball bouncing around the top of the line out but we could have
got hold of first and I think you'll find our fellows will be a bit more alert on that
tomorrow.
We'll get more there.
Ken, the Australian side looked sharp training here this morning.
They did Alan.
They looked very sharp out there this morning.
The handling was superb and the backs are looking really like lightning.
The forwards were on the job but it really looked like one of the best training runs
I've seen them do.
Has the referee situation been sorted out with Tony Garling?
Are you or Bob Timberlake going to talk to him before the match?
No Alan, there's no reason.
He knows the rules, we know the rules.
He's standing up next to the game, we're back in the grandstand so he can see better than
we can what's going on.
So there's no real point in us talking to the referee.
We play the whistle.
The rugby league won't be forgotten tomorrow.
There's the match between Redcliffe and brothers at Lang Park but the big match is on Sunday
between South St North and here's Bruce Warwick.
Games of rugby league this weekend with some of the top sides meeting each other.
In the first game on Saturday at Lang Park it's Redcliffe and brothers and then on Sunday
Norston South in what should prove to be as good a game as we've seen at Lang Park all
year.
To talk about last week's big win over Valleys and this game against North, South's coach
Bob McCarthy.
Bob, how important was last week's winner against Valleys to your team's chances of
maybe being premieres in 1980?
Well it was very important for a couple of reasons Bruce.
You know the one was that we had to get over that bugbear of Valleys just being a bit too
good for everyone.
Every time we play against us in big games they took the Premiership Office last year,
they took the pre-season office and they took the President's Cup office.
So we had to wipe that bugbear and wipe the slate a bit cleaner if we could and psychologically
the guys now they know they can beat the guys and we know that we can go on with the job.
And another reason was that we've got three sides right up our rally behind us and trying
to get second spot up us and we had to win that game to retain second spot.
Where do you see North's strengths?
Well obviously it's got to be in Mark Graham and Neville Draper, they didn't play against
us last time when we defeated them at Lang Park.
We beat them 19-5 and Bruce Assel at a big game in the centres that day and the guy that
he stepped through a couple of times isn't playing either so we're going to treat this
as an entirely different game and we respect North, we know that they are a physical side,
they can mix it both ways, football and physical stuff and we're not going to try and get
their confidence up too much.
Suburban ground games at Purrtell Park, West play host to Valleys and at Coorgaray Oval
it's Winner Manley and East.
Winners for the weekend, I think Redcliff on Saturday, Norths will hate me but I think
they'll defeat Souths on Sunday and for the other two games Valleys to defeat West and
Winner Manley to defeat East at Coorgaray Oval.
Bruce Warwick, National Nine News.
At tennis, St. Yvonne Coorley has had another easy win at Wimbledon.
The fourth seed at Coorley beat fellow countrywoman Jenny Walker 6-2, 6-2.
Another second round match is Americans Jimmy Connors and Billie Jean King scored wins before
a violent hailstorm suddenly stopped play.
Sherwood Stewart serving in the first game.
From the start he was up against a more than usually determined Jimmy Connors.
Stewart lost six games in a row.
It was only Connors over eagerness that lost him points.
Stewart managed to break Connors serve in the third set but immediately Connors broke
back with precision play.
Stewart never lacked determination but whichever way he turned, Connors had control of the
court.
The match lasted just 70 minutes with Connors winning 6-2, 6-1.
A convincing victory and ideal preparation for harder matches still to come.
Minutes later, Elina Stasi was on court playing Dick Stockton.
He was ready to serve even if in slightly bizarre circumstances.
He wanted to get on with it but the groundsmen and officials didn't and they were quite
right.
Wimbledon was suddenly hit by a hailstorm to bring yet another delay to a championship
that's been dogged by rainy weather.
You can't say Elia wasn't keen to get on with it anyway.
Tomorrow we go to Eagle Farm for the Tattersalls Cup meeting.
My selection for the Tattersalls Cup is Golden Rhapsody in the big sprint race as the Healy
Stakes, the forerunner to the Rothmans 100,000 to be run tomorrow week.
In the Healy Stakes, a light Bamboki Otter thought he's run on the Stradbroke handicap
was first class and I thought from the good Ali McDipman in the saddle he could win.
Let's have a look at Bamboki Otter, second to Duckerton in the Stradbroke.
Phil Shamosa next and Turf Willard to the outside, 400 to go, Mr Magic joined Duckerton,
Bamboki Otter's coming up the man, family of man Romanino, Golden Rhapsody, Winters
Dance, Windvale Bowen hit it, Benny down the outside, Turf Willard's a long way back
out the 200, Duckerton the leader, little Bamboki Otter trying hard to get to Duckerton
and Mr Magic can win, Windvale Bowen, Duckerton in front, Bamboki Otter trying hard to pick
it up but Duckerton in front, close to home and Duckerton won the Stradbroke, Duckerton
beat Bamboki Otter, it's close, Mr Magic got Turf Willard which...
Now the best bet on the program tomorrow I think is in race one, horse one, Ramiere to
be ridden by McDipman.
The value bet in race eight, horse three, Vinegar Jow about an eight to one chance.
My treble numbers are four, three and three, Bamboki Otter, Golden Rhapsody and Vinegar
Jow and my best trifecta in race one tomorrow numbers one, three and four, Ramiere, Immucourt
and Impish Prince.
Now as far as the recliffe trotting meeting set down for tonight is concerned that meeting
will go ahead as scheduled, Stuart's inspected the track earlier today and passed the track
fit for racing.
That's all we have in our sporting break for tonight, now I'll take you back to Paul Griffin.
Thank you Alan, with the weekend coming up we'll take a look at the weather outlook now
for the Sunshine State with Cathy Davis.
Thanks Paul, good evening everyone.
Australia had fairly widespread light rainfalls today, mainly in the coastal regions and the
hinterland.
Queensland's falls were mainly on the coastal fringe.
The top rainfall in the state was 31 millimetres at Innisfail in the past 24 hours to 9am.
Our maximum temperature today was 32 degrees at Normanton and below three degrees at Stanthorpe.
Today's chart is quite different from the way it's been for the past few days.
You'll notice Queensland has very few isobars today and we've had hardly any winds due to
this very light pressure gradient.
As a contrast the many isobars over Victoria and South Australia represent very windy weather.
The ridge along the Queensland coast has weakened as the high moved further away towards New
Zealand today.
Intensification of the low in the Bight together with strong upper winds has caused the extensive
mainly light rain over southern Australia today.
Most of Queensland has remained fine under the influence of a strong upper level ridge
but the showers that did occur were caused by these moist onshore winds onto the coast.
The cloud which caused this precipitation is light but extends down the coast as far south
as about Gladstone.
And we have some middle and high cloud in the southern areas associated with a high
level jet stream in the satellite photo today.
Future developments for Queensland, isolated showers on the tropical coast north of Ingham
tomorrow.
Cloudy in southern districts but little or no rain contracting eastwards.
Brisbane was very foggy this morning, cloudy and mild with a temperature range from 12
to 22 degrees.
In the other capitals tomorrow Sydney should be windy, Canberra cold and windy with showers,
Melbourne gusty winds and showers expected, Hobart early rain easing, Adelaide should
be cold, showery and windy, Perth and Darwin both fine.
In the major centres of Queensland tomorrow, Cairns mainly fine, Townsville fine, Mount
Isa fine and windy, Mackay fine and Rockhampton also fine.
The Brisbane region can expect a cloudy day with only a little if any rain.
Variable winds should tend north to north west at 15 knots tomorrow ahead of a west
to south west of the change at 20 to 25 knots.
Seas should be smooth to slight becoming moderate to rough after that change.
It should be cloudy with a chance of a little rain in Brisbane city with the same wind change
expected.
The minimum tonight should be 15 degrees, tomorrow's high 21.
For the boating and fishing people, sunrise at 6.39, sunset 5.04, high tide 1.8 metres
at 9.15am and the low 0.2 at 3.18pm at the Brisbane bar.
Have a very happy safe weekend, I'll be back again on Monday night with more weather details.
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That's all from National Nine News for tonight.
Have a good weekend from all of us on the team.
Good night.
Comment by Barbara Bowers.
As expected, none of the state premiers came away from their Commonwealth Conference with
a fistful of dollars.
But a couple did come away with a bag full of promises, one of which was Queensland's
Premier, Gerbi Alcapeterson.
The Federal Government, it seems, has promised to back the $194 million Burdekin River Dam
project.
Now, undoubtedly, this is good news for Queensland.
But unfortunately, at this stage, the backing is not in hard cash but in political principle
only.
Well, I don't know about you but I wouldn't like to take a political principle to a bank
manager and try to raise a loan.
I reckon after he had stopped laughing, you'd be out the door so fast your feet wouldn't
even touch the ground.
However, it is also reported that state and Commonwealth officials will discuss the method
of financing the Burdekin project within a month.
Now, $194 million is a lot of money but just a little more in Treasury terms than the $156
million that will be spent on the new Parliament House in Canberra.
And we all know how that will be financed.
So let us hope that Queenslanders will not have to pay the majority of the cost of building
the Burdekin Dam whilst at the same time being asked to subsidise the cost of Canberra's
newest political palace.
Good evening.