Good evening, Peter Adams updating Eyewitness News.
An Australian has been identified as the latest victim of the Regent of Manila Hotel fire
in the Philippines.
36-year-old Kenneth Martin of Canberra was working as a consultant to the Asian Development
Bank and is one of 24 confirmed dead in the fire.
Video retailers fear an uncontrollable black market will grow from the state government's
ban on XXX video movies.
Chris Warren reports the dealers have been flooded by buyers eager to clear up the last
stocks.
Callers today have complained that having paid for membership of a video club, they
will now be denied access to X-rated material and will be forced to buy it through mail
order companies operating out of the Northern Territory and the ACT.
And according to the retailers, this will mean a return to black market tapes including
child pornography, excessive violence and bestiality.
How it's going to work out is there's going to be more problems than what there is today.
Everyone's just going to lose total control of the tapes, the market, what's happening
in the market and there'll just be no control of it.
Another retailer told me one customer today bought out his entire stock of 58 X-rated
tapes.
Busking, fortune telling and vagrancy will no longer be illegal in Adelaide if a bill
presented to state parliament today is passed.
Attorney General Chris Sumner put forward the Summary Offences Act as it's called,
which will also give police wider powers including car searches and being able to detain arrested
people for four hours before taking them to the newest police station.
And in Queensland the power strike worsens tonight as electricity station workers voted
to continue their action defying an order by the State Industrial Commission to return
to work.
Air safety officers will be out at Parafield Airport early tomorrow morning to investigate
why a nomad aircraft made an emergency landing late this afternoon.
The plane came in nose down after being diverted from Adelaide Airport at the end of an instrument
testing run from Broken Hill.
On board were three experienced pilots, all escaped uninjured but the plane will stay on
the airstrip overnight until tomorrow's inquiry.
Finally the weather.
Adelaide will be fine and hot tomorrow with a maximum of 37 but there's an expected change
later on.
Tonight's minimum will be 16.
More eyewitness news at 6.30 tomorrow morning in Good Morning Australia.
I'm Peter Adams.
Thank you for watching.