To celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, a spectacular television event featuring stars of stage and screen.
Direct from London, a wonderful night of entertainment.
VE Day Concert, 9.30 Sunday.
Good evening. The manufacturer of a computer monitor linked to two Adelaide fires and a fatal fire in Melbourne last month has launched a national recall of the product.
A mother and her two young children perished in this South Yarra home after fire broke out in a ground floor study.
A computer was suspected as a possible cause of the blaze.
Scientists in Adelaide have now confirmed the computer terminals have a faulty component causing them to overheat.
And Rupert Murdoch will have to prove it's in the public interest for him to keep the Fox television network in the US.
Otherwise he stands to lose it under a new ruling by the Federal Communications Commission.
It's found that although Mr Murdoch is now a US citizen, his news corporation, which owns Fox, is not American.
Well now to the weather and it should be cloudy with isolated light showers tomorrow but mainly fine.
A top of 17 degrees. We'll have more news for you at 10.30.
Great Saturday Entertainment on your ABC. 7.30 Quest.
At 8.30 The Bill.
What I did was a pair of blokes who do a job, right? Now it's not my fault if he turns out to be a villain, is it? I'll just have to be a little bit more careful in the future.
I wouldn't make too many plans for the future, would I?
9.30 Birds of a feather.
There's only one arid side. There's only one arid side.
Guess where I've been? Right here?
10 o'clock Netball. We'll make it through to the thrilling final of the 1995 Goal Attack League.
Talented young Aussies in action. Quest and Netball tomorrow night on ABC.
It's Aussie football live on ABC. Saturday at 3.40 we kick off with a Port West match live from Albert and Oval.
Then at 5 the Aussie football show brings you up to date with all the scores, thrills and spills from local and AFL games.
We'll bring you the action from Prospect Oval where North take on Norwood. Join us for all the round 8 footy action this Saturday.
It's a social document, a document of social and economic change.
In 92 he promised to put us back in the black.
This produces a fiscal surplus in 1995-96.
Tuesday's budget is crunch time for Keating. As special correspondent Laura Tingle reports he still has us billions in the red.
Now it's caught up with them and now they have really hard decisions to make.
That's paying for Paul on Four Corners, 8.30 Monday.
Check, one, two. Roy, this one isn't working. Stair bears stay out of it. You can't come in until Clive's had his spit.
Roy, what can they expect on the show tonight? Variety, tennis and variety. 10.30 after Clive, Clive Hale.
That's right, join us then.
Clive Hale from the ABC National News desk. Good evening, thank you for joining us.
Heading late edition tonight, the Prime Minister says the judicial inquiry into the Eastern affair is a flagrant abuse of the judicial process.
The inquiry has been announced by Western Australian Premier Richard Court.
Among the issues it will examine is the role, if any, of former Premier Carmen Lawrence in the tabling of a parliamentary petition in 1992,
which led to Perth solicitor Penny Easton committing suicide.
Mr Keating says the inquiry breaches the important political protocol that the judicial process will not be used for purely political purposes.
On Tuesday Richard Court gave former WA Labor cabinet ministers until the end of this week to tell what they knew about the Penny Easton affair.
No one came forward.
Well, the Labor Party have decided to tough this one out, so next week we will go through the formalities for the establishment of an inquiry.
The inquiry is expected to investigate what Carmen Lawrence knew about the tabling of a misleading petition in the WA Parliament in 1992, when she was Premier.
One of those named in the petition, lawyer Penny Easton, committed suicide four days after it was tabled.
So far two former Labor ministers claim Dr Lawrence raised details of the petition in State Cabinet before it was tabled, a claim denied by Dr Lawrence.
And today Dr Lawrence said a decision to go ahead with the judicial inquiry was a gross waste of taxpayers' money.
I know that his own legal advice is that he shouldn't go ahead with it. I'm confident that his own cabinet is divided. I've got very good information on that.
And Dr Lawrence's information may be right if comments by Premier Court's Deputy, Hendy Cowan, are anything to go by.
Speaking via telephone from WA Central Wheatbelt, Mr Cowan said important issues like who's going to head up the inquiry, the terms of reference and costs, all still have to be considered by State Cabinet.
The Federal Opposition says it's seriously concerned about the investigation into Defence Department employees with links to a Canberra-based militia.
One of the five people suspended over allegations of illegal gun ownership worked in the Department's Computer Centre. Two other members of the group have resigned.
These are the guns that earned Darren Edward Couchman a $2,500 fine. Today it was revealed he worked in a Defence Department Computer Centre in Canberra South.
Well, certainly they pose a threat to our information systems. We, for example, have very close contacts with the United Nations. This particular group is decidedly against the United Nations.
Brigadier Daje says the area Couchman worked in handled non-sensitive material covering administration and supply.
But Opposition Defence spokesperson Senator Jocelyn Newman says the whole militia case is riddled with inconsistencies and suspects the affair is far more serious than admitted by the Government.
Police can't say how the illegal weapons were originally obtained, but in Queensland and Tasmania these SKS assault weapons are freely available for around $300, included in the Canberra Hall of 303.
The Defence Department itself sold thousands of its XS303s to the public.
The man who's been awarded Australia's largest personal injury payout says he hopes no one else ever has to suffer his plight.
26-year-old Tom Papitch will receive $6 million after being injected with the wrong drug while undergoing treatment at Victoria's Geelong Hospital. That mistake left Mr Papitch a quadriplegic.
Tom Papitch was at the nursing home this morning where he's lived for the past few months when it was announced he'd settled his battle for compensation.
His family says since the accident he's become a virtual recluse, unable to cope with public attention.
I don't think we're going to celebrate very much because this is not like when you win a tatslaughter because you win the money and you are able to enjoy it. In Tom's case this is only for his necessity.
Mr Papitch became a quadriplegic after the Geelong Hospital botched his first chemotherapy treatment in August last year.
Instead of being administered intravenously, the toxic drug was injected into his spine.
It took three months for the drug to creep up his spinal cord, killing the nerve endings as it went.
By December, Mr Papitch was completely paralysed from the neck down.
The hospital admitted full liability and asked a judge to fix an amount of compensation.
But after hearing two days of evidence...