This is typical.
Monday, Basil's had about as much as he can take.
What are you doing?
Well, let me put it this way, either they go or I go.
Boise Towers, Monday at 8.
It's a matter of life or death.
Oh dear.
When the public health system is stretched to capacity.
I've been negligent.
There's a difference between negligence and error.
Is this any place for on-the-job training?
You're killing a few people while we're learning.
9.30 Monday, it's cardiac arrest.
The American West, how wild was it?
Discover the real truth behind those popular images with Australia's Robert Hughes.
Manifest Destiny was America's great myth of redemptive violence.
And art played a considerable role in promoting it.
His unique views on American art will change your perceptions of American culture forever.
American Visions, 8.30 Sunday.
Good evening.
More fallout today from the state's unsuccessful bid for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
The Premier and the State's Sport Minister have given conflicting versions of why Mr. Ingerson went to the Atlanta Games.
The Premier says Sports Minister Graham Ingerson was sent to the Olympics to lobby for Adelaide.
But Mr. Ingerson initially contradicted the Premier, claiming the bid wasn't his main mission.
But later today, Mr. Ingerson issued a statement saying the bid was discussed while he was at the Olympics.
Local film director Scott Hicks and his movie Shine have dominated the nominations for this year's AFI Awards.
Shine is named in the 12 of the 14 categories.
The film, made in Adelaide and London, tells the story of Australian pianist David Helfcott.
A top of 17 tomorrow for Adelaide.
I'm Rose Crane. Good night.
Is this a celebration for George Cole's new series?
Yes!
Yes!
Cheers to my good friend, Saturday.
He seized power in House of Cards.
He committed murder in To Play the King.
Now, the notorious Francis Urquhart returns.
I want to remember, he was the greatest Prime Minister since Winston Churchill.
A thrilling final chapter in the trilogy.
You do understand the limits.
Oh, bastard!
Starring Ian Richardson.
Never underestimate him, Claire.
I never would, Jeremy.
The television premiere of The Final Cut, 8.30 next Friday, ABC.
The Final Cut
Friday night gets a new look when Ian Richardson stars as a ruthless PM.
You're such a bastard!
Hated by his rivals.
The ideas were mine.
Feared by his friends.
Look at the fear in their eyes.
The thrilling premiere of The Final Cut.
Then at 9.30, another special presentation with the premiere of Dancing in the Street.
A brilliant four-part history of rock and roll with The Lot.
That's your new look Friday from 8.30.
An old news series of heartbeat finds trouble in Aidensfield.
I've got nothing against young people enjoying themselves, but not if it encourages hooligans.
But Kate has problems of her own.
I wish the baby come, Nick.
And Nick unlocks a mystery.
I thought this piece was lead, but it's hallmarked.
Don't miss this all-new series of Heartbeat, 7.30 Saturday.
Good evening, Indira and I do with Late Edition News.
The Howard government has announced the first strike of its cost-cutting budget,
a savage $2 billion slashed from tertiary education.
Students face higher fees and universities are having their budgets cut.
Education Minister Amanda Vanstone says the quality of tertiary education won't be affected.
Labor and the Democrats are threatening to block fee rises in the Senate.
This is Amanda Vanstone's view of her $1.8 billion package of education slugs and cuts in a nutshell.
All in all, across the board, I think this is a damn good package.
The universities, students and the opposition beg to differ.
I can't say that I'm bubbling with joy.
We're talking about changing the education system into one which is solely accessible by people with financial means.
It is a massive slug on parents.
For a start, universities are to suffer a big cut in their operating grants, more than $620 million over four years,
breaking John Howard's election promise to at least maintain the level of Commonwealth funding to universities.
It's a dollar and a hundred. Universities can easily handle that.
Not so, say the universities.
There's been a reduction in operating grants over the triangle for about 10%, I would have thought.
Students are to be hit hard.
The higher education charge currently set at $2,440 a year will become a three-tiered system,
the increases ranging from 35 to 125%.
Graduates will be slugged too.
HECS repayments will kick in when their incomes reach $20,700, $8,000 below the current threshold,
and a breach of an election commitment because it affects people currently in the system.
You've got us on that one.
Amanda Vanstone's big hit announcement is part of the Howard government's strategy
of getting as much of the bad news as it can out of the way early,
so it can present what will still be the toughest budget in years in the best possible light.
Already, though, there are plans to reject the HECS increases in the Senate.
The Labor Party is now openly blaming former Prime Minister Paul Keating
for being chiefly responsible for its federal election loss.
An internal party report has revealed the ALP strategy of campaigning on Mr Keating's leadership backfired.
It wasn't much of a bus leaving the bus station, but it was the only one.
We couldn't campaign on a positive policy agenda because no-one believed us.
They thought we were liars.
We couldn't campaign on our record because, by and large, the perception of our record was that it stunk.
Labor is promising rank-and-file members more say in policies.
Australia has officially started its preparations for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
following the handover of the Olympic flag.
Thousands turned out in the New South Wales capital to watch the symbolic ceremony and parade.
Past and present athletes, including Olympic greats Raeleen Boyle and Murray Rose,
helped carry the flag through Sydney streets.
For Sydney's Lord Mayor, it was his most valuable Atlanta souvenir.
That's what all the fuss is about.
Wonderful.
And for the nation, an enduring focus for the next four years.
When it gets handed over to the stadium in 2000, we're going to have a lot to be proud of.
Music
Thousands of Sydney-siders welcomed the Olympic rings, athletes past, present and future
parading the flag along Sydney streets.
I think it's great. I'm looking forward to Sydney 2000. I can hardly wait.
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It symbolises the aspirations of generations of the world's finest athletes.
And it brings with it a responsibility that Sydney now carries
to promote and protect all of those principles and traditions
that the Olympic movement has stood for for over 100 years.
For Olympians, it was a memorable moment.
It was very moving. We didn't realise how important it was going to feel afterwards.
The flag has come home. I think that's a pretty big statement.
It's the start of Sydney. It's no longer Atlanta's Olympics.
A replica flag will hang here until September 2000,
when the real flag returns to welcome the world to the Sydney Olympics.
Indonesian opposition leader Megawati Sukarno Putri has been released
after more than six hours of police questioning in Jakarta.
But she's been summoned for a second round of questioning next week,
which she says she will attend.
Police are quizzing Megawati as a witness into the alleged slandering
of President Sahato by a democracy activist.
Japan's worst outbreak of food poisoning in half a century
has claimed its eighth life a one-year-old girl.
Nearly 10,000 people have fallen ill across Japan.
Hundreds are still in hospitals.
Government officials still don't know for certain what caused the epidemic,
but have blamed the outbreak on the popular garnish, cress.
That claim has severely crippled the cress market,
worth more than $200 million.
Japanese farmers have threatened to sue.
On the share market, the All Ordinaries Index finished the week
on a lower note, falling almost five points.
That's despite another big jump in the share price of beverage giant Coca-Cola Amatil.
Overseas, stocks in Tokyo were down almost 200 points.
And the Australian dollar is steady against the US currency.
Boris Yeltsin has been sworn in for his second term as Russian President.
3,000 guests attended the ceremony in Moscow's Palace of Congresses.
But the occasion has been overshadowed by continued fighting in Chechnya
and concerns over the President's health.
It was to have been a much bigger event in the Kremlin's historic Cathedral Square.
The last Tsar, Nicholas II, was crowned there exactly 100 years ago.
But this week the venue was changed and the ceremony scaled down,
officially because of cost.
However, there is speculation that the President is unwell again,
a theory further fuelled by his plans to go on holiday after tonight's banquet.
Shine, the film about the life of pianist David Helfgott,
has dominated the nominations for this year's Australian Film Institute Awards.
The film, soon to open in Australia, is named in 12 of the 14 categories,
equalling the record set by Breaker Morant.
The two stars of Shine, who portray Helfgott at different ages,
are both in the running for Best Actor.
Nominated in nine award categories is Children of the Revolution, starring Judy Davis.
The awards will be announced in November.
Now the national weather for the start of the weekend.
Some rain developing tomorrow in Perth, becoming fine in Melbourne
and fine for the other capital cities.
And that's the latest news.
We'll leave you with pictures of an historic naval exercise in Sydney Harbour,
involving the mine hunter HMAS Shoalwater and the submarine HMAS Winslow.
Have a great weekend, good night.
Sunday night, viewing the Sydney Morning Herald called sublime.
At 7.30 on Hamish Macbeth, more than one person is keeping a secret.
At 8.30, American Visions examines how art shaped the legends of the Wild West.
In karaoke, things are falling apart.
Don't tell me precisely what the hell is going on.
Don't miss a great night for mystery, myth and drama, Sunday night on your ABC.
Well, tonight we're coming to the end of our Friday night movie season of Somerset and Maugham.
And we're doing it with the last of those remarkably successful collections of Somerset Maugham short stories.
There were three of these collections, all feature length,
but each a little collection of unrelated stories.
We had the first one Quartet a couple of Friday nights ago and then Trio.
And tonight we've got some special interest for you in the third one and the last one, titled Encore.
The Britons rank organization had launched the Somerset Maugham series and Quartet and Trio had grabbed a very good slice of the world box office to themselves,
even though the critics had said that these stories were great stuff.
But they would have to rely on the classy but slim part of the movie audience.
Instead, though, Quartet and Trio did so well that Hollywood's vast Paramount Pictures decided to buy in with the British to make some more.
And tonight's Encore is a fair sample of what Hollywood almost always achieves when it decides to make over some foreign idea of a film.
At the best, what's achieved by it always is to make the result a lot easier for the big audience to take, but with less stature as a film.
And make no mistakes, you'll find the result tonight to be good and amusing entertainment.
There's a funny piece about Nigel Patrick as an upper class con man.
There's Kay Walsh doing a notable bit as a cruise ship boar.
There's Glynnis Johns as a frightened high diver.
But it is fascinating to see this time that there's no more of that sophisticated edge of irony that marked the earlier films.
Maugham no longer speaks with forked tongue.
Tonight, Hollywood know-how has chosen very straight, simply enjoyable yarns for Hollywood's Encore.
So there it was, our three last Somerset Morm stories, chosen for the joint UK Hollywood collection called Encore.
It's...
So there it was, our three last Somerset Morm stories, chosen for the joint UK Hollywood collection called Encore.
It's an enjoyable little movie, isn't it? A collection that pretty well everyone can enjoy.
Well, of course, that's what Hollywood know-how chose these particular yarns for, so that middle America could enjoy them.
The interesting thing is that it was the earlier all British films, the ones that had used stories so much more typically Somerset Morm.
It was these that had the big success.
Tonight's Encore, with its Morm stories chosen to spread the audience appeal.
Encore just turned out to be the last of the Morm short story series.
Just the same, Encore is OK Entertainment.
And the use of the three directors this time did give it a nice variation in textures.
The three directors, by the way, were in order Pat Jackson, Anthony Palacio and Harold French.
Next week we begin Passion by Candlelight or a Friday night season of Period Melodrama.
We'll be having great movie dramas like Fanny by Gaslight and Blanche Fury.
And next week it's Margaret Lockwood and James Mason in The Wicked Lady.
Is she bad? Is she mad? Or does she just love highwaymen to death?
Same channel, same time, next Friday night. See you then.
Friday night gets a new look when Ian Richardson stars as a ruthless PM.
You're such a bastard.
Hated by his rivals.
The ideas were mind-blowing.
Hated by his friends.
Look at the fear in their eyes.
The thrilling premiere of The Final Cut.
Then at 9.30 another special presentation with the premiere of Dancing in the Street.
A brilliant four-part history of rock and roll with The Lot.
That's your new look Friday from 8.30.
Let's have champagne.
Is this a celebration for George Cole's new series?