Sit back, relax and enjoy the night with us.
At 7.30, a crisis on Heartbeat.
8.30, it's the Bill.
Eric lot's bored.
So would I be if I had his job.
He's after a bit of a birthday present from your head girl.
He'll only get his wrist slapped.
Is that intuition or experience?
Unexpected guests on Rumpole.
Pleased to meet you.
I expect you're dying for some tea.
Timmy had to come up to London on business Rumpole,
so he thought he'd just drop in and see the family.
Oh, what family?
This family.
Then at 10.20, experience the magic
that is Annie Lennox unplugged.
Ah, ah, ah.
How many times do I have to try to tell you?
Tomorrow night.
Unique, provocative.
Now we've got the best outlooks of any state in Australia.
South Australia, the politics, the issues, the people.
If it matters in this state, it matters to Stateline.
A good hard look at current affairs
for all South Australians.
Oh, it would be terrific, actually.
Coming soon to your ABC.
Good evening.
Kelly Sloan with an ABC News update.
Notorious South Australian pedophile Lawrence Edward O'Shea
is tonight back in custody after breaching his parole conditions.
In August 1994, O'Shea was released
in highly controversial circumstances.
It was the fourth time he'd been freed after a 1978 conviction
for child sex offences.
The parole board said O'Shea's breach of licence
did not involve an assault on another person.
65-year-old Sir William Dean has been sworn in
as Australia's new Governor-General.
He replaces Bill Hayden, who, after seven years,
is Australia's second-longest-serving Governor-General.
And Queensland's National Party leader Rob Borbich
will take over as Premier on Tuesday,
following the resignation of Wayne Goss from the position.
A top of 30 degrees tomorrow after an overnight low of 17.
Goodnight.
More on Monday.
On Wednesday World, kings, presidents, prime ministers and prisoners tell their stories
of the Gulf War.
The fight isn't about oil, the fight is about naked aggression that will not stand.
This morning at 0300, we launched Operation Desert Storm.
In the age of the computer, war was about to assume the aspect of a video game.
The first of an amazing two-part special on the Gulf War starts 830 Wednesday, ABC.
Available now from ABC Books, the 1996 Federal Election Guide.
A crucial insight into the passion and politics of the federal election.
It contains all the information you need to follow the campaign as well as the all-important
count on election night.
Written by ABC TV's election analyst Anthony Green, you can be as informed as the commentators
in the tally room with the 1996 Federal Election Guide.
Available from ABC Shops, ABC Centres and Bookstores.
It's a case calling for divine intervention.
Unfortunately that's not available.
Dumphole of the Bailey, 9.30 Saturday.
On Sunday a special edition of the 7.30 report as the Liberal Party officially launches its
campaign.
We'll cover the launch and then hear from a wide cross section of well-known Australians
for analysis.
Sunday night, 7.30.
Good evening, Michael Troy with ABC Late Edition News.
Wayne Goss has cleared the way for the coalition to take power in Queensland early next week.
In a development today that stunned his party, he announced his resignation as Queensland
Premier and said he would quit as State Labor Leader.
Wayne Goss ended his six and a half years as Queensland's Premier with a trip to Government
House in Brisbane.
Back in the city he briefed Cabinet Ministers and then faced the media, reading a prepared
statement and taking no questions.
Do we pursue martyrdom or victory?
Labor should prepare a battle plan, not a funeral service.
I therefore propose to resign my commission, showing that a Government can leave office
with dignity and that we have listened to the voice of the people.
And then a bombshell.
Just a week after being re-elected ALP Leader, Wayne Goss announced he was resigning as head
of the Parliamentary Labor Party.
My decision to stand aside now is motivated by a desire and I believe an obligation to
allow the new Leader to hit the ground running.
Not just all Queenslanders but all Australians should regard the speed of his decision and
the integrity of it as something to be admired.
Wayne Goss's Cabinet colleagues were clearly shocked.
Very sad day for Queensland, very tragic day for Queensland.
Another casualty was long serving Deputy Leader Tom Burns.
He's also standing down and expected to retire from Parliament.
Coalition Leader Rob Borbidge will be sworn in as Queensland's 43rd Premier on Monday
and lead a new Government into Parliament on Tuesday.
Former High Court Judge Sir William Dean has been sworn in as Australia's new Governor
General.
He replaces Bill Hayden, who retired today, as the nation's second longest serving holder
of the office.
35 years on, Bill Hayden, Governor General, made his exit in style.
An election campaign brought to a standstill.
Tonight at midnight precisely I turn into a pumpkin.
Though Paul Keating and Republicans might disagree, Mr Hayden described himself as head
of state and he offered his vision of future government.
Well beyond the year 2000, the Executive, that is the Ministry, will eventually be a
mix of elected and non-elected people who will be subject to appointment by the elected
head of government, but separated from the Parliament.
This morning, the final farewell.
The Haydens are swapping Yarralumla for Brisbane Valley and cattle grazing.
I, William Patrick Dean, do swear that I will well and truly serve Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
II, her heirs and successors according to law, in the office of Governor General of
the Commonwealth of Australia.
Former High Court Judge Sir William Dean becomes Australia's 22nd and possibly last Governor
General.
With both main parties pledging either a popular vote or People's Convention on the Republic
next year, he faces an uncertain future.
But then so does his first Prime Minister and Opposition Leader, both men hoping he'll
be swearing them in as Prime Minister next month.
Wayne Goss and Bill Hayden weren't the only ones leaving office today.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Tony Lauer also made his exit, proclaiming to the last
his belief in the honesty of his force.
Mr Lauer made his final appearance at a swearing-in ceremony at Goulburn Academy, avoiding any
reference to police corruption exposed by the Wood Royal Commission.
The election campaign turned to claim and counterclaim today, as the ALP and the Coalition
brawled over John Howard's financial figures.
Deputy Prime Minister Kim Beasley says he's found a $3 billion hole in the Opposition
scheme for big cuts to government spending.
But Shadow Treasurer Peter Costello says Mr Beasley doesn't know what he's talking about.
Political correspondent Jim Middleton.
The rile over John Howard's campaign costings has descended to the level of a schoolyard
brawl, did didn't, is isn't.
They are not shonky.
Fairy story economics.
No, I'm not guessing.
Magic pudding economics.
Overnight Kim Beasley produced his own checklist of the Coalition's costings, claiming the
Opposition leader has wildly overestimated his savings.
Not $6.3 billion, but just $3.4, a $2.9 billion gap.
A $3 billion hole.
The Deputy Prime Minister hit out at Mr Howard's plan to crack down on the unemployed by the
toughening the work test, claiming his proposal meant the Coalition believed no fewer than
200,000 people were rorting the system.
When you sit down and think your way through that, a bogus figure.
He's just got it wrong.
He hasn't read the documents.
He doesn't understand them.
But according to Mr Beasley, the Coalition's crackdown would also be undermined by its
plans to limit government computer capacity and to cut public servant numbers.
After months of speculation, the Russian President Boris Yeltsin has announced he'll stand for
re-election.
From Moscow, Michael Brissenden reports.
President Yeltsin chose to end the past few months of intense political speculation in
his hometown of Yekaterinburg.
The race for the Kremlin is now officially underway, and the incumbent says he wants
a second term.
I'm sure that I can bring the country through the turmoil, worries and uncertainty.
That's why I've decided to stand again for the post of Russia's President.
But the Boris Yeltsin of 1996 is not the charismatic champion of democracy he once was.
His popularity is at an all-time low, there are serious concerns about the state of his
health and his image has been badly tarnished by the bloody civil war in Chechnya.
President Yeltsin starts his campaign well behind the pack, but as he's shown many times
before, he performs at his best in a crisis.
London has had another bomb scare within a week of the lethal blast in the Docklands.
Underground stations were closed and streets sealed off as police disarmed a bomb in the
heart of the West End.
The alert follows confirmation from the IRA that its terror campaign will continue, as
Neil Ross reports from London.
London has once again been brought to a standstill by a bomb alert.
In response to a warning phone call, police have sealed off a large area of the West End
around Piccadilly and Oxford Circus.
It may be a hoax, it may not, but with the ending of the IRA ceasefire, no one knows
for sure.
The alert comes a little less than a week after the IRA dramatically ended its 17-month
ceasefire.
That bomb killed two people, injured scores more and caused around $200 million worth
of damage.
Such is the fear of another so-called spectacular that Scotland Yard has to take every warning
seriously.
Eventually, two and a half hours after the first phone call, a police robot disarms a
device.
And although the scare may be over, it won't be the last, because the IRA has now reaffirmed
that its ceasefire is over.
In an interview with Sinn Fein's own newspaper, the IRA said today it would continue to assert
Irish national rights for as long as necessary.
The stock exchange is investigating a sudden rise in Ampelex shares just before Wednesday's
takeover bid was announced.
Shares in the oil and gas producer jumped more than 70 cents in the hours before the
announcement and the exchange says it's concerned the market was not fully informed.
Both the exchange and the Securities Commission are looking into share trading in Ampelex
before the mobile offer was made public.
On the share market, it's been a mixed day, the all-ordinaries dropping just over one
point overseas.
The Nikkei slipped nearly 100 points, while Hong Kong rose to a two-year high, the Australian
dollar holding steady.
Breaking down racial stereotypes, an Indigenous Bill of Rights and crowned lands being returned
to Aboriginal people.
These are among the aspirations being put forward at a national media forum aimed at
redefining the Aboriginal agenda.
The two-day conference in Perth is in response to recommendations made by the Royal Commission
into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The who's who of Indigenous Australia gathered to have their say about what they want.
Their complaint, too much of Aboriginal Australia's agenda is set by governments and the media.
Hugh Morgan can make outlandish statements that Aboriginal people are anti-Christian,
Aboriginal people are found guilty, yet they have to continue to prove themselves.
Similarly Richard Court is spreading this fear campaign that Aboriginal people will
be taking over people's backyards.
West Coast Eagles Chris Lewis, who hit the headlines after being racially abused on the
sporting field, kicked off.
Aboriginal issues and Aboriginal people are pretty close to the top of the pile.
The way that the media portrays those people is very important to the way that we move
forward as a not only one, black and white Australia, but as one Australia.
Race relations worry Charles Perkins, too.
We think we've reached the heights of multiculturalism and we haven't at all.
We've only got on the first rung of the ladder and we think that people like Graham Campbell
and Bob Catter are exceptions and they're not.
And to improve the lot of Aboriginal Australia, this demand from Michael Mansell.
A gradual transfer of Crown lands to the Aboriginal communities over a period of 10 or 20 years
could result in Aboriginal communities at least gearing themselves up to be able to
administer themselves on their own lands.
Going it one step further, others called for an Indigenous Bill of Rights.
Craig Parry and Brad Hughes share the lead after the second round of the Australian Masters
at Huntingdale.
On a day when several top players gathered momentum, Hughes and Parry played almost flawless
golf.
And back in the hunt, John Daly, after a 5 under 68.
For joint overnight leader Richard Green, it was a case of picking up where he left
off.
Six under.
That's a mighty putt from the left hander.
And fellow leader Jeff Wagner wasn't to be outdone.
Four birdies on the back nine spared Tom Watson the embarrassment of missing the cut.
John Daly also atoned for his poor first round shooting a gutsy 68, including this eagle.
But the day belonged to Craig Parry, who made a strong bid for his third Masters title with
a superb 66.
Robert Allenby also put himself in contention finishing three off the pace.
One of the best rounds of the day came from Canadian Rick Gibson, who shot 69, including
this on the 12th.
Parry shares the lead with Brad Hughes, who shot an almost flawless 68.
Now for a quick look at the national weather.
Some showers for Sydney and Brisbane, mostly fine in Canberra, and it should be fine in
the other capital cities.
That's Late Edition.
I'm Michael Troy.
Have a great weekend.
Good night.
A superb six part adaptation of one of literature's greatest stories.
Intrigues and seductions.
Capturing all the passion and frivolity, pain and heartbreak of young love.
I had not known you a month before I felt you were the last man in the world whom I
could ever marry.
In the world that was 19th century England.
Obstinate headstrong girl.
Commencing March 3rd on ABC, the lavish and compelling series Pride and Prejudice.
In a world gone mad, a 16 year old boy is forced to flee from all he knows, all he loves.
Now his only chance at survival is hiding from the truth.
An extraordinary true story.
Europa, Europa, 9.20 Sunday.
and tonight we've got a great story of God, the flesh and the devil.
It's the often breathtakingly beautiful Black Narcissus.
It's perhaps the most fascinating, the most visually beautiful film ever made by one of
the finest production partnerships of British film making.
Of course the one I mean was the long partnership between Michael Powell and Emmerich Presburger.
Officially Powell directed and Emmerich wrote.
But while they were partners you simply couldn't split it up like that.
And tonight's credits for Black Narcissus just say written, directed, produced by Powell
and Presburger.
Well it's a fascinating story.
It comes from the book by Rumor Godden and coming from her of course it really is a story
of God, the flesh and the devil, battling around the windswept chasms of the Himalayas
in this case and across the chasms of misunderstanding that separate West and East.
From the West comes a tiny group of Anglican nuns in a monastery on a ledge a thousand
meters above the valley floor.
Deborah Carr is the sister superior.
She believes that faith and good medicine is going to bring better living and a little
enlightenment to these dark people living on the edge of the world.
And Kathleen Byron is sister Ruth who finds it harder and harder to believe.
On the side of the East are the mountain people who think that the nuns are poisoning them
and others like the alluring Cunchy, that's Gene Simmons, and Sabu playing the young general.
More or less in the middle are the old general who rules this little mountain kingdom, that's
Esmond Knight by the way, and the local British agent Mr Dean played by David Farrah.
And surrounding them all and defining them all is the careless beauty of the gulfs and
the towering peaks of the Himalayas and the troubling scent of black narcissus.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the night with us.
8.7.30 a crisis on Heartbeat.
8.30 it's the Bill.
Eric Lock's bored.
So would I be if I had his job.
He's after a bit of a birthday present from your hot girl.
He'll only get his wrist slapped.
Is that intuition or experience?
Unexpected guests on Rumpole.
Pleased to meet you.
I expect you're dying for some tea.
Jimmy had to come out to London on business Rumpole so he thought he'd just drop in and
see the family.
Oh, what family?
This family.
Then at 10.20 experience the magic that has Annie Lennox unplugged.
Tonight.
Tell my boys, yeah that's it.
Tonight, the sun come kind a