7.30 Friday joined teams from Oxford and Cambridge on a survival test in the
wilds of the English countryside. Derek is a climber, using all the skills he knows.
If only they'd leave him alone. Maybe it's easy as Chris just gets over here
in hoist. We don't have to use it if we can get out there quick.
Can you help? Just take it out. There's no petrol in that container. They don't
catch on quick. Match your wits against the teams on Now Get Out of That at 7.30
and at 8. Stay tuned for more brain teasing as four contestants battle it
out in the second set of Mastermind. Now Get Out of That at 7.30 followed by
Mastermind at 8. Friday here on ABC.
Six hours of hard riding, slippery riding in front of them.
1.30 Sunday, Australia's best riders clash in the gruelling 1982 Castrol
six-hour race. From the testing Amaroo Park circuit, ABC brings you Australia's
premier event for production motorcycles. The Castrol six-hour production race,
1.30 Sunday, live on ABC.
Meet Henry Jay, a very ordinary man whose life is about to change dramatically
when he's caught up in an international conspiracy.
The premiere of Bird of Prey, a thriller from today's headlines. 8.30 Sunday on ABC.
8 o'clock Wednesday, Keith Adam explores the origins of Thai dance.
The story of Rama is an ancient legend from northern India and it was first written more
than 2,000 years ago. In its first form it was an epic poem about a prince and his efforts to
rescue his wife from a demon. Centuries later the Thais took over this epic legend and they made it
their own and now it's the chief theme in most of their arts. Painting, sculpture, literature and
above all the dance. Tales of Gods and Demons, next on Journey Into Thailand. 8 o'clock Wednesday
on ABC. 9.30 Sunday, the premiere of a controversial new 10-part series. Author and
historian Geoffrey Blaney presents a very different view of the events that have shaped Australia.
I used to think that the Japanese should take all the blame for the great war in the Pacific.
The time will ultimately come when most Australians will accept the fact
that we were partly to blame for the great war in the Pacific.
A very different view of Australia with narration by Graham Kennedy.
The Blaney View premieres 9.30 Sunday on ABC.
Good evening, Richard Moorcroft with ABC News for Eastern Coastal States.
The Victorian Casino Inquiry was told today that New South Wales politicians from both
sides of the house were involved in organised crime. Mr Bob Bottom, formerly the New South
Wales Government Special Advisor, claimed he knew of direct links between backbenches and organised
crime. He said the backbenches involved were known as bagmen and in 1978 one of them, a Liberal who
had since lost his seat, approached him in an effort to get illegal casinos operating again.
Leslie Falconer reports. Mr Bottom told the inquiry that organised crime syndicates in
New South Wales spent $14 million on graft and corruption each year. Mr Bottom said New South
Wales organised crime figures were virtually agents to the American mafia and they used
standover tactics that would frighten the life out of the worst painter and docker in Melbourne.
He said illegal casino operators in Sydney used checks from clients to compromise them.
Mr Bottom said organised crime also ran SP bookmaking in New South Wales and this was
worth $14 million a year. The Victorians he said would be startled by the amount of the money
involved and the people connected with the entrenched SP operations in their state. He
also claimed that four illegal casinos are operating in Melbourne. When asked if he knew
of any organised crime links with proposed Australian casinos, Mr Bottom said that line
of questioning would be best pursued in a closed session of the hearing. He said he was fearful that
headlines would follow names he'd cite in evidence. That session will be held tomorrow
morning. Leslie Falconer, ABC News. The Chamberlain trial. In Darwin the prosecution has almost
completed its case. The hearing is now into its fifth week and as Tony Eastley reports, the court
heard again today from London forensic pathologist Professor James Cameron. Professor Cameron told
the hearing how he had found what he believed were impressions of a bloodied hand on Azaria
Chamberlain's jumpsuit. Professor Cameron showed to the jury how he thought the wet hands had held
the baby in her clothing. Using a lifelike doll dressed in a jumpsuit, he said a right hand was
visible under the baby's left armpit with the fingers extending across the baby's back. Another
impression, again that of a hand, was over the baby's right shoulder. The thumb was over the
front of the child's body he said. Professor Cameron, who is the last of the prosecution
witnesses in this case, said that in his opinion the impressions left on the jumpsuit were those
of a young adult hand and definitely not those of a child's hand. His evidence was strongly questioned
by Mr Phillips QC for the defense who said that it was possible that the hand marks were nothing
more than an accident of blood staining. During the cross-examination of the professor, Mr Barker for
the crown was on his feet several times objecting to questions put to the professor by Mr Phillips.
The prosecution is expected to complete its case tomorrow. In Darwin, Tony Eastley. A key witness
at the Hilton Hotel inquest was today accused of making up large sections of his evidence
to fill out an otherwise unconvincing narrative. The accusation was made against Richard John
Seery, a police informer, by Mr John Adams, counsel for Ross Dunn and Sean Paul Allister,
two of the three Anandamagas sect members now serving jail sentences for conspiracy to murder
the leader of the National Front in 1978. Last week Seery told the inquest he heard both men
admit responsibility for the bomb blast outside the hotel which killed three men. Mr Adams today
accused Seery of making up conversations with Dunn and Allister, writing them in his diary then
memorising them and relating them to police in a later interview. Mr Adams said Seery had invented
the conversations because police had not charged either man with the bombing on information he had
already given them. Seery denied the allegations. A group of 17 protesters have appeared in court
after they entered the exclusive Melbourne club and refused to leave. The demonstrators from the
Work for Today group were all remanded on bail to appear again on November the 26th. Mike Sutherland
reports. The protesters arrived outside the club at the Paris end of Collin Street just before
lunch and with the minimum of fuss about 17 walked through the front door and down to the dining room
where they intended to share their sandwiches with members. Meanwhile others handed out leaflets
explaining the demonstration to passers-by and members entering the club. One protester
Peter Green explained what was happening. The Melbourne club is a scene of affluence. It's
something where some are recluse for the rich. We're trying to demand the rights of poor people,
unemployed people, pensioners and others to come along and have opportunities to see and maybe
share some of the facilities that these people have. We are asking that the facilities be made
more that they have a discussion first of all of unemployment and the problems associated with
unemployment that they hand over some of their facilities to the poor and the unemployed.
The club's management refused to comment but one member Mr Darren Bailieu
who joined the club in the late 1930s explained his attitude.
I think it's bloody silly myself. Do you think they have a right to be there? No of course they
haven't. You'd let nobody be. If they walk into your home you'd object wouldn't you?
Well this is my home. But do you consider this a legitimate cause? What's the cause?
They're unemployed. Oh well I'm sorry about that. John can you rescue me here?
Oh you want to go? You haven't enough of it. Oh I'm gonna take an analgesic now.
Within about half an hour of the protest beginning about 10 police had arrived at the scene
and they made sure that while the protesters had entered through the front door
they certainly wouldn't be leaving the same way. After a brief scuffle
the van took the unwelcome guests to the less exclusive Melbourne watch house. A fire this
afternoon gutted the clubhouse at the prestigious Australian golf links in the Sydney suburb of
Kensington. The damage bill has been put at one million dollars. The blaze quickly spread through
the old timber and tile roof of the clubhouse and patrons had to run for safety as the fire took hold.
Officials said the club motel was destroyed as was the main lounge, the southern lounge, offices
and the kitchen. Little available water and low pressure hampered firemen who had to cut
through a fence to lay water hoses across southern cross drive. For club officials the fire came as
a bitter blow. The Australian golf club is celebrating its centenary year and expensive
renovations have just been completed to the top floor of the clubhouse. However the pro shop was
saved as were hundreds of golf clubs and assorted gear belonging to members. Investigations are
continuing tonight into the cause of the fire. Norm, the symbol of the life be in it campaign,
is back in Australia after somehow persuading the American defence forces to take up his cause.
He was scheduled to make a triumphant reappearance from the skies near the Sydney Opera House but
the plan didn't quite work. Norm would sail down Sydney Harbour or at least over it by
hot air balloon and land at the Opera House. That was the plan but the wind had a mind of its own.
It was blowing the wrong way. Instead of carrying the balloon aloft and those few hundred metres to
Bendalong Point, within moments he could have been dropping in at Long Bay. But that's life and Norm
was up to his neck in it, Sydney Harbour at half past seven on a chilly morn. It was all part of an
intended promotion for the life be in it expo at the Sydney Shave Grounds in January and things
going wrong didn't seem to faze him. It was rather damp but what a nice day for a swim. What a nice
way to come back to Australia. Why are you shivering then? It's part of life be in it and I'm out of
condition but I'm going to get back into shape. Still ringing wet, Norm met the Lord Mayor of Sydney.