Next in Palace of Dreams, Jacob's volatile temperament threatens the family harmony.
We are standing at the dawn of a new age.
You can talk to him all you like, but I'm not going to let one selfish man destroy my family.
Enough, Hannah. Well, don't expect to come back to me after you've been with him.
Leave her alone.
Tom and Ruth are thrown together.
If you spoil my plans below me, I'll kill you.
Palace of Dreams, 7.30 Thursday on ABC.
Saturday night on ABC, one of the world's most prestigious musical competitions.
The 3rd Sydney International Piano Competition.
Six finalists will perform with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Charles McHarris,
and will look behind the scenes at the stresses and strains, the elation and disappointments of competition performance.
The 3rd Sydney International Piano Competition.
8.30 Saturday on ABC.
Good evening. Tonight, South Africa, the official view from Washington.
And Lionel Bowen talks about the Goff and Malcolm show.
But first, Maxine with the news.
Confirmation that the Australian Rebel Cricket Tour of South Africa is to go ahead has drawn condemnation both at home and overseas.
Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Bishop Desmond Tutu described the decision as an obscenity,
and Prime Minister Hawkes says his government is disappointed.
Legal moves to stop the tour were dropped by the Australian Cricket Board today,
but it's banned the Rebel players from Test Cricket for three years and from Sheffield Shield Matches for two years.
The board has decided that the 14 players who have chosen to tour South Africa,
Hughes, Terry Alderman, Dyson, Hogg, Hogan, Trevor Hones, Rod McCurdy, Maguire, Rackerman, Steve Rickson, Greg Shippard,
Steve Smith, Michael Taylor and Graham Yallop, will be banned from representing Australia until after 30th September 1988,
and from representing their state until after 30th September 1987.
We don't agree with a ban, but we're prepared to accept it in order to get the settlement out of court.
And when, I suppose, when you realistically look at it, Jeff, it's only really a one-year ban at international level,
because we're going to be away for the next two years anyway.
Mr Hawkes says next month's budget will focus sharply on job creation.
The Prime Minister said in Sydney tonight that the deficit and government borrowings from the private sector would both be cut in the budget.
It will thus help to avoid a clash with the private sector in credit markets and reduce pressures on real interest rates.
It will also moderate further the degree of fiscal stimulus at a time when inflationary pressures are mounting and private sector activity strong.
On both counts, the budget will contribute to durable growth and jobs, but it will also promote jobs directly.
This budget has a particular focus on enhancing job skills and training, particularly for our greatest national resource, our young people.
The Attorney-General, Mr Bowen, says there'll be no more referendums for constitutional reform in the life of the Hawke government.
He's also confirmed that this week's Constitutional Convention in Brisbane involving federal and state governments will be the last.
Instead, Mr Bowen has suggested the setting up of a small commission to redraft the Constitution,
and he hopes such a commission will include former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
The United States has refused to match a five-month Soviet moratorium on nuclear tests,
and in turn the Kremlin has rejected Washington's latest overture on arms control, as Paul Lockey reports.
The Soviet ban on nuclear testing for five months announced on Moscow television cut no ice with the White House.
The Reagan administration dismissed the offer as nothing new, claiming that the Soviets had been accelerating their testing program recently,
so they would not be disadvantaged by such a freeze.
Far more realistic, argued the White House, was President...