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Good evening, I'm Peter Hitchiner. The Liberal Party is stepping up plans for a federal election,
revealing it's already set up a campaign headquarters in Melbourne.
Despite the Liberals' initiative, the Prime Minister isn't giving anything away,
and without any announcement today, it's unlikely he'd be able to go to the polls this year.
The Prime Minister's window of opportunity for an election this year is closing rapidly,
but the Opposition is convinced Mr Keating isn't going to hold off until 1996.
I think the Prime Minister certainly is desperate to go before Christmas.
The law says Mr Keating has to give at least 33 days notice of an election,
but with two major overseas trips coming in November and then the holiday season,
a 95 poll would be awkward, but the Coalition is taking no chances.
You've already set up a campaign headquarters?
Yes, we've got a headquarters set up in Melbourne.
A lot of the work done, 98% of the policy work done, a lot of preparation.
And preparation was certainly the watchword from senior Labour figures launching
retiring ACTU President Martin Ferguson's campaign for Parliament today.
This election's going to be a difficult election.
And Martin Ferguson sums up the dilemma facing all the candidates on both sides of politics.
That's the Prime Minister's call.
And while senior Cabinet Ministers continue to insist that the election won't be until next year,
Mr Keating pointedly is stepping up an increasingly intense on-the-road blitz
of public appearances and very high-profile speeches.
Peter Harvey, Canberra.
Workers at Melbourne's Royal Show are mourning the death of a 25-year-old ride operator
killed in a freak accident. It's believed to be the first accidental fatality
in the history of royal shows in Australia.
A fourth-generation showman, George Madgers, had owned and operated the Miami Music Ride,
identical to this one, for just six months.
When rain began falling last night, he stepped out onto the ride's platform
to cover a loudspeaker with plastic.
He got too close to it. He shouldn't have been doing it when the ride was going, clearly.
And he got too close, he misjudged it, and he was hit by the ride
and I think killed instantly.
Show organisers say it's the first time a ride operator has been killed
in the 130-year history of the Melbourne Show and other state royal shows.
It's hit the close-knit community hard.
Well, we just distraught. We'd been shocked.
500 people attended a memorial service for the dead man at the show grounds this afternoon.
Six people have been injured in what's believed to be a gang-related shootout in Sydney last night.
Police say a gang armed with rifles and shotguns opened fire on a group of men
outside a Croatian club in the southwestern suburbs.
More than 30 shots were fired, half a dozen machetes and med cleavers were found at the scene.
I think it's extremely lucky nobody was killed. Extremely lucky.
Detectives believe it may be linked to last month's execution of a leader of a notorious Asian crime gang.
A 26-year-old Adelaide man has died after fire engulfed his home.
Neighbours heard screams for help, but by the time rescuers reached the man, there was little they could do.
Firefighters say there are no suspicious circumstances.
And in northern Queensland, a man has survived a horrific accident
after his utility was rolled and crushed under a tractor hauling sugarcane.
Emergency services had to use a crane to lift the tractor off the crushed vehicle
before they could free the man who was taken to hospital with cuts and a suspected back injury.
Natasha Johnson, National Nine News.
In one of France's biggest anti-nuclear rallies, thousands of protesters have marched through the streets of Paris,
calling for an end to the testing program in the Pacific.
He's faced them in Mororua, now they're in his own backyard.
We came here with a petition of over 300,000 Australian school children's signatures
and an art exhibition of their work to let the French public just know
how angry we are about the testing in the South Pacific.
Protesters in Paris racking up the pressure on Jacques Chirac.
150 organizations mustered 5,000 people for the latest in a series of anti-nuclear protests in France.
In Tahiti, meanwhile, a change of tactics.
Local opposition leaders have given up hope now of stopping the bomb.
They're working on a new strategy, avoiding the destructive protests that followed the first test.
There are still reputed to be small groups of extremists keen to match or even exceed the violence that followed the first test.
But the mainstream Tahitian opposition is focusing now on elections in March,
which they see as the key to expelling France from Polynesia for good.
Hugh Rimington, National Nine News, Papi A.
Bill Carling, the father of England's rugby captain, has called on his son to save his marriage.
Mr Carling says 29-year-old Will should be doing everything possible to rebuild his 14-month union with wife Julia.
He believes in marriage, he's a religious sort of person, and I would have thought if he could, if they can get it together, you know, they will.
Meanwhile, the rugby champion shrugged off his marital problems and rumors of his friendship with Princess Diana by scoring a stunning try during a weekend match.
Carlton fans are still celebrating their team's record 16th Premiership win.
It was standing room only as thousands turned up at the club's home ground for a family day after the party raged across Melbourne last night.
After a wild night that left city streets strewn with rubbish, the party picked up again at Optus Oval.
At lunchtime, another 15,000 turned out for a tumultuous Premiership family day.
In most cases, the players hadn't had any sleep, but the joy of making amends for their recent finals' disappointments was tonic enough to keep them going.
Every word and every gesture drew an ecstatic reaction.
And John Elliott capped off the jubilation by giving the Blues a new and even more extravagant title.
There is no doubt this is the greatest football club in the world.
Charles Slade, National 9 News.
Gary Ablett's birthday was the only cause for celebration in Geelong today, although the team captain didn't feel like a party after playing in another losing grand final.
Four grand finals in seven years and it's very disappointing to have lost all four. And I guess we can only look to the future.
More than 5,000 cat fans drowned their sorrows at today's family day and showed their support for the players who made a brief appearance on stage.
They refused to mingle with the crowd and quickly retreated inside to an official function.
A similar crowd turned up last night at the town hall to welcome the team home, but the club says it won't happen again until the cats win the flag.
Coach Gary Ayres offered no excuses, simply a promise to go one better next year.
What we've now got to look forward to though is to make sure that we do everything within our power to come back bigger, stronger and better in 1996. Thank you.
For the players it will be a summer filled with soul searching. Darren Lynch in National 9 News.
In what could be their last appearance in the South Australian league, Port Adelaide has won its 33rd Premiership at Football Park.
The Magpies raced away to an early lead, but Central Districts fought back in the second quarter with the aid of a strong breeze.
But after the main break, Port piled on the power to eventually win by 48 points.
And the Magpies back to back Premierships.
It was their sixth flag in eight years and coach John Cale's tenth at the club.
Tomota Racing and Larry Perkins and co-driver Russell Engel have staged one of the most remarkable fightbacks to take the Bathurst 1000.
The pair had their card damaged in the opening laps and at one stage were lost.
21 year old pole sitter Craig Lounds proved faster than the previous generation of touring car drivers, but all were beaten off the mark by an old bike rider.
Casualties came early. A flat tyre deflated Larry Perkins chances before a circuit was completed and Gardner was passed on lap six by a pumped up Jim Richards.
A crash brought the pace car onto the track whittling away the big lead held by Jim Richards and Mark Scaife before a broken tail sharp wrecked their race.
With his race all but lost on the opening lap, Perkins charged through a bunched up field pushing panels to the limit.
13 laps from home Perkins took the lead when Seton suffered engine failure.
The four driver providing another Bathurst bad luck story failing to emulate Father Boe who won here in 1965.
But Perkins completed a Lazarus like comeback for Holden recovering from last to finish first.
The great race winner for 1995 Andrew McKinlay, National Nine News.
Pints, pounds and inches are finally becoming a thing of the past in the United Kingdom as the nation moves towards metrication.
Heeding warnings from the European Union to use the metric system for all packaged foods, retailers have spent millions of pounds making the conversion.
But diehard defenders of the imperial system have called for a retail revolt with some threatening.