We were both living in our father's shadows.
Well, maybe it's time that we both stepped out into the world and showed them what we can do.
Together?
Well, not if you don't want to.
Go on.
You can give me a hand.
When they start this chanting, right?
Kanda, kanda, kanda. I'm not married to it, but kanda, kanda, right?
And this big, warm-eaten, scary dude comes out from behind and goes,
Raaah!
Done it.
Okay, okay.
Rob, dude, man. I mean, listen, I gotta go to Warner's in an hour with this, and I might have to give this thing to him, you know?
Then go. Tell Bugs I said hello.
Hello.
Okay. All right, listen.
Dude, I wasn't even gonna show this to you.
All right.
These are the scrolls, man.
Scrolls?
What scrolls?
The Xena scrolls. It's about this guy, Jocks. These were in my grandfather's attic, and he had them translated, dude.
I mean, listen, we don't have to make this thing like Big Budget, you know?
We can shoot this in a third-world country using the locals.
And for the lead guy, Jocks, I'm thinking, Matt LeBlanc, if he's available, you know? It's good. I like... It's good.
What do you think? Pretty interesting stuff. Tell me more about this Xena.
She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle.
When a woman with hidden talents...
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Caesar. Julius Caesar.
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Why don't you and I work together?
...all new Xena next week.
Don't miss the street parade that explodes with colour, costumes and excitement. It's outrageous, controversial and always entertaining.
The 1998 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, 8.30 Monday here on 10.
And stay with us now for the all-new series of John Laws in One Lifetime.
Good evening. George Donikian with a 10-news update.
Central Sydney had a standstill tonight as tens of thousands jammed the city to watch the 20th Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Australia's doctors warned parents against panicking after British researchers linked some infant vaccines with autism.
And the thrill of a lifetime for some people who can't see.
A day behind the wheel of a high-powered car.
We'll have all the details for you. That's tonight in 10's late news.
And coming up in sports tonight, Australia's Kari Webb shoots a course record 64 to lead the ladies' Masters by five shots.
Webb firing nine birdies and a bogey to be 14 under going into tomorrow's final round that's at Royal Pines on the Gold Coast.
Plus, despite a protest, Lee Friedman's Danilar wins the million dollar Blue Diamond stakes at Caulfield.
The hot-fraved Chevog finished a disappointing fourth.
Also, AFL's Anset Cup, Rugby League, Rugby Union and lots more sports tonight.
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In my lifetime, in the last 60 years or so, I've lived through events that were quite literally earth-shattering events.
I've met people who have changed the world.
But there have also been events, and there have also been people who didn't make the headlines, but they meant a hell of a lot to me.
In the next few weeks, we'll relive some of those events, we'll revisit some of those people.
It's not so much a history, it's more a story.
It's a very personal story of Australia and Australians.
And to begin, we've got to go back long before I was born to a moment in time, one of those earth-shattering moments in time,
that helped make me what I am today and more than likely helped make you what you are today.
My dearest Emily, just a brief note to let you know I am well, and hope that all is fine back home with you and young Tom.
I hope that he's still doing his schoolwork.
Rations are a bit on the scarce side, and Johnny Turk is a gunfighter, but the men are bearing up well.
Must go now, they're starting up again.
I miss you both, your loving husband Tom.
P.S. Johnny sends his regards and says he misses you.
Okay.
They said it would be the war to end all wars.
Tragically, it wasn't. World War I was just the beginning.
In the span of just one lifetime, we've seen conflict after conflict, millions upon millions of men, women and children slaughtered.
But amidst the carnage of the Great War, a legend was born.
The Anzac Spirit, that intangible combination of guts, determination and makeshift that seems to typify Australia and Australians.
It's a spirit enshrined in Anzac Day.
Here in 1938, on the eve of World War II, half a million people in Sydney alone paid homage to the heroes of the 1914-18 War.
I turned 19 on Gallipoli. I was only 18 when we landed there on the first morning.
They went away, a boy in the war, and come back a man.
By 1990, the ranks of the original Anzacs had dwindled, and most of the survivors were well into their 90s.
Living legends, frail now, but not forgotten.
They were about to embark on a journey into the past, a pilgrimage to the battlefields of their youth, a journey that would be crowded with memories, both bitter and sweet.
And then, someday, they may recall, we were not too old at all.
These old warriors were fearless, jaunty, just as they'd been 75 years before, when as mere boys they'd set sail for a world they'd never seen, and a war they couldn't even imagine.
I said, war is a terrible thing. You go and kill other men that you've got no grievance against because them politicians tell you to. That's what it boils down to.
I think I said it to, what's he named, the Prime Minister now? I think that all politicians are a bit mad. He took it all on.
This is where it all happened, Anzac Cove. Today a peaceful place.
And then a chaotic battleground where the Allies were outnumbered, outmaneuvered by the Turks. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
For the meaning of the Anzac's tradition, forged in the fires of Gallipoli, must be learned anew from generation to generation, the going down of the sun.
In the morning we will remember them.
At home we choked back tears of pride. In the cynical nineties the word sacrifice had meaning again.
I think there's more people take notice of Anzac Day than they used to because it just seemed as though it was dying out.
And some people say you glorify in war. That's not it at all. You're remembering your mates and others who died during the war.
It's in remembrance of them. And I hope they never forget that.
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No a Bushman can't survive on city lights Opera rock and rollin' high up high His moon shines on the silver wriggle o'er Shimmers down the inland river flow Out there where the yellow belly lies
Of course that Anzac, that Australian spirit was always there.
I guess we just didn't have a name for it.
Away from the city lights there was real courage, real guts, real nature.
Out in the bush they battled nature season after season, year after year.
Heartbreaking droughts that scorched the land and seared their souls.
Like something out of the Old Testament that stripped bare their crops and pastures.
Floods that raged across the country, devastating all in their path.
And of all those floods, the ones that stick in my memory for some reason are the floods of the 50s.
That was when the Loughlin, the Murrumbidgee and the Macquarie rivers swept across the countryside with a mitre kind of majesty that is still absolutely awesome.
Then three years later it was the Hunter Valley storm.
The toll was devastating, 26 dead and more than 15,000 people left homeless.
Day after day the flood waters surged through the streets of Maitland and other towns in the area.
But as always communities closed ranks.
There were neighbours, mates, sometimes even strangers that you could count on.
And if ever there was a classic example of the laconic easy going Aussie.
Here he was during the 49 floods, before the days of the Golden Microphone.
Oh well I own a furniture shop in Maitland and I've just about lost everything I've got.
But I guess there's plenty of people worse off than I am.
Then in 1990 a catastrophic deluge swamped the East Coast.
Leaving vast tracts of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria like a gigantic inland sea.
There would be approximately 25,000 sheep dead with possibly up to 100,000 standing in water and at risk.
I know of people that will lose a quarter of their sheep.
If you could just bring that back to someone in the city losing a quarter of their annual salary or even more than that, you'll get an idea of how it will affect you.
The nation was transfixed, especially by the drama in the little town of Ningan in western New South Wales.
We watched as the townsfolk rallied in a desperate bid to hold back the rising flood waters.
No it's never been this high before. I think this is higher than the record.
I'm not too bad of a daytime but I hate the night. Worrying all the time what's going to happen, whether I'm going to have a house to get up in in the morning.
When the battle was lost, when Ningan was flooded and the damage bill spiralled into the tens of millions of dollars, we gave all we could.
Food, clothing, blankets, money.
And the people of Ningan did what Australians have always done when all seems lost.
They picked themselves up. Probably they cursed a little.
And they started all over again.
Black Friday 1939. Definitely one of the darkest days in Australia's history.
Newspapers of the day called them the worst bushfires ever.
They claimed 71 lives in Victoria alone, 40 in a single day.
Five years later, Victoria suffered again, suffered terribly.
For three months fires swept the state, leaving 51 people dead.
In just one area, the Western District, a quarter of a million sheep were destroyed.
But all these entries in our catalogue of natural disasters were eclipsed on Ash Wednesday, February the 16th, 1983.
72 dead. 2,000 homes worth 70 million dollars destroyed.
300,000 hectares of farmland left charred.
Uses.
Probably the most terrifying time was this one.
Sydney in the summer of 1994.
It was a city ringed by fire on the threshold of hell.
During that situation, get yourself as close to the ground, put something over your head, lie flat.
Just unbelievable. One minute it was there and the next minute you could see the flames and then it just was right in these trees right here.
If we only lose two or three thousand houses, we'll be doing very well.
It was truly devastating. But God only knows how bad it might have been without the firefighters.
Hundreds of them must have been volunteers, unpaid.
Berro's deputy, Berro's hose line, Berro's deputy. Pull out if it's too hot and Scotty, you hear?
There was that Aussie spirit all over again.
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We're now coming up on the Great Southern Land. It's the middle of the night down there.
It should be nice and quiet.
Well, here's New Zealand. Like I said, nice and quiet.
Australia. A Great Southern Land.
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I didn't have to look all that far to find individual acts of courage. Our history is full of them.
But there are also those little acts of selflessness, of kindness, that are so easy to overlook.
Like this old film clip. It's short, runs about 40 seconds, but it says a lot.
The clips of Marjorie Lawrence, the Australian opera singer. She, like me, suffered from polio when she was a child.
But she didn't let that stop her. In her own way, she kept the dream alive.
She sang on from a wheelchair.
Here she is visiting a hospital, giving a new generation of polio victims a boost of confidence.
Just listen to what Marjorie had to say.
You know, when I was first stricken with infantile paralysis, everyone said it was hopeless.
And that I would probably never sing again, and never be able to get around again.
Well, I worked hard at it, as I know you're all going to do.
I want each and every one of you to try your very hardest to get well again, just as quickly as you can.
I also found this. A big day at what was then the Deaf and Dumb Institute.
It was 1948, and Helen Keller was there to tell her story.
A story we saw in the movie, The Miracle Worker.
In those days, there were no implants, no high-tech teaching aids, just dedication and determination.
And Helen Keller, who was born deaf and blind, personified those qualities.
It makes me proud to see how you're overcoming difficulties.
And when you go out to life's struggles and adventures, you will raise a banner for the deaf who follow you.
And I'd be prepared to bet that most of those kids did just that.
On the other end of the scale, there are feats of daring and courage that defy description.
Sir Douglas Mawson, the explorer who trekked south, as far south as you can go, to Antarctica.
In 1931, nearing the age of 50, he was still going strong just back from a year-long voyage of discovery.
Well, Sir Douglas, I'm very pleased to welcome you back, very much indeed.
And I would like to know if you've succeeded really in what you set out for on this last expedition.
Well, I'm Robert Mawson.
We covered 120 degrees of longitude in the pack eyes zone, collecting scientific data of all sorts, long route.
And we have sighted several...
But it was the 1911-14 expedition that made his name.
Sir Douglas and six companions survived a bitter winter marooned in this hut after they missed their expedition supply ship Aurora.
How they did it, I don't know, but the hut itself obviously had something to do with it.
It's weathered another 80 or so Antarctic winters since then, and it's still standing.
It became a mecca for modern-day explorers, explorers like Don and Margie McIntyre.
...the next 12 hours, exactly where we're going to put the hut.
I'd like to put it right down there, but...
They spent a year together, alone, as they put it, reliving the Mawson experience.
First of all, this incredible sort of feeling of, my God, it's so small.
It's just some old little shack out in the middle of nowhere.
Because you set this visual impression of Mawson, the great man, and the expedition being so sort of powerful.
And you get down there, just a little sort of timber shack in the middle of nowhere.
But when you get close to it, you get this incredible sense of being alongside something that is great.
And when you look at the rocks that Mawson and his men stood on to have their photos taken, the rocks are still there.
There's no superhighways, no high-rise, anything like that.
It's all exactly the same as it was when he was there.
So it's a really eerie feeling.
I mean, we will resign to living there on our own and just taking what Antarctica threw at us.
And yeah, I mean, I'd go back tomorrow.
Maybe not for winter in the same spot, but yeah, I'd go back tomorrow.
Like Mawson, other 20th century adventurers and explorers were forced to find new challenges to conquer.
Some, notably Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, looked skyward.
The first flight from Australia to America in 1934 pioneering trans-Tasman crossings.
It seems he did it all.
As well, he saw, pretty vividly for those times, commercial air travel the way we know it today.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have been asked to tell you something about the path that Australia is playing in aviation today.
My reply is that we are settling down for the job of developing upon sound commercial lines the airmail routes that have already been pioneered.
While I am happy and proud, of course, that I have been privileged with the Southern Cross to participate in the opening up of some of these airmail routes,
I nevertheless feel that the day of the spectacular or pioneering flight is more or less over.
Today these air lanes must be operated upon sound commercial lines.
Hundreds of thousands of people would appear at the airport because a plane was unusual and an aircraft that had just flown the Pacific Ocean, just extraordinary.
I mean, people don't realise that really Smithy learnt to fly on instruments as he was flying the Pacific and at night got into this incredible storm.
And it was either live or die and so he had to learn to fly properly in that particular time.
But Smithy's luck ran out. In November 1935 he was just 38 years old.
In an attempt to break the England-Australia airspeed record, his single-engine Ladies Southern Cross disappeared over the Bay of Bengal.
No trace of Smithy was ever found.
Every time we fly, we owe a debt, an immeasurable debt, to Sir Charles Kingswood Smith.
And when it comes to heroes and heroines, Australia's sporting hall of fame is packed to the rafters.
Right onto this.
Oh, there it is, coming up on the back of your neck.
It's pretty good fun.
It's just one of the best moments. Like, you come back to your country and have all this. It's like the greatest sport.
It's really special. I think this is the hugest one, the best turnout I've ever been in. It's fantastic.
This is bigger than the opening ceremony. It's just absolutely fabulous. It just shows that the whole 18 million people here in Australia were definitely behind us.
As a nation, we hail them. When they're winners, we're grimmets. We just can't get enough of them.
I felt like a rock star, you know. Just cruising down George Street in the back of a car. And, hey, you feel really good. You can't say, does it feel good? It does.
I saw those people going crazy and I thought, you know, they're going crazy about us. We're just normal people. I thought, Christ, I couldn't believe it. It was just amazing.
And I just had to tingle around my whole day and everyone was just so happy. It was bliss.
Just a test of what our athletes and what we as Australians can expect in 2000.
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This is how the Bradman legend began.
I had no coaching whatever when I was a boy.
In fact, there was nobody to coach me.
And I lived in a rather lonesome spot where I didn't have any boys to play with.
So my basic form of learning was to get out with a golf ball and throw it against the rail of a fence.
And let it come back to me and sort of follow its flight.
Young Donald, the single-minded boy who had faith to burn, faith in himself, faith in his destiny.
I'm a ball, I'm a high-legged, a tish-tish, we all fall down.
Did you enjoy your cricket, Sir Donald?
Did I enjoy it?
When I was a small boy, the week consisted of Saturday.
The other six days were a fill-in to lead up to Saturday.
I don't know that this is a good thing actually because boys have got to learn a living some other way besides playing sport perhaps.
But I really lived for Saturday.
And I don't think that anyone can be a good cricketer if they don't enjoy their cricket.
This is the whole basis of it.
The Don dominated the sport that he loved so passionately.
His feats were extraordinary. Just imagine anybody scoring 452 not-outs.
That was a world record. That was Bradman.
In the 30s he inspired the nation during the Depression.
A blazing hope in the midst of crushing despair.
People had, during the Depression, had very little money.
But they're some of the biggest crowds ever seen in test cricket in that time in Australia.
What he's achieved has just been so much greater than anyone else has achieved.
You can look back through the records of all great players and you can name 50 names of the best 10 cricketers from each country you can think of.
But they won't come near Donald Bradman for what he achieved in the game.
He's just been that one-off person which I don't think will ever be bettered.
Sir Donald packed up his pads and retired from the crease half a century ago.
With typical Bradman style.
He quit when he was ahead in 1948 on the 21st anniversary of his first class cricket debut.
Unbowed, unbeaten with an amazing test average of 99.94 runs.
So close, so tantalisingly close to the magic of an elusive 100.
I think there comes a time in every man's life, irrespective of whether he may still be good enough to carry on
or not, that he should make way for a younger man.
I feel that in my own case and I think I'm probably the best judge of the many little creeks and groans that go on in my joints throughout the day.
Especially when we're out in the field.
And I'm quite sure I shall have no regrets at all in having to sit in the pavilion and watch the other fellows.
As a mark of the man and what he meant to Australia, 65,000 fans were at the MCG for this testimonial match.
A match that marked the end of a career and the beginning of a legend.
Not only has he done what he achieved back in the 30s and 40s, but people still look to him today.
50 years later, people are still saying, what's Donald Bradman doing?
People will always remember Donald Bradman for what he did and what he is as a person.
Through the years the names changed, so did the game.
O'Reilly, Lindwall were succeeded by Miller, the Chappells, Richie Donnell.
It's been written and said that I changed the style of Australian cricket and captaincy, but that's not true.
What I did was emphasise again what people might have forgotten, that it's very important for Australians to play attacking cricket.
They play best that way and also the spectators have more fun.
It was something my father had told me and then when I actually played,
Miller, Morrison, Lindwall, who were three great mentors, they told me exactly the same thing.
Get out there and attack, son, whether you're captaining or playing.
Richie Bonneau certainly changed the image of cricketers.
He was a master of the pitch, the cricket pitch, and you might remember the soft, sophisticated, sales pitch.
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It's marvellous what a difference Milo makes.
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So it's a couple of years after that that I started doing Victor Mowers, Milo, Smooth X.
I even did a Renault Fabeno, which was a nice, catchy little thing around about the late 1950s.
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This, though, was something less than gentlemanly.
The last day, the last ball, Australia versus New Zealand in February 1981.
It was a real nail-biter.
If the Kiwi McKechnie could hit a six, he'd tie the score.
Then the Australian captain Greg Chappell stepped in and ordered his brother Trevor to do something unthinkable.
Going too far and underarm. We haven't believed it.
That's a disappointing finish. Disappointed Brian McKechnie, the crowd booed.
And it's all over.
All over by the squealing.
New Zealanders were outraged. As cricket controversies go, it was up there with the infamous body line series.
I described Greg Chappell's actions as an act of cowardice, which I believe it was.
And I thought it was most appropriate that the Australian team was dressed in yellow.
I suppose all sports have to have their crises, their dust-ups. It helps keep the game alive.
And even before the underarm incident, cricket had undergone a massive upheaval.
An upheaval called World Series cricket.
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That's cars. That's out.
The purists had an apathetic scene. Clown suits, the commercialism. It just wasn't cricket.
But they couldn't argue about the crowd. Take the 1978 day-night out. 50,000 packed the stands.
We've had a very good night. I hope they have a good test in Brisbane.
And I quite sincerely do hope they have a good test in Brisbane. I'd like to see them do well.
We're going our way. They're going their way. And maybe someday we'll get together.
And there it is. It's all over. The Australians have won by five wickets.
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Let's pray.
Sir.
Faith became a matter of life and death in New Guinea during World War II.
The
diggers there were fighting a new kind of war against a new kind of enemy.
Days became weeks, weeks became months as they battled the jungle, the monsoons, tropical disease and the Japanese.
In such desperate conditions, the diggers came to rely on locals, heroes that they called the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels.
The heroism, the horror was captured on film by dedicated newsreel cameramen, men like Damien Perra, who would win Australia's first and most deserved Academy Award.
Don't underestimate the Jap. He's a highly trained soldier, well disciplined and brave.
And although he's had some success up to the present, he's now got against him some of the finest and toughest troops in the world.
Troops with a spirit amongst them that makes you intensely proud to be an Australian.
Further north, the horror was even worse. Thousands upon thousands of Australians held captive by the Japanese.
Names like Changi, Sandarkin, the Burma Railway. They still cause a shudder of revulsion today.
At the time, we didn't know just how inhuman, how brutal the conditions in those camps were.
The film reports were toned down to spare us the full horror.
What we saw were brave diggers making do, smiling in the face of adversity. Maybe it was just as well.
How could we possibly have comprehended what those men and women went through?
History now has written that the authorities knew that we could not cope with the downward thrust of the Japanese.
And in many cases, people that were put onto Timor or on Ambon or on Java were only a sacrifice.
They were there to delay the Japanese downward thrust.
And the sad thing about it is that of those 22,000 that were taken prisoners of war, only 14,000 returned, 8,000 perished.
Those dark days, those evil camps had their heroes too. But none stood as tall as this man.
Edward Weary Dunlop.
A man that bore no malice or hatred for any person on earth, including the Japanese. He was unique.
Weary Dunlop was born, believe it or not, at a little place in Victoria called Sheepdash Creek.
He joined the Army as a surgeon when war broke out in 1939.
Three years later, in 1942, he was captured by the Japanese in Java, and he spent the rest of the war behind Bamboo and Balboa.
I was a war correspondent during the war. And I went up and I saw those places such as the Burma Railway and Changi.
And just to exist in them, it was incredible that they existed for so long.
But to not only exist, but to work and save so many lives and so quietly go about his business, there was only one Weary Dunlop.
And you know, even when he came back after the war, he still kept on working, still helping people. He was a wonderful man.
A leader when all seemed lost. A man among men.
That man, he had compassion, he had love, he had pluck, he had courage, he had dedication to his job.
He was proud of being a human being. He had no bias. He never held it against the enemy.
This is, he's not a great Australian, he's a great human being.
When Weary Dunlop died in July 1993, 20,000 mourners lined the streets of Melbourne in tribute.
If he had no money, he'd operate and charge you nothing. That's actually his ability. He didn't look for bloody honors.
This blood-red poppy, the traditional emblem of war sacrifice, the symbol of a life given for one's country, and Rosemary for remembrance,
link us with our late comrade, Weary Dunlop.
Australia awaits the arrival of the spiritual leader of the world's 600 million Roman Catholics, His Holiness, Pope Paul VI.
It's a fine, sunny and warm last day of spring as the DC-8 jet arrives at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport in the late afternoon.
The Pope has described his visit as a pilgrimage, and it's the first time that a raining pontiff, the head of the Vatican State, has ever visited Australia.
The year was 1970. Sir Paul Hasluck was Governor General, John Gorton was Prime Minister.
They were the days before the Pope-mobile, the bulletproof glass, the overpowering security days when a visiting Pope could mingle with his flock.
Randwick Racecourse is the scene of one of the largest gatherings in Australia's history. A vast crowd estimated at almost a quarter of a million is present when the Holy Father celebrates the bicentenary commemorative mass.
May, dear sons and daughters, my brother and sister in Christ, tonight we have come together to commemorate the heavens leading to the birth of the Australian nation.
Let us pray to our Father in heaven that we may know how to build up our earthly city in justice and love.
Justice and peace have been raised. Faithful men now, faithful below, and young men now are young from now.
25 years later another Pope, Pope John Paul, was here on a mission to begin the arduous process of creating Australia's first saint.
Father Mary McKillop, who founded the Joes, the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in Australia.
There was a certain irony about all this talk of sainthood in the eyes of the Catholic hierarchy of the day. Mary McKillop was no angel.
She fell from grace and was actually excommunicated, but she refused to give up or give in and went on to pioneer Catholic education in this country.
Australia needs the kind of commitment of which Mary McKillop is such a striking example.
We declare that the venerable servant of God, Mary of the Cross, McKillop, shall thereafter be invoked as blessed.
Next in 10's late news, hundreds of thousands crammed the centre of Sydney for the 20th gay and lesbian Mardi Gras.
More trouble for Australia's health system with costs about to jump once again.
Overseas the Queen has okayed sexual equality for succession to the throne.
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