Would you like me to find you a nice neighbour that you could live with?
Tonight, Mike has a tough job ahead of him.
It's like, it's like a little bouncer.
Look, he needs a home and I sort of thought you might like to keep him.
A surprise for Mrs Mangels and a bigger surprise for Jim.
Something else I'd like to discuss with you, it concerns Charlene and Scott.
How would you feel if Madge and Henry moved in and lived here for a while?
Neighbours, seven o'clock tonight on TVO.
Good afternoon, I'm Tony Ryan. The Human Rights Commission has blasted conditions
inside the so-called black hole at Boggaroe Jail.
Commission President Mr Justice Einfel today spent three and a half hours in the jail
and described the Underground Detention Centre as the worst complex of its kind in Australia.
Justice Einfel has urged Premier Ahern to immediately close the Underground complex,
a decision that will be taken by Cabinet tomorrow.
The five new members of the Queensland Cabinet have been officially announced by Premier
Micah Herne.
Alicia Harvey is now the only woman in the 18-member Cabinet.
She takes over the responsibility of health.
The new Cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow morning with its first meeting immediately
afterwards.
Good afternoon.
Sunday. Can Les tell a tall story and win $500?
There's some smash and small jokes.
Where'd you get this damn bread from?
Kerry Ann Kennelly is our celebrity guest and this lady will be saying, you've got to
be joking.
6.30 Sunday on TVO.
7.30 Sunday.
Need my lips.
As family breadwinner, Laurie Parks has her parents jumping.
Here's some money for lunch, Dad.
She's a movie star.
She's got everything she could want.
Although fame has created a monster.
Don't stand there like a dummy. Let's go, I'm late.
And Jonathan must bring her down to earth on Highway to Heaven.
I hope you're enjoying that.
7.30 Sunday on TVO.
Okay, Angelus, you ready?
Yeah.
Okay, you repeat after me.
Yasu!
It's Tuesday!
It's four o'clock!
It's Ridgy Ditch!
And now here's the star of our show.
And now here's the star of our show, Jared Robinson!
Yay, brother!
Hi!
You can take these up now.
How are you, son?
You taught me everything I know.
This is a lot of Chris here.
This is Chris over there, Angelus.
And all the boys and girls across Australia.
Say hello.
Hi.
Now, because you did that so well, we thought maybe you could do that if you did some with
all the boys and girls.
Yeah.
So, some of you can throw your more good stuff in there.
Okay.
One, two, three.
Ridgy Ditch!
I think that was good enough.
I think we can probably get the audience.
Angelus was fine.
The audience was terrible.
Okay, let's do it one more time.
Ready?
One, two, three.
Ridgy Ditch!
Okay, let's go and meet Danny and Rebecca.
Oh, can I come too?
Oh, please.
Over here, Angelus.
Hi, Angelus.
How are you?
Good to meet you.
And you?
Good.
I love how you.
Good to meet you.
And Danny?
Hi, Angelo.
How are you?
How's it feeling?
Angelo, I've got a letter here that came from you.
And Angelus goes to Marrickville High.
Do you want to say hi to Marrickville High?
Marrickville Public School.
Do you want to say hi to everyone at Marrickville?
Hi, everyone at Marrickville.
All right, the last bit of your letter says that you want to come on the show and be with
us.
And it says, my favourite character is?
Jared.
Good on you, Jared.
My wonder he got on.
All right, how about we...
Yeah, thank you.
Make it welcome.
You know something?
Consider yourself at home.
Consider yourself one of the family we're taking to you.
So strong, it's clear we're going to get along.
Consider yourself worthy.
Consider yourself part of the furniture, there isn't a lot to spare.
Who cares what every got to share, even if it's just a deal, we should see some harder
days, empty lighter days, wine grouse.
Chance will be somebody to put the bill, or to slam the dig star on the house.
Consider yourself our mate.
We don't want to have no fuss.
For us of consideration we can't stay.
Consider yourself one of us.
Yeah, give him a big clap.
Yeah, we're going to go to commercial break and come back and talk.
So how about we do a rigid song, ready?
One, two, three.
R-I-G-G.
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Uh-oh, Mac.
I said to Mum I need a snack.
She said the pantry's full of snacks.
No.
I need a snack with flavour.
I'm home.
I need a snack with flavour.
I think I can save him with one of Nabisco's.
Flavours in a biscuit, bacon in a biscuit, Dixie drumsticks in a biscuit.
Chicken in a biscuit.
Now try cheese or spicy tomato in a biscuit.
What a flavour.
What a woman.
I've got some camera so I'm ready to hold into one of these.
This is Stephen.
This is Daniel over here.
We've got Dean down here and Damien over there.
Welcome to Australia, you guys.
Thanks.
So what's it, uh, these guys, as the feature in the Express said, the Express feature,
the feature in the Express in the paper,
these guys are the Spielbergs of tomorrow because, well, last year they did a video
about drug abuse, is that right?
Yeah.
And you're working on another video now about...
AIDS.
OK, well, let's talk about the one about drug abuse first.
What's, what's, what's in it?
Well, uh, we interview a few people, uh, from the street
and we also interview, uh, somebody who's, who knows drugs
and who has been a drug addict.
And, uh, we learnt a lot from the experience.
Why did you want to do the video?
Well, um, we, we thought that, uh, there was a lot of kids
that we knew that were on drugs.
Yeah.
And we thought it was fairly important that, uh,
we get across to a lot of people that drugs are really terrible.
Yeah.
When you did, when you sort of were making the video
and you did, like, some background work, as the paper said,
um, what sort of things did you find?
Well, um, we, we found that, uh, drugs, drugs use a lot
and, uh, you could get drugs anywhere you wanted,
like, out the front of any school.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It's amazing where you get, where you get,
it's very surprising, isn't it?
Where else can you get drugs from?
Um, well, in any suburb.
You can find them in Gosford.
You can mainly get them around, uh, Kewball Park, around there.
Well, those who don't live in New South Wales,
Gosford's about, what, two hours from Sydney?
About an hour.
About an hour from Sydney, up the North Coast.
And what else, were you, did you, um,
were you surprised at all by the sorts of things you found out?
Quite. Um, well, we didn't think that many people were needing drugs.
Mm.
But, uh, a lot of people don't understand that they,
they can say no to drugs.
Yeah.
And how do you do that? You just say no.
There is a lot of pressure, isn't there, by people?
Mm.
So, I mean, did you find out about the sort of peer pressure you get
from people sort of shoving drugs up under your nose
and alcohol and stuff like that?
What was the main problem that people were drug addicts or users of drugs?
Did you find out at the moment?
A lot of people smoked, and heroin was a main one that they used.
Heroin. Mm.
Did you find out why they did it?
Oh, well, a lot of, a lot of kids had family problems and, uh, school problems.
Their grades might have been low or something like that.
Mm.
They might have been bashed up or, mm, leaving.
Yeah, when I was in school, I had a lot of, um, a lot of drugs
shoved up in my nose and alcohol and stuff like that,
which was really, I mean, it's pretty terrifying.
And I saw, well, as I left school,
a lot of my friends were sort of who were on drugs and stuff,
were just, their bodies were rotting,
they were getting sick and stuff like that.
And I, they used to really give me a hard time about it
and say, and hassle me and stuff like that,
and say, oh, come on, you're weak, you know, have a smoke, stuff like that.
But, I mean, if I would have done that,
then I wouldn't be having all the fun of what you did or do today.
So the best thing is just to say...
No. No.
Right.
OK, now, tell me, um, how did you know how to edit
and produce the video and stuff?
I mean, how did you know what to do?
Well, uh...
I... I'd say what I was self-taught.
Um, I was very interested right from the start.
And, uh, I saw that one of my uncles had a video,
and I started to get into that.
And then he sold his video, uh, to us,
and I learnt more from that.
Let's have a look at just a clip of the video that these guys did.
Kids on the Central Coast are abusing drugs.
The effects, in some cases, are devastating.
How much do people know about drugs, and what do they think about them?
Let's go onto the street and ask a few people.
Excuse me, what are your feelings on the drug problem at the moment?
Oh, man, you shouldn't...
My feelings, you shouldn't smoke.
All right, cos I used to be into it.
Ha!
I used to be into it, all right, so, now I didn't like it.
It gave it away.
I was the only one who seemed to make them pot.
Shit.
Do you have any messages for any kids who are watching?
Yeah, just don't smoke.
OK, thanks very much.
For us, great for a home video. That is fantastic.
Yeah.
So, you guys are moving on. You're doing another video now about AIDS.
Has that started yet?
Yeah, well, we're in the final stages.
We have to have one more interview with a few kids from our school.
Sure.
And we'll be asking them what they know about AIDS.
Great. Well, good luck. I think you're doing a fantastic thing.
And it's something I think is wonderful and I'm sure the kids appreciate too.
So, how about we give our special guests a big round of applause, eh?
And, of course, for coming on the show,
we have a little bit certificate for all of you guys.
Smile. Smile.
Oh, oh, OK. Is this...? Everyone, turn around and smile.
You got... Oh, that's it. That's it.
A little bit bigger smile. Bigger smile.
Yeah, you too, Sean. I want a picture of you.
I'll make them home videos for my family.
We might be able to have some lessons off these guys.
Yeah, actually, actually, how good. Couldn't I?
All right, well, let's all watch The Great Space Coaster.
Oh, good idea. Come back after that.
MUSIC PLAYS
Hey, Herbie. I'm always finished with my latest poem.
Yeah. Let's see now.
Leaf? Hmm. What rhymes with leaf?
Uh, beef?
No, I don't think so.
Chief?
No, I don't think so.
Oh, I got it. Leaf rhymes with leap.
Wait a minute.
I don't think that's the way poems are supposed to work.
Oh, well, I'll fix it later.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. I'll do anything.
Now, let's see. What rhymes with anything?
Uh, diamond ring?
No.
What's a philodendron gonna do with a diamond ring?
Maybe four or five carrots could use one.
Oh, wait a minute. I got it, Herbie. I got it.
Oh, I love it when inspiration hits.
Ha-ha.
I finished.
Oh, Herbie, you're gonna love this one.
Listen to this.
Oh, to a potted plant by Edison Elephant.
Oh, potted plant by the window so bright.
Would you like me to turn your other side to the light?
Can I put on some music or your favorite TV show?
I'll try anything to get you to grow.
How about a spritz or some light conversation?
They say talking to your plants is the best fertilization.
Oh, potted plant in your cute little pot.
Don't let yourself fall ill to root rot.
Don't let the spider mites give you grief.
Chewing at your stalk, nibbling at your leaf.
If you'd grow just an inch, I'd do anything.
And I promise to repot you if you live until spring.
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
Did you like that, Herbie? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
Oh, Edison, that's terrific.
That's the funniest thing I ever heard.
If you'd grow just an inch, I'd do anything.
And I promise to repot you if you live until spring.
Ha-ha-ha. That's the worst rhyme I ever heard.
Diamond ring would have been better.
Edison, old buddy, you don't do it very often.
But when you do, you're one of the funniest people on this planet.
I have never been more serious about anything in my entire life.
I am deeply devoted to writing poetry.
Give me that.
What? Hey, come back with that.
I just want to copy it.
I'll tell you the truth.
I really think it's great.
You do?
Sure, kid. I just want to copy it down for my very own.
Oh, Gryddle.
What?
Don't show it to anybody else, will you?
I mean, I'm not ready to be famous yet.
Promise me you won't show it to anybody else now.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
I promise.