discovered it had been unregistered since last August and the number plates
were confiscated. The Minister for Labor and the Police Minister is Steve Crabb.
His office says the registration papers for 40 of its 300 cars got lost in the
system but a mad scramble to resolve the problem on Friday before any publicity
ended with another bureaucratic hurdle. It takes the Road Traffic Authority more
than two days to update its files. Today the last four cars were still listed as
unregistered. It's believed there will be no police action over the eight month
delay. Lena Keneva, Seven News. Warders plan to stop all visits to prisoners
from midnight tonight. 1,100 prison officers are on strike after a fellow
officer was stood aside during an inquiry into a bashing. The statistics
surrounding the current prison officers strike look frightening. At the moment
138 officers are guarding 2,000 prisoners. Normally there would be 1,100
officers. While the figures may read like a recipe for disaster, according to one
Pentridge inmate who called Seven News, things on the inside are calm.
When the division I'm in, the atmosphere is calm and relaxed. There's no chaos.
There doesn't seem to be any tension in the air or anything like that. But that
stability could change. After meetings all day, the prison officers said
regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's inquiry, industrial action could
continue and that there has been an escalation. As of midnight tonight, there
will be no visits to prisoners in any prison throughout the state. That
escalation seems set to have a negative effect inside. If they say we can't have
visits or if we're locked in their cells, obviously that would put a big pressure on us.
36-year-old Steve Harvey from Broad Meadows may not have a roof over his
head tonight, but he still considers himself the luckiest man alive. Steve,
his wife and two young children survived a freak accident early this morning when
a semi-trailer smashed into their house while the family was asleep. The truck
demolished all but one room of their Broad Meadows home. Pascoe Vale Road, Broad
Meadows is a popular route for huge trucks heading for the Hume Highway, but
around 2.30 this morning a semi-trailer lost control, bouncing over a service
lane before smashing into a brick house, completely destroying all but the rear
kitchen. In a most remarkable escape, Steve Harvey was asleep with his wife
just prior to the collision. Something woke me because there was a difference
in the note of the engine. I couldn't tell you exactly what it was, but I did
wake up and I turned my head and I seen the headlights coming in my direction.
The truck hit Steve's bedroom, pushing his wife under the splintering floorboards.
She's in a satisfactory condition in hospital and astonishingly the two Harvey
boys, aged two and one, were also buried under the rubble but suffered only a few
cuts. Today police said the 50-year-old truck driver from Wangaratta, who was not
hurt, will be charged on summons with drink driving. Steve Harvey plans to
rebuild his house with a solid high front fence part of the plans. Peter
Mitchell, 7 News. And the West Gate bridge was closed for more than two
hours this afternoon after a waste paper truck caught fire on the centre span. To
add to the chaos, burning paper blown from the vehicle started a blaze in
grass beneath the bridge. It was a slow trip home over the West Gate this
afternoon. Police closed the westbound lanes fearing a waste truck fire would
endanger other cars. High winds blew burning paper off the bridge and a large
grass fire took hold below. Workers anxious to get home but already on the
bridge were delayed for up to an hour as traffic stretched back to Port Melbourne.
Police reopened the bridge an hour ago but one lane will remain blocked while
council workers clean the mess. Andrew Anderson, 7 News. Police have found
nearly three million dollars worth of cannabis in Bushland near Lake George,
north of Canberra. Two local farmers were menaced by five men, one with a pistol,
when they discovered the haul. Two local farmers were driving along the federal
highway north of Canberra when they saw five men crossing the road carrying long
Hessian covered rolls of cannabis. They stopped and confronted the men. Was there
a firearm produced at any time? Well there has been mention of the firearm, yes.
And the men came and told us. When police searched rugged nearby crown land
they found more cannabis, perhaps three million dollars worth, but there was no
plantation. One theory is that the bush hideout was used as a safe place to
strip plants grown elsewhere. More than 2,000 worthless stalks were found dumped
there. Yes there would have been a lot more there than we've recovered. The five
men left plenty of clues. Camping gear abandoned when they fled. Police suspect
they may be part of a larger organised drug ring. Jeremy Thompson, 7 News. A man
is recovering in Wollongong Hospital after surviving a 50 metre plunge over a
cliff in his car. Despite his back injuries the man grabbed a sleeping bag
and scrambled three metres to a rock ledge where rescuers found him fast
asleep this morning. Shortly before eight o'clock this morning police were called
to Flagstaff Hill at Wollongong where two walkers had noticed the wreckage of a
Ford LTD at the base of a steep cliff. It was then discovered that a man was
trapped on a ledge further up the cliff. It apparently been the driver of the car
which plunged over the edge in the early hours of the morning. The man whose name
hasn't been released had taken a sleeping bag from the vehicle and managed
to climb onto a rock shelf where he'd spent the night. In the meantime the
rising tide flooded through the vehicle below. The man was rescued from the cliff
face and apart from minor back injuries is reported to be recovering from the
ordeal. John Lloyd Green 7 News. After the break a procedural breakdown
sparks a security alert during a domestic airline flight from Melbourne
to Brisbane and a rare Indian deer callously killed and butchered in a
Sydney park.
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An Australian Airlines Boeing 737 with 100 people on board caused a security
scare over the weekend when it flew from Melbourne to Brisbane without making
radio contact. Brian Adams reports the scare has caused some red faces at the
airline. Flight 480 took off normally from Melbourne Airport soon after 7 o'clock
on Saturday morning but then the drama started. It appears the crew failed to
change radio frequency and for nearly two hours was out of contact. When ground
stations failed to contact the plane over New South Wales Australian Airlines
had doubts on the plane's safety and declared the first stage of a three-part
security procedure. As radar tracked the plane flight 480 maintained a normal
flight path and airline officials decided not to declare the second alert phase. As
the craft approached Brisbane the crew finally contacted air traffic control and
were told in no uncertain terms about their laps. The airline and the Bureau of
Air Safety will investigate. Brian Adams 7 News. Trophy hunters are thought to be
responsible for the cowardly slaughter of an antelope at a south coast animal
park. Rajar, a rare Indian antelope, was either shot or killed with a bow and
arrow while in his pen at the Symbio Animal Gardens. The grim remains of Rajar
the antelope once the pride of Zimbayo Animal Gardens. It was here in the early
hours of the morning poachers skinned and beheaded the dead animal. Rajar was
killed inside the pen he shared with his antelope companion Rajesh and a number of
other animals. The animal had no chance of escaping them. The killers then cut a
hole in the fence and dragged the antelope down to the nearby creek where
they souvenir its head and skin. I'd say the person responsible is an experienced
hunter. The fact that they've gone around and actually walked all their footprints
out as they were leaving the park. Today the other animals almost appeared to be
aware of the tragedy particularly Rajesh who's now fretting for the loss of his
mate. The urban game hunters or hunter may well have got their private selfish
showpiece. Sad party is when the antelope was alive it was a public showpiece a
favorite with the thousands of children that visit this park each year. John
Lloyd Green 7 News. Grave fears are now held for the safety of a 65 year old
Warburton man who's been missing for four days. Police say former taxi driver
Kevin Rotterhan is long overdue for vital medication. It's as though Kevin
Rotterhan simply vanished. His house was empty but relatives found food cooking
on the stove and his wallet untouched. He was last seen in one of Warburton's
local banks on Thursday afternoon. He's believed to have had a mild epileptic
fit there but left after telling staff he was feeling better. The missing man's
daughter Susan Langenhoff says he's now long overdue for important medication. He
does have a session of epileptic fits at different times you know but he's never
done anything like this before you know he sort of usually comes out of them and
he's usually all right. Local police sergeant Ray Matheson says Kevin
Rotterhan's health problems have ruled out any likelihood of foul play. It's
possible that he could be in an amnesic type state and therefore he doesn't know
where he is or what's what's about him. Peter Beaton 7 News. In Crimestoppers
this week police are seeking the driver of a white Porsche involved in a drag
race along Dandenong Road which resulted in the deaths of three people. The tragic
crash happened on Saturday July the 18th last year. Three innocent people died in
this horrific car crash in Queen's Road St Kilda. The vehicles which crashed were
a Falcon sedan and a Mazda sedan. The accident happened after two cars were
seen driving at high speeds in Dandenong Road towards the city. The cars involved
in the race were a white Porsche sports car and the blue Ford Falcon sedan. At
the intersection of Dandenong and Chapel the two cars were seen side by side at
the red lights. When the light turned green both vehicles accelerated rapidly.
As they approached the St Kilda Road underpass the cars were estimated to be
traveling at between 160 and 200 kilometres an hour. The Falcon then veered
left across two lanes to the southern curb of Queen's Road where the vehicle
hit the curb. The car then slid back across the citybound lanes over the
centre median strip snapping a light pole off at the base and careered into
the eastbound lanes into the path of the Mazda. Police wish to talk to the
driver of the Porsche about the accident. The Porsche is thought to have had ACT
number plates. If you have any information which can help police in this
or any other serious crime telephone Crimestoppers now 265 5000.
And there's a new lead into the brutal bashing of a 47 year old vagrant in
Melbourne's Banana Alley last week. Police say a witness saw the victim
talking to another man some time before his death in the early hours of
Wednesday morning. They say it's possible the second man could have been involved
in the fatal attack. The dead man Teng Sae Tham also known as China had been
sleeping in Banana Alley for a fortnight before he was bashed to death by three
men on Wednesday morning. During the five-minute attack the men kicked and
punched the harmless vagrant and hit him repeatedly with a piece of wood before
leaving him to die. Police are still looking for witnesses to the attack but
say Mr. Tham was seen talking to another man on a landing site near where his
body was later found. Both the conversations were gestured towards
each other and that the gentleman talking was with Mr. Tham was seen to
produce a wallet from his rear pocket and Mr. Tham subsequently went to his
bags and was rifling through for something else to produce back to that
gentleman. Police have released a photo fit of the second man and say it's
possible he was one of the three murderers. They say the general
descriptions of the men are similar to those believed to be responsible for a
number of attacks on vagrants in the weeks leading up to the murder. In most
cases the motive has been robbery and police say it's likely the men will
attack again. Sally Young, Seven News. The Australian share market boosted by
rising gold prices broke through the 1300 mark today reaching its second
highest level for the year. The All Ordinaries index closed stronger and the
Australian dollar gained against the US dollar. And now to Tats lotto and there
were seven first division winners who will each receive more than a quarter of
a million dollars but there's a shock for the record number of second division
winners who were expecting to receive thousands. They'll get just over six
hundred and sixty dollars that's more than one hundred dollars less than the
third division winners. Tats says the strange result is caused by popular
lucky numbers coming up. Division 4 is paying $27.65 and Division 5 $12.85. In
Super 66 three winners will each receive $25,000. Well in politics there's
nothing like a safe seat and Victoria's furniture industry apprentices are
making seats safer for state politicians. Old chairs from the Parliament are being
restored at the Peran College of Technical and Further Education.
Politicians are usually worried sick about losing their seats but not these
Edwardian straight backs. Like some of the MPs who have used them they've gone
in the joints and they've got a bit flabby. Apprentices at the Centre for
Furniture Studies at Peran College of TAFE have got the job of restoring the
chairs to their former glory. So vinyl wasn't around when these chairs were
made. So it was the cow hide that was used on these chairs originally and
that's what we're doing. Total restoration back to its original state. So
it's off with the vinyl and on with the hide. The woodwork will be stripped and
re-polished and apprentice cabinet makers will restore the frames. Most of
these young craftsmen work at modern mass production furniture factories and
normally they'd never see chairs like this one. I think it's more of a
challenge to work with the old antique furniture than what it is to work with modern
stuff. The Ministry of Construction and Housing will pay for the restoration
work. The money will buy new equipment for Peran TAFE College and the
politicians will have a few more safe seats before the next state election.
And now to sport and drew a few problems for Bonecrusher. Yes Jennifer the New
Zealand champion has been delayed by bad weather. Also after the break Jeff Fennec
eats up big for tonight's world title fight.
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Champion New Zealand galloper Bonecrusher is still in New Zealand
tonight but there's still a chance that the long-awaited clash with Vaux Rogue
next Monday will take place. Bonecrusher was loaded onto a plane in Auckland today
for his expected arrival in Melbourne at 1 o'clock but the plane was grounded
because of stormy weather. Conditions at Auckland Airport today were more like
the worst of northern winters rather than a southern hemisphere autumn as
Bonecrusher was prepared for his trip to Australia unlikely as it was due to the
weather. Finally the elements made it impossible for the champion gelding to
leave and for Bonecrusher's strapper and constant companion Sean Ritchie that was
a bitter blow. Seven nightly news today spoke to International Racehorse
Transport and a spokesman said a flight would be offered to the champions
connections. That flight would take Bonecrusher to Sydney and he would
arrive in Melbourne tomorrow night so racing fans may still get the chance to
see a repeat of last year's brilliant victory. But regardless of whether
Bonecrusher runs on racing's latest sensation Vaux Rogue is certain to start
favourite after a string of brilliant victories but let's hope the champions
clash does eventuate.
Let's hope it happens well Jeff Fennec will become the 11th fighter in the
history of the game to hold three world titles if he can win the featherweight
crown in Sydney tonight. Fennec's opponent Victor Calais will be no
pushover though. The pair weighed in this morning. Calais was first man on
the scales. The tough Puerto Rican nine stone or 57.15 kilos the
exact limit in the featherweight division. For Fennec no need to fast this
is his natural weight also right on the limit for his history-making fight.
I think I'm going to approach him with more vigor than usual. I'm really in the other
area pretty hard as long as I can keep my mind on the job and keep tidy I think
that they can make it a lot easier a lot of people think. Calmly stuffing as much
in the Fennec face as is humanly possible Jeff will go into the ring a
half a stone heavier than he weighed in looking for Calais just to join a long
list of opponents humbled into submission by the Australian attempting
to win his third world title. Tonight's entertainment center Stoush could well
be Jeff Fennec's last in Australia for a long time. If he wins tonight the big
bucks beckon overseas and that's where he must go if Jeff Fennec is to prove
to the world he is a truly great fighter. The
Winfield Socceroos took a giant step towards qualifying for this year's
Olympics in Seoul with a crushing 2-0 victory over Israel in Melbourne last
night with New Zealand beating Taiwan only 1-0 in the early game the
Australians take a big advantage with them to Adelaide when the Oceania
qualifying series continues on Wednesday night. Israel actually had the ball in
the net from a goal-mouthed scramble but it was disallowed.
No goal. Referee there saying that Jeff Oliver had it and it was kicked out of his hands. The Israelis there were already celebrating.
After half-time Australia's pressure increased but Crino's free kick was
tipped over the bar. Good save there by the keeper. That's the fall from
Bonnie Ginsberg who's made Arsenal make an offer of a hundred thousand pounds for him.
With Australia finding holes in Israel's defense wide out Frank Farina was
unlucky not to win a penalty but 26 minutes into the half it came and right
at the death Farina scored the second to give Australia its biggest win in 14
matches against its archrival for an Olympic spot and Jennifer that's all in
sport thanks to Paul it certainly seems that summer is staying longer this year
that's for sure yes the seasons over but the good weather continues tomorrow
once again warm a perfect day for a stroll in the park or maybe for a look
around the Herald Outdoor outside
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what does it mean to be a natural lover well it means you're the discriminating
type you're tasteful and rather selective and will only accept what you
like Aussies are all natural lovers well it's only natural to love the best
once you've experienced that creamy natural taste you won't give a hoot for
the rest when you're surrounded by natural lovers have enough to meet their
demand imagine going without it or worse still eating some other brand be a
natural lover Peters is Australian for ice cream tonight on Hinch at Seven an
exclusive look inside the new Parliament House in Canberra and I go up the
rigging of the Soren Larson I'm Hugh Remington
welcome back well after today you might well be wondering why it seems that the
good weather always starts just as the weekend finishes wish I could answer that
for you or even more do something about it a terrific day today with just a light
breeze which did cause a few smog problems and a top that went way beyond
the Bureau's prediction of 23 as you can see we've got up to 30.6 just after
three o'clock taking a look at the seven weather station right now it's still
very warm with that East northeasterly breeze keeping the temperature right up
there at 28 degrees across Victoria it was fine today apart from some late
showers about the Rangers and there's some storms currently showing up on the
radar to around the off ways stage top was 32 at Mildura Oyen and Warwick
Nabil well fairly clear is the view from the satellite tonight just a bit of cloud
over here over Western Australia from an upper level trough and also a cold front
which is south of Perth and that front is probably going to affect Victoria by
Thursday but for now our influence is going to be this high pressure system
over here which is sending a northeasterly air stream across the state
today and by tomorrow it will have moved further out into the Tasman meaning the
wind will shift more northerly there's also an upper level trough over Western
Victoria which is bringing just a bit of instability there and hence those storms
well into state some more heavy rain coming up for Darwin showers in Brisbane
and Sydney and a cloudy day tomorrow in Canberra for Victoria a fine day apart
from late thunderstorms about the Rangers once again some afternoon coastal
sea breezes and there's currently a strong wind warning for waters east of
Wilson's promontory out on the bays a northeasterly wind of 10 to 15 knots some
afternoon sea breezes coming up and waves up to around about one meter well
Tuesday in Melbourne should be fine once again mostly sunny just a bit of cloud
coming in during the afternoon and bayside sea breezes after 15 tonight a
top once again of 30 degrees tomorrow a more fine weather expected Wednesday
but another cool change coming up then causing Thursday and Friday to be much
cooler but regrettably not much chance of rain for a thirsty garden Jennifer
thank you Paul well that's it for now just recapping the main stories dozens
of Department of Labor employees driving unregistered cars striking waters banned
visits to prisoners from midnight a lucky escape for a family of four whose
house was destroyed by a runaway truck and traffic chaos with the closure of the
Westgate Bridge after a waste paper truck catches fire now that's all the
news for now so from the seven news team thanks for having us at your place and
good night
good evening a question tonight how far are Australians willing to go to get an
Olympic gold medal this year how far will we stretch the rules or bend morality
I raise it because I've been following with interest with increasing disquiet
the case of South African born swimmer Gary Brinkman he wants to swim for
Australia in South Korea to qualify he has to marry an Australian girl within
the next few weeks now according to some of the gushing stories the stories about
this intrepid young swimmer Gary Brinkman he's captured the imagination and
the hearts of many Australians since going public with his bride search a
couple of weeks ago now I ask you why should he swim for Australia why should
he possibly push some young Aussie hopeful out of the squad he's only been
here he's only been in Australia for 11 months he spent four years before that
doing a course at the University of Southern Illinois so why didn't he try
for the American team he's already pleading for sponsorships at the weekend
he said I refuse to accept the doll big deal why should he get it anyway and his
latest efforts to make a joke out of marriage and out of the spirit of
sporting residency qualifications he's apparently appeared on that excruciating
meat market on television called perfect match a show so tarnished even the
people at channel 10 call it perfect snatch and speaking of tarnished if he
didn't marry then swim his way into the Aussie team any medal in South Korea
for Australia will be tarnished too I'm Darren Hinch
tonight some of the first footage of Australia's billion dollar baby the
edifice that critics have dubbed the politicians pleasure dome the new
Parliament House it was going to cost 151 million dollars it's already cost
more than a thousand million dollars waste watches claim at least two hundred
million dollars was wasted was it worth it well you'll be the judge if you own a
pie in Canberra looks at the money and the mortar
you