These take on Sri Lanka and Pearl.
Catch all the action live from the Wacka from 12.50 Sunday exclusive to Channel 9.
Well here at the Adelaide Oval, day two of this Sheffield Shield game New South Wales
and South Australia and New South Wales in its first innings five for 157. Greg Matthews advancing
his score by three there he's now on 32 and it's Emory the New South Wales captain on 21. So a good
situation here for South Australia. South Australia right on top with New South Wales five down for
160. Tonight there's more great comedy coming up with hanging with Mr Cooper for Nile and me and
the boys then following lotto it's action all the way with Wacka Texas Ranger.
For these veterans of World War II this is more than their usual annual reunion. They're here to
commemorate their shipmates of the 52 American submarines which did not return and remain as
they say on eternal patrol. I'm glad to see all of the survivors because this we we perpetuate
the memory of those who are lost and this is our biggest honor to do this. USS Scorpion sunk by
enemy mines all hands locked. USS Flyer sunk by enemy mines 78 men lost eight survivors.
USS Sea Lion sunk by aerial bomb four men lost.
Although only two percent of US naval power these submariners sank one third of the Japanese Navy
and two-thirds of their merchant marine more than five million tons of shipping.
USS Amberjack sunk by surface craft in aerial bomb all hands lost.
Their dramatic achievement exemplifies the submarine's clear-cut victory as the most
effective single weapon system in both world wars. All hands lost. At the same time the sea is the
tomb for more than 60,000 submariners of all nations and many more of their victims.
Submarine warfare has always been costly in human terms.
Almost everyone who set foot in the human-powered Hunley was to perish on her five voyages.
Nonetheless during the American Civil War the Hunley became the first submarine to sink another
ship though she sank herself in the process with all hands lost. By 1904, submarining was still a
risky business but the development of John Holland's gasoline-driven boat at least improved the
chances of resurfacing. When war broke out in 1914 the basic design of an effective diesel
electric submarine was established but there was another problem to overcome.
Submarines were underhand, underwater and damn-done English. That's an actual quote by the way.
But the British learn the Germans are out and the grand fleet 151 strong is running out to meet the
day. Although the most powerful navies in the world all had submarines there was deep suspicion of
them. If they were effective as they promised to be then what would happen to those mighty
fleets that had won and held the great empires? It is a heritage a tradition manned by steady men.
Now the admirals realized this very clearly indeed but they didn't like to put it like that so there
was a lot of cynicism hypocrisy double talk pompousness call it what you like. Submariners
in wartime should be hanged as pirates. If they were to be thought of as pirates then pirates they
would be. Submariners relished their notoriety and the disapproval of the admirals. They looked right
down upon these stinking little submergeables that had suddenly arrived in the fleet and were now
slowly crawling their way past them. They looked down upon officers who were now going down into
the engine rooms of these horrible oily craft and getting their hands dirty. Of course they should
have been wearing white gloves so the whole idea of submarining really was no occupation for a
gentleman and it was finished off by one lovely description I think by an admiral. By God they
look just like unwashed chauffeurs. To be in submarines in the royal navy marked you as socially inferior, a mere tradesman.
They bear in place of classic names letters and numbers on this ship.
They play their grisly blindfold games in little boxes made of tin.
Sometimes they stalk the zeppelin. Sometimes they learn where mines are laid or where the Baltic ice is thin.
That is the custom of the trade.
But in September 1914 the submarine was about to make its mark. Shortly after war was declared a little tiny submarine obsolete even for the time.
U-9 under captain Leutnant Otto Weddingen crept down the Dutch coast working in the
three British cruisers parading up and down in stately line ahead. Perfect station keeping of course as you'd expect from the British fleet.
He came up and with three torpedoes in less than one hour he sank a lot.
And what made it so dastardly was it was before breakfast.
Tonight a shark sinks a boat off Wollongong still fighting those stranded whales and it's bye bye birdie to cricket's most famous
umpire.
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Tonight we take a nostalgic journey down memory line to capture all the fantastic people and events that have made Telethon such a success.
35 years of Telethon with a little help from our friends.
Premiers 10 past 11 tonight on Channel 9.
U-9 had proved Britannia might rule the waves but not necessarily what lay beneath them.
The submarine had arrived as a weapon of war and its behaviour was to become even more ungentlemanly.
When war broke out in August 1914 it was assumed that the submarine would be just like another warship and it would only wage war on the enemy's navy and it would leave merchant ships alone.
War at sea was supposed to be a courteous affair.
By the international rules known as the prize regulations the sinking of unarmed cargo vessels was forbidden.
If a ship was found to be carrying war goods then it could be sunk or captured as a prize and its crew taken prisoner.
But the submarine was simply not designed to play by these rules.
By early 1915 it was quite clear that the submarine was different.
It relied on stealth to survive therefore it dared not linger in the vicinity of a sinking.
And so you have this terrible paradox.
Ordinary young submarine commanders and not particularly wicked people with no orders from above to be ruthless were committing the gravest sin of all.
Committing fellow mariners to the sea and leaving them to drown.
So I think right from day one the nature of the submarine dictated that it had to be successful. It had to be used ruthlessly.
If the sinking of merchant ships was considered unsporting worse was yet to come.
Travelers intending to embark on Atlantic voyages are reminded that in accordance with a formal notice given by the imperial German government
vessels flying the flag of Great Britain or any of her allies are liable to destruction in those waters and that travelers sailing in the war zone do so at their own risk.
Published in the newspapers the warnings of the Imperial German Embassy were ignored as the luxury passenger liner Lusitania departed on what was to be her last voyage.
The sinking stunned the world.
German claims that the liner was carrying munitions were ignored as the wreckage washed ashore. America denounced the tragedy as piracy on a
faster scale than any old time pirate ever practiced.
Almost 1200 people perished.
The image of the submarine as a ruthless predator was confirmed.
From now on there would be only two kinds of ships submarines and targets.
Submarines proceeded to wreak havoc on the merchant fleets of both sides bringing Britain and Germany to the edge of starvation and America into the war.
Maritime warfare was redefined.
The assumptions of the past were swept aside driven like the sailing ship to extinction.
The submarine had found its true purpose.
The underwater pirate was emerging as a new kind of hero. A warrior exposed to constant danger fighting alone in dark waters and under impossible conditions.
Conditions in a submarine well for more than half a century they hardly changed and they were horrible.
In both world wars submarines were essentially only submersible torpedo boats.
They spent most of their time on the surface hunting for targets submerging only to attack.
But they weren't designed for surface travel.
With no keel they would roll in the slightest seas water pouring down the open hatch to add to the discomfort of already cramped conditions.
This is where the crew lived. Existed would be a better word.
It was nothing like this during the war. This deck would be piled high with boxes of food. I'd be crawling along not walking.
It wouldn't only be sailor's knees bunks they'd be pushed full of every kind of gear you can imagine.
The submarine systems were designed purely to support its tactical operations not the comfort of the crew.
You slept alongside the torpedoes until you fired them at the enemy giving you a little more bunk space.
The wardrobe itself where the officers lived was grander smarter better decorated.
No real comfort in the bunks because you were turning in fully clothed and furthermore when you turned out of your bunk to relieve somebody
the chap you were leaving on watch turned into the bunk you just vacated hence the term hot bunk.
Electricity from the batteries was essential for running the boats submerged.
Little could be spared for cooking or other comforts.
The fumes of whatever was cooked only added to the already offensive atmosphere of diesel fuel and unwashed bodies.
The stench of vomit and urine. There was no place for the physically sensitive.
Water was vaporized in a still but only enough to supply the batteries or for drinking.
You removed the worst of the grease with gasoline using a tiny ration of water to clean your face and hands.
You never undressed at sea you remained in the same clothes all the time and that was because you had to go to the surface at any moment.
You might have to go to the bridge at any moment. You might have to go to action stations at any moment.
Alarm!
Sound of
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
More help forward!
I think what it did was to help Bond even further accrue which became an absolutely solid team.
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Close living conditions do have the effect of ridding you of the barriers between officers and men.
In the wardroom you're not shut away. Anybody can look in. The men see you're all doing the same thing as they do.
And in fact in the tropics you're all dressed the same. You're probably all just wearing a towel around your middle.
It's so damn hot you can't wear anything else. So there's nothing to judge people by except who they are. What sort of people they are.
The relationship between me and my men was one of complete confidence. Both sides, both ways.
U-Boat ace Otto Kretschmer was a household name in Germany in 1940.
In 18 months his U-99 sank more than 300,000 tons of Allied shipping.
I knew, and I think everybody else of the crew also knew, that if one of us failed it could mean the end of the whole submarine and its crew.
And so it was a matter of solidarity of all of us. Captain, officers, petty officers, men. It was a band of brothers really.
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And staff pour their valuables to save a small South Australian company.
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Nothing I have done has made you love me. Nothing I have said has made you care.
There's nothing, Lord, nothing I can do. Yet brighter than the brightest morning, deeper than the deepest sea,
lovelier than angels' voices is your love for me. Higher than the highest mountain, stronger than the strongest wind,
pure love that never changes, love that knows no end.
Admiral Horst von Schröder has traveled from Hamburg to visit his wartime commander and close friend, Captain Reinhard Hardegen.
More than 50 years ago, they served many patrols together on U-123.
Oh, there we are. Come in.
Thank you.
When I was commander of submarine 123, Admiral von Schröder, he was my watch officer, and he made all the patrols I made with 123,
and he was a marvelous watch officer for me.
Hardegen and the U-boat arm were commanded by a veteran submariner of World War I.
Admiral Karl Dönitz had developed a submarine strategy for which the Allies and even the Germans were not prepared.
He also earned the admiration and respect of his men.
Admiral Dönitz had a very high personality, and he was like a father to all submariners,
and he was one of the best troop leaders we had in the whole war.
Dönitz believed that with 300 submarines, Germany could throttle Great Britain.
Events nearly proved him right, but at the outset he had a mere 22 ocean-going U-boats.
Try as he might, he could not make Hitler share his vision.
And that was a big failure Hitler made. I always said, Hitler looked to the east, to the land.
Hitler was no navy officer. And I told him that when I was in the headquarters that it was a big failure,
because this war was a naval war, and the war only could be won or lost on the Atlantic and nothing else.
And he laughed, he didn't believe it, but it was true.
Anxious not to antagonize America, Hitler insisted on observing the prize regulations,
preventing his U-boat commanders from sinking merchant ships without warning.
I didn't expect any prize regulations really, because in World War I the convoy system had been introduced,
and that prize regulations with the convoy system wouldn't work.
Ships in convoy with armed escorts were far less vulnerable to submarine attack.
Sinkings dropped dramatically when the convoy system was revived by the British.
But Dernitz had devised a method for dealing with them.
And then was the aim to have a concentration of subs against a concentration of cargo ships, of ships in the convoy.
So that was the sinking behind the Wolfpack tactics.
Lick the U-boat and you'll beat the hunt.
On sighting a convoy, a U-boat commander would signal its position to headquarters.
Other U-boats would be ordered to gather in the area before attacking together as a Wolfpack, causing fearful destruction.
Is this dangerous to your home as a thousand pound bomb from the air?
Using his submarine's greater speed on the surface, Kretschmer preferred to attack at night, inventing new tactics.
The safest place for an attack was inside the convoy.
And so I developed the tactics to penetrate the destroyer screen, to go inside the convoy.
And there I was able to pick out the biggest ships, to be close to the target, so that I need not use more than one torpedo to sink them.
And so at every patrol I was more successful than other captains.
When Kretschmer and the other U-boat aces came home, they were welcomed as public heroes. They called it the Golden Time.
You see, all they want to know are feelings. It's very difficult to know 50 years afterwards our feelings.
It was what we had to do and what we learned when we saw an enemy, a freighter, a destroyer, an auxiliary cruiser.
We had to attack the ship because our order was to sink ships, not to kill men, but to sink ships.
I think that is a very important point that in the Navy we were fighting against material, not against men.
Nonetheless, more than a hundred thousand lives were lost in the destruction of more than 14 million tons of shipping by 1100 U-boats in all.
For the Wolfpack strategy to work, Dernitz depended upon having full details of each submarine's location.
Every submarine at sea is a unit of itself, and its captain must decide what to do.
It cannot receive tactical orders to attack now or not now by a shore headquarters from a green base table.
But each time the U-boats communicated with Dernitz at headquarters, they were unknowingly betraying their own positions.
And the reason was that the British cracked our German naval cipher in Bletchley Park.
The high command of the armed forces of the Navy would not acknowledge the fact that the enemy had broken the code.
The result was that every signal for operation Atlantic could be read at the same time by the enemy.
By cracking the Enigma code, the British could now pinpoint the U-boats, convoys could avoid them, and the submarines became vulnerable to attack.
The real role of cipher breaking was really to localize the submarine contact. It meant that you could get your anti-submarine ships and your aircraft into the right area.
Instead of hunting for needles in haystacks, you could really target your anti-submarine assets accurately.
That's why the Enigma code breaking exercise was so crucial.
And here at the Adelaide Oval, New South Wales in its first innings, 5-4, 181, so South Australia right on top there.
So Slater gone, Davison, Richards out for one, Roberts a well-compiled 50, and Chi Kui out for five.
So Matthews on 36, and Emery on 38, and Barry Curtin. It has been a very impressive display by the South Australian bowlers.
Terrific display. A couple of those players could feel themselves a little unlucky, the Openers, Davison and Slater.
But other than that, it's been a terrific performance by the South Australians, 5-4, 181, 36 to Matthews, and 38 to Emery.
Returning Monday for a brand new year, as 20's Greatest Quiz, Saturday's Entry, with Glenridge and Nicky Buckley.
Three new faces and a whole heap of new questions.
After an incredible 15th anniversary, 1996 promises to be bigger and brighter than ever.
With more nail-biting classics, record-breaking action and celebrity specials.
I wonder if Nicky Buckley will go out with me.
Match wits with Australia's best in their Fast and Furious Battle for the Crown.
And all new year of sad of the century returns 7 o'clock Monday on 9.
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On Women's Day this week, pages of steamy photos of Heather turning it on for Richie at the Tropical Hideaway.
OJ Simpson's chilling confession, I did it. We reveal all the harrowing details.
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Antarctica. It's wild beauty. It's untamed spirit.
Most of us will never go there. But how do the people who study and work in Antarctica live?
Follow in the footsteps of our Antarctic dwellers.
See, hear, touch and experience elements of their everyday life.
Where they sleep, where they eat, the tents they camp in and how they keep out the cold.
See it all at the Antarctic exhibition now showing at the South Australian Maritime Museum.
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The battle became one of rival scientists as much as ships and submarines.
Improvements in detection, destruction and air cover devastated the U-boats.
Of the 39,000 officers and men who put out to sea, almost 30,000 never returned.
Quiet boys. Keep it quiet.
Nice and quiet now.
The depth charge experience is something you have to feel to go through it.
Imagine yourself in a big tin tank and some character hammering on it with a huge sledgehammer on the outside.
First place it shocks your eardrums, second place the whole thing is shivering like this.
And third you're scared because you're afraid that maybe the sea pressure will break through and if water comes in you've had it.
A They Bow
My God! Stop there!
Hey, quit my short ass!
What are you doing, Kretschmer?
I'm on my cool, niggery!
Calm down! Calm down, forgot face!
Depth charges rob Germany of her ace commanders.
Kretschmer counts himself lucky to have escaped with his life.
I remember the boat stood on the stern, vertically on the stern.
I was the last one on the bridge.
And went down stern first, vertically.
U-99 was one of 784 U-boats sunk at sea.
For those men who sank with their submarines, the experience was uniquely terrifying.
I was in the wardroom, as it were, over there, at the time, decoding a signal.
And suddenly this enormous bang, followed.
Commander Teddy Young was one of the survivors of a collision with a ship.
His submarine sank in 80 feet of water.
He became separated from the others in the darkness.
When I came to turn round, I suddenly was in the control room, and there was nobody there.
All the crew had gone into the engine room, and they'd shut their door and started doing their escape.
So there I was, I thought I was all alone.
And then I suddenly had a voice over my head, and I looked up into the conning tower.
They said, uh, hello Teddy, what are you doing down there?
So I said, in a room up there for me.
They said, well, we might just squeeze you in.
So I went up, first returned, said, here we go for survivors leave.
Pushed up the hatch, and the sea came tumbling in, and just fought our way out.
I think half the officers and half the men were lost, all in a joke.
And this includes two who were lost on the bridge, drowned, because they couldn't swim.
In fact, the navigating officer was with the captain.
He had heavy sea boots on, and he swam for a bit, and then the boots were too heavy, and he just sank underwater.
That's barbell, sunbite, aerial bounce, all men are lost.
The submarine was arguably the deciding factor in every maritime theater of war.
Far from the battle for the Atlantic, America's submariners took pride in placing themselves in harm's way.
I'm speaking of course to a very distinctive group of those men, an exclusive community of heroes,
who endured, who thrived on extraordinary dangers and privations, who sought out a life at the very edge of human endurance and ability.
They were the men, all of them volunteers, who took on both the sea and the enemy in America's submarines during World War II.
The story of the submarine in the Pacific is one without any parallel.
It began here of course on a Sunday morning 50 years ago.
Hello, we have witnessed this morning the bombing of Pearl Harbor by enemy planes.
And now the Japanese. Don't, don't, this is the real war.
For all the terrible devastation wreaked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor,
the Japanese did not get at what arguably became the crucial type of vessel in the Pacific.
They did not strike at the submarines.
Tonight a shark sinks a boat off Wollongong, still fighting those stranded whales.
And it's bye bye birdie to cricket's most famous umpire.
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The Japanese failed to grasp the tactical purpose of the submarine.
They wasted them as transport and supply vessels, carrying munitions, seaplanes and midget submarines.
Even with the advantage of surprise, none of the midgets launched at Pearl Harbor was to survive the day.
The job of a submarine is to attack.
The Germans knew this, as did the Americans.
But at the outset, they had problems.
Immediately after Pearl Harbor, the Pacific submarine crews do not appear to have been very well trained.
And above all, they suffered from a faulty torpedo.
And they were lucky, I think, that the Japanese anti-submarine effort was so weak
that it gave them a chance not only to re-equip with new weapons, but to develop better tactical doctrines.
Training up a new generation of submarine crews and COs who could use the new submarines much more effectively.
The new submarines crisscross the Pacific, undeterred either by Japanese anti-submarine measures
or the daily propaganda broadcasts of Tokyo Rose.
American submarines have headed west from Pearl Harbor.
If American submariners are wise, you will turn back.
Certain death awaits you over here.
And now I'll play for you unfortunate Americans a popular recording.
Like Britain, Japan was an island nation dependent on imports.
Her supply lines were vulnerable, and the Americans went straight for the juggler.
In the beginning of the war, it was pretty exhilarating, but it got to be old stuff for about the 8th or 9th patrol.
We were just submerged periscope depth, and they were coming at us.
And our captain fired the stern tubes at them, and they called that down the throat shot.
And we blew them out of the water with either him or us, one or the other.
The Japanese submarine force regarded attacks on merchant shipping as secondary,
preferring naval targets, or worse, using their submarines in defense.
Submarines remained Japan's single biggest failure, even the I-class, the largest in the world.
The Japanese specialty, the midget, was also unsuccessful,
though it was to symbolize the terror of Japan's threat to the whole Pacific.
The two-man midgets brought the war into suburban backyards of Sydney,
destroying the innocent belief that with distance went security.
But an even smaller weapon of terror was to come.
Born of the desperation of looming defeat, a suicide midget was devised, a torpedo driven by a man.
They called them kaitens. It meant the turn towards heaven, everlasting glory for the doomed pilots.
These kaitens had no fire control equipment, but all they did was aim at the bow of a ship that's moving forward,
go at full speed themselves until everything went blank. That was the tactic.
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In Woman's Day this week, pages of steamy photos of Heather turning it on for Richie at the Tropical Hideaway.
I can't wait for my day.
The Simpsons chilling confession, I did it.
We reveal all the harrowing details.
And Jacko's really gone wacko.
Now he's wearing nappies.
Melanie's bizarre bedroom antics to keep Antonio.
Maggie Tabor's ex in Secret Island Fling.
And heartbreaking photos of dying distress.
I can't wait for my day.
Wow, who put that there?
Me, I love Star Wars.
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Hey, watch this Sandra.
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How do you do that?
Well they electronically alter my voice after they've shot the ad.
Really? Let me try.
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On the I-58, a submarine captained by Commander Hashimoto,
a young Kaiten pilot wrote a letter just before his torpedo was launched into Guam.
The day of decisive action, together with three other men on board, has arrived.
We are all well and in good spirits.
The moon is pale and the stars sparse and distant.
For the sake of our great country, we have come to the place appointed.
Only 22 years of life, and it is now just like a dream.
The meaning of life will be shown today.
Great Japan is the land of the gods.
Hereafter, no matter, there will be thousands and tens of thousands of boys.
Let us get away from the petty affairs of this earthy and mundane life
and the land where righteousness reigns, supreme and eternal.
Ironically, despite their fearsome speed and psychological threat,
the Kaitens were a military failure.
Though dozens were launched, only two claimed definite sinkings.
Other incidents remain the subject of speculation.
I was about to fall and my feet slipped off from under me.
Then I knew the ship was gone.
Not until that time did I ever think that it was going to sink.
A ship that size, sink that quickly, was just impossible.
I believe that the Indianapolis sank so fast because she was hit by three Titans.
Returning from secretly delivering parts for the Yurishima bomb,
the USS Indianapolis chanced upon Hashimoto's I-58.
It was a ship sunk by submarine and Hashimoto's only major kill.
He said he was so sure he would sink it that he didn't want to use Kaitens.
That is baloney.
You see a big target, you use the best weapon you've got and you don't say,
oh, I can sink it, no problem, no way.
You hope you can do it and you do your best.
So I have no doubt that he fired his Kaitens.
I was probably within 50 feet of the ship.
I hadn't gotten very far and the ship was standing on its nose
and I watched it go until it was completely out of sight.
It just dropped like a rock.
One of the propellers was still turning and it dropped very fastly.
It probably didn't take over five or six seconds for it to disappear
the last 150, 200 feet of the ship.
Great Japan is determined to win.
The decisive battle has sprung onto the enemy's territory.
May the spirits of the departed in heaven witness our fight to the bitter end.
American submarines shut the door to the enemy.
American submarines shut the door on Japan.
The war against Japan was won.
Japan was finished before those two terrible atomic weapons
were dropped upon the Japanese islands.
I personally wish we had not dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The fact is we really didn't need to.
The Japanese were trying to surrender.
On the bomb which destroyed Hiroshima was scrawled
a present for the souls of the Indianapolis crew.
This is a true jewel-fine submarine.
So most of them will go around the world some day.
We could only go 13 hours before we had a service for fresh air.
For these veteran submariners, the wartime experience endures.
A glimpse of today's nuclear submarine brings an extra-curricular experience.
This nuclear submarine brings an echo of their own past.
I had two roommates at submarine school in 1942.
And Mel Phillips, right here, was lost on the grayback.
And I always come up when I come here and say a little prayer and remember Mel.
And over here on the trigger, Johnny Sinkfish.
And it's our legacy hoping that your generation and succeeding generations
won't forget people like this.
What's happening now is that the U.S. is harder.
One of the highest decorated skippers we had, too.
We had the Congressional Medal of Honor,
four Navy Crosses, Distinguished Service Cross from MacArthur.
They're using his tactic today at the submarine exercise.
He was a good boy.
But you've got to remember, too, we were all kids.
19, 18, 19, that's all we were.
But I'd do it all over again.
Take care.
Thank you.
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You know what?
Returning Monday, a brand new year of Australia's greatest quiz.
Sound of the Century with Glenridge and Nicky Buckley.
Three new faces and a whole heap of new quests.
Match wits with Australia's best when Ponds presents Sound of the Century, returning 7
o'clock Monday on 9.
Tonight there's more great comedy coming up with Hangin' with Mr Cooper, Phenomenal Me
and the Boys, then following Lotto, it's Action All the Way with Walker, Texas Ranger.
Our submarine corporation signed up for a venture into space.
Our loyal workers band together to save their employer and poor people survive a terrifying
shark attack.
Good evening.
The Australian space industry has received its biggest boost in 20 years with Russian
made rockets to be launched from Wumara within 18 months.
The South Australian based Australian Submarine Corporation has signed a joint deal with a
Russian company to launch low orbit satellites.
But on my mind today, it's beer and soccer.
But before opening the Schutzenfest, the acting Prime Minister had the equally politically
pleasant task of attending the historic announcement of Australia's new space deal.
The Australian Submarine Corporation's joint venture with Russia will establish a space
launch service at Wumara, the first satellite expected to go up within 18 months.
This is probably the most significant step in 20 years in developing an Australian space
industry.
From submarines to rockets may seem a big stretch, but the Russians are confident ASC's
experience building the high tech Collins class submarines will easily meet the demands
of space technology.
Subcorp will manufacture complex launch equipment and provide management skills.
The Russians will provide the rockets and initial launch know how.
The low orbit satellites they'll launch are ideally suited for the growing $2 billion
hand held mobile communications market.
It all means Wumara's long dormant space Odyssey is about to reignite.
We took a bet in the 80s that South Australia ought to be the focus of a substantial amount
of Australia's high tech industry.
From subs and rockets to sausages and beer, this afternoon the acting Prime Minister opened
Adelaide's famous German festival.
The real reason I'm here is not because I'm acting Prime Minister but I'm the only member
of the government structured to take it.
But while it's full steam ahead for our submarine corporation, other South Australian enterprises
are struggling to stay afloat.
So determined are the workers at one Adelaide company not to go under, they're working for
free and even pay...