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Tonight, coalition conflict.
The backlash from the bush takes its toll.
They're not listening.
They're not interested.
Also, Hanson hostility at a regional rally.
And the little boy lost.
Relief at the end of an agonising ordeal.
Good evening.
Hanson Howard is standing firm in the face of deepening divisions within the coalition.
The nationals fear they're losing the Bush vote to one nation.
And are demanding changes in Aboriginal affairs, Telstra and tax.
On the campaign trail in Adelaide, the Prime Minister brushed aside his coalition partners' demands.
Including a call for a referendum to repeal the 1967 vote.
Giving the government the right to make laws for Aborigines.
There is no intention by the government to sponsor any referendum of any kind on that subject.
Mr Howard is clearly not backing away from his promises to sell off the remainder of Telstra.
Or reform the tax system.
They haven't heard.
They're not listening.
They're not interested.
I'll continue to do what is, I believe, and what I know is good for Australia.
Irrespective of the political consequences.
John Howard denies his party is in danger.
Now, there's nothing strange about people from time to time having some disagreement.
The Liberal Party is fraying at the edges.
Mr Howard does not have a government.
He has a mess.
The National Party may be sounding a bit like One Nation as it tries to woo back lost voters.
But it can't match Pauline Hanson's latest offer.
She'll quit politics if a royal commission proves her wrong about ATSIC.
If ATSIC, or any of its associated arms, of what I call the Aboriginal industry,
is found not to be corrupt or misappropriation of monies, I will resign.
Catherine McKenzie, 10 News.
And Pauline Hanson's supporters have scuffled with protesters tonight
as she took her message to the New South Wales South Coast.
Leave us alone!
You're a moron.
Go home!
Hundreds of people rallied outside while One Nation sympathisers paid $10 a head
to get inside to hear Ms Hanson speak.
She was whisked past the crowd to the building's underground garage.
Several demonstrators tried to crash the meeting but were rejected.
Despair turned to joy for a New South Wales couple today,
reunited with their four-year-old son after 18 hours.
Hamilton Morrow went missing in bushland south of Sydney,
lost overnight in sub-zero temperatures.
Oh, for God's sake! Oh, thank God!
A father's relief that his son has finally been found.
Oh, darling!
It had been 18 long hours and a very cold night
since Hamilton had wandered away from his Midigong home.
When his mother raised the alarm yesterday afternoon,
police and volunteers began searching nearby bushland.
Hamilton was eventually found a kilometre away in a neighbouring property.
I didn't say anything at all. He was making helicopter noises, actually.
Was he?
18 hours into the search,
little Hamilton was spotted by the police helicopter standing by this pool.
His parents were just happy to have their little boy home safe and well.
Darling! Oh, darling!
Anita Clark, 10 News.
A grimmer story in Victoria tonight.
A major police hunter spread across state borders for a two-month-old baby.
The search is for a couple who took the baby girl from her mother at Bendigo.
Baby Cherie allegedly disappeared with a couple
police have named as Donna Hastings and her friend Geoffrey Catanar.
Cherie's mother was in a local sports club.
The couple is suspected of fleeing Victoria, driving a blue Ford Falcon.
A close call for Sydney commuters today.
A huge crane collapsing in the path of two trains carrying 300 passengers.
The crane working beside the tracks brought down power lines,
which one train ran over.
The big worry was whether the powered lines had electrified the area.
We were just stuck on the train. We couldn't get off in case we got electrocuted.
Once given the all-clear, passengers were ferried by buses to their destinations.
Everyone, including the crane operator, escaped unhurt.
Rail services are tonight back to normal.
Chaos on the roads in country Victoria today.
Thick fog causing two pile-ups involving 26 vehicles.
Perhaps surprisingly, only eight people were injured.
Eleven cars were involved in the first chain collision,
15 vehicles in the second smash a short time later.
And the Prime Minister was an unexpected Good Samaritan
at an Adelaide road accident today.
He came across a three-car collision just moments after it happened,
stopping to offer help.
The Prime Minister spoke with the injured before continuing to an engagement.
There's plenty coming up in tonight's late news,
including our Navy's wild cat and mouse chase.
Also, meningococcal misery, one mum's harrowing vigil.
He just wasn't himself. He wasn't talking.
And special celebrations for a famous birthday boy.
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A Sydney Children's Hospital is dealing with a new outbreak
of the deadly meningococcal disease.
Two infants are fighting for their lives.
A mother's worst nightmare,
standing helpless by her baby son's hospital bed
as he fights for every breath.
I was worried because he was sitting in the bath
and he just wasn't himself.
He wasn't talking, wasn't sort of moving, just very lifeless.
Stephen was this morning rushed from the South Coast to Sydney
suffering meningococcal and is still in a critical condition.
But it was his mother's quick actions which could help save his life.
She suspected the deadly disease after noticing the distinct
purpley-red rash which she'd seen on television.
And the spots had changed to a purplish colour.
Then I rang the hospital promptly and they said bring him straight in.
Two other infants from St George in Sydney South
have been transferred to Sydney Children's Hospital
suffering meningococcal.
One is still in a critical condition.
The other boy has stabilised.
These latest cases have prompted another warning from health authorities.
They say meningococcal is a deadly disease
and parents can't be too careful.
If you have a child that's lethargic or not feeding,
go to the doctor if their rash appears, go straight to hospital, don't stop.
Despite last year's scare when a number of people lost their lives
and a new warning from the Health Minister just weeks ago,
authorities deny there's an outbreak.
Natasha Belling, 10News.
Elle Macpherson does it, Pamela Anderson did it
and Australian women are being urged to join in.
A new campaign will encourage more mothers to breastfeed.
It's the most natural thing in the world,
but too few newborns are being brought up on this first class food source.
Less than 40% of babies are breastfed to six months of age.
The federal government is now looking to fathers
to help turn this alarming statistic around.
We know though that if fathers are strongly behind breastfeeding,
97% of mums will breastfeed.
So we're really saying to dads, come on, you've got to do your bit.
Inwood says there was no question daughter Emily wouldn't be breastfed.
It was the natural thing for Emily and it had to be the best.
They can't put everything in a formula that you can get out of a mother's milk.
As part of the government's strategy,
the Nursing Mothers Association has released a range of video material
and bilingual pamphlets encouraging new mums to give their baby the best.
We know that people from non-English speaking backgrounds
have one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Australia as do teenage parents.
It's estimated over $11.5 million would be saved in health costs each year
if the rate of three-month-old babies being breastfed was increased to 80%.
The campaign is the first to be developed
under the $2 million national breastfeeding strategy.
Angela Murphy, Ten News.
The Navy is at least a step closer to finding the answers to the West Australia fire tragedy.
The formal inquiry wound up today,
but the future of the ship itself is still undecided.
A ship in limbo, HMAS West Australia, sitting dormant
since fire ripped through her engine room on May 5, killing four young sailors.
The Navy has yet to decide whether to spend millions on repairs
or decommission her to buy a new double-hulled tanker from the United States.
But some questions are closer to being answered.
The inquiry into the fatal fire concluding today with a surprise late witness.
The ship's engineer, Lieutenant Commander Doug Crouch,
was recalled to refute claims shoddy paperwork was to blame for the tragedy.
Contractor Australian Defence Industries had accused the Navy of taking shortcuts
in granting approval for installing flexible fuel lines in the ship's engine.
Those new fuel lines ruptured at sea, igniting the blaze.
But the Navy insists it was up to ADI to make all the relevant checks,
blaming them for a litany of faults.
After hearing evidence from more than 100 witnesses over 38 sitting days,
the five-member board of inquiry will now retire to consider its findings.
Board President Commodore Richard Lammercraft concluded by thanking the ship's crew,
saying they were magnificent in saving their ship, telling how it was achieved
and the anguish associated with the death of their shipmates.
The report will be handed to the maritime commander by August 7.
Anthony Robertson, 10 News.
Meanwhile, the Navy is considering changing the way it deals with illegal fishing boats
after an extraordinary confrontation off Darwin.
Shots were fired and an Australian warship rammed during its 16-hour chase
after an Indonesian boat.
Warship HMAS Cessnock was called in to capture one of the biggest illegal fishing boats
seen off the Australian coast this year.
The reason they come down here is because their own waters have been raped.
There's been day management.
The Indonesian boat was spotted fishing inside Australian waters 11 days ago.
The Cessnock intercepted it and gave chase for 16 hours.
After ignoring calls to stop, shots were fired.
Initially rifle, then a machine gun in secret shot,
and then our deck gun, which is a 40-60 Bofors gun,
which has considerable blast and noise, and he just ignored the lock.
Officers from the Cessnock twice tried to board the Indonesian boat,
their attempts failing due to rough seas and being rammed.
The officer did that with complete disregard for his own ship,
his own crew, and for the safety of my ship and crew as well.
The chase was called off after the fishing boat entered Indonesian waters.
The next move was to shoot the rudder out or worse.
Now both of those were rejected by the skipper correctly as being too dangerous.
The federal government is now considering whether procedures
for capturing illegal fishermen should be changed.
Already 24 illegal boats have been detained by the Navy this year,
and more are expected as the Asian economic crisis begins to bite.
With a country with a vast coastline such as Australia
and with very, very valuable fishing assets,
there will always be some who try and take advantage of those,
and we have to be vigilant.
The incident is now being pursued at a government level with Indonesia.
Deborah Knight, 10 News.
Indonesian troops are out in force in East Timor tonight,
as it marks the anniversary of annexation in 1976.
The Timorese see their first hope of independence,
but that's sending transplanted Indonesians flooding out of the territory.
Fear. Paranoia. This is East Timor.
Since President Suharto resigned last May, the tension has increased on the streets.
At least 15,000 people, most from surrounding provinces,
have fled East Timor, complaining of attacks by gangs of what they call ninja groups.
At the university in Dili, lecturers say they fear for their safety
outside businesses and shops close early.
These rusting barges are grim reminders of 1975, when Indonesian troops landed in Dili.
A year later, in a move not recognized by the United Nations, Indonesia annexed the territory.
Now there may be a breakthrough.
President Halibi says he is willing to grant autonomy to East Timor.
People think, well, this is the old thing. This is not real.
This is bogus autonomy, what they are proposing.
I can assure you this is a concrete proposal on a concrete possibility.
Still, the violence has escalated, with pro-independence groups demanding a referendum on independence now.
Many in government say allowing a referendum in East Timor could fan the flames of other separatist movements in Indonesia.
In effect, splintering this diverse nation even further during a period of harsh economic times and political uncertainty.
The wonder drug Viagra has left one man less happy than he expected.
New Yorker Diego Padro is suing for more than $100 million, claiming the pill caused a heart attack.
Padro's doctor gave him some samples to overcome the impotence which was caused by his diabetes.
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A big birthday bash has begun for South African President Nelson Mandela.
He's a sprightly 80.
Nelson Mandela lights up his first 80th birthday party.
There will be many others in the year of celebration to mark his retirement from politics.
President Mandela may have wanted help to cut his cake, but not to blow the candles out.
The wind had already done that.
Charity fundraising is the focus of his 80th year, mainly for needy children.
His present is a book of birthday cards.
He'll give in return money donated because he's Nelson Mandela.
He gives huge things to children, but children give to him.
Everyone wants to feel the Mandela magic.
There's another option if you can't get to touch the real thing.
26 hours cross country on a bus was worth it for this foster family.
There's certain to be many more happy birthday wishes to come.
History in the making tonight in Russia.
The last Tsar, Nicholas II, has been buried on the 80th anniversary of his execution.
Nine coffins bore his remains, those of his wife, three of their children and four staff.
They were interred in a chapel which has been the resting place of Russian emperors since Peter the Great.
Hardline communists maintained a protest vigil outside.
There's much more to come in 10's late news, the cruel result of an investment scheme that failed.
Also something fishy going on, the champion angler who bought the catch of the day.
Sorry for any, you know, unhappiness.
And then in sports tonight, Australian cyclist Stuart O'Grady still wearing the leaders yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
We have a serious condition.
An unstable nuclear power plant is a disaster just waiting to happen.
We could have been killed.
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I was visiting a bar and then he walked.
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You've heard stories of that man that carries a guitar case full of weapons.
No one knew his name.
You kill drug dealers.
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To finance now, the Australian share market finished the day slightly higher.
The all odds closed up four points.
AMP gained 29 cents.
Telstra closed steady while BHP eased 27.
Among the banks, the NAB gained 12 cents.
The Commonwealth dipped three and Westpac soared 27.
The Australian dollar is fetching 63.3 US cents, 38.59 pence and 87.93 yen.
Gold is selling for $293.30 US an ounce.
London's FT100 is up 23 points in morning trade.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed 42 points stronger while Tokyo's Nikkei eased 161.
A shocking aftermath has been revealed to a failed investment scheme in Queensland.
A warning though, some scenes to come may be disturbing.
The RSPCA has found three and a half thousand dead and dying ostriches on a farm west of Roma.
But it's a legal minefield.
The birds are technically owned by thousands of investors who each paid for one or a number of birds.
Even seizing the animals presents a logistical problem.
To look after them would cost many, many thousands of dollars.
Money that the RSPCA just doesn't have.
The society will decide next week whether charges will be laid and against whom.
A startling find under a Perth backyard today, a secret drug bunker.
Police are unsure when the bunker was built or how many more like it might be right under their noses.
The family, which has rented the house for four years, only recently discovered the underground complex.
Police think it was a hydroponic marijuana greenhouse.
Power is connected in the crawl space.
Ventilation comes from near the roof with water drawn from a tank standing just metres away.
Police think seedlings were cultivated in this bunker to increase the plant quality, then transplanted to a crop.
Now a fishy tale that's landed an angler in court.
The 29-year-old Victorian man faced the scales of justice today after claiming the club prize with a fish he bought.
Fishermen are prone to tell a few tall tales.
But when John Luke won the local fishing competition with a giant 2.9 kilogram trout, even his fishing mates were suspicious.
In court, the 29-year-old admitted buying the fish as a practical joke.
I'm just relieved that it's gone as well as possible and I'm extremely sorry for any unhappiness or anything I brought in the local fishing club.
Mr Luke bought the fish for $25 at a local trout farm, but told contest organisers it had been extremely difficult to catch.
He told them he'd ripped his pants in the fight against the great trout.
He wanted a three kilo fish for a sushi bar.
Mr Luke said he never expected to win.
After the weigh-in, he hoped another fisherman would return with even a bigger catch, but no one could beat the monster trout.
Mr Luke said he'd always intended to return the first prize, a $120 rod.
But for the township of Myrtleford, nestled at the base of the Victorian Alps, everyone's talking about the little white lie that got away.
Most of the people I've spoken to, my friends and that, they don't have a problem with it.
They actually just laughed and carried on about fish jokes and that's about it.
The magistrate said he accepted country lads like to have a joke now and again and agreed Mr Luke had been humiliated enough.
He placed the would-be champion fisherman on a good behaviour bond.
The evidence was eaten for dinner that night.
Melissa Aston, 10 News.
The national weather details are next and then Sports Tonight with Matthew White.
Thanks Tracey. Coming up tonight, the British Open golf.
The Aussie rules superates cricket, Michael Jordan's future with the Bulls, and a stirring victory by the Bears over the storm at North Sydney Oval.
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To the national weather details.
There was plenty of cloud today across the southern mainland.
That should hang in tomorrow, dumping moderate rainfall on New South Wales.
Tomorrow a low pressure trough will extend across New South Wales,
while the weak high develops over South Australia.
Looking ahead, showers tomorrow in Cairns, fine in Townsville,
damp in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra,
fine in Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide,
showers in Perth, fine in Darwin and early drizzle in Alice Springs.
Football fans are flushed with success in Baltimore tonight
after testing more than 1,000 new toilets in the name of team support.
The only way to be sure the lose in a new stadium were up to it
was to try them out all at the same time.
More than 1,000 fans of the Baltimore Ravens Club
were rounded up for flushing duties,
and the plumbing passed the test without going to water.
And that's our day. Thanks for joining us.
I'll be back with 10's 5 o'clock news tomorrow.
Let's stand by now for Sports Tonight with Matthew White.
I'm Tracy Spicer from the 10 Late News team. Good night.
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Tonight, the Friday night footy feature.
All the highlights from Adelaide and Carlton.
In rugby league, North Sydney seek revenge against Melbourne.
And cricket, it's on again.
Super 6 from the Super 8s.
Hello, I'm Matthew White. Welcome to Sports Tonight.
There's a few questions need answering tonight.
Is Michael Jordan finally calling it quits?
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Right now I've been divorced.
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Will anyone beat this shot at the British Open?
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All will be revealed later on Sports Tonight.
But first up, footy in round 19 of the National Rugby League
kicked off at North Sydney Oval tonight.
The Bears seeking revenge against Melbourne.
Back in round 4, the new boys from Melbourne surprised and embarrassed North Sydney.
Tonight, the Bears growled back.
Last weekend against St George, the Bears were accused of lacking direction.
Tonight, the offence was proven.
But when the home side headed the right way,
a forward making a welcome return from injury went straight to work.
For Melbourne, it was a case of no Lazarus, no Smith and no how,
but a giant killing reputation.
Two first half tries to the storm,
but a legal play allowed Taylor to even the score.
Ten all at the break.
Norths lost Billy Moore early in the second half
while Melbourne lost faith after a forward pass went undetected.
That is just a tragedy.
The Bears then broke the deadlock.
The storm then broke the rules.
That's ridiculous work from Sears.
He gets the stare from Nick Gow, who fortunately didn't want to go on with things.
And as Melbourne pondered a lot-sided penalty count,
the locals finally found their way home,
scoring three tries in the last 12 minutes.
An impressive win there by the Bears.
Jason Taylor featuring prominently, of course.
The final score, 34 points to 10.
Tries for Buettner, Taylor, Morrison, Muir and Pethybridge for North Sydney.
Now, at Erickson Stadium,
the other game played in the National Rugby League in the Auckland.
Warriors stayed in the finals hunt.
They had a heart-stopper.
21-20, they beat Bowermaine.
They trialled 12-10 at the break,
and the Warriors hit back with second half tries to Tony Tutupu and Nigel Vergana.
But halfback Stacey Jones then gave his side a vital seven-point break.
But to their credit, the Tigers refused to surrender.
There is some controversy, though.
James Langalore scored a controversial try,
and it wasn't all good news for the Warriors.
Three players are placed on report.
Tutupu, Quentin Pongier and Stephen Carney all face a nervous wait over the weekend,
and Bowermaine's James Gannon is also in trouble.
We'll get onto AFL now, and it was business as usual for the league tonight
as players returned from the origin break.
The inform, Adelaide Crows hosting 15th place Carlton at Football Park.
A welcome sight for Adelaide, Tony Modra resuming from a long layoff.
But he was forced to sit out the early stages on the bench.
And while the Crows reveled in the return of their hero, Carlton made a slick start.
But it was quickly marred by a stream of inaccuracies.
The Crows swooped, clawing their way to a 25-point lead at the first break.
After a quarter-time rev-up from David Parkin,
the Blues managed to close the gap early in the second term.
Despite having their draw card on the field,
the Crows couldn't stave off the rejuvenated Blues,
who snared a 10-point lead at the main change.
The Blues looked set to extend their lead in the opening stages of the third quarter,
led by none other than Modra, the Crows' fourth back.
But their share of the lead was short-lived,
Glen Manton seeing the visitors three points in front at three-quarter time.
The underdogs could do no wrong in the tense final term,
going on to score their biggest win of the season.
And a great performance by Carlton seemingly down and out after a dismal first quarter,
the match going right down to the wire and the Blues causing a major upset.
105 to 101.
Golf now and Steve Elkington's British Open campaign has gone from bad to worse.
He's forced to pull out of today's second round because of a neck injury.
No injury concerns for fellow Aussie Stuart Appleby, but his game suffered on day two.
Joint leaders Tiger Woods and John Huston have only just hit the fairways.
Wind and rain creating added hazards,
while Aussie Robert Allenby found some of his own.
Starting the day only two shots from the lead, Allenby soon fell away.
The leading Aussie slipping to four over par by the 12th.
With the wind transforming the ball into a hazard itself,
Fred Couples turned to his short game to escape.
He's a master of it, wonderful shot by Couples,
and has a chance of getting out of this hole with a par.
But he also slipped up to be five shots from the lead by the 12th.
A day of over par scores providing few highlights,
American Brian Watts the closest to breaking the trend on the 12th.
Beautiful shot on this very difficult short hole.
It's early days for the overnight joint leaders Woods and Huston.
American Brian Watts as you just saw, he finished the day with a 69 and he sits at three under.
Grant Dodd and Roger Davis are the leading Aussies.
Davis improving on yesterday's round of 76 with an even par 70,
and Dodd is yet to make his assault.
Well, give us a minute, then we'll give you more sport right after this.
It's just not cricket, but for Australia, eight is enough.
The Super 8's highlights are coming up.
A Stuart O'Grady update.
Nothing's changed from last night, he's still winning.
All that and the supercars in Darwin still to come on Sports Tonight.
Jason Scott Lee.
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You can't change people with your fists.
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Australian cricketer Greg Blewett has shrugged off his disappointment
at being left out of the test side to tour Pakistan
by guiding the Australian Super 8 team to victory in Kuala Lumpur.
It's a game designed for big hitting
with almost more time spent looking for lost balls
than in a game of backyard cricket.
It was a chance for some of those Aussies left out of the test side
to prove themselves.
Out to the man along and a very good catch.
Pakistan crumbling under the Aussies' attack all out for 102.
Out.
Greg Blewett wasn't shy.
And that's almost hit with disdain.
He blasted boundaries around the ground.
Captain Adam Gilchrist just as fired up, hitting two sixes to seal the win.
And that's another example. That's the end of the game.
Pakistan beaten by six wickets.
It wasn't so simple in Australia's next match.
India targeted the area for double points.
So this six became 12, India reaching 124 all up.
In reply the Aussies threw their bats at everything
and in the case of Gilchrist, at anyone.
This time they struggled to find the runs,
but Gilchrist steadied the side and again scored the winner
for a three wicket victory.
The Aussies won both of their opening day's matches.
Ricky Ponting made 57 in the last game against India
as the Aussies cruised to 126
and they're chasing their third successive Super 8 title.
Australian Stuart O'Grady still leads the world's greatest cycle race,
the Tour de France.
But it was a painful fifth stage.
He fell in the wet conditions
and he needed some treatment on the go.
He stayed with the main group
and managed to stay clear of a fall
50 metres out from the line, finishing 15th.
The other Aussie, Robbie McEwen, sixth.
Italian, Mario Cipollini, first.
O'Grady is seven seconds clear overall.
The Wallabies are waiting to the last possible moment
for Ben Tune to prove his fitness
for the clash with South Africa in Perth.
The dashing winger will have a workout on his suspect knee
just hours before tomorrow's test.
The players lined up for an historic team photo
in this AFL stronghold
and team doctors are hopeful that Ben Tune will be right to play.
He'll be OK, but I also know that if there's any chance
that he's going to have any problems, they won't let him play.
Jason Little, who's also under an injury cloud,
will have a fitness check tomorrow.
For the first time, the Shell Australian Touring Car Championship
travels to the Northern Territory this Sunday.
The unveiling of Darwin's new track means every state
now has a round of the V8 Supercar Championship.
The roar of the V8 Supercars can now be heard Australia-wide.
This weekend's ninth round of the championship
at Darwin's new Hidden Valley Circuit
completes the circus that now has a race in each state,
and the drivers can't wait for Sunday.
The work they've done here, I was lucky to see this place two years ago,
and the work they've done here, I would never have believed
that they could do this amount of work.
Yeah, look, it's a fantastic track.
You can get your teeth into it on the back sections
and a good long straight. It's going to make a great race.
They've done a fabulous job, they really have.
I mean, there's a lot of circuits down south
that could learn a few lessons from here, let me tell you.
The circuit just outside of Darwin
has been transformed from an old drag strip
into a first-class facility for the V8s.
The highlight, the 1.1-kilometre main straight
producing speeds of up to 285 kilometres per hour.
Looks like there could be a few good passing spots
and I'm really looking forward to it
as long as we don't get any crocodile obstacles
or anything like that, I think we'll be right.
And adding even more spice to the championship,
officials have decided that title contenders
Craig Lowndes and Russell Engel
must drive Holden's new VT Commodore
for the remaining two rounds.
Well, come Sunday there'll be plenty of action
both on and off the track.
This is just one of four temporary pubs
that have been set up around the circuit.
Each will have their own rock band
to keep the expected crowd of 30,000 well entertained.
He goes to Hidden Valley and finds a pub.
Now, Formula One news.
Former world champion Michael Schumacher
has signed a new contract with Ferrari.
It'll take him through until the end of the 2002 season.
The German is still on track, of course,
to win this year's world championship.
He's trailing McLaren's Mika Hakkonen by just two points.
Racing of a different kind right around the country.
We are on the track tomorrow.
We've got Mark Reed's tips, so get ready,
because here they come.
Mark says, wait until the last for Sydney at Rose Hill
and its Paris duo.
Race eight, number three.
That's number three and the eighth.
In Melbourne, he likes race six.
Number six, Quality Kingdom.
And in Brisbane, Shellaco is the tip.
That's race two, number one.
Number one in the second.
The selection for Adelaide, race two, number two.
Coxmoor and in Perth, it's Windsor Court.
Race four, number 13.
That's number 13 in the fourth.
And time now to check in with Billy Anderson
from Sport Odds for the latest betting markets.
Now that the World Cup sock is over, we can get some sleep,
but there's still plenty of sport happening
at home and overseas.
Lots of interest in the Tri-Nations rugby,
but injury worries to some key wallabies
has made punters weary.
Aussie's $2.05, South Africa $1.75.
After last week's performance,
Matt Berg on $11 heads the ladder
to score first try.
De Blanc is also on that line, and there are some
of the other popular picks.
On screen now is the Tri-Nations
series market. South Africa, they're the hot team
at the moment. $2.40, All Blacks
$2.75, and Australia $3.00.
That could change dramatically after
tomorrow night. To AFL and some
tough games for tipsters coming up.
Some kill to just shade you along. This is a good
betting game, both supported. Melbourne
$1.33 against Fremantle $3.50
and 22.5 start.
We've taken some very big money tonight
for the Dockers off scratch.
Western Bulldogs $1.30 and heavily backed
at that against the Lions. Toss a coin
for Hawthorne Collingwood.
Swans at home $1.40 against Port.
Richmond and Essendon can't be separated.
And in what should also be a close one,
West Coast $1.60 against the Roos.
In rugby league, I never seem to be able to get manly
when they're on, but they started the week
showing $1.50. They've been wound into
$1.33 against Dillawarra.
Cranala fancied over Penrith as are
North Queensland in their respective matches.
Canberra very short $1.12
against Souths. Brisbane just
about unbackable.