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The only thing I had going for me was my hair.
The salon's owners didn't want to comment today, Christy and her mum are considering taking legal action.
Nobody intentionally set out to hurt Christy or harm her in any way,
but I can only say that to me the hairdresser's to blame.
It shouldn't have happened. They should never have let it happen.
Just horrifying. Well, a couple of nights ago we tackled this year's dreaded tax pack
and hopefully inspired you to do battle with your tax return.
And as you wade through a mountain of receipts you might get some comfort
from the thought that most people are in the same boat and we're all paying our fair share.
Well, brace yourself because as Ros Thomas reports, that's nowhere near the truth of it.
It is quite extraordinary that some of the richest people in the country are declaring an income of less than $20,000.
That's well less than average worth of the earnings.
No one likes being targeted as a potential tax avoider or tax evader.
Because the mud sticks. The mud sticks.
They live a champagne life of power and privilege,
but some of Australia's richest pay less tax than the bafflers.
They're not just prepared to avoid a little bit of tax or cut their income in half.
They want to cut it down below what the worst off worker in this country gets by way of income.
Some of them live here in the BRW magazine's rich 200 list.
They have to be worth at least $50 million to get on that.
Now the tax officers trying to hunt down a group of individuals it believes
are using a loophole that allows them to pay little or no income tax and get away with it.
What is totally objectionable here is the way that this process has been pre-empted
by a deliberately orchestrated witch hunt.
Mark Liebler is the high priest of the seriously rich,
a prominent lawyer with an uncanny knack for hiding millions of dollars
where the tax office can't find them.
And his adamant it's all legal.
There are those within the tax office, and I have come across some of them,
that are interested in bringing down and getting at those who they consider to be wealthy.
It's simple and straightforward as that.
Call it jealousy, call it whatever you like.
How many of your clients are on say the BRW rich list?
Oh a substantial proportion. I don't want to say what proportion, but it's a very substantial proportion.
The tax office estimates it loses some $800 million a year in unpaid taxes from the rich.
So how do they do it? How is so much being squirreled away?
Well they're called trust webs, and they're a series of investment companies
that are all about making your money look like someone else's.
What you're trying to do is pretend that your income isn't really yours.
That by passing them through these series of trusts, but normally shifting the money overseas,
that one way or the other the money when it comes back to you is no longer treated as your income.
Social commentator Brian Toohey.
You can see people even making astounding statements that they don't know where millions of dollars
that suddenly arrived in one of their trusts. They have no idea where it comes from.
I suppose we're all like that. We wake up one morning and say,
oh wonder where that several million dollars bobbed up from, never mind.
We'll just take it, thanks very much.
If there's blatant tax abuse, what I want to know is what is it and why hasn't the tax office acted?
We wanted to know too, but the tax office refused to comment.
Well it is clearly a rip-off. It's a rip-off of the rest of the taxpayers in this country.
There's no question about that.
The accountants say there's nothing wrong, there's nothing illegal about any of this.
I'd be very surprised if it was legal because at the heart of the mechanism is a fraud.
And this sophisticated computer program has become the tax officer's first line of attack.
It's called NetMap. It's so secret we can't even identify the man who invented it.
But in the hands of the tax man, this system can tell them what you earn, how you earn it,
and what you do with the money.
It can also find out who entrepreneurs are wheeling and dealing with.
That will be a key weapon for blasting through the complicated structures of trust.
But are tax officers smart enough to use it?
I don't think it requires that much brains. They're complex, but they're capable of being understood.
I really do believe that the high network individual is concerned.
I mean there's a few rotten apples in every sector, but by and large they don't have anything to fear.
I don't think we should brand every person who's a rich person in Australia as avoiding tax.
But very clearly a very significant number of rich people are contemptuous about how much tax they pay.
Now a publican, four angry barmaids, and a pub brawl over fishnet stockings.
We'll explain all of that after the break.
I'm certainly not an old boiler. They were asked to wear short skirts and more revealing claws.
I just... the main boggles. I mean these are mature-age women.
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It's the pub brawl that's pitted a publican up against four very angry barmaids.
The middle-aged bar attendants claim they were sacked after being called old boilers by their boss.
Their only crime, they say, was refusing to wear skimpy outfits and fishnet stockings while pulling beers.
Well the brawl is now heading to the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal and as Ian Hisslop reports, the barmaids are baying for blood.
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They say that's what this place needs is for you to shorten your skirt up and wear a bit of make-up and stockings and so we can sell a few more beers around here.
They are known around the country as a man's best friend, but for barmaids in Townsville, pulling beer may never be the same.
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They were abused, verbally abused. I mean they were told they were fishwives, old boilers and a few other little ditties which I won't repeat.
I think the remarks that were made and the actions that were taken by the hotel were totally indefensible.
By any standards they like a beer here, 38 pubs to quench a thirst and no shortage of girls to serve them, but not all are happy.
He wanted young girls that wore short skirts and a lot of make-up and this type of thing and we're talking about a family hotel where this didn't happen.
It wasn't the way the business was conducted, but this is what he wanted.
Oh he brings back bad memories. It was a lovely family pub with a very nice atmosphere.
49 year old Inet Quillam hasn't been back to the Centenary pub. Not since a day she and two other barmaids were sacked by the hotel manager for in her words being too old and ugly.
I was humiliated along with a lot of other people. It was my weight mainly. He didn't criticise my job.
It was comments about if I ate sandwiches I should be eating carrots, if I drank lemonade I should be drinking water, that type of thing and just little things here just continually pick, pick, pick.
And then this man set out to demean us and by calling me in particular an old boiler and telling me I was too old to be working in a bar.
So you're an old boiler?
Well I find that a little bit laughable because I've never had that comment made to me before.
Admittedly I'm not as young as some of the barmaids around town, but I'm certainly not an old boiler.
They were asked to wear short skirts and more revealing clothes, I just, the main boggles, I mean these are mature age women.
No, no, he's come up from Brisbane long.
They haven't worked in a bar for over two years and they blame sexual discrimination. They're looking for justice and they've got one man in their sights.
Gordon Campbell is the man at the centre of the storm, now living in Brisbane he's due in the anti-discrimination tribunal next week, but today he wasn't saying anything.
Mr Campbell.
Sir, can we just have a word?
No you can't mate.
Look, I don't want to.
The solicitors are Edgeworth and Edgeworth, if you could call them you can get information and they'll give you the same answer.
Well sir, what can you tell us? Why won't you talk to us Mr Campbell?
We put up with so much from that person and in the end he just got rid of us anyway.
Now being called an old boiler wouldn't impress too many women in the workforce, but here in Townsville at the Mansfield Pubmost lunchtimes, good looks and bare flesh are unashamedly used to sell the beer.
The sight of scantily clad barmaids does nothing to persuade these girls that it helps to sell beers.
Depends what the pub is, obviously the drinkers here enjoy it. The Centenary Hotel was a family hotel and people brought their wives, their mothers, their kids down, they had a beer, they bought raffle tickets, they had a bed at the tab.
It wasn't that sort of hotel at all.
I think management should judge the staff on their capabilities, not the looks, certainly not their age.
I also hope that this man will never be allowed back in the workforce to inflict this sort of discrimination and insult and abuse on any other person. It's just not right.
After the break the Aussie actor who's pulled off the almost unthinkable, he decked Jean-Claude Van Damme.
What would you say if I told you this guy was actually decked Jean-Claude Van Damme?
No.
I reckon he's shit.
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Welcome back. Well now to the man who's giving Hollywood muscle man Jean-Claude Van Damme a taste of his own medicine.
Javi Hesky is Australia's kickboxing champ and he's appearing opposite Van Damme in his latest movie called The Quest.
The Perth martial arts expert had the job of decking Van Damme and he did it.
And now he too is headed for Hollywood. Amanda Walsh has the story.
He's the martial artist, he's a good martial artist.
What do you think of Van Damme, Jean-Claude Van Damme?
He's alright.
I like a couple of his movies.
What would you say if I told you that this guy has actually decked him?
I wouldn't believe it.
No, it wouldn't happen. It couldn't happen.
I reckon you're stupid.
Well 27 year old Perth man Javi Hesky isn't stupid.
When it comes to martial arts this guy certainly knows what he's doing.
I've beaten him so far and then he comes back and beats me and breaks my arm.
The technique I show him too.
After 15 years of punching and kicking, Javi is trading blows with one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
It must have been impressive to me because out of 160 people, they casted all around the world as well.
They looked at a thousand additional tapes and were chosen.
In 1992 I started thinking about I'd like to be into the movies.
Australia wasn't much of a chance here so I moved over to Hong Kong.
I went on throughout the year and started making movies there.
And it was in Hong Kong where Van Damme spotted Javi and gave him a part in his $40 million movie, The Quest.
For Javi, actions speak louder than words.
And it's just as well because he doesn't actually utter a word during his scene with Van Damme.
He was very helpful to me.
Helped me with my fight scenes because we choreographed the fight scenes together and it worked out good.
Usually when you fire other people within the movie so you can put a bit of contact and make it look better.
But then you have to be really careful.
Being careful with a fighting opponent isn't something hard hitting Javi's used to.
With five kickboxing titles under his belt, when he fights, he means business.
If you were fighting Van Damme for real, do you think you could give him a run for his money?
He's a good martial artist and he's an actor so I wouldn't say anything about fighting.
Smart move considering Van Damme is Hollywood's newest director.
It hasn't come easy for the Perth model.
He's had to work hard to get the right moves, the right look and the right body.
So how often do you train?
About six days a week.
For now at least.
This is the wrestling, boxing, running, jiu-jitsu.
The sweat has paid off.
He's put himself on the map, he's based himself back in Perth and he's already working on his next movie.
I'm doing a movie now in Melbourne.
We just finished in Melbourne filming a movie called A Nice Guy with Jackie Chan.
So will you be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme?
No, I'll be the first me.
First Havie.
Ouch, when will they let him talk in the next one?
We'll be back with more right after the break.
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Coming up next, scandal as a break-in hits Summer Bay High.
Who is the culprit and why is a mother angry?
Home It Away Next, followed by Dew South.
Coming up on Monday night, the shameless morgue workers who stole from the bodies of the dead.
Caught on camera and now confessing their disgraceful crimes.
A body is a body. They're just lumps of meat with names on them. That's all they are.
I just think it's the lowest form of life.
There's $20 on a body. The police have missed it. Everybody's missed it.
Straight into the pocket. Of course. It's human nature.
I don't think so. That story Monday night. Until then, have a very pleasant weekend. Good night.
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I'm walking on air. Just to know, just to know, you are there. You are there.
Hold me in your arms. Don't let me go. I want to stay forever.
Home and away with you we stay. Let me be the one that you turn to.
Someone you can rely on. Closer and safe. Home and away.
It's made me see that I've got to go. There just isn't enough around here for me.
Enough what? Enough art. Enough atmosphere. I mean, I love living here, but it just doesn't inspire me.
Creatively speaking, there's nothing that gets the juices going. Oh. I've got to go overseas. I've just got to.
Look, don't panic. We're just going to rock or something. Oh, it's a shark, for heaven's sake.
Oh, my God. Look, where's it gone? Is it still around? Oh, my God. I think it's under us.
Look, can we just go? Let's go home. How do you get it started?
Liam. Liam. Why? We're sinking.
Sounds like you've really made up your mind. But you can see why, can't you?
This isn't just a whim. It's not like I just woke up one morning and thought, hey, let's go on a plane to Paris.
It's something I've got to do. But now? Like why now?
When I say now, of course I mean after you had your sea.
So I'm included in your plans? Of course. You didn't think...
I'm getting my head together here now. I'm not just going to go and do something crazy like leave you behind. No way.
It's you and me, kid. Everything times two. Oh, Alex, hang on.
I really need to think about this for a second. What's to think about?
I want to be a painter. You want to be a writer. I need something to paint and you need something to write about.
You think you're going to find it in the bay? Well, there's university.
Little boxes, Shan. They sit around drinking coffee and talking about writing instead of getting out there and doing it.
Real paint is paint and real writers write. You don't want to get stuck in a box and numbered. Be different.
If you have to go to university, then go to it when you've got some life to bring to it.
These could be the best couple of years of our lives.
Oh, blood! We throw it over the side and it comes through the bottom. At least there's still a flow.
Yeah, how much longer do you reckon we can keep this up? It comes down to a choice between bathing or swimming. I reckon I can keep it up a while yet.
Everything to madame's satisfaction? Well, the alabama mud cake was part of this world.
I defrosted it myself. Seriously, Jesse, I think we're really good at this job. Oh, there's that word again, job.
I know someone who's proud of you. Anyway, I've got to get back. See you later. See you later.
Hey, any change of service around here? No, not a lot.
Well, work for the wise, young fella. Yeah? Just watch what you're saying in front of the customers. Some of them might take it the wrong way.
Take what the wrong way? Your smart aleck remarks. Oh, come on, Alf.
You had any four-star restaurant in London or Paris?