Sorry, I didn't really hear what you said down there. What were you talking about?
What? For what use?
You mean you haven't heard?
Jim, I don't know what you're talking about.
Sorry, it was on the wireless at six o'clock. The Supreme Court has ordered some sort of injunction, something about Nola.
It's on the wireless?
We'd like to get an interview and perhaps a few photographs.
Why? What happened?
The Morrison family have issued a writ demanding the Nola Jenkins be handed over to them.
A writ?
I'm sorry, I thought you knew it was... it was issued this morning.
The Supreme Court Judge, Mr. Justice Barry, has ordered that Nola Henry Jenkins and Jessie Jenkins should appear on August the 20th
to show cause why the child, Nola Jenkins, should not be taken from them.
I just thought we'd get your side of the story.
I don't know.
Nola?
No! They've got a court order! They've got to take Nola!
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It's not as bad as it sounds, no.
Nothing's been decided.
Nothing at all.
Keeper.
Everything stays as it is until the court makes its decision.
The Supreme Court.
Yes.
I just don't understand how I got this far.
You're more determined than I thought.
And for Jess to find out like that, I mean, from a couple of reporters.
Yes, I know. I am sorry about that.
I only got this letter myself this morning.
Well, what happens next, then?
Well, we can either go into court and fight the case or we can negotiate.
Oh, we're going to fight it.
No, I don't want you to underestimate what you're getting into.
We'll have to brief a barrister to argue the case.
Well, I thought you'd do that.
No, no, no. This is a job for a barrister.
Are we going to need a good one?
They're somewhere in the range of 60 guineas a day.
What, that's on the 20th of August?
It won't be over on the 20th, no.
It'll be a long shot.
If you start something like this, there's no knowing how long it'll go on.
We didn't start it.
Yes, I know.
What am I supposed to do?
Put some sort of a price on my daughter?
How much is she worth?
How many days at 60 guineas a day?
I know it's impossible.
The other alternative we should consider is trying to settle out of court.
Now, they've asked us to have blood tests done.
It's possible that could settle the whole...
We have had a blood test.
The results weren't entirely conclusive.
A more definitive test done here in Melbourne might settle it beyond doubt.
I'm only saying it's an alternative you and Jess might want to consider.
We've already considered it.
That little girl is three years old.
She is our daughter. We know that she is our daughter.
There's no doubt in our minds, none at all.
You wouldn't like to talk it over with Jess one last time?
We have talked it over 50 times.
Now, there'll be no more blood tests.
If we've got to go to court, then we will go to court.
I want to get these people off our backs once and for all.
Or I know.
But it's going to be expensive.
Bernard Nolan's prediction was accurate.
The Jenkins and Morrison families were about to begin the longest
and costliest custody battle in Australian legal history.
Counsel for the Morrison family, Robert Monahan Casey,
was already a household name in Australia.
He had had remarkable success in criminal cases
and became a passionate supporter of the Morrison's cause.
Equally passionate in his commitment to his client's cause,
but on the opposite side of the fence,
E.H. Hudson, Casey, led the legal team representing the Jenkins family.
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Yes.
You'll make a nice change.
It's the opposition.
That's right.
Are we all ready, then?
I think so.
We're a bit nervous.
It's only natural.
You'll settle down because you're in the right.
Remember that.
Hello there. How are you?
Good morning. Good.
Mrs. Jenkins won't hear you?
No. She's just had the baby.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Boy or girl?
A girl.
Congratulations.
Yes, it's a pity she couldn't have been here.
It would have been useful.
Still, there'll be some time before we get to her evidence.
It's pretty hard on her, lying in hospital while all this is going on.
Yes, it's awesome.
Silence!
All rise.
At 45, Mr. Justice Barry was the youngest judge of the Victorian Supreme Court.
He was regarded as one of the finest legal minds in the country.
Your Honor, I appear with my learner junior on behalf of the respondent in this matter.
I appear with my learner junior on behalf of the applicants in this matter.
Justice Barry was about to be confronted with some of the most complex legal, factual, and moral questions of his career.
He wasted no time in addressing one of the central issues, the question of blood tests.
He had already requested a preliminary scientific report.
And lower down on page three, it can be stated that comprehensive blood grouping tests carried out on the members of both families
are likely to furnish evidence sufficient to solve the questions before the court.
Yes, we are fully conscious that such arrangements could be made, but my clients are convinced the child is theirs.
Can they feel, what expert advice, that no test would prove the child was the Morrisons?
It would only prove she was not the Jenkins.
And irrespective of any scientific tests, they would be loath to be convinced against what was their human judgment.
I'd like to state at this stage that I must not be taken as assenting to these passages or any other passages in the report.
I ask that Mrs. Morrison be called for cross-examination, Your Honor.
Are you in a position to answer questions yet?
Yes.
As she took the witness stand, when Morrison knew that her entire case would depend on her credibility as a witness,
and that opposing counsel would do all he could to destroy that credibility.
Had you been into that hospital before?
Yes, I had.
The treatment?
No, I thought my baby was coming, so I went in.
A false alarm, was it?
Yes.
I gather from your avid David that you lost consciousness.
That is to say, you ceased to be aware of what was going on around you.
I don't think I lost consciousness.
You were aware of what was going on throughout. Is that your belief?
Yes.
You could very easily see all that was going on in the room?
There was a screen put up. Until the screen was put up, yes, I could.
And on your side of the screen, there was a cot?
No, there wasn't.
You've read the ward sister's avid David?
Yes.
You realize she has sworn there were cots alongside the beds?
Yes.
Are you prepared to deny that?
Yes, I am.
The first vital question of fact had been raised.
On the night the two babies were born, were there one or two cots in the labor ward to receive them?
There would be contradictory evidence on this point.
And there would be argument, too, as to how the babies were carried from the labor ward to the nursery.
When Morrison testified that they were carried out by one of the sisters, one baby in each arm.
By whom?
I don't know.
The sister had her back to me.
When she went out, the doctor asked her if she had the babies tagged.
She said, yes, doctor, but I didn't see her face.
Are you quite sure you saw anybody carrying the babies out?
Yes, I'm positive.
Do you know where the robe or blanket that you saw each of these babies wrapped in was obtained from?
It wasn't my blanket, because they couldn't find my blanket till the next day.
Mrs. Morrison gave evidence that the labeled baby clothing she brought to the hospital ten days previously had been misplaced.
So the bunny rug her baby was wrapped in as it was carried from the labor ward was supplied by the hospital.
It had no name tag.
How long was it after the baby was taken out of the room before it was brought back to you?
Oh, it was a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes.
It could have been half an hour, but it wasn't anymore.
And you at that time noticed that the baby was dark hair and dark complexion?
Yes.
May we take it that the baby that was brought back to you within a half hour of its birth was the baby you took away with you when you ultimately left the hospital?
Yes.
So that if any mistake was made in the transposition of the babies, it was prior to that time, in the first half hour?
Yes.
Gwen Morrison was proving to be an excellent witness. Hudson tried to cast some doubt on her testimony.
In about January or February, did you have an interview with a reporter from the Truth newspaper?
Yes, I did.
Did you think you were going to achieve any results by having this story published?
I tried every other way of getting my baby back. I didn't want publicity.
Did you really imagine that by publishing this story, or allowing it to be published, that you would get possession of Nola?
I thought Mrs. Jenkins might realize then that she had the wrong baby.
By reading it in the newspaper? By reading it in truth?
I don't know.
I tried to talk to her. I tried to discuss it with her. She didn't want to talk.
I don't know. All I wanted was one thing, to get my baby back.
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Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, Mr. Morrison, when do you think the script was made?
When Morrison's testimony had had its effect.
By the luncheon adjournment, the word was out.
A major human interest story was developing on Supreme Court.
Are you going to give your baby back to Mr. Morrison?
So you have a perfectly clear recollection of the events of that night.
What is the normal furnishing of the Labor Ward at Kington?
Mrs. Morrison's evidence was to be contradicted on its essential points
by the ward fister who was on duty the night the babies were born.
Mrs. Morrison had sworn that there was only one cot in the room.
What was the equipment on this night?
There were two cots.
Where was the cot that related to each bed?
There was the bed and Mrs. Jenkins' cot against her wall,
then the screen and Mrs. Morrison's bed, and her cot was over that side.
So for the person who handled the child,
to have got the baby into the cot that was intended for the other,
it would have been necessary to walk around the screen
and go out of your way to put it in the wrong cot. Is that the position?
Yes.
Were you able to see what was going on in the other bed,
or were you concentrating on what you were doing?
I could see a little, yes.
Were you paying attention to the day, sister?
Oh, I remember her asking for the ether bottle, and I passed that over to her.
Is that the invaluable practice?
Mrs. Morrison had said that her own labeled baby clothes had been misplaced
and that her child was carried from the Labor Ward wrapped in an unmarked bunny rug.
Whose napkin is it?
The baby's napkin.
You never heard anything of the fact that the Morrison baby's blanket was missing?
No, I don't remember.
You remember anything about another sister
finding the Morrison baby's blanket or bunny rug
and a couple of days later wrapped around a hot water pipe?
No.
Were there any identifying marks on the baby's garments or the cot?
Yes, the mother bringing in each garment has it marked with her own name on it.
Is that always checked?
Yes.
Is there any identifying mark on the cot?
Yes, a tag with the surname of the mother.
Who put that on?
I did it myself.
With the double birth taking place,
was it necessary to take any special precautions, did you consider?
Yes, that's why I tagged the cots.
Let me ask you this.
Would there be any occasion in the normal course of events
when both of these children would be out of their cots at the same time?
Only at feeding times.
But by then they would have their clothes on that were tagged?
Yes.
And the cots were tagged?
Yes.
If the evidence of the nursing sisters had been in agreement,
the case might have ended on almost its first day.
They weren't in agreement.
Is it your belief that you washed both newly born infants?
I think I did.
The mental picture, if I get it,
is that both babies were in cots when you came upon them in the nursery?
Yes.
In similar cots?
Yes.
Were there no identifying marks?
What, on the cots?
Yes.
No, just the labels on the babies.
Labels on the babies themselves, not on the cots.
Yes.
Gwen Morrison had sworn that there was only one cot in the labor ward.
The ward sister had testified that there were two.
Now, yet another contradiction.
One cot was there, and you didn't see another cot at any time.
Well, I have no recollection of it.
Just as Barry had hoped to be able to settle the question
on the basis of factual evidence,
but now he was presented with conflicting testimony.
Neither counsel wished to call the third and junior sister.
However, in an endeavor to resolve the human and moral dilemma facing him,
Barry took the unusual step of calling her himself.
Her evidence would be his last chance for an easy solution.
What happened that night, as far as you can remember?
I can only recall an extra sister came on duty.
Why did an extra sister come on duty?
Well, the ward sister felt she couldn't manage.
So an extra sister was sent for?
Yes.
What do you know about the events of that night?
I can't remember anything.
Well, do you remember whether you were in the labor preparation room?
I don't remember being there.
Do you remember whether you were in the labor ward?
No.
Does that mean that you believe that you were not in the labor ward?
It's possible I was there, but I don't remember being there.
Do you recollect seeing either of the two babies?
No.
Do you have any memory of attending to either of the two babies?
No, I haven't.
The two other nurses have given their version in affidavits,
and the effect of their combined version
is that neither of them handled the babies at the time they were born,
but that you did.
Now, I think it should be pointed out to you in your own interests
that it may be at some stage in this case
someone will say that you mixed up the babies.
Well, do you see that that version is open?
Because you can't remember.
I can.
Do you want to say anything about that?
I've nothing to say.
I haven't got anything to say.
I'm speaking truthfully when I say I can't remember being in the labor ward.
If the junior sister was of little help to Justice Barry,
the doctor who delivered the babies would be no help at all.
The counsel for the Jenkins family advised the court
that the doctor was not available to give evidence.
The answer is very imprecise.
The telegram merely says that the doctor is unavailable,
he's leaving Australia.
Not that he's left.
He is going to Singapore.
I don't know if there's any reason to challenge the bona fide effect.
Except that it would have been much better
if the lady had indicated his date of departure.
I thank Your Honor for the suggestion.
A further exchange of telegrams revealed
that the doctor was already en route to Singapore.
He could have settled it.
He saw them being carried out before he asked if they were tagged.
Yes, yes, I know.
Could he be brought back?
I'm sorry.
There's no chance of extradition in a civil case.
There's nothing we can do.
How would it feel if you have to exchange the babies?
Can we have a word, please?
Are you going to give your baby to the lawyer?
We're going to have a problem with these blood tests.
Look, we're not going to have any.
I know, I know.
I even agree with you.
But I'm not sure the judge does.
It was the first issue he raised.
We can't force us to have one, can we?
Well, there are going to be a few people
burning the midnight oil and trying to answer
exactly that question, including the judge.
I won't try to tell you it was a good day, Mr. Jenkins.
It wasn't.
Who the hell are you?
Oh, Mr. Jenkins, I'd just like to ask you a few questions.
What is the matter with you?
Don't think a blood has been poured to any privacy at all.
Hang on, hang on.
I'm just trying to ask you a few questions.
Leave him alone.
There was a confidential exchange of my client.
You print one word of it and you find yourself in court.
No, all right, I can't.
I'm just trying to do my job, that's all.
Damn witch, that's what you are.
I have never met so many rude people in my life.
Take it easy.
You're going to be getting quite a lot of that.
Calm down.
Things aren't that bad.
The other side won the first round, that's all.
There's a long way to go yet.
Tomorrow, Dr. Elliott meets his ex-wife.
Is it love that second side ran?
Is Donna making the right decision?
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And the Sue faces tragedy on a country practice tomorrow night on 7.
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What a day.
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So stay them up, Joe
Hello, darling.
No.
How are you?
Fine.
How did it go today?
Oh, good.
Really good.
Well, what did Mr. Hudson think?
Oh, he was pleased.
Nothing for you to worry about.
Hey, what's all this then?
Secret admirers?
It's incredible.
Everybody's sending them.
The fire brigade, CWA, some of the shops in town.
Those, they're there from the drama society.
Oh, look, I'm getting letters from people
I've never even heard of.
Well, that must make you feel better, eh?
Yeah.
Oh, it's just not fair.
All those strangers down there arguing over my daughter
and I can't even be there.
Yeah, I know, darling.
That's hard.
They'll get in the German if they have to
so you can give evidence.
It's not the same.
I want to be there now.
Is it really going all right?
I just don't know, Jess.
It's messy.
Sisters contradicted each other
and one of them can't remember anything.
I just don't know.
You can't catch me.
I can't.
No, you can't.
No.
I'm bubbling you.
No.
You can't catch me.
Don't have to make too much rubbish, Mom.
Go on.
The picture's without Jess.
Want to go, love?
Yeah, right.
Come on, baby.
Hey, Dad.
Why can't we come with you, Dad?
Because you'd be bored, son.
That's why.
Now, come on.
You go with Nana.
We'll meet you outside the court.
No, no, no.
I think we'd better meet at the picture.
Oh, right.
Good luck.
Thanks.
I take it that you are very fond of Joanne Lee,
and so is your wife.
Yes.
May we take it that...
At all times, Joanne Lee has been brought up
as an integral part of your family.
Yes.
At no stage has she ever been given cause
to think that she was not a member of your family.
No, at no time.
There is no question that she regards you
as an integral part of your family.
Yes.
At no stage has she ever been given cause
to think that she was not a member of your family.
No, at no time.
There is no question that she regards you
as her father and your wife as her mother.
No question, whatever.
And may we take it that you and your wife
have a strong attachment for the child?
Yes.
And the other two children.
Does she see them as brother and sister, respectively?
Yes.
From its beginnings,
the case caused Bill Morrison a special anguish.
He supported his wife in her battle
to gain custody of Nola, but he loved Lee.
You have been asked by my learned friend
about your attitude toward Joanne Lee.
Do you want to keep her?
Yes.
You are happy to have both children?
Yes.
So you think it's a fair enough climb, do you?
How do Jenkins feel about that?
Excuse me.
Jenkins, how do you feel?
Look, I'm not answering any questions.
Oh, that's fine.
It's just one little question.
Mr. Jenkins, you've got a minute.
Excuse me, will you get out of my way?
I can't.
This was one possibility
which had never occurred to Noel Jenkins.
The present court case referred only to the custody of Nola.
If the Morrisons won,
they would be legally entitled to keep both children.
Hello.
Look.
Come and have a look at the baby.
Isn't she beautiful?
Have a look at her, hey?
She's kind of pretty high.
G'day, mate.
Hey, Jess.
He got you back at work already.
Hey, honey.
Hey, Tony.
Jim.
How's the case going?
Oh, I don't know.
Not the best.
All you say, it's too soon to tell.
They just can't take her off, yeah?
Yeah.
All this must be costing you a packet.
Yeah.
Haven't got the bill yet.
Not looking forward to getting it.
Well, that's what we came round for.
Tell them to send the bill to us.
Yeah.
A few of the people in the drama society got together.
We formed a fundraising committee too.
And the response we got from the town so far, well...
We ought to be able to cover most of your expenses.
Oh, jeez.
You can't do that.
We already have.
You tell Jess, good luck.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Just five minutes, all right?
She's got to get some sleep.
Oh, it's good to be alone.
Good to have you hand out.
What does Tony want?
Oh.
They formed a fundraising committee.
They want to help cover our legal costs.
Oh, some people can be wonderful.
Yes, they can be. They can be mongols too.
You know what the Morrisons want to do?
They want to have both little girls.
The Morrison got up in court today and said that...
They want to take Nola and keep the little girl they've got.
That's only if we lose.
We're not going to lose.
I don't want to make you any more nervous than you already are, Mr Jenkins, but...
The case isn't going as well as I'd like.
A great deal is going to depend on you.
I'm actually as nervous as I thought I might be.
Good.
There's nothing wrong. There's no reason why I should be nervous.
That's exactly right.
And I want you to hold on to that knowledge.
Take your time. Don't let the opposition frustrate you.
If you don't understand the question, just say you don't understand it.
It's his job to make his questions clear, not yours.
Yes, yes, all right.
And if you don't remember something, just say you don't remember.
And if you don't have any doubts,
we'll make it quite clear you don't have any doubts.
All right, let's go.
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I suppose I may take it that you have been greatly troubled
by the situation that you two mothers
may have been given the wrong babies.
Yes, naturally.
And you tried to convince yourself
that there's been no mistake.
I didn't need to convince myself.
I knew there was no mistake.
Has it come to your knowledge that Dr. Loughran's test,
given its fullest value,
proves nothing more than can be proved
in relation to four out of every five people
here in this court?
No, I have no idea of percentages.
In other words, that the groups are common
of people who have been blood tested in this world.
Oh, as I said...
That's not very much comfort to you, is it?
Oh, definitely.
It is?
Well, so far as we are concerned, it is.
Would you not like to know the real truth?
But I do know the truth.
I know I have my own baby.
Are you prepared to undergo a blood test?
I think that we have had quite a lot of upset over this,
and we don't want to put the baby to any test
unless it's necessary.
But you see, it's a question of the material
the court must have to decide this matter.
Are you prepared yourself
to have a blood test done?
I prefer not to.
Does that mean that unless I order you to,
you would not?
Well, I don't wish to appear disrespectful,
but no.
Yes, well,
don't be afraid.
At this stage, you're perfectly entitled
to indicate that you won't have it done.
Well, I'm quite sure in my own mind
that I have my own baby.
And you're not prepared to submit the child
to such an examination?
No.
I suppose it follows on any footing
that you would not want to receive Joanne Lee
into your home.
You don't regard her as...
I don't regard her as my baby.
And you don't want her?
I have my own baby,
and that's all I want.
Call Noel Henry Jenkins.
Monaghan's cross-examination
had failed to weaken
Jess Jenkins' conviction.
Now her husband was under attack.
Why didn't you tell Mr. Morrison
that you'd already had a blood test done
by Dr. Loughran?
There's no apparent reason, no reason at all.
I'm suggesting a reason.
And that is that Dr. Loughran told you
he could offer very little comfort to you
because your groups happen to be
common to 80% of mankind.
No.
He didn't tell you that?
No, definitely not.
And since then I suppose you've discovered
that your groups, yours, Mrs. Jenkins' and Nola's,
are common to 80% of mankind.
Is that correct?
Yes.
So I suppose now we may feel
yes, just as confident as ever.
And you don't want any certainty
in this matter?
Why should we?
We are quite certain now.
All the certainty we need.
And you're going to stand on that come what may?
Come what may, yes, sir.
Have you had any specimen of your blood taken
since Dr. Loughran took that test?
No, we've had the one test and the one only.
And that is true of your wife, so far as you know?
Which is definitely true, yes.
I have the questions I asked your wife,
whether she was prepared to submit to a blood test.
She said she was not prepared to do that
unless she was compelled.
Is that your attitude also?
Yes, definitely, Your Honor.
Noel and Jess Jenkins
had bestowed the pressure.
And in doing so,
they had driven Justice Barry into a corner.
If he wanted blood tests,
he would have to order the Jenkins to submit.
Jenkins?
Get out of here!
What is the matter with you, bloke?
What's going on here?
This bloke has been following us.
He took our photograph without permission.
Why did you do that?
Where are the Jenkins?
It's a court case going on.
Yeah, look, come on, clear out.
Give him a break. Sorry.
Justice Barry adjourned the case for a week
to enable counsel to prepare
legal argument as to whether the court
had the power to order blood tests.
Throughout the case,
Barry had taken several unusual steps
and during the adjournment,
he was to take another.
This is the way the ward is normally set up, is that right?
Yes, that's right.
It's only a small town.
So this is the way it would have been
when Mrs. Morrison arrived before Mrs. Jenkins was brought in?
Yes.
Could you just show me, please,
what changes would have been made when Mrs. Jenkins arrived?
Well, no, Mrs. Morrison's bed
would have been pushed over there.
In effect, we just duplicate everything.
Yes. Could you show me, please?
Yes.
Stand at the doorway, please, John.
Mrs. Morrison claims she could see
one of the sisters carrying the babies out
from where she was lying.
Is that screen usually about there?
Well, yes.
Turn sideways, John.
Shoulder the door open.
Thank you.
Two cots.
Yes, I see.
Someone has to remember to bring the extra one in.
The nursing staff are trained to remember
things like that.
Of course.
What about the ether?
Pardon?
There's only one ether bottle.
Yes, and there would have been two.
Not that neither weren't.
Oh, yes, there would have been two for a double set-up.
Then someone must have forgotten.
It's the only evidence that isn't disputed.
The sister attending Mrs. Morrison
had to ask for Mrs. Jenkins'
ether bottle to be passed across.
There was only one.
Yes.
I know a judge is supposed to be right
all the time.
That's the theory, anyway.
If the children are perfectly happy
with the parents they've got,
they'll be disturbed by any change.
But,
parents have the right to their own offspring.
Now you know what they mean by the wisdom of Solomon.
Maybe there is no right answer.
When Punky has to go
to the doctor for a needle,
she knows that with a magic nickel
it won't be so bad...
I feel like the force is dead.
...until she loses it.
Punky Brewster, time for your booster.
5.30 tomorrow on 7.
Mom, can I eat? I've got to go soon.
Sure, darling. Take a seat.
Hi, Mom. When's dinner?
As soon as you clean up.
Am I too late? I've got to eat lunch.
Kitchen's closed. But seeing you're a regular customer...
Do you sometimes feel you're running
a restaurant instead of a family meal?
I've got to go. If you have a daytime job
as well as a nighttime job,
you'll manage even better if you take shortcuts.
Food must be good.
Even the chef eats.
They say that we all improve
with time. Well, that's certainly
true of Scotch whisky.
That's why the Black Douglas is a better Scotch.
It's aged and mellowed
a minimum of eight years
instead of the usual five.
As it states, right here on the label
for all to see.
They also say that as you get older
you get wiser.
Maybe that's why
I always serve the Black Douglas.
Because all good things
take time.
Lord, we were happy to
make. Though the business
you built was hot
to the hilt, you were protected
when all was at stake.
For the rest
of your life, there'll be
no financial strife.
Together, we planned it
that way.
You've been safe with a friend
from beginning to end.
So we thought we'd
just like to say.
Isn't it nice to know
that you're covered by G.I.O.
Get to know
G.I.O.
G'day. That was a pretend move.
Yeah, because this is a pretend
cow. But this
isn't pretend butter, it's the real
thing. From a real cow.
Churned just the way nature intended.
So, are you going to miss out on butter's
taste just because you've been told
it's hard to spread? Well, it's not.
Just take your butter out of the fridge
and you let it soften naturally
before you use it. Wasn't so hard,
was it? Butter,
it's only natural.
What's wrong, love?
If we win,
I'm going to feel like
we're lost.
We're not going to lose. We're going to get
to keep them both.
We're kidding ourselves, love.
Why?
Because she's not ours.
That's what we set out to prove.
She belongs to them. They don't want
her. You heard what
Mrs. Jenkins said in the call.
They don't want her and we do.
We do.
Mr. and Mrs. Morrison. Oh, thanks, John.
Thank you for coming in. Do sit down.
Can I get you some tea?
Oh, no, no, thank you.
Look, I know it's a bit of a
strain for you both, but
please don't be nervous. There's no need to be.
This isn't part of a formal hearing.
Nobody's being tested. I just wanted
to meet the little girls on their own.
This is Lee. Hello, Lee.
Want to say hello, Sweden?
I don't want to ask her
any questions or anything. It's just
I wanted to observe her with you.
I hope she can roam around
if she wants to and she can't do any harm
here. Does she get on well with
your other children? Oh, yes.
Yes, she certainly does.
I understand you're very
close to her, Mr. Morrison.
Well, it's often the way with fathers and daughters.
Yes. Yes.
She's always been pretty special.
Do you mind some press interviews and photographs?
No, please. Yeah, we'd rather not.
Some publicity wouldn't hurt our case
at this stage. Can we avoid them?
Easy. Look the other way.
None of this is part of the court
record. He's not assessing you
as parents or anything like that.
That's not an issue. Why does he want to see you then?
I suppose he just wants to cover
everything he can to help you make a decision.
Do you like to bring any shoes?
No, I wouldn't.
May the good eye.
He's not worried about it. He just leaves things as they are.
Well, hopefully you'll come to the same conclusion.
He'll be ready for you in a minute
if you'd like to come this way.
I'll wait for you here.
Thank you.
Hello.
Hey, Will.
She seems a quiet little girl.
She is with strangers.
She's a real little live wire at home.
She busts us all around.
I've got a niece like that, about the same age.
Look, I know this case has been
a great strain to both of you,
especially to you, Mrs. Jenkins, having a new
baby in the middle of it.
But it won't be much
longer now.
Thank goodness. I couldn't agree more.
She's a lovely girl,
and I'm glad I've met her.
And I'm glad I've met the two of you
outside the courtroom. Thank you for bringing her in.
Thank you.
Come on, Nola. Come on, sweetheart.
We're going outside now.
They're both such decent families.
Yes, they are.
In a way, it'll be easier if they weren't.
Justice Barry
faced not one, but three
almost impossible problems.
On the question of law,
did the court have the power to
order blood tests? And if it did,
should it exercise that power?
On the question of welfare,
would the children be better left
understood?
Even if the court found they had been placed
with the wrong parents.
On the question of fact,
were the babies given to the wrong mothers?
The question of law.
By virtue of their membership of the
community, the obligation to give evidence
attaches to all persons capable
of doing so.
I hold the Supreme
Court of Victoria has the power
to order Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins
to submit to blood tests.
The question of welfare.
It is my intention
to regard the welfare of the child
as the first and paramount
consideration.
And the rights of her parents in respect
of her custody and upbringing
as secondary and subordinate.
The question of fact.
Who, in Barry's opinion, were their true
families?
The voting sisters impressed me as entirely frank,
and I am satisfied that they have not given me
their complete recollections of the events
surrounding the births of these babies.
The result is that where there is
any conflict between these witnesses'
evidence and Mrs. Morrison's,
I rely on Mrs. Morrison's
version. I find Mrs. Morrison
to be a reliable and trustworthy
witness, and I accept her account
of the events in the labour ward.
The only reasonable conclusion open
is that Mrs. Morrison
was given Mrs. Jenkins'
baby, and Mrs. Jenkins
was given Mrs. Morrison's baby.
After long and careful consideration,
therefore,
I have come to the conclusion
that the claim of those I hold
to be the real parents
should succeed. I have decided
to give Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins a final opportunity
to provide evidence in the form
of properly verified scientific
reports upon the blood groupings
of themselves and the child Nola.
And for that purpose,
I shall refrain from pronouncing
a final order in this matter for seven days.
Should they not provide evidence
of the kind I have indicated,
I shall give judgement in accordance
with the findings I have announced.
All rise.
You've lost her.
Either you agree to having blood tests
within the next seven days, or you'll have to give up Nola.
You've lost her.
Either you agree to having blood tests
within the next seven days, or you'll have
to give up Nola.
Either you agree to having blood tests
within the next seven days, or you'll have to
give up Nola.
It does seem as though
that motherless child
have at least enough respect
for Nola at this point in time.
Part 2, tomorrow night.
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Welcome to a croaky News World tonight.
For the second time,
New South Wales Supreme Court judges
have publicly condemned the State Government's
new judicial watchdog legislation.
In a public statement
signed by Chief Justice Sir Lawrence Street today,
the judges again called on the Government
to allow more time for discussion.
It's the second time in two weeks
that the Chief Justice has been at odds with his Attorney General.
In a statement signed on behalf of 32 judges,
Sir Lawrence Street
lists nine objections to the new
judicial commission legislation.
It agrees that judges' behaviour should be monitored,
but claims the rights of private citizens
to have justice administered
without fear or favour
is placed at serious risk.
The statement calls on the Government to delay
the new laws until there's more discussion
in and out of the Parliament.
A view supported by Nick Greiner.
You've got the Chief Justice and all the judges
of the highest court in the State
saying publicly that the Government's action
is irresponsible and not in the public interest.
Because of his demands for more discussion,
the opposition leader also wants a separate
royal commission into the activities
of District Court Judge John Ford.
It was allegations surrounding
his sentencing standards which first
prompted the Government to propose the judicial commission.
Attorney General Terry Sheehan
today gagged an opposition attempt
to debate the judge's letter,
saying his judicial commission package
is going ahead as planned.
Tonight it's still no comment.
The Attorney General claims he wants to report
to Cabinet and reply to the judge's
latest objections first.
David Reed, 7 National News.
The Australian Police Minister's
annual report says two
separate drug syndicates have been uncovered
with operations worth $1 billion.
The report says the
criminals are now moving funds into
legitimate business. The report also
connects seven murders and subsequent
arrests with the crime syndicate.
It's almost like the Soapies, isn't it?
The little boy
at the centre of a cruelty case
has made a remarkable recovery.
Three-year-old Adam Love was critically
injured, you might remember, when he was
forced to hold a brick above his head.
Even his doctors at Sydney's Westmead
Hospital are amazed by the speed
of his recovery.
Three-year-old Adam Love
is a medical marvel.
A plucky little boy who has conquered
shocking odds to survive an horrific
accident.
For the past six weeks, he's clawed his
way back from the fringes of death
to what doctors hope will be a normal
healthy life.
How crook was he when he was first brought in?
He was a crook.
Like, you know, chance really, like, you know,
touching daddy for him.
Soon after his accident, surgeons removed a blood
clot from his brain. He was in a coma
for a week. His prospects
of survival were poor.
Stunned by what happened to his son,
Dennis Love has spent every day
at Adam's bedside. He says
he'll stay there until doctors
allow little Adam to leave.
But how long that will take is not
yet clear. In the meantime,
Adam's making the most of his time in
hospital. An extraordinary
three-year-old who's really not so
unusual at all.
And I imagine that Russell
did not wish to give Adam back.
Nice ending to that part of the story
anyway. Prime Minister Hawke told
wheat farmers today the Government
would continue to put forward their claim for
freer world trade. He was speaking
to Dubbo this afternoon at the start of a two-day
tour of Western New South Wales.
Bob Hawke went bush
today, his first stop, Dubbo,
in the heart of the New South Wales wheat
belt, a town hit hard by the worsening
trade war between the Americans
and the Europeans and outside
Labor territory. But that didn't
stop a small band of locals turning
out to welcome the Prime Minister and
Mrs. Hawke. Nor did it stop a
special visit to one of the town's
pioneering small businesses, where
Mr. Hawke officially opened a new
Brickworks and found a different
sort of opponent, ten-year-old
boxing champ Matt O'Neill.
The pair didn't come to blows.
Mr. Hawke saved that for opposition
leader John Howard, who yesterday
banned his front bench from publicly
discussing how a coalition
government would tackle fringe benefits.
Mr. Howard says,
firstly, we'll get rid of the fringe benefits tax
lock, stock and barrel. Mr. Carlton
says they won't. And Mr. Tuckie
says they won't. So, Mr. Howard, what does he do?
He says, you naughty boys, stop talking.
Stop telling the truth. Be quiet and let
me tell the fibs. No one's going to
believe him. But it was how the federal
government was tackling agricultural
subsidies that most interested the locals
here. Subsidies, Mr. Hawke said,
were absurd and had to be
stopped. It's not only us
paying the price now,
but in the end,
they will pay us the same price
themselves. And it's in everyone's
interest that we end the corruption
in these mountains. Being Prime Minister,
it's a slightly ageing business, isn't it?
The Commonwealth Bank
closed its doors today. Its employees went
on strike for the first time in sixty years.
They're protesting against the federal
government's fringe benefit
tax. Only the
Sydney Entertainment Centre was big enough
to hold the Commonwealth Bank workers.
They claim to be victims of the fringe
benefits tax, losing their
cheap housing loans and special rates for
bank cards. While the bankers handle
millions of dollars every day, they
say their wages are below average.
I don't deserve a pay cut.
My kids don't deserve a pay cut.
My wife doesn't deserve a pay cut.
And you don't deserve a pay cut.
We deserve profit sharing.
It's the first time staff
of the Commonwealth Bank have gone on strike.
It took three hours of debate
to clinch a final vote.
All those in favour of the motion?
Liberal leader John Howard
took the opportunity to again criticise
the fringe benefits tax.
But Bob Hawke wasn't interested.
Well, you wouldn't take much of that as what Mr Howard
is saying these days, would you?
There was a brisk trade at the automatic tellers.
Their human counterparts will remain
not negotiable until tomorrow.
Nice turn of phrase.
Now, you know, one of my, if it matters,
one of my pet hates are television
stations which always have
helicopter noises when we have shots
from helicopters so that you know
at home that we've taken
a shot from the helicopter.
Drives me mad and I thought tonight
why should there be any exceptions?
So here we are.
The huge World War II battleship USS Masura
is less than ten hours from Sydney.
She'll enter the heads at eight o'clock tomorrow morning.
Today off the New South Wales South Coast
she gave an intimidating
gunnery display.
By now every Australian
knows some of the awesome statistics
of the giant American battleship
USS Missouri.
Phrases like the biggest, the most powerful,
always precede the 58,000
tonne warrior.
Well, as the recommissioned World War veteran
cruised towards Sydney Harbour,
she kept the other 40 ships waiting
to show off a little and remind any
doubting Thomases about her tough reputation.
First, a quick display of her close in weapon system.
20 millimetre ammunition
at 50 rounds a second.
Then Missouri's six twin mounts
held a few projectiles
weighing 30 kilos, a casual
15 kilometres.
And then,
as I was saying,
and then there is the three
gun turrets that can lob an almost
two tonne armour-piercing bomb
40 kilometres.
Want to see it again?
Don Willissey,
Seven National News.
And we never saw Don again.
By the way, he referred to it
as a 58,000 tonne warrior.
It just depends how you spell
the word warrior.
American journalist Nicholas Daniloff
is a free man tonight.
But the Reagan administration isn't saying
what it took to secure his release from Moscow.
While Daniloff, prepared to fly home,
the Soviet man, accused of spying,
doesn't know what to do.
The Soviet man, accused of spying,
Gennady Zakharov, remained in custody
in New York. Daniloff's release
is seen as a breakthrough for improved
relations between Moscow and Washington.
With his wife Ruth,
the veteran correspondent looked pleased
and relaxed when he arrived in Frankfurt
to tell reporters he was glad to be out
and angry about his month-long detention.
A case was fabricated
against me
with a narrow political purpose
of giving the Soviet Union
some political leverage
over the case of Gennady Zakharov
in New York.
Daniloff insisted he knew nothing
of any deal to secure his release.
For his part, President Reagan
was triumphant when he announced Daniloff's
freedom while campaigning in the Midwest.
And on board are
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Daniloff.
But the President tried to keep
a tight lid on the deal worked out
with the Soviets. He denied it was
a direct swap for the Soviet spy Zakharov
and the White House emphasized
Daniloff's release was an independent event
with no conditions attached.
They said accused by Zakharov
must still go to court.
As for his release, one official said
don't jump to any conclusions until
all events connected to this situation
are played out, indicating Zakharov
will be swapped for Soviet dissidents.
Still very confusing, isn't it?
I wonder who they could swap Reagan for.
Makes you think, doesn't it?
And that in itself is joyous.
There'll be more of this croaky
likewise truth at end again.
I told you I would, there'll be more of this
news world after this if I'm still alive.
January saw the Nicholson family
discover the wonderful world of snorkeling.
Later their dog Misty had a first pounce.
Mum was never seen so proud
than at Lizzie's graduation.
Young Ben was a year older in April.
In May, 50 years
of wedded bliss was celebrated.
And in June, Vicky tied the knot.
Michael followed in grandpa's footsteps
by captaining the school cricket team.
Then they all got together for Christmas.
And you should have seen it.
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I think my mum got the wrong
child at birth.
Somewhere there's a woman laughing isn't there?
Well now down to serious things.
Often you might wonder what happens about
stories we present on the program.
Well no doubt you'll have followed in the newspapers a fairly sordid
Sydney criminal trial
in which a man and his wife
were charged with sex crimes
against her daughters. That was his
step children. The girls gave evidence
against both parents. Today a jury
found the accused parents not
guilty. All names in the case
were suppressed. And you can think what
you like.
New laws allowing the tax office to dip
directly into the pay packets of
runaway fathers will be put to Federal
Parliament early next year. The whole government
hopes to have the scheme in operation by next
July.
Child maintenance arrangements are being
reformed so that non-custodial
parents will shoulder
more financial responsibility for
their children rather than throwing
the burden onto the taxpayer.
Paul Keating spelled out the principle
in his budget speech and now Canberra
has a firm timetable for action.
Legislation before Parliament
in the March session next year
and a scheme by which the tax office
will take maintenance direct from
the pay packets of runaway dads
as soon as possible after July.
Something like
65% of all
liable parents, that is the
party that's not taking responsibility
for the children, 65% of them
are not paying
significant amounts of
maintenance or not paying any maintenance at all.
There are about 160,000
supporting parents across
Australia, four times as many
as there were ten years ago.
About 90% of them are women
and because so many dads are not
pulling their weight, it costs the taxpayer
about one billion dollars a year
to support the lone parent and about
half a billion to support their children.
Social Security Minister Brian Howe
will table a discussion paper
in Parliament next week. The Government
will take submissions from the public
until the end of November. Then, early
in the New Year, Cabinet must
make the tough decisions.
Paul Lynham, Canberra, Seven
National News.
Premier Barry Unsworth has had to intervene
in a row between Sports Minister
Mike Leary and Police Minister George
Picciolo over the controversial
Rent a Cop Plan.
Mr Unsworth wrote to the two Ministers today
asking them to iron out their differences.
$100
$200
$300. That's how football
clubs and rock concert promoters will be
working out the bill for police security next year
if the plan announced by Police Minister
George Picciolo yesterday goes ahead.
According to Mr Picciolo
the police presence at Sunday's League Grand
Final cost the Government more than
$8,000 and tied up
valuable resources that could have been used
in the war against crime.
But the idea outraged Sports Minister
Mike Leary when he heard about it from
his sick bed. By telephone
Mr Leary told Seven News the idea
was, quote, a bloody nuisance.
He went on to say sports fans and promoters
were entitled to police protection
if it's warranted. They pay their taxes
that's enough, he said. The Police
Association also expressed its concern
at elements of the proposal.
The list is rather endless actually. It comes down even
to taxation. Who would supply
groups? Would it be the promoter?
When does the policeman's
duty finish at the ground?
Something happens on his way out.
Is the promoter liable for that?
But the list is quite endless.
There seems little doubt the scheme will go ahead
but first the Premier will have to sort out
the differences between the two Ministers
and then contend with any objections
from the promoters who in the end will have to
pay or pass on the cost to you
and me. Laurie Patten, Seven
National News.
I don't know whether implicit in that particular problem
is a problem. You remember
it was promised by Unsworth that we would
have more police which the police have been after for
years and they can't get people to apply.
I don't know whether it's all
related or not but there are problems.
There's also problems with bouncers you know. Someone
throws you out of a nightclub, you can sue them for assault.
There's a way to make some money
isn't it?
A new strain of bald mice
with no immune system has been
developed to help in the treatment of cancer.
Doctors at the Garvan Research Centre
in Darlinghurst will use them for
experiments involving a unique hormone
drug that may retard tumour growth.
These mice are
so sensitive that one breath of unfiltered
air would be fatal.
They're confined to this sterile cage
built at a cost of $10,000
and their lives may soon
offer cancer patients a more effective
and less painful treatment.
And no one knows the side effects
of chemotherapy better than Cathy Bell.
She's been through three years
of it.
Some of it's very
horrible
and stuff like that
but I get through it.
Doctors here hope to break new
ground by growing tumours in these mice
and treating them with a combination of
drugs already used in chemotherapy
and a hormone derivative
of vitamin D.
What we're trying to do is develop something which doesn't
necessarily replace chemotherapy
but is another
arrow in the quiver of the
person who's trying to treat the people
who suffer from cancer. And it's appropriate
that one person who has beaten cancer
and one who's still fighting should
name these mice in the name
of research.
One, you
and the other one
Elizabeth.
Well now for the weather for tomorrow
after a humid sort of day. Tomorrow should
be mild and humid again
with showers but lengthy sunny periods
developing in the afternoon.
Winds will be moderate from east, northeast
with seas slight and a low to moderate
swell. The city can expect a maximum
of 21 Liverpool and Richmond to
23 degrees.
So there you are. Looking ahead, it'll be humid
with showers in 21. Do not
burn anything
in your backyard or in your
fireplace. What if the crematoriums
close down tomorrow?
Thursday, late thunderstorms.
Someone will ring up and complain about that.
Friday, sultry.
Blonde would be nice. Saturday,
clearing. Oh gee, you can't tell
the truth here Robinson.
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If you didn't call the Colonel's
chicken fillet burger a burger, what would you
call it? A sandwich! It's
bigger than a sandwich, Charlie.
How about a bun? With lettuce and mayonnaise
it's better than a bun. A roll!
With a whole chicken
breast fillet, it's tastier than a
roll, so it's definitely a burger.
But it's too good to be called a burger,
Frederick. You're right, Charlie.
So you agree with me? No, you agree with me.
The chicken fillet burger from
Kentucky Fried Chicken, made special
to taste great.
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Cagney & Lacey
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I employed three Indians
and four Aborigines to do dances
recently
and after more than three and a half days of rain
having prevented play
The second test between India and Australia
has ended in a draw
Australia had declared its first innings
at 3 for 207
at Stumps on the fifth day
and fifth and final days
India was 3 for 107 in reply
I'm not sure what the question was
Well, while the Navy seems to be at
hour and hour for its 75th anniversary
units not in port
have been exercising off the New South Wales
south coast
The arrival of a seeking helicopter
at dawn signals the start of the biggest
of the biggest