And get very excited as we visit one of Australia's most exciting theme parks.
Yes, it's Wonderland tonight with the young talent team, the new generation, and lots of special guests.
So, let's get on with the action.
Wherever you are in the world, get ready for Strangers International Music Show Young Talent Time.
With your host, Johnny Young, the Young Talent Team, and the Strangers International Music Stars, the new generation.
Now, get ready for a musical adventure in Wonderland.
Get ready, let's hear it.
Come, come, come.
Get ready, let's hear it.
Come, come, come.
Never met a boy who makes me feel the way that you do.
It's all right.
I never promised to make my dreams real.
I'll say that you do.
It's all right.
So be right, go from.
Look out, baby, because here I come.
It's time to bring you new and lovely shoes.
Get ready, so get ready.
I'm gonna try and make you love me too.
So get ready, so get ready, because here I come.
Come on, come on, come on.
All you've got on the plane, hard to seek with love.
Let me remind you, it's all right.
Loving you gonna miss every time it takes to find you.
It's out of sight.
So fiddle-y-dee, fiddle-y-dum.
Look out, baby, because here I come.
It's time to bring you new and lovely shoes.
So get ready, so get ready.
I'm gonna try and make you love me too.
So get ready, so get ready, because here I come.
So get ready, because here I come.
Come on, come on, come.
Because here I come, come, come.
And now, here's Johnny Young.
Hello, Australia, and welcome to Young Talent Time
at Wonderful Wonderland.
Hey, we're thrilled you could join us,
because this is a very, very special night for us.
It's our first opportunity to introduce you
to our international ambassadors of music,
the New Generation.
And I'm talking about Danny, Vince, Natalie, Bevan, Marina,
and from Los Angeles, California,
the great talent of Keith Williams.
As well as that, we got lots of fun, Young Talent Time style,
a very sad moment when Australia says farewell
to the beautiful pandas,
and of course, all the usual stuff that you like to see.
But right now, let's introduce you for the first time
to those great kids taking international television
by storm, the New Generation.
We are Love Mony, mo-mo-mony.
We are Love Mony, mo-mo-mony.
We are the New.
Here it comes now, Sam, mo-mo-mony.
Hey, hey, hey.
Shutting down, turning around, come on, mo-mo-nay.
Hey, hey, hey.
He gives me love, I feel all right now.
Hey, hey, hey.
You got me tossing and turning in the middle of the night,
and I feel all right, I see, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you make me feel mo-mo-mony.
Love mo-mo-mony.
Good mo-mo-mony.
Yeah, mo-mo-mony.
Come on mo-mo-mony.
Mo-mo-mony.
Mo-mo-mony.
I say, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
You make me shake me, mo-mo-mony.
Hey, hey, hey.
Shut down, getting done, come on, mo-mo-nay.
Hey, hey, hey.
I don't stop, could you make yourself feel now?
Hey, hey, hey.
I said, don't stop now, better come on mo-mo-nay.
Come on mo-mo-nay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Ooh I love you, mo-mony, mo-mony, mo-mony.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel so good, yeah, come on, yeah, alright, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And there you have it, for the first time on Australian television, The New Generation.
We hope you enjoyed it on Wild Wonderland tonight, and we'll be back right after this little break with more.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And look for the back to school specials in skirts, bags and shoes.
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Welcome back everybody to our Wonderland special.
And now, if you're in the mood, have a bit of a giggle with Natalie Miller and the gang, and she's just perfect.
I don't want to be caught on the waves.
I need someone who really cares.
Life is too short to play silly games.
I promise myself I won't do that again.
It's got to be perfect.
It's got to be worth it.
Too many people take second best, but I won't take anything less.
It's got to be perfect.
It's got to be worth it.
Too many people take second best, but I won't take anything less.
It's got to be, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Perfect. It's got to be, yeah.
Perfect. It's got to be perfect.
Now that was funny. Did you enjoy that?
Terrific. And of course, don't worry about it, mums, because that was just showbiz stuff. That wasn't really heavy.
And thank you very much, Natalie. Beautiful song, perfect, from the hit parades.
You know, it's terrific here at Wonderland because we get an opportunity for the kids to go on all the rides and have a look around.
And there's one place in particular here at Wonderland that the kids really, really enjoy, and that's down by the beach.
Because they're fun-loving Australians, but they really do love those Californian girls.
So here comes Jamie and the Young Talent Time Californian girls.
Well, the East Coast girls are hip-hop, really take those styles very well.
And the Southern girls, with the way they talk, they knock me up when I'm down there.
The Midwest farmers daughters really make you feel alive. And the Northern girls, with the way they kiss, they keep their boyfriends warm at night.
I think those girls.
I wish they loved to be California. I wish they loved to be California girls.
The West Coast has the sunshine and the girls are so tender.
I'd be the French bikini and a wild wild flows by a foundry in the sand.
I'd be around the street in the world and I'd see all kinds of girls.
But I'd squeeze and wait to get back in the states but don't look in the sky, I'd be nowhere.
I wish they loved to be California. I wish they loved to be California girls.
I wish they loved to be California girls. I wish they loved to be California girls.
I wish they loved to be California girls. I wish they loved to be California girls.
You know people often ask us, what's it like being on television? Is it a really glamorous thing? Do the kids have limousines that drive them everywhere?
And I guess they have big plush dressing rooms with television sets and all the luxuries.
Well if you really want to find out what happens when the Young Talent team and New Generation go on tour, have a little look because we took a camera backstage before the show and this is what really happens.
This is our all-star wardrobe department. As you can see we involve everybody in it. This is our wardrobe mistress Jean. Smile at the camera Jean.
And this is Natalie Jane Miller's mother, Mrs Miller, who gets to do something for her living as well. You're doing a great job and she's on a diet by the way.
Come on, I'll show you more.
One and two and three. Dad did them foot on the floor.
Sorry to interrupt but this is a rehearsal and Gillian Fitzgerald is putting the kids through their paces in between shows to make sure that they've got their routines right.
And she works them hard too. Just about as hard as the ground on which they have to dance, which happens to be gravel.
Show them Craig.
Oh, big phoenix.
Shh. You have to be very quiet here because this is the makeup department and there are artists at work.
You see they take a very ordinary looking Tasmanian like this young man here and they turn him into a fabulous looking television superstar.
Well done girls. And this is the most exciting part of the whole backstage area because this is the star dressing room. I wonder who's in here today.
Sorry, I'll try another one.
Probably this time. I think I'll knock.
Hello. Oh, hi, Dan. Hi, Carol.
I was just showing everybody around a little bit of a guided tour as to what happens behind the set, you know. What are you guys up to?
I was just doing a bit of designing.
Before your label? Yeah.
Have you seen Danny's clothing label? It's fabulous. D-A-N-N-I-N-N-I. Not as in the way you spell your name. Not as in Danny, as in Danny. As in Danny. Double I at the end. I didn't know that.
She's got two I's. No wonder she looks so good. That's kind of funny. Are you enjoying her range of clothes, Carol?
She's great. She's a very talented girl. She is.
Yeah, very, very good. Listen, the reason why I knocked on your door is because there's a real special surprise, you see. Because young Timmy Nelson, who's another behind the scenes person, come over here, Tim.
He doesn't know we're going to do this. See, Tim, it's Timmy's birthday today. And so we thought we'd sort of get you guys to sing a little happy birthday to Timmy. You want to join him? Come on in, gang. Here we go. Are you ready?
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Tim. Happy birthday to you.
Hip hip. Hooray. Hip hip. Hooray. Hip hip. Hooray. Happy birthday, Tim. And he's a beauty, too. He works very hard on Young Talent Time. Now, behind the scenes, of course.
OK. You would have noticed there, there was Danny, of course, who's with the new generation and her mum, Carol Monogue. And while they were standing there backstage, we heard the sound of a particular song that I think might be familiar to them.
And with a little bit of luck, as a matter of fact, we should be so lucky. Here is that song performed by Ricky Arnett.
I'm dreaming about you all the time. In my mind is celebration, the sweetest compensation. Thinking you could be mine. In my imagination there is no hesitation. We walk together hand in hand. I'm dreaming.
You fell in love with me. I fell in love with you. But dreaming's all I do. It's all in the come true. I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. I should be so lucky in love. I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. I should be so lucky in love.
It's a crazy situation. You always keep me waiting. Because it's only make believe. And I would come around to give you all my loving. It's one day you would notice me.
My heart is close to breaking and I can't go on thinking. The fantasy that you'll be mine. I'm dreaming that you're in love with me. I fell in love with you. But dreaming's all I do. It's all in the come true. I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. I should be so lucky in love.
I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. I should be so lucky in love. I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. I should be so lucky in love.
Beautiful young Ricky. That was gorgeous.
You a Kylie Minogue fan? Yes. You a Danny Minogue fan? Yep. Are you a New Generation fan? Yeah.
Well, the New Generation comes right up after we have this little break. Thank Ricky everybody!
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so give them a warm welcome, our very own New Generation.
Hi everybody, are you ready for a good time? Because we've got the song for you. Here's
what your talents have to offer party.
That's falling in love with you
Now love is just a faded memory
Should've known better
I'm a victim to this pain
And my heart still aches for you
There was no risk that I wouldn't take
And not a promise that I didn't make
All I asked was that you just hold on
Now I'm wondering what I did wrong
Should've known better
That falling in love with you
Now love is just a faded memory
Should've known better
I'm a victim to this pain
And my heart still aches for you
I gave you my body and body
Never believing that I'd lose control
I took my hands off my pain
Should've known better
That falling in love with you
Now love is just a faded memory
Should've known better
I'm a victim to this pain
And my heart still aches for you
I hear me on
Out here, me and you
Reaching out to each other
Is all that we can do
Here we stand
Trying not to fall
There's no need to worry
Love will conquer all
Do you really wanna know
Yes, I really wanna know
Just how long love will last
Will all of the bad times pass
How can we make things right
Don't you worry, baby
Ooh, why
Why is the world so unkind
We surely can find peace of mind
If we only see the light
Can't we see that
Here we are
Out here, me and you
There's no need to worry
Love will conquer all
Sometimes the road gets hard to travel
Sometimes the pain's too much to bear
Sometimes when life seems too unravelled
That's the time, oh, to say
We're gonna make it anyway
Can't we see that
Here we are
Out here, me and you
Reaching out to each other
Is all that we can do
Here we stand
Trying not to fall
There's no need to worry
Love will conquer all
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Welcome back to our Wonderland special and look who's here, Snagglepuss and Freddie Flintstone.
Hey, Snagglepuss, I've always been a very, very big fan of yours. You've got my kind of sense of humour.
It's really exciting for us to be here at Wonderland. I guess it's exciting for you to have the young talent team here as well, huh?
It's fabulous, amazing, wonderful, stupendous even.
I agree. Hey, Freddie.
Hi, Johnny.
How you doing?
Yabba dabba doo.
Fantastic. Let me tell you something. I see the strangest creatures here that I think come from your era. Yep, from Bedrock.
As a matter of fact, I think I saw one of those brontosaurus that you have for dinner often.
Have a look. I think here it comes now. Watch out, because here comes the dinosaur.
I'm going to be your slave.
You drop a monkey, start to go.
Someone's terrified.
Star Wars, Bill and I.
I felt their little size.
Watch my alien boss.
I broke the dinosaur.
The dinosaur.
Everybody want the dinosaur.
Boom, boom, akalaka like a boom, boom, boom, akalaka like a boom, boom.
I thought I'd come and find out a little bit more about dinosaurs.
This is an actual size model of a polar dinosaur who lived in the South Pole around about 100 million years ago.
Yes, 100 million years ago. And the world wasn't like we know it today. It was quite different.
The weather was a lot warmer. It was like summer all year round. And there were no people either.
There were about 150 different species of dinosaurs ranging in size from as big as a three story building to as small as a turkey.
Can you imagine that?
Here is a cast of a real dinosaur's footprint.
Footprints and fossils are all that is left of the dinosaurs these days.
And as there were no cameras or anything like that around 100 million years ago,
the only way we can get an idea of what they actually looked like is by piecing together the bones and footprints like a jigsaw puzzle to create a replica of what the dinosaur looked like.
Yeah, he's kind of cute.
These are fossilized dinosaur eggs. Being reptiles, the dinosaurs laid eggs.
And this is what their cute little babies looked like when they first cracked open their shells.
The closest living relative to the dinosaur is the crocodile.
And as you can see, the crocodile has hardly changed in all these years.
This is a Norfolk Island pine. And it's a relative of the plants that dinosaurs used to eat.
Hmm, does smell like pine.
Dinosaurs once ruled the earth, but then all of a sudden they died out.
Just why this happened, no one can really say.
Who knows what really happened? Maybe they just made way for a new sensation.
Live, baby, live, now that the day is over.
I've got a new sensation, and in perfect moments, it's so impossible to be cute.
Sleep, baby, sleep, now that the night is over.
And the sun comes like a car into my room.
Oh, perfect night and promises.
Got a hold on you. New sensation, new sensation. Right now.
Gonna take you home. New sensation, new sensation.
Dream, baby, of all this come and going.
And you will find out in it, there really is, there really is no difference.
Cry, baby, cry, when you gotta get it out.
I'll be your shoulder and tell me you're gonna keep it in you.
So that's the reason why I'm here.
Hey, yeah, yeah, are you ready for a new sensation? New sensation. Right now.
Gonna take you home. New sensation, new sensation. New sensation, new sensation.
When we break out of school, we need something real cool.
We don't need advice on what's perfect and what's nice. We all know what's best.
All chocolate, all strawberry, all rice.
So come on join the crowd and wrap your life in gear. Wrap your life in gear and a full spill of love. It's only natural.
Something I know. Something I know.
Wish me love or wishing well. The kiss is a-
Oh, baby, baby, it's a lie.
I, I, I'm looking for-
Rock melons.
And I'm looking for-
Too much music to be on the one album. Hot summer hits. Get it while it's hot from concept.
That's not a chicken taste. Look here, have an onion. Beautiful. That's a pineapple. That's not an apple. It's a pear. It's a grape.
That's nice. That's too sharp. On behalf of Australia's Wonderland, we'd like to present you and the Young Talent team with this gift for breaking our record attendance back in July 17th with 22,000 people.
It was a park record. It was the first time we ever had to shut the gates in the afternoon. And that's what the reason you're back now. And we'd like to invite you back here again real soon.
Thank you very much.
So thank you to you and the team.
Oh, wonderful.
I'd like to thank my coach.
That's a real thrill. Thank you, Lyndon. I'm sure every one of us would agree that this has just been a real terrific experience for us.
This place is the kind of thing that Young Talent time's about and it's a tribute to all the people who have put it together that it really represents what Australia is all about.
And I guess that's why it's called Australian Wonderland.
Thanks very much.
So thank you. And that's a real thrill. And we'll treasure it, won't we, gang?
We will.
Oh, you come back now. That's amazing.
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We certainly have had a good time bringing it to you and would you say a very big thank you to our young talent team. Here they come.
And we'd like to say thank you to all our friends here at Wonderland who have made us so welcome for the last couple of weeks.
It's been a great time and we certainly hope to come back here real soon. Next week another exciting Young Talent Time program.
New Generation will be with us again. Super special guest stars, lots of fun with the Young Talent team.
And don't forget if you can to join the New Generation, the Young Talent team and yours truly for our Christmas concerts in Perth, Adelaide, on the Gold Coast, Melbourne and Sydney as well.
And until the next time we see you, take care everybody and we send all our loving to you.
And I hope that all your dreams do come true.
And then while I'm away I'll ride home every day and I'll send all my loving to you.
And that's wonderful Wonderland. What an exciting show that was and I certainly hope you enjoyed that boys and girls.
And join us next week because I think you're going to love it again. It's a pirate show with lots of villains, lots of pirates and lots of Young Talent Time music and fun.
All that next week. So join us won't you? Goodbye for now.
This is a Television House production for Network 10 Australia. Gavin Wood speaking.
Yeeba-dabba-doo. Goodnight Australia.
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Point of View is written and spoken by Bob Santamaria for the National Civic Council 254 Queen Street Melbourne Victoria 3000.
In our is Point of View an independent news commentary by Mr. Bob Santamaria on behalf of the National Civic Council.
How do you do? One of the major arguments concerning the forthcoming federal budget lies in its provisions concerning child care.
Figures actually exist to show that government run child care centres cost twice as much to run as private centres.
So the Minister for Finance Senator Walsh wanted to issue a voucher in respect of every child at every child care centre.
Each parent would get exactly the same amount to help to pay for each child. If some parents wish to spend more it was open to them to pay the balance out of their own pockets.
The strongest opposition predictably came from the feminist lobby. It wants free or heavily subsidised child care for everybody regardless of whether they're rich or poor.
And that simply means that the great bulk of taxpayers on middle incomes but squeezed by high tax rates will be subsidising the wealthy.
And apparently the feminists have won. Perhaps as justification for this principle enter the latest research monograph to issue from the National University entitled
The Forgone Earnings from Child Wearing in Australia by two academics John J Biggs and Bruce J Chapman. It is actually meant to be taken seriously.
The first paragraph in the introduction begins by stating the obvious and I quote it.
Raising children is an expensive process. The obvious direct costs include food, shelter, education and clothes.
Less obvious but undoubtedly of greater magnitude are the labour market earnings foregone by child rearers typically mothers.
Well I can only say that if only the results of this original research had become available when my own family was coming into being
it would have concerned me and I would hope their mother that becoming the parents of eight children far from representing an economy of scale
on the principle of cheaper by the dozen should have been regarded by us as a massive essay in personal wastefulness.
The level of income foregone according to our researchers varies. If one marries what they call a woman with average education the monograph states
and again I quote having one child is associated with a lifetime income loss of about three hundred and thirty six thousand dollars
assuming that there's no capacity to receive interest on the sum. Second and third children are associated with about a further fifty thousand
and thirty five thousand income losses. Well assuming that numbers four to eight in my own family meant an average income loss of thirty thousand
ahead the income we would have forgotten would have been in the vicinity of six hundred thousand. Truly a financial disaster.
But the true situation is in fact much worse. The ANU reporter organ of the nation's premier center of learning in its review of the monograph
outlined the true gasliness of the situation. The amount of foregone earnings for women up to the age of sixty it added
who have had one two or three children is three hundred and thirty six thousand three hundred and eighty four thousand and four hundred and nineteen thousand dollars respectively.
Had this money been invested at five percent the pre-tax income would actually have been nine hundred and twenty nine thousand a million and fifty nine thousand
and one million one hundred and forty five thousand respectively. Thus it concluded the presence of children costs around a million dollars over a mother's lifetime.
Well that's surely alarming. But if you're foolish enough to marry a high flying highly educated woman the figures become truly catastrophic.
The most substantial income loss is for highly educated women with access to a high interest rate capital market.
The first child they say costs over two million dollars the second an additional four hundred thousand and the third an extra quarter of a million dollars.
The obvious conclusion I would have thought is that you just can't afford to marry a highly educated woman since if she yields to the folly of having children
the income foregone would startle even a homes accord. There is however something peculiar about this type of accountancy.
Doesn't anything at all go into the credit column. In my family's personal case to have foregone the highly expensive eight children so as to keep their mother working and earning
would have meant subtracting two barristers a solicitor two teachers a nurse a first assistant secretary of a government department and a Cambridge PhD
from the list of Australia's income owners their collective tax probably helps to keep the smile on Mr Keating's face.
So finally to quote the ANU reporter once again. Dr Chapman said that the study had broad implications for debates on important social issues
such as those concerning fertility choices population growth the subsidization of child care and possibly financial settlements in divorce cases.
Dr Begg said that the study had implications also for immigration policy.
Well under all the circumstances it would seem that the only rational population policy for Australia is to import millions of adult migrants
so long as they have no children and to make sure that all the males undergo immediate sterilization so that we don't add to the statistics of female income foregone.
The English poet GK Chesterton must have had a distant intuition of this brave new world of statistical research when he wrote in one of his songs of education
I remember my mother the day that we met a thing I shall never entirely forget and I toy with the fancy that young as I am I should know her again if we met in a tram
but mother is happy turning a crank that increases the balance at somebody's bank and I feel satisfaction that mother is free from the sinister task of attending to me.
Goodbye until next week.
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Point of View, the independent news commentary you've just seen is presented by Mr Bob Santamaria on behalf of the National Civic Council.
Point of View is written and spoken by Bob Santamaria for the National Civic Council 254 Queen Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000.
Tuesday night.
I'm bored. I need companionship. I need a woman.
The alpha's on a downer.
I'm desperate. Species is no longer a priority.
But the alpha himself is no looker.
He said that his looks were lethal and we should get him a permit for his face.
Al, 7.30 Tuesday.
The establishment of a rental bond authority in Queensland has been approved by a state cabinet.
The authority will protect the rights of both landlords and tenants.
We've recently introduced a rental bond authority legislation into Queensland Parliament.
And the idea of that is that an independent bond authority will be set up to hold bonds on behalf of tenants who rent from landlords.
Under this legislation the tribunal can make an order and the rental bond money will be returned either in whole or in part to the tenant or to the landlord, whatever the case may be.
The return or non-return of rental bond money has been the cause of much anger, distress and at times financial hardship to both landlords and tenants.
The tenant usually needs the return of bond money to secure alternative accommodation.
On the other hand, many landlords are left out of pocket through damaged tenants of left behind.
They not only have to pay for repairs but are unable to re-let the property until the work has been completed.
The legislation demands a detailed report of the property's condition be lodged with the authority and a copy be kept by the landlord and tenant.
So when the property is vacated there is no disputing the original condition.
Bond boards in other states are profitable and the profits are spent on worthwhile social projects such as rental advisory services and the construction of welfare housing.
Well in New South Wales it's been immensely successful. It has in fact contributed to the housing industry by some 6,500 homes since 1979 which have been built on the profits from the rental bond board down there.
Landlords will benefit from the provision of ex gratia payments in cases where tenants have left after creating more damage than can be covered by the bond.
The system will be more efficient as it will take less than 15 minutes for the vacating tenant to obtain the return of bond money over the counter and four days if the money is being refunded through the mail.
Once the authority is running at a profit the extra money gained from interest will fund community benefit projects such as rental advisory services, assist research into rental patterns and help improve relationships between landlords and tenants.
The rental bond authority in Queensland is designed not to cost the Queensland public any money at all.
In fact initially there will be some outlays necessary for the setting up and operation of the board but in the long term it's been indicated that the board will make a profit and that profit can go to housing and the industry associated there with.
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Good evening.
Another success for the federal police today with the seizure of a 25 million dollar hashish haul on the Melbourne waterfront.
Alerted by customs officers police throughout the world have been involved in the operation culminating the arrest yesterday of three men in London.
Customs officials discovered the 2.5 tonnes of compressed cannabis when it arrived at Swanson dock on a Russian cargo ship from Manila on July 13 last year.