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Monday 15th January 1996

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International:

A mix of old style town hall meetings and ultra modern Internet access will inject a new look into Australia day - on January the 26th. More than 140 councils across Australia will hold public forums to discuss constitutional change, the republic and reconcilliation with the Aborigines. Telstra are launching Australia Day on-line. Telstra will be sponsoring the events section of this DLG with this site from later this week.

Political:

As the Federal election approaches (Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating is expected to announce the date later this or next week) the gap between the two parties narrows. The gap is now set at 4% lower than the 8% gap in favour of the Liberals reached late last year.

Business:

Seems like Murdoch is about to take on World Cup football as well. Reports out of London suggest that the Australian-born entrepeneur is making a multi million dollar bid for soccer's holy grail from the 2002 World Cup. In a separate Murdoch bid 1.2 billion UK pounds have been offered for the rights to cover the Olympic Games between 2000 and 2008 in Europe.

Sport:

In a lack-luster game of cricket the Sri Lankan team beat the West Indies with a score of 203 runs. The day-night match lacked the flair often produced by the sides top batsmen. The two teams are fighting for the right to meet Australia in the final.

Social:

Asian take-away dishes have taken over from fish and chips as Australia's favourite fast food. Last year Australians spent about Au$6.3 billion on fast food or about 1.1 billion meals (about 64 meals per person). This represented an annual increase of 13%. In the traditional fast food areas MacDonalds continued to dominate over Kentucky Fried Chicken followed by Pizza Hut, but sales in these areas had fallen slightly.

Global Gripe of the day:

Media domination in sport
The great danger with international sport's domination by a very few media players carries several dangers. Putting aside the manner in which they will monopolise live coverage to the masses the other dangers include:
- Changes in the games rules to meet advertising or sponsor demands.
- The domination of the sport down to school level in years to come.

Personal trivia:

What a spectacular show we had yesterday. We were sitting on our paved deck in the shade of THAT mangoe tree (which dominates our neighbour's garden) and enjoying the view of the Brisbane River below. A number of rainbow lorikeets came and settled literally six feet from us and chatted away amiably as if we weren't there - or maybe they were trying to bring us into the conversation! Their colours were stunning with radiant blue necks and red breasts flecked with yellow. To add to the show a pair of sulphur crested parrots landed nearby squawking awkwardly as they tried to claim the territory held by the rainbows. Then came the small scaley breasted parrots who landed among the rainbows and for about a quarter of an hour total pandomonium reigned with the squeaks of the rainbows and scaley breasteds interrupted by the squawks of the sulphur cresteds. It was quite an amazing show which only ended when they all got bored and flew off. Today is another one of those beautiful sunny Queensland days.

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