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Saturday 3rd August 1996
Saturday 3rd August 1996
In the finals they swamped South Korea 3-1.
Oh, and some minor news (politically expedient yawn) - it appears that the US President, (I can't remember his first name) Clinton, could be coming to Australia in November.
If they get the staff of the local TAFE to stop the traffic in the street so that the local state member of parliament has easy access on the public roads to the TAFE building what are they going to do for him?
Close down Sydney for the day, create the Atlanta havoc... guess time will tell!
The warning comes as the Government prepares to finalise its budget package to make superannuation fairer for ordinary workers.
Options being discussed include winding back tax concessions to the wealthy and re-targeting the tax support to lower income earners.
Case of the pot calling the pot black I reckon!
Murdoch's national Australian newspaper has revealed that billionaire businessman Richard Pratt maintains a multi million dollar network of political, business and security advisors, including two former Labor Prime Ministers.
Seems like Bob Hawke is doing the best with an Au$8,333 per month consultancy fee... since last September for advice on Asian and government matters.
In the same breath (or, at least, on the front page as well) they comment that Mr Kerry Packer, Australia's wealthiest man, is ready to pick-up the Fairfax group when the Federal government give him the green light.
Now somehow I wonder why the first story does not relate to the second and the second party not relate to the first.... if you know what I mean.
Let's face it media power is political power and political power is worth a lot more than a miserly Au$8,000 per month consultancy fee.
Following an Australia record equalling performance at Atlanta (35 Medals) the pundits are now claiming that Australia can achieve sixty medals at the Sydney Olympics - with twenty gold!
The advertisement, which appeared in Women's Weekly, features a gymnast performing on the ring insignia opposite a box of Omo detergent.
What ever happened to the Olympic spirit and good old fashioned values?
Leaves a sour taste in my throat when you get these Olympic big wigs thinking that they can take over town then suing a local magazine (Kerry Packer's mind you) for breach of monopoly, breach of copyright and misleading or deceptive trade.
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) is claiming damages, aggravated damages and costs against Australian Consolidated Newspapers.
Maybe we should just black ban AOC publicity related to the Sydney 2000 games, we might get sued for telling it as it is. (Wasn't it the "unnamed" wife of one of the top Olympic officials who got arrested in Atlanta for kneeing a policewoman in the groin when she tried to stop this "dignatory" jaywalking? Now I wonder why she remains unnamed, I mean imagine the outcry if Dean Capobianco had done it!
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