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International:

The Dreamworld saga continues to spark new controversy. Little do the kids know or care as they slide down the tube, ride the rollercoaster or watch the tigers that the battle for the future ownership of this theme park is being fought in the media, the courts and the boardrooms. Brisbane based businessman, Ross Palmer (who is trying to stop a deal struck between the Dreamworld receivers, Ernst and Young, and a Singaporean businessman through the courts) yesterday claimed that the receivers were guilty of conflict of interest. He claimed that the registered office of the Singaporean company was the same address as the receivers. Good point if the allegation is true.

Political:

Former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has been taken to hospital suffering from a mysterious illness. Staff at St Vincent's hospital in Sydney joked about setting up a "Labor Ward" after another former Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, was released yesterday morning from the same hospital. Hawke was in for a pinched nerve that was causing him severe pain.

Business:

Retailers are battling to get it right over the Christmas period. The buying patterns of shoppers fluctuate from year to year. This year the shops were only packed in the 48 hours leading up to Christmas - with sales being relatively quiet before that. Immediately after Christmas the sales brought the shoppers back - with retailers offering the right bargains doing extremely well while others hardly had any trade at all.

Sport:

Sri Lanka were banned from approaching Darrell Hair, the cricket umpire who no-balled their spinner Muralidharan for chucking. In the second test yesterday Australia defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets after the visitors were bundled out for 307. Mark Taylor and Michael Slater made the required 41 runs to win in under 8 overs.

Social:

Crime is paying for Australia's law enforcement agencies. They are now charging each other for intelligence. Fingerprints, modus operandi and other information is now charged for by agencies. A check on fingerprints, for example, costs the investigating officer Au$86. A copy of a black and white photograph cost Au$17 and so the list of charges go on!

Personal trivia:

Another warm one yesterday. Actually it was a frustrating type of day. The Brisbane river ran as always, the sun shone, the grass was green but the Galaxy man never arrived. So what is Galaxy? Pay TV has just arrived in Australia and we decided to indulge and had a satellite dish put on our house months ago by Galaxy. When they phoned earlier this week to tell us that the decoder had eventually arrived and the technician would be at our home between 2 and 5pm we phoned our good friends an hour's drive from here to delay our get together. Well we waited and waited and waited until we could wait no more. Kind of spoilt the party arriving several hours late. Left a note on the door which was still there when we came home... so we still have the illusion of Pay TV at home but not the reality. We have, however, been sent a beautifully presented Galaxy magazine describing all the exciting shows that we could be watching.. if we were connected.

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