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International:

The Australian Tourism Commission (ATC) will hold high-level talks with Asian industry leaders next week to discuss ways of increasing the profitability of the booming Korean and Taiwanese markets.

ATC managing director, Mr Jon Hutchison, will host the industry summit in Taipei on Tuesday and Seoul on Thursday. Commenting on the talks Hutchison said that while South Korea and Taiwan continued to be the star performers in terms of tourism growth, poor profitability had led to some Australian operators abandoning them.

In June, he warned that some leading hotels in Sydney had turned away tourists from these countries because they could charge visitors from other countries at higher rates.

"Australia is receiving record visitor arrivals from Asia, but we need to take a close look at how we can maximise the benefits of future growth," he said.

Political:

Prime Minister John Howard and the Labor leader of the opposition, Kim Beazley, have moved decisively to establish a framework for a decent, civilised, non-racial immigration debate.

Beazley attacked Oxley Independent Pauline Hanson's comments and stand directly and supported the size of the Coalition Government's immigration program.

Pauline Hanson wasn't taking things lying down yesterday, once again going on the attack linking Asian residents who have immigrated to Australia directly with crime and drug problems.

Hanson said, "There are Chinese triad groups that are going around to schools and they are intimidating kids and extorting money out of them.

"Another thing with Asians here is we have a big problem because 80% of heroin comes from Asia, so there's a big problem."

She claimed yesterday that Asians would make up 30% of Australia's population by the year 2000 and 50% by the year 2040.

Business:

Looks like the Coles Myer AGM scheduled for the 19th November is going to be a lulu with Solomon Lew's quest for re-election after the Yannon affair being at the centre of the controversy.

There appears to be evidence that Mr Nobby Clark, the new Coles chairman, has enough shareholder backing to rid the board of the troublesome deputy chairman.

But with the new big Coles player, Brierley Investments Limited, doing a deal with Lew for a place on the board it appears that the tide is turning and that the numbers could be very evenly matched.

Sport:

Australia are on the ropes in Delhi. In the second day of cricket, the Indians have built up a mammoth first innings lead after skittling the Aussies for only 182. They now stand at 319 for 6 - a substantail lead that the Aussies will battle to recover.

The difference appears to be in the spin bowling, with Shane Warne's absence from the team being the major blow to Australia's hopes on the field.

Personal trivia, from the global office:

Another gorgeous day in the global office. The cockatoos are quite noisy, one of these days, I will set up a video cam so that you can watch them... they are an almost constant presence!

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