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■■■■■ Radio station 3AW this week axed Derryn Hinch after 10 years in the ‘Drive’program. Hinch, pictured with wife Chanel, this year won back the No 1 spot,ratings-wise. He is expected to be replaced, at least in the short term, by TomElliott. 3AW management says it will be taking the station in a different direction.Observer Editor Ash Long has the full story on Page 12.

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Happy birthday to Kevin Trask

■ The next Surrey Music Café on Friday (August 31) at 8pm featuresvocal group Salvation Jane and percussion duo Invention In Time.

Salvation Jane, a favourite vocal group of five women, is reunited inharmony with a new CD to launch – Something Old, Something New.

The group burst onto the Australian music scene in the early 1990s,primarily focussing on a cappella bluegrass gospel.

With stunning harmonies and powerful vocals, they toured the UKand New Zealand, finally bidding farewell to their fans in 1996.

Returning with many of the songs that people love to hear, as well asnew material, Salvation Jane will present a wide range of styles andcollection of instruments with a touch of humour.

Invention In Time features percussionists Kate Adam and Ariel Va-lent on marimba and vibraphone, presenting an exciting visual musicalexperience.

Invention In Time specialises in creating intricate soundscape com-positions that encapsulate the listener, with influences from world musicand jazz, taking the audience on a journey of stimulating original music.

Venue: Box Hill Community Arts Centre, 470 Station St, Box Hill.Date: Friday, August 31 at 8 pm, doors open at 7.30pm.Tickets: $18.Bookings: Whitehorse Centre 9262 6555 or online

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What’s On In Melbourne★ Fed Square’s car park rooftop was yesterday (Tues.) transformed

into a vibrant vegie garden to promote the benefits of one of Australia’smost favourite past times. Taxi Dining Room Executive Chef, TonyTwitchett had produce on show.

★ Enthusiast Ron Smith is making a free e-book about vegie growingavailable for children. To obtain a copy, e-mail simplygreen@

thelittlegreenbooks.com.au

★ Victorian Opera soprano Tiffany Speight will perform at the ArtistsFor Orphans fundraiser at The Elms Room, Kyneton Racing Club,

on a night that includes an art auction, advises Roni Wildboer, phone 0424938 931. www.trycooking.com/31455

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Clyde Simpson remembered■ Melbourne radio man ClydeSimpson’s start in show business, asa movie projectionist, was remem-bered at a memorial service held atSt Silas Anglican Church, Albert Parklast week.

Tributes were offered by 96.5 In-ner FM colleague, Kevin Trask ;andShane Healy, General Manager of3AW.

Seen in attendance at the serviceled by Fr Ray McGuinness wereBruce Mansfield, Philip Brady,Wayne Browne, David Mann, DeanReynolds, Peter O’Callaghan,Derryn Hinch, Gary and Joan Mac,Neil Mitchell, Bill Armstrong, JohnVeritgan and Graham Mott.

Other mourners included BillyPennell, Bill Duff, Clark FobesmDarren James and Michael James,Gerald Quigley, Karl Van Est, FrGerard Dowling, Denis O’Kane, TonyTardio and Pat Panetta.

Amongst the hundreds in atten-dance were Clyde’s advertising cli-ents, staff of 3AW and EON-FM(MMM-FM), his colleagues fromcommunity station 96.5 Inner FM, andthe entertainment industry.

Atop the coffin were a ribbon mi-crophone and a projector.

The grandchildren of Clyde andNola Simpson kept alive a theatretradsition by handing out bags of Jaffasat the conclusion of the service.●●●●● Clyde Simpson

Barassi in rehearsals

●●●●● Steve Bastoni

■ The cast of the new Australianstage play Barassi has begun re-hearsals.

Steve Bastoni takes on the roleof the legendary coach whilst ChrisAsimos plays the young Barassi.Matt Parkinson creates the role ofcoach and mentor Norm Smith, withJane Clifton in the central role ofnarrator.

They are joined by RichardSullivan, Amanda Labonte, GlennMaynard and Russell Robertson.

The show opens at the Ath-enaeum on September 20.

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GUESS WHO ISBACK ON RADIO

●●●●● Glenn Ridge

■ Glenn Ridge will return to Mel-bourne radio from next week, host-ing the 9am-Noon weekday programon MyMP 1377.

Ridge will present a daily three-hour program combining MyMP’seasy listening music playlist, com-bined with lifestyle segments featur-ing entertainment news, and a guideon places to go around Melbourne.

Ridge was most recently heard onthe same frequency, as part of theMelbourne Talk Radio - MTR 1377experiment. Ridge had weekday andweekend programs.

Ridge, 56, is also well-known ashaving been the host of Sale Of TheCentury on the Nine Network. He isManaging Director of the Q MediaGroup, which produces TV specialsand documentaries.

■ Melbourne entertainerMarney McQueen will be per-forming in London this weekend.

McQueen will present herShe’s A Rump Steak At a VeganBarbecue show at The Pheasant-ry

●●●●● Marney McQueen

Off The Leash

●●●●● Debra Lawrence■ Actors Debra Lawrance andDennis Coard will take part in thedramatic reading of JeannieHaughton’s short work, On Wak-ing, on September 19 after OffThe Leash Theatre’s AGM at 7:30pm in the West Gipplsand ArtsCentre meeting room, Warragul.

Visit to Max■ Show business world veteransPete Smith, Ted Ryan and PhilipRyan paid a visit to former Chan-nel 9 and 10 executive Max Stuartyesterday (Tues.) who is living incare at Kyneton.

★ The National Road Transport Hall of Fame inducted five Victoriansat a ceremony at Alice Springs on Saturday. They are Alison Coop,

Forest Hill; Graeme Dyer, Sale; Carl Douglas, Airport West; VincentMonahan, Larpent; and Mick Best, Mulgrave.

★ Phil Ah Wang has been nominated for a ‘Deadly’ Award for the bestindigenous Australian for activities run at the Victorian Aboriginal

Childcare Agency.

★ Radio broadcaster Derryn Hinch will next month hear the outcome ofa Magistrates’ Court case in which he is objecting to a $155 fine for

failing to vote in an election. The charge was brought by the VictorianElectoral Commission on Friday afternoon.

★ The Australia Israel Cultural Exchange and Palace Cinemas haveannounce Evgenia Dodina as the special guest of the 2012 AICE

Israeli Film Festival. She will participate in a Q&A discussing the film andIsrael’s film culture at Palace Cinema Como on Friday night (8.45pm), aswell as introducing the film at Palace Brighton Bay at 5pm Saturday.

On Friday night at Palace Cinema Como, on Saturday and Palace BrightonBay.

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●●●●● Salvation Jane’s Tess Lewis (left), Penny Larkins, JennySzery, Anna Fletcher and Rose Sexton will launch their newCD at the Surrey Music Café on August 31.

Salvation Jane at Surrey Music Cafe

■ Melbourne Observer colum-nist Kevin Trask celebrates his70th birthday this week, joiningfriends for a party.

Kevin has had a lifelong inter-est in show business, starting as aboy attending Saturday afternoonmovies in Coburg, auditioning asa singer on 3XY’s early Saturdaymorning talent show, working asan actor and a director, and host-ing the That’s Entertainment ra-dio program on 96.5 Inner FM forthe past 21 years.

Kevin appears with BruceMansfield and Philip Brady on3AW, and also has weekly spotson 4BC Brisbane.

Straight from the heart♥ E-Mail: [email protected]

Mark Richardson

HOPE UNVEILED IN MELBOURNE■ Many of Australia's influential 'rolemodels' including the likes of RickyPonting, Tommy Hafey, DeltaGoodrem and our most recentlynamed Melburnian of The Year,Michael Gudinski, all rose to the oc-casion by pledging their support at theNational Institute of IntegrativeMedicine's (NIIM) inaugural 'RoleModels ' fundraising event inMelbourne Aug 16).

Following the highly engaging per-sonal discussion and debates on rel-evant and topical issues moderated byJana Wendt, it was announced thatformer owner of Sportsgirl and phi-lanthropist, David Bardas, donated$400,000 to aid in the ever-increasingneed for more evidence-based treat-ments and much-needed equipmentfor the treatment of cancer and otherchronic illnesses.

The founding director of NIIM,Professor Avni Sali, believes the on-going support and input from manyAustralians, such as David, will helpease the problem that affects a highproportion of our community includ-ing claiming the lives of people everyday and stalling the careers of someof our celebrities including KylieMinogue, Delta Goodrem, DerrynHinch and Michael Douglas.

I was invited to interview Profes-sor Avni Sali, who together with hishighly skilled team retains a greatpassion for clinical research; with astrong focus in chemo-radiation

ContemplativePorch

Thoughtstherapy. From his early years in medi-cine, Professor Sali looked beyondthe parameters of mainstream medi-cine to a model integrating safe andeffective complementary medicineswith orthodox medicine, incorporat-ing the philosophy of a preventiveapproach to healthcare, with the pa-tient as an active participant in theirown healing.

Often referred to as the 'foundingfather' of integrative medicine in Aus-tralia, Professor Sali's expertisespans academia; medical practice in-cluding surgery, medical author, andresearch.

NIIM works to raise awarenessof the role of integrative medicine inmedical practice and public healthand brings together practice, educa-tion, and research of integrative medi-cine all under the one roof in Haw-thorn, and with the generosity ofDavid Bardas and our influential'Role Models', Australia's first Hy-perthermia System will be unveiledin Melbourne today.

When did your interest in a moreintegrative approach to medicine be-gin?

I think even as a child, I was al-

ways interested in 'why' things hap-pened. As a medical student it feltnatural for me to look beyond theconfines of the curriculum and ex-plore other ways to approach medi-cine. When I see a patient for thefirst time I will spend 2-3 hours withthem. I always like to find out 'why'their illness has happened.

You have an impressive CV withdecades of work in this field ofmedicine. What inspires you tokeep going?

Despite a recent negative move-ment against the education and prac-tice of complementary medicine,the need for co-existence betweenconventional and complementarymedicine is imperative. Given theadvances in scientific evidence andthe public interest in complemen-tary medicine with many doctorsseeking more natural treatment op-tions for their patients, I have nodoubt integrative medicine is theway forward for medicine.

Why is integrative medicine be-coming so popular?

Australians widely embracecomplementary medicines andtherapies with seventy per cent us-ing some form of complementarymedicine. We are a well-informedpublic looking beyond the prescrip-tion book for answers to health is-sues. The 'integrative medicine'approach is the medical model forthe future - but it is happening hereand now, in response to the de-mands of the public.

So what is integrative medicine?It is about combining the best of

both worlds. Keeping in mind it isabout safe, evidence-basedcomplementary medicine. It is awhole person approach encom-passing the mind and body. Thisapproach also involves the patientin being an integral part of their ownhealing process.

What types of patients do youtreat?

My focus is on chronic illness orpersistent illnesses - the areas thatreally challenge prescription-basedmedicine. I mainly see cancer pa-tients who are seeking a broadertreatment approach to their illness.It's about providing the best treat-ment options for that particular in-dividual with their own particularhealth issue and encouraging themto be an active participant in theirhealth. A high percentage of can-cer patients explore the use ofcomplementary medicines andtherapies along with their conven-tional cancer treatment.

●●●●● Professor Avni Sali

Why is this approach better forthe patient?

Healthy cancer patients do betterthan unhealthy cancer patients so it'simportant to make them as healthyas possible and that is not alwaysacknowledged in the traditional on-cology world. They don't talk aboutdiet and lifestyle.

What can people do to preventchronic illness?

Science now strongly supportsthe fact that there are many factorsleading up to an illness - this takes inthe mind and the body. Importantlyyou must look at what's going on inyour life such as the food you areeating, how much exercise you do,the amount of sunlight exposure andhow you are dealing with stress.Making adjustments in these areashave been shown to have huge im-pact on prevention, treatment andrecovery.

What is The NIIM 2012 Hyper-thermia Study?

This TGA-approved trial will ex-amine the effects of Hyperthermiaas an adjunctive cancer treatmenton patients in Australia alongsidetherapies such as chemotherapy andradiotherapy. We anticipate replicat-ing the high success rates of previ-ous studies with minimal risk,thereby pioneering another tool in thebattle against cancer.

Acquiring equipment such as theMorestep NRL-003 HyperthermiaSystem is very significant for theadvancement of our work. We couldnot have done this without the gen-erosity of David Bardas and theBardas Family Foundation.

We encourage readers to get toknow our work through our websiteand also by booking into one of ourIntegrative Healthchecks - the bestindicator on the status of your health.

What is your 'Porch' Thoughtof the Day?

Contemplation. We live in a de-manding society leading to us beingtime poor. Technology distracts us -we are never able to switch off. Quietcontemplation time is essential toallow our bodies to find that offswitch - even for a few minutes.Meditation allows our bodies recov-ery time.

- Mark Richardson

●●●●● David Bardas


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6 years jail for sex crime■ A registered Ballarat sex offender has beenjailed for more than six years after he had asexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy, re-ports The Courier. The man cannot be namedfor legal reasons. He pleaded guilty to eightcharges.

Messy love triangle■ A messy love triangle which led to a bash-ing at a Warrnambool bakery has resulted infour friends being assessed to serve time inyouth detention, reports The Standard. Fivemates, David Jayden Debono, Joshua CraigEdwards, Brandon William Everard, LeviGordon Geebung and Wade Ashley Paton,leaded guilty in Warrnambool County Courtto aggravated burglary and assault.

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SEX OFFENDER DENIED CASH AFTER JAIL BASHING

■ Convicted sex offender Peter Com-fort has been denied a damages payoutafter he was assaulted in prison.

Victorian Civil and AdministrativeTribunal Senior Member Ian Proctoraffirmed a decision by the Victims ofCrime Assistance Tribunal to pay com-pensation related to his medical ex-penses.

“I do not consider Mr Comfort to bean appropriate recipient of a symbolicexpression by the State of thecommunity’s sympathy by way of anaward of special financial assistance,”Mr Proctor said.

The Tribunal heard that Comfort’snose was broken after a dispute with twocellmates about the volume on the tele-vision in the prison cell.

Comfort received medical advicethat if his breathing is to be improved hisnose will need to be re-broken and reset.

Comfort had been convicted ofsexual pentration of a child under 16 years(she was 14) which he described as “thestupidest thing I’ve ever done”.

Comfort had prior convictions fortheft of a motor vehicle, threat to inflictserious injury, unlawful assault, and wil-fully injure property.●●●●● Norma Redpath at Mercy Place, East Melbourne. . Photo: Jaclyn Bond

Norma revisits bronze age

■ Renowned Melbourne artist and agedcare resident Norma Redpath revisited thebronze age this week.

Sculptor Norma Redpath OBE, a residentof Mercy Place East Melbourne, accompa-nied by staff of the aged care residence, re-visited one of her most iconic sculptures - thecoat of arms adorning the entry arch of theNational Gallery of Victoria.

Throughout her illustrious career, Normareceived several commissions in Australia,including bronze reliefs for BP offices inMelbourne and Westernport in 1964; and theTreasury Fountain, Canberra, 1965 to 1969.Norma also provided broze work for the Vic-torian State Coat of Arms for the façade ofthe National Gallery of Victoria, 1968; theSydney Rubbo Memorial at the Universityof Melbourne, 1970 to 1974; and the Higuchi

Sculpture at Monash University, 1971 to1972.

Jasmeet Sidu, Lifestyle Coordinator atMercy Place East Melbourne, said of the ex-cursion “We’re so proud of Norma, she hasachieved some amazing things in her life andit’s an honour to be able to take this journeywith her.”

Norma was born in Melbourne and stud-ied at Swinburne Technical College andRMIT.

In the 1950s she undertook studies atPerugia in Italy and travelled extensivelythroughout Europe.

Her early work attracted attention at theCentre Five exhibitions and at the annual ex-hibitions of the Victorian Sculptors' Associa-tion, of which she was a council member andVice-President.

In 1970 Norma was awarded OBE - Orderof the British Empire - for her contribution tothe development of Australian sculpture.

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■ Victorian lawyer Robert Vincent Booth has beenrefused permission to change his guilty plea in a ‘pro-fessional misconduct’ case. Booth says the guilty pleawas made when he had a “mental block”.

Booth is facing disciplinary charges brought by Le-gal Services Commissioner Michael McGarvie.

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Mem-ber Gerard Butcher says he is satisfied that Booth’schange of heart regarding the plea was being madebecause Mr McGarvie “intends to seek an order thatMr Booth be suspended from practice”.

Misconduct charges“I am not satisfied that Mr Booth suffered a mental

block which caused him to plead guilty to the charges.”Mr Butcher said Booth had pleaded guilty last Oc-

tober to 14 charges of professional misconduct. Wit-nesses were excused, and Booth gave sworn evidence.

Mr Butcher said that Booth , represented by coun-sel Mr S Warne, applied to change his plea to not guilty,and to resile from admissions.

Booth had submitted: “I pleaded guilty because Iwanted an end to the investigatioins and the prosecu-tions which they engendered.

Experienced“At this point I had never sought legal or other ad-

vice in relation to the issues raised by the investigationsor in relation to the prosecution.”

Mr Butcher said: “Mr Booth is a legal practitionerof considerable experience and is a person who onewould expect to be fully cognisant of the legal and fac-tual issues involved.”

A further date was ordered to be set for the hearingof submissions.

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‘Shire’ man charged■ A cast member of The Shire (Ten Network) hasbeen charged following an alleged homophobic at-tack in Surry Hills late last week that also involvedtwo other cast members.

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Collapse■ The 148 creditorsof Kala Homes are un-likely to receive a centof the $1.6 millionowed to home, reportsthe Geelong Advertisernewspaper.


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I love my job!I love my job!

WELL, HELLO LADIES!

●●●●● Stephen Merchant

■ A man who is in-credibly talented andwill be visiting ourshores is StephenMerchant.

Genius is the wordto describe thisEmmy,Golden Globeand Bafta Award win-ning co-creator of TheOffice television se-ries, Idiot Abroad, andLife’s Too Short.

He is bringing hisstand-up act to Austra-lia for the first time.

His show is calledHello Ladies and it willbe priceless!

Stephen will per-form at The Ath-enaeum Theatre, onWednesday, Decem-ber 12.

A great Christmasstocking gift, tickets goon sale tomorrow(Thurs., Aug. 30)

Snap them up theywill go quickly. I bet-ter get my skates on, Iwill be there.

We won!■ I had a great nightat the 2012 CulinaryCharity Challenge atPalladium at Crown, afabulous event.

It was Melbourneversus Sydney. Mel-bourne won!

Two celebritychefs and one pastrychef from Sydney, andtwo celebrity chefsand one pastry cheffrom Melbourne com-peted against eachother.

Peter Gilmore wasthe chef from Sydneyand Andrew McConn-ell was the chef fromMelbourne. It wasgreat to see Mel-bourne win!

The evening wasfabulous. Produced byPerfect Events, head-ed by Liliana Sanelli,it was so good it shouldhave been televised.

Certainly one of thecountry’s top charityevents, the chefssautéed, seared andsteamed everything insight.

A terrific team ofjudges headed up byChair of Judges,Jacques Reymond;Jill Dupleix, freelancefood writer, author andeditor; Janne Appel-gren, Editor, The AgeGood Food Guide;Anthony Puharich,CEO, Vic’s PremiumQuality Meat; TerryDurack, chief restau-rant critic of TheSydney Morning Her-ald; Joanna Saville,co-editor, The SydneyMorning Herald GoodFood Guide and Fes-tival Director of CraveSydney InternationalFood Festival; JaneWillson, Editor, TheAge Epicure; and thecharming JamesAndronis, DirectorClamms Seafood.

Much fun was hadby all in this fundraiser, MC’d by GeoffJantz. It was so niceto see Geoff inMelbourne again.

Dementia■ The reason wewere all there was toraise funds and supportone of the for world–class research intomental illness and de- ●●●●● Peter Gilmore

mentia. The fundsraised will enablescholarships foryoung scientists, train-ing and developingour future neuroscien-tists, as well as thepurchase vital equip-ment that can acceler-ate discoveries thatwill change the livesof one in five Austra-lians who live a men-tal illness.

Nobody knowswhy mental illnessoccurs.

Most of the currentmedical treatmentsonly address the symp-toms and not thecause.

What’s more theydon’t work for every-one.

Diagnosing a men-tal illness is also acomplex process, re-lying on subjectiveanalysis of symptomsrather than any bio-logical test.

Dementia remainsthe third biggest killerof adult Australians; itkills more people thanlung cancer, diabetesand breast cancer.

The World HealthOrganisation saysthere is a new case ofdementia every four

seconds, and predictsthe number of casesworldwide willroughly triple by 2050.

The Mental HealthResearch Institute hasformed a partnershipwith the University ofMelbourne and theFlorey NeuroscienceInstitutes to establisha new neurosciencecentre.

This Institute is atthe forefront of world-wide research intoneurodegenerativedisease like Alz-heimer’s disease andParkinson’s diseaseas well as psychiatricillnesses including de-pression, bipolar disor-der and schizophre-nia.

Through research,they strive to find bet-ter way to diagnoseand treat illnesses,and ultimately preventor cure them.

It was a very ben-eficial evening.

Winner■ No sooner was the2012 Culinary Char-ity Challenge overand Peter Gilmore’srestaurant Quay won

the nation’s top restau-rant at the AustraliaGourmet TravellerRestaurant Awards.

This is the highestaccolade for any Aus-tralian restaurant.

The awards are thehottest ticket on thedining calendar inSydney.

This is the thirdRestaurant of the Yeargong for Quay, whichoverlooks Sydney’sharbour, bridge andOpera House.

Quay tops afiercely competitivefield of more than 400establishments in thenew edition of theAustralian GourmetTraveller RestaurantGuide, the country’sonly national restau-rant guide.

Laugh!■ I love Britishhumour and the moreBritish comediansthat come to ourshores the happier Iam!

It looks like I willbe doing a lot of laugh-ing in the next fewmonths.

So imagine how


thrilled I was when Iheard Noel Fieldingwas coming toMelbourne. For twoshows only!

UK surrealist, co-median, actor, artist,DJ and musician,Fielding is returningto Australia for thefirst time in nearly 10years – for two veryexclusive shows inMelbourne: October23 and 24 at the Ath-enaeum

Theatre book atTicketek 132 849www.ticketek.com.auTickets are on salenow!

Noel Fielding (akaVince Noir), is co-cre-ator and one-half of theaward winning com-edy duo The MightyBoosh who have writ-ten and appeared inthree highly ac-claimed series forBBC3 and BBC2, andAdult Swim inAmerica.

His first solo tele-vision series, NoelFielding’s LuxuryComedy, was broad-cast this year and hisother television workincludes appearancesin Nathan Barley,Garth Marenghi’sDark Place and threeseries’ of the ITCrowd.

They have com-pleted two UK tours,playing at packed ven-ues including Lon-don’s 02 Arena andWembley Arena andalso hosted their veryown MightyBooshFestival.

Noel, born inWestminster in 1973,is a highly regardedcomedian in his ownright.

Noel is the TeamCaptain on the musicpanel show NeverMind The Buzzcocks

Be quick as theseexclusive solo showsby the hilarious NoelFielding will sell outfast!

- Di Rolle

●●●●● Nigel Triffitt Photo: Jeff Busby

■ Phew! What a week The television wasgreat with Howzat! It is a terrific televisionseries, I just love it.

Prince Harry has been showing himself tothe world. He certainly is like his mum andgets up to shenanigans,.

He is not the first Royal to do that. She-nanigans and such carry on have been rife inthe world of the Royals for years, it’s just theydidn’t have mobile phones!

I thought it was harmless fun and he shinesthe light on his older brother by being thenaughty spare to the heir – third in line – andperfectly health!

★ ★ ★And in sad news, the Melbourne theatre

world lost a lovely man in Nigel Triffitt.The wonderfully talented Nigel famous and

much loved theatre director, died at 62 of natu-ral causes.

He was farewelled, fittingly at The ArtsCentre Melbourne at the Fairfax Studio.

You will be missed Nigel, we all loved you.

●●●●● Noel Fielding

Phew! What a week!

●●●●● Andrew McConnell, story at right

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Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless

■ Melbourne broad-caster John-MichaelHowson is about to defythe four-week on-air banplaced on him by 3AW.

Howson was bannedfrom broadcasting by3AW management, afterJohn-Michael made‘Sieg Heil’ taunts atChristine Assange,mother of WikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange.

Tomorrow (Thurs.),Howson will co-host themorning program onMornington-based radiostation, 3RPP 98.7, whichis also heard online atwww.3rppfm.com.au

Howson will host the9am-11am program withBob Phillips and JudyBanks from Mornington.

Dry vote

Healthy serve of talkback

●●●●● John-Michael Howson and Suzanne Carbone

Howson made an apol-ogy for the remarks madeon the Sunday Morningprogram, when Mrs Ass-ange called him a ‘pig’.

3AW colleaguesDerryn Hinch and NeilMitchell went on air tocriticise Howson for hisoutburst.

Hinch encouragedMrs Assange to sue How-son for defamation.

Melbourne Confiden-tial understands that How-son and Mitchell havehad an angry e-mail ex-change, where Howson isbelieved to have told the3AW morning programhost that he is mistaken inbelieving that Howson“gives a stuff” about whatMitchell thinks.

■ A number of Victorian associations have lost theirincorporation status, advises Deputy Registrar DavidBetts:

Western River Soccer Club Inc.; Reema Kinder-garten Inc.; Alexandria’s Dance 2000 Inc.; North EastVictoria Small Business Incubator; Australian WebMinistry Network Inc.; Snowy River Coast Action –Marlo Inc.; Australian Alpine Valleys AgribusinessForum Inc.; Australian Council Master MenHairdresser’s Inc.; Wonthaggi Wellness AssociationInc.; Glover Recreation Reserve Committee Inc.; Re-gional Business Development Network Inc.; QuitoberInc.; Melbourne Masters Football Club Inc.;Oakbrook Kindergarten Inc.; Yinnar and DistrictTennis Association Inc.; Sebastopol South Kinder-garten Inc.; Beaufort Keepsakes Inc.; Ormond Thun-der Basketball Inc.; Next Step Inc.; Tatura EastSporting Complex Inc.; Swan Hill Club Inc.; HallamKindergarten Inc.; Western Region Football LeagueSports Trainers Association Inc.; Sebastopol MasonicCentre Management Committee Inc.; Latrobe Uni-versity Students’ Representative Council Inc.; ProbusClub of Cheltenham Inc.; The Oneness-Heart-Tearsand Smiles Inc.; Parenting Foundations Inc.; Archersof Warrnambool Inc.; Broad Insight Group Inc.;Edenhope Durong Tennis Club Inc.; Parkhill Play-house Inc.; Map Action Group Inc.; Caos Inc.; Coun-cil of Taxi Industry Associations Inc.; Taxinet TaxiClub Inc.; Geelong Organisation of Directors of Nurs-ing Inc.; Warracknabeal Riders Inc.; Chilean Craft& Arts Group ‘La Ruca’ Inc.; Neighbourhood WatchMoorabbin Inc.; Central Victorian Organic GrowersInc.; International Sport Karate Association Inc.;Energetic and Informational Medicine AssociationInc.; Oz Wheelchair and Maxi Association Inc.; Cab-bie Activity and Recreation Association Inc.; Victo-rian Taxi Drivers’ Association Inc.; Courier Taxi ClubInc.; The Cat Authority of Victoria Inc.

BODIES LOSE STATUS

■ There is still alarge component ofBoroondara res-dients who wouldlike to be an alcohol-free zone.

More than one-third (371) of the1060 have votedagainst the proposalfor Epoca Restau-rant to have a liquorlicence for 117Bulleen Rd, BalwynNorth.

Buffett

Fiona Byrne quits paper

●●●●● Fiona Byrne

■ Herald-Sun celebrity/entertainment writerFiona Byrne is taking aNews Limited redun-dancy package, and isexpected to leave thenewspaper this week.

Byrne joins a long listof long-term employeesincluding Geoff Wilkin-son, Norrie Ross andphotographer Craig Bar-row to leave the tabloid.

Byrne was a former Editor of the Confidentialpages, and had also written the Sunday Herald Sungossip pages. An avid horse lover, Byrne was raisedin country Victoria, and held ambitions as a teen-ager to work on the Sun News-Pictorial.

She had been a contributor on the 3AW Night-line program with Bruce Mansfield and PhilipBrady, then swapped across to the ill-fated Mel-bourne Talk Radio MTR 1377 when the Herald Sunformed a promotional partnership with the radiochallenger.

●●●●● Mark Petkovic, Aust. Overnight, 3AW■ Interstate radio listeners expecting to hear TimShaw instead of 3AW’s Andrew McLaren and MarkPetkovic on their overnight wireless, are said tohave received an energetic reply when they phonedin their complaints to the national 13 13 32 talkbackline, midnight-yawn last week.

Bitch’s mole at 3AW says the callers were told- without any chance of confusion - that it was notthe fault of the Melbourne presenters that the Vic-torian program was being piped into Sydney,Brisbane, Can-berra and regional stations.

Plans to relay the 3AW weekend program, hostedby Alan Pearsall, into other marketplaces, wereapparently shelved at the last minute. John Kerr’sprogram continued as normal.

Losses on paper■ Things are q uite tight at Fairfax Media afterthe company last week reported a $2.7 billionloss. Especially when the entire company wasvalued by the share market at just $1 billion.

Cutbacks have extended to supplying no morefree copies of The Age to 3AW staff, working inthe same Docklands buiding. Overnight an-nouncing staff can still access free copies of theHerald Sun, and are reading from it, on-air.

Paper’s viability tagged

■ The viability of weekly ‘buyand sell’ newspaper Trader Tag is to beassessed over coming months, according to a circu-lar issued by VANA, the Victorian newsagent asso-ciation.“Over the coming months they will be doing audit-ing to check on sales figures to determine the publi-cation viability,” said the bulletin issued on Friday.

“It is of great importance that you continue topush Trader Tag into all of your subagents to maxi-mize sales and keep TraderTag ranged into thesestores ongoing.

“This will provide benefits to both the publisherthough increased sales and to you through increasedrevenue.”

Warning: fake $50 notes

■ A new burst of fake $50 notes has hit acrossMelbourne. Shopkeepers are market stall holdersare being warned about fraudsters buying smallitems such as cigarettes with the counterfeit cur-rency. There is no compensation for victims.

●●●●● Jimmy Buffett■ Singer-song-writer JimmyBuffett will performat the Palais Thea-tre, St Kilda, onSunday, September23. It is the artist’sfirst visit to Austra-lia in 20 years.Chugg Entertain-ment yesterday(Tues.) announcedthat he will be joinedon stage by MacMcAnally. Ticketsgo on sale on Wed-nesday next week(Sept. 5).

Clash■ Hundreds of Po-lice clashed withworkers at the Myersite in the City yes-terday (Tues.) morn-ing. This followed aSupreme Court or-der.

Cutbacks■ Budgetary cut-backs are hitting allparts of the FairfaxMedia empire. TheLand rural news-pa-per (NSW) has hadto drop its weeklytelevision programguide to save cash.

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Thought For The Week■ “Go to the ant thou sluggard; consider her ways,and be wise.” - Proverbs

Observer Curmudgeon■ “Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice oftwo evils, chooses both.” - Oscar Wilde

Text For The Week■ “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you,ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”

- John 15:7

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“For the cause that lacks assistance,‘Gainst the wrongs that need resistance

For the future in the distance,And the good that we can do”

DERRYN HINCH AXED■ Veteran 3AW broad-caster Derryn Hinch’sone-year contract will notbe renewed at the end ofthe year, the top-ratingDrive program host wastold on Monday night.

Hinch, 68, made thisstatement at his HumanHead-line website:

“Sacked. And this timeit applies to me. I wascalled in to the generalmanager’s office aftermy 3AW program fin-ished tonight (Monday)and was told my serviceswere no longer required.

“I asked why and wastold by the GM ShaneHealy that they planned to‘ take the station in a dif-ferent direction’.

“Seeing my program isNo. 1 on Melbourne I’mtempted to think that direc-tion is down.

“I am in shock. Didn’tsee it coming. But hadheard five weeks ago thatmy occasional fill-in TomElliott had told people atChannel Ten that this wasmy last year and he wasreplacing me.

“Fairly prescient. Iwish him luck.

On leave■ “The decision to notrenew my contract hadnothing to do with lastweek’s on-air dispute withmanagement over SteveVizard. This move wasdecided back in June<“Hinch said.

“I will be on air asusual tomorrow. Then onleave for a couple ofweeks while I decide onfuture plans.

“I will fulfil my con-tractual obligations andfinish the year in as pro-fessional a manner as Ican muster.

“At least they trust meenough to do that.

“Tonight’s irony wasnot lost on me. I’d justcome off air after doingone of the best interviewsin years. An exclusivewith Buzz Aldrin. Ah well,that’s life.

“Follow the [non]bouncing ball.”

Swinging■ Diane ‘Dee Dee’ Dun-leavy, herself sacked fromGold 104.3 at the ende oflast year, tweeted hermessage of support: “Igreatly admire DerrynHinch's dignity in the faceof his shock sacking. Butplease don't let us downnow. Go out swinging.”

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Freemasons Victoria Grand Master, BobJones, revisited his racing car driver pastwhen he joined the team in Car 321 as partof the Vareity Bash 2012 on Thursday (Aug.23).

Freemasons has a long standingrelationship with Variety the Children'sCharity, participating in both the VarietyBash and Bikes 4 Kids. This year, the Car321 team is hoping that their Star Warstheme will help them hyperdrive to the finishline.

Creswick publican and Freemason EddieKoene has worked tirelessly over the pastyear to raise nearly $20,000 for the cause,fundraising with his own lodges of St Johnsand Creswick Havilah and inspiring supportfrom Freemasons across the state. The2012 Car 321 Team includes Eddie, his wifeLiz and fellow Freemason Gerard Nagle.

Eddie says it's easy to support Variety,because he knows that the majority of themoney raised goes straight to the kids.

“We don't use any of the money we raisefor our own travel and accomodation, orfor servicing the car.

“It would probably be easier for us tojust donate our costs, but the Variety Bashis great fun - all of the members are like afamily. We all know that we are making areal difference to the kids that Varietysupports,” he said.

“Freemasons Victoria is honoured topartner Variety once again. I'm excited tobe getting behind the wheel, knowing thatthe money we have raised is going directlyto kids in need,” Mr Jones said.

The Variety Bash is one of manybenevolent activities Freemasons Victoriais involved in to empower Victorian childrenwho are sick, disadvantaged or have specialneeds to live, laugh and learn.

Freemasons Victoria also offersscholarships and bursaries to assiststudents with fees for further education.

Freemasons Victoria have supportedmany youth focused groups such as TLCfor Kids, the CanTeen organisation, theGood Friday Appeal, Kalparrin EarlyChildhood school, the Ionic CoachingService and are a proud partner ofMelbourne Youth Music.

Freemasons Victoria Grand MasterMWBro. Bob Jones as Jedi Master ObiWan Kenobi for the 2012 Variety Bash

Photo courtesy Bob Jones

■ “3AW has decided not to renew the contract ofdrive-time presenter Derryn Hinch,” the station an-nounced on Monday night.

“Derryn's one-year contract was set to expire atthe end of this year.

“The drive host was told of the decision not torenew his contract at a meeting with station man-agement when he came off air tonight (Monday).

“While Derryn will not reappear behind the drivemicrophone after December, 3AW hopes to exploreother opportunities with the respected broadcasterto enable him to remain in the Fairfax Radio fold.

“The station expects to make an announcementon Derryn's replacement in the next few days.

“3AW general manager Shane Healy paid trib-ute to Derryn's ‘fantastic’ contribution to the stationover the past 10 years.

"Derryn has been part of the fabric of Mel-bourne's No.1 radio station for many years and weare immensely proud and grateful for his effortsover this time," Mr Healy said.

"However, like all branches of the media it isimpossible to stand still in a world of ever-accelerat-ing change, " he said.

"Radio has withstood the immense challenges ofthe digital revolution much better than any other tra-ditional media but we, like print and television, can-not afford to stand still.

"3AW, Melbourne's most successful radio sta-tion of the modern era, must position itself to takeadvantage of the exciting possibilities opening up inthe digital world and changing audience expecta-tions."

“Mr Healy said he hoped Derryn would considerthe options that could be available to enable him tostill play a role in broadcasting at Fairfax Radio.

“It is unclear whether Derryn will return to themicrophone this week. The drive presenter was dueto take two weeks' holiday from next week.

“Derryn has had two stints at 3AW. He estab-lished his broadcasting reputation on the station inthe 1980s before he leaving for television currentaffairs.

“In the past 10 years 3AW has stood behind thebroadcaster through a series of controversies. Onlylast Friday 3AW gave the broadcaster the day off tofight in court a charge of failure to vote.

"Life will not be the same without Derryn aroundbut we believe listeners will react more than favor-ably to the changes we have in mind," Mr Healysaid.

●●●●● Shane Healy, 3AW General Manager

3AW manager’sstatement

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●●●●● Why H inch wassacked - turn to Page51 for our analysis.

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■ It won’t take any imagination this year to buy a giftfor dad on his special day.

Forget the books, the socks and the gardening tools,you just have to look at the dozens of ads in the press,on radio and television for cheap alcohol and the prob-lem is solved.

I’m not a Mrs Grundy, but I would like to see theeffort, which has been put into the Quit Smoking Cam-paign given to a Quit Alcohol Campaign.

But I doubt if it will ever happen. Those who enjoy aglass or two of wine won’t appreciate the problem withbooze that society is having with the binge drinker, andthe young ones who don t think they are having a goodtime unless they wipe themselves out.

Pleading for a last gasp■ As a reformed smoker I’m pleased that smoking isbanned in restaurants and in public buildings, but it hasalso brought out of the woodwork, non-smokers whofeel that they have the right to be rude to a smoker.

I actually saw one selfish and very rude person spitat a person who was smoking in the street.

Obviously these people have never smoked andtherefore can’t understand how hard it is to stop.

Two of my dearest friends, both heavy smokers,died of lung cancer. And nothing would convince themto stop the habit although they knew the consequences.

In fact, one of my friends asked for a cigarette whilstwaiting for the ambulance to take her to hospital.

She knew she was dying, but she asked me why sheshould deny herself the pleasure of a cigarette. It couldbe her last.

What could I do? No pleading would make me in allconscience, relent and give her a cigarette. She couldhardly breath, and here she was begging for anothergasper. What extraordinarily powerful addiction nico-tine is?

Going up in smoke■ Some say it is harder to give up nicotine than heroin.

My husband who is a reformed smoker says it is thehardest thing he has ever done. Mind you he went coldturkey after a bout of Hong Kong ‘flu 30 years ago.

When he went into hospital for an operation severalyears ago he was asked if he smoked and he jokinglysaid, “ not for 30 years”.

The doctor then wanted to know how many a dayand what brand, which gave Peter cause to reflect aboutthe possible long-term damage that he may have done.

And as he drifted off into the arms of Morpheus hedearly wished he had never started the habit.

And the breathing problem he had after the opera-tion the doctor put down to his heavy smoking eventhough it was thirty years ago.

As long as smoking is legal, and people know thedanger of lighting up, then it is surely their choicewhether to smoke or not.

Sickening scenes■ I’m not making excuses for the smoker: they knowthe dangers of their habit, but the authorities should lookat the dangers and problems associated with alcohol.

I acknowledge that smoking can be a killer, but itdoesn’t have the disastrous effect on the entire com-munity as alcohol.

Look at the road toll with teenage drivers wherealcohol has been involved.

The police know that alcohol is the major problemwith the assaults and the sickening scenes outside thenightspots with teenage girls and boys lying on the foot-paths too drunk to walk.

And the domestic violence cases directly attributedto alcohol are sickening.

Alcohol related illness mustn’t be counted out.I knew a fellow who was an alcoholic and lost ev-

erything, his family, his house, his job and self-respect.This man ended his days in hospital, and died, after

drinking brake fluid when he couldn’t afford a bottle ofbooze.

It must be the dread of every parent when their sonor daughter goes off in their car for a night out. Youmay have talked to them about drinking and driving,and you are hoping that it has sunk in.

It not until a policeman knocks on your front door inthe early hours of the morning, your worst fears clutchyour heart, and you pray that you are not about to re-ceive the dreaded news.

Something must be done.

Horrible consequences■ Why isn’t the Government pursuing the liquor in-dustry with the same tenacity as it has done with thetobacco industry.

I dread seeing a huge double spread in my morningpaper with alcohol at ridiculously low prices.

It’s possible to buy a bottle of wine for less than abottle of water. And certainly less than that world fa-mous brand of soft drink. So what hope have we got?

Father Bob Maguire wrote on my Facebook ‘morn-ing paper double spread (even twice in one issue) ad-vertising grog, can I request space to advertise anti-dote?

If you work with the young members of the commu-nity you are continually horrified at the reasons the younggive you for wiping themselves out on a party night.

Smile for the camera■ Poor old Prince Harry is in trouble for his antics inan alcoholic night of nude games and forgetting thateveryone has a mobile phone that takes excellent pho-tographs.

However I do ask what his minders were doing. Ibet it will be a case of “ off with their heads’ when theyface the Queen.

We have to remember that wherever we are we canbe photographed.

You have to wonder what sort of people would dosuch a thing because they say that “what happens inLas Vegas stays in Las Vegas”, but apparently not inthe case of the Prince.

He must wonder if there is anyone in the whole worldthat he can really trust.

I don’t use a mobile phone, and the first thing friendsask me is how can I live without capturing those special‘Kodak’ moments.

I say, very well thank you!!

Respect in the morning■ The contraceptive pill for men could be with us infive years.

Good luck if your man has had too much to drinkand just falls into bed, or hasn’t a good memory. Themorning after pill won’t work for the blokes once thehorse has bolted.

If you are into a long-term relationship you will mostprobably take it all seriously, but the male who is out fora one-night stand really couldn’t care less.

Can’t you hear it now? “Of course I’ve taken thepill, and of course I’ll respect you in the morning.”

Oh yeah!- Yvonne

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Ancient Rome on show at Docklands

●●●●● Emperor Augustus

■ They say Rome wasn’t built in a day. Namedafter the Emperor Augustus, the month of Au-gust originally had 30 days.

Legend has it that he ‘stole’ a day from Feb-ruary to make his month longer.

With August drawing to a close and Springon its way, have you ever stopped to think abouthow our months came by their names or aboutthe invention of the calendar?

Societ owes its modern calendar to Julius Cae-sar, and it was originally known as the JulianCalendar in his honour.

It has 365 days and includes the leap yearsystem to keep the months in line with the sea-sons.

Before the introduction of the Julian Calen-dar the year started on March 1, however at thistime two new months were added to the calen-dar; January and February.

January is named after Janus, the god ofnew beginnings.

He has two heads; one looks forward towardthe future while the other stares behind him atthe past.

February is named after a Roman festivalof purification.

While the calendar is no longer named afterJulius Caesar, the month of July is still namedafter him. In fact, all months still bear Romannames.

The month of August is named in honour ofthe first Roman Emperor Augustus.

Nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar,Augustus (born Gaius Octavius) restored manyof the traditional roles and powers of the RomanSenate that his uncle stripped from them duringhis reign as Dictator.

In gratitude the senators bestowed upon himthe title of Augustus, “the revered one”.

Legend has it that August originally had 30days, so Emperor Augustus ‘stole’ a day fromFebruary to make his month longer!

You can learn more about Ancient Rome atthe Ancient Rome Exhibition showing daily inMelbourne’s Docklands (Docklands Drive) un-til October7.

www.romanexhibition.com.au- Stephanie Mason

■ Seven Groupyesterday (Tues.)reported a 38 percent rise in full-yearunderlying net profitto $343.2 million.

Going

■ More departuresfrom the Herald Sunhave been an-nounced. Also leav-ing the tabloid aresenior writers TerryBrown and KellyRyan, plus RacingEditor AdrianDunn, and veteranscribe Russell Rob-inson.

Charges■ A 29-year-oldBonbeach driver al-leged to have beenon heroin, stoppedhis car in trafic forseveral minutes, Po-lice allege. They saythe driver surfed theinternet on his laptopcomputer, causingtrafic chaos outsideBrandon ParkShopping Centre.

■ Footy Colours Day will be held on Fri-day September 7, when all Australians areasked to wear their favourite footy coloursand donate to Fight Cancer Foundation andsupport fellow Australians living with can-cer.

Suggestion include people organising afooty fashion parade, footy trivia quiz, hand-ball competition, footy-themed morning tea,decorating their work place or simply hav-ing a casual clothes day.

Many local schools and companieswhich have registered to participate who areexcited about Footy Colours Day.

Footy Colours Day


■ For regular readers of the column it is pain-fully obvious that I love the old films. I enjoy theclassic movies more that the current releases.

Jean Harlow died before I was born but thank-fully her films are still available to watch andenjoy.

Harlean Harlow Carpenter was born in Kan-sas City, Missouri, in 1911. Her parents divorcedwhen Harlean was in her teenage years.

Her mother took Harlean to Hollywoodwhere she tried without success to break intofilms.

At the age of 16, Harlean eloped with 21-year-old Charles McGrew who fortunately re-ceived an inheritance and the couple were quitewealthy.

The marriage was a disaster and when theyseparated Harlean went to live with her mother.

As time went by it was Harlean who got intofilms and in 1929 she appeared in 15 films work-ing as an extra or in bit parts.

Jean was only 18but already a beautiful younggirl. She was cast in a major role in Hell's An-gels in 1930 under the name of Jean Harlowebut she received critical reviews.

Jean gradually built up her reputation in filmsover rhe next few years and on her 21st birthdayLouis B Mayer bought out her contact fromHoward Hughes and Jean was now working forMGM Studios.

She was using the name of Jean Harlow andwas the Marilyn Monroe of the 1930s - the beau-

WhateverHappened

To ...Jean

HarlowBy Kevin Trask

of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM


●●●●● Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow was the first film actress to haveher photo on the cover of Life magazine.

During the filming of Saratoga with ClarkGable in 1937 Jean became very ill.

She was finally rushed to the Good Samari-tan Hospital in Los Angeles where she died of akidney disease at the age of 26. (There were noantibiotics, dialysis or kidney transplants in thosedays.)

This was a great shock to the public and likeJames Dean and Marilyn Monroe (who alsodied at early age) her films became very popu-lar at the cinemas.

The funeral was a huge affair managed byLouis B Mayer. Nelson Eddy and JeanetteMcDonald sang Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life at theservice. Her mother passed away in 1958.

There have been two films titled Harlow madeon the life of Jean Harlow starring two fine ac-tresses, Carroll Baker and Carol Lynley.

This beautiful young girl made a big impres-sion on the world during her short Hollywoodcareer.

My favourite Jean Harlow film is Red Dust.- Kevin Trask

The Time Tunnel - with Bruce & Phil-Sundays at 8.20pm on 3AW

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SEARCHING FOR THE NIGHT PARROT■ I thought that we'd done crocs fora while, but no!

As I've often mentioned, the North-ern Territory has three times the na-tional average of alcohol consump-tion - they claim that it's so hot thatthey get thirstier than the southerners!

Now there's a new excuse for avisit to a Darwin pub - a public croco-dile forum.

It's part of National Science Week,to be held in Shenanigans pub, andwill feature my mate Grahame Webb,who I mentioned last week.

Drinkers can saunter in, buy a beer,and have a chat about crocodiles withGrahame.

"When the hunting stopped, therehadn't been a lot of investigation oncrocs", he said.

"Traditional knowledge, but not alot of scientific research. Territory sci-entists have led the way in understand-ing these reptiles".

Obviously theTerritory relies on afew icons to attract visitors, both localand international - the Centre has theRock, and the Top End Kakadu withits crocs.

They strike fear into the averageman in the street, whether in Mel-bourne or Miami, so they give theTerritory plenty of publicity the worldover, and attract many visitors with aperverse sense of fascination to seethem.

I haven't heard of any MelbourneScience Week activities in pubs!

■ Whilst I never come across muchinterest in our feathered friends downon the Peninsula, birdwatching in Aliceis at fever pitch!

Firstly, and probably most impor-tantly, the initial waders, some WoodSandpipers, some Common Reds-hanks and Asian Dowitchers, have justarrived in Broome, so they should soontouch down in Alice.

Some have flown all the way homefrom the Russian tundra. A long flightto plop into the Alice sewerage ponds!

However its breeding season, sothey'll have a bit of fun to look for-ward to!

Then a huge flock of about 1000Corellas has been spied. I love to en-counter these birds on the Stuart High-way as they tumble about beside theroad nibbling on the paddy melons.

And a ‘flock’ of four redwing par-rots was seen at Arthur Creek on thePlenty Highway.

Then the ducks! Some beautiful

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Pink Ears have been flying about, andsome Chestnut Teal have been flap-ping around the poo ponds as well.

Facetious though I may appear atthis pastime, I must confess that I amreally one of them, and am alwaystransfixed by all the magnificent feath-ers which wing their way around theOutback.

■ And then there's the Night Parrot,probably the most controversial birdin Australia, again in the news.

A few years ago Dick Smith of-fered a $50,000 prize to anyone whocould find evidence that they still ex-isted.

There was some controversy at thetime, because the actual bird foundwas a dried and squashed headlessroadkill, rather than the pristine speci-men that Dick had hoped for.

Before this the last confirmedrecord was in 1912.

They are Australia's only noctur-nal parrot, and not much is knownabout them except that they rarely fly,mostly living on the ground, andmaybe they nest in Spinifex clumps.

Even at the best of times they were

hardly ever seen. I've always kept myeyes open for them whenever I'vebeen travelling in the Centre.

My mate Ozzie reckons he used tosee them at night on bush roads aroundBoulia, in Western Queensland, wherelocals call them the "stupid bird" be-cause they just sit on the road at night,and don't fly off.

He suggested that we should col-lect samples of bird droppings arounddams in the area, and have themanalysed. That'd probably work, but Ihaven't got round to it yet!

Like the Tassie Tiger, it remains amystery!

■ Many of my visitors and custom-ers are U.S. citizens, whether out hereas tourists or on business with localcompanies with U.S. affiliations.

As a result I'm a member of sev-eral U.S.- Australian organisations,one of which is the Australian Ameri-can Association.

Just like last year when I receivedan invitation to Government House inSydney for a function, I'm hardly go-ing to turn down an invite from theU.S. Consul General to share a fewdrinks at the Consulate!

His name is Frank Urbancic, andhe's a good bloke! I've met him a fewtimes at various U.S.- oriented func-tions, and we get on well.

He's in charge of Victoria, SouthAustralia and the NT, so he's travel-ling around a bit, and of course withall the U.S. activities currently occur-ring in Darwin, he's spending a lot oftime up there.

Not all officialdom and workthough - he's taking his kids to see thejumping crocodiles in Adelaide Riverthis weekend!

He's previously been serving dip-lomatically in Cyprus, Kuwait,Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Sierra Leone,Qatar, Canada, Tunisia, SaudiArabia and Jordan. He's been around!

The cocktail party began with theusual little offerings, but, from anAussies drinker's point of view, wel-come, because of a good supply ofU.S. beer and wine to slake our thirsts!

■ Throughout the Territory there arelaws banning public drinking, but thereare also many people who try andthwart these, and sneak grog, espe-cially white wine, into mineral waterbottles to try and disguise the contents.

And the police are always on thelookout for such activity. As soon as

they locate some drinkers, they con-fiscate the grog and pour it out.

I have seen some such drinkersburying their booze in the sand of theTodd River bed.

Police are always prowling in theriver in their 4WD's and trail bikes,trying to locate this illicit activity.

Such a situation arose in Darwinlast week, not in a river bed, but in oneof the local parks.

When a police patrol drove past agroup of drinkers they leapt up andjumped over a fence to hide their grog.

Unfortunately they were at a cliffedge, and one of them fell about 20metres to the bottom.

A large scale emergency-serviceexercise was needed to wind him up,with a broken leg.

Quite an expensive drink!- Nick Le Souef

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■ These days there is not mucg difference between big governmentand big business. The cult of the apparatachik, spin doctors and fac-tions have infected our political system while the bureaucrats havebecome the real masters of government, tying most MPs up in knotsand frustrating the development of policies which means Australia’sprogress is constantly stalled.

In big business the same sort of process is being repeated, leadingto increased costs and shareholders being treated like most voters.

As government bureaucrats are the real fatcats so are companyCEOs as demonstrated by the unreal salaries paid to many of themwith the banks leading the way.

Political correctness has become well entrenched in both systemsand Workplace Health and Safety is one example. Of course we needsafe workplaces but the system is weighed down by too manybureucrats creating more and more regulations and cluttering up thelandscape with more and more signs - a bit like our road systemswhere signage is now visual pollution.

The process has been building for years now and just as our MPshave become puppets of the bureaucracy, one wonders if people likeClive Palmer and Gina Rinehart really know what is happening in-side their empires?

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tiful platinum blonde, 5'2" with a great figure.Her performance in the classic film Red Dust

with Clark Gable established her as a majorHollywood film star.

Her second husband, MGM producer PaulBern, committed suicide at their home. Her filmsincluded Reckless, Bombshell, Platinum Blonde,China Seas and Libeled Lady.

Some of her co-stars were the biggest boxoffice actors in Hollywood - Clark Gable, Spen-cer Tracy, Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor andJames Stewart.

Jean married for a third time to Harold Rossonbut the marriage only lasted for six months. Shewas engaged to the actor William Powell foralmost two years.

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Barry Willis of Airport West is 80. Observerreader Donelle Gilbert of Seabrook is 72. En-tertainer Natalie Bassingthwaighte is 37.■ Sunday, September 2. Ernie Sigley is 74;happy birthday Ern. Michael Cormick is 49.Radio man Lionel Yorke was born in Ormondin 1945.■ Monday, September 3. TV presenter PenneDennison is 43 (1969)■ Tuesday, September 4. Actor KevinHarrington is 53.

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