It has been a gloriously sunny winter’s morning. “Behind The News”, presented by Barry Eaton, screens on ABC-TV’s Channel Two from 10.00 a.m. It focuses upon the political unrest in the Seychelles, as well as the conservationists’ stance against whaling. It is followed, at twenty past ten, by a programme which traces the gold rush of last century. The viewing centres upon ‘Sovereign Hill’, the re-creation of a mining town near Ballarat, in Victoria.
I paid fifty cents for a copy of the “Women’s Weekly”, for Tiki, and glanced through it during the walk home. It contains an article on Bob Rogers which features pictures of his four daughters. Skye, who is twelve years of age, is the youngest.
Sydney enjoyed a maximum temperature of twenty degrees Celsius today, which is above the seasonal average. The series “Last Of The Wild” concentrates, this evening, on the preservation of Arctic polar bear and musk ox.
The natural birth of a baby, at home, is a part of the programme, “Willesee”, at seven o’clock, on Channel Seven. “This Day Tonight” follows, on Channel Two, and on this same channel, at 8.00, “Peach’s Australia” transports the viewer to the ‘Red Centre’ to visit such natural landmarks as Ayers Rock and The Olgas, both of which I visited, in 1972, during a bus tour that lasted for nine weeks. The programme’s photography is simply outstanding!
“The Fight Against Slavery” continues on Channel Two from half past eight. It is followed at twenty past nine by “The Yellow Trail From Texas”, a documentary about the huge annual harvest of wheat in the United States and Canada. In doing so it observes the lives of some of those who are contracted to strip the massive crop.