“Behind The News”, at 10.00 a.m. on Channel Two, contains segments on the siege in The Netherlands that involves the taking of hostages by extremists from the Moluccas; the plight of the dingo in Victoria; and uranium and its waste, plutonium. It is followed, at twenty past ten, by a programme that features Aboriginal poetess, Kath Walker, talking about her native Stadbroke Island.
Bitterly cold conditions are accompanied by biting winds and a maximum temperature of just fourteen degrees Celsius for a second successive day. The only difference being, I suppose, is that today is regarded as being the first day of winter although the winter solstice is still, yet, to be reached.
I rather foolishly paid one dollar and twenty-five cents for one hundred grammes of cashews at The Nut Bar, inside Miranda Fair.
‘Winged Fury’ on “Last Of The Wild” concentrates on the falcon. The fabulous “25th Anniversary Show of ‘American Bandstand'” screens from half past seven and includes many stars, both past and present. Rick Nelson, Johnny Rivers and Johnny Tillotson are just three to appear. Johnny Tillotson seems to be embarrassed to see himself as he appeared in 1959. The programme concludes with “Roll Over Beethoven” which is performed by Chuck Berry, at the age of forty-five years , whilst he is accompanied by a galaxy of talent.