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office made it to the job of the week section of the South China Morning Post. Back home, Bondy is selling the delightful 130-year-old mansion in Balmain, Ewenton House, which his company lovingly restored to its original grandeur. It is said to be the only surviving example of an early Victorian residence still standing on a large site. Appointments Wedding bells: Still in Honkers, the wedding of the year was between Marion Sandbcrg, the daughter of the chairman of the powerful Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Sir Michael Sandberg, and a Sydney-sider, Dale Randall, who apparently manages a small theatre in Sydney. The lovely couple met in London where friends evidently bet him four pints of beer that he didn't dare ask Ms Sandberg for a date.

The extremely wealthy Sir Michael is to retire this month from his prestigious post Sex for breakfast: The Dr Seuss of heavy breathing, Bettina Arndt, is back home to escape the frigid New York winter, which she fOnt and About Confessions of a groupie'. Margaret Whitlam, who reconsidered dying her hair red for the occasion, was in a nostalgic mood at the recent launch of the Blaxland Gallery's Ginger Meggs and Christopher Robin exhibition. "I am a mature groupie with a fine memory of the 1920s and 1930s," she informed the assembled. "I'm two years older than Ginger and six years older than Christopher Robin, so I've lived with them both after a fashion." Small children circulated with platters of fairy bread and lemonade while the towering Whitlam confessed to being an early member of the Sunbeam club and "once, only once, to winning a blue In her youth, she preferred boys' comics and books "there was more meat in It would seem that even today she still favours "robust" Ginger Meggs over that "delicate, pastel person" Christopher Robin. nnnan1naMM3BMalnaaan leader of the year.

Hawke, who admitted he had not seen the film, said that Cornell had shown creativity, drive, determination and imagination competitive qualities needed by business in a deregulated climate created by his government. now declare this book open: The only male to wear pink hotpants in Adelaide and not be flung into the Torrens River for doing so, the enigmatic Don Dun-stan, has boarded the burgeoning book launch bandwagon. At the end of the week, he will launch Being Different: Nine Gay Men Remember, which is edited by a Sydney academic, Garry Wother-spoon. The once-colourful former Premier of South Australia who is now rather grey was the first Australian politician to decriminalise homosexual activities. Roll them pressesThe editor of Today's People encountered the delights of Hong Kong last week.

While in town we dropped in, uninvited we must add, on Alan Farrelly, arguably the best publicised newspaper editor in the world. He edits the South China Morning Post but once edited The Australian. Farrelly told us that the several reports about him in the Fairfax press were "absolute The reports said that he was the world's highest paid hack, that he had a chauffeured Mercedes, a ritzy Victoria Peak flat and was lured to the Flagrant Harbour by a package of $220,000. Fresh back from a canoeing expedition on the Snowy River, Farrelly tartly denied more reports that he was feeling homesick and that he was poised to return home. In truth, he said, he was greatly looking forward to Rupert Murdoch's foray into the Orient (The so-called Dirty Digger reportedly paid $A164 million for a 34.9 per cent share of Farrelly's booming broadsheet) He denied too that he had acted as a "Trojan Horse" for Murdoch.

It was all sheer coincidence, he explained. footing the not inconsiderable tab for a satellite interview once a fortnight on Channel Nine's Today show. Celluloid capers: First the comic strip, then the stage show, now the flick The widely-loved cartoon Footrot Flats, New Zealand's next most important export after mutton and human beings, premieres across the Tasman next Monday. The animated film of the ingenious strip created by Kiwi scribbler Murray Ball boasts the voice of fellow New Zealander John Clarke, otherwise known as Fred Dgg who wrote some of the scripts for the first Max Gilles series. don't know much about art.

but I know what I like When one of the world's richest, most successful artists comes to town, where does he stay? The Hilton? The Regent? No way, Jose. He stays instead in a $35-a-night deluxe motel room in beautiful, downtown Randwick. The Austrian-born artist, Friedrich Hundertwasser, is known for his hatred of modern skyscrapers, believing they cause cancer and social disaffection. Presumably, he shopped around and found the Randwick hotel to be Sydney's most ecologically sound accommodation. Real estate: This column stumbled across some news that the Australian entrepreneur and yachting magnate Alan Bond sold a block of luxury flats in Honk Kong for SHK245 million million).

The 21 flats, called Clovelly Court, are located in the somewhat ritzy Mid-Levels enclave on Hong Kong Island. One local scribe concluded that the sale might have been an indication that the Bond Corporation was looking to off load its properties in Honkers because it was not keen to outlay funds for redevelopment The Bond Corp is to be listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong next month and positions at its new Hong Kong Sir Roderick Carnegie Musical chairs: The Government's choice for the CSIRO chairman's job was one of the best-kept Canberra secrets of the year. The controversy over the Federal Cabinet's choice of the former NSW Premier Neville Wran has unearthed a whole swag of other names put forward at various stages of the selection process. Apart from the hot favourites, Sir Gustav Nossal and Sir Roderick Carnegie, the also-wrans included former electronics whizz turned publishing supremo Dick Smith, the managing director of MacPhersons Limited and the chairman of the Management Investment Companies Licensing Board Ralph Ward-Ambler, the former managing director of Ford Australia Sir Brian Inglis, and the chairman of the Australian Industrial Development and Incentives Board, Dr Kevin Foley. Bettina Arndt doesn't enjoy.

The sex therapist has been residing in the Big Apple with her lawyer husband, whom she recently married. "I'm enjoying my husband more than I'm enjoying New York," she despaired. An afternoon tabloid published the headline Saucy Sexologist To Marry Unlikely Lawyer and Arndt's husband has asked her not to identify him. But we digress. The saucy sexologist has returned to replace the friendly fascist, Alan Jones, who is absent from his 2UE microphone.

Arndt will be hosting the show between 8 and 1 1 am until Christmas. A major topic on her first day yesterday was molestation. The Packer organisation paid for Arndt's fare home and has been Ginger Meggs Snippets Starring role: The Prime Minister Bob Hawke last night named John Cornell, who produced and marketed the film Crocodile Dundee, as Australia's business Edited by ANTHONY DENNIS ATN 7 AEN 2 SBS NBN 3 I 6.00: Flash Gordon (Rpt bw). 6.20: Leave It To Beaver (Rpt, bw). 7.00: Cartoon Connection (Rpts).

9.00: Romper Room For tots. 10.00: Lottery Drama series. 11.00: Eleven AM Topical. 12.00: Movie A Reflection Of Fear (AO, 73, Rpt). A troubled girl is manipulated by her father.

Robert Shaw. 2.00: Streets Of San Francisco (AO, Rpt). 3.00: The Man From UNCLE The Off Broadway Affair (PGR, Rpt). 4.00: Tripods Science-fiction. 4 JO: Huckleberry Finn And Friends -(Rpt).

5.00: Play Your Cards Right. 530: Get Smart (Rpt). Comedy. 6.00: News. 6.45: Sport Today.

7.00: Terry Willesee Tonight. 7 JO: The Best Times (PGR). 8-30: Lime Street (PGR). A fortune in uninsured diamonds is stolen. 930: Only Fools And Horses (PGR, Rpt).

Del takes a country holiday. W.10: Hot Metal (PGR). Comedy. 10.40: America's Cup Report. 10.50: Newsworld.

1L30: Dick Emery (PGR, Rpt). 12JJ0: News Overnight. 8.00: Animals In Action Wildlife. 8 JO: Sesame Street. 9 JO: Play School (S).

10.00: Daytime Programs. 1235: News. 1.00: Daytime Programs. 3.00: (Reg)Cricket Second Test, day 4.3.00: (Syd)Sesame Street. 335: Magic Roundabout.

4.00: Play School (Reg)Play School The New Adventures Of Blinky Bill. 4J5: (Reg)Crkket. 5.00: Inspector Gadget (Rpt). 5.25: Roger Ramjet. 5 JO: Grange Hill Teen drama.

535: Come And Get It (Rpt). 6.00: The Beachcombers (Rpt). 6 JO: Bananaman (Rpt). 6J5: Sweet And Sour (Rpt). 6.40: (Reg)Sports Cavalcade.

7.00: (Reg rejoin)News. 7 JO: 7 JO Report. 8.00: Quantum. 8.00: (Reg)Cricket Continued. 8 JO: The Bill (S, AO).

Drama. 9.00: (Reg)Quantum Science. 9.20: Back Chat Viewers' comments. 9 JO: (Reg rejoin)Carleton-Walsh. 10.00: Rim Struck Going It Alone (S, Final).

Australian film-makers. 10 JO: Rock Arena The Wreckery, Jason And The Scorchers. 11 JO: Close. 4.25: Swami Sarasvati (Rpt). Yoga series.

4.30: Kaleidoscope International cartoons. 5.00: News From Uhlen-busch (Rpt). Award-winning mystery. (Germany). 5J0: Globetrotting Mezgas Comedy (Hungary).

6.00: RosadeLejos Cult drama. (Argentina). 6 JO: The Noise Rock. 7.00: World News. 7 JO: Vegetarian Kitchen -(Rpt, Final, UK).

8.00: Oshin (Japan). 8 JO: Sport Report International Updates. 9.00: Nine O'CIock. 9 JO: Movie Viridiana (61, Rpt, bw). Luis Bun-uel's Cannes Film Festival award-winning drama about bigotry.

(Spain). 11.05: Lampiao (Rpt). Adventure series from Brazil. 1130: Close. 6.00: Cartoon Carnival.

630: News. 7.00: Good Morning Australia. 9.05: Romper Room. 9 JO: Daniel Boone. 10.25: Private Benjamin -Comedy.

1035: Wheel Of Fortune. 11.20: Coronation Street (PGR). 12.00: Miss Marple (PGR). Murder drama series. 1.00: Paul Lynde Show (PGR).

1.30 daytime Serials (PGRs). 4.00: For The Children. 5J0: Get Smart (Rpt). 6.00: News And Weather. 7.00: MASH (Rpt).

7 JO: Crazy Like The Fox (PGR). Drama. 8J5: Cover Up (PGR). Detective drama. 9.35: Movie Class Of 44 (AO, 73, Rpt).

Comedy-drama. 11 JO: Three's Company (PGR). 12.00: Close. ON THE RIR 9 pm, 9, McGruder and Loud, are a couple of newlywed cops who share a patrol car by day and, unknown to the police department and against its rules, by night share a passionate love for one another which they consummate at every opportunity by means of a secret door connecting their adjoining apartments. Nice to have honest cops on the beat, eh? None of this open co-habitation! In this week's thrilling episode, Jenny Loud is interfered with by thugs on the way home from teaching a rape prevention class.

Where is Lady Blue you might well ask. God help Mai McGruder if he decides to swan into her flat unannounced tonight! 2.10 am (Wed), 9, The McMasters: A black union corporal returns to the south west after the civil war and meets prejudice everywhere. Oh no! Surely not? Brock Peters, Burl Ives and David (Pectoral Oxymel) Carradine star. Noon, 9, Mastermind tells how a detective, investigating a case in Japan, becomes involved in a samurai battle. Lee Van Cleef is nowhere to be seen but Zero Mostel and Bradford Dillman as unlikely a daily double as you could hope to find, are sufficiently bizarre to make it a possibility.

If you're home suffering from an indisposition, say Luxflounder's Hairy Scupper or Memble's Dry Twitch, this could be the cure. All day, 2RSR-FM, Free speech? One each! Radio Skid Row (88.9), is in TROUBLE! Nudge nudge, blink blink, gissajob. Down but not out, the voice of the inner city has technical laryngitis. Its transmitter is cactus and help is needed to fund repairs and restore reliable transmission. All this week, Sydney's gutsiest access station has special self-help (and help accepted) programming.

A lot of people would like to hear the station silenced but it won't lie down and be counted out. Tune in, spare a buck, remember Yosser Hughes. Doug Anderson TEN 10 TCN 9 WIN 4 CTC 7 6.00: News And Weather. 6 JO: Today. (6.40: Business Today).

9.00: Here's Humphrey (Rpt). 10.00: The Young Doctors (Rpt). 10.30: General Hospital (PGR). 11 JO: Morning News And Weather. 12.00: Movie Mastermind (PGR, 69, Rpt).

Comedy about a detective's adventures in Japan. With Zero Mostel. 130: Cricket Australia England. Second Test, Day 4 from Perth. 4.00: Boomerang For children.

4 JO: Cricket Play continued. 6.00: News, Sport And Weather. 6J0: Six Thirty With Jim Waley. 7.00: Cricket Play continued. 6.00: News.

6 JO: Today. 9.00: Fat Cat. 9 JO: Cartoons (Rpt). 9.40: Jaz-zercise (Rpt). 10.05: Daytime Serials -(PGRs).

11.00: Today In Wollongong. 11J0: News. 12.00: Movie Mysterious Stranger (52). Drama. 1.40: Daytime Serials For The Kids.

5J0: Perfect Match. 6.00: News. 7.00: The Odd Couple. 7.30: ERI -(PGR). Drama.

8.00: Mind Your Language (PGR). 8.30: Movie Wholly Moses (PGR, 80). Comedy. 10.30: America's Cup Update. 11.00: News.

11J0: Movies Village Of The Damned (AO, 60). Horror drama with George Sanders. 12.45: Death Squad (AO, 73, Rpt). Drama with Robert Foster. 2.05: Close.

535: Religious. 6.00: News. 7.00: Good Morning Australia. 9.00: Good Morning Sydney. lt.00: Fat Cat.

10 JO: Another World -(PGR). Drama serial. 1130: News. 12.00: Movie Johnny Come Lately (PGR, 43, Rpt, bw). A journalist helps a small town newspaper.

James Cagney. 2.00: Marcus Welby (PGR, Rpt). 3.00: Finder Of Lost Loves (AO). 4.00: Catch Cameron (Rpt). 430: SimooTownsend's Wonder World.

5.00: Gilligan's Island (Rpt bw). 530: Perfect Match (Rpt). Dating. 6.00: News, Sport And Weather. 7.00: Neighbours (S).

Drama. 7 JO: The Late, Late Breakfast Show -New comedy and variety series. 8 JO: Mini-Series Waterfront (PGR, Rpt, Part 2). Drama about a famous waterfront strike. Jack Thompson.

KL30: News, America's Cup Report. 10.40: A Night Of Opulence In Design -Top French and British fashions. 11.40: Going Straight (PGR, Rpt). 12.10: AH My Children (PGR). 2.W: Religions (Rpt).

2.15: Close. 6J0: Today. 9.00: Humphrey (Rpt). 10.00: Barney Miller -(PGR). 10.30: Coronation Street (PGR).

11.00: Seven AM. 12.00: Trapper John (PGR). 1.00: Love Sidney. L35: Serials (PGR). 3J0: For Young Viewers.

5.00: Benson Comedy. 5J0: The Brady Bunch (Rpt). 6.00: News. 6J0: Nightline. 7.00: Family Ties.

7J0: MASH (Rpt). 8.00: Who's The Boss? -(PGR). Comedy series. 8.30: Mini-Series -Sword Of Honour (S, PGR, Debut). Drama.

10.30: America's Cup Report. 11.00: Our Family Honour (PGR). Drama. 12.00: Movie Billion Dollar Bubble (AO). L20: Close.

9.00: MacGruder And Loud (AO). love. Drama about police officers in 10.00: Newhart Comedy program. 10 JO: America's Cup Highlights, News. 11.05: Best Of Jackie Gleason (Rpt).

12.05: Movies (Rpts). Evil Stalks This House (AO, 80). Horror. 2.10: The McMasters (AO, 70). Drama.

3.55: The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (PGR, 70). Crime drama. 5.00: Animal Express. 5J0: You Asked For It (Rpt). CD.