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2 THE AGE, Friday 21 June 1985 HAPPENING TOOAYi TELEVISION NEWS DIARY PYi Animal-and-children idea Special 'Open File It's only half a week succeeds in 'Zoo Family' SALE: A clearance sale of rock concert merchandise in aid of the Red Cross will be held in the old Clark Rubber building, next to St Paul's Cathedral, Flinders Street, from 9 am. ARRIVAL: The Swedish Foreign Affairs' Minister, Mr Lennart Bodstrom, arrives in Canberra for an eight-day visit SHOW: The annual sheep and woolcraft show is being held at the Royal Mel- bourne Showgrounds from 9 am to 5 pm. HAPPENING tOp YEARS AGO tion previously paid to them evaporated, they could become almost unspeakable. Gosh! We wonder how poor Professor Andrew copes with all those Sydney females. Grin and bear it MS Caroline Hogg, the Minister for Community Services in the Government of Premier John Cain (who you will remember is staunchly against the white line dividing Flemington into male and female areas), has been in Mildura this week for a Labor party conference.

This column's agent at the conference reported that Ms Hogg submitted stoically to a tour of Mildura's Working Man's Club, which boasts one of the longest continu- A short time ago attention was drawn to the fact that an offer had been made to the Postmaster-General to allow, upon payment of a certain annual rental, the telegraph poles throughout the city and suburbs to be utilised as an advertising medium. The originator of the idea, Mr. G. A. Wilson, of Richmond, has furnished the Postmaster-General with the details of his scheme, which consists simply in affixing ornamental boards to the telegraph poles at a height of 8 feet from the ground, so as to prevent obstruction to pedestrians, and to preserve the boards from destruction by idlers or mischief vous persons.

The boards would be rounded at the top, and the adverto-ments painted in neat designs. So far as can be gleaned the Postmaster-General does not think that this novel system of advertising would make the telegraph -poles unsightly, but before deciding what steps to take in the matter he intends to lay it before his colleagues. The Age', 22 June 1885. continues Aboriginal debate FOLLOWING the response to Wednesday night's grim documentary on the plight of Australian Aborigines since white settlement, the ABC last night screened a special edition of 'Open File' (8.25) to further debate the issue. Peter Ross chaired the discussion which brought together John Pilger, who made the film, Paul Coe, an Aboriginal barrister and activist, and Andrew Marcus, a Monash University historian.

But given that so much of the argument hinged on the activities of the mining, pastoral and political sectors, it was distinctly unsatisfactory that representatives from these areas were not included in the program. Indeed, the three parties appeared to be in such basic accord that Ross was forced to ginger up the debate by playing devil's advocate and challenging Pilger's claims that viewers, especially ABC audiences, would not have been aware of the events he exposed. Ross also threw into the ring his opinion that our situation is not comparable with South Africa's because racism here is not legitimised by government legislation. Coe and Pilger disagreed, but from different stances. While Pilger pointed to government sins of omission, Coe argued that his people believe their decimation was brought about, not by individuals and isolated groups, but by deliberate policy.

And while everyone agreed that consciousness has been raised in the past 15 years or so, Pilger asserted with some validity that consciousness needs a leader. Solutions were then invited. Pilger believes the courage and the initiative must come from Canberra because the problem is political; Marcus called for a gesture of goodwill, and Coe, who was unfortunately cut short, made the most incisive point of the night that Pilger's film was still a white, not a black interpretation of history. The debate was far from definitive, but it served to keep alive an issue many would wish to ignore. BARBARA HOOKS THE odd thing about Twin Week, which this is, is that it is only one week.

A fortnight would seem much more appropriate. But this small reservation aside, Twin Week seems to be going well. From Sydney yesterday, Professor Gavin Andrews, a University of New South Wales psychiatrist who has interviewed 250 pairs of twins for a study on stress patterns, told us that female twins valued their twin-ness much more than males. When he appealed for twins to take part in his study he was swamped by female twins. But he was still short of 50 pairs of males.

He does not, however, want twins of any sort from Melbourne, thank you. "We can't afford to go all that way to interview them." All that way down in Melbourne, Mrs Brenda Lordern, of the Australian Multiple Births Association (which organises Twin Week), told us (a) that, Professor Andrews notwithstanding, Melbourne was a world leader in twin research anyway, especially in the fields of language and education, and (b) that the main problem for mothers of twins was exhaustion. At La Trobe University, Dr David Hay, a psychologist who is conducting research programs involving 600 sets of twins, said that the real problem with twins was that "there are two of That might sound fatuous, he apologised, but it meant that comparison was inevitable from the start. In twin boys this often led to competition, which might explain why the twin sons of Mr John Stone, the former Treasury head, jointly topped the Canberra HSC results last year and twin boys the South Australian HSC results in 1983. In girls, competition often surfaced as a "prima donna" effect "Twin girls are the cutest things on Earth," Dr Hay said, which meant that they were often spoilt rotten and grew into obnoxious brats.

Later, when separation became inevitable and the atten- ous bars in the world (91 metres and 27 taps) but a no-nonsense attitude towards women as well In fact, women first were admitted into the Working Man's bar only two years ago, but the dress rules prominently displayed in the foyers ensure that they take no liberties with this new freedom, "tubes must be restrained by halters or straps," the rules warn, and "brief swimwear and revealing tops are Our man noted that Ms Hogg appeared at ease during the tour, although it must have involved some suspension of her mildly feminist ideology. He also reported that the club honor board listed 12 life members eight of them deceased. No so hot pepper THIS city's one, or two, or is it three thousand French restaurants could soon be facing un question formidable: should their menus be rewritten so that steak au poivre reappears as steak sans poivre? Their dilemma arises from the grim fact that more than 18,000 kilograms of pepper (9520 kilograms of white and 9230 kilograms of black, if you want the precise dimensions of the tragedy) are now mouldering on the Sunshine tip, having been, consigned there by health inspectors. The pepper was stored in bags in a warehouse at Butler's Transport depot in Dynon Road, Footscray, part of which caught fire way back in April. Smoke from the fire drifted across the bags and tests on the pepper later showed some traces of chemical contamination.

It was all tres triste, but Sunshine Council's chief health surveyor, Mr Norrie Gof had to order the pepper dumped. Mr Gof said yesterday that the next shipments of pepper for Melbourne were a long way off. So get in for your pepper steak now, while it is still hot FROM armadillos to zebras, gibbons to wapitis, the full and exotic complement of Noah's Ark promises to waddle, lope and canter through 'Zoo Family', Nine's new C-rated weekly drama which goes to air on Sunday at 5 pm (5.30 thereafter.) Despite the popular maxim that performing with children or animals poses a lethal threat to actors' egos, Crawford Productions, maker of this bright 26-epi-sode series, has tossed caution to the wind and brought the two taboos together in such an amiable mix that it is surprising Australian production houses previously have overlooked the possibilities. 'Zoo Family', filmed at the Melbourne Zoo, follows the adventures of the Mitchell children, Nick and Susie (Steven Ja-cobson and Kate Gorman), whose widowed father, Dr David "Mitch" Mitchell (Peter Curtin), is the zoo's resident veterinary surgeon. The average suburban child's object of affection is usually confined to animals of the canine or feline persuasion.

But the Mitchell kids have for their amusement all creatures great and small in an exotic "backyard" which comfortably accommodates a range of entertaining and informative story lines embracing the four-legged and two. There is the zoo's main benefactor, Thomas Spencer (Jon Finlayson), a bombastic and interfering individual whom everyone loathes but must either placate or at least negotiate their way around; Ken Bennett (John Orcsik), the zoo's director, who has to juggle the needs of the people and animals in his orbit against the constraints of his budget; Peta Hamilton and Harry Zychla, the keepers, whose jealous passion for their work promises to bring them into conflict with each other; Julie Davis, a bright and dedicated student on attachment to the zoo; and, of course, the kids. Although Nick, Susie and their awed-tc-blase schoolfriends are central to the drama, young Tim Watson (Robert Summers), son of the grounds superinten dent, threatens to eclipse them all in performance and appeal. An only and inventive child, Tim is a trainee Walter Mitty whose flights of fancy and fantasy could not find a more appropriate launching place than in a zoo, surrounded by all that is splendored in fin, fur and feather. Episode one, which opens to a breezy, rocked-up arrangement of the nursery standard 'Animal Crackers', is a competent enough scene-setter which takes us on a Cook's tour of the establishment and its inhabitants.

But silly inconsistencies sometimes allow it to jar. Nick clearly is proud of his father's position, but his loyalty is shaken when his socialite girlfriend cocks her haughty nose at Mitch's frequent and understandably dishevelled appearance. And Kate Gorman, as his sister, is allowed to run amok through the most squirm-inducing, cutesy performance. Maybe the lions were snacking on the director for morning tea. That said, the program quickly establishes a rapport with its audience as small and large problems begin to beset this appealing extended family.

To its credit, the series exploits every opportunity for comedy from the bizarre to the matter of fact, although in which category an elephant's enema fits does not bear close examination. By the second episode, the human members of the 'Zoo Family' seem to have settled comfortably into stride and from this point we can look forward to 13 hours of innovative and diverting drama. TATTSUOTTO There was one first division winner in Tattslotto draw number 408. The winner will receive $372,826.03. Other dividends were: second division, third division, fourth division.

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