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THE AGE, Tuesday 20 February 1990 Daily Briefing A marginally better way to benefit fttfirk V--'- j-r 1, -I walls of the bunker with a shocking shade of red. The outside? Nondescript glass, seeing that you asked. Mr Reith, of course, represents the only electorate that has given a prime minister the push Stanley Melbourne Bruce, in the 1929 landslide to Labor. With that memory floating around we would have thought Mr Reith might have been a trifle more conciliatory to potential supporters. MORE business puns.

Pam Dawes, of Prahran, says her favorites are Get Frocked, a Byron Bay boutique, and the Alice Springs gift shop dubbed Wonderland in Alice. Unfortunately, both are now ex-shops. David Coote, of St Kilda, remembers fondly the Ball clothier called Elizabeth Tailor. Then there was the hairdresser in Gre-ville Street, Prahran. Yup, that's right: The Barber of Greville.

And although it is not a business name, one reader insists that we pass on the sign he noticed at a camping-goods store: "Now Is the discount of our winter tent." POOR tots. There they were the other day at a Ringwood primary school, marching into the bag for the duration while the loudspeakers played the theme from 'Colditz'. SO here we are again, enmeshed In a bitterly (ought, terribly Important campaign that will determine the fate of our great nation, yea even unto the next millennium. Yawn. Let's be honest.

The so-called "great" issues of state, interest rates aside, generally concern us far less than what happens in our own communities. We are far happier to learn that the Federal Government is spending $500,000 to give our town or suburb a revamped post office and employ another half a dozen of our neighbors than we are to hear promises that Australia's level of foreign debt will be trimmed. It's those rotten BMW-buying yuppies, after all, who have brought us to this sorry fix. A new post office, or a branch office of a Commonwealth Government department, can suddenly be dumped off the back of a truck and assembled by three blokes on a Saturday morning with little more than a screwdriver. Little factories, foundries and computer software firms are amazed to find that someone has dynamited the Canberra logjam, and the contracts are flowing even as the timber swirls downstream.

But you don't have to be Albert Einstein to note that the largesse is distributed almost exclusively OUR thanks to Lee Pattin-son. of Armadale, for her election thoughts. She was visiting Philadelphia when Wilson Goode and Frank Risso were trying to throttle each other and rise to the giddy height of mayor of the City of Brotherly Love. She says: "I think the summing up of a local commentator there would apply equally to Australia now. Said he, 'The problem is we are faced with the evil of two A AGH! Why MPs Should Always Check With Their LM.

Interior Decorators Dept. Peter Reith, the federal Liberal MP for Flinders, was last year blasting those strange-minded people who believe that the environment is worth protecting and who say that shock, horror they might even take their votes away from the big parties that God hath directed should rule us in perpetuity. The lad went on to describe green candidates as watermelons, because "they'll be green on the outside and red on the He said this meant that some environmentalists would be fronts for the Labor Party. Daring locals who have ventured into Mr Reith's headquarters lately say that a crazed bunch of painters, obviously acting against the express wishes of the Tory MP, have daubed the inside NEWS DIARY BOB MILLINGTON to marginal electorates. These are the seats that the two main parties cannot tick off as being Being safe means that politicians need not fuss and fidget and deliver more than pie in the heavens.

The party in government believes the voters in that collection of suburbs are so stuck in their ways that even a neutron bomb would fail to blast them into voting differently. Labor or Liberal, it doesn't really matter, since the Government's opponents benefit from their own blinkered support. On the other hand, electorates that are unsafe require cosseting and pampering. The best speakers from both sides descend on the volatile voters, are seen buying rounds in pubs that they would normally bypass by 10 kilometres, and vow that things will be different once those pointy-headed socialists or reactionaries are given the flick. Lord Bruce: given the push.

will Instead be beating the drum In Australia's safe seats, organising frantically between polls. And we intend to turn each safe seat into a marginal, for the benefit of all our people. It's easy, really. In 1993, electors in houses with even street numbers will be urged to vote for one party while their neighbors across the road cast their ballots for the other mob. Think of it: It doesn't matter which party wins (by one vote, probably); both will be promising the moon to anchor these newly unstable regions or sway them back into the sheepfold next time.

Well, It could work. Couldn't It? Mr Keith: painted into corner. IT stands to reason, therefore, that all Australian voters would benefit by belonging to marginal electorates. As we have demonstrated, however, some poor citizens are marooned in true-red or true-blue territory, condemned to waste their votes. There is a way out of this impasse.

And here we introduce the Marginal Electorate Party, which has not been registered and which will therefore miss making an Impact on 24 March. But, by golly, watch out for us three years from now. The Marginal Electorate Party will, strangely enough, be absent from marginal electorates. We WHO WHERE, WHAT WHEN A DAILY INFORMATION SERVICE TODAY'S EVENTS TALK by John Reid. "What's in the Garden an illustrated lecture at the AMP Theatrette, corner Bourke and William streets, 8 pm.

ORIENTEERING, Gladstone Park, corner Ardlie and Raleigh streets, Broadmeadows, 8 pm. LOTTERIES LOTTO: There were seven division one winners in draw 895. Dividends: division one two, three, four, five, $11.60. SUPER 66: There were two division one winners and the dividend was $241,883.66. KENO: Last night's winning numbers were 1, 4, 7, 9, 12, 18, 19, 22, 29, 31.

33, 34, 43. 54, 57, 62, 65, 70, 71 and 79. There was no spot 10match 10 winner and tonight's jackpot will be about $522,000. TATT'S 2: Last night's winning numbers were 63 and 93. The division one dividend is $1508.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Now would you be quiet and exercise a bit of democracy? There are people who are here not to hear you. but to hear me." The Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, to an anti-nuclear protester who interrupted him. DOLLAR GOLD The Australian dollar closed 50 points stronger yesterday at 76.1 US cents, against a weaker US dollar. The dollar's rise was reflected by the trade-weighted index, which climbed from 58.3 to 58.5. Gold rose to an ounce.

TODAY'S TV RADIO Green Guide selection TV: Candid Camera on Australia (Channel 10, 7.30 pm). This clone from the American original has a sure-fire formula for plenty of laughs innocent and good-natured people making fools of themselves on national TV. Sonny Spoon (Channel 9. 11.30 pm). Well-produced detective comedy with plenty of sharp scripting and acting.

RADIO: Lawyers, Guns and Money (3AW, 6 am) A bright mixture of music, repartee, humor, news and views that provides a good kick-start to the morning. Great Performers (ABC-FM, 8.50 pm). Featuring one of the world's great virtuosos, Henryk Szeryng, in several works, including Bach's violin Concerto in A minor and Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 in G. Life will be easy at I I ietnenea Luxury personal care suites for the aged 1 nil A'Vev- II i t- Sgjjj 1 I (i tog DID YOU KNOW? Surprisingly, the Great Fire of London in ibbb kiiiea only tour people.

Some put the total as high as six, but this includes -two drunks who drowned in the .7: Thames after running from a -burning building. When me Plague struck the year before, London's population was only 460,000 and more than two-thirds of these fled the pestilence. About 100,000 of those who remained were killed by the Plague. So, when the fire -broke out in Pudding Lane, It raged through a ghost town of 40.000 to 50,000 people. Nor did the fire purge the city of the Plague.

The slums that were its stronghold were almost untoucned. For the record, those killed in the blaze were a maid called Alice in a bakery where the fire broke out, a woman who sought refuge in old St Paul's Cathedral just before it collapsed, and the Lowell brothers, watchmakers of Shoe Lane. Oh. yes, and the two unnamed drunks. Graeme Donald WEATHER OUTLOOK TOMORROW: Fine.

Expected city top, mid-30s. THURSDAY: Cool change developing. Thundery showers. Expected city top, mid-30s. FRIDAY: Fine.

Expected city top, low 20s. BRAIN TEASER In the following little ditty the missing word in each line is an anagram comprising the same five letters. Identify the missing words. Under the of the angry mine host Of the Oaks of Phyrea I ordered the that I liked most But instead I was served a beer! SOLUTION e6 'JeBB 'eBay 'sveg mmsuv OBITUARY A former display advertising manager of The Age', Mr John Nash, dies, aged 78. ANNIVERSARIES 1437: Scotland's King James I is murdered in Scottish city of Perth.

1789: King Gustavus III introduces pact of unity and security in 1942: Japanese invade island of Bali in Dutch East Indies during World War II. 1962: The astronaut John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth. 1988: Rainstorm triggers floods and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro that 65 people 1 989: Amazonian Indian tribes in Brazil meet to protest against proposed hydroelectric dams whose reservoirs will flood their lands. BIRTHDAYS 1744: Sir William Cornwallis, English admiral. 1863: Lucien Pissarro, French artist.

1 808: Honore Daumier, French artist. In anatomy, the thenar th Palm of the hand? Sola of the foot? Ball of tha thumb? Pit of tha arm? Answer below; CRYPTIC No. 981 SOLUTION QUICK No. 14,091 SOLUTION Anatomy keep kt thenar optlont faftty open: any tpf the Ural Uvea wH do. The word comai throuoti Letm from Greek.

laiElAJAMIIU Children' In Australia Minion 3.8 3.7 4 3.6 1971 1976 1981 1986 Source: ABS Information Service. 'Under 15 years. If you wish, your own Doctor can continue to visit you at Netherlea. Or we can help you in getting to your Doctor or a Specialist. Our pharmacist is also on call 24 hours a day to dispense any medications you may need.

And if you get ill or temporarily immobilised, we can attend to all your needs right here at Netherlea. The Commonwealth's top adviser on AIDS, Professor Tony Basten, has resigned, dealing a severe blow to the Federal Government's scientific management of the epidemic. Professor Basten's surprise departure comes at a critical time for the Government, which has been accused by some AIDS experts of failing to provide enough money lor research into AIDS, and of placing too much emphasis on the social aspects of the epidemic while neglecting medical research. 'The Age', 20 February 1989 MHMIiWWil I The British Admiralty reports that the destroyer Daring sank after being torpedoed by a German submarine. It is feared nine officers and 148 ratings are lost.

A German communique claims that U-boats successfully attacked enemy convoys. They sank steamers and oil tankers in three convoys, and a destroyer, presumably H.M.S. Daring. The Age', 20 February 1940 Cases of dishonesty on the part of persons placed in positions of trust in oanks ana otner financial institutions have come to be glaringly frequent in Australia. The levanting bank manager who falsifies his accounts over a period oi montns, ana men, when detection appears to be inevitable, slips away with all the available ready cash he can lay his hands on, is nowadays quite a common type of criminal both in this and the adjoining colonies.

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He complains the second he comes in (3,5) It A way lor oddball to return where there are no branches (6) 15. Bird doesn't fully grow following custom (6) It Come back and press one Into action (8) 2. Soon to be contained by plastic bag? (2,1,5) II. Many went in, asked personal questions then got the pump ready (6) IX Do have a meeting to decide our political future (5.10) 24. Artist and princess we take from the centre (6) 25.

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But you will also be encouraged to maintain your independence, interests and hobbies. You can do a bit of gardening, visit the theatre, the hairdresser or a church, as well as invite friends and family over for dinner or a drink. You can come and go as you please, and pursue friendships with whomever you want. In short, you can treat Netherlea as your home because it will be. Nethcrlea is a totally new concept in community living for the elderlv.

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