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Thursday 18th January 1996

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International:

Prime Minister Paul Keating visited Singapore yesterday on his short Asian trip. While there he met with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong an old friend of Australia. During the trip Keating gave a speech to the Institute of South-East Asian studies about his vision for Australia as part of the new Asia. His speech was aimed at trying to gain acceptance for Australia in the key regional economic groupings of ASEAN and APEC.

Political:

The debacle in the Queensland state seat of Mundingburra continues. With only two weeks to go before the by-election the Labor party, it is alleged, approached the man they dumped, and now independent candidate, Ken Davies for his preferences. Davies said that he was "bewildered and frankly surprised" at the approach particularly because of the timing of the request. He went on to say that he would find it difficult to allocate his preferences to any major political party - particularly the Labor party. One of the interesting developments at Mundingburra has been the number of candidates who have nominated for the seat. We will endeavour to get details on some of the more interesting characters and outline their profiles here.

Business:

About ten years after things started to go wrong with Bond Corporation's debt and fraud was allegedly perpetrated by Alan Bond he is only now to go to trial for the transfer of Au$1 billion in cash assets from Bell Resources Limited to his ailing company. A Perth magistrate ruled yesterday that Alan Bond and his director Peter Mitchell should be committed to trial as there was ample evidence that they had conspired to defraud Bell Resources. The case is expected to come before the courts late next year. Based on past experience that will give Alan Bond ample time to suffer sudden lapses of memory and the "Christopher Skase syndrome" of failing health.

Sport:

The Australian Open Tennis Tournament has been quite remarkable in its low profile here in Australia - like the up and coming Indy Car event little, if anything has been heard of it. Andre Agassi swept past fellow American Vince Spades into the third round in his match at Flinders park yesterday. In the womens event Monica Seles, world number one player, took only 49 minutes to defeat Katarina Studenikova 6-1 6-1 to advance to the third round.

Social:

An interesting survey in Australia has revealed that church goers are more likely to have a great sex life than non-church goers. 40% of church goers were happy with their sex life compared to only 33% of non-church goers. The only question is who and why did they do THAT survey in the first place!

Personal trivia:

Yet another hot day brewing with temperatures expected to be in the late twenties or early thirties. The Brisbane river has shaken off much of its muddy colour and started returning to its pristine clear self. What a life, enjoying the vista of nature and life all day long through the window of my global office.

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