Today's Headlines
Sunday 24th March 1996
International:
Thai police have arrested three Australians accused of trying to smuggle heroin on a flight to Sydney. Two women and a man were
arrested at Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport early yesterday Brisbane time with 350g of refined heroine inside 10 condoms.
Thai police named the two women as Jane McKenzie (30) and Deborah Spinner (28), the man was named as Lyle Patrick Doniger (44).
All were from Sydney.
The penalty from drug trafficking in Thailand is death.
Political:
Prime Minister John Howard is having a honeymoon with the media at the present with his ideas and solutions for the Australian
economy and people gaining favour with even the most Labor oriented of journalists. The move to underwrite the living standards of
the disadvantaged has gone a long way in securing this support for the Coalition government.
Business:
John Prescott, managing director of BHP, is confident that its cost cutting measures will drag it out of the slump in profits
that the biggest Australian company is presently feeling. The sharemarket knocked 61 cents off the price of BHP shares
yesterday. The price closed on FRiday well down at Au$17.90.
Sport:
We are now moving into the favoured of all Australian sports, the Australian Footballl League. The
AFL is a truley Australian sport not aligned in any way with the mess that
has followed the Australian Rugby League this season.
Social:
A mystery woman has made what is believed to be the largest gift in Australia to a single charity. The Au$3.8 million from her estate
is going to the Queensland Blind Association Inc. The association is baffled but delighted about receiving this financial windfall.
Another Au$500,000 from her estate has been shared between four other charities. The woman died in 1993.
Wonder why the money has taken so long to be distributed- earning interest in some lawyers trust account I bet!
Personal trivia:
Beautiful one day, perfect the next.. well it certainly is today. The Brisbane River is absolutely sparkling in the valley below.
There is such an abundance of birds now in our valley that it has become an open avaiary. We have a family of young sulphur crested
cockatoos perching in the gums 20 metres from us, a kookaburra being bombed and teased by three minors not 5 yards from the cockatoos
who are watching with great delight. Rainbow lorikeets squealing madly overhead and a family of brown ducks wading through the
water below.. Ah what a life!!
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