Diary for Thursday, December 4, 2003

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-2003
Diary for Thursday, December 4, 2003
EVENTS ARE LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND IN LOCAL TIME UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE.

ADELAIDE
0700: Bay Sports Festival launch, Glenelg Jetty Hotel, Glenelg. Info: Phil Herden 0407 050 770.

0930: Special sitting of Supreme Court for swearing in of Justice Tim Anderson, Sir Samuel
Way Building, Victoria Square, court eight. Info: Courts Administration Authority 8204
0403

BRISBANE
1000 - Media conference regarding the second giant dinosaur found at a Queensland site.

Goddard Building Room 388, Mansfield Place, UQ St Lucia campus. Contact: Jan King 0413
601 248.

1030 - Innovation Minister Paul Lucas announces more funding for breakthrough kidney research.

Auditorium Foyer Level 3, Queensland Biosciences precinct, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia.

Contact: Katie Shih 3224 2791 or 0408 701 409.

1130 - Boystown announces Australian Family of the Year. The Empire Theatre, 56 Neil Street,
Toowoomba. Contact: Heather Olsson-Bailey 0413 279 476.

1830 - Australian Geographic Society presentation on saving the endangered Northern Hairy-Nosed
Wombat. Dreamworld, Dreamworld Parkway, Coomera. Contact: Lyndal Dennis 5588 1159 or 0419
764 589.

CANBERRA
0900 - House of Representatives sit.

0930 - Senate sits.

1000 - Leading physics students from across Australia and New Zealand are taking part
in the Australian National Physics Competition, 1st Floor, Physics and Psychology building
(Building 38), Science Road (off Daley Road), Australian National University, Canberra.

Contact: Tim Winkler 02 6125 5001 or 0416 249 231.

1000 - Minister for Family and Community Services Kay Patterson will launch Australia's
Welfare 2003, Theatre, Level 1, Parliament House, Canberra. Contact: Nigel Harding 02
6244 1025 or 0429 688 834.

1000 - UnitingCare and Target request gifts for teenagers this Xmas, in front of the SHARE
Christmas Tree, Target Canberra Civic, Canberra City Centre, Akuna Avenue, Canberra. Contact:
Laurie Hockridge 02 6278 6718.

1000 - Treasurer Peter Costello will present a keynote speech to celebrate the milestone
of Australia's population, ABS House, 45 Benjamin Way, Belconnen, ACT. Contact: Steve
Dangaard 02 6252 7197 or 0418 481 757.

1030 - Former prime minister Gough Whitlam will talk about his government in 1973 at a
media briefing as the National Archives release the 1973 Cabinet Records, Menzies Room,
National Archives, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes, ACT. Contact: Peter Vernon-Constance
02 6212 3755.

1030 - Minister for Health Tony Abbott will launch Lifeline's Just Look national data
base, Mural Hall, Parliament House, Canberra. Contact: Dawn Smith 02 6215 9400 or 0419
462 218.

1200 - Media preview of a new exhibition entitled Australia and The Nobel Prize, National
Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra. Contact: 1800 77 99 55.

MELBOURNE
1000 - Three five-year-old kindergarten kids to attempt marathon, swimming 3kms each simultaneously.

Essendon Swimland (St Bernards College), 41a Rosehill Road, Essendon (Melway 27 K2). Contact:
Jason Arnold 0412 583 821, 9337 0444 or Tammy van Wisse 0418 303 900.

1100 - Opening of the NGV International with guests Premier Steve Bracks, Arts Minister
Mary Delahunty, National Gallery Victoria Director Gerard Vaughan and President Steve
Vizard, and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch assisting in turning on the Waterwall. (1030 - Pre-opening
media pictorial). St Kilda Road. Contact: Anne Stanford 0418 530 280.
1100 - Minister for the TAC Rob Hulls and Police Assistant Commissioner Noel Ashby (Traffic
Portfolio) to launch Operation RAID as part of the TAC unveiling of new drink driving
campaign. The Imperial Hotel, cnr Spring and Bourke streets. Contact: 9247 5205.

1130 - Book launch: Where Were You When...the news that stopped a nation. The Carlton
Brew House, cnr Nelson & Thompson streets, Abbotsford. Contact: Jenine Tinker 9292 1347
or Amanda Swinton 9292 2325.

1130 - Launch of Andrology Australia's Education Needs Analysis and men's health seminar,
with former AFL Essendon footballer Simon Madden. Concert Hall, Moreland City Council,
90 Bell Street, Coburg. Contact: Cassy Bezeruk 9594 7200, 0400 144 728.

1215 - National Business Commentator for The Australian, Robert Gottliebsen, to address
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) CABs luncheon. The Victoria

Club, Level 41 Rialto Towers, 525 Collins Street. Contact: Andrew Tubb 02 9290 5649,
0412 309 569.

1230 - Racing Minister John Pandazopoulos to attend a country racing launch and receive
Country Racing Victoria's annual report detailing the success of the industry in 2002-03.

Emerald Hotel, 415 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne.

1245 - Education and Training Minister Lynne Kosky to join 2,000 students from across
the state to present the Victorian Schools Garden Awards. Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Birdwood
Avenue.

1400 - Dress Rehearsal of The Australian Ballet School's Nutcracker - The Gift of a Dream.

Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Contact: Olivia Guglielmino 9654 8095, 0409 187289, Amelia Philips
9654 3133, 0413 856336 or Ree Izett 9654 3133, 0418 358585.

1700 - Tourism Minister John Pandazopoulos to launch an Aboriginal storybook for children
and a series of tourism brochures promoting Tower Hill, west of Warrnambool. Birrarung,
Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street, Carlton.

1830 - Nola Anderson, National Collection Australian War Memorial Assistant Director,
to open Stolen Years - Australian Prisoners of War travelling exhibition. Monash Gallery
of Art, cnr Jells & Ferntree Gully roads, Wheelers Hill. Contact: Melissa Hart 9562 1569.

1930 - US Festival Director Jonathan Wells to open digital film festival RESFEST 2003.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation Square. Contact: Bronwyn Pyke
9654 3380, 0412 303616, Maureen Devlin 9654 3133, Louise Heseltine 9654 3133, 0402 054
143.

PERTH
1000 - Legislative assembly, Perth. Inquiry into the sustainability of the dairy industry
in Western Australia will table its final report. Media conference due at 1130. Contact
Tony McRae, MLA on 9457 1282 or Principal Research Officer Dr Ray Wills on 9222 7496.

SYDNEY
No time given - The 2003 Australian Export Awards final to be held. No location given.

Contact: Luke Thrum 0403 379 544.

0700 - Just Natural to help city workers with stress relief at special Smoothies Bars
set up in key commuter districts. Locations are Circular Quay, St Leonards, Central, Town
Hall railway stations, Parramatta Mall and Palm Grove at Darling Harbour. Contact: Jai
Sanderson 0419 632 816 or Carolyn Gallagher 0421 599 630.

0730 - Sydney Water's Greg Robinson to speak at the December National Trust Corporate
Breakfast Series. The Treasury Hotel, Hotel InterContinental. Contact: Kim Carter 9258
0133 or Meg Fisher 9258 0129.

0830 - The Centre for Applied Economic Research at UNSW to hold a conference on the economic
and social impacts of outsourcing until December 5. Rupert Myers Theatre, UNSW. Contact:
Dr Kevin Fox 0421 853 393 or Louisa Wright 9385 3644.

0830 - Acirrt, Sydney University and Cutler Hughes and Harris to present a briefing on
Monitoring and Surveillance at Work. Lyceum Room, Wesley Conference Centre, 220 Pitt Street.

Contact: 9351 5626.

1000 - Chair of the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board,
Dr Richard Walley, to present Jimmy Little with the Red Ochre Award. Australia Council
for the Arts, 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills. Contact: Kirsten Bartlett 0419 223 561.

NB: strictly embargoed until 1400 December 4.

1030 - The finalists for the 2004 Toyota Golden Guitar Awards to be announced by John
Laws and John Williamson. Bob Carr will also be present. The Northern Foyer, Sydney Opera
House. Contact: Fiona Searson 0416 185 725.

1100 - One Nation co-founder David Ettridge to hold a media conference at 201 Elizabeth
Street, corner of Park Street, from 11am (AEDT). No contact supplied.

1100 - Local government workers and community groups to rally against forced amalgamations
of local government areas across NSW. Meet at Hyde Park north and march to parliament
house. Contact: Paul Reid 0407 242 092 or Graeme Kelly 0417 420 919.

1730 - Commonwealth Bank CEO David Murray to present a speech on Commonwealth Bank: It's
New Service Vision as part of the Australian Banking and Finance Magazine Leaders Lecture
series. Whiteley Ballroom II, Level 2, The Rydges Jamison Hotel, 11 Jamison Street. Contact:
Julee Muminovic 0421 857 449.

1800 - Broadcaster Phillip Adams to officially open the National Art School's Degree Show
2003. National Art School, Corner Forbes and Burton Street, Darlinghurst. Contact: 9339
8744.

1830 - The premiere of POV 2003, an event designed to draw attention to young filmmakers,
to be held. Cinema Paris, Fox Studios. Contact: Jessica Brentnall 0438 576 983.


ENTERTAINMENT

SPORT
GOLF - to December 7 -
Australian Masters, Huntingdale Golf Club, Victoria
HOCKEY - to Dec 7 -
Women's Champions Trophy, Sydney
CRICKET - to December 8 - 1st Test -
Australia v India, Gabba
GALLOPS -
Port Lincoln
Townsville
Kilmore
Hawkesbury
TROTS -
Gold Coast
Moonee Valley
Penrith
GREYHOUNDS -
Angle Park
Albion Park
Sandown
Bendigo
Hobart
Cannington
Dapto
Cessnock

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