Don Chipp: do it once more
This morning, 44,218 HSC college students round NSW will get their examination ends in the mail. Should you flunk at present, keep in mind this. Alan Bond didn’t try the HSC, Rodney Cavalier says it’s not the tip of the world, Joe Bugner says life is thrilling anyway – and Don Chipp says you’ll be able to at all times do it once more. “It doesn’t matter whether or not you get your HSC at 16, 17, 18 or 19,” he informed the Herald. “However you must get it.”

All people loves Neighbours
Channel 10’s Neighbours, the cleaning soap opera Australians like to hate however watch anyway, started its history-making run on British tv final week. The Reg Grundy-produced program moved to a brand new weekday night slot of 5.35pm on BBC Channel 1 on January 4 – making it the Beeb’s first five-nights-a-week serial. It has already achieved the honour of being the primary Australian cleaning soap to look on Britain’s government-backed community.

Common shorts
A reader just lately had a set of white Bicentenary quantity plates stolen from his automobile. He says the plates value $29 to purchase, however are $45 to interchange… Prospects ready at a Newport takeaway final week noticed a police automobile pull up beside two illegally parked automobiles – a Datsun and a Mercedes. The officers booked the Datsun… Vivid spark? An advert searching for a employee for Woollahra Council stipulates that the profitable candidate “should show flare”.