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The Sunday Age

Sunday July 1, 2001

Alarm clock

• It doesn't matter how early you get up. You wont be able to smoke in restaurants or cafes from today in Melbourne.

Business Sunday at 8am on Channel Nine features interviews with Coles Myer chairman Michael Pascoe and Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey. On Sunday from 9am see an interview with Prime Minister John Howard and a story in whether sexual assault laws are working.

Sunday Sunrise on Channel Seven from 8am has interviews with Shadow Treasurer Simon Crean and new Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward. Also, see a story on the Sydney tomb raiders who've made an impressive archaeological find in Egypt.

The week ahead

MONDAY: Barry Jones' report on directions for Knowledge Nation policy will be officially launched by Labor Leader Kim Beazley at Victoria University of Technology; World Economic Forum European Economic Summit in Salzburg.

TUESDAY: Reserve Bank board meets in Sydney on interest rates; Bureau of Statistics releases May retail trade figures.

WEDNESDAY: United Nations Security Council votes on overhauling the 11-year-old sanctions against Iraq.

THURSDAY: Second Annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival begins; Australia meets England in the first Test match.

FRIDAY: Vietnamese and United States' first joint trade fair continues in Vietnam.

SATURDAY:British Lions play the Wallabies at Colonial Stadium.

Where we went

Top 10 stories on www.theage.com.au June 24 to 30

1 Napster users plummet The number of Napster users sharing songs has plummeted after the company began disabling versions of its software that allow copyrighted songs to be traded.)

2 Girlfriend's Net revenge (A British woman took revenge on a boyfriend who allegedly cheated on her by posting pictures of him on the Internet wearing women's underwear)

3. Chopper shown to the world (Chopper Read's 30 seconds of television fame)

4. Mobile phones cancer theory

5. Seven faces massive payout (Seven Network faces legal bills of up to $10 million over defamation)

6. Lavish secret life funded by $7.8m fraud

7. Making it or faking it?

8. Fans use The Force against censor (Star Wars fans who want to formalise "Jedi Knight" as a religion have taken their campaign direct to the census bureau)

9. NZ bride of the year investigated for bigamy

10. Nine years' jail for road-rage gunman (The shooting of a trapped motorist had brought a new and intolerable danger to road users, a judge said yesterday in jailing the offender for nine years.)

Lotto results

Tattslotto: (Draw 2081) 9, 2, 43, 25, 3, 5. Supps 30 and 37

Super 66: (Draw 2081) 8, 8, 4, 3, 5, 0

Keno: 2, 4, 9, 13, 14, 15, 18, 25, 34, 37, 47, 56, 62, 65, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 80

Tatts 2: 19 and 92

© 2001 The Sunday Age

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