adeliade beat cairns 78-75 in the nbl last night. bendigo beat townsvile 68-66 while melbourne beat perth 88-73 in the wnbl. hawaian and jetstar both launching flights to the cook islands next year. singapore airlines and thai airlines to codeshare. labors ir bill has passed the parliament which will hopefully gets wages moving upwards. labor celebrates 50 years after gough whitlams victory. the trial against bass lehman looks like being thrown out controversally which is not good as he is likely guitly and makes victims not want to come forward. australian politics to visit taiwan which is a good idea.