OTHER WILLIE lived in the far Deep North and didn't have a bean. Up to Darwin, turn right, across the interminable scrub and keep going until you can't go any further. Then a bit of a trek. Anyone would tell you where Other Willie was, except there wasn't anyone so you were kind of on your own, but you'd catch up with him sooner or later. You'd see a pillar of fire by night, a pillar of cloud by day, and you'd know you were on the wrong track because that was Willie, not Other Willie.

Remembrance celebrations: South Atlantic Medal Association wins recognition at last in march past Cenotaph

GRAHAM MURRAY, the Leeds coach, has ruled out drafting Wendell Sailor into his side for the Super League Grand Final against Wigan at on Saturday. The Australian Test winger is due to arrive in England tomorrow, although he still has work permit problems over his proposed stint playing rugby union for Leeds.

THE VILLAGE of Jezerc, high in the hills of central Kosovo, is probably one of the most remote places in Europe - and an ideal place to see the scale of the task facing the international aid agencies in Serbia's southern province.

A strong woman on the right of politics challenges the general consensus by sympathising with the view that immigration is a threat to the host culture. She and her supporters proceed to scorn liberal nostrums, such as affirmative action programmes designed to address racial inequality. Sound familiar?

AUSTRALIA'S political leaders are not normally associated with sex and pornogarphy. But both have become burning issues in the run-up to the country's general election on 3 October.

AFTER TWO days of Australia's general election campaign, an opinion poll yesterday indicated that John Howard, the Prime Minister, would be struggling to win a fresh mandate for his conservative coalition government.

THE MEETING in Sydney that should hack through the tangled undergrowth of the game's international organisation could start with a power struggle today. Representatives of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand are ready to set up a new international board, cutting out the chairman of the board set up by Super League, Maurice Lindsay.

QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA'S "deep north", goes to the polls today in an election that has shaken the rest of Australia, thanks to the surging popularity of Pauline Hanson, a fringe politician who stands for racial policies that discriminate against the country's non-white minorities.

THE caviar lifestyle is over for Australia following its decision last month to ban all imports of the delicacy, writes Andrew Tuck.

Australian right in lead

AUSTRALIA has been shaken by the crisis in Indonesia, its nearest northern neighbour. Once feared as a possible invader, Indonesia has more recently become Australia's closest defence partner in Asia. Now, the apparent death throes of the Suharto regime have reawakened old anxieties about turbulence on its doorstep.

ROUND-UP

ONE LIFE doesn't seem enough. It would be interesting, wouldn't it, to have another go - to come back as a humming-bird, or a Norwegian, or a chap - even just to be born blonde, or sporty, or good at maths. However, given just a single shot at existence, the thing I really wish I'd tried is playing the tuba: this week, one superb radio programme rubbed salt into this regret.