Ready, Willing And Able

SWANSEA teenager Adam Gardnir's first `real job' was scrutinised by a 90,000-strong live crowd and a TV audience of millions ? and he passed with flashing torches! The 19-year-old is working with the team that devised and staged the opening ceremony of the Sydney Paralympic Games. In his role

Humanity Shines In City's Eyes

AFTER more spectacle in the past month or so than most cities experience in a generation or even longer, Sydney turned out again last night and turned on their torches in their thousands in an even more potent lesson in humanity than the Olympics provided. Until last night the Paralympics were

Parade Raises The Standards High

THOUSANDS of lights flickered in the darkness of Stadium Australia; torches, like 87,000 stars, welcoming the shining lights of the 11th Paralympic Games, the athletes who worked so hard for so long to be there. As the first verse of Advance Australia Fair rose into the atmosphere last night the

From Bizarre To The Banal, Bondi Brings It All

It was in some ways a quintessential Bondi scene uniting the surreal, the banal and the simply strange. There they were a model, a soap star, a bouffant-haired drag queen and others, clasping identical Christmas beetle-green torches in front of a Japanese taiko drumming troupe. At its last