More than 218 years after Europeans landed in Sydney Cove, Woollahra Council is standing firm against the first owners of Australia's richest suburbs.

When the Woollahra councillors David Shoebridge and Tanya Excell, both Greens, cheekily proposed to amend standing orders for full council meetings to acknowledge the Cadigal people as the area's traditional owners, they skewered a latent refusal to let go of the past.

Seven Shillings Beach, for instance, down below the Woollahra council chambers, traditionally takes its name from one of Australia's great real estate deals. A Mrs Busby paid that amount to the last traditional owner, Gurrah, for fishing rights.

The council would not budge, despite the precedents set by the NSW Parliament, the City of Sydney, Waverley and Marrickville in acknowledging traditional ownership.

John Howard's lavish globetrotting may have found him new American friends, but some in Canberra wonder whether the Washington accolades were worth the pain back home.

Now it appears that Howard's mooted tour de France coinciding with next month's 90th anniversary of the battle of the Somme has been quietly shelved and along with it the chance to catch a World Cup game. Perhaps Janette isn't a soccer fan.

Pity poor BradAngelina's new daughter Shiloh Pitt. She is sure to suffer the cruel school playground spoonerism Piloh Shitt. But that fate pales compared with what has befallen Lady (Heather) McCartney.

Hard on the heels of her estrangement from Sir Paul, the London Sun has given her former career as a pornographic model front-page treatment, thoughtfully providing on its website examples of what it calls her "depraved pornographic clinches".

The newspaper said the porn shoot was published in Germany in 1988, five years before Lady McC became famous after losing her leg when hit by a police motorbike.

"Now 38 and mum to Sir Paul's two-year-old Beatrice, she stopped at very little when she took part in the revolting snaps for Die Freuden Der Liebe, The Joys of Love," the newspaper said.

But the boffins at Sydney's nuclear playground at Lucas Heights were very pleased with theirs, apparently "one of the most sophisticated entrances in the world". It was, said the director of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Ian Smith, "designed to be secure, efficient and aesthetically pleasing".

Not quite up to an Anzac theme park, but the local MP, Danna Vale, was there to unveil the memorial plaque and there were good feelings all round as cabinet today considers the Prime Minister's proposal for an inquiry into nuclear energy.

Some states may be considering removing Bibles from hospital beds, but somebody get the Gideons, quick, because the legal system ground to a halt at the Hornsby Local Court last week for want of a Good Book.

A $70 parking fine charge involving the former Hornsby mayor, Mick Gallagher, had been droning on and off for four days. He has been conducting his own defence and when he entered the witness box and wanted to take an oath on the Bible, nobody could find one.

Gallagher said he had asked the magistrate, Lawrence Lawson, for a Bible only to be told he should take the oath without it. As Gallagher stressed the need for divine witness, the magistrate told him to get on with it or face being charged with contempt.

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