MELBOURNE: Prime Minister John Howard has told a media conference here that he hopes one of more of his children will enter federal politics one day, so that Australia could have a political family dynasty to match the Kennedy clan in the United States.

ADELAIDE: It said something about the quality of the current Howard ministry that the Australian people were actually missing Tim Fischer from the national political stage, somebody said to their mates in a city pub here last night.

SYDNEY: Beleaguered radio talkback king John Laws reportedly offered to pay for his lunctime meal at the swank Catalina's Restaurant yesterday, according to several unconfirmed reports.