"All your effort and pain will be for one end: the glory of themotherland, " was the lure for contestants in an unusual reality television show designed to raise the profile of rowing.
If Australians agree, their first president could be in office in time to open the Sydney Olympics in 2000, or at least to lead the celebrations likely to be quite a party the following year forthe centenary of the Australian nation, marking the coming together in 1901 of a federation of British colonies once used as a dumping-ground for convicts from themotherland.