- Ross Bastiaan is a Victorian dentist who's been on the war path for ten years. Mr Bastiaan has single handedly taken on the task of commemorating Australia's war dead at obscure and well known battlefields all around the world.
- Ross Bastiaan is a self taught bronze sculptor and he has made over 100 commemorative plaques and personally placed them at war sites in nearly 20 countries at a cost of over quarter of a million dollars. It was a trip to Gallipoli ten years ago - and the lack of information available there about the sacrifice of Australian lives - that started him on his crusade. Ross is a one band man. He personally negotiates with governments around the world and has met leaders such as Margaret Thatcher. also this week: Men Behaving Badly Rory Miles is a founding member of one of Sydney's most exclusive clubs - The Point Piper Motoring Club. On these well-heeled streets where every second car is prestige, Rory's fleet of classic cars look more than slightly out of place. With names like the Goggomobile Dart and the Rightcraft Scootacar these tiny microcars look as though they have taken a wrong turn out of the local circus. They're so small in fact that they can be lifted and placed in the back of a van. When asked how many he owns Rory appears confused. "I don't know" he says. His friends say that he has them stashed all over the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Some in garages, others in his mother's backyard. He keeps buying more and more and can't bring himself to part with any of them. When he's not driving or tinkering with his tiny cars Rory is the tennis coach at the Rushcutters Bay courts. Among his clients is John Laws and it seems that 'Lawsie' has been somewhat of an inspiration. Over the past 18 years the two have had many a discussion about their love of cars and collecting. Rory says that Laws thinks that it's "a sickness" to collect so many cars. Every Saturday morning Rory and the other members of the club cram their machines into a couple of parking spaces outside a cafe in Surry Hills. Here they "talk a lot of bullshit" says cafe owner Dida. From there they venture out in convoy to amused public reaction. "It's incredible," Miles says. "People are screeching their tyres all around you, yelling out things like, hey where's your bike? They think I'm driving around in the sidecar." The club's motto is "Men Behaving Badly" but in the end it's just an excuse for men to bond and show off their unusual hobby.—Australian Story
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