AUSTRALIAN STAR-HOUNDS TO GET FULL-ON L.A. TOUR.

Byline: Peter Hartlaub Daily News Staff Writer

For 10 winners of an Australian radio call-in contest, a journey to see the Oscars will start from halfway around the world - and end just a few miles short of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Organizers insist that the special Academy Awards screening, on a television at the Bistro Garden in Studio City, is more than enough glamour for the star-struck Aussies.

``Your everyday life is something of interest to them over there,'' said Peter Clay, producer of the ``2Day FM Morning Show'' in Sydney. ``People who you might run into down at a restaurant are a huge deal to the Australians.''

Indeed, some of last year's winners ended up getting into the Fox studio party, where they said ``G'day'' to James Cameron, Kate Winslett and Cuba Gooding Jr.

A celebrity sighting at the Bistro Garden, where celebrity sightings are commonplace, is not out of the question, either.

``You never know who might be stopping by,'' Clay said.

The winners, ages 18-35, get into Los Angeles this morning after a 14-hour flight that will include three meals and at least two in-flight movies.

They winners, who had to correctly answer a series of celebrity-related multiple choice questions, will lodge at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and visit Disneyland and Universal Studios during their weeklong stay.

In case they don't run into any of the winners Sunday, they may get a chance to see them taking out their trash later in the week. The radio station has planned a guided tour of the stars' homes in Hollywood.

``They're all over the moon,'' Clay said. ``It's a big thing for the listeners.''