A: PRESS REPORTAGE NOTE: THIS SECTION KEYED FROM HARDCOPY} A01 The Australian 2007 words A01a The Australian - 28 October 1986 Gala Opening for extension to Qld Govt's DP centre THE Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, didn't disappoint the crowd at the opening of the $20 million extension to the State Government Computer Centre in Brisbane last week. The Premier, who is facing a State election on November 1, was presented with a tie-pin decorated with a microchip containing more memory than the first computer the centre bought in 1965. Never one to let an opportune moment slip by, Sir Joh reminded guests of the awesome power of high technology. "Now you know why I'm so afraid of the ID card that our beloved brethren in Canberra are so fond of," he said. Stages one and two of the State Government Computer Centre are worth $50 million. The stage two building cost $20 million and $30 million of computer equipment is installed in both sections. The importance of the centre was demonstrated by the calibre of guests at the opening ceremony. Sir Joh, who officiated, was backed up by the Deputy Premier, Mr Bill Gunn, the Minister for Works and Housing, Mr Claude Wharton, the Minister for Industry, Small Business and Technology, Mr Mike Ahern, and the Under- Treasurer, Mr Leo Hielscher. With four floors below ground level and two above, the centre is highly secure and only certain staff are permitted into "dark areas" where central processors are situated. Indeed, staff on one level underground have a large television screen relaying pictures from a camera focussed on street level to relieve the bunker-like*bunker-lie atmosphere and let them know just what sort of a day it is outside. Alternative power systems have been built-in. The centre has its own electricity sub-station and a diesel system for back-up. A computer maintenance system ensures 24-hour operation. The director of the State Government Computer Centre, Mr Mal Grierson, said the centre now has more than 200 times the processing capacity it had in 1965. "As well as supporting individual departmental applications, the centre's major responsibilities are the service-wide applications, for example, land information systems, government accounting, computer aided drafting, office automation and videotex," he said. "Research and strategic planning activities play a vital role in the centre's activities. "Technical developments within the industry are continually monitored and researched so as to assist departments to take advantage of current innovations. "Areas under investigation include resource planning, communications, new services such as graphics, electronic mail and videotex, data analysis and design support tools." According to Mr Gunn, Queensland's computer centre has set a lead for other States to follow. He had visited other States to assess their facilities and found none to match the Queensland venture, he said. A01b The Australian - 28 October 1986 Japan acts against dumping TOKYO: The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has started surveillance on the export prices of seven popular types of semiconductors in a bid to prevent dumping, MITI officials said last week. The items under the strict surveillance, which started on October 1, were DRAM, EPROM, SRAM, ECL Logic and RAM, and microprocessors and controllers, they said. Under the system, Japanese manufacturers have to submit export details on each contract. Japan and the United States agreed in August to prevent the dumping of Japanese-made semiconductors on the US market. A01c The Australian - 28 October 1986 PCs take to the congressional campaign trail From Jack Bell in New York When the Unites States Congress adjourned last week ahead of the November 4 election, congressmen from across the country returned to their home districts to campaign for re-election. These, however, are days different from any other in US politics, thanks to the growing use of personal computers by political groups for both sophisticated and mundane tasks. A Washington DC-based consulting company, Electronic Data Services (EDS), for example, uses an IBM PC and specialised mapping software to analyse demographic information. The office of Wisconsin State senator, Mr Lloyd Kincaid, recently acquired a Sperry PC to perform traditional political grunt work - word processing and mass mailings. During the 1984 presidential campaign, workers for the eventual loser, Mr Walter Mondale, were the first to use PCs in a national campaign. "There's no doubt that computers have an application for us," Mr Kincaid's administrative aide, Mr Dan Satran, said. "We got our equipment from another senator who had lost in the primary, so we really didn't have to do any shopping around." On the national level, EDS is using five networked IBM PCs along with the Atlas advanced mapping package from Strategic Locations Planning Incorporated of San Jose, California, to perform demographic research and consulting for the Democratic Party. "We take census information, which includes demographics such as age, race and income, and combine it with political information such as voter registration and turnout numbers," an EDS research associate, Mr Dale Tibbits, said. The Atlas program, a general purpose mapping package that constructs maps and then displays the corresponding data, is linked to a Hewlett-Packard plotter for the production of full-colour maps which display demographic information for particular geographic regions. For example, if we find that a candidate's support comes from one particular precinct, we can tell you what racial and economic groups make up that precinct and how you can use this information strategically," Mr Tibbits said. "Because of our ability to combine census and political information, we can tell you where you should be concentrating your broadcasting money, where to set up campaign headquarters and other strategic decisions." In the State of Michigan, the Republican candidate for governor, Mr Dan Murphy, used an Apple Macintosh and the business file-vision graphic database from Telos Software of Santa Monica, California, to aid*aide financial decisions such as media spending and campaign appearances. "Michigan has an especially rigorous campaign financing law," Mr Murphy's campaign director, Mr Dick Southern, said. "It's very important to target your funds carefully." A01d The Australian - 28 October 1986 State's programs will stay despite demise of CEP HEATHER McKENZIE DESPITE the impending termination of the Commonwealth Computer Education Program (CEP) in January, computer education in NSW is alive and well, the head of the Computer Education Unit, Dr Ian Pirie, said in Sydney last week. Dr Pirie was speaking at the Computer Education Unit's (CEU) software suppliers' meeting. "The NSW Government has recognised that computer education is a priority funding area and subsequently we were untouched in the State Budget," he said. Dr Pirie admitted, however, that the CEU had no idea what repercussions the program's end would have. The unit's staffing arrangements were uncertain, with only five positions assured next year, he said. Representatives of software suppliers, the Curriculum Development Centre, the Catholic Education Office, the State Department of Education, the Federal Attorney-General's Department, the ACT Schools Authority and the Queensland Department of Education attended the meeting. Several issues relating to the supply of software for educational purposes were discussed. These included how the unit evaluates software, the proposed National Software Coordination Unit (NSCU) and the software industry's view of the education market. There were also group sessions where the question of copyright and the future development of software were addressed. "Software is the key to computer education. Without good software, the rest of the equipment is a waste of time," Dr Pirie said. "We are here because communication is the key to developing good educational software." A main problem was that industry was not generally aware of what constituted good educational software, he said. A lack of communication between education departments and software houses had led to the industry not knowing what the education departments required. Many software suppliers, however, expressed concern that the lack of communication with education departments meant they only knew what was wanted after a product was released and found to be wanting. It was suggested that software suppliers be given access to evaluation by education departments before the final product was released. Dr Pirie agreed with the idea, encouraging the suppliers to submit their programs for evaluation. He said the unit was keen to become involved in this. The general opinion among suppliers was that the amount of feedback from the Department of Education was not high. The onus seemed to be on the software suppliers to submit their programs for evaluation. One of the major tasks of the unit is to advise teachers what constitutes good educational software. The CEU also has a limited software development committee, called Caresoft, which develops specialist educational software. "This group meets the needs we don't think industry would take up," Dr Pirie said. A member of the CEU software team, Ms Denise Tolhurst, explained how the unit evaluated software. The CEU has published 180 software evaluations. These evaluations are based on a form sent to teachers who are chosen primarily through contacts made at workshops. One problem with the evaluations is that they are not often tested in the field. Problems of time have so far prevented this, although it is one of the unit's long-term objectives. Software is evaluated either by a teacher, a regional consultant or officers at the CEU. They rely on software being submitted by the suppliers for evaluation. If a program is given to the unit, it is kept in the resource centre where teachers can access it for themselves. "The purpose of the evaluations is to provide a guide to teachers. It should not be considered as an authoritative*authorative assessment of the program," Ms Tolhurst said. Some of the software suppliers expressed doubts about the evaluation. It was suggested that some formal group should be established so evaluations could take place in a workshop environment, with input from a number of teachers, as opposed to individual assessment*assesement. Ms Tolhurst said some evaluations were already conducted in workshops, but there was no formal scope for such groups at present. The unit would ideally like to conduct evaluations in that way, but the time it took to do so - three to four weeks - did not allow it. "The cessation of Commonwealth funding has not made computer education a dead issue," Dr Pirie said. "The whole area of computer education is really moving ahead. Other sections of the NSW Education Department are working on it as well. "For example, a building code for computer rooms is being formulated and others are looking at creating criteria for qualified computer education teachers." A01e The Australian - 28 October 1986 A fortune has been spent but still more micros are needed THE money Australian schools have invested in computers is enough to buy a skyscraper, perhaps even a modest tropical island. A nationwide study conducted for the Federal Government last year, has estimated that at least $57 million has been spent on more than 350,000 microcomputers by Australian primary and secondary schools. But respondents to a survey for the study said the shortage of computers in schools and insufficient funds for purchasing more computers were still significant drawbacks. The survey found that four brands constituted 78 per cent of all machines used in the classrooms, with Apple representing 34 per cent, Commodore 19 per cent, BBC 12 per cent and Microbee 13 per cent. One thousand schools were surveyed for the study called Computer Applications in Australian Schools. It also involved visits to four schools in every State by the research team. The study led to the discovery of an average of three computers per primary school and 14 computers per secondary school, with twice as many machines in city schools than country schools. A research team member, Professor John Hattie of the University of Western Australia, said this was one of the study's most surprising results. "The stereotype of a computer locked in a back room with a maths teacher is not borne out by the study," he said. He described classroom computing in Australia as in its "early adolescence", moving beyond the teething stage of basic introduction towards the development of a wide range of applications. Professor Hattie carried out the study with Professor Don Fitzgerald of the University of New England in NSW, and Professor Phil Hughes of the University of Tasmania. The study found that computers were primarily used for word processing, drill and practice, computer awareness courses, simulation and games. ?? A02 Australian Financial Review 2019 words A02a Australian Financial Review - 29 October 1986 Lawyer seeks user-pays NCSC, takeover tribunal By JOSEPH DOWLING and BEN POTTER The National Companies and Securities Commission should be entirely self- funded and its power to hold hearings in relation to takeovers and market practices should be transferred to a takeover tribunal. The eminent takeover lawyer, Mr John Green from Freehill Hollingdale and Page, made these demands yesterday at a Sydney seminar on takeover legislation. Mr Green said the concept of "user pays" should apply to the NCSC, and he pointed out that the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States and the Ontario Securities Commission were both self-funding. He said the NCSC should be freed from the restraints of government limitations on salaries and that the commission should be allowed to pay what was necessary to retain expert staff. "The securities markets and transactions in them move exceedingly quickly. "Therefore we need an NCSC that can move as quickly and readily and is able to call on outside expert resources if it needs to supplement its own. "If we had a system of self-funding, the costs of the system would fall on those who use and benefit from it rather than the general taxpayer," he said. The NCSC would raise the funds for its operations through charging additional fees, either for incorporation of companies, registration of takeover bids, lodgment of prospectuses or stock exchange trades. He said the current fees for registration of takeover bids were absurdly low at $330 for a cash bid and $660 for a non-cash offer. "If the fees were, say 0.01 per cent of the final bid price capitalisation of the target, (ie. $100 for every $1 million, with a minimum fee of $10,000) that should not be a significant deterrent for making bids." He suggested a takeover tribunal should be established with a senior commercial lawyer or judge as its full-time head and two other members drawn from a panel of part-time members with relevant experience. "The tribunal would not be bound by the rules of evidence and would have powers similar to the subpoena powers of the courts. "Importantly, especially given the types of legal actions recently mounted, no question of procedure or of fact determination by the tribunal could be appealed to any court. "Under this proposal, what would happen is that where the NCSC was concerned about some conduct it would - and it may under its existing powers - investigate. "It would not and could not hold hearings. "Once it formed a view that what had occurred was, for example, unacceptable, it would then apply to the tribunal for an appropriate order. "The tribunal would hold the hearing, not the NCSC. The NCSC could not then be embarrassed because it also had an incompatible quasi-judicial function," he said. Also speaking at the conference, the Victorian Attorney-General, Mr Jim Kennan, said the NCSC and the Ministerial Council were working with international market regulators on proposals for the exchange of securities information for enforcing legislation. He told the conference that the regulators were also examining guidelines for the acceptance of prospectuses and said these were the first steps in international cooperation and would assist Australian investors wanting to take advantage of foreign capital markets. He said bilateral arrangements between Australia and the US for the recognition of prospectuses had been proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, Australia would seek to include companies and securities law in the multilateral treaty on mutual assistance in criminal matters. Negotiations were afoot to link the Sydney Futures Exchange with international futures exchanges and for an agreement on the exchange of market information in commodities futures trading, Mr Kennan said. And a meeting to be held in London shortly would look at multilateral and bilateral treaties on securities regulation, he said. "It is envisaged that these treaties will seek to develop ways in which market malpractice across international boundaries can be deterred, detected and investigated." Mr Kennan also called for discussion on raising extra funds from the private sector, saying it was not possible to raise the level of State and Federal government funding during a period of budgetary restraint. Options were to raise fees across the board, levy further fees on incorporation and the filing of annual returns (perhaps with a loading for listed companies), and further fees on securities licenses. Registration fees could depend on issued or authorised capital, Mr Kennan said. A02b Australian Financial Review - 29 October 1986 Big foreign deal on the cards for Hartogen By JOSEPH DOWLING Hartogen Energy Ltd is believed to be on the verge of announcing a multi-million dollar deal that may involve an overseas party taking a large slice of the company. Market sources said Hartogen had been holding discussions with a number of overseas and local groups in recent months, although details have not been disclosed. They said Hartogen had scheduled a press conference yesterday to announce a major corporate development, but one of the parties involved (not Hartogen) had asked that the conference be delayed because of its proximity to the Queensland State election. Hartogen has been the subject of persistent takeover speculation in recent months, pushing the share price from $1.65 at August 1, to $2.70 yesterday. The speculation has generally linked Hartogen to the French Elf Aquitaine Triako group, with some suggestion that Elf Aquitaine may move to sell its oil exploration interests in Australia to Hartogen. Hartogen, in return, would issue shares to Elf Aquitaine*Acquitaine. Sources close to the companies yesterday denied that was the case, although they confirmed Elf Aquitaine*Acquitaine had been holding discussions with a number of Australian companies, including Hartogen. Elf Aquitaine*Acquitaine Australia and New Zealand Ltd, which is 99 per cent owned by the French parent company, Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine, earlier this year offloaded its 64.5 per cent interest in its mining arm, Elf Aquitaine Triako Mines Ltd. That move was perceived as part of a general move to reduce spending in Australia, although the company is believed to be enthusiastic to retain some involvement in oil exploration. One analyst said last night that any link between Hartogen and Elf Aquitaine*Acquitaine may simply involve a merging of exploration leases. Hartogen is believed to be close to completing plans for the listing of its shares on the Tokyo market, although company directors were not available yesterday to comment on any of the speculation. Likewise, Elf Aquitaine directors would not comment. A02c Australian Financial Review - 29 October 1986 Lumley accounts declared invalid By HEATHER KILLEN Edward Lumley Ltd's 1986 accounts, directors' report and notice of meeting were declared invalid yesterday by Mr Justice Needham in orders handed down in the NSW Supreme Court. The orders followed the judgment handed down on Monday concerning a dispute between Lumley and BT Insurance Ltd, controlled by Mr Brent Potts and Mr Brian Yuill, over seats on the Lumley board. BT Insurance, a 23 per cent shareholder in Lumley, has nominated two candidates for election to the board at the company's forthcoming annual general meeting. However, Lumley directors stated in a circular to shareholders that only three directors could be elected, and the Lumley family, 55 per cent shareholders, had thrown its weight behind the incumbents. On Monday, Mr Justice Needham ruled that four directors could be elected to the Lumley board because of a technical breach which occurred in 1982. In accordance with the company's articles of association, Mr Anthony Crichton-Brown should have been re-elected as a director when he resigned as an executive director and assumed the role of managing director in 1982. However, the election did not take place and a vacancy on the board has existed since that time. Mr Justice Needham said yesterday that the company's notice of meeting, directors' report and accounts contained irregularities which may cause substantial injustice that could not be remedied by order of the court. He ordered Lumley to inform shareholders as soon as possible that the annual general meeting would not take place on November 5 as scheduled, and that new notice of meeting, accounts and reports would be sent out in due course. He also ordered the company to issue new notice, accounts and reports, and point out to shareholders the changes made to these documents. Further, the company must send out new proxy forms and is restrained from counting any previous proxies. Lumley was also ordered to pay all costs incurred by the action. Justice Needham said BT Insurance's nominations to the Lumley board were still valid, as was the special resolution the company will put to the Lumley meeting to change the terms of the employee share scheme. A02d Australian Financial Review - 29 October 1986 Aust brokers have big hopes for New York From MALCOLM MAIDEN in New York Several Australian broking houses in New York are expanding their operations significantly. The brokers are concentrating on developing bond dealing capacity in recognition of the emergence of a major US market for Australian bonds in the past year. But, the expansion also covers equity operations and demonstrates confidence on the part of the brokers about future US investor demand for Australian paper. Bain and Co, J.B. Were and A.C. Goode are all chancing their arms against the bond trading might of the US investment houses which developed the Australian bond market in New York. Bain and Were are also expanding their equity dealing capacity, and the overdue entry of Melbourne's McCaughan Dyson is expected early in 1987. Goode's top New York man Mr Hugh Webb Ware said the developments reflected the fact that "the US will be a major force in the Australian bond market for the foreseeable future". US investor interest in the Australian bond market surged during the final quarter of 1985. The attitude of US investors towards Australian economic developments since then has had an important influence on the development of policy responses to the economic crisis. The initial wave of widely based US buying of Australian bonds, either directly or through retail vehicles such as the First Australia Prime Income Fund, was triggered by a wide yield spread between Australian and US government securities, and the belief that the $A was stable at about US70c. Today, the interest rate spread remains, but many US investors have been burned by the subsequent slide in the $A, now partially reversed. The drop in the dollar's value did not rout the US market, however, and Australian brokers claim that in the long term, US investors may prove more stable than Japanese houses. It is argued that the bond and equity investment is being led by institutions establishing core holdings offshore as part of the internationalisation of their portfolios. Bain's New York office is in the process of more than doubling its floor space as part of a major upgrade. Bain currently fields two brokers in New York, two corporate advice executives and four support staff. In coming months, the broker will introduce a bond trader, two new equities dealers, one more corporate advice executive and additional support personnel. Bain has traditionally been a major player in the $A bond market but until now, the New York office has serviced US demand for Australian bonds in concert with its London office. A similar system is employed by Westpac-Ord Minnett. Bain's London partner in charge of bonds Mr Graham Morton, will oversee the establishment of the New York bond dealing operation later this year and ease the first New York bond dealer, Mr Hal Heron, into the job. Were will boost its broking staff from three to five and establish a bond trading operation to be run by Mr John Clark, ex-London. The existing equities operation will be boosted by the addition of Mr Sam Brougham, currently trading in Melbourne, Mr Peter Wade and Mr Tom Hayward. Mr Wade worked for Were in New York from 1981 to 1984 then returned to the Melbourne office to manage Far Eastern activities. He will be an institutional dealer in New York, while Mr Hayward will be an equity salesman. Goode has already set up a bond trading operation by bringing Mr Tom Larkworthy from Melbourne. Said Mr Jim Rayner of Were: "We are a separate profit centre here, and the expansion makes a statement about expected profitability." ?? A03 The Daily Mirror 2043 words A03a The Daily Mirror - 23 June 1986 BIG BROTHER IS GETTING BIGGER TRADITIONAL Australian qualities of individuality, non-conformity and self-reliance have been severely eroded in a year, according to a leading civil liberties group. It has laid the blame for stifling much of the country's development at the door of governments and their "big brother" urge to control people's lives. Australian Civil Liberties Union president John Bennett said recent calls to introduce identity cards and to use telephone taps were the latest assaults on privacy. The Federal Government wants to introduce the identity card to control tax evasion, illegal immigration and security fraud. There have been calls to legalise telephone tapping to combat organised crime and drug dealing. "Individually, the extensions of Federal and State government powers are often understandable and to some extent justifiable," said Mr Bennett, who is also a lawyer. "But the overall effect is to make us a more tightly controlled society with often unnecessary surveillance." The Civil Liberties Union cited several areas where people's rights had been intruded upon in recent years, particularly under the present Federal Government: Attempted introduction of a national identity card; Planned phone-tapping and the examination of mail to combat drug offences; Introduction of random breath testing; Proposed Bill of Rights and Human Rights Commission; Questioning of the jury system; Assets test on pensions; Using investigators - in some cases with more power than police - in the Medicare system; Photographs on some drivers' licences and train tickets. Mr Bennett accused governments, and the bureaucracy, of manipulating emotional issues to gain public support for increased surveillance measures. "People read about the tragic effects of drugs and they give the OK for phone-tapping and identity cards without considering threats to civil liberties," he said. "These measures had little effect in the U.S. "The danger of ID cards is they can be used to monitor the activities of citizens. "The cards must be produced on demand of the government which makes them almost an internal passport." A03b The Daily Mirror - 23 June 1986 PM WINS HARE KRISHNA VOTE THE Hare Krishna cult has backed Prime Minister Bob Hawke's call to make the unemployed work for the community. The shaven-headed chanters say they will take as many of the unemployed as the CES can supply and will send them out to beautify Sydney. "Work is very instructive to the soul and is essential if these kids aren't going to get hooked on drugs," said Krishna spokesman Tony Foley. "We do a lot of work in rehabilitating drug addicts. They help us prepare free meals for the poor and clean the streets," he said. A03c The Daily Mirror - 23 June 1986 THE NIGHTMARE WE SAW TWO champions of freedom have risked arrest by speaking out about the horrors they have witnessed in South Africa. One chilling report came from a South African journalist who defied her own Government's ban on releasing information to send a report to a London newspaper. The second account was by the Archbishop of Canterbury's peace envoy Terry Waite, who bravely told of "an evil which must be combatted" - even though he knew his conversation was being bugged. The journalist, who cannot be named, told Mail on Sunday readers of rumors that the Pretoria Government was planning to hire a criminal to assassinate black rights leader Bishop Desmond Tutu. And she recounted a sickening scene in which a gang of children murdered a young boy by hacking him with kitchen knives. When a mortuary van arrived it could not take the body away - because it was already full of butchered corpses it had picked up on the way. Mr Waite, meanwhile, spoke out in a BBC interview sure to enrage the Botha regime. In a phone call he was aware was being recorded by the authorities, he attacked South Africa's treatment of its black people as "nothing short of disgraceful". He added stoutly: "I am perfectly prepared to accept the consequences." Mr Waite, who had earlier been refused permission to visit jailed bishop Sigismund Ndwandwe, went on: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and at the heart of this system there is an evil which must be combatted. "People here are being detained and picked up for absolutely nothing but doing their job as Christian ministers and Christian bishops. The world should know that quite clearly." A03d The Daily Miror - 27 June 1986 TAX REWARD FOR SUPER PEACE Cuts `carrot' to make unionists toe Federal line From PETER GIBSON, Political Reporter, in Canberra TAX cuts will be dangled before angry trade unions as a Federal Government carrot to take the heat out of the superannuation war. Workers' leaders will be offered a $9 a week reduction in income tax from September 1 in return for taking a softer approach. Government sources confirmed today that senior ministers believe it essential to give militant unionists the extra incentive as soon as possible. The cuts would also probably strengthen the Government's argument for a further discounting of the next national pay case, due early in 1987. So far Prime Minister Bob Hawke has given a commitment only to make the cuts before the end of this year. But Cabinet, under enormous pressure to stop a breakout by big unions from the ordered wage-fixing system, will be forced to decide the timing of the cuts by early July. The first shot in the union struggle for wholesale national superannuation - the issue rejected in yesterday's Arbitration Commission ruling - will be fired next Monday. That is the day the ACTU wages campaign committee meets to plot tactics for the next six months. Key unions in the building, transport, oil, maritime and metal industries will make it clear that they intend to push for superannuation benefits quickly. Smaller, weaker unions which do not have the muscle-power of the "big boy" industries could wait up to two years to win the same benefits. ACTU president Simon Crean is heralding the superannuation battle as the key to the future of the crucial Prices and Incomes Accord. He warned that if employers are not willing to negotiate schemes with their workers, the Accord will crumble. And Tom McDonald, secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union, said employers must agree to the superannuation in the light of this year's solitary pay rise of 2.3 per cent. And Metal Workers Union boss Greg Harrison today predicted widespread industrial action over the next six months. Initial indications from employers were that action would be necessary to win superannuation benefits, he said. Mr Harrison said the metals, transport, building and stevedoring industries would be affected. But Mr Hawke doesn't agree. He said today he was confident there would not be industrial trouble over superannuation. The decision to allow individual negotiations for superannuation on an industry-by-industry basis was excellent, he said. Yesterday's decision by the Arbitration Commission effectively said "no" to ordering employers to pay into superannuation schemes. It ruled that bosses must genuinely agree to voluntary schemes, and it also put a 3 per cent ceiling on contributions. The Commission is to call a conference of unions, employers and governments to draw up guidelines for negotiating. A03e The Daily Mirror - 27 June 1986 CHIPP TO QUIT ON SUNDAY From PETER GIBSON in Canberra DEMOCRATS leader Don Chipp is set to quit politics this weekend. Mr Chipp plans to announce his retirement, which has been expected for some months, on Sunday. A bitter struggle between deputy leader Senator Janine Haines and Victorian Senator John Siddons is expected. Senator Haines is expected to win the fight which will split the party. The victory will make her the first woman leader of a parliamentary party in Australia. Senator Chipp has been in Parliament for 25 years, spending the last nine as leader of the Democrats. He quit the Liberal party after being passed over for a place in the first Fraser Ministry. A03f The Daily Mirror - 27 June 1986 Apartheid and the Ella brothers POLITICS and sport clashed head on today when the 47 members of the Australian Rugby Union met in a `closed to the press' discussion. As the Aussie dollar tumbled on world-wide money markets, Australian unions baulked at superannuation and taxation deals and the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, urged the nation to buy and think Australian, the Australian Rugby Union were asked to consider accepting an invitation for an official team to tour South Africa, centre of world attention. The nation of P.W. Botha, Prime Minister of a country where apartheid rules the roost and white has might; where some 3000 have been locked up without trial since a state of emergency was declared almost a month ago and 1500 - mostly black - have perished since Christmas. A nation which is under the threat of economic sanctions from the West - and a nation of some 5 million whites which can lay claim to being Rugby Union's world champions, despite two decades of international `exile' from the amateur game. Somehow, the Springboks, South Africa's national Rugby team, has survived, despite the world's condemnation*condemmation of the Johannesburg Government and its black and white policies. "They are the team to beat," said Mark Ella, the only man to notch tries against each of the Home Countries on the first grand slam Wallaby tour - who wouldn't go when asked to play in the Durban Sevens. His twin brother, Glen, Randwick and Australian fullback, did - but younger brother, Gary, now an officer with the Aboriginal Affairs Department and working out of Bourke, wouldn't have a bar of it. The tremendous trio spent hours discussing the various invitations to Botha land. In just the one family, albeit Australian Rugby Union's finest family since the Thornett brothers, dissension was rife. And the cause of the blue was South Africa, football and politics. Mark, former Australian captain, was offered money to play with a "Rest of the World XV" when the Springboks were desperate to flex their Rugby Union muscles. It would have been a deal similar to the one offered to the Australian rebel cricketers who lost to Graeme Pollock's team last summer. Glen, along with David Campese and Roger Gould, played in the Durban Sevens. They weren't paid. But nagging away at the minds of all those sportsmen was the question: Are we doing the right thing? Mark Ella, pin-up for more kids than you can poke a stick at, well knows his responsibilities. He also respects the right of the individual. Said Mark, who was told he would be `an honorary white' if he had accepted the South African offer: "As an individual, I wouldn't go to South Africa, honorary white or not. "If the ARU (Australian Rugby Union) today decides to accept the invitation to tour, and I was selected, I would tour. "I wouldn't want to let my country down. A player, I feel, has to put his country first and it's an honor to be chosen to play for your country. "It's also a tremendous feeling to be recognised as one of the world's best. "Had an official Australian team been going to South Africa when I was playing - and if I'd been selected - I'd have been proud to go. "And I'd have stayed in the same hotel as Alan Jones and the rest of the team. "As an individual, I refused to go. As an aboriginal, I can't condone the South African Government's policies. "I feel that, if I went as Mark Ella, person, not Mark Ella, member of the Australian team, I would have been doing so (condoning Botha's bullies). "Glen had the right to go, but I don't think he'll go again, team or individual. Everybody has the right to go - I chose not to. "At the same time, putting on my rugby hat, the Springboks are the team to beat. "They've just beaten the New Zealand Cavaliers and no country can really lay claim to being world champions unless they've beaten the 'Boks. "It's a crying shame they aren't allowed to play - every Rugby player wants to play in or against South Africa. "It's the biggest challenge in rugby, that's why they'll keep offering tours and rugby countries will keep accepting them." While the 47-man ARU will meet today at Rushcutters Bay to discuss the South African invitation - and its repercussions on Brisbane's tilt for the 1992 Olympics and Australia's standing in the sporting community at large - only 12 actually get to vote on the issue. ?? A04 The Daily Mirror 2024 words A04a The Daily Mirror - 4 August 1986 FACING UP TO SPRING By Fashion Editor KERRY YATES There's an important fashion message to be read into every label in the new spring ranges from the leading French cosmetic houses. Bourjois has given the `green light' to exciting brights with its Feu Vert collection and Harriet Hubbard Ayer invites you on a Weekend Exotique. Christian Dior takes a retro trip to the colonies with Les Coloniales and Yves Saint Laurent's Fatale imparts a warning that it's fatal NOT to try the mysterious colors inspired by the heroines of Alfred Hitchcock movies. The fantasies involved in planning the new spring faces are fascinating. Once the companies decide on their inspiration for the season, they go head-over-heels to name all their products along that particular theme. All very theatrical, and that's how you'll feel with the dramatic color changes we'll be facing up to this spring. All the top makeup companies have one certain message: spring faces will be bold, bright and beautiful. Top fashion colors like tangerine, violet, turquoise, shocking pink, and brilliant blue, also go to the eyes. All the cosmetic houses have those strong shades in eyeshadows, with matching eye-pencils and mascaras. How you mix the shades is up to you but always apply a pale shadow like white, beige, pale pink over the eyelid right up to the eyebrow first, making a base to take the next color. Matt faces are given a warm tint with a dusting of beige or pink tonings, blended to almost nothing. Lips are outlined with pencil and smudged to form a base for the lipstick. Lipsticks are shimmering, almost invisible lip glosses or soft, creamy shades for day, and wild-as-you-dare after dark. Do try some of the frosted multi-colored lipsticks by Lancome which combine unusual colors like orange and irridescent violet for a rainbow effect. CHRISTIAN DIOR was inspired by movies like Out of Africa and Somerset Maugham novels in creating its soft, reflective Les Coloniales range. A rose lipstick named Colonial, a blue-rose shade Hammock and a lip shimmer called Parasol bring to mind delicate English ladies in the colonies. Eyes are bright, cheeks soft, lashes lacquered, lips fresh and cool with irridescent shades like Sunshine and Subdued Light. ESTEE LAUDER is bold modern and rah-rah-rah with Boating Party Colors. Inspired by happy picnics on the lake and a countryside splashed with color, the eyeshadow sets include colors like Picnic Wine, Sunrise Peach, Radiant Teal and lipsticks in Bright Day Red, Sunripe Melon and Sunrise Beige. A new addition is a Natural Blush Coloring Creme, which helps you to apply color lightly and evenly with a sponge. HARRIET HUBBARD AYER's Weekend Exotique range promises your face an exotic color romp. Smudge the eyes in intense color using two pearly shades like Rose Intense and Campanule (a fresh bright blue), outline the total eye in bright blue kajal and apply a dazzling blue mascara. Also exciting is Luminous Yellow eyeshade. Lips bloom with fashion shades of Mandarine, Magnolia (brilliant rose) and Hibiscus, a summer red. YVES SAINT LAURENT's adventurous Fatale collection is inspired by classical beauties like Grace Kelly and Eva Marie Saint, heroines of Alfred Hitchcock movies. Eyes are widened with a daring pink shadow high on the arc and a hint of green shading on the lid. Lashes are smothered in shocking pink mascara tipped with turquoise for a starry look. Sensuous lips are created with coral red lipstick. Bourjois has signalled the go ahead to light up your face with a range of pert, extra bright colors. Eyes are wild by mixing Feu Vert, bold, fresh green - applied directly along the eyelashes and drawn out and up towards the eyebrows - with Rose Printemps, a lively intense pink lightening up the arch and lid of the eye. Lashes are brushed thickly with emerald green mascara called Emeraude. Bright, light lips are dressed up with shimmering orange (Rebecca) and pink (Cosima). A04b The Daily Miror - 4 August 1986 BIG $95 BARGAIN You don't need a passport or a load of money to get away from it all, relax and enjoy yourself. For just $95, two people can do all this: stay overnight in a luxury suite, enjoy a good four-course meal (choosing from the full menu) and bottle of wine, dance, listen to live music and top it off with a bottle of champagne. This exciting package is a Fri and Sat night special in St Leonards: at the charming, garden-set Glenview Inn, 194 Pacific Highway. The charming Bellevue restaurant - where you dine very well - has an intimate cocktail bar adjacent. The Bellevue opens lunch Mon-Fri, dinner seven nights. A pianist entertains Fri, a jazz trio Sat. Your car is parked off-street, undercover. Glenview, with Ian Edwards manager, is tops for social and business function facilities. The air-conditioned, garden-surrounded Garden Court in particular lends itself to small weddings and social do's. Small groups find the Tudor Room ideal while the Banquet Room is excellent for larger functions of all kinds. Book for the Glenview Inn on 439 6000. A04c The Daily Mirror - 4 August 1986 Birthday specials INDIAN Affair, prestige Indian restaurant of Parramatta, is celebrating its sixth birthday all this month with specially-discounted menus at lunch Tues- Fri and dinner Mon-Thurs. Enjoy two generous courses of the excellent Indian Affair food for $15.90 or three courses for $19.90. Choose from the whole menu. Boiled rice is served. Indian Affair also has its usual a la carte menu at lunch (Tues-Fri) and at dinner seven nights a week. Dishes can be ordered mild, medium or hot. Ever since it opened, people from all over have returned repeatedly to Indian Affair. I've been there at least half a dozen times: always to praise the food (for its flavor and freshness) and the helpful service provided by owner Dr Joseph Sethi, his family and staff. Entertainment (seven nights) includes belly dancer Noora Fridays, Western music Saturday and Sardool on sarod other nights. Dr Sethi himself sings light Indian folk and film songs every Saturday. Particularly popular among entrees is the luscious tandoori chicken and the satays. Rogan Josh (Kashmiri lamb), Bombay beef, beef vindaloo and moglai chicken (favorite of emperors) are much-ordered main courses. Specials are served at weekends. Barfi and gulab jamun (both made by Dr Sethi's wife Joy, who supervises the kitchen) are the main desserts with kulfi a regular special. Indian Affair is a family affair with Dr Sethi's son Neville manager, his daughter Vanita hostess and daughter-in-law Jill helping. Book for the BYO Indian Affair (79 Macquarie St, Parramatta) on 635 9476. A04d The Daily Mirror - 4 August 1986 GREAT VALUE ITALIAN Aniello's Trattoria of Glebe is still one of the happiest, best-value Italian restaurants in Sydney. And customers know it! Petite hostess Fulvia, who runs Aniello's with her brother and mother (the kitchen whizz!) opens the two-floor corner cottage eating spot for lunch Mon- Fri and dinner seven nights. It's both licensed and BYO, with a good wine list plus house red and white at $4.50 a litre and $2.50 a half-litre carafe. The pasta is superb and low priced: entree-size around $5, main course around $6.80! Veal dishes are nearly all $6.50, a BBQ seafood platter $14 and other seafood is $6 - $8.50. For dessert, you can't say no to the wonderful liqueur-soaked torta della casa. Parties up to 70 have a great time, with menus of $16, $18 and $20 pp. Book for Aniello's (284 Bridge Rd) on 660 4775. A04e The Daily Mirror - 4 August 1986 The star of Crows Nest For real eating pleasure, it would be hard to better Athens Star: Greek and seafood restaurant of Crows Nest. The atmosphere is friendly and happy - thanks to owner Archie Mitsios and his staff - the decor cosy and charming, the food a delight. Specialty of the house is a Greek banquet - $16 pp for groups of four-10, $15 pp for bigger parties - that includes lots of delicious starters, main courses of moussaka, calamari, dolmades and souvlaki, four different desserts and coffee. Upstairs is a big party room for groups of 30-150. For a special event, the chef will make a cake, free! We dined in great comfort by the light of Tiffany lampshades. Laughter and happy conversation helped make our meal memorable. On the comprehensive menu, entrees are around $3.50 (Greek style) and $6 (seafood vinaigrette, garlic prawns, saganaki prawns, calamari, etc). Greek lamb dishes are $7, veal and beef $8 - $9. A magnificent seafood platter (for two) is $27.80 and the delicious Athens combination, $8.60. Seafood is around $8.50 (lobster extra) while pasta, stuffed capsicums, zucchini and others are from $6. Melt-in-the-mouth house special - the lamb dish exohiko - is $8.50 and a traditional moussaka, $6.50. Athens Star (65 Alexander St, Crows Nest) is licensed with cocktail bar. Lunch is Mon-Fri, dinner Mon-Sat. Book on 439 4734. A04f Daily Mirror - 4 August 1986 Unique seafood platter A UNIQUE Aussie-Asian seafood platter is wowing 'em at Angela's Eastern Cafe in Eastlakes (near Kingsford). Angela's has already made its name for superb Singapore chilli crab (and crab done Malay sambal and Indian style). Choose your own live crab! The $35-for-two platter has mud crab (with BBQ or other sauce), garlic prawns, prawn cutlets, fish, fresh calamari, mussels and pippies in black bean sauce, plus greens and fried rice. It's also ideal as an entree for four-six people. Angela's owner Harry Low (whose wife Kim is the marvellous cook) has also introduced a deluxe lobster Indian curry. It has fresh lobster tail, prawns, steak, greens and special fried rice. Coming up soon is Angela's Sydney Harbor cruise: Sun night, Aug 31 on MV Southern Cross and Matilda II. There'll be chilli and garlic crab, a huge carvery, open bar, Chinese lion dance and fireworks and live entertainment. You could win a trip-for-two to Singapore. Cruise price is $54 pp. Book for it and for lunch (Thurs-Fri) and dinner (Tues-Sun) on 693 2038 or (ah) 398 8516. A04g The Daily Mirror - 4 August 1986 $9.95 YELLOW BOOK MEAL The Yellow Book Cafe has been popular as a charming, alfresco*alfreso oasis of good food at modest prices ever since it opened as an adjunct to the Yellow Book restaurant. Now the Yellow Book Cafe, of 1 Kellet Way Potts Point - corner of Ward Ave and Roslyn St - has moved inside for winter and is offering tremendous value in a $9.95 three-course menu. Enter the gates of the gracious house, pass through the garden and you're suddenly anywhere but in the heart of The Cross. Start with a drink in the comfortable bar, perhaps, then dine in a delightfully happy, plant-filled room. The special $9.95 Mon-Sat menu has three or four choices in each course and changes regularly. The night we dined there, first course choices were deep-fried potato skins with sour cream/horseradish dipping sauce (if you don't know about these, take it from me they're delicious), soup, grilled mussels on shell and Japanese pork pancake. For main course, we could choose from roast of the day, chicken cacciatore, meat loaf stroganoff and hot beef curry with rice. Grilled sirloin*sirlion steak and fish of the day are $2.50 extra. For dessert, the choice was fresh lemon mousse, baked fruit sponge pudding or ice cream and chocolate sauce en vacherin. A hot bread roll is $1 and a bottomless cup of Cona coffee $1.50. The limited wine list is mainly $8.50 and $9.50. Wine is also served by $1.50 glass, $3.50 half-carafe and $6 carafe. Cocktails are $4.50. Payment is by cash, Bankcard, Visa or Mastercard only. Book for the Yellow Book Cafe on 358 4194. A04h The Daily Mirror - 4 August 1986 Julio: Italian in Kingsford THE PIAZZA is Kingsford's newest Italian restaurant: a revamp at 14 Gardeners Rd (near the roundabout) of Julio's Plaza Mexico. Owner Julio and his excellent Italian chef are offering delicious food at incredible prices. Pasta is $3.80 entree, $5.40 main course, seafood entrees around $4, veal from $6.80. The Piazza - both licensed and BYO - opens for lunch Thurs-Fri and dinner seven nights. Book on 662 8231 and join the throng! A04i The Daily Mirror - 4 August 1986 NEW FREEWAY HITS THE PITS! Drivers lured back to Parramatta Rd By GREG WALKER THOUSANDS of motorists who thought the recently-completed F4 Western Freeway would save them hours of travelling time each week have gone back to using Parramatta Rd. ?? A05 The Daily Mirror 2000 words A05a The Daily Mirror - 29 September 1986 Share bargains galore at monthly auctions By DAN BROOKS Unwanted shares end up at garage sales, too. Partly-paid shares - forfeited by investors who fail to meet instalment payments - are auctioned after trading has finished at the stock exchange. Usually, one auction is held each month. It offers companies the chance to finish raising the extra capital they sought when making calls on their contributing shares. Last week, geologist-unit trust manager Graeme Foley swapped the office for the auction room to rap the gavel on 85,000 BA Petroleum Explorers Trust (BAPET) units. Mr Foley, manager of BA Oil and Gas Management, knocked down the lot for $22,100. The bidders paid 26c - 9c above the reserve price. The 17c reserve equalled the size of the call on the units. Defaulting shareholders can expect to recoup the difference above the reserve price. Why do bidders bother buying other people's discards? Like any auction, they have an eye on the bargain. This wasn't so at the BAPET sale where the price paid was the same as the ordinary sharemarket value. Stock exchange officials say 95 per cent of forfeited share auctions involve mining companies, usually No Liability companies, with unpaid calls. Occasionally, an industrial company with partly-paid shares holds a sale. Investors in danger of having their shares confiscated and sold from under them are given six weeks' grace to pay up. In BAPET's case, call money was overdue on 241,000 units in the fortnight leading to the auction. Tardy payments by some investors reduced the number of shares to finally go under the hammer to 85,000. A licensed auctioneer is hired for most occasions. The rules specify the company gives 10 days' notice of a proposed sale to its home exchange. A05b The Daily Mirror - 29 September 1986 MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR INVESTORS Australia's sharemarket boom faced a test today after a falling off in international support and a lower gold price during the weekend. However, situation stocks - including Woolworths, Herald and Weekly Times, ACI and Email - looked likely to keep the action bubbling along. Woolworths will be in the spotlight after rising 8c on Friday on lively turnover, and subsequently sustaining its higher level of $3.40 in London trading. The big retailer, crippled by heavy losses from its Big W stores, could soon be up for grabs the 19.9 per cent held by Safeways of the US ends up in unfriendly hands. Safeways is inviting sealed tenders for the parcel, although Woolies has the right to nominate a friendly buyer if it can find one prepared to match the winning offer. By contrast, Coles Myer eased to $4.83 in London to wipe out most of Friday's gain. Overall, Australian industrial shares were virtually untested in London although most prices held firm. One stock continuing to attract international investors was News Corporation at a record $29.10 in late London trading following a 60c jump to $29 in Sydney. Banks attracted light demand from U.S. bargain hunting. Westpac closed at $4.55, ANZ at $5.20 and National Australia at $5.28. Hooker continued to firm, closing at $2.40, but Lend Lease eased to $8.45. A leading London broker reported that early strength in the bullion price encouraged initial UK and European buying of selected gold shares and leading miners. WMC was a little firmer at $4.42 with GMK higher at $14.30, while associate Central Norseman was steady at $15.30. Kidston at $8 was steady on Sydney's lower price, but Placer Pacific looked firmer at $2.80. A05c The Daily Mirror - 29 September 1986 Visiting broker likes sound of his own fund By Dan Brooks SOUTH African born Martin Simpson is a New York stockbroker channeling Australian investors' money into international high-technology stocks. It calls for rapid decisions from the investment guru who has a machine-gun like patter to match. He was in Sydney last week extolling the locally-managed fund that bears his name, The Martin Simpson High Technology Fund. Offering a quick apology - he had only 13 minutes to spare for a hotel lobby interview before darting to a North Sydney business meeting - he delivered what has come to be a condemnation of our high-tech hopefuls. "Many of the smaller companies here in the high-tech field are new ideas and blue sky and bit of this and a bit of that," he said. "We are cautious on the Australian high technology field because many of the companies are less seasoned (than their over-seas counterparts). "They're more venture capital than high-tech." But Mr Simpson's attitude seems to have softened since a visit last February. The fund did not have a cent in the local market then. He was reported as saying some were "accidents waiting to happen." Since then, the fund has added five home-grown companies to its global portfolio of technology and health care stocks: Sarich Technologies, Icom, Memtec, Idaps and Peptide. "We bought, in spite of my protestations to the contrary, a few shares (3000, it ensues) in Sarich at about $8.60," he said this week. "They're now $20 and, knock on wood, seem to be heading in the right direction." Even so, Australian stocks accounts for a mere 1.3 per cent of the fund's overall value. The unlisted fund is managed by ABC Fund Managers, part of Melbourne businessman, Joseph Gutnick's First Investors Securities Ltd. Funds raised have doubled to $13.5 million over the past six months and the portfolio's capital growth has tipped 36 per cent. Reasons for setting up a local fund bearing his name are simple. He has a sister living in Australia. He intends launching the fund in New Zealand on this visit. Born in Capetown, Mr Simpson went to Michaelhouse school, Natal, where one of his school chums was Robert Holmes a Court. They next met when Mr Simpson came to Perth during a two-year honeymoon in the early 60s. "Robert was then driving a taxi to pay his way through the University of West Australia. "The last time we spoke, he was thinking in billions." Mr Simpson settled in New York in 1965 and eight years later formed the Martin Simpson & Co Inc stockbroking firm specialising in monitoring technology enterprises. He said: "For us, high-tech means well established companies with good growth prospects and very strong managements. "We are very, very selective. "Most of the equities we invest in will continue to be European, Japanese or American although we certainly have a place for Australian stocks to participate." Good decisions were vital because world high-tech stocks have been generally depressed over the past three years. Many stocks sell at 20c in the dollar. They won't all go back to a dollar but a number will, he said. A05d The Daily Mirror - 29 September 1986 Evans moves for steady oil prices AUSTRALIAN Energy Minister Gareth Evans has thrown his support behind stable world oil prices. Mr Evans is visiting Gulf oil nations ahead of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' October 6 meeting in Geneva. He discussed prices with Kuwait Oil Minister Sheikh Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah yesterday and, according to official sources, expressed Australia's willingness to maintain price stability. Mr Evans was due later to fly to Saudi Arabia before visiting Oman on a four-nation tour. His talks came on top of forecasts by Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh that OPEC will work for a $US19 a barrel oil price by year-end. The Iranian minister was speaking in Jeddah where he met Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Together, they discussed prices and production quotas for OPEC's 13 member states. Before leaving Iran, Aqazadeh said he would possibly discuss regional issues with Saudi and Kuwaiti heads of state - a reference to the six-year-old Iran-Iraq war. He called the meeting with Sheikh Yamani "brotherly and friendly." A05e The Daily Mirror - 29 September 1986 World finance talks begin FINANCIAL leaders from 151 nations met today to discuss ways to resolve the conflict between the need to boost a stubbornly sluggish world economy and their own political and economic priorities. The meetings of the interim committee of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will set the agenda for the joint IMF-World Bank annual conference, which formally opens on Wednesday, Sydney time. Over the weekend, the United States apparently failed to win promises from West Germany, Japan and other industrial countries to stimulate their economies beyond the exchange rate changes they have been promoting. US Treasury Secretary James Baker and his visiting counterparts declined to comment on the weekend meetings outside a formal statement. A05f The Daily Mirror - 29 September 1986 BAMBOO EXCHANGE OPENS FOR BUSINESS CHINESE citizens are now able to buy and sell shared issues by two Shanghai companies in the country's first stock market since the 1949 communist takeover. The official Xinhua news agency said more than $US21,000 worth of shares changed hands when the limited market opened on Friday in Shanghai. "Shareholders will trade their stocks freely on the market according to the prices quoted and pay a certain amount of commission after transactions are concluded," Xinhua said. Trading will be restricted to shares issued by the Shanghai Acoustics Equipment Producing Company and the Yanzhong Industrial Company Ltd. The former has issued 500,000 yuan ($US135,100) and the latter, five million yuan ($US1.35 million) in 50 yuan stocks. Many Chinese enterprises sell shares to their employees, but this will be the first time that stocks will be traded freely. LI Xiangrui, president of the Shanghai branch of the People's Bank of China, said, however, that conditions are not yet ripe for long-term fund markets or a general stock exchange. "The limited stock trading may serve as a trial balloon, which will stimulate enterprises to institute the stock system and pave the way for establishing a stock exchange in the city," LI said. As part of its financial reforms, the government freed Chinese enterprises to issue and sell stocks and bonds two years ago. The policy was designed to encourage firms to use such sales to raise capital, thereby reducing the financial drain on state coffers and encouraging the use of personal savings. Shanghai is China's leading industrial and commercial area and was the main financial center until the 1949 communist revolution. After the takeover, the city's financial markets were closed and until recent years stock exchanges were vilified as capitalist institutions. The country's first experimental bond market opened last month in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Shenyang was also selected for China's first bankruptcy, which was declared in August. Xinhua said assets of the firm, the Shenyang Explosion Proof Equipment Factory, were sold off last week in the country's first ever property auction. The factory was bought as an entity by the engineering section of the Shenyang Gas Supply Co for 200,000 yuan ($US54,000). Chinese economists are alarmed at the number of state-run enterprises running at a loss, but efforts to formulate a nationwide bankruptcy law have been delayed, apparently because of fears of widespread layoffs. A05g The Daily Mirror - 29 September 1986 WALL ST TRADING AT ONE-MONTH LOW WALL Street suffered its slowest trading day in a month on Friday, although the index managed to end the session in the plus column. By the close of trade the Dow Jones industrial average, which fell 34.73 points on Thursday, was up 1.13 points at 1769.69. Big Board volume amounted to 115.27 million shares compared with 134.29 million on Thursday. It is the lowest level since August 25 when 104.35 million shares changed hands. Traders said the stockmarket suffered from early weakness in the bond market but was able to bounce back. Takeover activity continues to draw much of the spotlight, they said. Janney Montogomery Scott, vice-president in equity trading of Sidney Dorr said trading was "fairly sloppy" as money managers "window dressed" their portfolios before the end of the third quarter. Oppenheimer and Co market analyst Charles Comer said the market remained trendless and polarised. Standard and Poor's 500-stock index edged up 0.02 points to 232.23; the New York Stock Exchange composite index rose 0.45 points to 133.94. Prices ended narrowly higher in moderate trading on the American Stock Exchange. The index rose 2.86 points to 261.98. London SHARE prices closed on the bottom on Friday with sentiment at its lowest ebb. ?? A06 The Daily Telegraph 2022 words A06a The Daily Telegraph - 27 June 1986 Drug pair `will still be hanged' ONLY hours after the Malaysian Government had granted convicted drug runners Brian Chambers and Kevin Barlow a two-week stay of execution, Penang's top legal authority said the two men would still be hanged. Penang's senior legal advisor Mr Shaari Yussof said last night he expected the two Australians would be executed, regardless of the complex legal manoeuvres employed in a bid to save them. Mr Shaari said the facts of the case remained that Malaysian courts had passed sentence and the Pardons Board had rejected pleas for clemency. "A reprieve has not been granted and it is clear they will hang," Mr Shaari said. "Under the due process of law the executions will be carried out." Chambers' mother Mrs Sue Chambers said last night news of the stay of execution was "like the sun coming out". "I've been holding my breath for so long about this. It's nice to be able to get some oxygen," she said. The mothers of both the men were visiting their sons in Pudu Jail yesterday morning when an Australian High Commission official told them of the stay of execution. "We all just stood there and grinned at one another," Mrs Chambers said. "It is the only little bit of good news we have had since we have been here. I suppose anything was an improvement on what the position was before." The Malaysian Government gave an assurance in the Penang High Court yesterday that warrants for the execution of Chambers, 29, and Barlow, 28, would not be issued while legal proceedings were under way to save their lives. Justice Edgar Joseph Jnr has fixed a hearing for July 4 when he will further consider the arguments of Chambers' lawyer Mr Subash Shandran. Mr Shandran is arguing for an extended stay of execution pending a plea for the Malaysian Supreme Court to re-hear Chambers' appeal, which the court rejected last December. Mr Subash Shandran is claiming an important trial procedure relied on by the trial judge is no longer applicable in Malaysia. He is arguing that since 1981 the Supreme Court, in applying a Privy Council decision on a Singapore case, had ruled the judge should hear both prosecution and defence before a decision. It was under these rules that Barlow and Chambers were tried. But in March this year, three months after the rejection of the appeals, the Supreme Court said it was wrong in applying the Singapore case. Mr Subash Shandran also told the Judge the lawyers for the two condemned men had not been officially told of the Pardons Board's rejection of their clemency petitions and had only learned of them through press reports. Barlow and Chambers were sentenced to death in July last year. A06b The Daily Telegraph - 27 June 1986 Fears over 100-year-old rail bridge Engineers warn of big crack By Peter Grimshaw and Tracey Arthur GRAVE fears were raised yesterday about the safety of a railway bridge used every day by thousands of commuters travelling to and from the Blue Mountains. A civil engineer who inspected the bridge yesterday said it needed urgent repairs otherwise it could "fail". If that happened, a train could slide off the bridge and fall 30m into a canyon below. A State Rail Authority spokesman said last night that repairs were under way at the viaduct over Knapsack Gully at Lapstone at the foot of the Blue Mountains. He said trains were operating at a reduced speed over the bridge while maintenance work was completed. "There is no danger to the public, otherwise we would not be running trains," he said. "This viaduct is over 100 years old and all the old bridges and viaducts require repairs from time to time." But the Opposition transport spokesman, Mr Bruce Baird, and the Liberal spokeswoman for the Blue Mountains, Mrs Margaret Bradshaw, said yesterday they feared the bridge was a safety hazard. Mr Baird and Mrs Bradshaw visited the site yesterday with the civil engineer and said there was a huge crack along the structure and many bricks had fallen out. "The technical experts say that unless something is done about it, we could face a serious problem in the next six months," Mr Baird said. "Remember, this is the only rail access route to the Blue Mountains and there is the question of all those passengers who use it every day to consider." The civil engineer who inspected the bridge with Mr Baird said it was never designed to take the heavy traffic and coal loads it carries today. "If any heavy loads come down the hill and on to the bridge with any velocity, the bridge could fail," he said. The engineer, who declined to be named for professional reasons, said the crack along the structure was big enough to put an adult's hand into. He said that the top section of the bridge had moved several centimetres away from its normal position. "Say you had two or three locomotives loaded with coal using the bridge at any great speed then the whole thing could move sideways," he said. "If something is not done in the next six months the bridge could be enormously dangerous." Mrs Bradshaw said: "There is no cause for immediate alarm but the bridge needs urgent work." A06c The Daily Telegraph - 27 June 1986 Casino pledge by Unsworth ORGANISED crime will not be allowed to infiltrate Sydney's legal casino, the incoming Premier, Mr Unsworth, pledged yesterday. Mr Unsworth said it was imperative the Government take steps to ensure there was no scope for criminal elements to intrude into its operations. He said his Government would take every step needed. Only a few years ago, Mr Unsworth was quoted as saying he didn't like casinos because they were a cover up for organised crime. He said at the time he thought casinos would provide a method of tax avoidance and lead to the corruption of casino officials and operators. But Mr Unsworth said yesterday circumstances had changed since he made those statements. He said he now believed a legal casino at Darling Harbour would help eliminate the illegal activity that sprang up during the term of the Askin Government. A06d The Daily Telegraph - 27 June 1986 Bird racket crackdown coming By Bill Watt NEW measures to restrict illegal trapping of wild birds are being considered by the State Government. This follows a National Parks and Wildlife Service survey which discovered many more birds had been sold in retail outlets than had been bred in captivity. "It is obvious many of these birds are being taken illegally from the wild," a spokesman for the service said. The new measures being considered include setting up three classes of licence for bird traders instead of one. The Government is also likely to introduce new penalties which could see dealers' licences downgraded or withdrawn if they trade in illegally captured birds. Mr John Whitehouse, director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, also said computers would be extensively used in the battle against illegal trading. "With all bird trading records on computer it is very simple to run cross checks to make sure dealings are above board," he said. The service's officials believe popular targets for illegal trappers are Major Mitchell (pink) cockatoos, superb parrots, and regent parrots. A spokesman for State Planning and Environment Minister, Mr Carr said changes would not go ahead immediately so comment from within the bird trading industry could be considered. A06e The Daily Telegraph - 27 June 1986 Hospitals bailed out for last time By Peter Grimshaw THE State Government has had to find an extra $23 million to pull the top NSW public hospitals out of debt. But the Health Minister, Mr Unsworth, warned yesterday that this was the last time the Government would rescue hospitals which overspent their budgets. He said hospital bosses would in future be required to stick within their budgets or face the sack. The State Opposition warned last week that many hospitals had run out of funds. It predicted that patients would have to take their cut lunches with them to surgery unless the hospitals were given extra money. Mr Unsworth disclosed that the major hospitals had built up debts of $8 million last financial year and a further $15 million this year. He said some would be ordered to pay some of the debts themselves from funds they had "squirrelled away". The Government would pay the rest of the bills immediately but this was the last time hospitals could expect extra payouts, he said. "One of the conditions of us allocating the extra funds is that hospitals give us an assurance that they will take any necessary steps to keep their spending patterns in line with their budgets in the future," he said. "Already in the past two months hospitals have been able to make savings in some areas. "But some other hospitals have continued on their merry way with little or no regard for the financial burden already borne by the Government and taxpayers. "This means funds which could have been spread more evenly throughout the health system are needed to prop up those hospitals which have not exercised proper expenditure control measures." The hospitals most in trouble were understood to be Royal Prince Alfred ($9 million), St Vincents ($6 million) and Royal North Shore ($3.3 million). Mr Unsworth agreed that some hospital authorities probably believed that if they got into financial trouble, the Government would always bail them out. "But that won't be the case in future," he said. "If hospitals don't accept their responsibilities and live within their budgets, they will do so at their own peril." Mr Unsworth said other areas of the State Budget would suffer as the Government found $23 million to pay the debts. A06f The Daily Telegraph - 27 June 1986 Strikes at record low THE number of working days lost through industrial disputes in the 12 months to March 1986 was the lowest for 17 years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said yesterday. The ABS said 1,118,900 working days were lost in the 12 months to March, compared with 1,385,600 in the 12 months to March 1985 and 1,074,400 in the year ended April 1969. A total of 60,100 working days were lost by 42,000 workers in 154 disputes in March compared with 120,500 days lost by 48,100 workers in 161 disputes in February. A total of 84,500 days were lost because of industrial disputes in March 1985, the ABS said. A06g The Daily Telegraph - 27 June 1986 Inventor seeks foreign backing By Peter Lowe THE man judged Australian Inventor of the Year in 1980 says tax imposts are forcing him to seek overseas backing for his latest creation: a pocket-sized emergency safety beacon which may save the lives of snow skiers, hikers and other adventure seekers. The sophisticated device, weighing only 160g, emits a continuous radio homing beacon which makes it usable in the most remote country. But according to its inventor, Mr Iain Saul, import taxes of up to 30 per cent on components and a sales tax of 20 per cent make the cost of producing it in Australia uneconomic. In addition, Mr Saul has encountered difficulties in obtaining a frequency allocation for the mini safety beacon which emits a continuous signal for 60 hours after it is activated. "The Department of Civil Aviation didn't want the beacons transmitting because they thought people would set them off in a mischievous manner. "The Department of Communications recognised the need for the beacon, took the bull by the horns and allocated a frequency," said Mr Saul. "They made up their minds about six weeks ago at a meeting where the disappearance of Simon Crean's brother in the snow was mentioned," he said. The beacon is designed for one-off use only, to discourage pranksters. Despite a decision to manufacture the first batch at the small Consolidated Technology factory in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston, the inventor, who is also managing director of Consolidated Technology, doubts whether manufacturing will prove practicable in Australia. "There are virtually no manufacturers of electronic components any more in Australia. There used to be a lot but they found it cheaper to manufacture overseas," he said. Consequently most components for the safety beacon must be imported and the import tax ranges from 2 per cent to 30 per cent. ?? A07 The Daily Telegraph 2007 words A07a The Daily Telegraph - 16 October 1986 Kuta cashes in on devaluation bonus By Jeremy Clift INDONESIA'S big devaluation has turned the spectacular equatorial archipelago of sparkling beaches and ancient temples into a bargain for travellers. Sun-seekers on the holiday island of Bali can now get rooms for as little as three of four dollars a night along Kuta Beach, a favourite with back-packers. The Indonesian airline Garuda is offering cut-price packages if you buy the ticket abroad and the Indonesian government is mounting a campaign to encourage visitors to cash in on last month's devaluation. The currency change means that tourists can get 45 per cent more rupiah to the dollar, slashing the cost of meals, drinks and local transport. Indonesia, the only Asian member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, has been badly hit by the fall in the price of oil and devalued on September 12, setting a new rate to the dollar of 1035 rupiah against 734 previously. Though many of Indonesia's better hotels are priced in US dollars, tourists looking for bargains will find accommodation at rock bottom prices. Indonesia is a country of 13,000 islands with a population of 165 million people that is mostly Moslem, though on Bali - the most popular tourist destination - a mixture of Hindu and Buddhist culture predominates. Straddling the equator, the volcanic chain is strung out across a distance broader than the United States and includes a fascinating kaleidoscope of different peoples from near Stone Age tribes in the far eastern province of Irian Jaya and former head-hunters in Borneo to the matriarchal society of part of Western Sumatra. It will soon be easier than ever to get to Bali. From next month Garuda will open new flights to the resort island from Amsterdam, Taipei, Guam and Los Angeles, says Garuda chief R.A.J. Lumenta. Because of these plans, Lumenta told reporters there was now a critical need to improve Bali's small airport. Japan is providing a 14.9 billion yen (A$150 million) loan for the expansion project, but it is not expected to get underway until October next year, according to Transport Minister Rusmin Nurjadin. In the meantime, visitors may find frustrating delays at Bali's Ngurah Rai airport. But it is still worth the wait. Despite fears that an influx of tourists will wreck Bali's colourful culture, it has thrived on the visitors who help keep alive its traditional dancing, wood carving, textile making and active artists' colony. The glitter of neon between the palms along Kuta Beach may be seen as an unwelcome intrusion of the modern world by some, but Bali authorities have wisely restricted tourist development to the extreme southern tip of the island. The newest resort will open in December, when President Suharto is expected to inaugurate the latest Club Mediterranee complex at the luxury development of Nusa Dua. President Reagan stayed at a nearby hotel last April. Suharto has called for a concerted effort to promote tourism to make up for lost oil dollars. "We must realise how important the role of tourism is in ensuring the continuity of our development efforts," he told a tourism conference in Jakarta. The government aims to increase tourist arrivals by 14 per cent a year in the present five-year plan ending in 1989. But visitors to the country rose by only 2.8 per cent to 720,647 last year from 700,910 in 1984. This is partly because Indonesia is expensive to get to from many parts of the world. But tourists also complain of poor standards of hygiene in some places, high prices, cheating and poor service. "The quality of Indonesian tourism in terms of promotion, service, price, attractions and management still leaves much to be desired in view of the high rate of complaints by tourists visiting Indonesia," Tourism minister Achmad Tahir admitted last month. A07b The Daily Telegraph - 16 October 1986 Peko asks for talks on Kakadu PEKO-Wallsend chief Charles Copeman has called on Prime Minister Bob Hawke to stall further development in the mineral-rich Kakadu National Park until they can discuss issues involved in mining. In a letter to Mr Hawke, Mr Copeman has outlined five specific areas he wishes to argue at the planned meeting. Mr Hawke has yet to receive the letter, sent on Tuesday, but a spokesman said the Government had no objection in principle to further discussions with Peko over the issue. The issues to be raised were detailed yesterday by Mr Geoffrey Sherrington, the special projects manager for Geopeko, the subsidiary company operating in Kakadu. The first was a clarification of the true position of traditional Aboriginal claims*claimers of the land regarding mining operations. Production came to a halt at Robe River's Pannawonica mine during a visit by Mr Copeman yesterday. A07c The Daily Telegraph - 16 October 1986 C'wealth outshines rival banks with record $289.2m THE Commonwealth Bank Group boosted profit 21.5 per cent from $238.09 million to a record $289.2 million in the June 30 year. The result compares well with the half-yearly results of the other major banks and largely flowed from higher levels of business and a slight widening of interest margins on lending. Pre-tax profit rose 24 per cent from $359.5 million to $445.5 million, while profit after tax and extraordinary items was $277.4 million, up 17 per cent on $237 million previously. Managing director, Vern Christie, said the results reflected the bank's increased volume of offshore borrowings and assets, tight control of costs and strong earnings from the foreign exchange division. The Commonwealth is now the second largest currency dealer by volume after Westpac. The bank also received a $110 million dividend from its wholly-owned susidiary, the Commonwealth Savings Bank, up from $30 million last year, but this was not included in group profit. The Federal Government has claimed a record $100.5 million dividend from the group, up from $22.6 million last year. The 1985-86 group result compares favourably with the National Australia Bank's half yearly profit which was up 5.9 per cent to $153.4 million after a record 30.1 percent rise to $301.7 million in the full year to September 30, 1985. The ANZ's interim profit was down 6.9 per cent to $141.9 million after a 12.8 per cent rise to $283.0 million for the full year previously. Westpac posted a 5.8 per cent rise to $196.1 million after a 20.2 per cent annual rise to $367.6 million. Mr Christie said the bank could not expect to maintain the 1985-86 profit growth rate in 1986-87. Productivity rose from $7299 of profit produced by each employee in 1984-85 to $8668 for each of the 33,364 employees in 1985-86. Retail deposits increased only 5.5 per cent, or $1,035 million, in the 12 months, attributed entirely to the general deposit downturn in the banking sector prior to the introduction of the housing package on April 2. Total deposits with the group rose 8.9 per cent to $23.1 billion. The savings deposit downturn held the Commonwealth Savings Bank's contribution to group profit to $115.5 million, up only 3 per cent. Home lending totalled $2.17 billion in 1985-86 with $2.4 billion allocated this year. Mr Christie was optimistic interest rates would decline in early 1987, but said it was unlikely lower rates would flow through to home mortgages without long-term stability in the Australian currency. A07d The Daily Telegraph - 16 October 1986 Industrials rise buoys market - with DONALD GRAHAM QUALITY industrial shares yesterday shrugged off the worsening economic outlook and saved the share market from a sharp fall as they again moved to record highs. The industrial share price index jumped another 10.8 points to reach a record 2096.7 points, despite the announcement on Tuesday of another disastrous balance of payments deficit of $1450 million for September and forecast of a $2 billion deficit for October. Comforted by a lack of overseas reaction to the continuing trade deficits, a phenomenon was evidenced when the Australian dollar rose during the day to close at US64.4c and just under 45p against sterling. The recent boom in*booming Australian share markets has been attributed to overseas interest in Australian resource shares as a replacement for the South African investments now restricted by worldwide sanctions. But it is emerging that local investors are propping up the quality industrial market with continued buying*buyng of the leading stocks. Analysts are suggesting that Australian investors are starved of alternative avenues for placing funds because of the uncertainties in the property markets and by the tax implications of investing in fixed-interest securities, with interest payments subject to tax rates up to the impending universal 50c in the dollar. Share dividends appear likely to be tax-free after July 1 next year. So, the industrials index has now risen fairly steadily since September*Septeber 19, 1985, when it was at 1383, just as Treasurer Paul Keating announced his tax "imputation" system that laid the basis for tax-free dividends for Australian residents. After a trough caused by the initial "banana republic" description of the economy's future, when the industrial index bottomed at 1742 on July 28, it has risen 344 points, or just under 20 per cent. The strength during the day was aided by special situations and reaction to various news releases. Sharp gains were once more made by: - Brambles Industries, which added another 20c to reach a record $7.50, compared with only $6.30 at the start of October and $4.30 earlier in the year. Brambles has attracted attention because of its surge in overseas operations, including the skilfully-arranged acquisition of the major railway freight business in European, CAIB, earlier this year. Only 39,000 Brambles shares were traded, indicating an emerging scrip shortage. - Pacific Dunlop also continued to advance, this time with a 10c gain to $3.80 and a trade in Melbourne of $3.81 during the day. - Burns Philp rose only 10c but reached $8 for the first time ever and looking likely to move up further. Only 19,000 Burns Philp shares changed hands during the day and the stock has moved from $7 to $8 during October with only 581,000 shares involved. - Peterville Sleigh completed its recovery after a recent dip caused by a disappointing profit result by adding 5c to $2.20 after trading as low as $1.75 last month. Only 56,000 Peterville*Petersville shares were traded. - The special situation stocks remained quiet, although Woolworths advanced another 3c to $3.58 and traded as high as $3.65 in Melbourne during the day. Only 37,800 shares were involved on the six exchanges, compared with the multi-million turnovers earlier in the month when Ron Brierley's Industrial Equity was establishing an 18 per cent shareholding and raising thoughts of a raid on the retailer. Meanwhile, Coles Myer advanced 10c to $5.50, the best since the speculative trading earlier in the year caused a freak $6.50 all-time high. Only 165,000 shares changed hands with Coles Myer returning a dividend yield of only 3.8 per cent at the new price. Herald and Weekly Times calmed down after a similar move by Industrial Equity in establishing a 14 per cent shareholding at $6.50 caused the shares to jump to $7.70 late last week. Only 45,000 shares were traded, all at $7.66, just 4c below the all-time record. But it was News Corp that once more led the media section higher. News shares rose 70c to 33.20 and traded during the day at a remarkable all-time high of $33.50 when overseas orders bolstered the market. News Corp has now risen from $28.50 at the start of October, from $23 at the start of September and from a low of $9 earlier in the year. It trades carrying a 1-for-1 bonus issue. The 129,000 shares traded yesterday cost investors, largely overseas, a total of $4.3 million. So far this year, 36.78 million News Corp shares have been traded on Australian share markets at a cost of $674.6 million, whereas last year only 23.8 million News shares were traded at a cost of only $205 million. Bank shares were treated with caution as the US dollar reflected uncertainty about Third World debts and the effect of any failure on the US banking structure. National rose 4c but was countered with 4c falls by both the ANZ and Westpac. ?? A08 The Sun 2001 words A08a The Sun - 8 September 1986 WHY MORE SAY NO TO MARRIAGE - BY MICHAEL O'DONNELL DE-FACTO relationships are being dubbed the "arrangment of the 80s" by marriage counsellors. Latest figures from the Bureau of Statistics show a marked decrease in the number of people under the age of 20 getting married. Males under 20 made up less than one per cent of all marriages in 1985 (nine per cent in 1971) and females only 10 per cent (31 per cent in 1971). Mrs Gelinda Spencer of the Family Life Marriage Counselling Service, says the figures show up the latest trend among young people. "There is less pressure on young people to marry because they now have the socially accepted option of living together," said Mrs Spencer. She said people prefer to trial a marriage-type situation first without the commitment but added it is really a farce. "It is not*now a real indication of how a married relationship will fare because the individuals have the immediate option of getting out. "My colleagues and I believe those statistics will continue to fall and the incidence*incidents of de-facto relationships will rise," she said. A08b The Sun - 8 September 1986 `POPESCOPE' A BIG BUSINESS FIRST came the Pope Mobile, then Pope T-shirts - and now it's the "Popescope". An Adelaide man has just won church approval for a cardboard and glass periscope to enable short people in crowds to see the Pope during his visit to Australia. The national papal tour office yesterday gave schoolteacher Paul Doherty a licence for his "Popescope". He hopes to sell 10,000 "Popescopes" at $5 each during the papal visit. A08c The Sun - 8 September 1986 42 INJURED ON FUN PARK RIDE FORTY-two people were injured when a roller coaster train crashed into the rear of another which had stopped too soon at an amusement park in western Japan. Two people were injured seriously while the others suffered mild shock and nosebleeds after bumping into the seats in front of them, said Hirokichi Ueda, an official at the Nagashima Spaland amusement park, 300kms west of Tokyo. Ueda said one 28-seat train was just finishing its run yesterday when it crashed into another which had accidentally stopped 13m short of the boarding station. The incoming train was travelling at 5-6km/h and both trains were filled to capacity, he said. A08d The Sun - 8 September 1986 BOY STILL ON WALKABOUT THERE is still no sign of Vaucluse schoolboy James Wolfe, who may be wandering Sydney with amnesia. James, 15, who suffers from epilepsy and needs regular medication, went walking last Thursday and did not return home. Since then there have been sightings in the eastern suburbs and in the City. Last December James, paddling on a surf ski in the Harbour, failed to come home and was presumed drowned, but next day he was found paddling the ski west of the Harbour Bridge and returned home unhurt. A08e The Sun - 8 September 1986 BEER TIPPED TO DRY UP BEER shortages are expected to start in Sydney by the end of the week. Some liquor suppliers have taken on extra stocks to prepare for an expected escalation of a superannuation dispute involving brewery employees. Reports have indicated small outlets could be dry by the end of the week. Beer production in NSW at Tooheys and CUB has been halved. And a spokesman for the Bond Corporation, brewers of Tooheys, Fourex and Swan, warned of severe shortages. "If we cannot reach agreement, beer will dry up around the country," said brewing chief executive, Mr Bill Widerberg. "We cannot understand why the unions are pressing for another scheme in an industry which is well serviced by excellent superannuation facilities." The NSW dispute will go before the Arbitration Commission today. Meanwhile, more than one third of Victorian hotels have run out of beer on tap - and packaged supplies are starting to dry up. The action, involving six unions, has also spread to Queensland and Western Australia. President of the Australian Hotels Association, Mr Daryl Washington, said casual employees could be stood down by Wednesday. Sixty per cent of Victoria's 45,000 hotel employees are casuals. Brewers have already stood down workers who cannot usefully be employed. And south-East Queensland could face beer shortages as thirsty southerners launched "beer raids" from across the border. A08f The Sun - 8 September 1986 Drug judge report shakes NSW Govt THE State Government was rocked today by a potentially new scandal over the sentences handed out to drug offenders by a NSW judge. While the Opposition called for a judicial inquiry, Attorney-General Mr Sheahan admitted that if suggestions made about the judge were proved correct it would amount to "a monstrous perversion of justice". The row was triggered by the findings of a study of the NSW legal system, which was funded by the Australian Criminology Research Council. According to the report, which was leaked to The Sydney Morning Herald, a NSW District Court judge appeared to have exercised selective leniency in dealing with defendants represented by a particular solicitor. A08g The Sun - 8 September 1986 BOY DROWNS TRYING TO SAVE PET DOG A BOY drowned today when he plunged into rough seas at Blackpool in a bid to save his terrier dog. It happened almost at the same spot where, three years ago, three police officers died in a bid to save a holidaymaker who drowned attempting to rescue his dog, also a terrier. Today, a man had to be held back by police and coastguards from plunging in after the boy, Mark Philip Watts, 11 who could be seen floating out of the range of lifebelt and grappling hook. They watched helplessly as Mark, from Blackpool, disappeared from sight, dragged down by the undertow. A08h The Sun - 8 September 1986 A BIT OF A JOLT FOR JOGGERS MEN who take up marathon running to improve their health may find the exercise denting their masculine pride. Researchers in America have discovered that too much running can cause a man's testes to shrink. A study of six men who had run at least 125 kilometres a week for the past five years, and could finish a marathon in less than two hours and 45 minutes, has come up with the shattering news. Susan MacConnie, of the University of Michigan, said none of the men reported any sexual problems - but all had hormonal abnormalities which might eventually cause the shrinking. They were deficient in a key hormone which sparks off activity in the testes and eventually, reproductive hormones. A08i The Sun - 8 September 1986 WHAT POLLIES REALLY THINK POLITICIANS and bureaucrats beware. Psychologists can now read behind the rhetorical statement. The political rhetoric of world leaders is providing American psychologist Dr Philip Tetlock with an accurate indicator of what politicians really think about important issues. For example, the soft-line literary use of language currently shown by the Soviet leader, Mr Gorbachev, tells him that Mr Gorbachev would be prepared to reach a major agreement with the US. But Dr Tetlock has found the current US administration more sceptical in outlook than any administration in the last 12 years. A08j The Sun - 8 September 1986 HOMES: PRICE IS NOT RIGHT! POTENTIAL sellers appeared to be holding back on the sale of their homes, possibly waiting for prices to pick up. And those who placed their property on the market were seeking a higher price than what their home was worth, according to a national survey by the Real Estate Institute of Australia. The institute commented that these owners did not seem to realise in general prices were depressed, and in some cities still slipping downwards. Agents in Sydney found that the stock of houses for sale continued to decline, with many claiming that "realistically priced good listings were very difficult to obtain." More than half of agents surveyed said they had the lowest number of listings since May. The survey, covering the month of July, said that some agents commented that unless vendors price their properties more realistically sales market activity is likely to remain low. In Sydney, most houses sold in Sydney in July were priced between $90,000 and $110,000. A08k The Sun - 10 October 1986 36 survive coach plunge off highway THIRTY-five people, including children and an expectant mother, were injured today when a western Sydney-based coach crashed off the Pacific Highway. Many were thrown from their seats, hit the roof and fell to the aisle of the Brisbane-bound coach. Five of the injured were seriously hurt. The crash occurred about 1.45 am, four kilometres from Kew, north of Taree, on the Mid-North Coast and involved a coach operated by Advance Express Coachlines, of Penrith. The bus was on a regular overnight service from Sydney to Brisbane via the Gold Coast. Thirty-six people, including two drivers, were aboard. The bus left the highway on a slight bend, went to the incorrect side of the highway and ploughed about 80 metres through bush before hitting a large sign and several trees. "It also bounced over a two-metre deep drain which jolted most of the passengers from their seats," Constable Rod Scarr, of Port Macquarie police, said later. "The bus stayed on its wheels but the front and the undersection were damaged. "People were thrown against the roof and came down into the aisle or on seats in front of them. "The co-driver suffered head injuries and an expectant mum was hurt, too." A passing motorist saw the bus standing between the highway and just two metres from the main northern rail line and raised the alarm. Six ambulances from four towns and police from Kew and Port Macquarie went to the scene. They found several passengers still in the coach unable to move because of injuries. In a three-hour operation ambulance officers treated the injured and took 28 to hospitals in Port Macquarie and seven to Taree. Additional doctors, n urses and paramedic staff were called in to Hastings District Hospital, Port Macquarie at 3.30 am to help. Three of the injured passengers, two men aged 32 and 42 and a woman, 55, were admitted in a serious condition. Acting executive officer at the hospital, Mr Kim Everson, said the expectant mother and her unborn baby were all right. A08l The Sun - 10 October 1986 Bored Mulray will quit morning radio CHEEKY morning radio announcer Doug Mulray has quit 2MMM - and he's planning to join the ranks of the unemployed. Mulray will leave in five weeks when the current radio rating survey ends. Mulray said he is leaving "because I'm tired of being a breakfast radio announcer after seven years". "I want a job where I get home at 4 o'clock in the morning instead of having to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning," he said. Mulray says he is going on an extended holiday and when he returns he will start looking for a new job. A08m The Sun - 10 October 1986 SHEAHAN APPEALS ON JUDGE'S DECISION THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mr Sheahan, has asked a Supreme Court judge to reconsider his protest resignation from the NSW Law Reform Commission. It is understood Mr Sheahan has written to Justice Adrian Roden asking him to think again. Justice Roden, who is presiding over the so-called "bikies' trial" resigned from the Law Reform Commission in protest against the new Judicial Commission and comments by Mr Sheahan which he said imputed hypocrisy, bad faith and self-interest among judges. A08n The Sun - 10 October 1986 BOY, 9, CATCHES FALLING BABY GIRL A 9-YEAR-OLD boy who caught a 17-month-old baby after she fell two storeys from an apartment building says he wasn't sure he was going to catch her. "I was afraid I just might miss her because I'm not too hot at catching," said Joey Rains, of Newark, California. "But I believed in myself so I got right underneath her and I caught her." The boy saw Sara Wolf standing on a table near an open second-storey window on Monday night, as she started pushing against the insect screen. He shouted at her to stop and ran about six metres to a spot below the window. As he did so, Sara fell, did a half-somersault and landed on her back in his arms. She was unhurt by the fall. A08o The Sun - 10 October 1986 STAINS `LOOKED LIKE BLOOD' A NORTHERN Territory scientific branch police officer has told the Chamberlain Commission of Inquiry he saw stains on a hinge in the front seat of the Chamberlain's car which looked like runny blood. ?? A09 The Sun 2024 words A09a The Sun - 12 November 1986 SUCCESS AND THE JONES BOY By Janise Beaumont THE MAN WHO TALKED THE GREEN AND GOLDS TO GLORY TALKS ABOUT HIS FAVOURITE SUBJECT THERE'S a Frank Sinatra song that ends: "Here's to the winners all of us can be." So tell that to the country's 650,000 unemployed you say? And to those who are always unlucky in love? Alan Jones, the man who has motivated our Green and Golds to Rugby glory and who leaves shortly to try to do the same for the Bond camp in Perth, agrees with Sinatra. He adds: "The values required to succeed in one field of human endeavour are exactly the same as those required to succeed in any other." After coming off air at 2UE, in his speedy and always-enthusiastic way, Jones talked about what it takes to come out on top. "You have to understand your weaknesses and your strengths. Then be happy with what you are and confident about what you MAY be and don't be deterred. "This is a country where we tend to be embarrassed about our potential and at the moment we live in an incentive-less society. The permissive 60s gave us permission to fail. "Not only that, but everyone wants to believe that winning's difficult - it's not. "What's important is not to give up. "Joan Sutherland was a typist till she took a chance on going overseas. "And Sir Donald Bradman - I've just written a forward to a new book about him - was smashing all the records while he was being told he couldn't do it. "We don't live in a country that cultivates success and in what I do I try to break that down. "I say to players: `Do you want to be the best in the world? Well let me know if you do - otherwise cheerio'. "Then I tell them: `You'll be vilified and your motives will be questioned and it'll be hard work - but worth it'." True as God he doesn't stop for a second, and the effort of what he says and the way he leans forward as though you're the only one in the world he wants to pass his message onto - well, it's mesmerising. Makes a person want to rush out and join a softball team or build a better mousetrap. And speaking of better and best consumer goods - Alan has a bone to pick with Prime Minister Bob Hawke over his recent address to the nation. "He conujured up images of great and successful Australians and virtually challenged us to strive to be like them. Then after he told us to be like Sutherland and de Costella - in the next breath he told us to buy Australian, even if it's second best." Back to the blueprint for winning: "In sport, as in everything else, if your values are wrong, your attitude is wrong, your strategy is wrong and your preparation is wrong, then it's on the scoreboard. "In life we don't keep the score unless it counts, do we?" On working with a team: "One incentive is the team itself," he said. Referring to the Wallabies: "We're mates, inextricably locked together. That loyalty and mateship can move mountains. "At Eden Park we won because we're mates - that's an ingredient in success." And when the inevitable losses come: "I don't whinge when I lose - nobody hears me make excuses." He agreed there has to be a period of mourning after any kind of loss ... There's got to be room for sentiment. "When we lost at Canterbury we grieved and I don't care who knows it. Then you come back with a greater commitment to regenerate and regroup." It seems we're never too young or too old to make use of these pholosophies. "The other day I said to a 19-year-old: `Do you want to be the best in the world? - because I think you can be' - the bloke's stunned - `Well yes, as long as you don't tell anybody'. "This bloke's life has been turned around forever. A09b The Sun - 12 November 1986 KEN PAYS HIS DUES By TONY MEGAHEY It had been a while but Ken Salisbury felt at home amidst the blood, sweat and liniment at Newtown Police Boys' club. The former Commonwealth light middleweight champion nodded his approval as big Joe Bugner swapped thunderclaps with the bull-like Tongan Tony Fulilangi. And Salisbury shook his head at the sheer strength of Jeff Fenech in a sparring session. "When you've been away you miss it a lot," Salisbury said. "But Bugner really surprises me. "You've got to give it to him - he's super fit considerng his age. "He's worked hard at it and he'll still give them a fight." Then Salisbury stunned the onlookers when he produced a photo for big Joe to autograph. It was the 1970 Liverpool amateur boxing and dinner show. Joe was presenting the trophies. "Joe was the great white hope then," Salisbury said. "And over the years I feel the man hasn't really been given his dues as a very good heavyweight fighter. "I mean he took a legend the distance twice - Muhammed Ali. "And Bugner fought Frazier at his peak. "Bugner is tough - neither could put him down." There's no comeback though for Salisbury. A car accident last year, not a pair of lethal boxing gloves, ended his career. Severe neck and hip injuries make it an endurance test for Salisbury to train. But Salisbury is embarking on the next best course for a man who still loves the fight game. "I'm taking my exams to be a fight trainer - to put something back into the game," Salisbury said today. "I'd love to work with some of the kids in the way Johnny Lewis does it here at Newtown." Maybe one day Salisbury will proudly present an amateur trophy to some wide eyed youngster. A09c The Sun - 12 November 1986 FRAZIER BEATING TIPPED FOR JOE By PETER KOGOY LEON Tabbs was in Smokin' Joe Frazier's corner the night Joe Bugner went the distance with the world heavyweight champ. Tabbs was also there when a new generation Frazier, Marvis, pummelled Bugner into submission over 10 rounds three years ago. He'll also be in the opposite corner at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Friday night when David Bey, Tabbs' latest protege, fights Bugner in his second comeback fight. Tabbs handled the affairs of such ring luminaries as Benny Briscoe, Boogaloo Watts, Marvin Johnson and Jerry "The Bull" Martin. "They all fought out of the 23rd Police Athletic Gym in Philadelphia*Philadephlia," says the well-credentialled trainer. "David Bey's style is very similar to Smokin' Joe's kid, Marvis," Tabbs said. "Bey throws a strong right bomb and possesses a vicious left hook, so quick that Bugner won't know where it'll come from," he added. Tabbs, not noted for making predictions, tipped Bugner's latest comeback to be short-lived. "My boy is world class, sharp and a real hustler in the ring. "There's no way we've come this far to lose." A09d The Sun - 12 November 1986 TREVOR FACES DEATH AGAIN DON'T RIDE AGAIN - DOCTOR From JOHN BILIC in MELBOURNE JUMPS jockey Trevor Webb has already put life's biggest hurdles behind him. Two weeks after being critically injured in a race fall at Werribee, south-west of Melbourne, Webb is planning to defy family and medical advice to ride again. "The fall has put a bit of wind up me, but I can't really wait until I get back into it," he said. "It's something I've been brought up with." On October 27, Webb's*Webb mount Fair Smuggler fell and two other horses crashed onto him. "I don't remember a thing after I went over," he said. A year ago Webb, 24, was involved in a race fall at Bendigo and was twice declared clinically dead on his way to hospital. Despite doctors telling him not to ride, Webb was quickly back in the saddle. This time, his family and doctors think it would be unwise to ride again. "I told them we would just see how it goes," he said. Webb, who suffered a badly fractured skull, will soon undergo another operation. A09e The Sun - 12 November 1986 Star brims with a love for people By GLENN ROBBINS WAVERLEY Star's biggest asset in his Japan Cup lead-up is his preference for humans, according to rider Lance O'Sullivan. Which is a rather unusual but huge plus for Waverley Star's preparation considering he is segregated from other horses. "He doesn't mind being the only horse in a 20-stall complex," Lance said. "He's always preferred the company of humans to other horses. "It is hard to define why, but that's just his nature. "He's contented having the company of Paul (brother Paul O'Sullivan, the co-trainer) and his strapper." Waverley Star emphasised his chances in Sunday week's Cup with an effortless win in Tokyo over 1800m last Sunday. "He's pulled up perfectly and everything is fine," trainer Dave O'Sullivan said from New Zealand today. But not so with the other Australasian representative, Cox Plate winner Bonecrusher. Reports claim Bonecrusher has been fretting since beginning his seven-day quarantine period last Saturday, which is no surprise since he's a gelding. Bonecrusher is going into the Cup without local track experience and a race for four weeks, whereas Waverley Star has proved he has fully adapted to his new surroundings. Despite the great Australian interest in Sunday week's Cup, no television network is willing to screen the race because of the fee asked by the Japan Racing club. A09f The Sun - 12 November 1986 BOWLER'S BEST CAVALRY'S ALL CLASS by GLENN ROBBINS EXCITING three-year-old Cavalry has a devoted fan in the VRC handicapper Jim Bowler. The lightly raced Cavalry emerged as a top prospect at Flemington when he won the 1100m Black Douglas Stakes on November 1 and a 1400m welter the following Saturday. "I thought Cavalry was one of the top three three-year-olds to come out of our Spring Carnival," Bowler said. "His win last Saturday was outstanding. "He just left those seasoned horses stranded when he accelerated at the 400m and he maintained his run right to the post. "I think Cavalry will eventually prove himself a very classy horse." The other high ranking three-year-olds in Bowler's assessment were Victoria Derby winner Raveneaux and King Of Brooklyn. Cavalry gets the test of his career in the $75,000 Sandown Guineas (1600m) on Saturday. He has risen sharply in distance from 1100m two weeks ago but if he settles in Saturday's race he's going to take running down. But if Cavalry doesn't get speed to allow him to relax, then he could be tested running out the tough Sandown mile. Craig Dinn has been booked for stablemate Western Ace in the Guineas while Harry White has the Cavalry mount. Part-owner Ernie Smith says Western Ace is on trial for the Perth Derby double and claims his three-year-old will stay the 2400m. But the man standing between a Tommy Smith Guineas win on Saturday is their stable jockey Mick Dittman. Dittman is sticking with boom Adelaide three-year-old King Of Brooklyn who looked definite Derby material when he bolted in at Flemington over 2000m on November 6. King Of Brooklyn's problem on Saturday is switching back in distance but Sandown will help him," Dittman said. "But if this horse can improve over the next month he could make a clean sweep of the two Derbies in Perth. A09g The Sun - 12 Novembder 1986 BARKER RETURNS - Glenn Robbins CONTROVERSIAL jockey Noel Barker resumes riding at Rosehill on Saturday after his two months Riverdale suspension. Barker, the regular rider of Riverdale, was outed after the gelding finished eighth at Randwick in the Tramway Handicap. Barker has been riding work at Randwick for the past two weeks to gain fitness for his comeback. He has one early booking for Rosehill - Hasty Miss in the Pacific Welter (1500m). A09h The Sun - 12 November 1986 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY By GLENN ROBBINS THE New Zealand breeders of Myocard and Cardiac might well believe Aussies are a heartless bunch. But shrewd, when it comes to fair play, might be more accurate. Trainer Geoff Chapman is at peace with the world after last Friday's Rosehill barrier trials when the two-year-old Cardiac won his heat in the style of a highly promising prospect. ?? A10 Sydney Morning Herald 2001 words A10a Sydney Morning Herald - 7 July 1986 Huddled masses yearning for kitsch By DAVID DALE NEW YORK, Sunday: Five million Americans answered President Reagan's call to crowd into New York at the weekend and "celebrate liberty". Most of them honoured the 100th birthday of the statue in the harbour by wearing green foam-rubber crowns, wandering round the streets holding beer cans, and singing the national anthem again and again. But some New Yorkers celebrated liberty in other ways: - Five thousand of the city's 11,000 taxi drivers went on strike for the weekend, complaining that they have not been allowed to raise their fares for six years. A ride on a bus or subway became the embodiment of the phrase "huddled masses, yearning to breathe free". Michael Higgins, president of the Taxi Owners Guild, said: "We showed them. They'll take us seriously now." - Italian and Polish organisations held protest meetings to complain that there were no Italians or Poles among the 12 "ethnic Americans" who received medals of honour from Mr Reagan (the list included Bob Hope and Henry Kissinger). The ceremony was intended to honour the statue's symbolism of America opening its "golden door" to the oppressed masses of Europe, but the Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, labelled the selection of the 12 medal winners as "idiotic". Mr Koch, who is up for re-election soon, held his own hastily organised counter-ceremony, in which he gave "Liberty Awards" to 86 immigrants. The next day, newspaper opinion polls showed 60 per cent of New Yorkers believe America has accepted too many immigrants and should close its golden door. - The Elvis Presley impersonators of America protested that the 200 Elvises appearing in the weekend's closing ceremony (along with the 500 banjo pluckers, 300 tap dancers, and 500 marching girls) were not real Elvis impersonators but simply dancers in black wigs who would mime to Elvis recordings. Their spokesman, a man named Lee Elvis, of East Flatbush, who has been impersonating The King professionally for 16 years, said: "They could have done it with taste. They could have had maybe the top 10 impersonators and done it right. But this - this is just a mockery." - About 500 homeless people held a 28 hour sit-in at Battery Park, the centre of festivities in lower Manhattan, protesting against the expenditure of $30 million on the events of Liberty Weekend. - Close to 2,000 homosexuals marched through southern Manhattan in protest against the US Supreme Court's ruling last week that homosexual acts could be declared illegal. They chanted "Not the church, not the state, we alone decide our fate" and "What do we want? Oral sex. When do we want it? Now." But they had failed to obtain a police permit to celebrate liberty in this way. When they reached Wall Street, which borders the area most crowded with visitors, the marchers met a wall of helmeted police, holding clubs. They turned back, and then several of them were attacked by people in the crowd. Two men were taken to hospital, and the protest march dispersed. - Human rights groups picketed the Esmeralda, Chile's entry in the Liberty Weekend festival of 22 tall ships, because it was used as a detention centre and torture chamber after the military coup in Chile in 1973. The organisers of the weekend had refused to ban the Esmeralda from participating, saying they did not want to "politicise" the event. - Residents of Jersey City, which overlooks the Statue of Liberty from the other side of the harbour, demanded that Liza Minelli not be allowed to sing New York, New York at the weekend's closing ceremony, because Jersey City has more of a claim to the statue than New York, and anyway, the closing ceremony was being held in a stadium in New Jersey. Liza Minelli sang it anyway. - Members of an organisation called Jews For Jesus moved through the crowds in southern Manhattan handing out a pamphlet which warned: "Saving a symbol isn't enough". "Our economy, world politics and disintegrating personal relationships may soon undo us. It cost God a bundle, but he was willing to pay the price. Yshua gave his life, his blood so that we could be healed." But nearly everybody else had a great time, particularly the souvenir vendors. On Saturday afternoon, Mervin Bendewald, running a stall near Battery Park, said: "It's a madhouse." His stall offered more than 100 items ranging in price from $2 for an official liberty cigarette lighter to $295 for a two-metre green plexiglass replica of the statue. Mr Bendewald had only sold one plexiglass statue by Saturday afternoon, but he'd sold 200 official Statue of Liberty shower curtains for $32 each, and was doing brisk business in Liberty pewter thimbles for $7, moulded plastic torches just like the one held by the statue for $12, and sunglasses with one lens coated with stars for $12. Mr Bendewald was also offering the chance to have your photo taken with Lee Iacocca for $5, using a life-size cardboard cutout of Mr Iacocca, the chairman of the Liberty Restoration Fund. Mr Iacocca, also chairman of Chrysler, is currently the most popular man in America, and he spent most of the weekend denying suggestions by television reporters that he should stand for president in 1988. But Mr Bendewall's biggest seller by far was the green foam rubber crowns. On Friday alone he sold 3,000 of them at $3 each, in spite of the fact that nearby vendors had cut their prices to $2. Mayor Koch offered this advice when asked about the commercialising of the Liberty weekend: "Rush to the stores and buy all the kitsch you can because in 100 years you're going to make a fortune - that's the history of kitsch." If the weekend proved anything, it proved that there is no limit to Americans' taste for excess. You might have thought things had gone far enough when Jennifer Stewart, 28, of Iowa City, won the national Lady Liberty look-alike competition by painting herself green, and putting a broken laundry basket on her head. But then the Carnegie Deli presented Mr Iacocca with a replica of the statue, made with 30 kilograms of chopped liver. And an artist named Peter Rocha produced a metre-square mosaic of the statue in jellybeans. As the weekend went on, it seemed perfectly normal to hear a television commentator filling in time before President Reagan arrived to switch on the laser lights for the statue in this way: "You know, in addition to the sights and sounds we're bringing you here, there's something else I wish I could share with you. There's a smell in the air here. I can detect it. It's the sweet smell of liberty." The Liberty Weekend is over now, the millions have returned to their small towns all over America, and it might seem that nothing - certainly not Australia's Bicentennial celebrations - could ever top it for spectacle and excess. But remember that planning is already under way here for the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America. See you here in 1992. A10b Sydney Morning Herald - 7 July 1986 A renaissance man with a view of reality British actor Denholm Elliott is in heavy demand and the secret of his success, he believes, is insecurity. PAUL BYRNES reports. AFTER a thespian career spanning 40 years and 75 films, Denholm Elliott remains prone to insecurity. "I find that whenever anybody shakes my confidence, I'm no good," the 64-year-old actor said last week from his home in London. Whether this relates to his beginnings in drama is unclear, but that time was certainly traumatic. He enrolled at the London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1939, aged 17. "I was very nervous and very insecure and had just left school and all these young people were having mad affairs with each other and were terribly grown up and sophisticated. I felt completely out of place," he said. He was asked to leave after one term. "They said I had no talent and was wasting my money and their time and would I please just go away." His revenge has been his success. There is probably no other English character actor who is more constantly in demand at the moment, nor one whose work in small roles in the last 20 years is as consistently memorable. You may remember him from Alfie, or King Rat, The Night They Raided Minskies, Brimstone and Treacle, Blade On The Feather (in which he was the sinister butler), Bad Timing, Trading Places (another butler), The Razor's Edge (as the foppish uncle) or A Private Function (the snobbish doctor). His latest role is in a marvellous adaptation of E.M. Forster's comic novel, A Room with a View, in which he plays Mr Emerson, a free-thinking English eccentric, and his performance is remarkably vivid. "I have had a bit of a renaissance in the last few years," he agreed. " I don't know if that's because everyone else is dead... I just seem to have found a confidence and style that people seem to want. "I feel very much at ease in front of the lens now, whereas I used to be very nervous. I don't watch other actors at work much and I don't go to the theatre or cinema. I'd rather play golf or tend my garden. "I think if you are involved in each other's work all the time you tend to get over-exposed to each other. You can see that in the way that Hollywood actors do a love scene. It's always the same." And as for being insecure, he wouldn't be anything else. "I don't know another actor I admire who isn't. It is one's raison d'etre, the reason to do it, trying to find an identity and wanting approval. Or something like that. "I think I will always be like that and I don't think if I wasn't I would be any good. My observance of life would not be as sharp. Elliot was born in 1922, the son of a barrister and grandson of a King's Counsel. His family lived then in Ealing, but later moved upmarket to the town of Malvern, which he didn't like any better. After the disastrous debut at RADA, he joined the airforce and was shot down over Europe. His address for the next three years was Stalag 344, near Breslau, and that's where his acting career began. "We had nothing else to do, so we built our own theatre. The Germans, being very culture-conscious, allowed us to do plays for a while, until Hitler banned entertainment and we were put in chains. "I started an underground theatre then in the huts, at night with clandestine sets and concealed lighting." The Red Cross sent them scripts and the prisoners did plays like Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, Macbeth and The Philadelphia Story. Back in England after the war, he joined the Amersham Repertory Company, then the Windsor Rep and was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who cast him in Venus Observed, and later as the lead in Ring Around The Moon on Broadway. In the early 50s he had a film contract with Alexander Korda. "He put me under contract and paid me and I sat on my arse for five years," he says now, which is not strictly true. He appeared in movies like The Holly And The Ivy, Those Who Dare, The Heart Of the Matter and The Cruel Sea. But his career slowed down in the late 50s. "The `kitchen sink' with Osborne and all that lot was in, and I was not really `kitchen sink' style, with my family background. I didn't scratch my arse enough or something. "I do think people develop at different ages. My career only really started in earnest in Station Six - Sahara, made in 1963. I think with Nothing But The Best, which followed that, I started to become a character actor. He now prefers films to theatre, because of the freedom it allows. ?? A11 Sydney Morning Herald 2022 words A11a Sydney Morning Herald - 6 March 1986 Sport Paul Tait Martina Navratilova has been a fearsome competitor on the tennis court. Last week there was cause to fear the Wimbledon champion for another reason when a pistol was detected in her luggage at San Francisco International Airport. The pistol was confiscated, but Navratilova was not arrested and no action was taken. Airport officials said that she had a licence for the gun in Texas but not in California and that she could petition San Mateo County Court for its return. All of that is fine, but it doesn't answer the question of what the pistol was doing there in the first place. Navratilova said at the time it had been put there accidentally by a friend who was helping her to pack. Two days ago Navratilova admitted that she owned the gun but was not aware that it was in her baggage. She said she bought the .38 calibre Smith and Wesson in 1984 after a string of murders in her Texas neighbourhood. "I'm glad that they ended up finding the gun," she said. "I would have been mortified to find out later that it was in my purse and they didn't find it. Then I really would be scared." Boxing matches are strenuous events, and not only for those in the ring. On Tuesday Britain's Frank Bruno knocked out South African Gerrie Coetzee after 110 seconds of the first round. The South African, appropriately from a place just outside Johannesburg called Boxburg, was sent through the ropes by the force of Bruno's final blow. Unconscious, the only thing that prevented him from falling from the ring was a photographer, who reportedly worked up quite a sweat in the 15 seconds he supported Coetzee before aid arrived. Consumer affairs authorities are urging those who buy swimwear that becomes transparent when wet to demand a refund or ask for an exchange. The Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Mr Philip Holt, said that such swimwear did not fit the purpose of body covering. He said consumers were protected under the Trade Practices Law if they bought swimwear that was faulty or did not "suit" its purpose. A11b Sydney Morning Herald - 6 March 1986 Ice-cool enigma gets a kick out of being a loner By MICHAEL COCKERILL Diplomacy has never been Marshall Soper's strong point. Indeed the 25-year-old multi-talented soccer player seems to have spent most of his career building bridges only to happily knock them down again. Why a man with so much to play for has a history of self-destruction is an enigma. Among the people Soper has been associated with few can truly claim to know what makes him tick. Many have tried, and failed. Of all the coaches Soper has had since he arrived on the national league scene with Apia Leichhardt in 1981 only Manfred Schaefer, his current boss at Sydney Olympic, can boast a worthwhile relationship. Yet Soper is not an offensive character. He wishes no-one harm. Nor is he preoccupied with criticising the game that has given him so much. But he is exasperating. He is a loner. He is confident to the point of being headstrong. And he has demonstrated on countless occasions that he can be frustratingly unpredictable. For all his clashes with authority, however, Soper has few regrets. It is almost as if he wants to force whatever issue is at hand until it reaches breaking point. Then he can enjoy the reaction. It is a style which often lands him in trouble, although Soper is comfortable with that. Controversy is a constant, almost reassuring, companion. That is why he is always building bridges. And that is why his latest reconstruction project leads him to the door of national coach Frank Arok. Arok has already forgiven Soper once. When he ignored a curfew while the Socceroos were preparing for a game against England in Brisbane in 1983 he was sent home. Arok said then: "If 17 players can stick to the rules and not play up why should I tolerate one man doing as he likes?" Even as he said it, however, Arok knew that with the 1985 qualifying rounds of the World Cup approaching he could not ignore a player of such goal-scoring talents. Soper returned to the squad and to all observers it seemed a fait accompli that he would spearhead the Socceroos' World Cup attack alongside skipper John Kosmina. But Soper, the master of surprise revealed an ace up his sleeve just days before the first World Cup qualifier against New Zealand in Auckland. Two years of training camps, preparation games and team talks went out the window as he withdrew from the World Cup squad for "personal reasons". Once again the thunderclouds descended on Soper's Raymond Terrace home. Once again he was centre stage as the drama unfolded around him. Even the most hardened Soper cynics found it hard to believe he could throw away the chance of a lifetime for reasons which most other players in the squad chose to ignore. Sure, it was tough financially to go on the road with the Socceroos but such sacrifices came with the job. SO AROK did what he had to do. He got rid of Soper. In came David Mitchell and he performed so well that he has since landed a lucrative contract with the German Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt. At one stage, midway through the campaign, Soper made noises to return through the back door. But it is no secret that had Arok relented he would have had a players' revolt on his hands. So Soper, who would have been a key figure in what was a glorious, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign got his kicks only in front of the TV set. And for one of the few times in his life he regrets what happened. "Looking back, I guess I should have stayed," he said. "When I played my first game for the Socceroos (January 1983 v New Zealand in Auckland) the thrill of pulling on that green-and-gold shirt was tremendous. It was a great honour, and that made it very difficult to give up. "I might not get another chance to play in the World Cup, and that is hard to take. I got wrapped up in the whole thing last year, but it was painful to watch. "Now I've got only one thing on my mind - to get back into the team. And I'd like to think that if I keep scoring goals then Frank (Arok) won't be able to ignore me. "As for the other players, I've got no apprehensions. A true player always thinks the best players available should play in the team, and I think I'm the most complete striker in the country." Soper has the credentials to back up his claims. Since he left the now-defunct Northern NSW State League club Stewart and Lloyds to join Apia five seasons ago he has notched 65 goals, making him one of top 10 all-time scorers in the national league. IN THAT time he has had a number of clashes with his coaches, but his form in front of goal has never waned. It even survived the most turbulent period of his career, when he was involved in a running battle with Tommy Docherty while the flamboyant Scotsman was at the helm of Olympic. "I never liked him - simple as that," Soper said. " I thought he came out here for a holiday. He treated the game as a joke. I didn't think it was right that someone who was getting so much from soccer should behave that way. He was always abusing me in the press, complaining about my attitude and my playing style. "I was glad to see him go, but even during the worst times I kept scoring goals. He just couldn't afford to leave me out of the team." But goals were not the only reason Docherty would not dare to drop Soper. Since he joined Olympic three and a half seasons ago Soper has been elevated to a God-like status by the club's fanatical Greek fans. He scores goals, he wins matches and he responds to their adulation. It would take a brave, if not doomed, coach to take chances with The Man Who Can Do No Wrong. "I have a great relationship with the Olympic fans," he said. "If I keep scoring goals like I have been, then they respond. When a couple of thousand people start cheering my name it lifts my performance; it spurs me on. And I always like to entertain the crowd, to be a bit of a character. "I'm also a cheeky sort of player. I like to get the ball wide and take on defenders. Some people reckon I've got a short fuse, but even in the middle of an incident I've got a cool head underneath. I know what I'm doing because most of the time I've been baiting the defender. "You've got to be confident in this game. And I reckon I'm one of the best. That's why I never worry about the opposition; never respect too many players. I let them worry about me." THAT Soper is blossoming into the well-finished article is also a compliment to Schaefer. He is the only coach since his mentor of his junior days, former Everton forward, Mike Trebilcock, to gain his respect. "I guess I can be a difficult player to manage, but with Manfred there have been no problems at all," he said. "The only way I can describe it is that we have a bond; that we just seem to hit it off." Whether the successful relationship keeps Soper at Olympic until the end of his playing days is debatable. Although the player enjoys the club, and would love nothing more than to win the title with Olympic, he is by nature nomadic. "I'm happy with Olympic, but there comes a stage when a player should move on," he said. "Call it boredom, but sometimes you need a change to rekindle your enthusiasm." Where he will go after he completes his current one-year contract is anyone's guess, but there will be no shortage of offers. And whether he plays for Olympic next season, or another Australian club, is immaterial to Arok. If he is going to forgive and forget a second time then all that matters is that Soper is close at hand. A11c Sydney Morning Herald - 6 March 1986 The gamble that set a punter up for life IAN MANNING MELBOURNE: Les Theodore was fortunate to have been born a gambler, the type of do-or-die gambler who backs an opinion to the hilt. Theodore, 37, is making a big name for himself these days as the trainer of the outstanding three-year-old Campaign King, but the road to success from the NSW border town of Berrigan has not always been smooth. In fact, if Theodore had not been prepared to gamble he would probably have been at home in Berrigan yesterday instead of being in Melbourne to win Saturday's $151,000 Newmarket Handicap with Campaign King. "I'm a punter," he said, resting on the bar at his Melbourne motel. "I've been betting since I was 15 - the dogs, the trots, the horses, anything. It was something that came naturally at an early age. And, given the chance, I wouldn't change a thing." Not surprisingly. One of Theodore's biggest gambles was the purchase of Campaign King for $12,000 as a two-year-old. The tough-as-teak colt has now won 11 of his 15 starts for more than $200,000 in prize money. Even the most fearless of punters would applaud Theodore's courage in purchasing Campaign King. He outlaid just about everything on a young colt with only a maiden win at Berrigan under his girth. "I had leased Campaign King from a bloke in Melbourne and would have been happy to keep it that way," he said. "But after his first win I knew he was going to be something special. "I rang the owner and said I wanted to buy the colt and he said I could have him for $15,000, which I thought was a bit steep considering the horse had won at Berrigan, not Flemington. ?? A12 The Canberra Times 2005 words A12a The Canberra Times - 31 October 1986 Kuwaiti envoy forced down in USSR: Iran KUWAIT, Thursday (Reuter). An aircraft taking a special envoy of the Emir of Kuwait to Tehran was chased last night in Iranian airspace by Iraqi fighters and had to make a forced landing in the Soviet Union, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported. The envoy, former Kuwaiti Oil Minister Mr Abdul Rahman Salem al-Atiqi, 58, was carrying an invitation to the Iranian President, Mr Ali Khamenei, to attend an Islamic summit meeting in Kuwait in January. The aircraft made an emergency landing at the airport at Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia, according to the office of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah. Kuwait said it had ordered the envoy to return home. The brief statement, carried by the Kuwaiti news agency Kuna and broadcast on state-run Kuwait Television, said the pilot had been instructed to fly back to Kuwait. But there was no immediate confirmation in the Soviet Union that the aircraft had landed there and Western analysts said the Soviet official media were unlikely to comment until Iran, Iraq and Kuwait had made statements. Nor did Iraq make any comment on the allegation by Iran. The Gulf war between the two neighbouring countries is now in its seventh year. The Kuwaiti statement did not suggest a reason for the plane being diverted by Iraqi fighters. It said the aircraft had made a safe landing. IRNA said the aircraft had been trailed by Iraqi planes over north-western Iran, forcing it to change route and enter Soviet air space. Mr Al-Atiqi had already visited Jordan, Iraq and Syria to deliver invitations to the summit meeting. Last Saturday Kuwait fired two missiles at an intruder and Kuwaiti newspapers said it was an "enemy plane", which was believed to have been shot down off the Kuwaiti coast. No wreckage was found. Iranian officials hinted that it was a warplane belonging to Iraq, which has obtained billions of dollars in aid from Kuwait and fellow Gulf Arab states during its war against Iran. Iraq has declared Iranian air space a "forbidden zone". A12b The Canbera Times - 31 October 1986 TERROR BOMBINGS French doubts on Syria PARIS, Thursday (AFP). - France is convinced of the culpability of a Lebanese family in a wave of Paris terror bombings last month which killed 10 people, but it remains sceptical of any Syrian involvement, the French Minister for Interior, Mr Charles Pasqua, said today in Paris. In a radio interview, Mr Pasqua said police were "entirely convinced of the culpability of the Abdallah clan", brothers of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the jailed presumed leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary factions, in attacks in Paris in September which left 10 dead and 162 wounded. Mr Pasqua said the French Government had no proof of Syrian involvement in the Paris bombs, although this was not to give Syria a totally "clean bill of health". He stressed that the conservative Government refused "to negotiate with terrorists" and was committed to bringing them to justice. But he refused to comment on an article in yesterday's Le Monde claiming that the Government had used Syrian and Algerian intermediaries to arrange a four-month truce with the Abdallah clan on the understanding that a scheduled February court hearing against Georges Abdallah could go in his favour. The Minister's remarks came four days after France, along with other European Economic Community countries, failed to endorse a British call at an EEC foreign minister's meeting for tough diplomatic and other sanctions against Syria. Yesterday, however, France announced it had frozen arms sales to Syria, in response to the British call for measures against that country. A12c The Canberra Times - 31 October 1986 NZ warned off union with Australia WELLINGTON, Thursday (AAP). - New Zealand should not form a political union with Australia on economic grounds, according to a major report on Closer Economic Relations (CER) issued tonight. The 159-page document by the Wellington-based Institute of Policy Economic Studies also warns against the setting up of a common Australasian currency or the pegging of the NZ dollar to the Australian, and sees no urgency in standardising customs controls. The partly government-funded report was written as a discussion paper for several conferences on CER. A12d The Canberra Times - 31 October 1986 AFGHANISTAN Colonel defects to the rebels ISLAMABAD, Thursday (Reuter). - A senior Afghan army officer said yesterday he had defected to the anti-government Moslem rebels two weeks ago, and painted a grim picture of the deteriorating military situation inside the country. Colonel Mir Hashmatullah, 43, deputy commander of a division stationed between Kabul and the border with Pakistan, told a news conference in Islamabad that he had become a convinced anticommunist since the Soviet military intervention in 1979. Colonel Hashmatullah, who reached Pakistan with his wife and three children a few days ago, said he had joined the radical Moslem Hezb-e-Islami group, one of the main guerrilla organisations fighting the Soviet-backed Government in Kabul. Referring to the state of the Afghan army, he told reporters the men did not want to fight the rebels, relations with the Soviet forces in the country were poor and the military situation was deteriorating. Colonel Hashmatullah's defection, 13 days ago, was followed a week later by that of an Afghan air force pilot who flew his Soviet-built Mig-21 jet fighter across the border to Pakistan. A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the aircraft would be kept in Pakistan until the end of the "civil war" in Afghanistan, following standard international practice. Kabul had not requested its return. The spokesman said the pilot, identified by Afghan exiles as Lieutenant Mohammad Daud, would be given political asylum. A12e The Canberra Times - 31 October 1986 INDIA Jailed for selling secrets NEW DELHI, Thursday (AFP). - Six Indians, five of them government officials were sentenced yesterday in New Delhi to three years' jail after being convicted of selling classified information to the United States. The sentence climaxed a nine-year in-camera trial over charges that the six men had been selling secret government documents to US Embassy officials here since 1962. Documents included "sensitive Defence Ministry reports, monthly reports of the foreign ministry, the petroleum ministry and the chemicals department, according to the prosecution. The six men convicted included a consultant engineer Mr P.E. Mehta, and Mr K.K. Sareen and Mr R.P. Varshney, both directors in India's Planing Commission. A12f The Canberra Tiomes - 31 October 1986 Archbishop defends opposition to Murphy service By Graham Downie The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, the Most Reverend Francis Carroll, admitted yesterday to being a "very unpopular gentleman" because of his refusal to allow St Christopher's Cathedral to be used for a public service for Justice Lionel Murphy. Archbishop Carroll said he had no objection to yesterday's thanksgiving service for Justice Murphy at St Bede's Red Hill, but had strongly opposed the use of St Christopher's. It would be almost an imposition on Lionel Murphy to inflict upon him something that he never asked for in life," the Archbishop said. He had had no objection to a private request for a service of prayers for Justice Murphy and his family, but had objected to a highly organised service in which he had been expected to take part but had not been told about. He had also objected to any public advertisement of yesterday's service. The church had previously been accused of body-snatching. "I really felt that he had the opportunity to ask for the church's ministry while alive," he said. "Therefore it should not be either foisted on him or even given to him when he is dead." Any person (even if baptised a Catholic, as Justice Murphy had been) who had publicly repudiated a faith, could not "in conscience" be given a Christian burial. Not only would this be bad theology, it would have a certain impertinence about it. Archbishop Carroll was asked if he had been unpopular with Justice Murphy's family. "Oh no, that was one of my problems," he replied. "I wasn't dealing with family... A fairly politically-minded person made the approach." Had a service at St Christopher's been advertised, the cathedral would almost certainly have been filled, but he had not wanted the church to be used for other purposes. He had not wanted a faith celebration for a man who had clearly repudiated that faith, but was also concerned that the service would have been manipulated and used for unworthy and political reasons. A12g The Canberra Times - 31 October 1986 A friend vents his anger in church By TERESA MANNIX A fiery Irish priest, Father Joseph Staunton, vented his anger against the media from the pulpit. In one of the pews sat Mrs Ingrid and Mr Bill Murphy - the widow and brother of the man who was the subject of yesterday's Thanksgiving Mass. The tiny St Bede's Church in Red Hill, where Father Staunton is a parish priest, was chosen for the service because an application to hold it at the more formidable St Christopher's Cathedral at Manuka was turned down. Father Staunton told the congregation that a friendship had developed between himself and Mr Justice Murphy, based on many long arguments. Justice Murphy was not a practising Catholic. The service was held at Mrs Murphy's request partly because Father Staunton had spent so much time with her husband towards the end of his life, and partly because those who had been close to the judge wanted to give thanks for his life rather than to mourn his memory. The Member for Canberra, Mrs Kelly, attended, as did the Member for Fraser, Mr Langmore. There was a smattering of diplomats among the 70 or so people but it was, generally, a very subdued affair. Children from St Bede's Primary School sang the hymns. There was no pomp and little ceremony. Father Staunton delivered his political sermon from the pulpit. He told the congregation repeatedly that he hoped that nobody in Australia would ever again be subjected to a campaign of vilification like that directed against Justice Murphy. Even the word "allegation", used by some sections of the media, was a "despicable assumption". He said Justice Murphy had suffered the pain of the accusations almost to the very end of his life. Every new inquiry against him produced further "agony". The congregation filed out quietly at the end of the service. Mrs Murphy even raised a smile outside as she was hugged by sympathisers before climbing into a waiting diplomatic car. A12h The Canberra Times - 31 October 1986 Yass Shire to review safety of old dam By Teresa Mannix Yass Shire Council has decided to reverse an earlier decision and proceed with a safety review of Yass River Dam, as recommended by the NSW Dam Safety Committee. The shire engineer, Mr Bert Kaub, said yesterday that the council had adopted his recommendation that specifications be sought from the committee and a costing obtained for the review. The decision was prompted by the committee's fears that the dam could burst, causing loss of life and property. The 60-year-old dam was built when there was inadequate knowledge of likely floods and rainfall levels. According to the committee, two floods had already subjected the dam to its maximum stress levels, and larger floods could be expected. The council previously rejected Mr Kaub's recommendation that the safety review be carried out. He said the specifications would include such matters as the likely size of future floods, whether the structure would hold under such stresses, the waterproofing of the dam, the condition of the concrete and the general safety of the structure under adverse conditions. A12i The Canberra Times - 31 October 1986 Buildings to be used for education Buildings at Watson High School are likely to continue to be used for educational purposes after the school's closure at the end of next year. The Minister for Education, Senator Ryan, said in a statement yesterday that the school was "valuable public property" and that it was "desirable that it continues to provide some form of educational service". Senator Ryan did not detail what the school could be used for but said it would be decided after talks with the ACT Teachers' Federation and other interested parties. The president of the federation, Mr Peter O'Connor, said yesterday that it was "encouraging" that Senator Ryan wanted the buildings used for educational purposes. ?? A13 The Age 2015 words A13a The Age - 18 November 1986 World News The PNG `big man' whom time passed by By a special correspondent Port Moresby, 17 Nov - `Action Man' is dead. He failed in life, to fulfil his most desperate ambition, to become Papua New Guinea's first Highland Prime Minister. But in death he has certainly made his mark on his country. Sir Iambakey Okuk, who was mourned yesterday with riots and the isolation of the nation's capital, was a truly pugnacious son of the Highlands. Born 43 years ago in Pari village, Chimbu province, Sir Iambakey left high school after three years and served an apprenticeship as a motor mechanic. He first stood for Parliament in the 1968 election, for the Mount Hagen constituency where he was then working. He came fourth. Despite the immense wave of Highland anguish over his premature death, of liver cancer, he never achieved an overwhelming electoral response. He won an election back home in Chimbu in 1972, as a member of Sir Thomas Kavali's National Party, which he soon took over. In 1977 he won again, securing the highest proportional vote of his career - 22 per cent, still enough to secure victory in a first-past-the-post system. Sir Iambakey was unpredictable, ruthlessly ambitious, belligerent, and had a surprising capacity to charm. His place in history will come (if for anything apart from his riotous funeral) from his unselfconscious early stance for independence, opposing the conservative Highlands trend which had seen most "big men" support the planters'-based United Party for fear of being dominated by the better educated coastal people. He was considered bolshie by the European establishment - and behaved in manner to suit, especially when, after helping tip the delicate balance after the 1972 election in Michael Somare's way, he was rewarded with the transport portfolio. He did not last long, upsetting Cabinet solidarity too often and overturning too many agreed policies. He joined the Opposition, vowing to get his ministry back, on his own terms. To achieve this, he moved obsessively*obssessively for the jugular of old-time United Party leader Sir Tei Abal, who felt the Opposition's role at that time of independence should be to rally round the Government. It did not take Sir Iambakey long after the 1977 election to become leader of the Opposition and he sought his next victim: Mr Somare. After two failed no-confidence attempts, though, he was enough of a realist to concede that another Opposition politician might stand a better chance and supported Sir Julius Chan's winning push to become Prime Minister in March 1980. Sir Iambakey became deputy Prime Minister. Paias Wingti's achievement of becoming, aged only 34, the first Highland Prime Minister must have particlarly upset Sir Iambakey, though he never referred to it publicly. Time, in a sense, had already passed by his particularly*particuarly colorful brand of regionally based Highlands "big man" leadership. People were looking now for more sophistication, education and even consultation. But for many Highlanders he remained a symbol of their energetic and vibrant culture, the "Action Man" they now mourn. A13b The Age - 18 November 1986 Aquino readies for war with rebels By MARK FINEMAN of the `Los Angeles Times' Manila, 17 Nov. - The President of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino, declared yesterday that she was "ready to lead the war" against the communist insurgency, as her Government prepared to abandon efforts to negotiate a nationwide ceasefire with leaders of the 17-year rebellion. A cabinet source said that the Government's two chief negotiators told the President that their four months of peace talks with the rebels were at a hopeless impasse, and they recommended that the time had come for Mrs Aquino to pick up what she has called "the sword of war". At the same time, several military commanders said that the Philippines armed forces had launched several regional offensives in the past week aimed at strengthening the Government's position against the 23,000 armed insurgents - either as a prelude to a ceasefire or as a contingency in case the peace talks fail. Speaking at a world peace rally yesterday morning, Mrs Aquino said that she still hoped that her negotiators could find a political solution to the conflict, but her readiness to go to war came as the negotiators began urging her to give up her national peace effort. They recommended that instead she pursue regional ceasefires with the communists, while simultaneously turning loose her 200,000-strong military forces in selected provinces where the insurgency has made its greatest gains. The recommendation came after the rebels' political front group cancelled a scheduled negotiating session with the Government on Friday. The National Democratic Front said the cancellation was triggered by last week's ganglandstyle killing of a labor leader, Rolando Olalia, whose union has been labelled a communist front by military leaders. Tension in Manila deepened at the weekend after the regional director of Japan's third-largest corporation was kidnapped by five armed men while driving home from a round of golf at a suburban country club. The Government released no details on the kidnapping, which was widely viewed as a personal embarrassment for Mrs Aquino, who returned from a four-day state visit to Japan 48 hours earlier. She had guaranteed the Japanese that her Government was stable and urged them to provide foreign aid and investment to help the Philippines out of its worst economic crisis since World War II. The murder, the kidnapping and the ensuing insecurity in the capital has polarised the political forces of the left and right in Mrs Aquino's coalition Government and presented her with what analysts call potentially the most explosive crisis she has faced since assuming office last February. At Mr Olalia's wake on Friday night, a rebel negotiator, Satur Ocampo, told reporters that the communist leadership was still willing to continue the national ceasefire negotiations, and he cautioned Mrs Aquino "not to fall into the trap" of right-wing elements in her Government who are trying to "scuttle the ceasefire talks". The Defence Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, has been openly critical of Mrs Aquino's "path of peace" approach to solving the insurgency, a policy she has said is needed to give her "the moral basis" to continue the war. The Defence Minister has called the peace talks "negotiations for war". The Government negotiators - both past advocates of peace - are said to be exhausted and frustrated by the negotiating sessions, which they must attend without personal security and at secret locations chosen by the rebels. The negotiators are now convinced that the rebels are merely trying to manipulate the Government through the talks, sources said. A13c The Age - 18 November 1986 Manila's protest strike fizzles out Manila, 17 Nov - A general strike called to paralyse Manila in protest at the killing of a trade union leader flopped today while officials first announced, then retracted news that a man had been arrested in connection with the murder. The Justice Minister, Neptali Gonzales, who had claimed there was an arrest in the case, said later that informers had given police the names of two men who stalked Rolando Olalia in the days before his death. Police were now seeking the men to put them in an identification parade, he said. Mr Gonzales said that a car seen in Mr Olalia's neighbourhood shortly before the kidnap had a licence plate that could have been issued to a Government agency. A general strike called by Mr Olalia's 500,000-member May First Movement interfered with bus services and led to walkouts by 30,000 workers at 120 factories - far from the numbers strike leaders had predicted. Manila officials suspended all classes for the city's schoolchildren and a police spokesman said the city was calm and orderly. While many bus drivers appeared to be obeying the strike call, 300 of the city's 500 buses were in operation. Many of these were driven by soldiers with police protection, officals said. The auditor's office of the Pasay City government in southern Manila caught fire after a bomb was hurled through a window from a car. Police said the bombers must have wanted to destroy important documents. A13d The Age - 18 November 1986 Cricket protest CAPE TOWN. - In the fifth such attack in less than a month, anti-apartheid activists have wrecked a cricket club pitch in protest at the rebel Australian cricket tour which has just begun. In the latest attack, a group calling itself the "Night Prowlers" dug up and poured oil on a pitch in the elite white suburb of Constantia, home of the Western Province B team. An attempt was also made to burn down the clubhouse but this was thwarted by a nightwatchman. Previously the Western Province A ground at Newlands was attacked, the homes of two cricketing officials damaged and the hotel in which the rebel team was staying had stones thrown through some of its windows. A13e The Age - 18 November 1986 Kanak leader's home attacked By LENA SAVOPOULOU NOUMEA, 17 Nov. - The home of the Kanak leader, Mr Uieiwene Uieiwene, president of the three Loyalty Islands off New Caledonia, was attacked last night. Three men are reported to have fired shots at his home and to have tried to burn it down. Mr Uieiwene is in Paris with the two other pro-independence leaders to meet French officials. Mr Uieiwene's wife and three children were believed to be in the house at the time of the attack. Guards posted at the house in case of trouble drove off the attackers. The Noumea printing works of the `Bwenando' newspaper was destroyed by fire last night. The newspaper is the organ of the proindependence Kanak coalition. The atmosphere was calm in the city today but trouble is expected tomorrow with the funeral of the 14-year-old boy shot dead in clashes between pro and anti-independence militants. A13f The Age - 18 November 1986 Puzzle as North Korean leader is reported dead Radio Pyongyang's broadcasts remained normal, with programs on the President's recent visit to Moscow and upbeat music. If the rumor is true, sources say a power struggle might be in train and this would explain the radio's silence on the issue. Officials in Seoul said South Korean national police had been on full alert since yesterday because of "unusual North Korean movements and for fear of any machinations by impure elements at home and abroad". Seoul calls pro-communist radicals in the south "impure elements". A Western diplomat travelling north of Seoul in the afternoon reported seeing columns of combat-ready troops pouring north towards the demilitarised zone (DMZ), which is only about 40 kilometres from Seoul. The Defence Ministry made no further comments after this morning's announcement, but Seoul newspapers, quoting ministry sources, reported this evening that two broadcast towers along the DMZ first broadcast the report of Mr Kim's death. One report said the broadcast, beamed towards the south along the heavily fortified zone, gave the news that he had been shot in a train. Officials of the United Nations Command said they had heard no such broadcasts in the Panmunjom area of the DMZ which is policed jointly by UN and South Korean troops. A13g The Age - 18 November 1986 Plan to cut airport fire services criticised By TONY HARRINGTON, transport reporter Pilot training by East-West Airlines could be seriously affected if the Department of Aviation closes the airport fire service at Tamworth in New South Wales. East-West trains up to 300 pilots each year at Tamworth, its home base. The Australian Federation of Air Pilots does not allow flying training at airports which have no fire cover. The department wants to close airport fire stations at Tamworth, Norfolk Island and Proserpine, in north Queensland, because the number of passengers on scheduled flights has fallen below 150,000 a year, the base figure for fire cover. Airlines also are required to pay for "after hours" fire cover at Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston and Mount Isa airports as part of the department's cost recovery program. The Federal Firefighters Union and the Australian Flight Attendants Association have also criticised the decision to close the fire stations. Both unions claimed that the Department of Aviation used 1984 passenger figures to justify decisions to close the three airport fire services. They have written to the department, the Government and other politicians urging a review of the decision. ?? A14 The Age - 20 May 1986 2013 words A Housewife's Lot ...is not an easy one. In part two of a series on housework, Louise Carbines looks at a day in the life of a full-time housewife and mother. And inside, the `stronger sex' reflects on the domestic front. ANNE Lloyd Mackenzie belongs to a diminishing species, the stay-at-home mother. In Australia nowadays, only a third of children are looked after at home by their mothers. Anne is an advocate for a minority committed to a lifestyle which traditionally has been regarded as an honorable fate. For Anne, being a mother is synonymous with being a teacher. At home, she looks after her son Cameron, 3, and 16-month-old twins Rob and Cathy. Her job is of inestimable value. If she were paid for her professional training as a teacher, she would earn about $450 a week. She is sad that society pigeonholes motherhood as an important but low-status job because the going rate for mothers is nothing. A live-in housekeeper could command about $400 a week. A live-in nanny would cost about $175 a week. Even domestic help costs about $9 an hour. "I'm sure that pay would raise society's regard for mothers," she says. "I'd like to see people at home being paid a living wage and people at work being taxed more heavily. There's a lack of community responsibility for families. I also really like the idea of a communal village, where people could share responsibility for child care." At 6.30 am, Anne's reasons for staying at home have already woken up. Dummy in her mouth, hair standing on end, Cathy waddles into the kitchen. She rounds the table, teeters, then makes for her mother's navy dressing gown. Safely behind it, she takes a wary interest in the strangers who have inexplicably appeared. Rob, her twin brother, arrives a few minutes later, trailing the bedclothes behind him. Barefoot, he plods up to the table, his brown security-blanket sweeping the floor. Often, he will thoughtfully bring Cathy a blanket and lend her his dummy. There is more love than rivalry between them. His father, Ian, swings him up into a high-chair, settling him in front of breakfast. Soon, Rob's face is covered with Vegemite and the table with milk and Weeties. Ian usually feeds the children breakfast. He is often on call as a doctor, but Anne is always on call as a mother. If she is lucky, this family routine lets her sleep until 7am. But today she is up for the children's breakfast, prepared to welcome us early so that we can spend a day with her at home. "If you come that early, you'll probably find me in my dressing gown," she had joked the day before. The dressing gown, like hair-rollers, is part of the caricature of the housewife, almost a symbol of a dull or dilatory life. If she is not dressed up she is not doing much, or she is doing a lot of little consequence. Good humoredly, Anne wears her dressing gown, reads the paper and makes tea for her guests at the beginning of a long day. Meanwhile, her children are turning the kitchen into a playroom. "Robert, you will go head over toes," she says, watching him pull cake-tins and a bread-board out of a cupboard. He jumps up and down on them and grins. Cathy joins him. They bump into each other and fall on their bottoms. "See," their mother laughs. "That's what you get for mucking around." Next, they help her with the dishes. They push their chairs over to the sink and wait for her to roll up their sleeves. While an adult sees the dishes, a child sees the bubbles. They pat the bubbles, and fish for the sponge in the sink. Julius Sumner Miller would be proud of their wonder and application as they squeeze water on to the bench and mop it up. "I always think of it as a learning experience," Anne says, as she helps her slow dishwashers down from their chairs. "It's important to provide them with an environment where they can explore." At the moment, chores are a game for them. For Anne, they are the consequence rather than the purpose of staying at home. "People might not believe it, but I do like to have the house tidy. However, I think this is more important. "When I was teaching, I often felt that I was fixing up other people's mistakes. I try to use a lot of the techniques that I used when I was teaching. Being education-oriented, I try to preserve their curiosity. So many children seemed to have the curiosity barked out of them with `Don't do that!'." Cam scooted into the kitchen. He had told Anne that he didn't mind if a photographer came to see him, but he didn't want to meet a reporter. He met Sebbie, the photographer, who showed him his cameras. "Anne, what's a journalist?" he asked, as he sat down for breakfast. The explanation did not excite him. "What are you eating?" I asked, making small-talk. "I was going to eat toast, but the babies finished it off." Despite this, he got on well with his babies, and had asked Anne if she would have "just one more lot". While Cam and Sebbie discussed the logistics of eating jellybeans on toast, Anne talked about her children. "Cam is very verbal. He tends to have passionate friendships with little girls he knows. When he was young, he would never let me leave him. I don't know how much of that was fear from asthma. He was admitted to hospital with asthma at 12 months." This morning, she would need to give him two air-pumps for his asthma. "Cathy really likes to play to a gallery. But Rob is really affectionate to people he knows. He's very orderly. He likes everything in its place." Wiping the sink, Anne thought carefully about her definition of a "good mother". She was very conscious of how exacting society could be of the women it did not pay. "I think that being a good mother is something to do with letting children's personalities emerge to make the child a happy person. It's important to nurture their personalities so that they also come to terms with the faults in their characters. Being a good mother is about civilising and socialising children. "The most exciting thing is just watching their personalities develop, to see that these inquiring little persons are learning from the way that you have treated them. You put so much work into them before they can speak and walk and it's not until they are three of four that you can see the results. "I think that being a mother is also very sensuous. You're always being touched and cuddled. You enjoy that intimacy." Anne, 31, had been brought up by a mother at home. This had influenced her decision to stay at home. She wanted to be able to answer her children's "whys", even though, sometimes, they seemed like just more of the interminable demands made on mothers. "I'm sure that someone who is just doing a job would not have the same commitment to answering their questions." She was sure that mothers were also the best decoders of their children's early speech, helping them make sentences from phrases, and phrases from words. "Sebbie? Will you come and watch `Playschool' with me?" Cam asks. It is 9 am, and he and Sebbie disappear into the front room. Already, Anne has dressed her three children, hung a load of washing on the clothesline and stopped to play with the trio on the jungle gym which, according to Cam, offered the best view of Halley's comet in the back yard. "Television really gives Cam a lot of ideas for things to do. But the standard really varies. I did use it a lot as a baby-sitter. I suppose I would think it was bad if Cam watched `Sesame Street' and `Playschool' twice a day. That would mean that he was watching three hours of television a day." In the front room, Cam is leaning over the arm of a couch pushed close to the television. It is the best room in their house. "Sometimes people tell me to keep him out of the front room, that we should have a room that won't be damaged by the children. I think that he should grow up in a house that belongs to him. It teaches him that he has responsibilities and rights. You can't do that if you're trying to keep the place tidy all the time." Anne and Ian bought their house in an eastern suburb about five years ago. Anne says her house would never feature in `Home Beautiful', and she would never fit the advertisers' ideal of the "margarine mum". One day, she says, they will get around to doing all the painting and the weeding which a margarine mum would have done. "I think that our spending priorities are quite atypical. We spend very little on clothes or the house. The rest goes on help. I think that money is a real problem for many people with young families. I'm very lucky. I have someone who comes in at tea for two hours. We agreed that I should have help in lieu of the time that Ian couldn't give me. "We decided that Ian should go on to further study. I suppose that I lose seniority, but I don't lose my position. I'd much rather see careers compromised than the children compromised. I think that a lot of people would like to do more with their families, but careers just aren't structured that way." She resents the times when people dismissed her because of her job. They seemed to think that women at home lacked ambition or intelligence because they were "just housewives". Sometimes she feels trapped. "There are times when I'd just like to go down to the library and get some books, but often you can't do that on the spur of the moment." She also regretted that becoming a parent meant that she and Ian spent less time with friends who did not have children. "We've really lost touch with a lot of people, a lot of friends. You tend to go and see people with children. Usually we're headed to bed by 9.30pm." Last night, they had gone to bed about 11. Cathy woke at about 2am, and Cam could not sleep because of his asthma. The children finally settled down at about 4am. Everyone was up a couple of hours later. "I suppose lack of sleep is the worst thing about motherhood," Anne says. "You can put up with almost anything else." By 11 am, the twins are waddling around with their blankets, a sign that they are ready for a sleep. After hanging out another load of washing, making the beds and giving Cam an air-pump, Anne picks up Cathy and Cam and reads them stories in the back yard. She reads `Elizabeth Anne' and `Amazing Trains of the World'. We learn that people in India like to travel on top of trains as well as inside them. Under the clothesline, Cam climbs into a bus which, until a few minutes ago, had been the family banana chair. "I can see London Bridge," he shouts. Naturally, he is the driver, and Sebbie is the porter who must load and unload the bus. There is a lot of luggage; a wheelbarrow, a mop, a bucket, a rake, a kickboard and the babies' bath. Luckily for the porter, the bus driver has to go to kinder at 1pm. He rides his bicycle to kinder, ahead of the babies (in their stroller), Anne, Sebbie and the journalist. Before she picks him up at 3 pm, Anne goes home again, does the lunch dishes and takes the twins shopping. She buys them a broom and umbrellas, blue and red. Sweeping the footpath and testing their umbrellas, the family arrives home again at 4pm. ?? A15 The Herald 2008 words A15a The Herald - 5 November 1986 Crocodile incident marks second time round for Alf BRISBANE - A Proserpine man mauled on Sunday by a 2 metre "pet" crocodile had heroically saved his younger brother from a croc attack in a boyhood drama. Mr Alf Casey, 69, of O'Connell River, is recovering in the Mackay Hospital. Doctors removed his right arm to the elbow after the mauling by the 100kg croc, "Charlene", which Mr Casey had looked after for 24 years. Charlene was given to the family by a professional*profesional hunter and the bond between it and Mr Casey was so strong that he had often taken it to the local pub with him. Mr Casey has urged wildlife officers not to destroy the croc, which was yesterday freighted to Townsville after it turned on him as he fed it in a backyard enclosure. He poked the croc in the eyes in a desperate attempt to escape. His wife, Mrs Rae Casey, 63, said that as a boy, Mr Casey had dragged his brother out of the O'Connell River seconds before a 4m croc was about to attack. Mrs Casey said Alf had grown up with crocodiles, with the reptiles swimming to a waterhole off the river only 150m from his house. She said Mr Casey had tried raising other crocs before Charlene, but none survived. "Alf would not want Charlene shot. He is very preservation- minded," Mrs Casey said. Mrs Casey said her husband, "a strong healthy man", had lost three fingers on his left hand in a chainsaw accident two years ago. Mr Ed Casey (ALP, Mackay) said today he had known the Casey family for many years and Alf's relationship with Charlene was a talking point in the north. "The croc would travel with Alf wherever he went. He would throw the croc in a back of his utility and often would walk down the street with the croc on a leash," Mr Casey said. A15b The Herald - 5 November 1986 Ex-wife pays the price of divorce By PATRICIA MORGAN LONDON, Tues - Elizabeth Browne, former wife of a Tory MP, went to court today with her bags packed for a spell in jail - for failing to pay maintenance to her ex-husband. Outside the court she said: "I just cannot believe he can do this to me. He knows I have no more money." She owes her ex-husband $350,000 in a divorce pay-off. Mrs Browne is the former wife of finance company chief and ex- Guards officer John Browne, Tory MP for Winchester. She was awarded a divorce in 1984 on the grounds of Browne's adultery. But a judge ruled she must pay the lump-sum maintenance, based on her assets. In August she was given a 28-day jail sentence on condition she completed the pay-off. She has so far paid $248,000 but still owes $350,000. There was no hearing today, so Mrs Browne returned home to Chelsea. But Mr Browne's lawyers are planning new legal moves and she may still end up in jail this week. "I've paid over every penny I can raise, there is no more," she said. A15c The Herald - 5 November 1986 Queensland's FBT bid opens in High Court From ROSS McSWAIN CANBERRA - The Queensland Government's constitutional challenge to the fringe benefits tax started in the High Court today. The challenge is based on Section 114 of the Constitution which stops the Commonwealth taxing any property belonging to a state and any state taxing property belonging to the Commonwealth. The Queensland challenge is the first against the FBT. But a second challenge has been lodged by the NSW Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce challenge, also to be heard in the High Court, is the first by a business group. Their opposition will be based on a separate section of the Constitution which deals with taxation laws and how they relate to certain taxes. The Queensland Cabinet decided to go ahead with the constitutional challenge after it received a full briefing on July 28. The Federal Government has since made changes to the tax to eliminate "unintended consequences". The changes are expected to cost the Government a least $75 million in lost revenue. A15d The Herald - 5 November 1986 Young get help on technology A project aimed at helping young people cope with technological change was launched today at the Futures in Education Conference in Melbourne. The Commission for the Future and the Australian Bicentennial Authority have joined forces to develop an educational program to remove the mystery from science and technology. The resource kit will cover issues of widespread community concern - future of work, information technology, environment, biotechnology and the cultural effects of technological change. The conference, which has attracted leaders from the fields of education, business and trade unions*union from overseas and around Australia, will look at the contribution of education to economic recovery. A15e The Herald 5 November 1986 Arthur discharges broadside at White By Sandra Lee After a week in hospital, 19-year-old Arthur Ainalis was sympathetic to the nurses' strike. As he left Western General Hospital yesterday afternoon, all Arthur wanted to do was to get a message to the Health Minister, Mr White, and say goodbye to his new nursing friend. He was injured in a car accident last Tuesday week, and was admitted the next day. Mr Ainalis was one of the patients discharged as the hospital geared up for the full-scale strike today. When he left, he couldn't find the nurse, but was still intent on getting a message to the Minister. "Mr White should come here and work for a couple of weeks and then maybe he will change his mind," Mr Ainalis said. "The nurses are all right. "Even though they are on strike they still looked after us and they have worked really hard to help everybody. "I feel really sorry for them. "They are always running around doing this and doing that, and from what I've seen and heard I think they deserve more pay. "They are trying to do their best and I hope they get what they want out of the strike." His mother, Ritsa, believed the nurses had a point in their strike, but was also concerned for the sick patients having to leave the hospital earlier than planned. Mrs Ainalis said the nurses had worked extremely hard over the past few days and were at patients' sides as soon as they were called. About 100 patients left the hospital yesterday, but the critically ill and those who were unable to be moved stayed. A15f The Herald 5 November 1986 PC killing charge: three remanded Three men charged with having murdered Constable Angela Taylor, and several other offences, were remanded in the City Court today until February 6. Craig William Minogue, 23, of Mooroolbark, his brother, Rodney, 20, and Stanley Brian Taylor, 51, of Birchip, are each charged with having murdered Constable Taylor, two counts of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit criminal damage where people's lives were endangered, criminal damage and malicious damage by explosives. The Minogue brothers also are charged with the theft of a car and Taylor with the theft of two boxes of gelignite, explosives and detonators. Craig Minogue faces a further 60 charges relating to armed robberies, Rodney Minogue a further 14 and Taylor a further 50. A15g The Herald - 5 November 1986 Missing: one millionaire One of Perth's newest millionaires is missing. An anonymous man has won $1.5 million in Six-38 Pools but no one can find him to give him the good news. Pools spokeswoman Ms Bronwyn Badger said the house at the address on the pools coupon was for sale and the phone number was wrong. "We know who he is, but we haven't been able to reach him," Ms Badger said. "We are trying our hardest." A15h The Herald - 5 November 1986 Grand jury's historic role: judge Victoria's first grand jury in 46 years was today empanelled in the Supreme Court to decide if a solicitor should be sent for [Atrial on fraud charges. Mr Justice O'Bryan told the 17 women and six men comprising the grand jury that it was an historic and important event. He told them their function was unusual and very different from ordinary criminal proceedings. The defendant, John Gerard McArdle, played no part in the hearing and was not represented, the judge said. Neither the judge nor any barristers took part. The judge said legal tradition meant he had to ask the grand jury panel whether any of them were aliens or outlaws. Before the court was cleared and became the grand jury chamber, the judge spent about two hours explaining the function of the grand jury. He said their job was not to decide if McArdle was guilty or innocent, it was to decide whether or not he should be sent for trial. Mr Justice O'Bryan said this meant a different standard of proof, which was that there was "probable evidence in support of an offence". It also meant that unlike other juries, only a majority of them, that is 12, need be satisfied one way or the other. The judge told the grand jury the two charges alleged against McArdle were fraudulent conversion under the Crimes Act and conspiracy to defraud under common law. The judge said the grand jury should ignore anything they had read or heard about the procedure. "It is not for you or me to decide if the grand jury procedure is the most appropriate procedure. That is for the State Parliament." The judge said the foreman would have to write on the indictments either "true bill" which meant McArdle would be sent for trial or "not a true bill." The judge said the grand jury deliberations and examination of witnesses would be completely secret and any notes they took would be shredded later. The hearing is not finished. A15i The Herald - 5 November 1986 Outcry over prices for Brisbane Expo BRISBANE - The Federal Government will intervene to try to force down the price of tickets for Brisbane's World Fair. A family of two adults and three children face admission prices of $95 a day. Expo 88 is due to run from April to October over a massive area of Brisbane, centred along the south bank of the Brisbane River. Nineteen countries have so far agreed to take part, with organisers aiming for about 30. The prices, announced yesterday by Expo 88 chairman, Sir Llew Edwards provoked an immediate outcry from consumer groups. Mr Keith Wright, chairman of the Federal Government's Consumer Affairs committee said: "Those prices are unbelievable and it is a great pity. "I shall write officially to Sir Llew, explaining that the high prices will be an early deterrent and will influence people's attitudes about Expo. "I am sure I can convince him the cost of running Expo can be offset by attracting large groups of school pupils and pensioners as well as youth organisations. "We must do something to get that admission price down." Season tickets during the Expo will cost $160 for adults and $95 for children and pensioners. But the tickets will go on sale soon for $99 and $60, increasing in price by up to $15 each three months until April, 1988. Sir Llew said there was a definite incentive to buy season tickets early. He said research showed people with season tickets were likely to visit at least 3 times. "This works out at $8.30 a visit for adults and only $5 a visit for pensioners and children using their early season tickets, said Sir Llew. But Mr Wright, the former State Opposition leader who also is president of the Queensland Consumers' Association, said that by the time inflation gnawed at the season ticket price its advantage would be lost. Mr Wright said the Expo 88 chairman must explain fully how he arrived at the prices. "High prices are such a pity because the social and cultural impact for many Australians, let alone Queenslanders, will be tremendously important." A15j The Herald - 5 November 1986 Richard's one out - but he's no beast BRISBANE - Richard Kennedy might be the "ugly duckling" in the group. But Richard has as good a chance as anyone of becoming Nurse of the Year. Richard, from Townsville is the only male finalist in the quest, organised by the Queensland Cancer Fund. ?? A16 The Herald 2029 words A16a The Herald - 25-26 October 1986 All's fair in dollar chase By MARK HOOPER When it comes to international popularity, countries such as Libya, Cuba, South Africa, Iran, and the Soviet Union can hardly claim to be on the western world's Christmas card list. But popularity and politics count for little and profits count for much as far as Australia's agricultural traders are concerned. In the past year, there have been record wheat sales to the Soviet Union and strong wheat sales to South Africa. Live sheep exports to Libya resumed just last month after a 16-month recess, and we continue to sell Iran large quantities of wheat and meat. And on Monday, Australia's first beef cattle export to Cuba leaves Melbourne. The trend is summed up by a standard line from the Australian Wheat Board: "We have a responsibility to market our produce wherever we can." The Australian-Soviet bond in wheat trade is one of the strongest in the world and is likely to continue despite raids by Europe and the U.S. this year. Australia sold 3.2 million tonnes of grain to the Soviet Union in the marketing year just ended and there is every chance the volume will be repeated, albeit at depressed prices. An AWB spokesman said the "excellent" relationship would continue because the Soviets valued the quality and quality control standards of Australian wheat. When South Africa is short of wheat, it also relies on Australia. Despite the Hawke Government's high-profile anti-apartheid campaign, the AWB shipped 100,000 tonnes of wheat to South Africa this year, worth about $15 million. That represented about one-third of South Africa's import needs. Canada and the U.S. supplied the rest. Australia could replace the U.S. as southern Africa's major supplier if U.S. sanctions extend to wheat. A shipment of 104,000 live sheep from Fremantle bound for Libya last month represented the first such trade since May last year. The Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation says Libya is a developing market and prospects for future shipments are promising. "A contributing factor to the resumption of trade is the attractive price at which the Australian exporter can supply the sheep," an AMLC spokesman said. The Chernobyl nuclear accident also prompted Libyan authorities to look to Australia after they banned imports from eastern Europe. Iran has bought 4 million tonnes of wheat from Australia in the past three years, and buys thousands of tonnes of mutton and lamb from us each year. Iran's Agriculture Minister, Mr Abbasali Zali, was recently in Australia "looking at areas to expand co-operation". The Department of Primary Industry described the sale of 670 beef cattle to Cuba as a breakthrough. The department said last week Cuban authorities were also interested in buying Australian buffalo and 1500 head were being tested in the Northern Territory for their suitability for export to Cuba. The department said exporters were hoping the Cuban trade would increase. Cuba previously imported most of its cattle from Europe and Canada. A16b The Herald - 25-26 October 1986 For Arthur Ellis, it's time to quit By Terry Friel Leading Melbourne car dealer Arthur Ellis is quitting. And he's tipping as many as half of Melbourne's new car dealerships to disappear within two years. The Ellis family Holden and Honda dealership will be auctioned on December 10 - a victim of the fringe benefits tax and the slump which has rocked the new car market. New car registrations plunged almost 20 per cent nationally last month as the industry continued to slip into its worst position in eight years. Mr Ellis said FBT was "the final straw" for his family's six-year-old Heidelberg operation. And he predicted that the widely condemned tax would claim more victims in the car industry. "There is no doubt in the world that anybody who is hovering will fall (because of the tax)," he said. Mr Ellis said the new car market had fallen 25-30 per cent at the same time interest rates had rocketed 50 per cent. The main reasons behind his move were the market slump, FBT and the amount of interest expressed in the dealership property. "We haven't been pushed to the wall," he said. But Mr Ellis, who has been in the business 35 years, said the outlook for the new car industry was grim. "I feel in the next couple of years it's going to go down," he said. "Most of the dealers are having a hard time." Competition was fierce in the face of falling sales and profit margins had been slashed. Mr Ellis said the Federal Government faced a huge groundswell reaction against FBT. He will take a bus-load of protesters to an anti-FBT rally in the City Square on Monday. Mr Ellis said the Government was cutting its own throat with FBT. The impact of the tax on business profitability would cut Government revenue from other taxes, such as sales tax. He said he would help his staff find new jobs. The industry slump had already forced the Ellis operation to trim staff. Mr Ellis will stay on for a time to "tidy up". He has no definite plans after that. A16c The Herald - 25-26 October 1986 From drought to tourist flood By MARK HOOPER THE Big Drought of 1982/83 broke the spirit of many people on the land, but it was also the catalyst for some entrepreneurial spirit. Such is the case with Antony and Heather Heath of Bairnsdale. The downturn in their sheep grazing and shearing activities during and after the drought forced them to look at alternative sources of income. Selling the farm was out because of the family tradition and their love of the land. So they decided to take advantage of one of the few things not affected by the drought - the main road. The Heath's 300 ha property, called Redcourt, borders the Princes Hwy 10 km west of Bairnsdale. From their farmhouse near the road, they could see the drought wasn't stopping hordes of travellers to Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, the high country around Omeo and the south coast of NSW. So they jumped on the bandwagon and started a tourist attraction of their own, the Redcourt Woolshed, designed for city people and overseas travellers. The Woolshed provides visitors with a demonstration of shearing, wool sorting, four different breeds of important Australian sheep, sheep dogs in action, and a small museum. The idea was not new, but it was borne of some desperation during a bleak period in Australia's rural history. And there is a constant flow of tourist coaches, many of them carrying travellers from overseas, to the Woolshed. Mr Heath does the shearing and he clearly revels in the opportunity to show off the skills and importance of the wool industry. "It was a case of us trying to diversify, helping bring the country and city closer together, and it has worked," Mr Heath said. "People can wander around the property and be close to the sheep and the dogs and what happens on the farm." The Heaths' commercial concerns have also picked up over the past few years and their tourist considerations had to be cancelled last week as the shearing of Redcourt's 3000 fine wool Merinos was done by a local team. A16d The Herald - 25-26 October 1986 1c upon a time, it made sense... One cent. It's not much. Yet somehow it's even less than it used to be. BRUCE EVA took his solitary cent - not to mention high hopes and memories - to Melbourne's shopkeepers. WHAT does the South Melbourne Football Club, the dodo, the Tasmanian tiger and the $1 note all have in common? Extinction! Membership requirements for this exclusive club are very simple. Don't exist. It is not a popular club by any stretch of the imagination yet away in the distance we have a new applicant looming. The one-cent piece. Yes, you remember it, the little copper piece you find lying in the street that you are too scared to pick up in case someone is watching you. Or the fiddly little thing you receive with your receipt when you have just bought your first toaster for $49.99 So the question has been raised. Do we need the one-cent coin? I mean, how long has it been since one could buy something for a cent, or going further back, a penny? I remember the good old days in primary school, when if you found a one-cent piece, you had two extra mates during lunchtime. The reason? Three jellybeans for a cent. Nowadays for all the big spenders we have the one-cent stamp and for all you miserly hackers out there chopping up our public and private courses you can buy a single, plastic, colored golf tee for a cent. And if you're hungry while out on the course then you can splurge on a single lolly for a cent although it might taking some hunting around to find shops that still sell them. Yet someone else must be able to make use of this sometimes meaningless little thing. The government! Not buying anything on your Bankcard does not save you from our beloved money collectors. You will still be charged one-cent for something they term Financial Institutions Duty. Hmmm! Governments, golfers, postage and lollies aside you are pushed to find anything you can buy with it. A single button is now around five cents. You can only buy small nails or tacks pre-packed (the few exceptions where you can buy them separately all smash through the one-cent ceiling). If you want to weigh yourself on public scales you can fork out anything up to five cents. So what are the cheapest goods you an buy these days? A pair of shoe laces are 35 cents, a box of tissues for 30 cents and a potato cake about 20 cents. Chocolates go by weight but if you want one milk pastille you part with four cents. Paper clips, rubber bands, straws and matches all come in packets, although singly they would be around one cent. The one-cent coin and the penny were much more useful 10, 20 or 30 years ago. The last generation recollect two licorice blocks for a penny, a one penny bag of lollies and a cream-between (a slab of vanilla ice-cream between two wafers) for two pennies - all the rage in the Fifties. Going further back, our cherished Footy Record (now 70 cents) was one penny when first published in 1912 and only 10 cents when we went decimal in 1966. But back to the question in hand. Is there any real sense in keeping it in circulation? The majority of shop owners I spoke to said no, although the milk bar proprietors said that it came in handy for change from cigarettes and other small items. Not so handy when the change builds up and weighs down the pockets. The principal use for it these days is to give one back to a person, almost as a token gesture, after they have bought something for $XX.99. But wouldn't it be easier if all people selling merchandise stopped kidding themselves that they are kidding us into believing that we are making a huge saving if we buy something that is $9.99 instead of $10. So as long as the mint keeps churning them out, then people will keep losing them, cursing them, collecting them or even on the odd occasion, buying something with them. Yet if we get rid of them where will we stop? Big brother (the two-cent piece) is also about as useful as a hole in the head and therefore could we soon see the day where the five, or even the 10-cent piece is the lowest denomination. I'll leave you to ponder that as I must go and pay my Bankcard bill of one cent. I wouldn't want a "PLEASE PAY UP, SECOND AND FINAL NOTICE" letter, now would I? A16e The Herald - 25-26 October 1986 Where are the bears? By TIM BOREHAM WHAT has happened to all the bearish talk of a much-vaunted second recession, to equal the pessimism of 1982-83? It seems that despite perennial gloom about high interest rates, the current account deficit and the state of the Australian dollar, the present "bull run" seen in our stock markets at the moment is going to continue for some time. ?? A17 The Sun News-Pictorial 2015 words A17a The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 POLICE fury on car-bomb scare By NEIL McMAHON Police were angry and disgusted over an elaborate eight-hour bomb scare in Toorak Rd on Saturday. Assistant Commissioner (Operations), Mr John Frame, said if a stolen car was planted near the site of last Sunday week's bombing as a hoax, the people responsible were beneath contempt. "My feeling is one of disgust and anger," he said. "If it is an elaborate hoax then those responsible are below contempt. "The people of this area have been put through a very bad ordeal over the past week and if it is a hoax they should be ashamed of themselves." Sen Det Stephen Keogh, of Prahran CIB, said the stolen car at the centre of the scare had been finger-printed. He said he hoped this, with witnesses' accounts, would lead police to the two men who stole the yellow Subaru coupe. The men told the owner on Saturday morning they wanted to take it for a test drive. At about 12.15 pm the car was abandoned by one of the men near the corner of Toorak and Punt Rds, only metres from the Turkish consulate building destroyed in a bomb blast last Sunday week. Police took no chances with the car and cordoned off an area bounded*bound by Punt Rd, Darling St, Domain Rd and Alexandra St before bringing in the special operation group and Army bomb experts. Residents, shoppers, and shopkeepers were evacuated. The car was declared safe just after 8pm. The Army robot fired three shots into the car but failed to detonate the suspected bomb. An Army bomb disposal expert wearing protective clothing later placed explosives on the bonnet and blew open the front of the car. Police then declared the car safe and the area was reopened within an hour. Mr Peter Thatcher, 28, said the man who abandoned the car quickly ran away. "He was driving along up toward Punt Rd and then he did a quick half U-turn and the car was blocking both lanes of traffic," he said. "He got out of the car and walked to the front of it and fiddled with it for a couple of seconds then turned and ran." Mr Thatcher described the man as aged about 35, 178 cm tall, of solid build and European appearance. He was wearing shorts, a T-shirt and thongs. A17b The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 Police break nurses' pickets By GERARD BROWN POLICE have started escorting hospital supply trucks after clashes at nurses' picket lines at the weekend. Nurses and supporters were dragged from a picket line after trucks carrying clean linen for about 20 hospitals were blocked at the central linen service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Police also broke a picket line at the Freemasons' Private Hospital to allow deliveries of clean linen. The lights of a truck were damaged when a car was used to stop trucks leaving the central linen service, and police said they would take action against a protester. Picketing nurses were joined by other union members at the weekend. The Royal Australian Nursing Federation state secretary, Ms Irene Bolger, said yesterday police had acted violently and without reason. Miss Bolger will meet the ACTU secretary, Mr Bill Kelty, on the RANF's 20 wage and career structure claims after a mass meeting of nurses today. "The ACTU will be of some assistance in speaking to the State Government but their involvement will not solve this dispute overnight," Ms Bolger said. She said the nurses would give the Government a clear message of defiance at the mass meeting by continuing the strike. Ms Bolger said the RANF wages claim withdrawn from the State Industrial Commission last week had not been abandoned and could be re-submitted and in an altered form. A full bench of the commission will resume hearing the Hospital Employees' Federation (No 1 branch) claim for the restructuring of junior nurses' wages and career structure today. The Treasurer, Mr Jolly, said yesterday the RANF had adopted an incoherent and inconsistent approach to resolving the 32-day strike. A17c The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 Laser gun blasts on to toy lists By BRUCE BASKETT NEW YORK - A game in which children can shoot one another in the heart, brain or belly with a laser beam is the fastest-selling new toy on the Christmas lists this year. Lazer Tag is selling out in a day after shipments arrive at New York toy stores. Last Monday 70 crates of Lazer Tag arrived at the famous F.A.O. Schwarz store in Manhattan - and sold out in 10 minutes. The game involves wearing a vest, a belt and a cap with sensors placed over the middle of the forehead, the belt buckle and the heart. A beam of infrared light is shot from the gun. The sensor beeps and flashes when it is hit by the light. Lazer Tag's suggested retail price is $US40. It includes a light gun, a sensor and a belt. Two sets are needed to play the game with someone else. The top 10 toys in order are G.I. Joe, Barbie, Pound Puppies, Teddy Ruxpin (a bear that tells stories and was the biggest success last year), Lazer Tag, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Transformers (movable space creatures) Cricke*Cricket (a talking teenage girl doll), Baby Talk (a talking baby doll) and Mask (a series of action toys of the G.I. Joe type). A17d The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 Charles, Di woo Wham LONDON, Sun - The Prince and Princess of Wales are being credited with arranging a comeback by singing duo Wham. Wham has agreed to renew its partnership for a concert to help Prince Charles' Inner City Aid project next summer. A dozen other rock stars also are expected to perform. Wham duo George Michael and Andrew Ridgely split after a farewell concert at Wembley six months ago which attracted 75,000 fans. The pair were the first Western pop act to visit China. Prince Charles started the move for Wham after seeing them at the Live Aid concert last year. Princess Diana is known to be a great fan of Wham. It was her personal plea which swayed the two to share the stage again, according to a newspaper report. - PHILLIPA MURRAY A17e The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 Ship's treasure `worth $2 billion' New York, Sun. AP - The richest treasure ship ever discovered could yield $2.47 billion in gold, silver, emeralds and historical artifacts, according to a US treasure hunter. The Spanish ship Nuestra Senora de la Maravilla sank along the Bahama Banks in 1656 with Central American treasure bound for Spain. Herbert Humphreys Jr said the wreck was covered with 15 metres of sand but divers had uncovered emeralds, gold and silver coins and priceless Ming Dynasty porcelain. Records show the ship also carried 30 to 40 tonnes of silver and a solid gold metre-tall statue of the Madonna. In the early 1970s, a few million dollars of treasure was recovered. Many of the finds will go to public museums as well as Humphrey's planned maritime museum. A17f The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 19986 Wran to head CSIRO SYDNEY - Former NSW Premier Mr Neville Wran will head Australia's largest scientific organisation, the CSIRO. And the news has stunned the science community. Reactions at the weekend ranged from dismay to delight. Federal Cabinet has broken a 60-year tradition to approve the appointment of a non-scientist to the post. Mr Wran is understood not to have been the first choice for the post, but no other contender could find the time. Among the candidates were the doyen of Australian science, Sir Gustav Nossal, and from the business world, Sir Roderick Carnegie. But both these men will be on the new CSIRO board. Under new CSIRO legislation which passed through Parliament on Friday, Mr Wran will hold a part-time position. The present chairman, Dr Keith Boardman, is expected to be appointed full-time chief executive by the new board, which includes a mix of scientific and business acumen. Mr Wran and the rest of his revamped board will take up their posts from January 1. The other new board members are Mr Bill Mansfield, an assistant secretary of the ACTU; Mr David Hoare, the chairman of Bankers Trust Australia, and Mr Tony Gregson, a businessman and farmer from Victoria's Western District. The surviving members from the old board are Professor Adrienne Clarke, Mr Graham Spurling and Dr Kevin Foley. A17g The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 Hotels hit hard by beer strike THE beer crisis worsened at the weekend as supplies dwindled in hotels and retail outlets. The state president of the Australian Hotels' Association, Mr Daryl Washington, said yesterday the situation with draught beer was "critical". "Many hotels are out of draught beer and packaged*packeged beer supplies are very low," he said. "All hotels are in real trouble." "Even if the men went back to work tomorrow, it could take one to two weeks before supplies got back to normal," Mr Washington said. "The strike is costing the community millions of dollars in Federal and State Government tax and licence fees, all of which will have to be borne by the public." Mr Washington said the viability of bottle shops and retailers was also threatened by the strike. "The Federal and State Governments should get involved immediately and make sure the union and the brewery get together to resolve the situation," he said. The brewery workers are striking for an extra week's Christmas bonus. A CUB spokesman said no talks were held with the union at the weekend. The company was waiting on the response of the strikers on a letter urging them to return to work, he said. A spokesman for the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries' Union was unavailable for comment. A17h The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 Liberal HQ is hit by vandals SYDNEY - Vandals have hit Liberal Party property for the third time. MPs have moved into Heathcote, south of Sydney, for the by-election to replace the former sitting member, Mr Rex Jackson. The Opposition Leader, Mr Greiner, said yesterday the three attacks on Liberal Party offices and a promotional balloon*balloom at Heathcote, were due to insufficient*unsufficient policing. In the latest incident this weekend, damage worth $1000 was caused when bricks were thrown through plate-glass windows. Heathcote faces a by-election in January after the resignation of Mr Jackson, a former corrective services minister. A17i The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 Help for male rape victims A support group for male rape victims is to be set up in Melbourne next year. Ms Gayle McDonald, who formed a support group for female rape victims two months ago, said yesterday she had received a number of calls from males who had been raped. None of the callers had been homosexual. "I was very surprised when I got the first calls," Ms McDonald said. "They are ordinary guys who have perhaps been at a party and been sexually assaulted by other men. "Others have been assaulted after being at hotels or hitch-hiking, or perhaps even at work. "It obviously goes on in the community to a greater degree than thought." The callers ranged from teenagers to middle-aged, married men. The Child Exploitation Unit had told her 80 per cent of the victims it dealt with were males, she said. Ms McDonald said men faced many of the problems female rape victims faced and felt they could tell no one what had happened. The sexual assault group can be contacted at the Victims of Crime Assistance League office on 690-1877. A17j The Sun News-Pictorial - 1 December 1986 Girl, 15, beats rape bid A TEENAGE girl was saved by an elderly man when three men tried to rape her in Geelong on Saturday night. Police said three men in a car began making suggestive comments to the girl as walked along Hitchcock Av about 11.45 pm. The girl, 15, from Barwon Heads, became frightened when the men chased her into the grounds of a church. Police said that after the men caught up with her she was assaulted until an elderly man came to her aid. The attackers ran off. Police said they had no descriptions of the men but they were believed to be driving a small, white station wagon. In another incident, a 18-year-old woman was forced into a car as she stood outside the Croydon Hotel, Maroondah Highway, about 2.15 am yesterday. ?? A18 The Sun News-Pictorial 2027 words A18a The Sun News-Pictorial - 29 November 1986 Cashing in on croc craze BRISBANE - You've seen the movie, now you can buy the pub. The Walkabout Creek Hotel, star attraction of the box office hit Crocodile Dundee, is on the market and offers are rolling in. And a north Queensland man whose arm was bitten off by his five-metre pet crocodile is set to cash in on the Dundee fever in the US. The hotel, otherwise known as the Federal McKinlay Hotel, is at McKinlay, a 20-house town 100 km south of Cloncurry in north-west Queensland. Success on the silver screen has rocketed the quiet country pub to stardom with tourist coaches regularly stopping in McKinlay, according to publican Mr Peter Ferris. The movie has meant so much to the hotel's image the Licensing Commission has been asked to approve a change of name - to the Walkabout Creek, of course. The facade of the hotel was changed for the movie and restored to its original outback look when filming was complete. The selling agent, Ms Jenny Olsen, of L J Hooker Townsville, said the novelty value of the property had attracted wide interest, especially from buyers who wanted to make use of land around the hotel. Meanwhile Alf Casey, 69, a cane farmer from O'Connell River, 950 km north of Brisbane, will appear on the Fox Network television stations owned by Rupert Murdoch. "I think the American interest is a result of Crocodile Dundee. I expect they will want me to talk about my recent experience," said Mr Casey, who leaves for the US next week. A18b The Sun News-Pictorial - 29 November 1986 Herald spells out growth strategy THE Herald and Weekly Times Ltd strategy of increasing assets through major acquisitions will help future growth, directors said in the latest annual report released yesterday. "We consider the 1985-86 period a year of change and consolidation," the directors said. The report said plans to organise the HWT publishing network into a national system were well advanced, and will provide exposure for advertisers in any of the group's 142 papers. "Australia's $3.3 billion annual advertising expenditure progressively is being controlled by fewer people," directors said. "The advent of retail giants such as Coles Myer, Woolworths-Safeway gives the HWT an exciting opportunity to benefit through its unique national spread," directors said. The annual report said developing a national network concept, which will also embrace overseas bureaus, builds a higher company profile and more efficient use of journalists and technical resources. Despite a general downward trend in metropolitan newspaper circulation which directors attribute to changes in living and readership habits, the HWT aggressively expanded its print activities. "We strongly believe in the future of newspapers and plans are in place for further expansion," directors said. Through the acquisition of regional and suburban papers, HWT established itself for the first time as a publisher in NSW. The strengthening of The HWT's print media activities is seen by market analysts as consolidation of a profitable area of the group's operations. Directors said HWT consolidated profit, which accounted on a conventional basis fell 4.4 per cent, was severely cut back by interest payments on increased borrowings. Profit from trading and investment was 4.37 per cent less than last year, in what directors described as a period of political and economic uncertainty. Directors described trading results as disappointing but they said some recovery was evident in the second half of the year. A18c The Sun News-Pictorial - 29 November 1986 `Year of acquisitions' sees HWT assets nearly double REFLECTING a year of acquisitions, total assets of The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd almost doubled to $1.08 billion in the September year. Shareholders' funds rose from $357.5 million to $733.3 million, including paid capital, up from $57.7 million to $75.3 million, following several acquisitions for shares. The full accounts also show a new item of "mastheads and other media licences" among non-current assets, at $150.5 million. These only related to acquisitions made during 1985-86, mainly the NSW former Consolidated Press papers and the Leader group. Group long-term liabilities have risen from $102.3 million to $111.9 million, while current liabilities are up from $122.7 million to $233.9 million. Investments have increased from $265 million to $365.4 million. Capital spending in the year lifted from $17.2 million to $41.9 million, and notes to the accounts disclose unchanged outstanding commitments for capital spending to September of $45.5 million. Directors said Herald Sun Travel returned a modest profit in its first full year of operation, despite the effect of a depreciated Australian dollar on the travel industry. In addition, directors said the 3DB antenna site, situated on about 30 hectares of land at Heidelberg, was being subdivided and developed. The development should be ready for the market in early 1987. During the year, the company sold 280,000 shares in FM radio station EON for $5.25 million, at a capital profit of 5.11 million. Small shareholdings in New Zealand News also were sold. Through the acquisition of Gordon and Gotch Ltd, the group has an effective 50 per cent share in Crawford Productions Holdings Pty Ltd. HWT also invested $200,000 more towards the $8.3 million already ploughed into the production of full-length Australian film and TV mini series. Directors said a good part of the funds invested last year was still to be realised. All productions are eligible for taxation concessions under Section 10BA. Dexenne Pty Ltd was formed as an equal joint investment venture with Queensland Press Ltd. To date, it has bought 1.78 million ordinary shares in Advertiser Newspapers Ltd and 48,596 shares in Davies Brothers Ltd. The purchase of Advertiser shares through Dexenne has lifted the*The HWT's relevant interest to 50.48 per cent, while the purchase of Davies Brothers shares lifted the group's relevant interest to 58.10 per cent. The group made a $68.15 million profit from the sale of the total 22.47 million Reuters B shares held by AAP Pty Ltd. AAP retains 13.89 million Reuters A shares, representing a 7.8 per cent voting interest in the company. In June, 1986, AAP revalued its holding of Reuter A shares at $94.8 million. The Herald group companies have a direct shareholding in AAP totalling 42.8 per cent. The Herald group also has a 39.9 per cent direct interest in AAP Information Services Pty Ltd. Among other investments, Automail Pty Ltd has bought Direct Marketing WA Pty Ltd to expand its mail handling capabilities into three states. Salmat Direct Marketing Pty Ltd continued its excellent growth in 1986, developing further its selective distribution system. Another investment, Australian Newsprint Mills, is continuing to study the future of all newsprint grades required in Australia. A18d The Sun News-Pictorial - 29 November 1986 19,500 own share stake THE Herald and Weekly Times had 19,500 shareholders, spread throughout every state in Australia, at September 30. But Industrial Equity Ltd, Advertiser Newspapers and Queensland Press all are substantial shareholders owning more than 10 per cent. The make up of the HWT share registry has been the subject of considerable speculation and a detailed breakdown shows 17,000 shareholders own 5000 or fewer shares. Fifty-one per cent of HWT shareholders have held their shares for more than 10 years. Further analysis reveals 9868 shareholders have between one and 1000 shares; 7344 have between 1001 and 5000 and 1368 hold between 5001 and 10,000. The chief executive, Mr John D'Arcy, holds 160,000 ordinary 50c shares paid to 1c and another executive director, Mr E.J.L. Turnbull, holds 125,000 1c-paid shares. In September 1986 the acquisition of the Leader Media Group was paid for by the issue of 4.85 million shares and cash payment. Directors said they considered it practical and prudent to acquire all Gordon & Gotch Ltd shares. A18e The Sun News-Pictorial - 29 November 1986 The Sun `shows the way' DIRECTORS of The Herald and Weekly Times said The Sun showed there was a strong future for newspapers. "We strongly believe in the future of newspapers, and plans are in place for future expansion," they said. "The best example of the continuing future of newspapers is The Sun. "By any criteria it is an amazing success story. An average daily circulation in excess of 550,000 makes it an institution in Melbourne and country towns throughout Victoria." Directors said The Sun was sold by 7500 newsagents and sub-agents and home-delivered before most people rose. They said all afternoon newspapers were facing the difficult task of finding answers to falling circulation. "Our policy is to establish The Herald as Melbourne's newspaper and this year under the theme `Your Town - Your Paper' new sections and features have been added," they said. "The Herald remains one of Australia's largest selling afternoon newspapers, and compares favorably in circulation with most morning newspapers." Directors said that in regional areas the HWT was well represented, with The Weekly Times continuing to sell more than 100,000 copies a week. The Geelong Advertiser, The Geelong News and The Bellarine Echo all made a major contribution to group profits, while the Bendigo Advertiser produced a record profit, despite the depressed rural economy. With the acquisition of the Leader group, the HWT also became the largest suburban newspaper publisher in Victoria. A18f The Sun News-Pictorial - 29 November 1986 Part-way on that privatisation path THE chief executive of Qantas, Mr John Menadue, has again endorsed at least some of the benefits of airline privatisation, but stopped short of urging it should happen in Australia. Mr Menadue was speaking yesterday at an industry forum in Sydney. He said the world's airlines made a combined profit after interest charges in 1985 on international scheduled services of about $US200 million, or about enough to buy a single new jumbo jet between them. This profit represented a return of only half of one per cent on revenue of nearly $US41 billion. "The airlines are making one to two per cent profit, where they need eight to nine per cent to finance investments and maintain a reasonable profit level," Mr Menadue said. A18g The Sun News-Pictorial - 29 November 1986 Tax chief reports THE bottom-of-the-harbor tax evasion era appeared to be over, according to the Tax Commissioner, Mr Boucher. He said in his 1985-86 report there were no obvious signs of artificial "paper" schemes being promoted during the year. As part of the bottom-of-the-harbor mop-up, $53.6 million in irrecoverable tax from company "strip" assessments was written off in 1985-86. A further $160 million was written off in irrecoverable penalties for strip company returns not lodged or lodged incorrectly. A18h The Sun News-Pictorial - 29 November 1986 Hooker: Larger market and higher profit in US SYDNEY - Mr George Herscu's Hooker Corp. Ltd yesterday blasted "anti-business" Federal Government policies and blamed them for forcing the company to expand overseas. Hooker executive director Mr Paul Carter, in a speech read at the annual meeting by company secretary Mr Harry Berkovic, said the US offered the company a larger market where it could achieve higher profit. Mr Carter's criticism follows similar attacks this week on the Federal Government's economic policies by Industrial Equity Ltd's Mr Ron Brierley and Coles Myer chairman Mr Bevan Bradbury. Mr Carter said in addition to the capital gains tax and fringe benefits tax, which were disincentives to investment, the Federal Government was adding imputation tax and the foreign tax credit system, all levied at the "exceedingly high" rate of 49 per cent. "Unfortunately, the aggregate effect has forced Hooker to direct further investment offshore," he said*ssid. "In striving to maximise its return on shareholders' funds, Hooker is obliged to consider this climate as it adjusts its policies for 1987 and beyond. "An increasing proportion of profit will come from our US operations, where substantially lower interest rates and tax burdens allow Hooker to achieve a reasonable return on investment. "We will continue to grow in Australia, but the rate offshore will be significantly greater." Mr Carter said Hooker hoped the high interest rates, taxes and increased business costs would fall. "But the rigid wage determination system. the tough work conditions imposed by union leaders and the apparent anti-business attitude of the Government make this unlikely," he said. Hooker's growing overseas involvement was not solely a reaction to the economic climate in Australia, but was part of a conscious fundamental policy of minimising risk through geographic diversification. The executive chairman, Mr Herscu, told the meeting that US assets had increased to 32 per cent from 28 per cent, and US profit had doubled to exceed $20 million for the first time. ?? A19 The Sun News-Pictorial 2009 words A19a The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 June 1986 Wire fence prospect to curb footy louts By STEHPEN MEESE and PETER SIMUNOVICH THE VFL might have to consider erecting wire barriers around football ovals if violence became commonplace, the Sport and Recreation Minister, Mr Trezise, said yesterday. Mr Trezise, commenting on Saturday's incident at Victoria Park, said loutish behavior had to be stopped before it became uncontrollable. "We must nip in the bud any trend that could see Australian sports crowds emulating the overseas situation, where on big sporting occasions special police and army riot squads and equipment are needed," he said. Mr Trezise said he would discuss the incident, which resulted in the arrest of six people, with the VFL commissioner, Mr Jack Hamilton, and the Police and Emergency Services Minister, Mr Mathews, today. Mr Hamilton said yesterday the incident was "in the hands of the police because no player was involved". "We are concerned about the crowd behavior, but the police will conduct an investigation thoroughly and efficiently," he said. Asked if grounds would be barricaded to prevent any further violence towards umpires, Mr Hamilton said: "Fortunately the incident is an isolated one. "I think football crowds are wonderfully behaved, especially when you get 130,000 going to games week in and week out. "I don't think we should label our crowds on one incident. "Personally, I wouldn't like to see barbed wire around the grounds, but we will have to monitor it. If it happens frequently then we will have to look at it." Mr Trezise said the Government shared the concern of the VFL and the 12 clubs on loutish behavior affecting innocent people and would help tackle the problem at any time. He said incidents in which sports crowds were prepared to inflict violence on umpires, players or officials simply because their team lost could not be condoned. More police might be needed at games to control outbreaks of violent behavior. "If violence became the norm, which I doubt, consideration would have to be given to putting up wire barriers around the arena," he said. Mr Trezise said he would regret seeing the installation of barriers to keep spectators off the ground. "I trust Saturday's occurrence was a rarity and merely a case of frustrated barrackers getting carried away by the example of a few ringleaders," he said. - Melbourne psychologist Dr Francis Macnab said it was not uncommon for people to behave violently when they thought they had been unjustly deprived of victory. People also often behaved differently in a crowd to what they would individually, he said. A19b The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 June 1986 Flare-up ugly and dangerous - police By JIM TENNISON POLICE described Saturday's strife at Victoria Park as some of the ugliest and most dangerous seen at a football ground. Four umpires were hit and jostled and two police injured when a near-riot erupted near the umpires' race moments after Collingwood's one-point loss to the Sydney Swans. The Sun's chief football writer, Peter Simunovich, was also attacked by three men outside the Swans' dressing room. Police said the situation got out of hand when the angry crowd surged forward and pushed two police horses together, leaving the field umpires in front of them and the boundary umpires behind. A man ran up to field umpire Shane McDonald, 23, and spat on his chest. The man was pulled away by ground staff but broke clear to strike umpire Peter Howe, 29, with a stiff-arm blow to the head. After viewing Channel 7 film of the incident, Sgt Wayne Miller of Collingwood police believes he has spotted the man responsible. He is appealing for help to identify the spectator. Sgt Miller suffered a dislocated finger during the melee. Sen. Sgt Ivan Smith was treated for cuts and bruising. Police said a West Sunshine man had been charged for striking boundary umpire Paul Nicholls, 33. He has been bailed to appear in court on July 8. The 22-year-old clerk was arrested immediately after the incident. Six people were charged with various offences, including being drunk. Sgt Miller said the man they are looking for was last seen going through the members' area. He was aged 25-30, was 177-180 cm tall, of slight build, with brown hair and a well-trimmed ginger beard. He was wearing a scarf and blue or grey jacket. "It was one of the ugliest incidents we have seen," Sgt Miller said. "There were blokes throwing half-full beer cans. They were certainly fired up." The Chief Commissioner, Mr Miller, said he expected a report on the incidents today. A19c The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 June 1986 Fans `acted like a lynch mob' A COLLINGWOOD cheer squad member yesterday said fans behaved like a lynch mob after the defeat by the Sydney Swans on Saturday. David, 15, of Altona, said he saw elderly women, men and children abuse umpires after the Swans' controversial one-point victory. He said three men punched one umpire and pushed around and spat on another, while disgruntled fans threw mud at a goal umpire. "I felt disgusted that this sort of thing could happen in football, but could see why they did it," he said. "The umpiring cost Collingwood the game." David who did not want his surname used, said he saw at least 1000 irate Collingwood fans converge on the ground after the game. "You could feel in the air that something was going to happen," he said. "It was like a lynching mob, a riot. Supporters came from everywhere. "I heard on the radio that only drunken louts were involved, but there were all sorts of people. "Old ladies, men and kids yelling at the umpires to `give us a go'." A19d The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 June 1986 It's snow glow for skiers SNOW skiing enthusiasts couldn't have wished for better conditions at the weekend. All resorts reported heavy falls. The resort manager at Mr Hotham said it was the best opening to the season for several years. "It is as close as you can get for perfect skiing this early," he said. Most resorts recorded falls of 50 cm or more. But accompanying the falls were sub-zero temperatures. Yesterday's maximum for Mt Buller was a chilly minus 3 degrees after the overnight low of minus 5.6 degrees. The weather bureau spokesman said more snow was likely over the next few days. Even Queenslanders shivered yesterday. In the southern interior towns of Stanthorpe, Warwick and Surat, the mercury dropped to minus 5. A19e The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 June 1986 Skiers face an uphill cost battle AS snow begins to fall, Victorians need to look at their bank accounts closely before considering weekends at the ski resorts. This year will not be cheap for ski enthusiasts. A day ticket at Mt Buller costs $28 for adults, a rise of $2 from last season, and $14 for children. Mt Hotham is charging $27 for adults and $11 for children, while Falls Creek day tickets cost $28 and $14 and those at Mt Buffalo are $13.50 and $7. A day's skiing at Mr Buller will cost about $90 - that is based on the approximate expense of a ski ticket, an $8 parking fee, about $15 for petrol, $7 for lunch, an average of $12 to hire skis, boots and poles and $20 deposit on the hire gear. It is possible to minimise expenses by sharing petrol and parking costs and taking your own lunch. If you are thinking of a weekend at a resort, consider the cost of accommodation, eating out, as a lot of lodges do not provide food, and two days' skiing and ski hire. The Alpine Resorts Commission has set up a permanent booking office at Mt Buller. The commission's agent on the mountain, Ms Merryn Wildschut, said bookings were taken for all commercial lodges and flats and for about eight smaller, private lodges. "The top price on our books for a bed for one night is $80 to $85, without breakfast," she said. "The price is a little less during the week, at $81, and for bed and breakfast accommodation the cost is $189 a weekend. "The private lodges range from $22 to $24 a night for bed only, to $102 for dinner, bed and breakfast." It is advisable to book early in the week, rather than arriving on the mountain and trying to get a bed. Travelling to the mountain by bus, which saves a lot of hassles, costs $47 return from Melbourne with Mansfield-Mt Buller Bus Lines. The cost of ski gear has risen about 15 to 20 per cent on last year. This is largely due to the fall of Australian dollar, according to Auski's clothing manageress, Ms Vicki Furniss. "Normally, you could expect a rise of between 5 and 10 per cent," she said. Skis will cost from $195 to $499 without bindings, depending on the quality and brand. Bindings are priced between $120 and $240 for racing, while boots range from $150 to $370. If you are looking to buy ski clothing, expect to pay about $165 for a shower and snow proof ski suit, or $135 to $300 for stretch pants or coveralls. A parka costs $200 to $420 for the fully waterproofed variety, while gloves are priced from $30 to $50 in leather and $50 to $100 for Gore-tex. If buying is too expensive, skiers should consider hiring equipment. The average daily hire cost for skis, boots, poles and clothing is about $25 to $30, compared with about $450 to buy for a beginner skier. Ms Furniss said enthusiasts wanting to hire skis could do so in Melbourne. "You order your skis here and pick them up on the mountain. It saves the hassle of carrying them up the mountain and trying to rent skis on a busy weekend. A19f The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 June 1986 Snow food for all tastes EATING out at Mt Buller this season will cost only about $1 more than last year. The mountain has 24 first-class restaurants and bars offering a variety of meals, from quick snacks for skiers on the go, to cosy, candlelit dinners. Hungry hordes will find hearty meals of pasta, homemade pastries, spit roast, seafood and Chinese. Anyone who has ever been to Mt Buller will have heard of, if not eaten at, the Abominable Snowman, known as the Abom. The Abom's strawberry pancakes are renowned throughout Australia and are always a highlight of a ski holiday feast. They will again be on the menu this year priced around $4, along with huge bowls of spaghetti for about $5. At the middle of the cost scale is Alpine Retreat on Sterling Rd. The restaurant is licensed and host Carl Mattern has been known to pour out more than his fair share of complimentary drinks. Son Danny said a three course meal would cost about $15 this year. Another popular restaurant, Breathtaker, will serve main dishes priced about $17.50. Breathtaker's food is always delightful and the restaurant oozes class. The Arlberg at the top of Bourke St has three eating areas - Nooky's spit grill restaurant, Albies and the bistro. Main meals will cost around $13. Albies is a sort of brasserie, with coffee and bagels for lunch and Albie cocktails and pancakes in the afternoon. Supper is served from 11 pm to 3 am. The Arlberg bistro is always jammed full at lunchtime. Meals are quick to go and prices won't break the bank. Hans Grimus, who runs the Pension Grimus, is a well-known identity. If you dine with him be sure to ask to try his "snuff." Main meals are priced around $14 at the Pension Grimus, with children's meals also available. A19g The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 June 1986 Taste of victory IT was a fairytale victory in anybody's books. The tiny northern Victorian town of Korong Vale had its first victory on Saturday afternoon after 63 consecutive losses in 3 1/2 years. The Vale beat Mitiamo, only one spot above it on the Loddon Valley League ladder, 12. 9-81 to 7.14-56. Mitiamo lost its match the previous week by 39 goals. Korong Vale players said before the match they had a full team and were confident of a win. "If we don't win today, there's no way we're ever going to win a match," one player said. ?? A20 The Sun News-Pictorial 2003 words A20a The Sun News-Pictorial - 22 November 1986 Melbourne Cup up for grabs - again SYDNEY - Frustrated punters and horse owners now have their chance to own a Melbourne Cup. The 1978 cup won by Arwon is up for sale. An advertisement in yesterday's Financial Review invited offers for the 18-carat gold cup. When Arwon (Nowra spelt backwards) won the Melbourne Cup he was owned by a syndicate whose members included Nowra fisherman Mr Jack Watson and Jack, Eric and Bob Doon, three brothers from Tumut. In 1984 the syndicate wound up and the Cup was bought by Mr Bob Doon for $18,000. The 13-year-old became a NSW mounted police horse after he left racing in 1982 with $370,000 stake winnings and now spends his time at a farm in Bendigo. A20b The Sun News-Pictorial - 22 November 1986 Brooklyn `fairy' packs a punch By BRUCE GUTHRIE in Los Angeles WHEN Mike Tyson was growing up in Brooklyn, the kids used to call him "little fairy boy" because of his painfully shy, almost effeminate ways. But they daren't call him that now. Tomorrow that "little fairy boy", now a massive fighting machine, is set to rewrite the record books by becoming the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in the history of the "sweet science". Tyson, 20, will fight 33-year-old Trevor Berbick for the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship at the Las Vegas Hilton about 2.30 pm (Melbourne time). Despite his youth and his challenger status, Tyson goes into the bout a 5-1 favorite to thwart Berbick's first defence of the crown he won from Pinklon Thomas in March. If, as many expect, Tyson takes the WBC title from Berbick, he will become the youngest heavyweight champ. That honor has long been held by Floyd Patterson, who achieved it five weeks before his 22nd birthday back in 1956. Tyson turned 20 on June 30. The story of Tyson's rise from impoverished child to delinquent youth to championship contender is an inspiring tale. There is a view in boxing circles the sport is only as good as its heavyweights. Given the paucity of class acts in the division, Tyson has been like a breath of fresh air for the sport since he turned pro in March 1985. In the ring he looks and is frighteningly efficient. There are no frills - his standard attire is black trunks and black, ankle-length shoes. He has been aptly likened to a hungry doberman. Tyson, although short for a heavyweight - about 1.8 metres - has a body like a tip-truck. Weighing in at 98 kg, his head, which in repose looks like a chunk of flesh, devoid of features, sits atop a 50cm neck. Most experts agree it will take some punch to snap it back towards the canvas. Tyson grew up the youngest of three children in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. He says he never knew his father and that his mother detested violence. Given her timid ways and that his earliest playmate was his sister and not his older brother, Tyson says he picked up some almost effeminate mannerisms. These brought some painful epithets from the tough kids of his neighborhood. "When I was younger, they used to call me `little fairy boy'," he said. "I was always gentle, really gentle." In time, Tyson learned to fight, especially when his mother, Lorna, moved the family to the even tougher Brownsville area of Brooklyn. Tyson has said he was forever being robbed by neighborhood youths. They'd also beat him up for good measure. But even 10-year-olds have their breaking point - and for Tyson it was when a tough tried to steal one of the pigeons he was raising near home. Tyson says he doesn't know what came over him but, almost effortlessly, he beat the living daylights out of the older would-be thief. Soon, Tyson says, he was fighting constantly. It was a way of being accepted by a neighborhood that had been so hostile to him. He fell in with the wrong crowd and was caught up in a world of petty and not-so-petty crime. Almost inevitably he found his way to a school for delinquent boys, the Tryon School in New York. When he arrived at age 13 he had the reading capacity of a third-grader and the attitude of a hardened criminal. He'd also broken his mother's heart. "My mother used to ask me, `How can you steal? I never stole anything in my life.' "I know she was embarrassed, because she had a lot of pride. "I was haunted and I just didn't care. I became so obnoxious." But the Tryon School wound up being Tyson's salvation for it was there he met one-time amateur boxing champion Bobby Stewart, who was working at the school as a counsellor/guard. Stewart worked with Tyson and soon saw the powerfully built kid's potential. At the same time, Tyson's other teachers at Tryon noticed a huge improvement in their student. At first, because of his hostility and limited abilities they suspected Tyson was retarded, but he made extraordinary progress. A former teacher, Robert Georgia, recalled: "Boxing was what interested Mike. He used to go to bed here every night with his boxing gloves. "When he came here Mike was real down. He was real quiet and mean. Then we saw a change in his personality - he came out of his shell." Boxing tutor Stewart acted on his hunch that he had a champion. He took Tyson, still only 13, to ageing trainer Cus D'Amato, who had trained Patterson to his title more than two decades before. D'Amato and an assistant, Kevin Rooney, now a Tyson trainer, watched as the manchild and Stewart sparred. "I said maybe this guy is lying about his age," Rooney said. "He was 13 but he had the body of a man. He sparred with Bobby and Bobby opened up on him. But Bobby told us, `This kid can punch like hell'." Six years later professional fighters would say much the same thing after being mauled by Tyson. Eddie Richardson, a heavyweight whom Tyson dispatched little more than a minute into the first round of their fight last year, was asked immediately after the bout if he'd ever been hit so hard. "Yeah," Richardson said. "About a year ago, when I was hit by a truck." D'Amato recalled he told Tyson at the end of that first day in his ring that if the boy behaved himself he'd teach him how to fight. "He (Tyson) didn't talk much then. He was very silent; he didn't trust anybody," D'Amato said. Twelve months on, the trainer became the 14-year-old Tyson's legal guardian. No longer were they boxer and trainer - more father and son. Tyson moved to D'Amato's sprawling Catskill home and learned the gospel of boxing, the 72-year-old man says. Tyson was a success as an amateur, but it is as a pro he has really made his mark. When he steps into the ring at the Hilton tomorrow he will have fought 27 times professionally. He has won 25 of those by knockout and the other two on 10-round decisions. Indeed, he was such a spectacular contender early on that within a year of turning pro the giant ABC television network had signed him to a $850,000 four-fight contract. He still lives at D'Amato's home in New York, and still keeps pigeons. He has a girlfriend and knows he can earn more in the ring than he could have earned by stealing. He often marvels at how far he has come in such a short time. After all, it was only seven years ago he was seemingly trapped on a short road to crime and punishment. Still, although his life has been one of triumph over adversity, there remains great sadness going into tomorrow's bout. Gone from his life are the two people who meant most to him, his mother Lorna and D'Amato. Mrs Tyson died of cancer in 1982; D'Amato from pneumonia last November. Tyson makes no secret of the fact the two losses have left a great hollowness in his young life. "I'm going to do well," he says matter-of-factly, "but when I come down to it, who really cares? I like doing my job, but I'm not happy being victorious. "I fight my heart out and give it my best, but when it's over, there's no Cus to tell me how I did, no mother to show my clippings to." A20c The Sun News-Pictorial - 22 November 1986 Jan's controversy on a par with her success By Michael Davis in Perth JAN STEPHENSON looked stylish enough in bright slacks and top as she breezed around Lake Karrinyup golf course. One might even have conceded she's reasonably well-preserved for 35 and not unattractive. But out on the fairways and around the greens, Jan neither looks or acts like the reputed sex kitten of international women's sport. This week, it's been the length of her birdie putts, not her skirt, that has had male members of the gallery ogling. And when called to the microphone to accept a gold medallion she won after teaming with Greg Norman in an international challenge match, she gushed cliches with the innocence of a girl-next-door. Yet only last weekend, Dunlop Slazenger released Jan's 1987 golf calendar pictures to Sunday papers across the country to coincide with her arrival. Jan flew into Sydney prepared for a feminist furore over the seven provocative poses but said: "While the guys want to see me, I guess I'll continue to take off my clothes for the camera." Last year she was in a poster impersonating Marilyn Monroe with the caption: "Play a round with me." The picture originally appeared in an LPGA magazine and caused a storm among fellow professionals. Former US Open champion Jane Blalock has been one of Jan's sternest critics. "I am totally opposed to what I call quasi-pornography being used to market our tour," Blalock said on a prime-time national TV interview in the US. "Is our organisation so desperate, so unaware of the real glamor and attraction staring it in the face, that it must resort to such trash?" Through the criticism, Jan, said to have a standing offer of $150,000 to pose for Penthouse, remains unmoved. The Balmain girl has learned to live with controversy since she was reprimanded by starchy Australian Ladies' Golf Union officials for wearing psychedelic panties under a mini-skirt when she was a teenager. Since she turned professional, Jan's personal life has resembled a TV "soapie." Yet through numerous personal crises she has played superb golf - winning a US Open, US PGA and becoming the first woman to break 200 for a 54-hole tournament. Four years ago a London newspaper asked: "Is Jan Stephenson a femme fatale, who drives men out of their minds with her sexual magneticism? "Or is Jan Stephenson, for all her education, looks and talent, a weak and embarrassingly insecure female, clearly influenced and manipulated by men for their own power and financial gain?" At the time she was the central figure in a bizarre tug-of-war between Eddie Vossler and Larry Kolb, who each claimed to be her husband. When Jan sought to have her two-month marriage to Kolb, then her manager, annulled he tried unsuccessfully to have her committed to a mental hospital. Kolb then gained a court order to freeze her assets, claiming Vossler had manipulated her. Kolb claimed Jan had become a "tiny caged bird". Eventually a judge ruled Jan could not be married to Kolb because under Texas law, she was already Vossler's common law wife. Jan's life story, Open Season, is said to be "in the pipeline". Her choice to play the lead in the film version of the book is Cheryl Ladd. It should be a box office hit but its*it's completion is not one of Jan's major goals at the moment. She's obsessed with improving her golf game. A fitness and health fanatic, Jan does aerobic exercises and swallows fists full of vitamin pills daily. "I want to be the most famous female athlete in the world," she said. ?? A21 The Sun News-Pictorial 2006 words A21a The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 September 1986 Footy star tells of lost $6000 FORMER VFL footballer Phil Carman lost his $6000 deposit on a frozen chicken and egg sales venture, the County Court was told yesterday. Carman, 35, a sub-contractor of Bendigo, said he agreed to buy the franchise in 1980 after reading an advertisement he could earn between $350 and $400 a week. He said he paid the deposit for what he believed was the sole Ferntree Gully franchise to sell Victoria Egg Board eggs. Robert Ashley Lewis, 42, of Minchinbury Drive, Vermont South, has pleaded not guilty to 41 counts of obtaining property by deception and two counts of attempting to obtain property by deception between January 1979 and September, 1983. The trial is not finished. A21b The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 September 1986 Tribute to a riding legend Motorcycling - Wayne Gregson KEN RUMBLE probably would have been embarrassed to hear what everyone has been saying about him this past week or so. But those who knew him were trying to find words to describe his phenomenal abilities on two-wheel machinery. Ken Rumble, 59, Australian motorcycle champion for many years, was buried last week after succumbing to a wasting illness. His friend and on-track competitor Hughie Hoare said there would hardly be a motorcycle club in the land which would fail to mark his passing. "I don't think there'll ever be another rider like him, or as good as him," he said. "He was the best all-rounder Australia has seen. "He raced and won on almost any sort of bike in any sort of motorcycle sport. "He even had a go at speedway, about one season if I remember correctly, but he said he could never come to grips with that wooden fence. He was a great slider." Ken Rumble began his peculiar motorcycle racing career soon after World War 2 and soon discovered he had an ability to go fast on virtually any motorcycle. He performed the seemingly impossible one year by picking up all the national scramble titles, 125cc, 250cc, 350cc and 500cc, on the famous 125cc Walsh BSA Bantam. "In one meeting which comes to mind" Hughie Hoare said, "he reckoned he was going to ride a road Manx Norton in a grass track meeting. We all laughed at that. It was outrageous to ride a Manx on the grass. "I mean, this was a pucka road racing bike. "But he turned up and wheeled the thing off the trailer. He'd put wide bars on it, grass-track tyres, speedway type footpegs. Sure enough, he was going to give it a go against all the grass track JAPs. "He won all the races he entered." After hanging up his solo road-racing leathers, Ken Rumble decided to race side-cars. His career ended only 10 years ago after a nasty side-car accident on the old Hume Weir circuit in which he badly injured a leg. He'd been racing - and winning - for 30 years. "Young people who never saw Ken Rumble ride have really missed out on something," Hughie said. "What made him so good, so long? I don't know. There seemed to be nothing he couldn't do. Perhaps it was bred into him. Who knows? "And you know, for all his success, he was a helluva nice guy as well." Someone once explained the difference between a good rider and a champion rider as follows: "A good rider will win on a good bike. A champion will win on anything. In which case Ken Rumble more than qualified. AUSTRALIA's largest annual historic motorcycle meeting will be held at Phillip Island on October 18-19. The meeting, which attracts more than 200 entries, some from overseas, includes classic (pre-1963) post-classic (1963-1972), solo and sidecar racing. There will also be static displays of antique motorcycles, a vintage parade, and a concourse d'elegance. A restored 1957 Triumph will be raffled and drawn on the Sunday. A TRIUMPH pageant will be held between 8 am and 1 pm on Saturday, October 25, as part of National Motorcycle Month. Motorcycles will gather in Elizabeth St between Lonsdale and LaTrobe Sts and then a parade will take them through the streets to Albert Park Lake. A21c The Sun News Pictorial - 23 September 1986 Penalty harsh - Games star CANBERRA - Outed Canberra swimmer Jody McGibbon believes she and Queenslander Brett Stocks were singled out by Australian swim officials for misbehavior at the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games. McGibbon, 17, who faces a 12-month suspension for drinking alcohol at the Games, said on Canberra's radio 2CA yesterday penalties meted out by Australian Swimming Inc. were too harsh. The swimmers were told of their suspensions at the weekend. Stocks' two-year ban for his part in using a courtesy car from the Games Village bars him from the '88 Seoul Olympics and could end his career. It is understood both can train but are ineligible for vital pre-Olympics meets. McGibbon said she was not aware of the full penalty for misbehavior when she left for the Games. "I signed a document saying that I wouldn't consume any alcohol, drugs and so on and I did," she said. "It has always been traditional that you all go out after and celebrate, but this year it has just been changed. "I had a few drinks after which was on the statement," she said. McGibbon will not know until October 1 if the ban will affect her Australian Institute of Sport scholarship. An AIS spokeswoman said a review of McGibbon's position was likely. A21d The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 September 1986 Council pans Sunday racing THE Melbourne City Council last night registered its opposition to this Sunday's race meeting at Moonee Valley and future Sunday racing. Cr Bill Gardiner, moving a motion against the meetings, said trotting at Moonee Valley caused Flemington and Essendon serious traffic congestion, affecting residents. He said Melbourne and Essendon councils had opposed the over-use of "a particular race track in Essendon". Cr Neil Cole said he opposed future consideration of Flemington race course for Sunday racing. Council passed a motion opposing next Sunday's meeting. - Neil Wilson A21e The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 September 1986 Mansell ahead LISBON: Briton Nigel Mansell romped to a convincing victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril yesterday and put himself within one race of the world drivers' championship. Title leader Mansell led unchallenged throughout in his Williams and was rewarded with a 10 point buffer at the head of the standings. World champion Alain Prost of France took advantage of a late spin by Piquet and a seemingly empty fuel tank suffered by Brazilian Ayrton Senna on the last lap, and squeezed home second in his McLaren. Piquet (Williams) and Senna (Lotus) finished third and fourth. Australian Alan Jones (Haas Lola) spun out of the race early on. A21f The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 September 1986 Grand prix ace to miss Hardie 1000 BRILLIANT young grand prix driver Gerhard Berger has scratched from Sunday week's James Hardie 1000. Berger's sponsor, Benetton, will not let the 26-year-old Austrian come to Australia, fearing the pressure of a trip Down Under for a long touring car race a week before the Mexican Grand Prix would be too much. He will be replaced in the Bob Jane T-Marts BMW by German touring car ace Dieter Quester. Quester is no stranger to the Bob Jane car - it's the same Schnitzer-prepared BMW he drove to victory in the world's toughest touring car race, the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour, a couple of months ago. At Bathurst he will share it with another top European BMW driver, Roberto Ravaglia of Italy. Ravaglia was rookie of the year at Bathurst last year with a second with Johnny Cecotto in a BMW. The Ravaglia-Quester car will retain its BMW colors, blue purple and red, instead of Bob Jane's familiar orange. A spokesman for the Bob Jane Corporation, which is running five cars at Bathurst, said Berger had confirmed he could not make it to Bathurst due to formula 1 commitments. Racing at Bathurst would have meant two Australian trips in three weeks for Berger who often races with Ravaglia in European touring car races. A21g The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 September 1986 A Gully merger warning Soccer by Peter Desira GREEN GULLY should consider a merger before it disappears into oblivion, according to George Cross president Alf Zahra. "Now that they have been relegated from the National League, it will take a lot of hard work to get the club back on the rails in the next year," Zahra said yesterday. "You only have to look at clubs that never recovered once they took the plunge - Mooroolbark is a prime example, sinking to the lower reaches of the VSF once it got knocked out of the NSL. "And the mighty sides of the '60s - Polonia and Ringwood City - have never been able to fight back to their former strength. "It wouldn't surprise me if a club like Green Gully moves to the verge of non-existence*non-existance within a year." Gully and George Cross have been arch rivals for 20 years mainly because they attract support largely from the Maltese community. Gully has the better facilities at Green Gully Reserve, while Cross has always had the bigger following and a merger between the two clubs has often been seen in soccer circles as the ideal solution for one stronger club. But intense rivalry has always put a stop to the possibility and the committees were put under pressure when talks were suggested two years ago. Zahra still believes it would be ideal but will not make approaches. "We made the initial move last time and were rudely told off, so it's now a situation of once bitten, twice shy. "However we remain the club prepared to listen, and if the few heads that there are at Green Gully use logic, I still believe that the linking up of the two clubs would be the ideal solution for us (the Maltese community) to become a force to be reckoned with not only in Victoria but throughout Australia." Green Gully has lost much of the drive it used to go from the lower reaches of the Victorian League to enter the NSL despite its poor support. The club needs a massive shake-up but has no ready-made replacement for Guy Spiteri, who has become disillusioned*dissillusioned with the soccer set-up and is determined to step down as president at the end of the season. Spiteri played down the situation and remained defiant despite Zahra's gloomy predictions. "The NSL clubs are still living in dreamland and the league cannot be a goer for much longer when the 24 clubs owe the league around $330,000," Spiteri said. "We'll just go back quietly to the State League and wait for all of the rest (the seven Melbourne NSL clubs) to come back. "Green Gully will win the State League next year just to get the opportunity of knocking back the invitation to join the NSL," Spiteri said. Runaway winner SCOTT FRASER is runaway winner as Green Gully's player of the year. Appeal date THE appeal against Brunswick Juventus developing the former Brunswick tip site into the club's home ground will be heard on November 5. The club wants to establish Clifton Park, now cluttered with rubbish and weeds, into a soccer stadium with grandstand, social club as well as having training grounds, a tennis court and bocce rinks. Juve has the support of the Planning and Environment Minister and the Brunswick council. A small protest group has claimed the area was promised as open public space. Juve administrators believe this appeal is the last avenue for the protesters*protestors and are hopeful the three-member appeal board will rule in favor of the club to enable work to start on the project early next year. Juve vice-president Domenic Tenuta hopes the club will take a big contingent of supporters to Adelaide this Sunday for the semi-final against Adelaide City. Buses will leave Melbourne at 1 am Sunday and return straight after the game. Cost $40 return; bookings through Tenuta on 383 2213. A21h The Sun News-Pictorial - 23 September 1986 QAFL syndicate fights for Brisbane licence SUPPORT among VFL clubs was growing for the Queensland Australian Football League's fight to gain the licence to operate a VFL team in Brisbane, QAFL president John Collins said yesterday. ?? A22 The Courier Mail 2013 words A22a The Courier Mail - 4 December 1986 He's my type of man, says Joh THE Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, last night said he liked and respected Mr Rupert Murdoch and complimented him on his Herald and Weekly Times takeover bid. Speaking from Weipa, Sir Joh said: "Mr Murdoch's a progressive man who has been known to myself for a long time. "We've always got on well and I'm sure we'll continue to do so. "He's a private-enterprise type of man and that's the type of man I respect." In Canberra, the Australan Journalists Association federal secretary, Mr Neal Swancott, said the bid, coming a week after the Federal Government announced new policies of cross-media ownership, was breathtaking in its arrogance. "It can be seen as a challenge to, and a defiance of, the Government," he said. A22b The Courier Mail - 4 December 1986 Conservatorium `bulging at the seams' on present site THE Queensland Conservatorium of Music wants to move to the Expo 88 site on Brisbane's South Bank after the exposition. The idea is the latest in Brisbane's great debate - what to do with the 40 ha of prime real estate after the six-month, $250 million Expo finishes on October 30, 1988. The Conservatorium acting director, Mr Max Olding, yesterday said a proposal had been put to the State Government mid-year but no answer had yet been received. He said the Conservatorium, now on the Queensland Institute of Technology campus, was bulging at the seams. A South Bank site next to the Cultural Centre would centralise the city's cultural activities. The Queensland Institute of Technology deputy director, Dr Tom Dixon, said the Federal and State Governments were sympathetic to the proposal, which would make room for 800 extra QIT students. There were no proposals to move QIT to the Expo site. A spokesman for the Premier's Department said it was too early to discuss whether the Conservatorium would relocate. The Expo Authority late last month called for worldwide expressions of interest, to be lodged by February 16 next year. The authority, the Brisbane City Council and the State Government will consider the submissions. The Expo chairman, Sir Llew Edwards, has said money is not the top priority in the post-Expo scheme. It was an opportunity to leave the greatest memorial to Brisbane, he said. Yesterday, suggestions ranged from a State zoo, a drama centre, convention centre and "realistic" proposals for a composite commercial, public space and residential development. A senior partner in real estate agents Hillier Parker, Mr Rod Samut, said the site was a valuation nightmare because it was not subject to town planning regulations. It was tentatively worth about $300 million but its value was dependent on what could be built there. "It is the most exclusive site in any capital city in Australia and it should be given back to the people," Mr Samut said. "Brisbane doesn't have a zoo. It would be marvellous site for perhaps a maritime zoo for our young kids to enjoy. "It would be a shame to fragment the central business district by having a commercial development on the site. "No one would propose another industrial development and there is not a strong market for high "medium-rise residential areas." The Performing Arts Complex director, Mr Tony Gould, said a drama centre on the site would complete Brisbane's magnificent cultural centre. He accepted that some commercial development was likely but hoped it would complement the complex. The Brisbane Development Association president, Mr Noel Robinson, said it was unrealistic to propose a zoo or to move educational institutions to the site. "Expo will want the best dollar value it can get and there would have to be a very good reason not to take the highest tender," he said. Mr Robinson said a likely result would be a mixture of commercial, open space and residential uses. The director of architect firm Conrad and Gargett Pty Ltd, Mr Elwyn Wyeth, said the site was ideal for an upmarket residential development, with about 20 percent devoted to commercial development. A22c The Courier Mail - 4 December 1986 Urgent talks called over shop protest AN URGENT State Industrial Commission conference today will try to avert a shop assistants' stopwork rally against Queensland's deregulated shopping hours trial. A meeting of 200 Queensland Shop Assistants Union Brisbane delegates representing more than 15,000 members yesterday voted unanimously to hold a protest rally in the Brisbane City Hall at 10 a.m. next Thursday. The Retailers Association later applied for a State Industrial Commission conference and planned to call the commission to direct the cancellation of any stoppages. The shop assistants' union State secretary, Mr John Hogg, said the rally would cause a staff shortage in Brisbane stores. The stoppage was the first action in the union's campaign against the one-month trial of unrestricted shopping hours starting on December 15. Mr Hogg said the normally conservative union was being forced to take action. "We are in boots-and-all to fight deregulation because of the State Government's ignorance," he said. Mr Hogg said a "constant stream" of members had told him they would resign if deregulated shopping was introduced. He accused the State Government of having no regard for the transport and safety of young people who would be made to work odd hours. The Retailers Association executive director, Mr Phil Naylor, said he believed the stopwork amounted to a strike. "If they are not at work, we consider they are on strike." He said the rally was "highly irresponsible and would affect many retailers who were trying to bolster sales during the Christmas period after a poor trading year. Mr Naylor said most retailers planned to follow the Business Owners and Managers Association recommendations of not opening on Sundays but trading on Saturday afternoons and one extra night a week. However, Myer planned to trade seven days a week from its Queen Street, Brisbane, Gold Coast Pacific Fair, Toowoomba and suburban Brisbane stores, he said. The Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation and two Brisbane international hotels yesterday said they believed extended trading hours would help Brisbane's international image. A Brisbane Sheraton spokesman said Americans used to 24-hour trading had commented on the lack of trading in the city. A Mayfair Crest Hotel spokesman said international guests would appreciate extended trading. The present shopping hours were not helping Brisbane's international reputation, he said. The Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation managing director, Mr Pat King, said yesterday many people in the tourist industry supported deregulated trading. The corporation itself supported deregulated trading hours, particularly in areas of high tourist traffic. Australia rated below average as an international destination for good shopping, partly because of restricted trading hours, he said. In Bundaberg, a meeting of about 80 percent of the city's retailers yesterday voted to work the trading hours set by the State Industrial Commission. A22d The Courier Mail - 4 December 1986 Sack fear ties hands: union SHOP assistants feared the sack for industrial action, a Shop Distributive and Allied Employees union organiser said yesterday. Ms Margaret Bennett said many were married women with children who had to support their families. "The boss will walk into the office and say anyone who goes to the protest rally is out," she said. One casual at Kmart, Toowomba, who declined to be named, said yesterday she lived 20km from work and could not get transport late at night or afford a late-night babysitter. "The employers aren't going to pay your taxi fare home like they do in the public service," she said. "I didn't tell my employer I was going to the union meeting today because they can sack casuals any time." She was not confident staff would back the union call to stop work for a mass rally next Thursday. "Even the permanents are afraid of losing their jobs, and the juniors are fresh out of school and won't speak up. "If we withdrew our labor, there's plenty of people on the dole or on school holidays who would step in." Ms Bennett said a permanent worker under 16 was paid $124.80 a week. "Many have said if they had to work odd hours they may as well go on the dole. "Single mothers may have to go on to supporting parent's benefits because they can't leave their children at night," she said. Another casual said she would be afraid to walk 300 m to her car alone after working late. Ms Bennett said: "The Government has not considered the effects of deregulation on ordinary people's lives. A22e The Courier Mail - 4 December 1986 CIA ran guerrilla war fund: report WASHINGTON - The United States Central Intelligence Agency ran a $500 million account in Switzerland to bankroll anti-communist guerrillas in at least three countries, a report said last night. The Washington Post said arms were purchased with the fund for anti-government forces in Angola, Moslem guerrillas in Afghanistan and Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Money in the account included profits from US arms sales to Iran. The report said the fund contained $US250 million (A$387 million) secretly appropriated by Congress to aid rebels fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan and an equal amount from Saudi Arabia which was used to buy Soviet, Chinese and other arms from dealers. Congressional investigators had found that the $US10-30 million (A$15-46 million) in profits from the Iranian operation was put into the same bank account. An administration source was quoted as saying the Swiss account supplied funds from which "the various accounts involving the Reagan doctrine are administered". The doctrine referred to is the President's policy of supporting insurgents battling communist governments in the Third World. The CIA is supposed to keep separate records of how the funds are disbursed but a Congressional source told the Post the agency was having trouble identifying separate accounts and military purchases. By law, the CIA is supposed to turn over any profits from sale of material to the US Treasury. The Swiss fund was administered by the CIA but had been monitored by the National Security Council deputy director, Mr Donald Fortier, who died earlier this year. Since Mr Fortier's death, the source said, the job was apparently handled by Marine Lt Col Oliver North, who was fired from his NSC job last week. The US Attorney-General, Mr Edwin Meese, has described North, now under questioning by the Senate intelligence committee, as the only person who knew precisely about the profits of the Iran arms sale and their diversion to the Contras. Members of Congress are questioning whether the diversion of funds to the Contras violated the Boland Amendment which prohibited the use of US finances for military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Meanwhile, Congressional leaders yesterday hailed President Reagan's move to appoint a special prosecutor over the Iran-Contras scandal. They said it was a first step towards resolving the political crisis engulfing his Administration. They also unanimously welcomed his appointment of Mr Frank Carlucci, 56, as the new National Security Adviser - the fifth during Mr Reagan's six years of office. A22f The Courier Mail - 4 December 1986 Eighth Rhine leak in a month WALDSHUT, West German. - About 2.5 tonnes of a packaging chemical leaked from a factory into the Rhine River yesterday. It was the eighth reported industrial accident along the river in a month. Officials said the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) leaked from the Lonza chemical factory in Waldshut in extreme south-western West Germany when a worker left a valve open. The spill was discovered when a resident noticed the Rhine turning shades of green and white for a kilometre downstream from the plant. Mr Lorenz Fischer, a spokesman for the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Environment Ministry in Stuttgart, said about 7 kg of the leaked substance had been in concentrated form and "relatively poisonous". But he said it was unlikely to endanger fish and plant life because it was lighter than water and would remain on the river's surface. Waldshut sits on the Rhine where the river forms the Swiss border. The town is about 60 km upstream from Basel, Switzerland, where a 30-tonne spill of industrial chemicals on November 1 contaminated long stretches of the Rhine downstream, mainly in West Germany. A22g The Courier Mail - 4 December 1986 France to snub UN vote FRANCE would not comply with a UN resolution on New Caledonia, the French Ambassador, Mr Claude de Kemoularia, told the United Nations yesterday. ?? A23 The Courier Mail 2001 words A23a The Courier Mail - 15 October 1986 Leaf shedding an odd characteristic J.M. of BUNDABERG, has young leopard trees growing on a property. About one-third dropped their old leaves and quickly made new growth, now the new leaves are falling. Why didn't the rest of the trees shed their leaves? This is an odd characteristic of leopard trees. I have seen trees shed their leaves three times in a year, sometimes within six weeks of new growth. The reasons are obscure - it is probably tied in with temperature changes or some other climatic factor. M.J.R. of SUNNYBANK HILLS, submitted for diagnosis a disease troubling the skin of a bisexual papaw which was badly scarred. The leaves have shrivelled. Lime Sulphur spray has been used. The damage is the result of a powdery mildew fungus infection. Lime sulphur, if used as regularly as stated, should have controlled the disease. Powdery mildew is a winter disease. In future use only wettable sulphur sprays as lime sulphur can damage plants under the local warm growing conditions. N.B. of MOOROOKA, asked why lima bean leaves were yellowing and falling. Sight unseen it is difficult to diagnose accurately. It could be overwatering, however I would expect the vines also to be affected and begin to collapse. V.P.F. of PALM BEACH, is concerned by the lack of worms in the garden despite using compost. The site has been filled with sand. No matter how much compost or other organic matter is used, the only way to ensure worms is to put some into the soil. They will quickly multiply if the organic matter is there to support them. Try to obtain some from someone else's garden or buy some from a commercial worm farm. Sonwise Worms, Box 68, Esk 4312 sell worms at $17 per 1000, postage paid. By the end of one year they should have multiplied to at least 40,000, if soil conditions suit. H.McF, of ISLE OF CAPRI, recently visited Toowoomba gardens where three plants attracted attention: (1) a white flowering shrub, (2) a yellow to orange-flowered annual, (3) a plant called blue pacific. Samples of 1 and 2 were submitted. (1) is double white may, Spiraea cantonensis flore plene, often called C. reevesiana. (2) is Californian poppy, Eschscholzia californica, extremely useful for trailing over terrace walls. It must be grown in full sun and have good soil drainage. (3) I suggest blue pacific may apply to a deep blue flowered form of Rosmarinus officinalis, the rosemary. To improve your soil, incorporate copious amounts of leaf compost and use light applications of a complete fertilizer formula frequently. This should be standard procedure for all pump-filled areas which have been topped with a thin layer of soil. G.H. of TARINGA, has two problems with garden plants. A Eugenia has pockmarked foliage and potted ferns and coleus are slowly dying. The soil in the pots is heavily infested by small ant-like insects. The Eugenia Australis, or as it is now known Syzygium australis, scrub cherry or lillipilli, is troubled by a small wasp which stings the leaf to lay eggs. Small galls and depressions result. The species in question is rather prone to attack, I doubt if much can be done to control it. You could try spraying young foliage with Diazinon. You may have ants in the pots, they farm out root aphids and mealy bugs on the root systems. These pests quickly debilitate the plants, also the tunnelling by the ants causes excess aeration which in turn dries up the root hairs. This action alone can kill plants. Water the soil with a solution of Diazonin at spray strength. This will dispel the offender, even if it is not an ant. L.P. of MARYBOROUGH, sent foliage of a tomato bush which was curled, distorted and had a rusty and silvery sheen. The condition is due to mite damage. Dispose of all badly affected plants in future. Spray young plants regularly with a miticide, such as Kelthane, Rogor or Wettable Sulphur. M.A. of CLEVELAND, has noted two plants in a batch of 50 gerberas are producing green flowers. On one plant the flower is partially deformed. The condition is most likely due to infection by a virus, for which there is no cure. Remove the problem plants and dispose of them in the garbage bin. Spray the rest regularly with an insecticide to control sap sucking insects, such as aphids and thrips, as these carry the virus. J.A. of BURLEIGH, asks for recommendations for two plants suitable for growing in tubs on a balcony facing the sea. The best plant I know for such a position is the variegated form of Metrosideros excelsa or New Zealand Christmas bush. Clip twice a year to keep it compact, and give the tub a quarter turn each month so light does not unbalance growth. This should ensure you have good plants. A matching pair is advised. FREQUENTLY readers request advice on how to establish a good lawn. At this time of the year many new lawns are laid down. Quite a number will end up looking very ordinary, simply because the approach to laying the turf was: "It will be OK, it's only grass." If the laying techniques are slipshod it may take years to get the lawn to a good standard The area to receive the turf should be level in accord with the natural fall of the land. A thin layer of fine sand is spread evenly over the site to enable the roots to bed in. Each row of turf is closely butted against the other, and fine sand placed in any crevices. Each row is firmed down with the back of a spade or tamper. The newly-laid turf must be well watered and kept evenly moistened until it has established. Mowing is not advised sooner than three weeks after laying, as it could cause lifting. The first mowing should be higher than normally acceptable, just to tidy up the growth. Mowing settings are progressively reduced until the turf has reached the height suitable for sound management and good presentation. A23b The Courier Mail - 15 October 1986 Myth and fable alive and well on the Australian wine scene WINE, because its history extends for thousands of years, has always been a subject for fables, myths and traditions. Until that illustrious French scientist, Louis Pasteur, established the basic nature of the fermentation process, the wine lover had an almost mystical view of wine. Many still do. Although much of the fable and myth has gone, there are probably hundreds of mistaken beliefs that are held by some wine drinkers. Many of these myths have a basis in truth, but the oenologist or viticulturist now has the tools at his or her disposal to remove the agreeable romanticism and establish the facts. There is a widespread belief in the Australian wine-drinking community that all dry red wines improve with age and all dry white wines should be consumed within weeks or months of purchase. There must be millions of bottles of dry red wine stored in cellars, garages, under houses and in cupboards that would have been better drunk the day purchased. Equally, many fine Australian chardonnays, semillons and rhine rieslings would benefit from some years in the cellar. Whether a wine will improve with keeping depends on its acidity, pH, alcohol level, tannin and a number of other factors. Ask the winemaker! For many years the red wines of the Hunter Valley made from shiraz (sometimes called hermitage) grapes were described as having a character known as "sweaty saddle". This odor is now known to be caused by the presence of hydrogen sulphide, or worse still its chemical successors, mercaptans*mercaptanns and disulphides. The character is, in fact, a major wine fault and Hunter winemakers are now rarely guilty in this regard. Wine drinkers however continue to talk about this "desirable" quality. This fault is related to the view that all red wines should "breathe". A century ago custom decreed the wine was opened some hours before drinking and then decanted. This, it was said, removed the "bottle stink". It did in fact allow the worst of the hydrogen sulphide fault to disappear. There are some modern red wines that improve after opening because they have been so carefully protected from oxygen that they are "dumb" and need a little time in contact with the air. A relatively modern myth surrounding red wine is: "The histamines in the wine cause headaches." This fallacious concept was laid to rest some years ago but it can be confidently asserted that whatever causes the headache it is not large amounts of histamine. Gil Wahlquist of Botobalar Vineyards, Mudgee, puts it well: "They complain about the headache from the bottle of red wine forgetting that they drank three bottles of white wine before it." Another myth, this time a viticultural one, is that there is some real difference between wines in Australia labelled traminer and gewurtztraminer*gerwurtztraminer. To our knowledge no commercial Australian wine has been made from traminer. The traminer, correctly named sauvignon*savignon blanc (not to be confused with sauvignon blanc) no longer exists in Alsace, the great gewurtztraminer*gerwurtztraminer region. All the traminers and gewurtztraminers*gerwurtztraminers in Australia are from the same grape. However if that great and knowledgeable patriarch*patriach of the Hunter, Murray Tyrrell*Tyrell, can continue to label chardonnay wines, we say incorrectly, as pinot chardonnay, then the traminer confusion is a minor sin. Other myths that plague the seller of wine include the confusion between "fruit" and "sweetness", the mystical relationship between soil and quality to the exclusion of climate and the belief that corks "breathe". (If they did all our wines would be oxidised). AN INTERESTING selection of wines is available for tasting at the spring wine festival being held at Stewart's Springwood Hotel tonight between 6 and 8 p.m. This is the last of three opportunities for winelovers to sample 156 wines from 20 wine companies. A VISIT to the Granite Belt at this time of year will enable the interested wine lover to see the vines just after the point in the growth cycle known as bud-burst. This occurred for the earlier varieties such as pinot noir and chardonnay in the last week in September, and should occur this week for late varieties such as cabernet sauvignon and merlot. A23c The Courier Mail - 15 October 1986 Bubbly adds sparkle to a vintage event ONE of the glamor events of the Queensland bridge calendar, the Dunhill October Congress, will be held by the Duplicate Bridge Club in Brisbane this weekend. The Dunhill accommodates all those basic elements which give a congress polish and sparkle - an excellent venue at Doomben Racecourse, immaculate organisation and impeccable direction. More, there is generous sponsorship and a champagne lunch. If you had any bridge doubts about the coming weekend, resolve them and play in the Dunhill - congress inquiries: 262 6189. The Dunhill seems to be one of those congresses where I consistently do the wrong thing and my best effort in four attempts has been a somewhat jaded fourth. In keeping with my do-the-wrong-thing warm-up I have been helping opponents to some rewarding contracts in recent congresses. Dealer South. All vul. Ross Dick opened the West hand with a strong no trump, and the bidding quickly established a five-three spade fit. Keith McDonald, in the East seat, pushed the slam boat out with a bid of four no trumps and I enthusiastically doubled with a five heart two ace reply. If there had been any doubts about the likely slam these were now quickly resolved for it was unlikely that West would have any wasted values for the spade slam. Keith bid a confident six spades. The heart lead was ruffed, three rounds of trumps drawn and the only loser was a club to South's jack. Indeed after two top trumps had revealed the friendly three-two break in trumps, declarer could have made all 13 tricks by playing on clubs and ruffing the fourth round as the South hand holds four clubs and the outstanding trump. A23d The Courier Mail - 15 October 1986 A pub tradition that grew ?? A24 The Daily Sun 2026 words A24a The Daily Sun - 25 November 1986 PILGRIM OF PEACE Pope's Aussie welcome THE pilgrim of peace, Pope John Paul II, was given a people's welcome to Australia yesterday. It was a welcome of cheers, prayers, sun hats and Eskies - a relaxed start to the Pope's 6 1/2-day tour of Australia. The crowd of 1500 at Fairbairn Air Base in Canberra and the 80,000 who waited for hours for an open air Mass were many more than those who greeted the Pontiff in New Zealand during the weekend. However, the numbers were still a little below expectations of the Papal tour organisers. But the welcome was as warm as the sunshine in Canberra and the 66-year-old Pontiff responded to it. The Pope arrives in Brisbane this morning. Last night he delivered a speech at Parliament House in Canberra in which he called for "appropriate disarmament". When he went walkabout yesterday at the Fairbairn Air Base where his Air New Zealand jet landed, the excitement was evident. The Pope knows how to win a crowd. He moved slowly, kissing, touching and blessing those lucky enough to be close to the barrier, touching even the smallest child, ignoring no one, though barely speaking. For a man who is the subject of intense scrutiny from the world press, the Pontiff hardly seems to notice the attention he attracts. The banners bore the Pope's personal motto, Totus tuus (Latin for All Yours). And he was. While the Latin words were on the banners, it was very much an Australian occasion. It wouldn't have been a surprise if the Pope had been greeted with a friendly "G'day". While the use of Latin was a*an slightly incongruous touch, it set the tone for a day in which the centuries-old rituals of the Catholic Church were played out under a blazing Australian sun. Incongruity at the air base when the man of peace was given a full military welcome. Incongruity at the National Exhibition Centre where the solemnity of the mass was offset by a deck chair and sun hat crowd. It was almost as if the Australian church was making sure that, while its head may reside 16,000km away in the Vatican, when in Australia he must do as the Australians do. When he stepped from the aircraft to the tarmac he continued his tradition of going on his knees to kiss the ground. The incongruity started even then when this successor of St Peter, dressed in a heavy white cassock reaching out to the faithful on an airforce base which even potted pines and a red carpet could not soften. Welcomed by Governor General Sir Ninian and Lady Stephen, the Prime Minister and Mrs Hawke and church leaders, the Pontiff told Australians in a 20-minute speech he had come as a pilgrim and a friend. As a friend he urged people to direct their hearts to God, to find the full explanation of human dignity; as a pilgrim he was on a journey as an act of religious devotion. Then came another touch of unreality over the massive security which surrounds him. The head of Vatican security, Mr Cibin Camilla, may look a little like a nightclub bouncer, and the security men are certainly ever present, but when the Pope gets into his bulletproof Popemobile he drives off with the side window open. The Pope left the air base in his bullet-proof Popemobile to conduct an open air Mass at the National Exhibition Centre. En route he drove past hundreds of supporters gathered at traffic intersections. Before conducting the Mass, the Pontiff changed into the special vestments required in a very suburban mobile home brought in for the occasion. During the special Mass the Pope likened the sufferings of Christ to the pioneering efforts of early Australians. Earlier, at the Fairbairn air base, the Pope delivered his first speech in Australia spelling out his message of friendship. Telling Australians we are a people of undoubted goodwill, he said: "I come as a friend; to urge you to pursue your lives all those values worthy of a human person; to encourage you to be open hearted, generous to the unfortunate and caring towards those who are pushed to the margins of life. "Many of you follow Him in discipleship and still others of you revere His teachings. But whether or not you profess faith in Jesus Christ, or talk about this faith with the language I use, I ask you to consider the profound truth of the Fatherhood of God and the unity of all men and women and children of God. "I ask you to reflect on what the world could be if people everywhere acknowledged these truths and lived their lives in accordance with them." Reflecting on what we can do to help each other at home and abroad, he said: "We were made - all of us - for life and for love. We need mutual encouragement and support. In the loving providence of God our Father, the world is meant to provide a home for the whole human family; there is room for everyone to live and there can be sustenance for all. And everyone has the right to pursue his or her destiny with dignity, and to share in the good things that God has made available to His children." For Australia's estimated 3.8 million Catholics, his arrival marked only the second Papal visit in Australia's history. But the 1970 Sydney visit of Pope Paul VI is likely to pale beside the current tour. A24b The Daily Sun - 25 November 1986 Ceremony marks message THE world needed people prepared to sacrifice themselves for others, rather than sacrifice others for a cause, His Holiness Pope John Paul II told the nation's leaders last night before lighting a candle for peace. In the strongest and most topical of his three speeches since arriving in Australia, the Pope stressed the theme of his visit - peace in the world - and asserted the dignity and rights of individuals. He commended Australia for being a tolerant and pluralistic society but warned: "Justified pluralism is not to be confused with neutrality on human values. In a heavily political speech, he called for "appropriate disarmament", made a strong reference to the value of a separate Catholic education system and delivered a broad hint on abortion. Speaking in Kings Hall at Parliament House for a special peace ceremony, Pope John Paul II called on politicians to guard the right to religious freedom and the dignity of the human person. "As you know, the principle of the inviolable dignity of all human beings is an even higher principle in a democratic State than majority opinion. "Indeed, all democracies will eventually succeed or fail to the extent that they truly guard and promote the human rights of all, including minorities." The Pope said the number of Catholics in Australia and their presence in almost all areas of Australian life were an example of how religious freedom, fundamental among freedoms, was respected here. "I pray that you will always ... be ever vigilant in defending the very foundation of this right and every human right which is and will for ever be the dignity of the human person," he said. The challenge*challege was immense, His Holiness said, to promote a just society to defend the weak and vulnerable, to eliminate racism and other discrimination, to protect and assist the family, to find work for the unemployed and to help all those in need. Australia had in the past been generous to the less fortunate of the world, had taken a great influx of immigrants and accepted refugees, he said. The Pope touched briefly on one of the most contentious issues facing Australian society, and Catholicism in particular - fertility control - saying the only strong bases for civilisation were reverence for human life from the moment of conception and through every stage of life. He said he hoped all Catholics and all other citizens would ensure that nothing would be done by the legislature that would undermine those rights and values. At the very foundation of peace were the two areas of defence of human rights and efforts for the development of peoples. "As long as these elements are missing at any level, peace is imperfect and world peace is imperilled," the Pope said. His Holiness then lit a two metre-high Candle of Peace in Kings Hall and offered a prayer for peace. The Parliament House reception was the final event in a hectic day in which the Pope had flown from New Zealand, celebrated Mass for more than 100,000 people at the National Exhibition Centre in Canberra and met Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen and Lady Stephen at Government House. A24c The Daily Sun - 25 November 1986 Uniform theft sparks police alert STOLEN police uniforms and a rifle may be used in an armed holdup while attention is focussed on today's Papal visit, police warned yesterday. Two police shirts, a cap and a .22 rifle were stolen from the Banyo police station on Sunday night. Nundah detectives believe the uniforms may be used by bandits to impersonate police officers. A spokesman said the culprits may attempt the robbery while the majority of police are on security duty for Papal tour. But police do not expect the stolen uniforms to pose a security risk for the visit. The rifle, which did not have a firing mechanism, was not police issue. A24d The Daily Sun - 25 November 1986 Security shake-up as new Popemobile breaks A back-up bulletproof car will be included in the Papal procession through Brisbane after the "indestructible" Popemobile broke down during a rehearsal yesterday. The custom-built Popemobile threw a security scare into tour organisers when its transmission failed during the rehearsal at QEII stadium. But the police commander for Pope John Paul II's visit, Assistant Commissioner Ron Redmond, said it was fortunate the problem had surfaced. "This eventuality had been foreseen and a reserve bulletproof vehicle will be in the escort in case the Popemobile breaks down," Mr Redmond said. "Mechanics have rectified the problem and the Popemobile should see out the entire Brisbane tour." A massive police security operation, which includes a crack anti-terrorist squad, swung into action yesterday in readiness for the Pope's whirlwind visit. Queensland police polished security arrangements by travelling the Pope's route with the Popemobile, police escorts and RAAF surveillance helicopters. The Popemobile's transmission failed after the three-tonne vehicle had done a lap of the QEII stadium. A police spokesman said Sunday's Turkish consulate bombing in Melbourne had not affected security arrangements. "At this stage, the bombing has nothing to do with the Papal visit and as security levels are very high, every reasonable precaution has been taken," he said. More than 800 police, including undercover officers who will mingle with Pope-watchers, will be responsible for crowd control at Brisbane Airport and along the route to QEII and the City Hall. One of the most worrying security aspects will be the Pope's blessing of Brisbane from the City Hall balcony. Mr Redmond has said: "The high-rises around the City Hall are a worry and situations like that, when the Pope is out of his vehicle, will be covered with the necessary weapons." More than 140,000 people are expected to see the Pope during his packed six-hour visit. Public transport arrangements are the biggest for an event in Queensland, with 22 extra train services and 200 buses at the ready. Transport Minister Mr Lane and Lord Mayor Ald Atkinson have asked people to use public transport. Education Minister Mr Powell has stressed that today is not a school holiday. But parents have the option of sending their children to school. A24e The Daily Sun - 25 November 1986 Inner suburban values soar up to 200pc By Brett McCarthy SOME Brisbane inner-suburban residents may face a large rates jump in the wake of 200 to 250 per cent valuation increases. Valuation Minister Mr Muntz released 185,000 of the 250,000 revaluations yesterday. He said the increased demand and popularity of Paddington, Red Hill and Kelvin Grove had increased values in those areas by up to 250 per cent. Since the last valuation in 1979, he said, the market for residential land had been generally flat, but land prices had risen considerably since 1979 - particularly in the early 1980s. ?? A25 Telegraph 2002 words A25a Telegraph - 1 October 1986 Royal staff `moonlight' LONDON (AAP): Staff at Buckingham Palace and other royal homes regularly "moonlight" in their spare time with the agreement of the Royal Family, it was disclosed today. A palace spokesman said: "Staff have permission to take extra jobs. What they do in their own time is their business." He was commenting on a report in today's Daily Mirror which said Prince Charles' $462-a-week butler, Harold Brown, could be employed for private parties for $69.22. The newspaper said he could be hired - preferably for cash - by ringing Kensington Palace. A25b Telegraph - 1 October 1986 Case of Misdirected Prayers MOSQUE OFF LINE LONDON (AAP): The first mosque built in Rome is claimed to be five degrees off beam and facing Tel Aviv instead of Mecca. The story was broken by the Italian magazine Europeo, which is being sued for libel by architect Paolo Portoghese. Portoghese claims there is no problem, but Europeo is standing by its story. The Muslim League, which represents all Arab nations in Rome and is paying $59.39 million to have the mosque built, launched an inquiry today. Given the speed that things are done in Italy, the inquiry probably will take up to four months to complete. Plans for the mosque were drawn up in 1976, but controversy over the design caused a long delay. Changes eventually were made and work began two years ago. Now, the marble building is half finished. The mosque is being built on a slope and that is reported to be the reason why it is off line. A25c Telegraph - 1 October 1986 Double killer `still in area' By Warren Gibbs Police believe the Logan Reserve double murderer has gone to ground in the area of his brutal attacks. Officer-in-charge Det. Sgt Neil Conway said today inquiries interstate revealed nothing to indicate the man has fled Queensland. The killer, described as a*an "frenzied maniac", was capable of killing at anytime, and police warned of the dangers of harboring the man. "He is callous murderer who has nothing to lose by killing again," Det.Sgt Conway said. Det. Sgt Conway said inquiries were being centred on Brisbane's southside, extending to the Gold Coast. Detectives have received more than 750 tip-offs from the public, but are appealing for anyone with information to contact Beenleigh CIB. A25d Telegraph - 1 October 1986 Skylark at skyscraper By KESTER VAN AS The Riverside Centre opened to the public today, with a special breakfast for new tenants, Brisbane service clubs and ferry passengers. As part of the morning celebrations, a street theatre band sang and danced its way through more than 200 onlookers, as a hot air balloon hovered. Later, people were treated to a display by a team of 12 parachutists and a waterski show on the Brisbane River. Interstate architects are expected at the celebrations to see Brisbane's tallest building, which is rated as one of the most technically advanced in Australia. The 147m tower contains Brisbane's state-of-the-art stock exchange, which began operations in August after 20 years at Network House in Queen Street. The centre also has Brisbane's latest "eateries", including Michael's Restaurant and its $1 million wine cellar. On Sunday, the Great Ferry Boat Race starts at 11.30am from the Regatta Hotel, Toowong, and finishes at the Riverside Centre. Celebrations continue through to October 11, when they will end in a fireworks display. The official opening will take place in February next year. A25e Telegraph - 1 October 1986 CROC VICTIM GENTLE MAN - MOTHER By Neil Doorley The mother of a Queensland man, who was taken by a crocodile in the Gulf of Carpentaria, said today: "No one deserves to die like that. "What happened to my son was dreadful. He was such a gentle, caring person." Mrs Elaine Whereat, 68, of Bundaberg, yesterday identified the man taken by a 4.5m crocodile as he slept on a river bank at Rocky Creek Landing, Borrooloola, about 700km south-east of Darwin, on September 7, as her son, Edward Jeffrey Whereat, 39. Darwin police had been trying to contact relatives, and released photographs of Mr Whereat to newspapers "as a last resort". Mr Whereat, whose remains were found in the crocodile two days after he disappeared, travelled under four different names, but commonly was known as Lee McLeod. His legs were found 100m from where he was attacked. Mrs Whereat, a pensioner, said her son's remains probably would be buried in the Northern Territory this week. She and her son and daughter could not afford to attend the funeral. "I hadn't seen Edward for 14 years when I found this had happened," Mrs Whereat said. She recognised a photograph of her son in a morning newspaper. A25f Telegraph - 1 October 1986 Parson trial stalls LONDON (AAP): A worldwide hunt for a missing witness brought an abrupt halt to the trial of a self-styled international evangelist accused of drugging and raping devout young Christian virgins in his flock. Discharging an Old Bailey jury of nine men and three women who have spent the last two weeks hearing the alleged victims give evidence against the 57-year old South African-born preacher, Judge Nina Lowry said: "It's no-one's fault." She explained that despite "intensive inquiries" a witness wanted by the defence had not been found. But there were hopes she could be located within the next*new few weeks. She told the jury: "I can't keep you waiting here for a few weeks. The defence have applied for more time for justice to be done, they shall have that opportunity." "Time and money have been spent which is regrettable, and will have to be again. It's no-one's fault, but I can't risk the defence being disadvantaged. I reluctantly have to discharge you from giving verdicts in this case." The aborted trial is thought to have cost more than $115,400 including the expenses of two witnesses flown from Australia. A new trial is expected to start in January. Prosecution have alleged that while on an evangelical crusade in Queensland, the preacher drugged a 14-year old schoolgirl and, while pretending to pray at her bedside, put his hands under the blankets and indecently assaulted her. Also that he raped her at her outback home while her parents slept. A25g Telegraph - 1 October 1986 Paris terror toll climbs to 10 dead PARIS (AAP): The death toll in the September wave of terrorist attacks has risen to 10, with the death of a young woman wounded in the bombing of a discount clothing store on September 17. Police said the bomb-thrower had been identified from photographs as Emile Abdallah, a brother of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah who is one of three Middle East terrorists whose freedom has been demanded by the group claiming responsibility for the bombings. Emile and three other Abdallah brothers, also sought by French authorities, have told reporters they have not left Lebanon in recent months and had nothing to do with the bombings. A25h Telegraph 1 October 1986 Pilot `may have been asleep' SYDNEY: A pilot on a flight from Sydney to Brisbane may have fallen asleep behind the controls, aviation authorities believe. The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation has begun an inquiry into the mid-air incident. The pilot was commanding a freight operations flight to Brisbane on Monday morning but shortly before touching down failed to report his position to airport control. "We don't really know what happened up there," a spokesman, Mr John Death, said today. "We are fully aware of the incident and have begun a thorough investigation. "For some reason the pilot failed to report his position but there was no actual danger involved." The pilot, who landed the plane without incident, has been grounded while the investigation is carried out. Airline authorities believe he may have experienced a technical breakdown, but have not ruled out the possibility he could have fallen asleep at the controls. A25i Telegraph - 1 October 1986 Bandits threaten staff Two bandits terrorised staff and customers of a building society with a large pistol, or sawn-off shotgun, in a robbery at the Indooroopilly Shoppingtown today. The robbery at the Metropolitan Building Society was at 11.40am. Police said one of the men wore a green check shirt and grey jeans. He was in his 20s, and had a droopy moustache. The other bandit, in his mid-20s, wore a yellow shirt and blue jeans. He had long, brown hair and also had a droopy moustache. Police were hunting the pair. A25j Telegraph - 1 October 1986 Warning on PIN code safeguards By Deirdre Williams A warning that bank customers should not keep their PIN code to automatic teller machines with their cash card has been issued by Consuming Interest, the quarterly journal of the Australian Consumers Association. It seems about 50 percent of customers keep their code number, often disguised as a telephone number, with their card. The publication said banks might consider this practice to be a breach of conditions of use. The customer could be left liable for unauthorised use of the card. Difficulties with security of PINs (personal identification numbers) was just one of the problems related to electronic funds transfer systems, which were highlighted in a recent ACA survey. The survey showed that many consumers had suffered financial loss or inconvenience due to EFTS. Other problems included errors and account statement inaccuracies; "phantom" or unauthorised transactions; outright fraud; and mistakes in the amount of cash disbursed from electronic terminals. Consuming Interest described cases where consumers had found their accounts debited twice for the same purchase, or discovered transactions caused by someone else being issued with an identical card. One consumer had two separate withdrawal transactions for $100 disrupted with no money received, but the account was debited for the $200 and it took six months and a written complaint to get the account rectified. Other cases involved excessively delayed transfer of funds, with one person's wages remaining inaccessible for six weeks. "These problems result from accounting procedures whereby transaction requests are recorded without verification that the cash was dispensed, or the account credited," the magazine said. It said the system appeared designed to protect the financial institution - while the consumer bore the risks. The Australian Consumer Association has called on the Federal Government to make urgent reforms. The association wants legislation to ensure uniform codes of practice and rights and responsibilities of all parties clearly specified; better advice to consumers on methods of securing the PIN code, with all consumer liability or losses ending automatically once the card has been reported lost or stolen; and a formal system of investigating errors. The association also is pressing for the establishment of a tribunal to resolve any disputes. A25k Telegraph - 1 October 1986 10 hurt in ferry mishap From Neil Evans in Sydney Ten people were injured - two seriously - when a ferry crashed into a wharf on Sydney Harbor today. The modern government ferry was returning from Taronga Park Zoo with 80 passengers when it struck the No.5 wharf near Circular Quay about 12.10pm. The two seriously injured are believed to be suffering from spinal injuries. An Urban Transit Authority spokesman said the ferry appeared to malfunction. Damage had been caused to the vessel's bow. He said it would be out of action until a full damage report had been completed. The incident was not related to the numerous visiting warships in the harbor for the Royal Australian Navy's 75th Birthday celebrations. A25l Telegraph - 1 October 1986 `Battle wagon' arrives From Neil Evans in Sydney The "Mighty Mo" - the USS Missouri - sailed into Sydney Harbor today accompanied by hordes of vessels celebrating its arrival. As the 45,000 tonne warship sailed through the Heads and towards its mooring place, smaller boats greatly outnumbering protest boats, hovered around it. The Missouri reached the dock shortly after 8.30am amid little incident from some anti-nuclear protesters who had gathered on the harbor to demonstrate against its arrival. The ship is here for the Royal Australian Navy's 75th birthday celebrations along with 40 other naval ships from seven countries. A spokesman on board the Missouri said: "It was a dream come true" to bring the historic warship Down Under. Four tugs met the Missouri at the Heads before accompanying her safely to its mooring. The port emergency tug led the warship up the harbor with all her fire hoses at work. ?? A26 The Adelaide Advertiser 2003 words A26a The Adelaide Advertiser - 14 November 1986 Paper battle flares in Victorian nursing row MELBOURNE - Victoria's 15-day nurses' strike has become a war of documents. The State Government and nurses tried to take the high ground yesterday in their battle for community support by putting their cases to the public. The Royal Australian Nursing Federation released a negotiating document outlining arguments on its 20 grievances. The Health Department said it would accede to an Industrial Relations Commission request for more details on its stance. And it placed another full-page notice in newspapers explaining its proposals to end the dispute. Meanwhile, the number of hospitals hit by mass walkouts is set to reach 34 with the addition of Royal Southern Memorial yesterday, Goulburn Valley Base and Dandenong District today, and Geelong tomorrow. Administrators at most hospitals said they were continuing to cope with seriously ill and emergency patients. But it is feared the Statewide elective surgery waiting list may have swollen by more than 7000 to around 34,000. A26b The Adelaide Advertiser - 14 November 1986 Markets react calmly to record deficit CANBERRA - A record current account deficit for October highlights the pressure on the Federal Government's strategy to slow down the economy without creating a full recession. With a deficit of $1735m, Australia continued to suck in more than $3000 worth of imports in October despite a 12 p.c. drop on the September figure. But, while the Opposition said the result was a disgrace, the financial markets reacted calmly with the dollar and interest rates remaining steady. The Opposition Leader, Mr Howard, said the result proved the Government's economic policies had failed miserably. But the Treasurer, Mr Keating, told Parliament the figure was "in the groove" with Budget expectations. The October result showed that while the overall deficit rose $262m on the September figure, Australia's trading position improved dramatically in seasonally adjusted terms. The deficit on the balance of merchandised trade increased by $185m to $253m, with regular imports continuing the downward trend that has been evident in the economy since late last year. Government sources said they were more than happy with the deficit because it was at the "very bottom of everybody's expectations". The trade account "should come back, but there won't be any dramatic progress". The Government's sails are set for early next year when it expects the current account to pick up and start to move towards a trade surplus. Yesterday's figures were influenced by a number of adverse factors, including the importation of $139m worth of aircraft parts by Qantas, Australian Airlines and Ansett. Other seasonal difficulties included massive interest payments from the public and private sectors and the quarterly foreign aid payments, and the seasonal trade movements which work against any upturn in exports against imports. Government sources say that with the regular imports - those not including one-off items such as defence materials, aircaft and fuel - falling, there is now growing evidence that Australian industry is engaging in import replacement. However, the Opposition has charged that Mr Keating had said 12 months ago that the trade deficit would begin to improve and this had not happened. "There is not one individual, not one family, not one business that can now possibly say that they feel they are better off under Hawke Government than they were 3 1/2 years ago," Mr Howard said. He said Australia did not need a recession to stop the inflow of imports. Instead investment needed to be encouraged. "The great failure of the Government's economic strategy is that it believes that all you have to do in order to encourage people to invest in exports or manufacturing is to take advantage of the price benefits of a depreciation," he said. "Yet in reality the things that will make people invest are lower taxes and lower interest rates." Mr Keating said the October figures had caused hardly a flicker on the Reuter screens which show the movements in the value of the Australian dollar. The dollar closed yesterday at US64.58c, the same as it closed on Wednesday, and the trade weighted index, where the dollar is measured against a basket of currencies, finished slightly stronger at 54.1. A26c The Adelaide Advertiser - 14 November 1986 Police group wants unions to join push for changes to Act The SA Police Association will invite other unions - covering prisons, fire and ambulance services - to make a joint approach to the State Government to amend the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act. The association has already met the Deputy Premier, Mr Hopgood, on the matter but has not received an official response. The action has arisen following the decision by the Attorney-General, Mr Sumner, to use the $10,000 compensation awarded to an injured Whyalla policeman to pay part of his $13,000 medical bill. Constable Adrian Burnett was shot in the face during a siege in January. Fragments of the .22 calibre bullet shattered his front teeth and palate and eventually lodged in his throat near his spine. He underwent operations and more than six months of rehabilitation before being able to return to work. The Police Assocation has been incensed by Mr Sumner's action. The secretary of the association, Mr Dan Brophy, said the committee of SAPA had met and decided to use every possible legal avenue to clear up the Act and its interpretation. He said he knew of three cases where police officers had been injured in the line of duty and had not been awarded compensation under the Act. At present the Attorney-General has discretionary powers to channel compensation payment made under the Act towards the payment of costs such as medical bills. A spokesman for the Attorney-General's office said the purpose of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act was to provide compensation only where there was no other compensation available. He said Const. Burnett had received payments from worker's compensation and payments under the Act were only to be used as a last resort. In a Letter to the Editor in yesterday's Advertiser, the wife of another police officer revealed her husband had also been denied the proper compensation. Her husband, Detective Sergeant Graem Lawton of the Elizabeth CIB, lost more than 90 p.c. of the vision of his left eye in 1981 after a glass was thrust into his face while working for the drug squad. The Attorney-General's spokesman said Det.-Sgt Lawton was not eligible for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act but was eligible for a lump sum payment under the Worker's Compensation Act for his permanent disability. Under the Act, the loser of an eye is entitled to $10,000 but no such application had been received from Det.-Sgt Lawton. Det.-Sgt Lawton said yesterday that it was his understanding that if he took the lump sum payment he would not be eligible for any further payments if his sight deteriorated. He said public servants were being discriminated against as payments of up to $10,000 were not unusual for rape victims and relatives of murder victims. Between January 4, 1986, and November 4, 1986, there had been 225 payouts from the Criminal Injury Compensation Act totalling $1,007,952.53. A26d The Adelaide Advertiser - 14 November 1986 Ombudsman criticises Minister CANBERRA - The Commonwealth Ombudsman has attacked the Minister for Finance, Senator Walsh, the Federal Government and Parliament for threatening his effectiveness. Mr G. Kolts, QC, says in his 1985-86 annual report that an insidious threat to the implementation of Ombudsman's recommendations tentatively identified last year "gained serious substance in 1985-86." He says Senator Walsh's frequent rejection of recommended compensation payments poses a substantial threat to his ability to provide meaningful remedies for complainants financially disadvantaged by defective administration. He also says some of his functions will be neglected and it will be a "struggle for the Ombudsman to hold his own" unless staffing in his office is increased. And he says the trend of Parliament to take no action on special Ombudsman reports to it also threatens his effectiveness. Mr Kolts says that during 1985-86 there was an unprecedented number of cases in which he had to report to the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, because a Government agency had not given effect to a recommendation from him. "With two exceptions, the stumbling block has been the refusal of the Minister for Finance to approve an act of grace payment to the complainant," he says. Mr Kolts says that in refusing the payments, Senator Walsh opposed recommendations of both the Ombudsman and the agency responsible for the administrative defect. He says that a special Ombudsman's report to Parliament has hitherto seemed to be an effective deterrent to arbitrary or ill-considered rejections of his recommendations. But it is unlikely the reports will long continue to be such a deterrent "if Parliament omits to take any constructive interest in them". Mr Kolts says neither of his two reports to Parliament during the year elicited any debate or substantive comment despite the fact that both raised issues of public interest. He says that in 1985-86 his office received 3750 written complaints - 400 more than the previous year - and more than 17,000 oral complaints - Paul Willoughby A26e The Adelaide Advertiser - 14 November 1986 Deposits set for beverage bottles Amendments to the State Government's Beverage Containers Act were approved by Executive Council yesterday ending plans to lift deposits for non-refillable beverage bottles from 5c to 15c. Non-returnable containers will now attract a deposit of 6c, compared with the 4c deposit on returnable containers. The amendments were introduced when the Government found it could not justify the planned 15c deposit after being challenged by the Bond Brewing Company in court. A spokesman for the Minister of Environment and Planning, Dr Hopgood, said yesterday it had become apparent the Government could not justify such a large differential between returnable and one-way containers under Section 92 of the Constitution which related to free trade between States. A26f The Adelaide Advertiser - 14 November 1986 A `pensioner's burial' for key Soviet figure MOSCOW, Thursday - One of the key shapers of Soviet history, Vyacheslav Molotov, was buried at a Moscow cemetery yesterday after a discreet funeral described by a Foreign Ministry official as "a private burial for a pensioner". Mr Molotov, 96, died on Saturday. An organiser of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, he worked at the centre of Kremlin power throughout the Stalin era but later fell into disgrace and was ejected from the Communist Party. Although denied an official funeral, Mr Molotov was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, second in prestige only to the Kremlin. This reflected Mr Molotov's readmission to the party two years ago. One party Central Committee member was present at the burial, attended by relatives and friends. Six busloads of mourners arrived at the cemetery, protected by police who kept onlookers and journalists away. One of the buses, its windows draped in black, drove in through the massive green gates of the cemetery ramparts. Cemetery officials said Mr Molotov was to be buried next to his wife, Polina Zhemchuzhina, who died in 1967 after surviving years in labor camps under Kremlin dictator Josef Stalin. Mr Molotov is said to have signed her arrest warrant. The plot lies near the site where Stalin's wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, was buried in 1932 after committing suicide. It is a good distance from the grave of Nikita Krushchev, who ousted Mr Molotov from the party leadership in 1957. One elderly man in a crowd of onlookers said he had come to pay his last respects but had not been allowed inside. He was clutching a bouquet of purple chrysanthemums and wore a bronze medal of Stalin. "Molotov made a few mistakes. He was in the anti-party group," declared the man, who said he worked in the Soviet defence industry and was not a Communist Party member. - Reuter A26g The Adelaide Advertiser - 14 November 1986 Swiss may pay for Rhine toxic spill ZURICH, Thursday - Switzerland has assured its neighbors on the Rhine that it will consider paying for damage caused by toxic spillage and tighten regulations on dangerous chemicals. European Community Environment Commissioner Stanley Davis said the Swiss President, Mr Egli, had made valuable concessions on the question of compensation for heavy pollution of the Rhine following a fire at a chemical warehouse in Basle about two weeks ago. ?? A27 The Adelaide Advertiser 2009 words A27a The Adelaide Advertiser - 2 July 1986 Knight to king, check MELBOURNE - A ballet about chess comes to the Melbourne stage tonight, Australia's world-famous dance knight, Sir Robert Helpmann, playing a king. The ballet is Checkmate, the role, the Red King, which Sadler's Wells Ballet founder Dame Ninette de Valois created for Sir Robert 49 years ago. In those days, Sir Robert, 28, had to pretend he was a tottery old man. Today, at 77, he doesn't have to pretend very much, although he exaggerated his fragility yesterday at the Victorian State Theatre. "I'm very thrilled about tottering on in this role," Sir Robert said. A27b The Adelaide Advertiser - 2 July 1986 A child's portion of service Eating out with children is a necessary part of their overall education. And while the Australian tradition is that kids should be neither seen nor heard outside fast-food outlets, some restaurants do their best to make children welcome. Children need to be introduced to the pleasures of eating out as part of their social education. They need to visit restaurants and learn the art of behaving in a public eating place. The need to know how to read and understand a menu and to order from it, and to discover the pleasure of eating foods more sophisticated than they are served at home. They need to know how to be polite customers and at the same time to be aware of the consumer rights of diners. If children eat out with their parents regularly, or only occasionally, they will be secure about going to restaurants when they begin to dine out with friends. But do restaurants really welcome children as part of the family group and tomorrow's patrons? Obviously, there are some silver-service restaurants which are not designed for child customers, mostly because the extended nature of the meals. A small child could not be expected to sit through a four-hour dinner. However, parents cannot hope to teach their children restaurant manners if they are restricted to going only to hamburger, pizza or fast-food outlets. Four journalists who are parents of young children were asked to road test a few local restaurants to see how welcome their children were and how the staff coped with the child customers. JOHN Brittle took his daughters Marie-Lorraine, 8 and Catherine, 4 to Fasta Pasta in Pirie Street, city: We got off to a good start at Fasta Pasta. We were barely in the restaurant before a cheerful Italian chucked one of the girls under the chin and said: "Hello, beautiful". I thought we might be swamped with attention just as parents - or a parent - with kids usually are treated in restaurants in Italy and most Latin countries. But we weren't overwhelmed. We were underwhelmed. There was plenty of room and we took a table against a wall. We lined up, selected and ordered. Helping the kids make their selection from a blackboard they couldn't read, and hoisting the little one up to see the salads, took a little time. There were few other patrons so the delay didn't really matter. But there was no help from the staff as I would have received in Rome, Madrid or Buenos Aires. The bread was excellent and thick-cut and the two hungry kids loved it. The antipasto was so-so and half of it was left uneaten. The children love spaghetti and dug into the steaming plates with Bolognaise sauce. I had to help the younger one. At home we usually cut up her spaghetti so she can eat it with a spoon. None of the staff, who were passing to and fro, offered to cut it up or made any move to help. I had to lean across the table to wind each forkful for her. We managed. We had to ask twice for more paper napkins to clean up faces and the table. The children couldn't finish the spaghetti, but like all kids somehow found room for ice-cream, in this case, cassata. I was disappointed in the rather offhand service. We had to ask for everything. No-one came to see whether we wanted anything or to ask how the food was - and for part of the time there were more staff in the restaurant than customers. On the positive side, the "child's portions" were too big for my kids to handle. The hot food was hot. And the kids rated the spaghetti "excellent". As we left one said: "Don't mention another word about food". There was certainly no skimping on serves. But the offhandedness of the staff I find curious. I recall many nights in Italy, Spain and Argentina - where the population is about half Italian - seeing in restaurants families, with small kids, with the the kids on highchairs being thoroughly spoilt by waiters giving them their own menus, napkins, drinks and food, cutting it for them and generally making a fuss of them. Usually, walking into a restaurant with kids in those countries assures a rush of attention. That's why I thought we were off to a good start at Fasta Pasta. Perhaps we prefer to be left alone when we eat out - even with the kids. But give me the Latin attitude any time. Children are considered part of the regular clientele, especially on Fridays and Saturdays, said partner of Fasta Pasta, Enrico Siano. "However sometimes I have to ask parents to watch their children, as with all the hot dishes moving about I am concerned there may be an accident." This is a report by Jamie Goode, aged 14 months, as told to his mother: Going to restaurants can be a drag when you're only 14 months old. At Mount Lofty House, the maitre d smiled rather strangely at my parents and me when we arrived. He seated us in a cramped corner, next to the swinging kitchen door, and then pretended we didn't exist, even though he kept stumbling over my pram. We waited for more than 40 minutes for Devonshire tea, while later arrivals were served. My parents kept wheeling me around the gardens during the wait. After a while that became very boring. Finally, we gave up and went home. By then I was tired, cranky and starving. But a recent visit to the Botanic Gardens Restaurant was much nicer. The manager greeted us with a big, friendly grin and seated us at a table with lots of room. He put me in a highchair so I could look out the picture windows. I really enjoyed looking outside and watching the birds flying overhead and the children playing in the gardens. The waitress was also very nice. She took our order right away and promptly brought us glasses of orange juice. She also gave us several napkins and said: "Just let me know if you need any more. I know how it is." I wonder what she meant by that? Mummy and Daddy helped themselves to the salad bar and shared their portions with me. I liked the tomatoes, lettuce, potato salad, biscuits and cheese. My parents ordered the grilled whiting and the Wiener schnitzel for the main course. The fish was grilled to perfection. Unfortunately, the schnitzel was a bit tough and oily. After a few tentative bites, I tossed it into the air. It made the most satisfactory thud when it hit the ground. By the end of the meal there was a fine litter of food scattered about my highchair. I really don't know how it happened but it was most decorative. My parents started clearing up, but the manager told them not to trouble themselves. "Don't worry, we'll take care of it," he said in a relaxed, assuring manner. He even complimented me on my table manners. Another first for my family. Families are clearly welcome. On another visit, we saw a group of mums and bubs having lunch. The waitress was very attentive and helpful - heating bottles, serving requested child's portions, and providing napkins. I can hardly wait to go again. Mount Lofty House Restaurant does not actively encourage children as guests, said the director, Janet Sands. "We have no highchairs, no child menus, no real facilities for children. If they arrive we accommodate them as well as we can. However, we are quite adaptable. The management of the Botanic Gardens Restaurant welcomes children, but expects parents to keep them under control to the extent of not disturbing other diners. Samela Harris, has two sons, 13 and 7, who are regular diners out. Their favorite outing is to a Chinese restaurant: Sam, aged 7, is well-travelled and used to restaurants. In his carry-cot he enjoyed some of Europes's most illustrious restaurants. But that is Europe where babies are part of life and children are people. Because ritzy Australian restaurants are terribly precious about their exclusivity, few parents would dare to take their young in case of sneers from maitre ds. We have been conditioned to believe that junk-food eateries are where one takes children and gourmet restaurants are for appreciative adults. Sam is not beyond the odd hamburger but he prefers real food and loves to eat good Chinese cuisine. Honey prawns in sesame are a passion with him. Fortunately the Chinese have not caught up with the Australian attitude towards children. They have high-chairs for babies and marvellous lazy susans to entrance older children. They have wide varieties of food to please everyone from the fastidious to the adventurous. Sam has eaten yum cha in most of the restaurants which serve it on Sundays. The Dynasty in Gouger Street, is his favorite. His odd jocularity that the chicken feet are like ET's hands are not taken askance by the Chinese staff, although they may have no idea what he is on about. But their innate good manners make them respond with interest to his comments and sheer delight that an Aussie kid is devouring chicken feet at all. When the adults are still chatting on and finishing the wine, the Chinese staff are not perturbed that Sam wanders over to chat with them or scrutinise the fish tanks. He, like the many Chinese children who go for yum cha, is very welcome - and made to feel so. Sunday's a really family day at the Dynasty Restaurant, said proprietor Peter Ng, but the restaurant welcomes children and family groups at any time. Rosemary Clark has two children, Neil, 9, and Terri, 7: The culinary tastes of Neil and his sister are oceans apart. Neil is a pasta-lover and would twirl his fork around spaghetti at every dining-out opportunity. It may be a little harder for him to twirl his tongue around the names of some Italian dishes - but that does not stop him from ordering cappelleti alla panna or spaghetti amatriciana from his favorite Italian restaurant. The easy-going atmosphere and plain, solid furnishings in most Italian eateries ideally suit the sometimes less-than-genteel table manners of young diners. Chinese food is Terri's delight. Honey chicken is top of the list, with chicken chop suey coming a close second. In fact, anything containing chicken meets with her approval. On days when compromise is not in Neil and Terri's vocabulary the International Food Plaza at the Central Market is the answer. It is a place where the taste for twirling spaghetti and finger-licking spring rolls mix. Families can enjoy, not just endure, a trip to a restaurant. Dining out should be a fun, learning experience for children, so parents should choose the venue carefully. Staff in Chinese restaurants invariably make youngsters feel both important and wanted. Dropping a chopstick on the ground is not considered a clanger, and the occasional spilt drink is cleared up without a fuss. Peter Westgarth is a 29-year-old bachelor. He has not enjoyed the proximity of noisy, ill-behaved children in restaurants and says the maxim which states children should be seen and not heard is overdue for re-writing. He suggests something such as: "Keep 'em quiet and teach 'em right". He thinks that these days, too many parents seem prepared to let their children do whatever they like. ?? A28 The News 2018 words A28a The News - 12 August 1986 GUARD ON CHILD ABUSE PARENTS SYDNEY: The couple who allegedly neglected their young sons over a two-year period have been given protection in jail. Authorities fear Donald Richard Capetti, 39, and his wife, Robyn Francis Cappetti, 41, will be attacked by other prisoners outraged at the allegations of abuse against their sons, 4 and 2. The Cappettis are each charged with three counts of inflicting grievous bodily harm on two of their five children. Police discovered the children when they investigated a fire at the Cappettis' home in Werrington, on Saturday night. Darren, 4, weighed only 11kg when he was found tied to a door by a length of rope. His brother, David, 2, was found in a filthy state, weighing only 12kg. Police alleged Darren had cockroach infestations in his nappy and his stomach had been scalded by urine. He had been tied to a door and had slept on a urine-soaked foam mattress for two years. His right foot had become gangrenous. David had allegedly suffered scalding from wearing wet nappies for too long. Penrith Court was told the two children had not been washed for two months and their fingers and toes had stuck together with grime. Police alleged they were not fed at times for up to five days. A spokesman for the Corrective Services Minister, Mr Akister, said the Cappittis had been given protective custody for their own safety. Mr Cappetti has been held at Parklea maximum security prison while Mrs Cappetti is being detained at Silverwater Prison. "It is normal procedure to offer prisoners associated with child-related crimes protective custody," the spokesman said. "In some cases we give them protective custody straight away. The Cappettis willingly accepted it. A28b The News - 12 August 1986 Bear bites off boy's arm LONDON: A bear in a Scottish wildlife park last night bit off and devoured the arm of a boy, 10. Police said Ross Prendergast, who also was mauled on the chest and shoulders, put his arm into the bear's cage after he, his brother, and some friends climbed two fences to reach it. The 227kg European brown bear, Jeremy, well known for his appearances in Sugar Puffs commercials in the 1960s, is a star attraction at the Camperdown Wildlife Centre, Dundee. The park was closed when the incident happened at 8 o'clock. Staff heard the boy's screams and rushed to help him. Prendergast was taken to the town's royal infirmary, where he was given emergency surgery. His condition was described as satisfactory. A hospital spokesman said his right arm had been bitten off just below the elbow. The fence surrounding Jeremy's cage was 1.55 metres high. Prendergast's grandfather said: "He's a brave wee laddie. He's really quite perky. I'm sure he'll bounce back. The attack was the second in 48 hours at the wildlife centre. Earlier, a man had been bitten by a wolf. Ross, his brother, Mark and six of their friends had slipped through the fence into the centre shortly after closing time. Employee Angad Taha was trying to round up the children when he heard frantic screams from the bear's enclosure. A stick was found nearby and officials believe Prendergast might have been taunting the bear, described by the centre as "just a big softie. Mr Taha, who gave emergency first aid, was too shocked to speak about the incident. A spokesman for the district council, which licenses the centre, said he did not think the bear would be put down. However, an urgent inquiry has been ordered. A28c The News - 12 August 1986 Alerts at art galleries ART galleries in Victoria are on full alert following the Picasso thieves' warning that they intend to carry out their second terrorist act. A burnt match, which accompanied the Australian Cultural Terrorists' third ransom letter, has indicated that other valuable paintings in the State are at risk from the group still holding Picasso's Weeping Woman, taken from the National Gallery nine days ago. Security measures have been tightened by order of Police and Arts Minister, Mr Mathews, who fears the theft and ransom campaign will be stepped up. Gallery directors, the State Public Service Association attendants and police are reviewing all security procedures to stop any further art treasures disappearing. The Australian Cultural Terrorists have not been out of the headlines since stealing the $2 million masterpiece in a bid to get the State Government to inject more funds into art. A28d The News - 12 August 1986 Twin's death saves David LOS ANGELES: An infant whose life was spared when doctors removed his doomed twin brother from the womb has been born three months premature. David Moller was delivered by caesarean section and is in a critical but stable condition at Northridge Hospital Medical Centre. David, who weighed 1.72 kg at birth, suffered from a condition caused by excess body fluid. About 113 grams of fluid was removed from his abdomen and the rest dissipated dropping David's weight to 0.95kg. David's brother was removed from the womb after he had withered to half David's size. Doctors said David would probably have died if they had not removed his brother. A28e The News - 12 August 1986 Nugget hits the world LONDON: Australia has launched its new gold bullion coin, the Australian Nugget, on the world market in the first sanctions salvo against South Africa's Kruggerand. However, in carving up the lucrative bullion market at a time of peak gold prices, the Australian Nugget will compete against Canada's Maple Leaf, already on issue, and the soon-to-be-released American Eagle. The WA Premier, Mr Burke, is in London to arrange dealer-distributors for the coin, from the Royal Perth Mint, which is struck in denominations from $100 to $530. However, world market demand will set the nuggets' prices. A28f The News - 12 August 1986 Sexy Tina to boogie with little Princes. LONDON: Prince William and his baby brother Harry are to have a special private dance teacher ... ...rock'n'roll's sexiest grandmother, Tina Turner. The unprecedented Royal invitation from Prince Charles followed a back-stage meeting where, Tina says, Charles told her she had the best legs he had seen. "I was completely flabbergasted," she said. Tina, 46, the powerhouse singer who taught Mick Jagger to dance, met Charles and Di after a concert in London. "They sent me a lovely picture of their boys playing in the garden," she said. "But there was also a letter from Charles. "It suggested I should get along to the palace and help Diana give little William and Henry some dancing lessons. "I was utterly bowled over - but totally thrilled. "So I wrote back a note saying: "Thank you, Sir - I'll get your boys to boogie.' The living room of my home in Los Angeles if full of gold discs, music awards and Grammy statuettes - but that picture of the little Princess is in pride of place on my main wall. "I'm sure Diana is doing a fantastic job herself teaching the boys - I felt she had such style and grace when I met her." Tina, who had a smash hit with the record, Private Dancer, said the night of the star-studded Prince's trust show was incredible. I'd just sung Let It Be with Paul McCartney live on stage in front of thousands of fans, including some of the Royal family, and I honestly thought that was going to be the biggest thrill of my life," she said. "I've always admired Paul and when he came up to me backstage and asked if I'd sing on stage with him I was delighted. "We used old Beatles numbers a lot in the Ike and Tina Turner revue so I knew the words by heart. "But just an hour later I found myself chatting away to Prince Charles and his lovely wife as if we were old friends." A28g The News - 12 August 1986 Mini-TV series on Barlow case A Sydney-based film production company is to make a television mini-series on the Barlow-Chambers hangings. The fledgling company, Roadshow Coote and Carroll Pty Ltd, will start work on the series in May 1987. Company director, former Adelaide film producer Mr Matt Carroll, said today the mini-series would aim to capture the "personal side" of the two hanged men. It would portray the complete story from their arrest to the subsequent hangings. Kevin Barlow, 28, of Adelaide, and Geoffrey Chambers, 29, of Perth, were hanged in a Malaysian jail last month after being found guilty of possessing 179g of heroin. Mr Carroll said the case had "all the ingredients to be an excellent mini-series." "An extremely large number of people in Australia followed the case in its entirety," he said. "It commanded a very large audience on television and in the Press, so this is a natural move. "It will be a very fast-moving and dramatic series if it goes ahead." The mini-series was still in the early research stages to establish its viability. "At present we are gathering information to work out what direction we will take," he said. "We intend to start casting early next year and full production in May. A28h The News - 12 August 1986 Mall to celebrate its 10th birthday WHEN Rundle Mall was officially opened almost a decade ago it was described as one of the "most dramatic developments" our city has seen. It was a $1.2 million development which saw Adelaide's busiest shopping area transformed from a traffic jammed pedestrian nightmare into a shoppers' paradise. As the then Premier, Mr Dunstan, declared the mall open on September 1, 1976 champagne flowed from the famous Gawler Pl fountain, hundreds of balloons were released and "Mall maids" gave away daffodils and shopping bags. Today Rundle Mall is one of the State's top tourist attractions and an exciting shopping precinct boasting 11 arcades, four major shopping stores and more than 800 retailers. Next month a host of festivities in the mall will celebrate its 10th birthday. A28i The News - 12 August 1986 Mel Gibson to star in Pine Gap film LOS ANGELES: Aussie screen heart-throb Mel Gibson will star in an Australian movie based on the controversial U.S. defence base, Pine Gap. Gibson, in Los Angeles where he is filming Lethal Weapon with Danny Glover, told industry insiders his next movie would be the Geoff Burrowes - John Dixon film, tentatively called Maralinga. Gibson joins fellow superstar Jack Thompson in the cast - the first time the two Australians will have worked together in a movie. Gibson will play an investigative journalist who vanishes after researching the top secret defence outpost near Alice Springs. Gibson is currently playing a Vietnam veteran turned cop in the thriller Lethal Weapon, his fourth American movie. Gibson, a big star in the U.S., rose to fame with the Mad Max movies. He then played Fletcher Christian in The Bounty, and starred opposite Diane Keaton in Mrs Soffel and Sissy Spacek in The River. Gibson's Australian-made movies include the critically acclaimed The Year Of Living Dangerously, directed by Oscar nominee Peter Weir, and Gallipoli directed by Bruce Beresford. A28j The News - 12 August 1986 Shuttle given new rockets HOUSTON: Engineers have developed a new solid rocket engine design to prevent a failure like the one that caused the explosion on the Space Shuttle Challenger. A U.S. Space Agency official said a team at the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Alabama had settled on the new design in a major step towards returning the Shuttle to flight. Challenger exploded on January 28 killing all seven crew members, after a joint in its solid rocket booster failed. The Shuttle fleet was grounded until the rocket design flaw could be corrected. The Rogers Commission, which investigated the accident, said two O-rings in the rocket engine joint had failed to seal, allowing superheated gases to burn through the wall of a propellent tank. Fuel and oxidiser from the tank ignited, causing the explosion. A28k The News - 12 August 1986 Piggott pays to prevent charges LONDON: Former champion jockey Lester Piggott will pay the Customs and Excise Department a six-figure sum to prevent possible criminal charges, according to a London newspaper. The Daily Express said Piggott, who retired from race riding last year, would pay as much as $977,480 in value added tax in a deal arranged as a result of an 18-month investigation. And the man renowned as the meanest - as well as the greatest - jockey of his time could face another mammoth Government bill. ?? A29 The West Australian 2016 words A29a The West Australian - 14 July 1986 Matron will stay, rules Taylor THE row between the Health Minister, Mr Taylor, and Gnowangerup Hospital Board over Matron Ruth Griffiths reached a new pitch yesterday. Mr Taylor decided to scrap plans for a tribunal inquiry into her unexplained sacking and ordered her reinstatement. But hospital board chairman John Humphreys last night said that the board would stick by its decision. Mr Taylor said that he was angry at the hospital board's rejection of what he called his "last-ditch attempt" to resolve the dispute. He condemned the board's rejection and said that its "absolute intransigence" was astounding. The Minister's decision follows his efforts to mediate since the board decided to sack the matron several weeks ago. At first, Mr Taylor said that he had not been given valid reasons for her dismissal and asked the board to reinstate her. The board's refusal - and an outcry from Gnowangerup residents complaining of past doctor-matron clashes - resulted in the Minister's tribunal plan. He had proposed a three-member tribunal, perhaps involving the nurses, union, the Australian Medical Association and an independent chairman. Mr Taylor said that Matron Griffiths and the nurses' union agreed but the board refused. "The absolute intransigence of the board is astounding - especially as the matron is willing to participate," he said. He now had no choice but to go ahead and reinstate Matron Griffiths - who was surprised by the news last night. She said that she was still awaiting a date to return to the hospital and until then she was "keeping busy." The Minister said he did not want to sack the hospital board but its membership would be thrown open tomorrow night at the hospital's annual general meeting . Mr Humphreys said the Minister's claim that the board had acted intransigently was "ridiculous." "The Minister does not know the facts," he said. "He does not know the reasons behind the sacking." He said that the reasons had been revealed only to the board's lawyer and he disputed Mr Taylor's power to reinstate the matron. "Only the Government has that power," he said. Mr Humphreys said that the board had opposed a tribunal inquiry because it was on the condition that it withdrew the matron's dismissal notice. "I feel we have the support of the town and that we should stand by our actions," Mr Humphreys said. The controversy surrounding Matron Griffiths came to a head earlier this year when the Medical Board cleared a former Gnowangerup hospital doctor, Terence Gould, of misconduct charges brought by the matron. She first made headlines in 1978 when the town's GP of 20 years, Dr Alec Winrow, resigned and moved away after reporting difficulties with the matron. In 1985 a rift emerged with the town GP, Dr Peter Cummins, who in December referred his patients to Katanning Hospital, 60km away. A29b The West Australian - 14 July 1986 Black ban could kill Cwlth, says Hayden CANBERRA: The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Hayden, said yesterday that the Commonwealth might collapse unless Britain took some tough action against South Africa. Mr Hayden told the Channel Nine programme "Sunday" that many Commonwealth countries, including Australia, were worried by the split between Britain and the African Commonwealth countries over economic sanctions. He said there was a strong chance that the boycott of the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games by four African nations could point to a further breakdown in Commonwealth relations. "I think that the risk is very real and very large," he said. "There is a fear that the Commonwealth could unravel badly if Britain fails to respond to the expectations of black Africa that there should be action against South Africa." Mr Hayden said that the Commonwealth would be seriously depleted if the African countries left. They made up the bulk of the membership. He said that the question of how badly the Commonwealth would unravel would be answered soon. Australia and Canada had provided international leadership on the issue of sanctions, Mr Hayden said. The Cabinet had explored a "comprehensive range" of possible measures. But it had been left to the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, to decide what sanctions should be applied. His decision would take into account the views of other Commonwealth countries at a meeting in August. Mr Hayden said that Australia did not want to knock itself out of the debate on South Africa by applying a wide range of sanctions and then finding that it had nothing left to contribute. At the same time Australia had to lead the debate towards a "fairly extensive set of sanctions." Though he stressed that it was a personal view, Mr Hayden said he was not convinced that the visit to South Africa by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, would be fruitful. "I think that they are going to find it very difficult," he said. So the issue comes back into everyone's lap, and in particular Britain's." A29c The West Australian 14 July 1986 Boycott by 19 nations feared LONDON, Sun: Organisers fear that as many as 19 of the 49 nations entered in the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games could join the African-led boycott. Five countries have already said they will keep their athletes away from the Games - due to start on July 24 - mainly in protest at the British Government's refusal to impose trade sanctions on South Africa. Tanzania confirmed today that it would join the movement started by Nigeria on Wednesday which was then followed by Ghana the same day, by Uganda on Friday and by Kenya yesterday. The countries which have pulled out are also upset at the inclusion in the English squad of two South African born women, runner Zola Budd and swimmer Annette Cowley, both of whom use British passports. Organisers believe the growing momentum of the boycott could cause it to sweep through the other 10 African countries in the Commonwealth: Botswana, Gambia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is waiting till next week's meeting of southern African nations in the "front line" of the struggle against South Africa's apartheid system. A29d The West Australian - 14 July 1986 $53m. prison `a waste' CASUARINA SITE A MISTAKE, SAYS LIB. OPPOSITION front-bencher George Cash has derided the State Government's decision to build a new $53 million maximum-security prison at Casuarina. The decision would waste taxpayer's money and create a security risk, he said. He called a press conference yesterday after spending the morning at the Canning Vale Prison complex - a site that he favours for the new prison. Mr Cash, the Opposition spokesman on prisons, asserted that the Government's decision to build the gaol about 5km east of Medina and 4km from Parmelia was "shrouded in secrecy and deception." He said that questions raised by the Opposition in State Parliament had gone unanswered by the Minister for Prisons, Mr Berinson. Questions asked by anxious nearby residents had also gone unanswered. Mr Cash said he believed that there was no sound basis for building the gaol at Casuarina when Canning Vale was designed for a maximum-security unit. He said that when the Canning Vale complex was developed by the Tonkin Labor Government it was intended that a maximum-security prison would eventually be built on the land available on the site. It was always intended that the Canning Vale site would replace the Fremantle Prison. Instead, the Government had chosen to build the gaol about 15km south. "The fact that facilities will be duplicated indicates that taxpayers will be paying more than is necessary," Mr Cash said. Mr Berinson said last night that there would be no duplication of facilities. He said that in retrospect the shared facilities at Canning Vale showed unfortunate planning. "I cannot imagine that Mr Cash should suggest shared facilities at a maximum-security prison," he said. "It would be a security nightmare." Mr Cash said that spending on a new prison site was absurd when "only two weeks ago the Premier told us to tighten our belts." "And the fact that prisoners will have to be escorted that distance between the two gaols represents an unnecessary security risk," Mr Cash said. There would be only a marginal saving in building the gaol at Canning Vale instead of Casuarina, he said. However, the service facilities at Canning Vale - equipment and maintenance - would need to be duplicated at a new gaol. Mr Cash said that the Environmental Protection Authority's 1981 System Six study report recommended that the site at Casuarina be vested in the WA Wildlife Authority because of its significant flora, fauna and water. The Government appeared to be rejecting this recommendation for no apparent reason. Mr Berinson said that it was a System Six area but the prison would occupy only 30 hectares out of the 180 hectares. A29e The West Australian - 14 July 1986 I'll fight Govt, vows resident AN ENVIRONMENTAL report on the Casuarina reserve destined to become a prison should be released, says a man who lives 50 metres from the reserve. Mr Jim Elliot has called on the State Government to release a report prepared by the Environmental Protection Authority for the former Minister for Environment, Mr Ron Davies, last August. "Local residents have a right to know all the details," Mr Elliot said. The decision to build the prison on the conservation reserve went ahead though the EPA advised against it. The site was studied by the EPA under its System-Six report. EPA chairman Barry Carbon said that the former Minister was advised last year that it would be inappropriate to develop the Casuarina site. But the Government says it will go ahead with the project. It will set aside $100,000 to buy other land as compensation, and has designated that the department of Conservation and Land Management manage the buffer zone around the 30-hectare prison. The plans have made Mr Elliot (33) of Orton Road, "hopping mad" and he says he will fight to stop the Government "desecrating" the site. He has written a five-page letter to the Kwinana Town Council asking for a public referendum on the issue and he is also organising a petition. Mr Elliot wants the Minister for Prisons, Mr Berinson, to outline why Casuarina was chosen as the site. Mr Ian Fraser, president of the Kwinana Rural Ratepayers and the Residents' Association, said the disbelief he felt when the prison was announced had since turned to anger. A29f The West Australian - 14 July 1986 Warning of threat to wage fixing MELBOURNE: The current system of wage fixing was under threat, the director-general of the Confederation of Australian Industry's industrial council, Mr Bryan Noakes, warned yesterday. He predicted that the system would end if there was continued industrial action of the type since the national wage decision. But Mr Noake's warning came as an end of the petrol dispute appeared to be in sight. He said that the Australian economy was being torn to shreds by irresponsible union actions. "The actions of the Storemen and Packers Union in particular over the past week has cost the economy millions of dollars in lost production and has imposed massive inconvenience on the ever suffering Australian public," he said. "This followed hard on the heels of similar action by the waterside workers that also cost the economy dearly." Mr Noakes said that many unions seemed unable to appreciate the reality of the economic crisis - and intent on finding ways to exacerbate the problems. He said that the industrial council decided at a meeting in Sydney on Friday that employers had simply had enough of these actions. If they continued, the CIA would seek to have the national wage bench reconvened to consider the future of the present wage-fixing system, he said. Employers were not going to bear the cost of increases awarded through the commission and also bear the cost of claims being pursued with industrial action in the field. But petrol stations will begin receiving fuel today if striking oil workers accept an industry peace package at mass meetings this morning. The end to the nine-day dispute neared after 30 union delegates yesterday agreed to recommend a return to work. The meeting of Federated Storeman and Packers' Union delegates accepted the Arbitration Commission's recommendations for a return to work and a re-negotiation of oil-industry wage rates. ?? A30 The West Australian 2099 words A30a The West Australian - 17 May 1986 Waiting for a big family A FINE old home in Vale Road, Mt Lawley, deserves a family, according to the present owner who has been its main occupant for several years. It could certainly accommodate a big family, as it was built on a grand scale, like many other old Mt Lawley homes. The house is divided into two self-contained sections, with the main area in front, and a granny flat behind. The latter could be used either for this purpose or as children's quarters, or the house could be restored to its original one-residence form. The 1923 Federation-style home was built for Mr Stephen Earle and bought from his daughter by the present owner in 1972. It was built by Cavanagh and Spanney, who were involved with the construction of St Mary's Cathedral, as well as with a number of other grand old Mt Lawley residences. Its outstanding features include jarrah timberwork throughout, original stained glass and leadlight windows and light fittings in turn-of-the-century style. The ceiling cornices in the main rooms feature patterns of WA wildflowers - geraldton wax, wattle, gumnuts and leaves - with a different flower in various rooms. There are four fireplaces, with oak and jarrah surrounds. The house will be auctioned on site at noon on June 7. The main section consists of an entry hall, formal sitting room, dining room, three*threee double bedrooms, kitchen and study, all surrounded by verandas. A striking feature of the dining room is a draped layer of cream chinese silk sewn into the ceiling. The refurbished kitchen, which includes a breakfast nook, is equipped with a gas stove and electric oven and opens on to a sunroom, with enclosed veranda beyond to provide an extensive outdoor eating area when fine weather beckons. The bathroom has also been upgraded, and boasts a carpeted floor - the old bath is now filled with water lilies in the backyard. The granny flat, which has not been used for two years, is designed on versatile lines and could well serve as children's quarters. It has a separate entrance and looks out on a huge terraced garden and barbecue area which is a delight - it would be hard to imagine a better place in which to "get away from it all" when the going gets tough. There's also an orchard section, producing lemons, grapes, mandarins, and a special plus, a fruiting avocado. The gardens, which are reticulated from a bore, are spotlighted, to provide a touch of magic on a summer night. Rose bushes abound in the front garden, where there are also terraced lawns. Barry North or Gerald Morgan, of Acton Consolidated, will open the house for inspection from 11am till noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and also by appointment at other times. A30b The West Australian - 17 May 1986 Rushing down the road to Mandalay Tourists are allowed only seven days in Burma. T.R. LANSNER tells how he made the most of his one-week visit to this mysterious and colourful land. DAWN on the Irrawaddy: Pink patches colour grey-shaded clouds obscuring the eastern horizon. The dark line of the riverbank below takes on a more solid substance and the black expanse of night sky softens towards blue. A riverside pagoda stands in elegant silhouette against the paling sky as our steamer manoeuvres close in to shore. A few large-wheeled bullock carts are drawn up by a tiny jetty at this obscure stop on the daily run downriver from Mandalay to Pagan in upper Burma. Few foreigners take these leisurely cruises down the wide, mighty and muddy Irrawaddy. Burma allows tourists a maximum seven days' stay - fly in, fly out, and no extensions considered. Most visitors try to cover as much territory as possible in that time, packing a month's worth of pagodas, markets, hill resorts, arts, crafts and cultural shows into a hectic week which eventually leaves them nearly comatose with exhaustion in the Rangoon Airport departure lounge. A trip down the Irrawaddy means missing some other beautiful or fascinating place, but with the short glimpse of the country permitted by Burmese authorities, such choices must be made. The journey begins at Rangoon Airport, where you are immediately introduced to official Burma, and very shortly thereafter, to unofficial Burma. A thick sheaf of customs forms must be completed in detailed duplicate. Cameras, watches, cash and jewellery are listed on several forms duly inspected and stamped by unhurried bureaucrats. The process can take an hour or more, and you feel heartily sick of officialdom when you step from the customs hall straight into the waiting grasp of the black marketeers. "What do you sell?" is their greeting, "I buy your whisky, what price?" Burma boasts a strict socialist economy which has driven the resource-rich country to the brink of ruin. The great fuss over filling in customs forms is necessary because few consumer goods are legally imported, though the demand is great. Into the gap step entrepreneurs who will buy virtually anything foreign, from whisky to cigarettes to walkman*walkmen radios, perfumes and pornography, for resale in the local markets. Nearly every tourist arriving in Burma carries a bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label whisky and a carton of cigarettes to sell on arrival for a fistful of kyat, the Burmese currency. Some shoestring travellers scruff by on as little as $US 40 for the week, and for a bit more you can live quite well. Just south of Mandalay, I found a festival under way. Merchants, restaurateurs, and fortune-tellers had set up shop, and by their raucous behaviour many young men seem dedicated more to imbibing good spirits than honouring them. A circus and a freak show offered diversion under an immense canvas tent, and a rudimentary carnival drew a fair crowd. Its prime attraction was a primitive ferris wheel. It was "powered" by a gang of about 15 nimble young men who clambered with monkey-like agility to the top of the wheel while it was held fast below. When those on the ground released it with a great shove, the weight of the climbers propelled the ferris wheel through its initial revolution. With finely-timed leaps to the ground, they deserted their precarious perches as the wheel and its riders continued to spin above them. Much of what is often described as Burma's "charm" is its peoples' ability to make do with limited modern material resources. From a man-powered ferris wheel to the 1950s vintage cars which potter about Rangoon's boulevards, it is a country which seems to be caught in a time warp, left at a less complicated and less frenetic level of existence. For the tourist able to take in only seven days of wonders, the relative difference in pace is even more striking. Places where you could easily spend days are seen in hours, and many spots must simply be left unseen. But unless the recurrent 20-year-old rumours that the Burmese will "soon" allow longer visits miraculously come true, tourists will have to be satisfied, if not satiated, with their one week excursion to a land which merits much longer exploration. A30c The West Australian - 17 May 1986 It could only happen in the Kimberleys The first of a three-part series by Tom JENKINS, who has just returned from a visit to WA's remote north. THERE's a python at the bottom of Aileen Hackett's garden. It's probably about 4.5 metres long and about once a week (at night) it comes to feed on the birds in the Pandanus Palm Wildlife Park and Zebra Rock Gallery which Mrs Hackett runs beside the Ord River near Kununurra. While she is getting irritated about the python, or helping a kangaroo joey back into his bag hanging on a veranda post (or caring for pigeons, parrots, emus and donkeys, or polishing zebra rock into gemstones) her husband Noel is busy growing bananas. It could all only happen in one part of Western Australia: The Kimberleys. The Hacketts have been on the Ord for 22 years. Like many other people there, they have tried different ways of making a living: Cotton, wheat and chaff, then, five years ago, they got a new block of land on Packsaddle Plain and are now getting good prices for bananas sent to Perth and Adelaide. Their wildlife park is becoming known and in the busy season they may have 300 visitors a day. At the bottom of the garden (in truth, at the end of the paddock beyond the garden) is the Ord River, broadened here into Lake Kununurra behind the Diversion Dam. They have a mining lease to take the beautiful red-and-cream zebra rock from an island in Lake Argyle, the huge and controversial lake nine times the size of Sydney Harbour created behind the main Ord River Dam. We met the Hacketts on our second day in the Kimberleys. On the evening of the first day, we had driven to Lake Argyle. The road lay through noble red hills, their rocky spines ridged like dinosaurs, the views into purple distance framed by slender, pale trees, jade-green-leaved. As the sun sank, the red light intensified so that the hills glowed. Past the rather tatty Lake Argyle tourist village (a recycled construction camp - there are plans for grander things) we drove up a stony hill and gazed somewhat stunned, across this man-made lake. It stretches forever, blue, deep, serene. Maybe its potential as a source of irrigation will never be realised, but it is a sight that lifts your heart, this great water in a dry land. There was just time to see the replacement for Argyle Downs Homestead, now drowned. It is too ordinary a building, but the mementos of the Durack family are moving. By the time we left, the sun had set. Under dying light, the old rocks turned to purple. Birdsong seemed to stop. We looked down into an ancient pool that, for millions of years has been fed by waterfalls, shrunk by searing heat. For a moment, I think we understood a little of what this land means to the Aborigines. A30d The West Australian - 17 May 1986 Affordable luxury in Bali ... FOR the Bali visitor who likes to stay in comfort, the Sanur Village Club has all of the modern amenities, and for the next few months is also very affordable. Through Phoenix Holidays, a special offer gives the tourist two weeks of air-conditioned accommodation at the Sanur Village Club and return economy airfares on Garuda Indonesia or Qantas Airways for $557. Up to two children under the age of 16 can be included in the package for only $190 extra each. The Sanur Village Club is a resort built in the Balinese style, but inside its rustic exterior are comfortable rooms with hot and cold water, baths and showers, telephones, baby-sitting, a pool, and a medical clinic. The special offer is in effect until the end of next month and will be repeated from September through November and February/March 1987. To book; contact Phoenix Holidays, 321 4258. A30e The West Australian - 17 May 1986 ...and in KL, a birthday bargain IF you're planning to be in Kuala Lumpur between now and September 30, a penny-wise accommodation choice would be the new Shangri-La Hotel. As a first birthday promotion, the hotel is offering 40 per cent discounts on rooms. The discounts bring the price of a "superior" room to approximately $60 (twin share) and a "deluxe" room to approximately $70. The discounts also apply to the larger suites in the hotel. A30f The West Australian - 17 May 1986 Safe to travel in Scandinavia, experts say MANY inquiries have been received by Scandinavian Airlines concerning the safety of travelling to Scandinavia in the wake of the Cher ...and in KL, a birthday bargain IF you're planning to be in Kuala Lumpur between now and September 30, a penny-wise accommodation choice would be the new Shangri-La Hotel. As a first birthday promotion, the hotel is offering 40 per cent discounts on rooms. The discounts bring the price of a "superior" room to approximately $60 (twin share) and a "deluxe" room to approximately $70. The discounts also apply to the larger suites in the hotel. nobyl nuclear accident. A statement has been issued from the Swedish Energy Minister, Birgitta Dahl. It says that "even at its worst the radiation levels were ony one-fifth of what a pregnant woman should be exposed to, and only the same as a normal x-ray." According to a communication issued by Scandinavian Airlines this week, health authorities in Denmark and Norway have also made reassuring statements about the radiation levels in their countries. Airline officials have introduced a system of aircraft checks to determine whether contamination has occurred after flying close to the Soviet border and over the Soviet Union. ?? A31 The Daily News 2004 words A31a The Daily News - 26 June 1986 Video hope for missing boy SYDNEY: Police hope the abductor of eight-year-old John Purtell may have been filmed on video. John vanished during a junior rugby league carnival in Griffith last Saturday and detectives said a number of home videos had been taken during the day. The missing boy disappeared from near the shower block at Griffith's Jubilee Park shortly before he was due to head home. Yesterday, additional police from Sydney joined the search while divers scoured Lake Wyangan, where the bodies of two Griffith schoolboys were found late last year. A31b The Daily News - 26 June 1986 Hospitals `allow patients to die' MELBOURNE: Some doctors in Melbourne hospitals are allowing terminally ill patients to die by withdrawing treatment from them in certain circumstances, says one medical director. The practice was going on even though it was illegal, said Dr Syd Allen, medical director of the Queen Victoria Hospital. Dr Allen said changes to the law were necessary to protect medical staff before the situation was tested in court. Doctors feared a court case could result in "an assault" on the medical system, he said. Dr Allen said he was confident that the courts would support such a practice in certain circumstances, but acknowledged that doctors could be charged with manslaughter if life-preserving treatment was withdrawn from a terminally ill patient. Dr Allen was speaking after addressing a public hearing organised by a government committee inquiring into "options for dying with dignity". A31c The Daily News - 26 June 1986 Truckie falls out in bid to escape crash. SYDNEY: The driver of this semi-trailer must have thought he was jinxed last night. After his truck ran out of control and crashed into a bridge on the Hume Highway, he tried to make a hurried exit from the cabin. But there was nothing but fresh air outside the truck door - the driver fell seven metres to bushes below, with his truck still balanced precariously on the bridge above. The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries. Three motorists avoided serious injury after being hit in the semi-trailer's mad scramble to right itself when it went out of control on the wrong side of the road. A31d The Daily News - 26 June 1986 Police cop a good rating Ninety per cent of Australians think their State police forces are doing a good or a fair job, according to the Gallup Poll. Only eight per cent said their police were doing a poor job: two per cent were undecided. Tasmanians, South Australians and Victorians were all very pleased with their police forces. The poll found a "good" rating in those States of 65, 63, and 62 per cent respectively. In WA, 57 per cent gave a "good" response, 36 said fair and four per cent poor. WA had the highest (three) percentage of undecideds. Satisfaction was lowest in NSW, where only 39 per cent felt their police were doing a good job. Forty-eight per cent regarded police work as fair, and 11 per cent described it as poor. The feeling was much the same in Queensland (40, 47, 12). A31e The Daily News - 26 June 1986 Murder, murder, and more murder PAUL STEVEN HAIGH, Victoria's worst mass murderer, confessed in court last week to two more killings - bringing his gruesome tally to half a dozen slayings. In 1979, at the age of 21, Paul Steven Haigh had already chosen his path in life. It was to be bloody, filled with treachery and desperation, deadly jealousy and a string of murders which shocked the country. Last week, in Melbourne's Supreme Court, the final curtain at last came down on a savage and horrendous drama that had lasted nearly eight years. In an 11-month killing spree that began in September, 1978, seven people were slain - six of them by the hand of Haigh, Victoria's worst mass murderer. Haigh, now 28, was taken back to Pentridge Prison last week after pleading guilty to two more murders. He had been in Pentridge since 1981, after being convicted of the murder of four people - one of them his girlfiend, another a nine-year-old boy. While in gaol, Haigh confessed to two more killings, becoming only the sixth man in Victorian legal history to plead guilty in court to murder. Haigh confessed to police that he had shot a woman during an attempted armed robbery at a Tattslotto agency in Windsor in September, 1978. He also confessed to killing a man during an attempted armed robbery at a South Caulfield pizza shop in December that year. High said he killed Miss Evelyn Abrahams (58) in the Tattslotto agency because he feared she was trying to run away. Miss Abrahams had turned her back on him and opened an office door to ask an office manager: "What should I do?" Haigh told police he didn't hear the woman speak. He thought she was trying to be heroic. Haigh said he then shot her in the back of the head with a shotgun. In the second killing, Haigh confessed that he had jumped over the counter of the South Caulfield pizza shop and had demanded money. When the owner of the shop, 45-year-old Bruno Cingolani, dived for a knife, Haigh shot him in the stomach. Mr Cingolani, a father of two, died three days later. Last week Haigh was sentenced to a life term for each murder, the sentences to be concurrent with the four life terms he received for the other murders. PAUL Steven Haigh was a good friend of convicted killer Robert Wright. Wright became friends with another criminal, convicted double killer Barry Quinn, when Quinn was on the run after escaping from Pentridge Prison. Quinn was a ruthless and cold executioner. Together, Haigh, Quinn and Wright made a terrifying trio. This fearsome association culminated in five ruthless killings. Quinn had escaped from Pentridge Prison on November 15, 1978, with the aid of Eve Karlson and others. His escape led to the multiple murders. The first to die was Quinn's girlfriend, Ivanka Katherine (Eve) Karlson, who was shot at Mississippi Creek, near Warburton, between November 16, 1978 and July 30, 1979. On the run, Quinn and Karlson had met two other people, Sheryle Anne Gardner (31) and her friend, Robert Wright. Together they headed for Quinn's hideout in the Warburton area. Both Eve Karlson and Sheryle Gardner had, at one time, been lovers of Quinn. There was a tension, a spiteful jealousy, brooding darkly between the two women. After 69 days on the run, Quinn was recaptured. Some time later, Eve Karlson's decomposed body was found on the banks of the Mississippi Creek. Although Quinn had confessed to killing Karlson, the police did not believe him. They felt he was covering up for Sheryle Gardner. The following month Sheryle Gardner was slain, along with her child. The connection between the next four killings was Quinn's escape from Pentridge. On June 27, 1979, Wayne Keith Smith (27) was shot dead as he lay on his bed in his St Kilda Road flat. Quinn had used Wayne Smith's house "for a couple of days" straight after his escape, while Smith and Eve Karlson went about setting up a hideout in the Warburton area. Then, on July 22, 1979, Sheryle Gardner and her son Danny William Mitchell (9) were shot dead as they sat in their car at Ripponlea. On or about August 8, 1979, Lisa Maude Brearley (19) was stabbed 157 times in Olinda State Forest, after being lured there on the pretence of a party. Her body was discovered on August 23 after an accomplice, fearing for his life, contacted the police. Brearley had been Haigh's girlfriend. Police were to discover later that Wright and Haigh had used her to buy the rifles used to kill Sheryle Gardner and her young son. Haigh, Wright and Quinn were all charged. Police said they had committed the murders because they thought the victims "knew too much" about Quinn's escape from prison and the subsequent events. Quinn and Wright were acquitted on the charge of having murdered Eve Karlson at Mississippi Creek. Haigh was not implicated in this killing. Haigh was found guilty of murdering Gardner, Mitchell and Smith but not guilty of murdering Brearley. Both Haigh and Wright were sentenced to life imprisonment. Back in prison, Quinn met a horrifying end when he was covered in industrial glue and set alight in a workroom in Pentridge's maximum-security Jika Jika section. He was rushed to hospital but died soon afterwards. A31f The Daily News - 26 June 1986 Pensioner loses in ticket row By George Williams A single parent pensioner with a severely handicapped child has been billed $47.50 for parking in a Subiaco street space that she helped to plan when she worked for the council. Mrs Val Bokhari, of Applecross, said that she was guilty of the offence, but the council seemed unnecessarily hard to ignore her letter which asked for leniency. She had been running late for a dental appointment in Kings Road, Subiaco, when she parked on the incorrect side of the street. She realised that she had broken regulations when she received a pink slip in the mail days later demanding that she pay a $20 fine. She said "I am a pensioner but I am determined to pay my way. I realised that I must have broken the parking rules and I was to pay as soon as I could along with all the other bills." She delivered a cheque to the council about a month after the fine was due. "Next thing a letter turned up returning my cheque and including a summons for court," she said. "I returned the cheque to the council with a letter explaining my circumstances - that I have debts of over $20,000 and I am on the pension. I said that I was guilty but I asked for a little leeway, that's all. "Then the court bill arrived - demanding $47.50." Mrs Bokhari said her letter was never answered by the council. She said: " I suppose it's almost funny that I worked for the council for three years and one of my jobs was marking out the different parking zones." She said that she had served the council well, working for less than the usual rate of pay and that she had worked at short notice on rush jobs. The council had even telephoned her to ask her to work on the eve of her wedding eight years ago. The Subiaco City Council town clerk, Mr Jim McGeough, declined to comment on Mrs Bokhari's case. A31g The Daily News - 26 June 1986 INQUEST TOLD UNSAFE LOAD CRUSHED DRIVER A truck driver neglected safe loading and unloading procedures and his load crushed him to death. Two experts said this today at an inquest into the death of Michael St John Kennedy, of Floreat. A Factory and Shops inspector, Mr Graeme Hearn, said that failure of the firm, James Hardie and Co, to ensure safe loading had also contributed to the accident on March 13. A Department of Occupational Health inspector, Mr Francis Keough, said he thought Mr Kennedy's 10-year familiarity with handling cement pipes for the company may have been a contributing factor. Unloading ramps had not been pulled out according to James Hardie procedure. Mr Hearn said Mr Kennedy was a contract driver responsible for his own loading. A31h The Daily News - 26 June 1986 Lecturer flies in to pick up his degree James Lim Bian Tee flew 3500km to be in Perth today to receive his degree. The 56-year-old university lecturer travelled from Penang, in northern Malaysia, to the ceremony at the WA College of Advanced Education. He had been studying through the college since 1983, but had never set eyes on the institution before. Mr Lim is the first overseas external student in 12 years to collect his degree in person. His wife Anne, who teaches English in Penang, accompanied him. The round trip, with accommodation, will cost the couple about $1400, Mr Lim estimates. "It's worth it," said Mrs Lim. "It is an honour to study here and I felt that personal contact was important," Mr Lim said. He took a bachelor's degree in education at the WA CAE because it offered a speciality in religion. ?? A32 The Mercury 2007 words A32a The Mercury - 16 September 1986 Conflict in the air at Leningrad's perfumery By Norm Sanders SENATOR Norm Sanders continues his reports on his tour of the Soviet Union and Poland with an Australian parliamentary delegation. LENINGRAD. - We were exhausted by the time we got back to the hotel at 8.30pm. Our day had started that morning with the Gromyko meeting in Moscow. It seemed like a week ago. We reassembled in the hotel dining room for dinner. The restaurant was modern and well patronised, in contrast to the Moscow hotel's grandiose emptiness. A small band played ideologically sound rock while we organised ourselves at our table. A stream of male waiters brought in the food. We were never served by females in the Soviet Union, which is a pity because the waiters universally suffered from underarm odour. Knowing how much to eat of course at a formal dinner is hard enough at home. In a new country, it's almost impossible. At first in the Soviet Union I made the mistake of loading up on the extremely substantial preliminaries: smoked sturgeon, cold cuts of meat, tomatoes, and sometimes two soups. (There were also loads of cucumbers, which are my pet aversion). Then, feeling quite sated already, I had to face perspiring waiters carrying prodigious main courses of steak, veal, or chicken and potatoes. Any crannies left after this lot were subsequently filled with ice cream. Our only beverages were the ubiquitous mineral water, tea and coffee. Never a trace of alcohol touched our lips. I got up at 6 o'clock the next morning, determined to walk off all the excesses of the previous evening. I noticed, gratefully, that the car and bus drivers were very polite to pedestrians. At one stage I was crossing a side street when a bus turned off the main thoroughfare and headed right at me. In Australia I would have had to dash for my life. In Leningrad, the driver stopped, smiled and motioned me in front of him. Little courtesies such as this impress tourists - a lesson some Tasmanian drivers have yet to learn. Like Moscow, the main streets in Leningrad are wide and tree-lined. Every few hundred metres there are bulletin boards where Pravda and the other newspapers are plastered for those who don't wish to spend the few kopeks to buy their own. It was here that I encountered my first graffiti: Someone had scrawled "Don't work!" in Russian in large letters across the front page of Pravda. This must be the supreme sacrilege in a society which glorifies the value of labour. A little further on, a peace symbol had been chalked on a wall. I later asked Big Igor Saprykin about the graffiti's significance. "Hooligans!" he snorted, "It is of no importance." He seemed annoyed. Whether at the graffiti or at me noticing it, I couldn't tell. I showered and joined the others for our 8am breakfast. Our entire itinerary was laid out with military precision, down to 24-hour time notation. Our last item on today's schedule was supper at 2245, after a dozen engagements. Breakfast, like all the other meals, was a massive production: Cold meats, fish, cheese and yoghurt, followed by cool toast in the English tradition. Then came fried eggs or blintzes (pancake filled with cottage cheese) which were delicious. These bountiful meals didn't come cheaply. The Soviets footed the bill for the delegation, but spouses were charged $70 per day for food. We paid these charges, along with spouses's air fares, out of our own pockets. By 9am we were at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony. During the siege, bodies had to be buried in mass graves. A total of 640,000 men, women and children lay here in an area of some five hectares. The cemetery is comprised of a series of low grassy mounds the size of a tennis court. Each mound holds 30,000 bodies. I wrote, "We must never have another war," in the visitors' book. On the way back to the cars, I reflected on the 20,000,000 Soviet war dead with Ambassador Ted Pocock. He grumbled, "Stalin killed 20,000,000 and the Russians don't build monuments to them." I suppose he had a point, but I was weary with death and didn't want to get into an argument at that moment over whether Hitler or Stalin was the most brutal tyrant. We were next shunted to the Aurora Borealis perfumery where we were met by a smiling Mr Y.A. Aleksandrovich, a tall, fair-haired man with glasses, who told us about his factory. The perfumery started in 1860 under the name of the "St Petersburg Chemical Laboratory." Today, the perfumery has over a thousand workers and supplies perfumes and colognes for the Soviet Union and the export market. While we talked, a stylish blonde woman who was responsible for new products handed out strips of cardboard with different scents for us to try. Mr Aleksandrovich talked of his factory's constant search for new fragrances. I mentioned Tasmania's essential oils industry which I vaguely remembered from a story I did once as a TDT reporter. He showed considerable interest and I subsequently arranged for the Tasmanian essential oils people to contact him. Our embassy staff prodded me into asking a question about shift work. The Soviets normally work during the daytime on weekdays. However, Gorbachev had recently decreed that shift work should be implemented to use idle production capacity, and that Leningrad would be the first to use the new system. I naively asked Mr Aleksandrovich what he thought of the idea. His pleasantries vanished. It was obviously a touchy subject. He explained that his plant was labour intensive and that there was little idle machine capacity at night. At this point our Soviet minders started arguing with him. The ensuing discussion was geographical as well as ideological. Our minders were all from Moscow, the Big Apple of the USSR. Anybody from Leningrad was distinctively provincial. For their part, Leningrad residents consider themselves intellectually and artistically superior to the clods from Moscow. John Denton and Rakesh Ahudja from our embassy were overjoyed with the shift work information which became another piece for their jigsaw puzzle of Soviet society. Mr Aleksandrovich and the blonde enthusiastically waved goodbye from their factory door, relieved that we had gone. We weren't quite sure why we had visited the perfumery in the first place but had little time to ponder this question as we hurtled off to the Hermitage to see acres and acres of Rembrandts. A32b The Mercury - 16 September 1986 Home building gets tonic $7.5m scheme will provide 150 houses in State initiative By Michael Gleeson A HOUSING construction initiative to cost $7,500,000 was yesterday launched by the State Government to boost the State's ailing industry. The Minister for Housing, Mr John Beswick, said that in the next 12 months, 150 houses would be built under a new scheme sponsored by the Tasmanian Development Authority. The homes will be offered to low-income first-home buyers, who will be eligible for low-interest loans from the TDA, provided they are ineligible for both bank and building society loans. Funds for the project come from State loan funds, some funds from the Commonwealth/State Housing Agreement and revolving funds, including the repayment of loans from people who have had previous loans with the TDA. Registered builders approved by the Tasmanian Development Authority will receive interest-free TDA loans to buy suitable land. A ceiling price will apply to single blocks of land, with the loan secured by a first-mortgage contract in favour of the TDA. Houses will be built to plans approved by an architect nominated by the TDA, and will be financed progressively during construction. Finally, qualifying low-income earners will be advanced low-interest loans and introduced to builders through real estate agents. Buyers are entitled to a maximum TDA loan of $55,000,with interest initially at 10 per cent, rising to 12 per cent in the third year, after which an interest review would take place. There will also be a price limit of $60,000, including the cost of the land. According to Mr Beswick, the scheme will employ 66 men for one year, with the multiplier effect employing an additional 162. Each successful tendering builder will be expected to construct 15 homes. According to Mr Beswick, homes not bought within two months of completion will be purchased by the Housing Department or the TDA. Mr Beswick said it was not an initiative provided for in tomorrow's Budget. It was "an internal allocation of funds by the TDA, funds which are generally available for this purpose". "The authority, in consultation with myself as Minister for Housing, has seen fit to earmark $7,500,000 for this scheme as a means of stimulating the homebuilding industry," Mr Beswick said. The scheme, known as HOBIS or the Home Ownership Building Industry Scheme, joins the Housing Department's home-purchase scheme as the State's two major housing initiatives. "That one (the Housing Department scheme) is designed to help people buy houses, rather than to build new houses like this one," Mr Beswick said. He said there would be no scaling-down of the Housing Department's programme in the Budget to make way for this scheme. The TDA has identified some 200 for HOBIS homes. A32c The Mercury - 16 September 1986 RACT is critical of single lane plan THE RACT has criticised a plan to build the new Bass highway between Launceston and Deloraine substantially to singlelane standard. The RACT's Launceston manager, Mr Lloyd Redman, said that as the link between Launceston and the North-West was the busiest stretch of national highway in Tasmania it should be all dual-lane highway. "This is a major route for tourists and heavy vehicles taking sea freight to Devonport and Burnie," he said. "A single-lane highway will not be adequate for present needs, let alone the future. "Why has the DMR (Department of Main Roads) chosen to end the dual-lane at Hadspen?" (It will be dual-lane as far as Hadspen, and single-lane from Hadspen to Deloraine). "At the very least there should be overtaking lanes and all bridges built to dual-lane specifications," Mr Redman said. While he welcomed the new highway, he said that the good sight-distances and straights of the highway would encourage constant overtaking, with the accompanying risk of high-speed head-on accidents. The Westbury Council also welcomed the new highway yesterday and accepted the DMR's estimation that singlelane standard would be adequate. The road - which will take five to seven years to build - will connect with the Prospect bypass which runs from Launceston's southern outlet to the western outskirts of the city. The new highway will cross the existing Bass highway at Prospect and run just north of it until the Pateena Rd junction (which leads to Longford). The new road crosses back to the southern side of the existing one just past Pateena Rd, and remains on the southern side until just east of Westbury, where it crosses back to the northern side. Two routes are being considered for the Westbury-Deloraine section: one which remains on the northern side of the present road and one which crosses back over the existing road to bypass Exton to the south. A32d The Mercury - 16 September 1986 Federal Cabinet Cruises Through A Stormy Session SYDNEY. - Jackhammers drowned out any controversial press questions on mining Kakadu National Park, and the Minister for the Arts, Mr Barry Cohen, looked like a tourist with his video camera as the Prime Minister, Mr Bob Hawke, and Federal Cabinet prepared to put to sea yesterday. This is the Royal Australian Navy's 75th anniversary year and the 16 ministers boarded HMAS Stalwart at Garden Island yesterday morning to mark the historic occasion with an equally historic first - Federal Cabinet's first meeting at sea. After the meeting, with the Cabinet still on board, HMAS Stalwart sailed from Garden Island to rendezvous with the destroyers HMAS Sydney and HMAS Perth for exercises. As his ministers enjoyed a cuppa on the flight deck, Mr Hawke inspected the guard and the Navy band - members of which were beginning to look decidedly chilled. ?? A33 Northern Territory News 2011 words A33a Northern Territory News - 18 November 1986 Govt told to act on bankruptcies By Leonie Biddle A high level of bankruptcies is costing Northern Territory suppliers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. NT Trading Association president, Ms Lea Rosenwax, said problems with failed businesses had reached epidemic proportions. The main difficulty stemmed from bankrupt company directors starting new businesses despite outstanding debts from their previous failed enterprises, Ms Rosenwax said. As a result, each Territory supplier was writing off more than $50 000 a year on bad debts. "The situation has reached epidemic proportions because no one is taking action against these people," Ms Rosenwax said. "You find businesses going down the gurgle one week and almost immediately the same people bob up under a new name without any repercussions." She said the revamped NT Companies Act prescribed substantial penalties for undischarged bankrupts. But these were not being enforced. The problem was exacerbated by the NT Government continuing to award contracts to builders who were undischarged bankrupts. "It is up to the Government to enforce its own regulations but it doesn't want to know," she said. Ms Rosenwax said the trading association, representing 50 Territory building suppliers, had approached Transport and Works Minister, Mr Nick Dondas. But his office had responded it was up to the market place to prosecute defaulting customers. "We believe it is up to the Government to ensure contracts are not awarded to people who are breaking the law," she said. The association also had approached Corporate Affairs Office in Darwin. It wanted the office to enforce the Act and refuse to register companies whose directors were undischarged bankrupts. "It seems the Corporate Affairs does not have the resources to check the backgrounds of company directors." Ms Rosenwax said the association would not let the matter rest. The community had paid dearly for the lack of action against unscrupulous business practices. One survey showed 540 unincorporated businesses in South Australia and the NT were declared bankrupt in 12 months to June 1985. These failed businesses, including registered firms, had cost SA and NT creditors almost $11 million. Ms Rosenwax said the association had decided to get tough on unscrupulous business people. It also was pushing for the urgent establishment of a register of companies with proven expertise and financial backing to carry through contracts. It had been pressing for this move for a number of years to reduce the incidence of companies defaulting on a project while it was in midstream. A33b Northern Territory News - 18 November 1986 Moves to stop Australia card MELBOURNE. - The Victorian Council for Civil Liberties has launched a campaign to stop the introduction of the Australia card. It is calling on State Premiers and the Northern Territory Chief Minister, Mr Steve Hatton, to refuse to co-operate with the card legislation. The legislation depends on the assistance of the State and Territory births*birth, deaths and marriages registers and lands titles offices to operate. The council's president, Mr Ron Castan QC, said the Australia Card Bill confirmed the council's worst fears about the effects on Australian society. "The implications of this legislation make it much more intrusive on our privacy than any systems existing in any European or north American country," he said. There would be a de facto compulsory obligation to carry the card. This was despite the suggestion the legislation implied the holding of the ID card would be voluntary. "There will be growing unofficial use of the card to the point where it will be difficult for most Australians to determine whether or not they are legally obliged to produce their card," Mr Castan said. The Victorian council also was concerned at the way in which the Federal Government had fudged issues*isues in the debate on the card. The Federal Health Minister, Dr Neal Blewett, had said the card would deal with welfare fraud. But that assertion ignored evidence given to a parliamentary committee by the Social Security Department, Mr Castan*Costan said. The department had said identity was a cause of fraud in less than 1 per cent of cases and the net result of ID card checks would be zero dollars. "The Government has ignored the enormous cost involved in having people take time off work to have their photograph taken and gain their birth certificates," Mr Castan*Costan said. "It ignores the work time lost as each Australian is required to line up to be interviewed by a public servant before being assigned a number. "There also will be costs imposed on ordinary decent Australians when Australia card computer errors inevitably occur." A33c Northern Territory News - 18 November 1986 Howard's wife stands by him CANBERRA. - As the supposed hordes of Peacock supporters close in on the Opposition Leader, Mr John Howard, and the hounds of the media smell a Liberal leadership challenge, you can count on one thing. Janette Howard will be in there, standing right beside her man. There is no other phrase for it: Mrs Howard is an oldfashioned, straightdown-the-line wife to her life mate. And although she sat through the same philosophy lectures*lecturers as 1960s notable rebel student, Mr Richard Neville, there is no feeling of her ever having been a student radical. When you look at the record of Janette Parker, to give Mrs Howard her maiden name, the feeling gets stronger. She was also a Master of Arts student in Australian literature and she was always a staunch Liberal, with a big "L". As Miss Parker, she "had the experience of being the only person (in that philosophy class) who put my hand up to say that I believed in God". "The lecturer talked about `Miss Parker's God' all year," Mrs Howard recalls. "I might add that I have met that lecturer in later years and he has apologised." Sitting in her husband's office in Canberra, Mrs Howard is now talking real uppermiddle-class politics as she sips coffee from a heavy china cup stamped with the Australian Coat of Arms. "John says I am getting more conservative as I get older. "He and I have some of our biggest arguments over conservative social issues. "For instance, I would hang people and John would never hang people," she says. "We have argued for hours over that. I think we both know the arguments backwards. "Oh yes, yes of course. But that's our version of marriage. "I mean most of the political wives do. They wouldn't be there if they weren't interested. "I mean the very first thing that attracted me about John was something I heard across the room and I thought, `I have got to go over and talk to that fellow'. "We first met at a political meeting." But as a university-educated, politically-aware person, there must be some regrets she is sitting in her husband's office while he is out on the floor of the chamber running a censure motion on the Hawke Government's handling of the economy. "No, because ... when I first met John, one of the things that I understood about him was that he was a far better politician than I would ever make." Why? "Because he has an evener keel than I do. I mean I fly up about things then I think about them and change. John has a far evener quality. He has qualities that I couldn't match." One pet subject she "can talk about for hours" is education. Mrs Howard, with an Arts degree from NSW University, has taught at various high schools. She has also taught at the co-educational school of Killarney Heights in Sydney's northern suburbs. The experience changed her mind about the value of co-educational schools. "I just feel that girls and boys who are at the age say 12 to 15 are at very, very different stages of development." Did she ever dream she would one day be sitting in the Opposition Leader's office? "Well, for one thing back then, I would have thought that was the Labor Party, because when I was at the university, the Liberal Party was still in Government and I was sufficiently pig-headed enough to think they would never leave." A33d Northern Territory News - 18 November 1986 Action over new phone tap powers By Bill Goff CANBERRA. - A new national body is likely to be established next year to control telephone tapping on behalf of State Police and the National Crime Authority as well as Federal Police. The move would amount to an extension of official phone-tapping powers to fight major crime, but would prevent the control of taps passing to State police forces or the NCA. The establishment of a single national authority to control taps - which would still need judicial warrant to begin - is a compromise solution to a long debate about the civil liberties dangers of extended tapping powers. It is believed to have emerged from a parliamentary joint committee on telecommunications interceptions which is due to report to Parliament later this week. Government sources said yesterday that although the national agency idea was not an ideal solution, it would probably prove an acceptable way out of a difficult problem. The Federal Opposition, the National Crime Authority and some others including former Painters and Dockers Royal Commissioner, Mr Frank Costigan, have all argued for the full extension of phone-tapping powers to State police and the NCA. On the other side civil liberties groups, the Australian Democrats and the Federal Labor Caucus have voiced strong concern about the threat to rights. In June this year Caucus succeeded in having legislation which would have extended some tapping powers to State forces and the NCA sent to a joint select committee. It is that committee which is due to report this week, and all factions of the ALP are expected to be in the majority which will want the new agency. This is an indication that changes to the legislation stand a good chance of winning Caucus approval. A33e Northern Territory News - 18 November 1986 Custodian gets land title Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Mr Clyde Holding, arrived in Darwin unannounced yesterday and handed over title for the most contentious land parcel in Kakadu National Park. Traditional Bunitj custodian, Mr Bill Neidjie, a patient in Royal Darwin Hospital, accepted the Aboriginal land title to the Jabiluka National Land Trust. Mr Holding said his sudden decision was based on compassionate grounds after "Big Bill" was admitted to hospital on Friday with pneumonia. "This is a serious condition for a person his age and circumstances," Mr Holding said. "And I felt obliged to ensure the early delivery of the title for which he and his people had waited so long." Aboriginal title for the mineral-rich area of about 400 km2 or 7 per cent of Kakadu National Park stage 2, was first recommended under the South Alligator River stage 2 land claim on July 3, 1981. Mr Holding said in making his decision he had taken into account recent submissions from the NT Government and mining giant Peko EZ. The area, including the multi-million dollar Ranger 68 deposit, was the subject of legal action since the minister indicated his intention to grant the remaining land in 1983. The NT Government sought an injunction last month to prevent the minister recommending the grant to the Governor-General, Sir Ninian Stephen. Mr Holding revoked his decision and gave the NT Government and Peko EZ further opportunity to make submissions. Surprised "I received these submissions and considered them closely along with other relevant material," Mr Holding said. Mr Holding claimed the granting of title was not related to the Federal Government's decision to ban mining in Kakadu National Park stages 1 and 2. Mr Holding's visit surprised the Northern Land Council, the NT Government, and the Darwin-based National Media Liaison Unit which did not know his intentions until after 6pm yesterday. A33f Northern Territory News - 18 November 1986 Uluru policy change By DAVE NASON The Territory Government has changed its policy on the Uluru board of management. The Chief Minister, Mr Steve Hatton, told the Legislative Assembly today he was nominating the Tourism Minister, Mr Ray Hanrahan and Conservation Minister, Mr Terry McCarthy, to the Government's vacant position. Under the previous Tuxworth administration the Territory boycotted representation in protest at the handover of Uluru National Park to Aborigines last year. ?? A34 The National Times 2002 words A34a The National Times - 21 December 1986 Watchdog bound in fraud hunt By Matthew Stevens CHAIRMAN Henry Bosch says the National Companies and Securities Commission has neither the staff nor the money to chase the corporate fraudsters. He says it has never successfully trapped an insider trader, that illegal share warehousing occurs often without punishment and that the growth of "sharp business practice" is damaging the already battered reputation of the business community. In recent weeks, world headlines about the insider trading of Wall Street's fabulously scandalous Ivan Boesky has focused attention on the level of insider trading in our own markets. According to Bosch, insider trading happens frequently but is almost impossible to prove. To emphasise his point, he produced a computer print-out showing a dramatic improvement in a small company's share price. He said the real price growth happened two weeks before an "absolutely vital press announcement on a new contract". He said: "But to go from that information to finding out who did the business and then prove that he knew about the contract before the information was made public is very difficult and very, very costly. We could not afford to chase all the insiders." But that, he says, is not the biggest problem. Bosch sees collusion as the greatest threat to the sort of equality of opportunity for shareholders which he believes is why regulation should exist in the first place. "There have been frequent cases of collusion in which nominally independent bodies have acted in a way that is mutually supportive. If the agreements had been written down, those actions would have certainly been in breach of Section 11 of the Companies Act. But, as we all know, these agreements are never written down and it is very difficult to prove what we know to be true." He added: "I will not make specific comment, but you may draw some inference on the present inquiries." It was an obvious reference to the NCSC's inquiry involving what is now an international investigation into the purchase of a $58 million parcel of takeover-targeted Humes Ltd. The NCSC has an annual budget of $5.7 million. It has eight commissioners, three full-time and five part-time, and 82 permanent staff of whom about 30 have resigned this year alone. Like other Public Service bodies which attempt to deal with the highest level of the business community, the NCSC has tremendous trouble recruiting the best staff because of its "highly inappropriate" Public Service salaries and conditions. A34b National Times - 21 December 1986 Soothing statistics don't solve 1987 economic prospects By Anne Flahvin DESPITE last month's lower trade deficit and the OECD's forecast of strong GDP growth in 1987, doubts are emerging in the market place about the prospects for next year's economy. Soothing words from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirming the accuracy of the November current account deficit of $685 million have been taken to heart by a financial market searching desperately for any good news. Combined with the OECD's forecast of a surprisingly strong 3.25 per cent GDP growth rate, this continued to support the Australian dollar on Friday. But the feeling among some economists and foreign exchange dealers this weekend is that the November deficit figure will still be revised upwards. Estimates of the strength of any possible upward revision vary considerably, but Melbourne economist Patrick O'Leary, of McCaughan Dyson and Co, says, "There is no way the figures can be right. Not even when Afghanistan was invaded did its imports fall by a fifth." Expectations for the January and February balance of trade figures are also not optimistic, with the market already forecasting a resumption of $1 billion plus monthly deficits next year. The Government is believed to be hoping to contain the current account deficit to $6 billion in the first six months of calendar 1987. While market watchers say this is possible, some remain sceptical. This weekend, market experts are tipping real growth of between 1.5 and 2.5 per cent over the coming year. This is well short of the OECD 3.25 per cent, which also conflicts with the outcome which is hoped for and expected by Federal Treasury. Traditionally, OECD forecasts on the Australian economy have mirrored fairly closely the views of Treasury as the Government of the day has been able to persuade the OECD to endorse the Treasury line. But the Government's ambition to rein in the current account deficit would probably receive a body blow if the Paris-based organisation's forecast of 3.25 per cent growth was realised. On the outlook for growth in 1987, Patrick O'Leary is not optimistic, "The contribution to GDP from investment went negative in the full year to September," he said. "The Keating assumption is that growth will come from net trade, but if the $A continues to go up we are not going to get a positive contribution to GDP from net trade. So where is the growth going to come from? "It is not going to come from private sector activity - the average household is in hock up to its eyebrows," he said. Many market watchers question whether the Reserve Bank will be able to retain the control it has exercised during the past few months over the $US/$A exchange rate. The Reserve Bank has been an active player in the market in an attempt to reduce the volatility of the exchange rate, and Ray Block, economist with brokers Dominguez Barry Samuel Montagu, says that provided pressure from our booming sharemarket eases a little in the new year, the Bank will be able to reassert its control. "The perseverance of the bank is very important to us - the degree of volatility in our currency should not be perceived to be greater than other currencies," he said. According to Kevin Tuckey, corporate adviser with Macquarie Bank "the Reserve Bank is not trying to put a lid on the $A, it is just trying to slow its growth" in a climate of strong overseas support for our currency. A34c National Times - 21 December 1986 Coal trade relies on kamikaze By Brian Robins JAPAN'S coal traders like to refer to it as the "kamikaze" that will protect the Australian coal industry from the worst of the shake-out from falling demand in Japan: "kamikaze" - divine wind - being the impact of sanctions on South African coal exports. Few countries have refused to buy South African coal, although Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry recently told Japanese users of South African coal that next year's purchases had to be held at this year's level. MITI's decision follows the recent success of the Democrats in the US mid-term elections. The Japanese Government believes that with the Democrats in control of the US Senate there will be an increase in sanctions against South Africa. To avoid criticism of Japan, MITI decided to act. Japan's demand for coal will fall substantially in the medium term. This change is being exacerbated in the short term by sharp price falls - about $US4 a tonne for coking coal and as much as $US5 a tonne for steaming coal in the Japanese market. For some high-cost Australian producers closures are inevitable. In private, senior members of Japan's steel mills have made it clear they do not intend abiding by MITI pressure to continue to maintain purchases of US coal. The outlook for some marginal Australian producers is bleak. Most Australian coal producers are among the lowest-cost producers in the world, but even then few can compete against South African coal in export markets because of its lower cost structure and lower exchange rate for the South African against the US dollar. In any event, the severe recession being felt by Japan's steel producers is being used to maximum effect in forcing some long-term suppliers out of the Japanese market no matter what contractual commitments are in place. A34d National Times - 21 December 1986 Ageing of Europe limits our growth By Andy Stoeckel WALK AROUND the shopping centres and parks on a Sunday in Hamburg or Kiel in West Germany and there's something striking - no kids! The unprecedented demographic revolution taking place in Europe will have widespread economic effects and global repercussions for Australia as well as for other countries. This revolution is probably already affecting economic policy in key countries and limiting the chances for world recovery. One West German demographer estimates that if the current decline in population continues there will only be half as many Europeans in the year 2086 as now. The lowest birth rate is in West Germany - 1.3 children per woman - the lowest in the country's history. Already the lower population growth rates mean housing and land prices are falling at a time of supposedly good economic growth and that has bankers worried. Some of the effects, such as closing schools and teacher layoffs (look out for a big immigration of European teachers) are obvious enough. But the main economic influence will come from the ageing of the population. This ageing is a consequence of declining birth rates and increasing life expectancy due to medical advances. Over the next 25 years many of the major industrial economies - the "engines" of the world economy - will have huge increases in the number of pensioners. In Europe by the turn of the century 25 per cent of the population will be over 60 years of age. Moreover, the number of workers - the people paying for the pensioners - will fall. The proportion of pensioners to the labour force will rise dramatically to 64 per cent in West Germany and more than double in Japan to 43 per cent by 2030. These effects for key countries are shown in the chart. This increased burden of old people - higher medical care costs, pensions and entitlements - will mean some hard choices for governments. They have four choices: allow an explosion of public sector debt, increase taxes (including by inflation), cut pensions and entitlements, or cut other expenditure. It is this prospect of ballooning public sector debt that is affecting the slow world recovery, the falling US dollar and hence our own prospects. First, as stated in previous articles in this column, macroeconomic policies between the majors are out of phase. While the United States has been running large fiscal deficits, West Germany and Japan have maintained tight fiscal policies. This has contributed to the huge US current account deficit, the enormous debt build-up and the falling US dollar. One of the often-stated remedies is for the Japanese and West Germany economies to reflate their economies through fiscal expansion. A domestic expansion by these two should lead to increased imports, encourage world economic growth and ease the US trade deficit. While true, this point should not be overplayed. Martin Feldstein, past chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, a US economic think tank, estimates that a 2 per cent a year rise in GNP in every country in the world for the next two years would raise US exports in 1989 by less than $US15 billion - only 10 per cent of the the US trade deficit! That is also the reason there has to be a further big decline of the US dollar. Income changes alone will not close the US trade gap and price changes (devaluations) will be necessary. But there is no doubt that fiscal expansion by West Germany and Japan would lift world economic growth, ease US trade problems, improve world trade, lift commodity prices and ease Third World debt problems. So, why don't West Germany and Japan expand more than they are doing now? Wouldn't that be universally popular? Let us go back to the ageing factor. West Germany and Japan face public sector debt explosions to finance the increasing pension costs (see chart). Organisations for Economic Co-operation and Development projections of public sector debt in these countries, assuming no change in pension costs and taking account of the likely changes, highlight the dramatic influence of the demographic changes. The ratio of debt to GNP in Japan could be over 100 per cent by 2010. ?? A35 The Sun Herald 2016 words A35a The Sun Herald - 7 December 1986 Politicians set to toil harder for their pay By Michael Grealy THE underworked politicians who fill the red leather benches of the NSW Legislative Council may soon have to toil harder for their handsome salaries. State Cabinet has received a report recommending a Senate-style committee system for the 45-member NSW Upper House. The council, for most of its 130 years a chamber of privilege and life-long appointments, has survived repeated calls for its abolition and even a referendum on its future as late as 1960. The Wran Government introduced the greatest reform of the council in 1978 by making it elected by popular franchise. The reform continued last year, when council members gained salary parity with Legislative Assembly MPs and could devote their energies full time to Parliamentary duties. `Geriatrics' Now, a select committee has proposed a system of five standing committees for the council, a reform described last week by the committee's chairman, Mr Ron Dyer, as one of the most significant developments in the council's history. Mr Dyer, a Labor member of the council since 1979, admitted that council members could make a greater contribution for their $43,098 salary. "In the past, the council was called a house of geriatrics and a gentlemen's club," he said. "While there might have been some truth in this criticism, now that all the members are full time and being paid on parity with Lower House members, they ought to be working full time, but it is probably true to say they are not sufficiently occupied at the moment. "The House needs to find a role, and the most effective way is by the committee system." A former Liberal member of the council, Mr Lloyd Lange, called for a committee system in 1980 but it was not until last year that the idea was embraced by the ALP. The Premier, Mr Unsworth, then Government leader in the council, set up the select committee, a fact Mr Dyer believes will help its passage through Cabinet. The Dyer committee has recommended the immediate introduction of four standing committees, covering subordinate legislation and deregulation, State progress, social issues and country affairs, and a fifth committee 18 months later to scrutinise legislation to ensure that civil liberties are not infringed. The report says the Australian Senate's committee system is comprehensive, respected and acknowledged as having been responsible for revitalising that chamber. It says the committees would give the Legislative Council greater relevance and effectiveness, enhanced respect and greater sense of involvement by members with contemporary issues and government business. "They won't obstruct government operations but complement them and give the public input to policy before it finishes up in legislation," Mr Dyer said. The select committee also recommended an expansion of the Public Accounts Committee, the Legislative Assembly watchdog, to include Upper House members. The new joint committee should be required by law to examine at least one statutory body in detail every six months, it said. The choice should be random to act as an incentive to good management of statutory bodies. Mr Dyer said the extra costs of the committees would be a "very modest $1 million". A35b The Sun Herald - 7 December 1986 The face of terror 1986 By Frank Walker THE hit women - more deadly than any man The face of terror 1986 is female. Women have taken over Europe's terrorist groups and they are deadlier than the male. The cold-bloodedness of a spate of murders, bombings and maimings carried out by women over the past few months has shocked Europeans. West German police chiefs have responded by instructing recruits: "Shoot the women first". Three weeks ago in Paris, Georges Besse, head of the Renault car firm, was walking home and was just 50 metres from his front door. Two women jumped out from the shadows. One held a sub-machine gun to cover the street and the other shot 58-year-old Besse three times - in the chest, shoulder and head. French police launched a nationwide hunt for two of France's most wanted terrorists - Nathalie Menigon, 29, and Joelle Aubron, 27. Both are leaders and chief executioners in France's extreme left terror group, Action Directe. The shooting had remarkable similarities with a terrorist execution in the West German capital Bonn a few weeks earlier. Gerold von Braunmuehl, a top official in the Foreign Ministry, was leaving a taxi outside his home when three masked people slid out of a car over the road. One covered the street with a machine gun, while the others calmly walked over to von Braunmuehl. One guarded the other's back while the killer pumped bullet after bullet into von Braunmuehl. Police believe the killer was either Barbara Meyer, 38, or Inge Viett, 42, a former kindergarten nurse and one of Germany's most wanted terrorists. Women have been part of the terrorist scene in Europe from the early days of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of the 1970s. Ulrike Meinhof was a campaigning journalist until she took to more direct action and, with Andreas Baader, embarked on a bombing and shooting spree across Europe that left more than 100 police in hospital and one judge dead. Meinhof hanged herself in jail. Baader and his girlfriend, parson's daughter Gudrun Ensslin, committed suicide in jail after an attempt to free them by hijacking a Lufthansa plane ended in failure at Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. After their deaths in 1977 Europe breathed a sigh of relief. The experts claimed the problem had been "solved". But a new generation, mostly women, now runs the terrorist cells, known in West Germany as the Red Army Faction, in France as Action Directe and in Italy as the Red Brigades. "These people are stronger and the new ones seem to be only interested in killing," said Alexander Prechtel, of the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Bonn. There is a hard-core of around 20 killer commandos, more ruthless and better organised than the Baader-Meinhof gang. Of the 18 most wanted terrorists in West Germany, 11 are women. But what drives them to commit their acts of terror? Dr Henri Giraud, psychiatrist to the Paris courts, said: "The traditional role of women is being turned upside down and female terrorists - like all beginners - are unusually zealous. The want to expropriate male power. Paranoia produces an inhuman calmness ... Menigon and Aubron killed Georges Besse the way they would break a vase." Terrorists shared common characteristics, he said: They all came from upper middle-class homes. They all had good educations and had embarked on a career when they turned to terrorism. Nearly all the women seemed to have met a man already involved in the terrorist "radical chic" scene before they got into it themselves. Many had unsatisfying childhoods - long, silent frustration surrounded by affluence. ANGELIKA SPEITEL, a green-eyed, 34-year-old blonde, is the first female terrorist to speak about life in the Red Army Faction. "Everybody wanted to be very cool," she said. "In reality we were all very scared but we would never have admitted that to each other. "There was always a bit of homesickness, a need for love. "There was never any love among the members. You can't have actions in your head and love someone at the same time. You have to have a hate, otherwise it wouldn't work." Speitel was captured in 1978 in a shoot-out with police. One officer was killed. Whether she or another terrorist fired the fatal shot is still unclear. She was wounded in the leg. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. In a recent interview inside her Cologne jail with a German magazine she gave a rare glimpse of the psychology of the terrorist. She admits it is hard to speak about her "family", her fellow terrorists. In 1981 she went on a hunger strike in Cologne jail to join terrorists kept in another jail. "I was afraid of dying. I was dying a little more each day. But I thought if I didn't join the hunger strike then*than I will be forever alone in this cell." For two years Speitel was in solitary confinement. She was considered too dangerous to mix with the other prisoners. She tried to kill herself. It was the prison chaplain who finally got her to talk. For months she kept throwing him out of her cell. Then she started shouting at him, launching a tirade against society, the prison, the Church, anything that came to mind. The chaplain just sat and listened. After a while the revolutionary dogma sounded very thin. She realised she knew nothing about fascism or imperialism apart from the slogans she shouted. She started talking about herself. She was angry about the class system which she felt kept her family down - her mother worked in a shop, her father was a skilled worker. When she was 20 she moved into a commune in Stuttgart. She married Volker Speitel, an unhappy man who dabbled in radical politics. When they split up, she moved in with a group of men involved in organising terrorist acts. In 1976 she was introduced to Peter Boock, one of the RAF commandos. "He struck me as the man I had been waiting for. His innocent brown eyes - I thought I have to be careful with him. "When I met Boock I had this incredibly good feeling - I felt I had at last decided to join the fight for freedom. I felt I had freed myself." She went underground with Boock but the affair lasted only three weeks. Then she fell into the routine of the group. "Emotions had to be suppressed. They kept on asking me why I was laughing or crying. They said I had to have a reason. I suppressed laughing and crying from then on. "They were constantly talking about my readiness to join the actions. In the first few years I was always ashamed that I wasn't ready to join in. I would tell them I wanted to, that I wanted to get the prisoners out of the jails. I just didn't want to think how we would actually go about it. I was inhibited. "Only those who were actually going to do the action were allowed to hold the floor. The others would say I didn't really want to join in. I did, but when it came to getting up that morning I just couldn't. When they came for me I was still lying in bed. "I started to cut myself off from the others. I felt so alone. But I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone else. When they found I had talked to the cook in a hotel or gone to a disco by myself all hell broke loose. They questioned me for hours." Her job was to arrange the hideouts. She took part in the planning of the murders of the bank chief Jurgen Ponto, and employers' leader Hans Martin Schleyer. After the suicide in jail of the terrorists Baader, Meinhof and Ensslin many of the group wanted to quit. They realised they wouldn't change the world with their actions. "But we couldn't leave. The others were all watching us. We didn't even dare talk about doubt, wounds, aches and feelings. It was a living death. "It was a time of immaturity for a lot of us. We didn't know what life and death was. It was a frenzy, an addiction which went too far." Speitel now lives with a group of female prisoners and is learning to be a seamstress. INGE VIETT AGE: 42 NATIONALITY: West German. BACKGROUND: Former kindergarten nurse, member of Baader-Meinhof and founder of the Second of June terrorist movement. Viett is West Germany's most wanted woman terrorist and has been on the run for 10 years since she made a spectacular escape from prison in West Berlin. Viett had strong links with the Carlos organisation and the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Her release from jail was one of the demands made by Palestinian terrorists who hijacked an Air France jet at Entebbe airport in Uganda before they were gunned down in the Israeli rescue operation. ?? A36 The Sun Herald 2021 words A36a The Sun Herald - 14 September 1986 Dollar's crash has claimed another victim By Susan Hely BUYING a cheap, good used car is becoming a thing of the past. Over the past 12 months cars have done an incredible shrinking act. Twelve months ago, $5,000 would have bought a four-year-old car such as a Laser or Colt or perhaps a six-year-old Mazda 626. Since then the price has jumped at least $1,000 and still rising. Used car salespeople say this is partly the result of owners keeping their vehicles, rather than buying a new one, because of the huge rises in new car prices, triggered by the recent drop in the Australian dollar. The outlook for new motor vehicles is poor. Total sales this year are tipped to fall 24 per cent, from last year's record 695,000 to 525,000. Car owners who are selling are acutely aware they can get quite a bit more than they could have, say, 12 months ago. They will need it if they are thinking of replacing the old car with a new one. Some used cars are selling for more than the owners originally paid for them. This is the case for the Honda City. The 1984 models, with 30,000 kilometres on the odometer, are selling in a range of $8,000 to $8,900, according to last week's Sun-Herald classifieds. They cost $7,500 new. The owners of these cars are aware that the replacement price has risen sharply and a new Honda City is selling for a little more than $10,000 (plus the on-road costs). The argument for buying a new car now is that they will hold their resale value and will keep rising given the outlook for the Australian dollar. The car salespeople claim there is something to be said for scratching funds together to buy a new car. And it is tempting to consider the possibility - until you do the sums. If a 1980 automatic Mazda 323 costs $6,000 at present, what is the cheapest possible new car going to cost? Well, one which is comparable is a Mitsubishi Colt, but on the road a new one will cost around $11,000. So perhaps there's nothing for it but to scour the motor market pages or maybe consider the possibility of leasing a car occasionally. This is a particularly good idea for someone who lives close to public transport or in the inner city. For example, it can be cheaper (but not as convenient, of course) to lease a car from time to time and make do with a mix of public transport and taxis for the rest of the time. The NRMA claims a modest late-model car costs around $100 a week to run - excluding petrol. A luxury imported car is twice that. By comparison, renting a modest car for one day a week will cost $39. The NRMA's survey shows that it costs $5,153 a year, excluding petrol, to run a family car like a 1986 Toyota Corona automatic sedan if you drive 15,000 kilometres a year. That's about $99 a week. But if you decided to rent the same Corona every second week between 4 pm Friday and 10 am Monday, you could do it for $2,492 a year or $48 a week. In both cases petrol is extra. A36b The Sun Herald - 14 September 1986 From the floor Susan Hely AUSTRALIAN share markets finished the week on a firm note, unmoved by the record one-day falls on the Tokyo and New York share markets and negative news of Moody's credit re-rating. The All Ordinaries index closed only marginally weaker - down 2.6 points at 1235.9 after a bout of profit-taking in gold and industrial shares. Analysts pointed to overseas buying of blue chip miners, which appear attractive in light of a low Australian dollar, and firm gold stocks as the main impetus for the markets resilience. Of note was the strength of Woolworths' share price following a 90 per cent fall in profit for the first half. Takeover speculation halted a share price slide as the New Zealand group, Chase Corporation, is believed to have added a further 2 per cent to its 3 per cent holding on Thursday when it bought a line of 4.38 million Woolworths shares. Ron Brierley's Industrial Equity Ltd appeared to acquire some 724,480 Adelaide Advertiser shares on Friday, a trade representing 1.4 per cent of the company. This acquisition is particularly interesting given IEL's recent purchase of a 5 per cent holding in Herald and Weekly Times. A36c The Sun Herald - 14 September 1086 Central role in nation's finances ESTABLISHED in January 1960, the Reserve Bank is Central Station to the nation's financial traffic. It has a staff of more than 3,600 in all States and Territories as well as key representatives in London and New York. It is banker to governments, banks and certain other financial institutions; it prints and manages the nation's bank notes; and it provides some short-term seasonal finance for the rural sector. Its major purpose is to formulate and implement monetary policy, which has been described as the fine-tuning knob on the TV set. Fiscal policy, determined by government, is the bigger one that changes channels. As agent for the Federal Government, the Reserve Bank distributes coin, conducts stock registries for Commonwealth securities and manages the Commonwealth's domestic borrowing programs. From its headquarters in Sydney's Martin Place, it also oversees Australia's foreign exchange market and holds and manages Australia's official reserves of gold and foreign exchange. At the end of the 1985-86 financial year, the bank's total assets of $16.9 billion included almost $2 billion of gold, $8.6 billion of foreign exchange and $4.7 billion of treasury notes and other securities. The governor and chairman of the board, Mr R.A. Johnston, and deputy governor, Mr D.N. Sanders, hold seven-year appointments. The secretary to the Treasury, Mr Bernie Fraser, ranks third. Five of the other board members, TNT's Sir Peter Abeles, Sir Samuel Burston, Mr J.N. Davenport, Mr R.G. Gregory and Sir Gordon Jackson, are all prominent business leaders. The former ACTU Vice-President Mr Charlie Fitzgibbon represents the union movement. A36d The Sun Herald - 14 September 1986 Trust aims to profit from imputation Peter Freeman THE planned introduction of dividend imputation is still 10 months off, but at least one unit trust manager, Bankers Trust Australia Ltd, is positioning itself to take advantage of the potential tax benefits. Under dividend imputation a company will pay tax at the proposed new rate of 49 cents in the dollar, but this will then be allowed as a credit against the tax liability of dividends paid to shareholders. An investor with a top rate of 30 cents in the dollar will be able to claim 19 cents in the dollar as a credit against other income. The trust - launched at the start of July and known as the BT Equity Imputation Fund - has raised $2 million and has been actively seeking shares that offer the best chance of generating the highest imputation benefits. By getting in early it hopes to establish a well-balanced portfolio prior to the expected rush into high-yielding shares later in 1986-87. Investors who buy units in the BT Equity Imputation Fund will be indirect shareholders in the fund's shares and benefit from imputation, which takes affect from July. Shares that presently yield 7 or 8 per cent pre-tax effectively will give investors an after-tax return of 12 to 13 per cent as a result of imputation. But remember, it is not necessary for a local share fund to set up specifically to take advantage of imputation since all of them will benefit from this change. All that the BT fund is doing is signalling to investors that it will be aiming specifically at taking the maximum advantage of imputation. As well there is always a possibility the Federal Government will change its mind, although imputation was unaffected by the recent Federal Budget. Bankers Trust has attempted to lift the attractiveness of its new imputation product by linking it with three specialist international trusts under the banner of the BT Select Markets Trust. A36e The Sun Herald - 14 September 1986 US air fares cut by 25pc CONTINENTAL Airlines slashed its Sydney - New York economy fare by 25 per cent yesterday as a price war flared again. For business and first-class passengers, the saving is two tickets for the price of one. Continental's new economy return fare to the Big Apple is now $1,399 - undercutting its rivals by $505. Mr Col Hughes, general manager of Continental, said the new price had been introduced to mark the start of the airline's one-stop direct flight from Australia to New York on October 26. He said passengers who bought return first or business class tickets on the flight would receive a second ticket free. The new economy fare will not be available during the peak Christmas period. - Joan Mabbutt A36f The Sun Herald - 14 September 1986 Penfolds opens its high-tech bunker Huon Hooke When Penfolds concluded a successful takeover of Allied Vintners in 1985 its managers were horrified at the plans for the new Seaview champagne cellars at Reynella, south of Adelaide. Allied, which encompassed Wynns, Seaview, Tulloch and Killawarra, was spending millions on what Penfolds thought was a highly impractical*highly-impractical and inefficient champagne complex, made up of three partly underground bunkers with six enormous concrete slabs as floors. Penfolds' first move was to scrap the Seaview plans, and secondly to draw up plans of its own for a new Seaview cellar alongside the Penfolds-Kaiser Stuhl stronghold at Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley. But the contract for the concrete slabs couldn't be cancelled. Penfolds scratched its corporate head and came up with the solution. It used them as walls for one gigantic Seaview building, which was declared open by the SA Premier John Bannon last weekend. The building covers 1.5ha (3.5 acres) and you could fit three football fields in it. The standing joke at "pennies" is that when the holocaust comes the employees reckon the bunker will be the safest place to hide. An alternative joke could be that it's almost big enough to hold all the staff of Penfolds, which is the biggest Australian wine company by far. Managing director Ian Mackley siad Penfolds crushed 87,600 tonnes of grapes last vintage. He reminded his audience that that memorable vessel, the Queen Mary, weighed a mere 82,000 tonnes. Not the least impressive statistic is the amount of loot that's been spent on this fantastic fizz factory: a cool $15 million. There's little doubt that Penfolds has the biggest winemaking complex in the southern hemisphere. In France's Champagne district towns of Reims and Epernay there are bigger sparkling wine operation, but I don't believe there is one that could match the impressive array of state-of-the art equipment. Perhaps the most startling are the automatic remuage machines, which shake the yeast sediment down to the necks of the bottles after the bottle-ageing. These do, in 10 days, the job that men used to need two months to do. Designed, built and patented in Australia they are bigger than any I have seen in France. They are computer-controlled so they operate continuously. Each machine can take 4,000 bottles and shake them down in 10 days - and there are eight of them! Seaview sells about 170,000 dozen bottles of champagne a year, putting it well behind Penfolds' big one, Minchinbury, running at about 550,000. But Seaview is by far the biggest-selling sparkler made by the full methode champenoise - the traditional French champagne method. This is a more costly and slow process than transfer disgorgement, the method used by Minchinbury, Seppelts Great Western Imperial Reserve, Orlando Carrington and others. But even Seaview's 270,000 cases is small bubbles beside biggest real champagne,Moet and Chandon, which sells about 1.5 million cases a year. However Penfolds is making plenty of room for expansion. The sparkling wine market is growing at about 20 per cent a year, and the new cellar has the capacity to produce 500,000 dozen a year. The storage capacity of the building is one million cases. The base wines are not made in this cellar, but they are bottled and undergo their secondary fermentation there, then afterwards their 12 months bottle maturation on yeast lees, disgorgement, liqueuring, recorking, labelling and packaging. ?? A37 The Sun Herald 2019 words A37a The Sun Herald - 9 November 1986 My captains courageous A ROSY aura has been manufactured in recent times about the magic of leadership in cricket. Ever since a committee known as the Board of Control for Cricket in the first place, about 1912, and the Cricket Board, which name evolved during the presidency or influential stages of Sir Donald Bradman, mainly inspired, I suspect, from the feelings of disdain*distain and distrust engendered in the maestro's mind as a result of two memorable brushes he had with it, about 14 or 15 men in the most part miles removed from active on-field experience in cricket have enjoyed the right of choosing Australia's captain. Under such a system it became, during my time, little more than a lucky coincidence if the board's darling hit it off happily with the players. My first experience of leadership in first class cricket was expertly turned on by Alan Kippax, one of the really great NSW batsmen of all time. No local batsman has threatened to surpass him in style and effectiveness since his retirement in 1934 and who have moved into the same sphere of competency. His contribution was to mould the young NSW Shield side, destitute of its stars to a mass exodus in 1927-28 which saw great names like Warren Bardsley, Charlie Macartney, Charlie Kelleway, Hunter Hendry, Tommy Andrews, Johnny Taylor and Arthur Mailey disappear forever from the game. It needed a highly popular man to hold the deserted fort - a man of unsurpassed ability in the field of play where examples in batting, bowling, fielding and acceptable behaviour had to be expounded to a team of new recruits. Referring to the team, which he led lovingly, as his Portuguese Army, Kippax carried his job faithfully and skilfully. That he was able to turn out men like Archie Jackson, Don Bradman, Stan McCabe, Jack Fingleton, Syd Hird, Hughie Chilvers and Bill O'Reilly bears such respect for him that there's nothing more to be said of a man whose memory must always be revered in this State. My first international captain, Bill Woodfull, made easily the greatest impact upon me at a time when Australia was universally aware that never before had an Australian cricket captain been called upon for level-headed leadership in a time of cricket insanity. As my captain in the bodyline season, when cricket went mad, Woodfull won my undying respect and that of every team-mate who faced the music with him. To give you a sidelight of this man of substance, I stress that he was the son of a Victorian country padre who had taken a leading part in a highly controversial sectarian flame-up which had darkened many a national horizon in eastern Australia where sectarianism had been rampant since the bellicose Prime Ministership of Billy Hughes throughout the two conscription campaigns. As a young well-educated man of Hibernian lineage, I had fairly well-developed ideas on all the kindred topics of that troubled time. But it was with almost total disbelief that I found William Maldon Woodfull to be a man of the strongest possible character who never ceased to treat everyone of us with the utmost personal respect. So much so indeed that he was even prepared to head each interested one of us off in the direction of his appropriate church on Sunday mornings on tour. He was as brave, I reckon, as Horatius who held the bridge across the Tiber. Twice he batted right through an Australian innings when lesser men about him fell like ordinary mortals. In Brisbane in 1928 he watched all his batting supports disappear like flotsam and jetsam in a fast running stream to remain unconquered for 30 in a total of 66. Jack White, England's slow left-handed bowler renowned for accuracy in length and direction, collected 4-7 in which bag Don Bradman's name, listed at number five, appeared caught Chapman bowled White one. The other immortal occasion happened in Adelaide when Woodfull batted through the second innings total of 193 for 73 not out. This after suffering one of the most savage body blows ever when a whack across the heart laid him low and served as one of the two explosive incidents which set that fatal Test alight. In the wake of the puerile to-ing and fro-ing which went on in the ensuing*ensuring war of words which culminated in our Board of Control pulling down its colours and retreating in confusion, Woodfull's composure and public respect were completely unparallelled before or since. I regard it as one of my greatest cricket possessions to have been a close associate of such an inspiring mate in those hours of trial. By comparison with him, all others, I honestly believe, pale into insignificance. Don Bradman's name comes constantly to the fore when captaincy of class is being discussed and probably quite rightly so. But there were one or two things hard up against his "duck house" which will remain forever as potent arguments to be ranged up in criticism by intelligent researchers. First was the dropping of Clarrie Grimmett at the start of Bradman's captaincy reign in 1936-37 when, as an Australian selector and fledgling*fledging captain, he allowed the best spinner the world has seen, a point established beyond doubt a few months previously in South Africa, to vanish from the Test scene. The other was when four of his teamsmen, Stanley Joseph McCabe, Leslie O'Brien Xavier Fleetwood-Smith, Leo Patrick O'Brien and William Joseph O'Reilly, went humiliatingly before a sectarian junta of the Board of Control meeting secretly in Melbourne to face a maliciously evil charge of insubordination. Each one of my three mates would gladly have welcomed some friendly gesture from our young captain as we lined up for that painful afternoon with hate in our hearts. I have seen leadership fortunes ebb and flow right from the time of Warwick Armstrong, and I got to know men like Joe Darling, Hughie Trumble, Clem Hill, Monty Noble and Syd Gregory who filled the breach before that mountain of a man. There have been many since who have carried out their jobs sufficiently and successfully, like Richie Benaud and Ian Chappell, and some whose names will drop through the bottom of the basket without leaving a trace, but each has been chosen by a band of men whose right to name a leader has never yet been questioned. A recent ploy of theirs to assist in making decisions about blossoming capacities has been to send a band of men on a lightning visit to India, there to cement the spirit of comradeship and hone the skills of leadership. Kim Hughes did it last season and, returning amid a media fanfare of trumpets, collapsed in a heap at the end of the Brisbane Test against New Zealand. To bolster Allan Border's ego he too went off to India after having shown frightening signs of succumbing to strain on a tour of New Zealand last summer. For moral support a retired captain, Bob Simpson, accompanied him in a cunning sort of wet-nurse capacity. Whether this will prove to have been an inspired move or not remains to be seen, but I draw your attention to the fact that the selectors have sailed into that India tour attack with their scalpels wreaking even before our England invasion has got fairly underway. Oh, for another Bill Woodfull to put pride into our top team and at the same time clear the dressing room of all superfluous impedimenta presently contained therein. A37b The Sun Herald - 9 November 1986 ... And the post-war giants name their best skippers. By Brett Thomas NSW Cricket Association president Alan Davidson, who played in 44 Tests between 1953 and 1963, said there have been only two standout captains in his time - Lindsay Hassett and Richie Benaud. "I think Richie was the best mainly because our careers went side by side from schoolboy days," he said. "I understood him and he understood me. It was always very easy to play with him." Davidson gives Hassett the credit for moulding him as a player during his first tour of England in 1953. "I will always have a very vivid recollection of Lindsay during that tour," he said. "He had a wonderful understanding of a young player. "He was only a little man - but he was very big on understanding." Blockbusting batsman Keith Stackpole, with 43 Tests under his belt, has no doubts when it comes to his choice as the best. "Ian Chappell was the best I ever played under, then Bill Lawry and Bobby Simpson in that order," he said. "I rate Ian the best because his style of captaincy suited me. We would both rather win a match than have it peter out into a dull draw. "Bill was more of a defensive captain but he showed the young fellows the right attitude although he didn't have quite the same material as Ian. "And Simmo was a great inspiration because he was always so terribly energetic." Channel 9 commentator Bill Lawry also names Richie Benaud as the best ever - with Ian Chappell second. He would not name a third. "Richie was a tremendous captain," he said. "He was the first of the modern captains to really appreciate what was needed in modern cricket. "The series in which he captained Australia against the West Indies in 1961 started a tremendous boost for cricket. "He has done a fantastic amount for both Australian and world cricket and I've never seen or played with anyone better. "Ian Chappell had a tremendous record as a captain and a player and, statistically, he was also one of the best. "His own natural ability shone through and he always led from the front." Cricket commentator Richie Benaud said there were only two standout Australian captains he's seen - Keith Miller and Ian Chappell. "Keith was captain of NSW and although he never captained Australia at Test level I still consider him the best, with Ian," he said. "They are the top two - all the others are of about equal standard. "The reason they were so good is because they had imagination apart from their skill and leadership qualities. "They had a very good knowledge of the game and were always willing to take a gamble." A37c The Sun Herald - 9 November 1986 Oh for a triumphant burst of Botham! Patrick Collins, The Mail on Sunday, London A FEW years ago an English cricket correspondent presented himself at the immigration desk at Sydney Airport seeking entry to that vigorous land of opportunity. The immigration officer looked him over. He took in the Harrovian tie, the tropical suit and the superior smile of one who was born to rule. And he was not impressed. For an hour he bombarded the visitor with questions. Then, inspiration exhausted, he said: "Do you have a criminal record?" The answer was impeccable. "My dear old thing. I didn't know it was still compulsory in this country." In one encounter the stereotypes had been served; the hostile Australian, juggling with the chip on his shoulder, and the urbane Englishman, trumping hostility with a deadly quip. But times, sad to report, are changing. And in the months ahead the English may look back with a certain longing to their dear, dead days of domination. For Australan sport is experiencing - if they will forgive the word - a renaissance. As Ian Chappell, that celebrated philosopher and wordsmith, put it: "Things are looking up. We're starting to kick a few bums." And there is merit in his claim. In the first Test at Old Trafford, the Kangaroos - the Australian Rugby League team - were revealed as perhaps the finest collection of players ever to run on to a Rugby field. Of course, they had certain advantages in that they were larger, faster and considerably more skilful than our brave lads, but they did not simply beat Great Britain; they beat them out of sight. When you recall the ease with which their Rugby Union team did much the same sort of thing to all the Home Countries, you may conclude that the Aussies have made their case with the oval ball. ?? A38 The Sunday Press 2007 words A38a The Sunday Press - 30 November 1986 A Keating Minder? Paul Keating is being urged by supporters to pull his head in - before the Opposition kicks it in. At least two Ministers say Mr Keating, the ALP's toughest parliamentary brawler, needs a "minder". They are urging the Prime Minister Mr Hawke to lend him a senior staffer with sharp political instincts. This, the Ministers say, would save the Treasurer from politically damaging stumbles. One Minister said: "The problem with Paul is that he surrounds himself with bright young things from the Tax Office and personal staff who are good mates with the forex boys (foreign exchange dealers), but none of them has a scrap of basic political nous." Whether Mr Keating would willingly accept advice from one of Mr Hawke's minders is doubtful. In May, he appealed to Mr Hawke to discipline his minders, saying he was in a "permanent stoush" with them. The stumble this week that triggered ALP concern - and gave the Opposition such joy - was Mr Keating's admission that he was "too busy" to lodge tax returns. Senior Ministers were furious at the Treasurer's failure to meet the most basic demand of the Tax Office. The parliamentary row that followed the admission gave Opposition MPs the chance to get a bit of their own back on Mr Keating, and they queued up with glee to deliver their barbs. THE Keating gaffe took a lot of gloss off what had, until then, been a good sitting for the Government. And the Opposition isn't finished with the issue yet. Senator Tony Messner, Opposition spokesman on taxation, told the Sunday Press last night that the tax return row would be "a monkey on Mr Keating's back for the rest of his career". "It will weigh down Mr Keating and the Hawke Government," he said. "Mr Keating's failure to lodge his own returns undermines people's faith in this Government, that it actually means what it says. "The affair cast a terrible feeling of lack of sincerity." The tax return affair caps a bad year for the man once called "the world's best Treasurer". Mr Keating's first major stumble was in May, with his "banana republic" outburst. He warned that Australia was in danger of becoming a third-rate economy - and adverse reaction to what was an off-the-cuff radio interview sent the dollar and the stockmarkets tumbling. Mr Keating has had a running battle all year with opponents to his tax reforms, particularly the powerful lobby against the fringe benefits tax. When he claimed a $17,400 travel allowance for time spent away from his home base in Sydney - while he and his family were living in rented accommodation in Canberra, his opponents had a field day. Mr Keating copped more bucketing when the promised tax cuts were postponed, and he introduced a tough Budget that imposed a broad new range of indirect taxes. But feelings in his own electorate were the most serious problem of all for Mr Keating. An opinion poll at the end of August showed that the Treasurer, who has swept the NSW seat of Blaxland seven times since 1969, now had to face the fact that his seat had become marginal. The survey showed that only one half of 1 per cent separated Mr Keating from his Liberal opponent. Labor Party polling over the past two months has shown that the Treasurer's abrasiveness is a political liability. And that was before he tried to "tough out" the row over his late taxation returns. Even his friends and fellow NSW Right-wingers, including the powerful Senator Graham Richardson, have advised Mr Keating that he had become too distant from the broad mass of Labor voters. The late tax return underlines the point. Most Australians, Labor or Liberal, get their returns in on time. Mr Keating didn't file his 1985 tax return until it was more than a year overdue, and he was three months late with his 1986 return. Senator Messner, a taxation agent, said: "He set a very poor example to Australia's 6 1/2 million taxpayers. I am fearful of the consequences of a leading figure creating a precedent. "I don't know if it would be a defence for latecomers to say they were too busy, like the Treasurer, but many will try it." Asked when he lodged his own return, Senator Messner said: "I don't have to hire a tax agent, I am a tax agent. I put mine in in July. I understand the rules. "Mr Keating's claim that he is a busy man was rough - everybody's busy. A38b The Sunday Press - 30 November 1986 It's no cheer on beer HOTELS across Melbourne - and the state - are facing a crisis. A Sunday Press survey showed many hotels have already run out of draught beer, and many more are running low. And packaged beer is dwindling too. With hot weather forecast for the next few days and pre-Christmas parties starting to get into full swing, flummoxed publicans are counting near-empty cellars. Licensed grocers are in trouble, too. Secretary-manager of the Retail Liquor Merchants Association, Mr Bruno Scarcella warned last night: "It's a very desperate situation. "Retailers depend on income from Christmas trade to pay licence fees, due at the end of the year," he said. Seven hundred CUB workers went on strike last Monday week in a dispute over a Christmas bonus. CUB workers in NSW and WA already have such a bonus - which is effectively two weeks' pay, in contrast to a one-week pay bonus Victorian colleages receive. The striking workers already have a 35-hour week, 9-day fortnight; four weeks' annual leave with a 50 per cent holiday loading; and all overtime worked is paid at double time (a recent introduction). As the effects of the strike hit home, a CUB spokesman said there was a glimmer of hope. On Friday a letter outlining Carlton and United Breweries position was sent to all striking workers. "The letter outlined a set of proposals by management to the workforce," a CUB spokesman said last night. But a spokesman for the Federated Liquor and Allied Industry Employees' Union, Mr Joe Goddard, said: "There is no immediate likelihood of the matter being settled - next week or the week after that." It's not yet a case of the pub with no beer in Melbourne - but today it's the city of publicans without cheer. Here's a round-up of some of the Melbourne's leading hotels: Hyatt, Collins St: Supplies "desperate" said purchasing manager Alan Cooper. "We have a limited supply of locally bottled beer." Toorak Hotel: "Plenty of bottled Carlton draught," said manager Graham Sutherland. "And Fourex and light ale on tap." Burvale Hotel, Nunawading. About a week's supply of bulk beer left, said manager Ray Jacobson. "We have enough bottled beer for the time being with minor restrictions. There's plenty of Fourex but we are short on Carlton Light." Anchor and Hope, Richmond: Fourex - no Carlton or Fosters on tap and no cans, said supervisor Anna Conway. Cherry Tree Hotel, Richmond: Situation critical, said licensee Scot Palmer. "We've got no bulk beer at all. We've been on packaged beer for the past four or five days. Sandringham Hotel: Barman Andrew Argent gloated: "We got a delivery of bulk beer just before the strike began. "We've got about a dozen barrels left (400 glasses a barrel), and there's enough cans then to last until Friday." Young & Jackson's Swanston St: "It's not panic yet but we will be out of Carlton by early this week," said manager Mark Freudenstein. Association with Bond Breweries will keep him supplied with Fourex and Swan. Tankerville Arms, Fitzroy: Situation disastrous, said licencee Percy Jones. "We'll be out of beer by today or tomorrow. We've almost sold out of all our interstate beers." St Albans Hotel: Panic buying, reported manager Bill Avram. "We've got no bottles, no cans, no draught - only a few stubbies left." Rifle Club Hotel Williamstown North: Supplies of Queensland Fosters cans "unlimited", reported manager Jahn Schwenche. "We've got enough to last two weeks. And we hope to get another truck-load Monday. "We're selling the cans at their proper price," he added. Matthew Flinders Hotel Chadstone: A sign screams "Unlimited supplies" ... well at least for three to four weeks. It's Queensland Fosters ordered at the beginning of the strike, said manager Bobby Zagame. A38c The Sunday Press - 30 November 1986 One week to T day By Kevin Norbury, Megan Jones and Ross Brundrett THE State Government has just five days to stop gay rights activist Alison Thorne returning to the classroom. Legal sources say the government is bound by the Equal Opportunity Board's ruling that Ms Thorne be reinstated as a classroom teacher. But if the government appeals to the Supreme Court before Parliament rises next Friday, it will gain time to "change the rules". Ms Thorne's return to teaching is backed by her union, the Technical Teachers Union of Victoria. But school bodies and other community groups doubt she will be accepted at any school. On Thursday, the Equal Opportunity Board ordered the Education Ministry to take the necessary steps to appoint Ms Thorne to a technical school from January 1. But the Premier, Mr Cain, said his Government had an obligation to parents not allow Ms Thorne to teach children 16 and under. He said Ms Thorne's return to the classroom would undermine the Victorian education system, and the Government would not let this occur. A senior government legal source said the Government would have to amend the Equal Opportunity Act or the Teaching Service Act if it wanted to block Ms Thorne's return. Ms Thorne, 27, was withdrawn from classroom duties at Glenroy Technical School three years ago after she spoke, on Derryn Hinch's 3AW program, in favor of lowering the age of consent. She was transferred to an administrative job in the Education Department's regional office. In July last year, Ms Thorne lodged a discrimination complaint against the Education Department - now the ministry. A lawyer working on equal opportunity cases said yesterday that once the government lodged an appeal, the reinstatement order would be held in suspense. An amendment could then be in force by the time the appeal was heard. If the Government does not appeal, Ms Thorne will re-start her teaching career in the new year, most likely at Tottenham Technical School, or back at Glenroy. Back in November, 1983, she was waiting to transfer from Glenroy to Tottenham, where she had been promoted. How she would be received now at Tottenham Tech, the school wasn't about to say. Staff and the school parent's club were tight-lipped about the possibility on Friday. But sources close to Glenroy Technical School say she would not be welcome back there. They said the school was still reeling from the media attention it copped when Ms Thorne was removed from teaching. The school's deputy principal, Mr Barry Armstrong, yesterday refused to comment on the possibility of Ms Thorne's return. Glenroy Tech teacher Mrs Sonia Rutherford told the Sunday Press that the school "was angry with Hinch's involvement at the school and we do not want to get involved with the media again." Jan Dillow, president of the Technical Teachers Union of Victoria, confirmed that Ms Thorne was officially designated to Tottenham Tech. "But it is up to her which school she returns to," Ms Dillow said. Sources said Glenroy Tech, and a number of other technical schools, was already over-supplied with teachers. Ms Dillow said the Department of Education looked at enrolment figures at the beginning of each school year. If the figures were "over-establishment", or there were more teachers than department ratios permitted, teachers were transferred to other suitable schools in the area, if possible. If there were not enough jobs to go round, a colleague would lose their job or be transferred to accommodate Ms Thorne if she is allowed to take up her option at Glenroy Tech. Ms Dillow endorsed the Equal Opportunity Board's directive that Ms Thorne be put back into the class room. "It was our policy that Alison be reinstated," she said. ?? A39 The Sunday Sun 2005 words A39a The Sunday Sun - 24 August 1986 Rural anger brewing over compulsory tachos By Gus De Brito Anger over the compulsory installation of tachographs in long distance trucks is brewing in Queensland, NSW and Victorian country areas. A meeting last week in Narrandera, NSW, of 35 members of the newly formed Rural Transport Association (Riverina Branch) roundly condemned the time and distance monitoring devices favored by the Australian Transport Advisory Council. They registered concern about how they would affect rural hauliers - particularly stockies. Secretary/treasurer of the Riverina branch, Mrs Mary Campbell, said this week that RTA members were concerned about how policing of the tachographs would affect truckers under the proposed Federal operator licensing scheme. She said it was feared that operators could lose their licences for years for infringements involving tachographs and driving hours. "In the country areas, it is difficult to limit driving hours," she said. "We are worried that farmers will refuse to load us if they feel that drivers' hours are close to running out. "I don't see how they can introduce these monitoring devices for stock carters. "Already, in times of drought when stock is weak, they have all sorts of troubles. "It is a matter of getting stock into and out of saleyards quickly." Rural truckers fear that strict policing of driving hours and trip times will dislocate longhaul country transport systems and drastically increase operating costs and freight rates. The meeting was addressed by local NSW State member, Mr Jim Small. The association is planning a major meeting in Wagga Wagga, NSW at 1pm on Saturday, September 27. The guest speaker will be West Australian Liberal Opposition backbencher, Mr Wilson Tuckey. Further details are available from Mrs Campbell on (069) 73-1260. A39b The Sunday Sun - 24 August 1986 Breath Tests Illegal Queensland Law Society has suggested the State Government's new breath testing campaign could be illegal. This follows a stepped-up police blitz on drink-drivers - incorporating a trial of the new campaign called the Reduce Impaired Driving plan. Police stopped about 300 drivers in a crackdown in Woodridge and Beenleigh on Friday night. Thirty of them will face drink charges. A law society statement yesterday backs claims by leading Brisbane lawyers the Cabinet-backed RID plan is unlawful. Society president Elizabeth Nosworthy's statement said: "The law is not clear about the circumstances under which a police officer may stop a motorist and administer a breath test. "The law society believes it is important the law be clarified both for the protection of the motorist and of the individual police officers involved. "If the Government proposes to go ahead with its RID program, the society believes the Traffic Act should be amended to clearly state the rights of the police and the motorist." Police intend pressing ahead with the RID trial. Brisbane Traffic Branch chief Cal Farrah said the trial was being conducted quietly with only half a dozen men. Supt Farrah said they would continue to pull up motorists at random, anywhere in the city and suburbs, and request to examine licences. The procedure was that, if liquor could be smelled, the motorist would be asked to leave a vehicle and step on to the footpath where police would continue to talk to him. If other signs were present that the motorist could be under the influence, a breath specimen would be requested. Supt Farrah said motorists last week has cooperated fully with police. But some police have grave doubts about the legality of the RID methods. They want the law changed to give police the right to breath-test at their own discretion, without any of the mandatory provisions of the Traffic Act. These proclaim either a traffic offence has to be committed, positive indications have to be present that a driver could be under the influence or there has been an accident. Police cases have been lost where people have refused to blow and later claimed they had been stopped for no lawful reasons. A leading Brisbane lawyer said police apparently were being pushed into bending the law to obtain convictions. It would amount really to a serious conspiracy," the lawyer said. He said police could legally stop a driver for a licence check. But the normal provisions would still apply on the requirements necessary*necesary before police could legally require a breath test. A spokesman for Police Minister Bill Gunn said the Government had legal advice that the law would not have to be changed for the RID campaign. "Our advice is that spot checking is not illegal," the spokesman said. He said that before the campaign proceeded some administrative difficulties had to be worked out, such as manpower needs. A39c The Sunday Sun - 24 August 1986 $7000 bill to run envoy's mansion Household expenses for Australia's roving Ambassador for Disarmament, Richard Butler, are costing taxpayers about $7000 a week. Information tabled in Federal Parliament this week showed the 1985-86 rental for his ambassador's residence in Switzerland was $172,255 - $3312 a week. But its current rent is believed to be $258,000 a year - almost $5000 a week. Mr Butler's home was recently described in a TV report as a `small mansion with views over Lake Geneva'. The cost of Mr Butler's servants was given as more than $1800 a week. Details of Mr Butler's expenses had been sought by Opposition MPs. The amount of rent was specifically sought by a Liberal backbencher Alexander Downer - himself a former diplomat. Wages and costs of Mr Butler's domestic servants were $91,732 in 1985-86. This figure would also have increased sharply with the devaluation of the dollar. The Opposition's questioning of Mr Butler's expenses has a political edge to it as he is a former senior private secretary to former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. He is unlikely to be reappointed under a coalition Government. But the Opposition's revised foreign affairs policy will retain Mr Butler's position of Disarmament Ambassador. The yet-to-be-released policy overturns previous criticism of the post - set up by the present Foreign Minister Bill Hayden. Mr Butler is not the only diplomat to attract attention. Australia's ambassador to the European Economic Community, Lindsay Duthie, has raised MPs' eyebrows with his expenses. His residence in London is understood to rent for $270,000 a year - around $5192 a week. A39d The Sunday Sun - 24 August 1986 Crippling cost of car tax hike By Mike Kable Top bracket luxury cars are worth as much now - even more for the really opulent models - as a modern, three-bedroom, suburban home. They are right up there in value with inner city apartments after the Budget's sales tax hike from 20 to 30 per cent on cars costing more than $29,649. Prices have gone through the roof - with motoring's ultimate status symbol, the Rolls Royce, now costing $235,000 and the Mercedes-Benz 560-SEC coupe soaring to $170,879. Australia's car importers, distributors and dealers, - who employ 17,000 people - are incensed by what they describe as a brutal, discriminatory attack by the Federal Government. The latest tax increase compounds the problems caused by the dollar's massive devaluation and the controversial fringe benefits tax. And the importers are rejecting the Budget estimate that it will yield an extra $28 million a year in taxation revenue. They predict it will cripple sales - which have already slumped by nearly half - and prove counter-productive. The higher tax, which was imposed immediately, affects more than 70 makes and models which command about 20,000 sales a year. Aimed at the imports, it has also inflated the prices of two locally-built VIP cars, Ford's LTD and Holden's Calais Director. BMW Australia managing director Ron Meatchem said the latest tax rise was madness. "It has wrecked our forward planning program after eight years of growth in Australia," he said. "The total effective protection percentage from January 1 last year to now has increased from 57.5 to 182 per cent. "Taxation has reached an absurd level. The tax component in our 735i sedan, which costs $90,500, is more than $45,000." Mr Meatchem said his parent company would make a decision soon in West Germany about the future of its Australian subsidiary, which achieved a 1985 turnover of more than 4000 cars, but will have minus growth this year. The average sales tax increase over the Mercedes-Benz range is $5300, with the least expensive four-cylinder 190E sedan at $52,864 carrying a total sales tax component of $10,346. Its 560SEC coupe, at $170,879, will - if there are any buyers willing to pay the price - net the Government $32,151 in sales tax, plus another $40,000 in import duty, which is charged at a rate of 57.5 per cent on the ex-factory price. Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit buyers will contribute nearly $100,000 to the Treasury's coffers before driving away their $235,000 investment. The sales tax component alone is $44,330.63, plus $50,000 worth of duty and several thousand dollars in stamp duty and registration charges. A39e The Sunday Sun - 24 August 1986 Corruption issue Corruption will become a major issue in the State election campaign, State Liberal Party president John Moore said yesterday. "It appears to have become the norm, rather than the exception," he said. "The smell will not go away." Mr Moore, who was speaking at the launching of Liberal candidate Denver Beanland's campaign in Toowong, said he had never seen such a sustained period of allegations concerning corruption. He said a major problem was that Parliament was not permitted to probe such allegations. "Say something against them and you will cop a writ, even though what you say may well be harmless or totally true," he said. "People who join the National Party expect to have super-citizen rights." A39f The Sunday Sun - 24 August 1986 Chance to be PM slips by Time and the drover's dog appear to have overtaken Bill Hayden's ambition of becoming Prime Minister. Mr Hayden conceded on Budget day last week his opportunity seemed to have been lost. Asked if his decision to stay in Parliament meant he was waiting to become Prime Minister at another time, Mr Hayden settled deeper into his chair and sighed: "Aah, no. The grim reaper of time has started to creep up on me from behind." The 53-year-old former Queensland policeman earlier had said his 25 years in Parliament represented a lifetime career. Unlike Treasurer Paul Keating, who has indicated his intention to leave politics if the Government loses the next election, Mr Hayden said he would stay if Labor was cast back to the Opposition benches. But he did not see present Opposition Leader John Howard reaching the prime ministership. "I find John Howard as the Cabbage Patch kid of Australian politics," he said. "He is not to be seriously perceived as Prime Minister." Mr Hayden was dumped from the Labor leadership just before the 1983 election after a successful push by Mr Hawke. He later congratulated the new Prime Minister by saying a drover's dog could have won that election. He said this week he was now impressed by the Government's two key personalities - Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. "I'm impressed by Keating's style, his content and performance," he said. "And I'm impressed by the way Hawke is thinking widely and casting his mind forward on how to grapple with these problems affecting Australia, not just this year or next year, not just for the next election, but with a responsibility into the future. "It is an exciting period we are going through, just as it's a difficult and worrying period. Now we are thinking. "We're coming up with policies and getting co-operation with the union movement. It's working. "What is Howard going to do? He's offering confrontation again. He's proposing privatisation. "He's proposing to sack people - we're trying to save people's jobs. But where is the creativity about this?" A39g The Sunday Sun - 24 August 1986 Labor facing a big battle for power From Warwick Costin in Canberra The Hawke Government faces an extremely tough challenge to stay in power, Foreign Minister Bill Hayden said last week. After massive swings against the Labor Party recently the Government's survival would depend on how Australians accepted stern budgetary measures to repair the economy, he said. "Historically, the bearers of bad news have been shot, or dismembered in some way," Mr Hayden said. ?? A40 The Sunday Sun 2017 words A40a The Sunday Sun - 26 October 1986 Move Over Bondy Iain Murray at the helm By Mark Oberhardt Destiny seems to have dictated that Australian sailing's hulk Iain Murray would one day be the nation's best known skipper. Murray, now 28, has been a champion sailor for most of his life. Now he is on the verge of becoming an international superstar. That's not really surprising in an island continent. Yachting has become one of Australia's high profile competitor sports. But, as is so often the case with sports in Australia, our sailing heroes are relatively unknown in the rest of the world. That changed somewhat in 1983 when Australia II took the America's Cup, making key members of the team such as Alan Bond, Ben Lexcen and John Bertrand household names. The three became national heroes overnight. The public's adulation of Bond, Lexcen and Bertrand must have irked Murray. After all, he was six times world champion in the flying 18ft skiff - the world's fastest monohull. Murray found he may have been big news in yachting circles, but his name meant nothing to the average Australian. All that is about to change as - with the backing of West Australian multi-millionaire Kevin Parry - Murray is poised to push the Australia II heroes into the cupboard of yesterday's men. Parry has poured $20 million into his challenge for the Cup and, with Murray's help, the dream of upsetting Bond could be realised. After Bond's Australia II won the 1983 challenge in Newport; Rhode Island, and they unscrewed the America's Cup from its pedestal in the New York Yacht Club for the first time in 132 years, it seemed the same team would be on hand to defend the trophy off Fremantle. But skipper John Bertrand soon left to pursue an individual career as a motivational guru. Murray had been skipper of the ill-fated Advance in Newport - a boat so ponderous it was known to one and all as The Dog. When The Dog was eliminated, stripped and virtually abandoned on the Newport waterfront, Murray and his crew took over the more competitive Challenge II from Victoria - also eliminated, but a much faster boat. Right up until Australia II's final series against Liberty, Murray and his boys gave the Aussie challenger the vital match racing practice she so badly needed. As the dramatic final series moved to its breathtaking climax, Murray and Challenge II were always on the edge of the course, lending moral support. Naturally, when Bertrand split, Murray thought he might have some sort of inside running with the Bond syndicate. Not so, Bond snubbed one of the world's best sailors and told him he was not wanted aboard. Bond's monumental mistake was Kevin Parry's gain. Parry, a Perth multimillionaire, saw the commercial capital Bond had made from his America's Cup victory and thought his own burgeoning business empire could do with a bit of the same. He and Murray got together and the Taskforce '87 syndicate was formed. Parry promised vast funds. Murray promised his genius and demanded complete control. He got it and the Kookaburra saga was born. Murray is a complex combination of talents. He is a superb sailor. And he is a great organiser - he was a successful businessman in his early 20s. He designed the fastest single-hull boats in the world - space-age- 18-footers which careered over Sydney Harbor at more than 30 knots. Parry had the man he needed to topple the world of 12 metre sailing. Murray formed a design partnership with young West Australian John Swarbrick and former America's Cup designer Alan Payne as advisor. They came up with the first Kookaburra, a benchmark for Kookas II and III - currently scaring the pants off the world's best sailors in Fremantle. They harnessed, without the US parent company's knowledge and with the compliance of the Australian subsidiary, the world's most advanced yacht computer system. And Murray and his boys practised. Boy, how they practised. Two years of hours on the water each day, a spartan regimen, supervised diet, dawn road runs and calisthenics. Now it is all beginning to pay off. When Murray went to the 12 metres, there were snide remarks about it being a long way from blowing away the opposition of Sydney Harbor in an 18 footer to the robust 25 knot Fremantle Doctor and a 30 tonne yacht. But a lot of people forgot Lexcen - then Bob Miller - had made his mark in 18-footers. Twenty-five years ago he, like Murray, was world champion and his designs, notably Taipan and Venom, revolutionised the class. A few weeks ago, before last week's first defender series began, most people thought the Bond syndicate's $15m effort to hold the Cup would sail straight to the final series. But in the opening races, Kookaburra III, skippered by Murray, has laughed at Ben Lexcen's pride, Australia IV, and walloped the current world 12 metre champion Australia III by nearly four minutes - a huge margin. Parry's second string yacht Kookaburra II, sailed by Western Australia's Peter Gilmour, also beat Australia III and went down to Australia IV only after a fouled spinnaker set wrecked her chances. Suddenly Murray is the toast - and the worry - of the yachting world. The shy, almost retiring, Murray takes it in his stride. Like any racehorse trainer used to dealing with the media, he trots out such lines as "We'll take them one at a time" or "There's a long way to go". But Murray admits he is pleased with the way the boats are going. "It's always good to get some runs on the board, otherwise you are looking at interpretation rather than fact," he says. "Now we can say the boats are good and that is fact. It was always at the back of our minds that we may have been kidding ourselves. Well, now we know what we can do." Win, lose or draw, Murray will be around in topclass yachting for many years to come. "Sailing is my life. The more I get into boat design the more it pleases me," he says. Murray is a sailing natural and from the time he began crewing Flying Ants out of Sydney's Middle Harbor Sailing Club he showed outstanding potential. By the time he was in his early teens, Murray had designed his own Cherub with which he snared the national championship. He transferred to 12ft skiffs where he again he won national titles. By 17, he had moved up to 18s and was world champion. It was his six world 18ft titles which put him on the top, but to show he wasn't a one-trick pony he took out the 1984 world Etchell titles. Now he could add the America's Cup to his formidable achievements. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself to make certain it's not a dream. Only two years ago I was sitting in a bar in Hawaii trying to talk Toby Richardson into building a 12 metre for Kevin Parry," he said. Those two years have brought a lot of changes for Murray, but in the next three months the die will be cast. Somehow destiny seems to give an inkling that Murray will be there next January when it comes to the showdown. A40b The Sunday Sun - 26 October 1986 Thrilling Grand Prix for world crown Champions set to battle out old scores in Adelaide By Fred Knight The 1986 World Grand Prix Championship will be decided in a flashing blur of speed and sound over Adelaide's now famous round-the-houses course today. The race, besides resolving who will wear the world racing crown, will also stamp Adelaide as a major venue of the international racing circuit. The event promises to be an even bigger success than last year's debut which has already received the coveted*covetted Foca Award for the best Grand Prix of the 1985 season. The Adelaide organisers*organisors have spared no effort to make the event even better than last year. They have added many more grandstand viewing areas this year and room for a lot more spectators, many of whom could not find a place for the race last year. But almost certainly the biggest factor of this year's Grand Prix season finale will be the fact the race will decide the 1986 world champion. With Alain Prost bringing his Marlboro McLaren home in second place in Mexico, he has moved back into second place in the world championship points standings, just one point ahead of Nelson Piquet and only six points behind leader Nigel Mansell who finished fifth at the last race and thus failed to wrap up the 1986 title he had been leading by 10 points. "It should be a fantastic race for the public with three drivers fighting for the title," said Prost. Certainly all the pressure will be on Mansell and I am going into the race completely relaxed." Prost is aiming to be the first driver to win the world championship two years in succession in more than 20 years. Last year's Australian Grand Prix winner, Keke Rosberg, will be ending his Formula 1 driving career in Adelaide just as ex-world champion Niki Lauda did with the Marlboro McLaren team at the same race last year. Niki was leading the race when a braking*breaking problem saw him spin out of the race and into the wall. One feature of the Adelaide Circuit is its "billiard-ball" smooth surface and that's something which will certainly appeal to both the Ferrari drivers Michele Alboreto and Stefan Johansson. "We have had troubles with our chassis handling on bumpy circuits so Adelaide will hopefully give us a better chance of a win in our final race of the season," said Alboreto. Certainly one driver who will be looking forward to that possibility will be Johansson, who will be driving his last race for the Ferrari team. "I have had two great years with the team and it would be fantastic to leave them with my first GP win and the first for the team this season," said an optimistic Stefan. Hopes are also high for the Minardi team members Andrea Decesaris and Sandro Nannini to take their first points of the season after Decesaris scored an encouraging eighth-place in Mexico the best finishing position of the season for the Minardi Team. It is bound to be a nailbiting affair as Britain's Mansell takes on his Williams team-mate, Brazilian Piquet, and Frenchman Prost in the last desperate battle to come out on top. "It's going to be a terrific finale to what has been one of the best seasons for years," Mansell said. The big Englishman wrecked his own chances to pull off the championship victory earlier this month by failing to find first gear when the traffic lights changed to green at the start of the Mexican Grand Prix. The gear box worked perfectly throughout the race once he got going - in last place - and he clawed his way back to finish fifth behind Piquet. A40c The Sunday Sun - 26 October 1986 Here's how the drivers shape up for the grand Formula 1 race No. 1. ALAIN PROST, 31, France. The little Frenchman finally brought the world championship to France in 1985. He is by far the most successful driver of the current era, twice finishing as runner-up (1983-84) and with 22 Grand Prix wins under his belt. Prost is the epitome of smoothness and a master of racecraft, and it will come as no surprise to see him retain his hard-won title this year. No. 2. Keke Rosberg, 37, Finland. The McLaren might seem a bit tame after the mega horsepower he enjoyed last year, but Keke will undoubtedly give it everything he's got. They don't come any braver than last year's Australian Grand Prix winner, and only time will tell if the Fin's brutal style will suit his new mount. No. 3. Martin Brundle, 26, England. Tyrrell's new high profile could mean young lion Brundle gets his big chance this year. Injuries have punctuated his Formula One career so far, but nobody doubts he has the talent to go right to the top. ?? A41 The Sunday Mail 2008 words A41a The Sunday Mail - 7 December 1986 Gaslights May Return To North Terrace MP bids to restore the grandeur By William Reschke The statue of the nude Venus on North Tce may soon again be viewed in gaslight by the gentlemen of the Adelaide Club. In an earlier Adelaide, the members' glowing cigar ends at the club windows drew as much scandalised comment as the statue. But not for Venus alone is the new move to gaslight. It is a bid by Mr Legh Davis, MLC, to recapture the spirit and classic grandeur of our boulevard. Mr Davis, the Opposition spokesman for the arts, considers the North Tce precinct - "our kilometre of culture" - as an important attraction for visitors to the city. "Adelaide's streets were gaslit for 50 years, from 1863 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914," he said yesterday. "Elegant Windsor design gas lamps, imported from England, were used in the city in those days. "A Sydney company, Australian Gas Light Company, is selling an accurate hand-made reproduction of these lights. "The gas lights would be placed on both sides of the terrace between East Tce and the Railway station. "They would provide effect lighting rather than illumination," Mr Davis said. Old world charm, however, would not extend to the lamplighter serenading his way through parking meters to get the place lit up, Mr Davis added. High technology would see it done with electronic ignition. Mr Davis said benefits would far outweigh the cost of buying and running the gas lights. Implementing the project would require co-operation between the City Council and the SA Gas Company. Mr Davis has been encouraged by the positive response to his suggestion from the Gas Company and Adelaide's Lord Mayor, Mr Jim Jarvis. Mr Jarvis believes it is a commendably simple way to achieve a most effective result. "You know, tourists talk with me when they have seen our city and always it comes back to this. "North Tce fascinates them as a grand boulevard in the classic European style and it is our heritage," he said. "As long as we get back to a real representation of what it was, I would support it," he said. "Government House still has the real thing. They are superb," Mr Jarvis said. Mr Davis said he would like another old custom to return. "The ambience of Adelaide, its Victorian architecture and wide streets can be further enhanced by window boxes and greenery," he said. "Many cities overseas add color to their streets by encouraging the use of window boxes. "It was pleasing here to see again the introduction of Floral Day for the Festival of Arts, earlier this year. "The floral carpet in North Tce is a particular attraction of great appeal to visitors at Festival time." "Sadly, a lack of expertise and volunteers have made it difficult to hold an annual Floral Day. "Skills such as this should not be lost to the Festival City." "Adelaide's Mediterranean climate means we are ideally placed to show off a wide range of flowers. "For example, many visitors to the recent International Heritage Rose conference commented on the extraordinary quality of roses in SA ... as good as anything in the world," Mr Davis said. A41b The Sunday Mail - 7 December 1986 Tiffany - Girl From Bay Makes It Big By Peter Haran She must have been a beautiful baby, because baby, just look at her now. Her name is Tiffany Rowan, an 18-year-old from Glenelg who is taking the European fashion scene by storm. Tiffany's climb to the top is the stuff dreams are made of - a model success story. It all started three years ago when Tiffany posed in swimwear in the Sunday Mail. And that edge-of-the-pool shot may have been the springboard leading her to the catwalks of Paris. By any yardstick, Tiffany's climb has been meteoric. The former Rave Agency model first made her mark as covergirl for Dolly magazine and then it was on to the "big smoke" of Sydney and a top model agency. Then things happened. Tiffany caught the eye of some of Australia's top fashion magazines and for eight months she adorned the pages of Harper's Bazaar, Cleo, Cosmopolitan and Mode. Tiffany went on to win $1000 on the TV talent show Star Search, and became a finalist in Face Of The '80s. But it was while she was filming a commercial for Philips that Tiffany got that elusive big break. The film company moved to France for final shooting near the Eiffel Tower and Tiffany promptly signed up with one of Paris' top model agencies. The fuse was lit and the girl from Glenelg set the European fashion scene on fire. She made the pages of the English beauty magazine The Face, the Italian fashion publication Tempo, and the French admired her in their mass circulation publication called Vital. Late last week as the temperature plunged to near zero and the rain lashed at the window of her home in Surrey, England, Tiffany Rowan was dreaming of a sunny day down at the Bay. "I really want to come home for Christmas," said the girl in a whirl. "It's totally miserable here." But the miseries of the Northern winter have to be taken in her long stride - the importance is being in the right place at the right time. "Jet-setting is far from all fun," Tiffany said. "I've been living out of suitcases for as long as I can remember. "I love Australia, but if you want to work with the cream you just have to work in Europe. And it's fabulous for Australians over here, we are the flavor of the month. "You need some advantage because the competition here is incredible." Tiffany's next move is a natural one in the model world - acting. "I enrolled in a three-year course," she said. "I've been running up and down the length of Britain all this month trying to get into acting school," she said. "I eventually got enrolled for a starting next September." But in the meantime it's back to Paris and more work under the bright lights - a far cry from the slim-line look 15-year-old who first made a splash in the Sunday Mail. A41c The Sunday Mail - 7 December 1986 Country and Western's Big Show Today What is billed as SA's biggest indoor country and western concert is on today at the Bridegway Hotel. The eight-hour hoedown*howdown from 2pm is expected to attract hundreds of country and western music fans. Artists to sing in the show are Lee Conway, the former truck driver who now has a show on U.S. cable television, and one of Australia's most acclaimed pop singers, Allison Durbin. The show entitled The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, also features local country and western singers including the Big Jim Hermal band. A41d The Sunday Mail - 7 December 1986 Music-Maker Aims For Top By John Marr The captivating sounds of the bouzouki have been part of the Adelaide scene for many years, and a trip to Greece this week by a father and son will ensure it stays that way. Kevin Amanatidis is an up and coming bouzouki player who is going back to his father's birthplace to learn from the experts. Restaurateur and chef Basil Amanatidis will fly out of Adelaide with his 18-year-old son on Tuesday, heading for Athens. For Kevin, it's the chance of a lifetime. He will enter music school in Athens and will take specialised external bouzouki tuition. "Kevin probably has gone as far as he can with is bouzouki playing in Australia - certainly Adelaide, anyway", a proud dad, Basil said. "Greece is where the experts are, so we will go to them". The bouzouki, a development of the lute and mandolin, is a traditional Greek instrument which has soared in popularity in the West, largely because of the exposure to Greek cafe music and its use in Greek film soundtracks. They are not made commercially in Australia. Kevin's current bouzouki is Athens-made and worth about $2500. Good instruments take months, sometimes years, to make, allowing for the curing of the woods and the painstaking joining of dozens of pieces to form the body. They usually are highly ornate, set with mother-of-pearl carvings and other decoration. For Basil, it's a journey back to see a Greece he's not visited for about 30 years - and it's also partly a business trip. Having just sold his control of the kitchen at the Gothic Hotel, this long-time chef will be looking at the popular Greek taverns and cafes to "maybe incorporate some ideas in Adelaide". Kevin will be in Greece for about a year, while his father will be returning in about six weeks. A41e The Sunday Mail - 7 December 1986 Raffles - a winner Gourmet Guide By Sol Simeon And now for something completely different. The restaurant came to us. As a veteran nosher around Adelaide, I have known Trevor and Cheryl Edwards for years as providers of faultless front of house service. Steward Grant is a less familiar face, simply because he works behind the scenes in the kitchen. They are now together as Raffles caterers. As they say, they handle functions from two to 200 people, business stuff such as boardroom lunches and cocktail*cocktails parties, but also private social stuff in way of lunch and dinner parties at home. They also provide a hamper picnic service for outdoor eating at $10 to $50 a head for parties of six or more. As the emergent and flourishing cottage industry of private caterers shows, the advantages of this style of entertaining speak for themselves. Host and hostess get to sit down with the guests: There is a BYO-like factor too, in that using your own grog helps cover any extra costs. All the advantages of having expert, domestic staff on 1986 middle incomes. Just as Raffles is best known as that Singapore grand old hotel of empire, with the Adelaide Raffles you briefly luxuriate back in that bygone era of what the butler saw. Also, considering the service provided, they are not at all expensive. Prices vary, but range from $4 a head for cocktails parties, functions from $10, and lunches and dinners from $18 a head. As you see from the prices adjusted as usual for two, our encounter with the high life at home cost no more than many a restaurant meal. While we were being witty, debonair and sophisticated (i.e. drinking) with the chums in the living room, the Raffles trio had arrived in professional clobber, formal waiting and chef attire, and moved into the kitchen. And that was really that - in the sense that all we did from then on was be summoned, be sat, eat, and eventually say farewell. And marvel at the way they had washed up and left the said kitchen spick and span. They have printed menus, and a sampler of some 50 dishes would include lemon mushrooms, beef yakitori, fillet steak with three pepper sauce, pork with apple and calvados, chicken tarragon, lobster flambe, citrus mousse, kahlua ice cream. At Mr Edwards' suggestion we had lunch of Australian salmon, smoked loin of pork with lobster farcie and coup Mimi. This has been a very good year for delicious new fish tastes. The sea trout farmed fish pioneered by Safcol are now being seen on the menus of top restaurants and, poached, are superb. The Australian salmon, from Tasmania and still very much a novelty, are every bit as good, as delicate. Again, it was poached pink and succulent, and it was a great start to life with Raffles. The unusual combination of smoked lamb with lobster was daring and successful. The coup Mimi was a delicious confection made of avocado, strawberries and cream. Also provided was fresh bread and coffee. They can draw on your resources but can also provide their own. Thanks to those earlier years of being pampered at table by Mr Edwards, I had guessed we were in for a good time - and I was not disappointed. And how unfair life is. When in fullness of time the chums left, they were effusive in thanking herself and myself. ?? A42 The Sunday Times 2002 words A42a The Sunday Times - 10 August 1986 Cover story in reverse for clad Amanda You can't tell a woman by her clothes By Gail Williams CLOTHES, like manners, may maketh man, but Amanda Muggleton has discovered they can turn a wellknown Australian actress into a nonentity. The former Prisoner star was swamped in publicity in 1983, when Perth audiences swarmed to Her Majesty's Theatre to see her wearing just a towel, in Steaming. She says her phone didn't stop ringing and the media made a huge fuss of her. But she's finding things a lot quieter playing Pauline, in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, at the Regal Theatre. The show is a roaring success, but Amanda says if she kept a diary during her six-week stint in Perth it would read like this: "MONDAY: My one day off. Phone didn't ring, no interviews. Went down to Fremantle and sat in the sun. TUESDAY: Browsed around the Art Gallery, loved the Golden Summers exhibition The show brought the house down again. "WEDNESDAY: Did a matinee, good attendance. Not sure if the audience got the message about Pauline's awakening. No interviews. Cast went to Gobbles, F Scotts and Rumors after the show. "THURSDAY: Full house, no interviews. Am looking forward to going to Rottnest. Hope I'm not seasick like I was last time. No interviews, maybe I should take my clothes off! "FRIDAY: Lady from the Sunday Times phoned. Perhaps she heard I'm taking my clothes off! Don't get Amanda wrong. She's not going out of her way to seek publicity. She's just noticed Perth theatregoers are more fickle than those in the east. Said Amanda: "I think it's really weird, because last time I came here I got such a different reception. I would hate to think it was just because I took my clothes off. If that's what it takes to sell a show it's pretty poor, don't you think? "In Melbourne, the show was received really well and given huge amounts of publicity. Here it's being received just as well, but the press don't seem to want to know. In Perth, I haven't been doing an awful lot apart from the show. I suppose you could say my whole life is spent in the darkness of the theatre." Since Amanda charmed Perth audiences as the voluptuous Josie, in Steaming, she has made three movies, and travelled through South-east Asia and China. "I did the movies Street Hero, with Siggy (Thornton) and Queen of the Road with Shane Withington from A Country Practice," she said. When Prisoner's final episode comes up in September, Amanda will join her former co-stars in drinking a final toast to the end of one of Australia's most popular soapies. But she won't shed a tear. I'll probably never do another soap opera," she said. "With soaps you get labelled as your character, not only by the public, but by people in the industry. "While I was doing Prisoner I came close to getting a role in a miniseries, but I didn't get it because the public would have identified me with Chrissie Latham from Prisoner. "The stupid thing is, people doling out the work tend to look down on soap actors because they are churning out quantity, not quality. If only they realised what soap operas are doing to actors - they're improving them by making them act so much better to improve the dreadful scripts." Amanda, no shrinking violet, always seems to be cast in the role of the gutsy women. "I've been very lucky really," she said. "I love those roles. I've never had to play the ingenue, the frail heart always in tears - that's not me. I adore Pauline. A lot of women are going through exactly the same things she's experiencing. They're torn between two worlds, the world of duty and that of the liberated woman." There's a smidgeon of the flirtatious Pauline, in Amanda's bubbly personality. But the awakening feminist in Pauline is no stranger to Amanda. "I think I have myself very much together, as far as women's lib goes," she said. "I've no desire to get married or have children at this stage. "I seem to be surrounded by men at the moment in my personal life. All of them want to get married and have babies. "In the past, it has been the woman who wanted all of that. Now women are realising, like Pauline, what they have been missing out on. Young girls today are thinking they want to do everything but get married. "It's crazy - the women's liberation movement has made men want to have the security of a wife." While she's in Perth, Amanda hopes to catch up with one of her greatest fans, Monica, from Rocky Bay Village. They met during Appealathon two years ago. Monica was the Appealathon child and they write regularly. A42b The Sunday Times - 10 August 1986 New shipment of antiques is on the way AT THE recent Antique Show Helena Barton told me of a new shipment coming in, so I went to Etta Antiques in Claremont for a quick preview. In her "Chair Room" I saw quite a number of long sets of chairs, among them a lovely set of eight Regency dining chairs including two matching carvers. Already on show is a very interesting French Boulle cabinet, inlaid with brass and tortoise shell and beautifully finished with ormulu and brass figureheads. I noted the fine marble top, and date would be approximately 1870. This Boulle design actually originated in Italy, but it was perfected by Frenchman Andre Charles Boulle, cabinetmaker to Louis XIV of France and responsible for much of the furniture at the famous Palais de Versailles. Some of the many other magnificent pieces I took special note of were a lovely Edwardian mahogany drum desk with pull out writing slide, a truly delightful Louis XVI style piece, a superb Regency flame mahogany secretaire bookcase with delicate glazing bar tracery, spiral supports and a nice brass inlay finish. Other items I noted were an 1826 Regency mahogany*mahogancy chest on chest with six full and two half drawers all fitted with brass handles, as well as an unusually fine mahogany open top sideboard, with very nicely carved supports and the servery above. This piece of furniture would in fact make an excellent drink cupboard. There were a couple of nice desks, the first a twin pedestal desk with lovely red leather top in mahogany and with five or six small deep drawers on each side, all fitted with nice brass button handles. The second was a small mahogany French mid 19th century hand painted kidney shaped seven drawer desk, one of those elegant small pieces not often seen. Finally there was also a rare George III secretaire, a very fine piece with cross banded doors. It virtually leaves me no room to describe some of the very fine pieces of jewellery and porcelain also on display at Etta Antiques in Claremont. A42c The Sunday Times - 10 August 1986 Dynamic road to more success Enjoy life and become wealthy through `love' By Gail Williams IF YOU love jogging, love yourself and love giving money away, you are the sort of person who stands to make a fortune. According to publisher, Mr Colin Sisson, who is very close to becoming a millionaire, the easiest way to prosper is by working at things you love. Think of 10 of your greatest passions in life. Mr Sisson, author of best sellers Your Right To Riches and Rebirthing Made Easy, guarantees you could make a fortune out of any one of your loves. So you love playing backgammon? Mr Sisson would advise you to open up a backgammon school. If that sounds too simplistic, one hour with the enthusiastic Mr Sisson and his wife, Kathryn, will have you thinking you have the Midas touch, and the purse of Fortunatus. Before you rush off to register your needlepoint or TV-watching company, you'd be well advised to read how Mr Sisson made a fortune. Mr Sisson took about an hour, punctuated regularly by the deep breaths characteristic of this rebirthing technique, to explain how he abandoned his carpet shampooing business and suddenly started raking in the dollars. No, not by sheer hard work, investing in the short-term money market, or winning the lottery. Mr Sisson, 40, from New Zealand, made his money by not thinking about making money, and by giving away what money he had. As a member of New Zealand's Special Air Service he found himself thinking about the meaning of life on the battlefields of Vietnam during the 1968 Tet offensive. When he returned from Vietnam, he started up his own carpet shampooing business, hoping to make a fortune. Hard work, long hours and a desperate desire to succeed, returned enough money only to pay his wages - and little satisfaction. "I realised the problem was within myself." said Mr Sisson. "I lacked self esteem, which I eventually found through rebirthing techniques, martial arts, philosophy, meditation and yoga - all things which contributed to my understanding that all riches are first created in the mind." Mr Sisson began interviewing wealthy people to find out the secret of success and discovered they all shared similar characteristics. "I noticed they were all optimistic, they had faith in the future, faith in themselves and a high self esteem. They were all positive and really good to be around, and all really nice people. "But the thing that got me was they showed integrity, and I began to disbelieve the old myth that people get rich by ripping others off. There may be some who do, but they are not happy people." Mr Sisson said the amount of money a person has is no indication of wealth. "Money is only by-product of wealth he said. "Wealth really is what's happening in our minds and hearts. I believe in the old adage of healthy, wealthy and wise. If a person chooses to be poor they are concord very rich. If a person is poor and resents it, that person is using energy unnecessarily. There's more work involved in being poor than being rich." Mr Sisson draws on this philosophy in his weekly rebirth workshops he holds in Exhibition Hall, Subiaco, and his prosperity seminars. Did he make his fortune from charging $115 per seminar and $25 per workshop? "No," he said. "I don't really know where I get my money from. Quite often I get cheques in the mail where somebody's put a loveletter in, saying they would like to make a contribution. "Tithing, the law of contribution, is one of the three laws of the right to riches. The other two are the laws of attraction and accumulation. "Tithing is a very ancient principle of prosperity. Whatever we give away must come back to us - even money. "Whenever we contribute to prosperity, we must prosper also. But the idea is to give at least three-quarters to those who don't need it. "But we should give one-quarter to people who do need it. This should be done in the form of an idea - like my book - rather than money. By giving most of your tithings to folk who are already prosperous makes a greater impact upon the general prosperity of the world. They will use the money you give them to build and create even more wealth in the world, from which everyone benefits." According to Mr Sisson, the Perth millionaires he has observed also operated on this principle. "People like Holmes a Court and Bond may not realise it, but they are using these laws. To me they are very happy, and the reason is because they have a very high level of integrity." Mr and Mrs Sisson are doing a four-month stint in Perth running their rebirthing workshops and prosperity seminars. Rebirthing is a breathing technique used to eliminate stress and promote relaxation. A42d The Sunday Times - 10 August 1986 Pumpkins please with their ease By Peter Cobby PUMPKINS (Cuburbita pepo) are easy to grow. They'll perform well in most home gardens. They have good keeping qualities. ?? A43 Sunday Tasmanian 2002 words A43a Sunday Tasmanian - 30 November 1986 Now is the time to plan for a new lease of life RETIREMENT today does not mean retiring from life, nor it should. For people embarking on this stage of life, completion of paid employment can provide many opportunities. Often you can do a lot of things you simply didn't have time for before, things such as travelling, playing sport, learning new skills, community work and many more. Many have already achieved a degree of financial security. However, the economic climate has become much less hospitable to the retiree and it is important for those approaching this period of their lives to educate themselves in financial management. Otherwise, for all the vigour and enthusiasm they bring to their plans, they may find themselves caught in the trap of declining income. So first - plan ahead. Some of the things you may consider prior to your retirement are: List all your assets which you will have on retirement, for example a house, car and savings, and liabilities such as consumer credit contracts, home mortgage and so on; Work out a current budget, estimating expenditure over a 12-month period and other expenses such as a new car or holiday; Find out the amount of superannuation, pension and/or lump sum to which you will be entitled and details of other amounts which you may receive from maturing life assurance policies, long service leave etc, at retirement. Once you have worked out where you stand, it would be prudent for you to consult an independent investment adviser to determine the best spread of investments to meet your particular financial needs throughout retirement. There are many types of investments available and in examining these you need to consider such factors as: Security - the degree of safety of your funds, how substantial is the investment source, is your capital guaranteed or does value rise or fall according to market sentiment, as for example property and share markets. How secure are the areas in which the organisation invests.? Income - is the investment income producing or, is it designed to provide long-term capital gains as a hedge against inflation? If it is income producing, what rate is being offered? Marketability - can you cash in on your investment immediately you need the money or is it placed over a fixed period. A43b Sunday Tasmanian - 30 November 1986 Help is at hand A NUMBER of government services are available to help elderly people who need extra care, but who wish to retain independence in their own homes. Home nursing assistance is available to people who are chronically ill or convalescing after hospitalisation. These services are run by several different organisations. Some are run by the local council, others by community health centres and some by church groups. For advice about these services, you could ask your doctor or you could phone your local council or the Department of Health. Respite care is designed to give the usual carer a break, maybe once a week, or maybe longer for a holiday. It is possible to claim a "domiciliary nursing care benefit" if a chronically ill or old person is being cared for at home. A doctor's certificate is necessary. For information and/or application forms, ask your doctor, home nursing organisations or the Commonwealth Department of Community Services. Many local councils and community groups run a meals on wheels service whereby cheap, nutritious meals are regularly delivered to people unable to prepare their own meals. The nursing care can be given by any registered nurse. A certificate from a doctor or nurse is often needed to qualify for this service. Assistance may be available where necessary for home modification, for example, in cases where ramps are need for wheelchair usage. Ask the Health Department for advice. Various aids and appliances are available for ill elderly people through the Health Department. A43c Sunday Tasmanian - 30 November 1986 Health care benefits worth checking out MOST health fringe benefits are available to Pensioner Health Benefits (PHB) cardholders, with some of them being available to other pensioners. Depending on their income, widows, age and invalid pensioners, spouse carers, wife's pensioners and supporting parents are eligible for a PHB card. Your eligibility for the card will be assessed at the time as your pension is being considered. Fringe benefits can be worth more than $20 a week, so it is well worth checking what is available and making use of your entitlements. You can ask for details at the Department of Social Security. Some of the benefits in the area of health are as follows. The National Medicare scheme means that the Government pays 85 per cent of all doctors'*doctor's bills, providing the charge is no higher than the schedule fee (check with your Medicare office). If your doctor bulk bills (that is, sends the bill directly to the Government) you will not have to pay anything. If the doctor does not bulk bill, you will have to pay the extra 15 per cent. Many doctors who do not bulk bill for all their patients will do so for pensioners. Under Medicare, free public hospital care is available to everyone. PHB and Health Benefit cardholders and their dependants can get those drugs listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme list free of charge. Health Care cardholders and other pensioners whose income is too high for a PHB card but low enough for a part pension may be eligible for a Pharmaceutical Concession card, which means they pay a reduced charge for a listed drug. It may be possible to get some assistance with spectacles, but there is a means test. You will need to inquire at the Department of Community Welfare. You will have to get the prescription from a doctor which will be covered by Medicare. There may be podiatry services at reduced cost. Your local community health centre or your local hospital may be able to help you. Various aids and appliances are available from your State Health Department. If you want your own choice of doctor in a public hospital, you will be charged for accommodation and you will need private insurance to meet the cost. You will also need to insure yourself if you want the option of a private hospital if you become ill. Sometimes the waiting lists for surgery in public hospitals are long. Older people can be particularly badly affected by delays as many of their health problems are chronic and not urgent, for example a need for hip replacement surgery. If you are in hospital for longer than 35 days at the one time, unless your doctor certifies you are in need of ongoing acute care, you will automatically be reclassified as a "nursing home type" patient. In this case the law says your benefits must be reduced and you will have to meet part of the cost. Private hospital insurance does not entitle you to a single room in a private hospital. Single rooms are given solely on the basis of medical need - there is no difference between Medicare and private patients. However, if a single room is available, and no-one else needs it, you can request it if you are a private patient. You should take into account theatre fees as well as accommodation when you are considering private insurance cover. Private health insurance funds will meet the cost of many extra health care services; dental care, physiotherapy, chiropody, home nursing, chiropractors and osteopaths are examples. The extent of these benefits depends on the amount of insurance you pay. You will need to find out the details from the various funds. The costs of these services are not met by Medicare unless they are available through public hospitals. Private funds will also meet the cost of spectacles. These are not covered by Medicare, although the cost of visiting an optometrist to have your eyes tested or to get a prescription is covered. All the private funds apply qualifying periods and yearly limits for benefits. These conditions are imposed to stop people joining the fund for a short time, making a big claim and then cancelling their membership. A43d Sunday Tasmanian - 30 November 1986 `Rolling over' pays off By PETER WEATHERHEAD, a licenced investment adviser with SBT Bank Investment Service APPROVED Deposit Funds (ADF) were created in 1983 as a result of the Federal Government's decision to increase the tax liability on lump sum payments. By rolling over eligible termination payments into an ADF, considerable taxation benefits can be realised. From 1-7-83, a flat tax rate of 30 per cent is payable whereas before 1-7-83 only 5 per cent of the service component of lump sums was included as assessable income in the year it was received. An exception is made for retirees of 55 years or older where the first $55,000 of their lump sum is taxed at 16 per cent. Some of the advantages of Approved Deposit Funds are: Tax is deferred and pre-July, 1983, concessions preserved until withdrawal from the fund or the depositor turns 65; The deferred tax payment earns interest while in the ADF: No tax is payable on earnings while invested in the fund; On death, the funds are tax free to the deceased taxpayer's dependants; Timing of withdrawals can minimise tax liability; Tax concessions for withdrawals are made to a depositor after the age of 55 years; Withdrawals can be made at any time, such withdrawals will be taxed at lump sum rates which are normally well below income tax rates. "Rollovers" are not limited to retirees. An Approved Deposit Fund can be used by any employee receiving an eligible termination payment due to resignation or redundancy. The Tasmanian Banks' Approved Deposit Fund recently launched jointly by the SBT Bank and the LBS Statewide Bank provides Tasmanians with an opportunity to turn their lump sum superannuation or severance pay into a locally managed, high earning, tax-protected investment scheme. Professional independent advice should be sought before retirement or leaving a current employer to draw up an investment strategy which will provide income and tax savings. Further information can be obtained by contacting any officer of the SBT Bank. A43e Sunday Tasmanian - 30 November 1986 Where to live? WHERE to live is an important feature of most older people's lives. Retirement will almost certainly be a time when you reassess your housing needs. Jan Bowen, in her excellent guide, Know Your Rights When You Retire (Bay Books), says the main options people should consider are: To continue to live in their own home. To buy something smaller; that is a home unit. To live in a rented home. To move to a retirement village. While the availability of medical care and support services is obviously important to consider, it is worth being aware that only 8 per cent of older people need the institutional care offered by a hostel or nursing home. Fifteen per cent of people need support services in their own home and the rest (about 77 per cent) live at home just as they always have. Moving to a unit is a popular option for those people whose families have moved away from home. Many units have the advantage that maintenance of gardens, etc, is the responsibility of a manager. Retirement villages are a relatively new and increasingly popular choice for retired people or people approaching retirement. Some villages accept residents of 50 or 55 years of age and many people are choosing to move in and establish their lives before they retire. Whatever you decide to do, you will need to be aware of the laws which apply to selling a home, or to buying a home or home unit or retirement village unit. Alternatively you may need to know how the law applies to altering a home and to renting a home. There are a number of government concessions to help low income earners with housing costs. Even if the family has grown up and moved out, many people still prefer to stay in the home they have always lived in. They might like the area and be close to family, friends, familiar shops, library and other services, especially health services. ?? A44 The Weekly Times 2002 words A44a The Weekly Times - 23 July 1986 Big cost savings in block grazing BLOCK GRAZING has been widely adopted as a grassland management practice by the dairy industry, but farmers involved in other grazing industries around the country have been slower to recognise its potential. One exception is Tasmanian, Michael Terry, of Dairy Plains near Deloraine, who started block grazing sheep eight years ago. Since then he has been actively advocating the practice, and has strong economic backing to support his claim. Michael's brother, Tim, told the Grassland Society of Victoria last week the financial gains of the system had surprised them. Michael, Tim, another brother Geoff, and their father Ned, run "Bankton" a 1950 hectare property under the Great Western Tiers mountain range in northern Tasmania. The sheep and cattle operation is run by Michael and the cropping and drainage enterprise by Tim. Geoff manages a 550 sow piggery which supplies half of Tasmania's market pigs. Calculations made by Tasmanian Department of Agriculture officer, Mr Ron McCutcheon, showed that in the Terry's situation, block-grazing cattle could save up to $37 a head each year in feed and management costs. AND the cost of block-grazing sheep was 12 cents a head compared with $2.90 a head a year that it cost before the new system was adopted. Mr McCutcheon's figures were based on the additional costs of running the animals over the entire property. For that reason, the cost of fertiliser was not included. His calculations included the cost of growing turnips and feeding hay, which was done before block grazing was started. Mr McCutcheon compared the costs of running cattle before and after the Terrys adopted block grazing. He said that in the Terrys' situation, the cost of growing turnips was $69 a hectare, including labor, machinery, and seed; a total of $3450 for 50 hectares. And, for every hectare the Terrys sowed as turnips, a hectare was out to pasture, which incurred an additional cost of $90 a hectare, or $4500 each year. To feed 2500 bales of hay out each year at $2 a bale cost $5000, so that the total costs summed up to $12,950. That meant that to fatten 340 cattle, it cost $38.08 cents a head. Mr McCutcheon calculated the cost of installing electric fencing to hold the 340 cattle, based on the construction of four fences with double wires. The total cost was $1490, or $4.38 a head. However, the fencing was expected to last at least seven years which reduced the annual cost of 63 cents a head. He said that while the polyflex wire had a much shorter life span, the posts and units could last much longer, so that seven years was a conservative average estimate. Experience in Victoria suggests normal 16 gauge wire can be used. If using polyflex, the black-yellow coating resists ultraviolet damage longer than the pink. CALCULATIONS for the sheep operation were made in the same way, and came out at $2.90 a head a year for conventional grazing, compared with 12 cents a head a year to block-graze them. At his property, "Bankton", Mr Terry block-grazes 6500 ewes and 340 cattle over winter. The ewes start with small blocks when they are in early pregnancy, and as they become more in lamb, the area is extended up to three times its original size. THE size of the block required is estimated by a visual assessment of the sheep and their condition. A total of 2200 ewes are run in each mob, starting on a one-hectare block of rye-grass and clover pasture. The sheep are not given water. According to Mr Terry, they get enough moisture from the grass. "They clean up the ferns, tussocks and sags, and let the grass grow," he said. He begins block-grazing in the first week in May and finishes in the last week in August, before lambing begins in September. Moving them every day reduces parasite problems as they get clean feed, but the stock are still drenched at the beginning and end of the program. The "Bankton" sheep flock comprises 4500 Corriedales and 2000 Corriedale-Border Leicester crosses. The lambs are sold at four months of age in December, some being kept back as replacement ewes. The Terrys breed all their replacement ewes to avoid the risks of introducing footrot and lice. Between February and April each year, the Terrys buy about 650 day-old calves, of which 200 are fostered by a dairy herd, and the rest fed by automatic feeders. The cattle are sold as two-year-olds, and about 600 cattle are fattened and sold each year. This winter is the first time Michael Terry has used block grazing management on his cattle herd, and 340 yearling Friesians were started on the program in May. The cattle are moved every second day and need an outside water supply. AS a supplement, they also receive three large round bales of barley straw every second day. While the electric fencing for the sheep flock runs off a six-volt battery, fencing for cattle has to be run off the mains. Block grazing is catching on in Victoria. There are now about 20 properties using it compared with only one two years ago. It won't suit all grazing properties, but even those with a water logging problem can be improved as Tim Terry's work on sub surface drainage is showing. Tim says he can pay for the cost of drainage in the first year with a crop of potatoes. After that, potatoes, beans, peas and 10 tonne a hectare wheat crops are all a bonus. But more of that in coming weeks. A44b The Weekly Times - 23 July 1986 AN eight-year battle - then AB licence is granted AN eight-year battle to gain a private artificial breeding service licence suddenly ended recently for Gippsland inseminator John Pollard. Without warning or explanation he was told to apply, yet again, for a licence and it was granted. Licences to operate an AB service in Victoria are granted at the discretion of the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Since 1978, Ministers of both Liberal and Labor governments have found it more discreet not to grant AB licences to private operators. John Pollard believes the injustice of withholding licences has been recognised and the situation is being rectified. The Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Mr Walker, has confirmed that issuing licences for private AB services has been reviewed. He said licences would be granted provided strict health and quality control conditions were met. DARA officers would monitor all licensed services. John Pollard was one of several private operators whose activities were limited in 1978 by grouping them, without consultation, under the licence of Elders Breeding Services. He said that year a meeting was held in Melbourne of some parties involved with the artificial breeding industry but at which private inseminators were not represented. FOLLOWING it, he was issued with his A grade inseminator's licence as a subcentre of Elders and was told by the Department of Agriculture that only one inseminator could operate from his service in any one 24-hour period. John was employing another inseminator at the time. He understood the move was made to protect the co-operative insemination services from competition by private inseminators. John retaliated with a persistent eight-year campaign to have the ruling changed. He hounded local MPs, the Ombudsman, sought legal advice and repeatedly approached the Ministers for Agriculture during that period. "At one stage, a Minister was writing letters to me addressed `Dear John', we had had so many communications," John said. "I wanted a full licence which would allow me to store and pack semen for sale and offer an unrestricted insemination service which gave farmers freedom of choice at a competitive price." JOHN's entry into the private AB field was more by accident that design. He trained as a commercial inseminator in 1968, then worked with the local AB co-operative for about five years. That was a sideline to working on the family dairy farm selected near Warragul by one of his ancestors in 1873. In 1976, a couple of local farmers asked John to inseminate their cows with some semen they had bought privately. He obliged. Then, before long, the bush telegraph had spread the word that John was available and more and more farmers sought his services. Before long, he had recruited another inseminator and they were both being kept busy. Then, the restriction was imposed on his business but the demand continued. John was joined by former Warragul AB co-op manager Henry Ziebell and he also recruited a veterinarian to assist part-time. Veterinary registration automatically includes approval to inseminate. Officially, John and Henry worked day about and the vet provided back up. John said his association with Elders was quite normal. He was able to secure semen from any registered artificial breeding organisation in Australia. VAB Co-Op were unable to sell direct to him but John said he could get all the VAB semen he wanted through other sources. Now that he has been granted a full licence, VAB are more than happy to sell to him. Since John's PBS Artificial Breeding Services were licensed three months ago, he has recruited another inseminator, Trevor Wozencroft, who used to manage a Queensland AB service. So, PBS Artificial Breeding Services now has three full-time inseminators, John, Henry and Trevor, and the vet still works with them part-time. John still operates his service from his home on the family farm where they milk up to 250 cows a year. BEFORE his licence was granted, his AB service premises were inspected to establish that the buildings were suitable. His records system was checked to make sure a thorough and accurate account could be kept of bulls used, cows mated, and movement of semen could be identified and traced in case of disease outbreak; and that semen collected from farms and stored for farmer's private use and not for sale was handled and stored in premises separate from those used for semen for sale. He had to undertake to offer his service year round and make available to customers semen from all major suppliers. John said he endorsed "110 per cent" the principle of inspection and licensing to control the standards of AB services. ALMOST all his clients are stud breeders and mainly dairy farmers. John does not quite know how the stud involvement came about although he is enthusiastic about pure breeding in cattle. "You can go somewhere when you are producing purebreds," he said. "Nothing looks better than a herd of pure Friesians or Jerseys in a paddock." Servicing stud breeders led him to start an on-farm semen collection service a couple of years ago. That is how he fills in his spare times during the off-mating season. He not only collects semen and stores it for clients to use when they want it but offers a pre-season fertility check of bulls. And he is also being called upon by beef breeders for whom he provides the artificial insemination service in a veterinary supervised synchronised mating program. John co-operates with veterinarians performing embryo transplants. John will help farmers select AB bulls but always leave the final decision, and responsibility for it, with them. He does not believe the apparent easing of licensing private artificial insemination services in Victoria is going to produce a rush of new operators. The capital costs associated with bulk liquid nitrogen storages, on farm containers, laboratory equipment and other facilities would make a newcomer to the business think twice. Also, farmers are already well serviced in Victoria, indeed better than they were in the past. John pointed out that not too many years ago AB services and semen were offered on a take it or leave it basis. Competition created by several bull farms, imported semen and new technology which makes it easy and cheap to move semen across the world, has also led to improved service for farmers. John said there were now resident representatives of VAB and Elders Breeding Services in Gippsland competing to secure the farmer's business.

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