Vic: Bracks pledges one off grant to ethnic welfare agencies

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2000
Vic: Bracks pledges one off grant to ethnic welfare agencies

Victorian Premier STEVE BRACKS says the federal government is playing divide and rule
politics by cutting grants to three peak ethnic welfare agencies.

Mr BRACKS made an unscheduled appearance at a community rally in Brunswick to announce
his government would put up $120,000 in interim funding for the agencies.

Last week, the federal Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs advised
the Italian Assistance Association, known as CoAsIt, and Australian Greek Welfare Society
that their annual grants would be roughly halved.

The Italian agency's Community Settlement Services Scheme grant is down from $200,000
last year to just over $105,000 this year, while the Greek agency's went from $212,000
last year to just over $107,000 this year.

In addition, the Australian Turkish Society's $49,000 grant has been abolished completely.

The department says the agencies don't meet all the criteria for the money, which is
needed to help settle other, more recently-arrived migrant communities.

The decision was slammed last week by the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria.

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Qld: Courier Mail fronters

AAP General News (Australia)
04-18-2000
Qld: Courier Mail fronters

BRISBANE, April 18 AAP - Main stories in today's first edition of The Courier-Mail.

Page 1 - Australian investors bracing for another beating after a freefall in United
States technology and Internet stocks. Meter readers told to use umbrellas to fend off
vicious dogs after family pets were bashed with steel pipes and fence palings (local).

Two major construction projects have bypassed Queensland's new industrial laws and registered
in the federal arena.

Page 2 - Defence Minister John Moore has been spared a preselection battle after Liberal
Party figures prevailed on Michael Johnson to rule out a preselection bid (local). Triathlete
Brad Beven in hospital after being hit by a car on Saturday (Sydney).

Page 3 - Speed camera sites boosted in an Easter crackdown on speeding (local). A woman
who took a knife into a crowded gym and attempted to cut off her former lover's penis
jailed for six years (Townsville).

World - The wife of a white farmer killed in Zimbabwe's land war has vowed to stay
in the country to continue the political struggle (London). Russian President Vladimir
Putin arrives in London amid protests about human rights abuses by his soldier's in Chechnya
(London).

Finance: World markets balanced on a razor's edge awaiting the opening of the US stock
markets after $36 billion was wiped from the value of Australian shares.

Sport - New Zealand renews a bid to poach Queensland State of Origin rugby league utility
Tonie Carroll (Sydney). After withdrawing from the Australian rugby league team yesterday,
Newcastle's Andrew Johns said he would struggle to be fit for the first State of Origin
match on May 10 (Sydney).

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KEYWORD: FRONTERS QLD

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VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers =2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-02-2000
VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers =2

THE AGE

Page 1 - Indonesia's security minister General Wiranto defiantly ignored calls for
his resignation. A Brisbane Lions player is being investigated over an alleged rape in
London last year. International Olympic Committee vice-president Kevan Gosper refuses
to release ski trip evidence to media.

Page 2 - Big business takes few chances with political funding.

Page 3 - Builders to hit back over 36-hour campaign. Home rate increase on the way.

World - United Nations official doubts Jakarta probe. Britain's medical establishment
under fire after a family doctor was condemned to life in jail.

Finance - Australian Securities and Investment Commission eyes the sharp movers. Retail
boom lifts payout at Westfield Trust.

Sport - Speed of bowler Brett Lee may edge out Damien Fleming.

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Fed: Reith vows to fight on business calls for new system

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-1999
Fed: Reith vows to fight on business calls for new system

The business community has called for a complete rethink of Australia's industrial
relations system in the wake of Workplace Relations Minister PETER REITH's failed second
wave of reforms.

The Australian Democrats yesterday all but shot down the so-called second wave laws.

The rejection places in limbo Mr REITH's goal of union secret ballots, a cutback on
unfair dismissal applications, restriction of union access to work sites and a tightening
of circumstances in which a strike can be held.

With Labor opposed outright to the bill, the Democrats' support in the Senate was vital.

The Democrats announced they would reject 13 elements of the bill, effectively leaving
in place only five uncontroversial schedules of the original 18.

A disappointed Mr REITH has vowed to press on with the reforms, possibly breaking them
up into more bills for further consideration next year.

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VIC: Heartbroken sister suicides after brother s murder

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-1999
VIC: Heartbroken sister suicides after brother s murder

A Melbourne inquest has heard the torture murder of a 14-year-old boy had broken his twin
sister's heart and finally drove her to kill herself.

The Melbourne Coroners Court has heard RUTH LORRAINE RUSSELL, 15, took an overdose of
heroin because of unresolved grief about her brother JOEL'S death on January 17, 1997.

She was discovered in her health services accommodation bed on October 9, 1997.

Coroner JACINTA HEFFEY told the court a suicide note found in her room said she couldn't
handle living without her brother.

Six men stood trial over the abduction, torture and murder of the boy last year.

JOEL was allegedly abducted with his 17-year-old brother WADE and held captive for five
hours under a Melbourne suburban house on January 14, 1997.

JOEL'S body was found on January 17 in the Yarra River, wrapped in sheets and bed covers,
tied with electrical cord and weighed down by a brick.

LANCE EDWARD FRANKLIN, 39, of Reservoir, was convicted of murder in September and sentenced
to 22 years jail with a minimum of 17 years.

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KEYWORD: RUSSELL (MELBOURNE)

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TEN: Kelly to investigate AIS claims = 2

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12-26-1998
TEN: Kelly to investigate AIS claims = 2

AIS director John Boultbee said the institute would investigate its own records for
documented complaints to ascertain whether there was any truth to the allegations.

"We just don't know (if the allegations are true)," Mr Boultbee said.

"Most of them (allegations) relate to the early '80s and none of the tennis coaching staff
nor I have been around that long."

He was convinced any problems which might have existed in the program in the 1980s had
since been ironed out.

"The 1980s were a time when the awareness of eating disorders and how to deal with them was
much less than now," Mr Boultbee said.

"Our coaches these days know not to concentrate on the issue of weight but to see it as an
issue of fitness."

Mr Boultbee said he was aware of only one case of an eating disorder in the tennis program
and that was detected by institute staff in the 1990s.

"You can't carry excess weight and be successful and it might be that some athletes are
still resorting to unhealthy means to lose weight," he said.

He denied the program had been a failure despite none of the 60 women who had gained
scholarships being placed in the world top 20.

"We've never set a target of getting into the top 20," he said.

"But we've succeeded over the years in improving the rankings of those who have been
through the program."

He said the program had recently been reviewed to translate its success in junior ranks to
intermediate levels in transition to senior tennis.

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NSW:Robertson calls for Kelly expulsion

AAP General News (Australia)
12-12-2011
NSW:Robertson calls for Kelly expulsion

New South Wales Labor leader JOHN ROBERTSON has called for TONY KELLY's to be expelled
from the party after the former MP was found to have acted corruptly over a land deal.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption has found that the former NSW lands minister
engaged in corrupt conduct over a multi-million property deal involving a former union-owned
retreat in Sydney's northern beaches.

In it's decision released today, the ICAC says Mr KELLY's corrupt behaviour related
to a backdated letter that was used to claim authority to buy the Currawong property at
Pittwater.

It's found former chief executive of the Land and Property Management Authority WARWICK
WATKINS and the authority's former chief financial officer ROBERT COSTELLO had also acted
corruptly in relation to the letter.

The ICAC has recommended the DPP investigate the laying of criminal charges against
all three men.

Mr ROBERTSON says he's written to NSW Labor general secretary SAM DASTYARI seeking
the termination of Mr KELLY's membership.

He says there's no place in the Labor Party under my leadership for anyone like that.

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