NSW: Chikarovski releases shame file

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2000
NSW: Chikarovski releases shame file

A shame file of New South Wales MPs who voted against laws to keep convicted killer
ALLAN BAKER behind bars has been released by the state opposition.

The Liberals last night narrowly lost their bid to push the legislation, which would
have denied BAKER a review of his sentence, through the upper house.

Opposition Leader KERRY CHIKAROVSKI has today named the crossbenchers who effectively
blocked the legislation, saying they should be ashamed of themselves.

One of the voters, Greens MP LEE RHIANNON, has retaliated, calling Mrs CHIKAROVSKI'S
continued push on the issue a crude attempt to boost herself in the polls.

Ms RHIANNON says voting against the bill is about keeping the appropriate separation
of powers and allowing the courts to decide BAKER'S fate.

Premier BOB CARR says allowing the legislation through parliament could have made the
situation even worse by sparking a High Court challenge.





BAKER and KEVIN CRUMP were jailed in 1974 for life for the murder of ALAN LAMB and
conspiracy to murder VIRGINIA MORSE.

The judge recommended their files be marked NEVER TO BE RELEASED but CRUMP has already
had his sentence redetermined and can apply for parole in 2003.

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KEYWORD: BAKER (SYDNEY)

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Fed: Youth suicide prevention group angry at magazine ad

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2000
Fed: Youth suicide prevention group angry at magazine ad

MELBOURNE, April 17 AAP - A youth suicide prevention group today called for a magazine
advertisement depicting a girl with a rope around her neck and apparently feigning asphyxiation
to be banned.

The ad for a range of hair and skin products in the April 15-21 edition of TV Week
outraged the Here for Life group, which said the image "should not be used in any circumstance".

The advertisement depicts a smiling family, including two children holding a rope wrapped
around the neck of a third child.

A caption under the picture says: "Unlike most large families, the Freemans don't have
any hang-ups. Simply because they're a family of quick and easy solutions.

"Solutions for dirty hair. Solutions for beautiful skin. Even solutions for dirty feet."

Victorian Here for Life executive director Andrew Kay said the advertisement demonstrated
"a clear lack of sensitivity towards those whose lives are directly affected by suicide".

"The media industry must take responsibility for the way it portrays such issues,"

Mr Kay told AAP.

TV Week editor Katie Ekberg was unavailable for comment and a publicist for the magazine
said there was no one "appropriate" around to respond to the criticism.

But the publicist said the ad - put to TV Week by the Sydney-based AKA Media company
- would not be running again in the publication.

AKA Media's Andrew Kluver said: "It is not a mock suicide and I don't want to discuss the issue."

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KEYWORD: SUICIDE

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VIC: Government pressured over 36 hour week claim

AAP General News (Australia)
02-01-2000
VIC: Government pressured over 36 hour week claim

The Victorian government is facing mounting pressure to intervene in the building industry's
36-hour week dispute.

While acting Premier JOHN THWAITES says the government has no power to influence the
unions claim, the state opposition and business groups are urging the government to assert
its strength.

Mr THWAITES says the government is hamstrung by the federal industrial relations system,
which allows individual bargaining between employers and employees.

He's told radio 3AW that the federal government has taken the government, and certainly
the state government, out of the equation.

Mr THWAITES says they have a limited role, but believe it's important for employers
and employees in the building industry to resolve their issues.

The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is pursuing a 36-hour week and has
predicted mayhem in the industry as it works to strike a deal.

Opposition industrial relations spokesman MARK BIRRELL says the government is scared
to take on the unions.

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KEYWORD: BUILDING (MELBOURNE)

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SUMMIT OFFICIAL DISCOUNTS INFLATION FEAR

KATHLEEN LYNN, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
11-04-1999
SUMMIT OFFICIAL DISCOUNTS INFLATION FEAR -- SEES STRONG FORCES IN U.S. ECONOMY
HOLDING DOWN THE THREAT
By KATHLEEN LYNN, Staff Writer
Date: 11-04-1999, Thursday
Section: BUSINESS
Edition: All Editions -- Four Star B, Three Star B, Two Star P, One Star B

Inflation is not the threat the Federal Reserve thinks it is,
Summit Bank's chief investment officer told bank customers Wednesday at
a seminar in Teaneck.

"We don't have to worry about inflation in today's environment,"
said Hilton M. Jervey of Summit, the state's largest bank.

The Fed has been raising interest rates this year to slow the
economy and head off inflation.

Its theory is that low employment -- 4.6 percent in New Jersey and
4.2 percent nationwide -- will lead to higher wages as employers compete
for scarce workers. Higher wages, in turn, would be expected to raise
the prices companies must charge for their goods.

But Jervey said there are strong forces holding inflation down.

"Most American workers recognize that they can't be too aggressive
about the wage gains they're asking for because their jobs might be
moved somewhere else," he said.

For example, he said, a Fairfield company that manufactures sensors
recently moved a division to China, cutting labor costs from $38 an hour
to $2.40 an hour. And it's not just factory work: American companies are
sending software design work to Asia and Eastern Europe.

Technology, which has increased workers' productivity, is also
keeping prices down, Jervey said.

And even if wages rise, he said, corporations can't pass those
costs along because of global competition and because customers are
shopping for the best prices on the Internet.

"They can't just raise prices, because they might lose customers,"
said Jervey.

Jervey predicted that the economy would grow 3.2 percent in 2000
and the Consumer Price Index would rise 2.2 percent. Both figures are
down slightly from this year.

He also offered a theory on a Wall Street paradox: Why investors are
bidding up the stock prices of technology companies that aren't making
money.

In an environment where few companies can increase profits by
raising prices, companies with growing sales -- including technology
companies -- look promising to investors.

"People are making bets that in the end, some of these companies
are going to be successful in generating profits for their
shareholders," Jervey said.

Illustrations/Photos: COLOR PHOTO - HILTON M. JERVEY Summit's chief investment
officer

Keywords: BANK. USA. ECONOMIC

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NSW; Cabbie cleared of crime in relation to death says sorry

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-1999
NSW; Cabbie cleared of crime in relation to death says sorry

A Sydney cabbie who has been cleared of any crime relating to the death of a passenger he
ran down after the man evaded a $25 fare says he's sorry for what happened to the man.

The New South Wales Supreme Court jury has found SAID MALLAK NOT GUILTY of murder,
manslaughter or dangerous driving causing the death of 39-year-old CARL HIPWELL.

Mr MALLAK, 39, of Smithfield, had pleaded NOT GUILTY to murdering Mr HIPWELL on January 20,
1996, at Rooty Hill in Sydney's west.

Mr HIPWELL and three other men hired the cab in the early hours after drinking at a
Parramatta club, but when they reached their destination they did "a runner" -- rushing off
without paying the fare.

The then part-time cabbie, now hospital worker, told the jury one of the men hit him on the
face and broke his glasses, before the others kicked and banged his car.

Mr MALLAK said he had no intention of hurting anyone, and was just running away for his own
safety.

He said he drove off, but turned around to go back the way he came as he did not know the
area, not seeing Mr HIPWELL on the road until it was too late.

He says he's very sorry for what happened to Mr HIPWELL that night, and he's sorry for the
man's family.

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KEYWORD: MALLAK (SYDNEY)

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QLD: Man drowns on Gold Coast

AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-1998
QLD: Man drowns on Gold Coast

BRISBANE, Dec 25 AAP - A man died today after being pulled from surf off the Gold Coast,
police said.

The man was surfing off Pacific Avenue at Tugun when he got into difficulties about 11am
(AEST), a police spokesman said.

Bystanders dragged him to shore and he was rushed to a nearby medical centre but was dead
on arrival.

Police were trying to identify the man who had been surfing alone away from a patrolled
area.

Elsewhere on the Gold Coast, surf lifesavers performed 15 minor rescues in mainly calm
conditions with waves around the one metre mark.

AAP sat/jnb/br

KEYWORD: DROWN QLD

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NSW:Greens talk nonsense about sniffer dogs

AAP General News (Australia)
12-12-2011
NSW:Greens talk nonsense about sniffer dogs

New South Wales Premier BARRY O'FARRELL has flatly rejected a call by the Greens to
scrap the state's sniffer dog program.

He says it's not surprising the Greens would be advocating policies to make it harder
for police to do their job as the party doesn't support policies that make certain drugs
illegal.

Greens MP DAVID SHOEBRIDGE has called for the sniffer dog program to be dumped after
government figures revealed the canines are wrong four out of five times.

But Mr O'FARRELL has pointed to breath testing as a comparable example of effective policy.

He says for about every 100-thousand breath tests that occur, about 15-hundred people
are caught over the limit.

AAP RTV ab/tr/sw/

KEYWORD: SNIFFER (SYDNEY)

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