From: brad@winnie.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Brad Alexander )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Oznews, 10th of October 1992.
Date: 13 Oct 92 08:21:29 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: winnie.cs.adelaide.edu.au


 A bit late this week (problems with the news server). Not much in the papers. 
There were some floods over South Australia, Western Victoria and North East
Tasmainia late in the week. I couldn't find any articles that a nice, short
summary could be gleaned from. I believe they have abated by now (no fatalities).
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                News from "The Weekend Australian" 10-10-92               
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"Churches join economic fight"- The Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most
Reverand Peter Hollingworth, yesterday condemned the Federal Government and the
Opposition over their policies for victims of the recession and their tactic of
using the churches for political point-scoring.
  Archbishop Hollingworth spoke out as all the main Christian churches entered
the bitter political debate over the pain of the recession and the
radically different prescriptions to cure it, particuarly the
Oppositions goods and services tax. 
  He said neither the Government's One Nation statement nor the
Opposition's fightback package had addressed the main problem facing
Australia - a shrinking wealth base. 
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"Ford chief to head European operation"- The head of Ford Australia, Mr
Jac Nasser - who has led the motor industry's fight against possible
tarrif reductions - has been appointed the head of Ford Europe, one of
the most senior posts in the giant company...
  Mr Nasser played a key role in the tarrif debate which erupted several
weeks ago when the Opposition spokesman on industry, Mr Ian McLachlan
took a hardline stance on protection. 
  Mr McLachlan roused Mr Nasser's ire when he reaffirmed that a Coalition
governement would accelerate tariff reductions to negligible levels,
compared with the Federal Government's ceiling of 15 per cent by 2000...
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"Doctors identify 'benign' HIV"- A strain of HIV may be benign or less
capable of causing AIDS, Sydney researchers said after discovering a
common group of people with long-term HIV infection who have not yet
developed AIDS.
  In a study published in the October edition of the British journal the
Lancet and released yesterday, researchers found a group of people
infected by the same blood donor had not developed any related illness or
symptoms of AIDS eight to ten years after being infected.
  Researchers from the NSW Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service and the
National Centre for HIV Epidemology and Clinical Research at the
University of NSW made their discovery accidently when reviewing 118
people in NSW known to have contracted HIV through a transfusion of
blood. 
  They found that the HIV-positive donor and five people infected by his
blood products had developed no symptoms of AIDS...
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"ATSIC, Coalition come to terms"- An unusual reconcilation was quietly
completed this week between the federal Opposition and a body it vowed to
abolish: The Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Commision.
  Two years ago, the Opposition promised that a Coalition government
would cut funds to ATSIC to starve it to death - if it could not get rid
of it outright. 
  Now the Coalition's spokesman on Aboriginal affairs, Dr Michael
Woolridge, is praising the organisation, commiting a Coalition government
to substantial funding and defending ATSIC from occasional criticism from
Opposition ranks. 
  This week ATSIC's acting chairman, Mr Sol Bellear, wrote to Dr
Wooldrige saying that in principle, many of the Opposition's proposal's
were acceptable to its board of Aboriginal Commissioners...
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              News from "The Advertiser"(Adelaide) 10-10-92
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"Firecrews contain big steelworks fire"- Sydney: Fire crews last night
contained a huge underground blaze beneath steelworks at Port Kembla,
south of Wollongong. 
  However, rescue workers expected it would take some time to extinguish
the fire in the electrical cable tunnels. 
  A BHP spokesman said operations at the Sheet and Coil plant could be
affected for several weeks. More than 450 workers were evacuated when the
fire erupted about 10 am and the fire intensified during the afternoon. 
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"School bus in pile-up"- Hobart: a family of three was incinerated in a
horrific three-vehicle accident on the Midland Hwy, 50km from here
yesterday.
  However, a busload of 48 high school children and the occupants of the
second car escaped relatively unscathed. Education Department
psycologists were sent to counsel the children. 
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"Protest over wildlife bill"- Melbourne: Wilderness Society protesters
yesterday demonstrated outside BHP's headquarters against the company's
stand on endangered species legislation. 
  Industry leaders' concerns led to the withdrawl of a ministerial veto
in the Endangered Species Protection Bill, which would have allowed the
Government to stop major projects which threatend wildlife or their
habitat. 
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Brad Alexander