From: brad@winnie.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Brad Alexander )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Oznews, 4th of April, 1992
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:41:13 GMT

The most significant news later in the week focused on the acrimony and
hyperbole in parliment house:

               News from The Weekend Australian 28-3-92
"Prove Mafia slur, PM tells Hewson"- The Prime Minister, Mr Keating,
demanded yesterday that the Leader of the Opposition, Dr Hewson,
substantiate his claim of Mafia-like links within Mr Keating's ALP faction
and accused Dr Hewson of tainting the office of Prime Minister.
  But Dr Hewson refused to retreat and the Opposition intends to pursue its
allegations of corruption against the right wing of the NSW ALP.
  Mr Keating made it clear yesterday that he would also pursue Dr Hewson,
holding a press conference to say the latter's charge implied "criminality,
corruption, murder and gangsters".
  "He is making a charge that strikes at my fitness to hold office," Mr
Keating said...
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"Whitlam blasts Hawke over rights"- A former prime minister, Mr Gough
Whitlam, last night delivered a devastating attack on his Labor successor
Mr Bob Hawke, accusing him of not keeping pace with community aspirations
on human rights and failing to curb racial discrimination by state police
and magistrates against Aborigines. 
  Mr Whitlam said Australia was seen in Europe as constantly making
bilateral protests to other countries on human rights while stalling on
bringing its own laws within the framework of international human rights
charters.
  "It may well be true that no nation has said more about human rights than
Australia; it is certainly true that dozens of nations have done more about
human rights and have done it more promptly and wholeheartedly," he said.
  Mr Whitlam said the federal government was badly compromised in 1986 when
Mr Hawke succumbed to pressure applied by the then Premier of Western
Australia, Mr Brian Burke, to abandon national land rights legislation...
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"Indonesia visit to strengthen ties"- The visit by the Prime Minister, Mr
Paul Keating, to Indonesia later this month is expected to mark a fresh
start in relations after the tensions arising from last November's Dili
massacre.
  Senior Australian officials said yesterday the East Timor issue was far
from finished as a significant irritant in the bilateral relationship.
  But the elevation of Mr Keating is seen in both Canberra and Jakarta as
a positive factor in helping to rehabilitate fully the ties between
Australia and Indonesia.
  The Suharto Government will extend a warm welcome to Mr Keating,
something officials beleive would not be so apparent had a visit been
undertaken by former prime minister Mr Bob Hawke.
  Soon after the Dili massacre, Mr Hawke laid down a set of conditions
under which he would accept Jakarta's long standing invitation to visit...
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"Job market shrinks for graduates"-Leading employers are slashing
recruitment of university graduates as the recession hits home but the 
salaries remain good for the lucky few who land a job. 
  A national survey by Melbourne's Monash University has found that nearly
half of the employers questioned - 47 per cent - expect to employ fewer
graduates this year compared with 1991.
  Only 20 per cent expect graduate employment to increase and 32 per cent 
say it will remain on the same level.
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            News from "The Advertiser" (Adelaide) 4-4-92
"Police raid factory"- Sydney: Police yesterday raided a Chester Hill
factory which they beleive may have been storing ozone-destroying goods.
   In the raid, a squad of police seized several pallets of goods. The
company, Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd, could face charges.
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"Bonus spent on children"- Sydney: The one-off $125 child payment announced
in Prime Minister Keating's One Nation statement in February appears to
have found its target, with childrens clothes selling well.
  The family allowance bonus, paid into bank accounts yesterday, was
followed by Coles Supermarkets registering a 40 per cent jump in childrens
wear sales.
  "In infant wear, sales were up 36 per cent yesterday and across the board
there was a 40 per cent sales increase on last Thursday," Coles spokeswoman
Ms Veronica McGowan said. The increase occurred across the chain's 300 
stores...
 "blips" had not shown up in sales figures for anything but childrens
clothes, she said.
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 Brad Alexander.
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