VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-26-2000
VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers = 2

THE AGE

Page 1 - Victorian Liberal MPs have been subjected to an unprecedented performance
review. Only three Victorian clubs now remain in the race for the AFL premiership cup.

Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has said he won't be moving to Canberra. Richard
Hatch has won the $1 million prize on the US TV show, Survivor.

Page 3 - A Christian Brothers school in Geelong has publicly apologised to former students
for sexual abuse inflicted by staff.

Page 5 - Wealthy parents who send their children to government schools should pay extra
fees, a principal of a leading private school said yesterday.

World - A senior UN prosecutor investigating war crimes in East Timor will compile
a report on atrocities committed after Indonesia's 1975 invasion (Dili). opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi has confronted Burma's military regime in a bid to secure her right to
freedom of movement (Bangkok). scientists have found that wild dolphins communicate one-on-one
(Washington).

Finance - Dozens of corporate prosecutions can resume after Canberra and the states
agreed yesterday to a medium-term solution to the Corporation Law crisis. higher oil prices
underwrote an improvement in Caltex Australia's first-half earnings. St George Bank will
sack 1,450 staff.

Sport - The Brownlow medals of South Melbourne great Herbie Matthews will become the
fourth lot of Australian Rules football's greatest individual honour to be offered for
auction. Essendon ruckman John Barnes was absent from the training track last night on
the eve of the side's AFL preliminary finals clash.

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Fed: Motoring bodies cautiously welcome country fuel grant

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2000
Fed: Motoring bodies cautiously welcome country fuel grant

CANBERRA, April 12 AAP - Motoring bodies have offered cautious support for the federal
government's country fuel grant, designed to ensure the price of fuel does not rise because
of the GST.

Treasurer Peter Costello said consumers would be the big winners from the grant scheme,
announced yesterday.

Under the plan, a one cent a litre rebate would be paid to fuel retailers in regional
areas and two cents for those in remote areas, which would then be passed on to motorists.

The Australian Automobile Association said it generally welcomed the scheme but would
need more detail before giving it a complete thumbs-up.

"Naturally AAA will need to see the final details of the scheme and in particular how
it will operate before deciding whether or not to fully endorse it," said AAA spokesman
Greg Hunting.

Victoria's peak motoring body, the RACV, said the petrol scheme opened new questions.

"For example, what is the definition of a remote and non-metropolitan location, exactly
how much will be removed from the excise and can the scheme be policed effectively?" RACV
spokesman David Cumming said.

Without a freeze on the automatic indexation of petrol excise to the CPI, the price
of petrol would only be stable on July 1, Mr Cumming said.

"After that, any rise in CPI will mean a compounding increase in petrol prices."

The Motor Trades Association welcomed the fuel plan, but stressed its administration
should be kept as simple as possible.

Mr Costello said consumers would make sure fuel operators passed the grant on at the petrol pump.

"I've found, in dealing with price changes, that consumers are exceptionally well informed
and with something they're buying every day like petrol, they are doubly exceptionally
well informed," he told ABC television.

A price exploitation hotline would be set up, he said.

"You will get calls. The ACCC is able to investigate ... if there is not a satisfactory
explanation it has huge powers at its disposal."

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KEYWORD: TAX FUEL DAYLEAD

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Vic: Third union joins power strikes

AAP General News (Australia)
01-14-2000
Vic: Third union joins power strikes

Victorian power shortages are more likely following the decision of a third union to
begin strike action at the state's major generator.

The Australian Services Union, which controls generating facilities, will strike on
Saturday morning.

Maintenance bans by the Electrical Trades' Union and Australian Manufacturing Workers'
Union have already forced the closure of Yallourn Energy, which provides 20 per cent of
the state's …

FED: Govt members wary of sorry motion

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-1999
FED: Govt members wary of sorry motion

Plans for a national apology to the stolen generation of Aboriginal children have run into
trouble with government backbenchers expressing concern over the plan.

Australian Democrats Senator ADEN RIDGEWAY, the only Aboriginal member of federal
parliament, is to use his maiden speech tomorrow to reignite calls for a national apology.

Cabinet secretary BILL HEFFERNAN has been working behind the scenes on the motion and says
he believes Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD has had a change of heart on the apology, which he
formerly opposed.

But government members have made it clear they remain sceptical about the plan.

Liberal Senator ERIC ABETZ has questioned the value of making an apology, and fellow
Liberal Senator ALAN FERGUSON says he still doesn't believe the current generation has
anything to apologise for.

But National Party Senator JULIAN MCGAURAN says he believes a national apology will be
supported.

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KEYWORD: SORRY REACT (CANBERRA)

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FED: Murray calls for evenhanded approach to building

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-1999
FED: Murray calls for evenhanded approach to building

CANBERRA, April 4 AAP -The federal government should ensure it is even-handed in pursuing
alleged corrupt practices in the building industry, Australian Democrats industrial relations
spokesman Andrew Murray said today.

Industrial Relations Minister Peter Reith has nominated the building industry as a priority
for change, saying it is dominated by a militant union and pliant contractors.

Senator Murray endorsed tackling problems in the construction sector, but said the
government should ensure it did not repeat its actions in last year's waterfront dispute when
he said it took a biased approach of targeting unions but no other group.

It was not just a question of the unions in the construction industry but also of employer
practices, contracting practices and the problems varied by state, he said.

"I would suggest if there are improper practices in the construction industry, yes, they
should be addressed, but it needs to be even-handed," Senator Murray told Network Ten's Meet
the Press program.

He said there had been no real benefit to the country from the waterfront dispute.

"If he (Mr Reith) takes that same view of the construction industry then we're going to go
nowhere with this," Senator Murray said.

"But if he cleans up the whole thing, wherever there are rorts and wherever there are
problems regardless of who's doing it, well then that would be a good thing for the country."

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KEYWORD: BUILDING

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NSW: Bus, ferry delays as officers stop work tomorrow = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-1998
NSW: Bus, ferry delays as officers stop work tomorrow = 2

A State Transit spokesman later said the stop-work meeting would have a minimal, if any,
effect on bus and ferry services.

"Morning peak hour bus and ferry services will operate as normal and commuters will have no
worries getting to work," he said.

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KEYWORD: TRANSIT 2 SYDNEY (REOPENS)

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QLD:WWF welcomes carbon announcement

AAP General News (Australia)
02-24-2011
QLD:WWF welcomes carbon announcement

A leading environmental group has welcomed an announcement by Labor and the Greens
today to put a fixed price on pollution.

Prime Minister JULIA GILLARD says a fixed carbon price will start on July 1 next year
.. before moving to a cap-and-trade emissions trading scheme within three to five years.

Ms GILLARD says putting a price on carbon is the most efficient way to cut carbon pollution
.. because once a price is put on something .. people will use less of it.

WWF-Australia CEO …