Qld: Liberals maintain pressure on Beattie

AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2000
Qld: Liberals maintain pressure on Beattie

BRISBANE, Dec 7 AAP - Queensland Premier Peter Beattie could not be serious about his
complaints that the state was in for a dirty election campaign, according to Liberal MP
Santo Santoro.

Mr Beattie has complained that Liberal Party leaflets distributed at railway stations
yesterday marked the start of a dirty campaign.

The leaflet, authorised by Liberal state director Graham Jaeschke (Jaeschke), said
Mr Beattie could not expect electors to believe he did not know anything about widespread
electoral fraud in the Labor Party, when as party campaign director he ran 16 election
campaigns between 1981 and 1988.

Mr Beattie said the leaflet was the start of the opposition's "dirty tricks" election campaign.

"They've established a dirty tricks campaign which will be designed to personally target
me," he told a news conference.

But Mr Santoro hit back, saying "he can't be serious".

"Given what average, ordinary, decent Queenslanders have heard come out of the Shepherdson
Inquiry (into electoral fraud), how can the Premier possibly complain when they ask 'What
does he have to hide?'," Mr Santoro said.

An unofficial election campaign has been underway in Queensland since Labor was plunged
into minority government by the resignation of two MPs from the ALP in disgrace.

Opposition leader Rob Borbidge has placed his team in election mode and has begun releasing
election policies despite Mr Beattie's determination to hold out for a May election.

Mr Beattie said he had been inundated with complaints about the leaflet.

"The only way they can win the next state election is by personally assassinating me,"

Mr Beattie said.

But Mr Santoro said Mr Beattie knew he was in a weak position as a result of the Shepherdson
Inquiry.

"He's going to have a very difficult time extricating himself from the mess the Labor
Party has got itself into," Mr Santoro said.

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Vic: Three chase armed robber after hold up in car park

AAP General News (Australia)
04-25-2000
Vic: Three chase armed robber after hold up in car park

MELBOURNE, April 25 AAP - Two men, including a 76-year-old, were cut about the arms
when they tried to seize an armed man after he had held up and robbed a woman at knifepoint
today.

The robber was eventually overcome by one of the injured and a third man before police
arrived at the scene in outer suburban Noble Park.

A man had approached a 54-year-old woman and her nine-year-old great niece as they
were sitting in the front seat of her car at a carpark off Frank Street, Noble Park, about
9.30am.

He threatened the woman with a knife before grabbing her purse and running off.

A 76 year-old man who saw the incident confronted the robber in a nearby laneway and
was cut on the wrist as the robber escaped.

A 58 year-old man also tried to stop the fleeing thief, receiving a slash to his right
arm as he grappled with him.

A third man, a 36-year-old, helped to subdue the alleged offender until police arrived.

The injured men were taken to the Dandenong Hospital where they were treated and released.

A 26-year-old man from Endeavour Hills was helping police with their inquiries.

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Qld: BHP taking legal action against striking miners

AAP General News (Australia)
02-08-2000
Qld: BHP taking legal action against striking miners

BRISBANE, Feb 8 AAP - Mining giant BHP will initiate contempt of court proceedings
against striking coal miners in the federal court here tomorrow.

Production at 12 BHP coal mines ground to a halt when 2,500 workers in Queensland and
900 in New South Wales defied a court order and walked off the job.

Workers at seven Queensland mines returned to work at noon today but Construction,
Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) colleagues in NSW were threatening to extend
the strike action by 24 hours.

The industrial action followed a …

Tas drugs diversion program model for Australia

AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-1999
Tas drugs diversion program model for Australia

The Tasmanian government has announced the first federal-government sponsored alternate
drug punishment laws.

Federal Health Minister MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE says the program will divert illicit drugs
users from the courts.

Under the treatment-instead-of-punishment program, drug users will be able to choose
between going to court and entering a rehabilitation program.

It is the first state or territory program under the federal government's Tough on
Drugs Diversion program, although the idea has been used in other states.

Dr WOOLDRIDGE launched the program with Premier JIM BACON complete with $3.8 million
Commonwealth funding.

The program will allow anyone caught with less than 50 grams of cannabis to choose
between the courts and a course of assessment, education and treatment.

With cannabis, that choice will apply until after
the third offence, but with harder drugs, there will be only one chance and the allowable
amount in possession will be less.

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NSW: Flatmate argument ends in stabbing

AAP General News (Australia)
04-22-1999
NSW: Flatmate argument ends in stabbing

SYDNEY, April 22 AAP - An argument between flatmates in western Sydney last night ended
when a man was stabbed, leaving him in a critical condition, police said today.

A 24-year-old Oxley Park man will appear in Penrith Local Court this morning charged with
attempted murder and malicious wounding.

The man and his 24-year-old flatmate began arguing about 11.15pm in their Braddon Street
home, a police spokesman said.

"The victim was stabbed in the left side of the chest," the spokesman said.

"Police are still looking for the weapon, believed to be a knife."

The spokesman said the victim was hospitalised in a critical but stable condition.

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Vic: Three in court on car theft charges

AAP General News (Australia)
01-14-1999
Vic: Three in court on car theft charges

MELBOURNE, Jan 14 AAP - Three men were expected to face court today following police
investigations into the theft of about $2 million worth of prestige cars and motorcycles.

The men aged 23, 24 and 27 were charged with conspiracy and car theft after police searched
several houses in inner Melbourne and the western suburbs and allegedly found stolen vehicles
yesterday, police said.

They were remanded to appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court today.

A …

VIC:Vic govt tries to stop work bans

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2011
VIC:Vic govt tries to stop work bans

The Victorian government has again applied to the workplace umpire to suspend industrial
action by child protection workers.

The Community and Public Sector Union workers are reinstating work bans in the child
protection sector tomorrow following the government's announcement last week it will axe
more than three-and-a-half-thousand public sector jobs.

Union members will also escalate industrial action across other public sector areas,
including extra work bans at state prisons.

Community Services Minister MARY WOOLDRIDGE says the government has applied to Fair
Work Australia to have the bans suspended for six weeks.

She says it's appalling the union would use vulnerable children as pawns in their industrial
bargaining process.

The government's application is due to be heard by Fair Work Australia tomorrow.

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