Monday 3rd February 1997
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Issues - The banking system under the spotlight. Behind the clean image there are reports that the other side may not be so glossy.... check out the link above and make your own assumptions. But really, a McDonald's at schools - I can just see a big styalised and trade marked "M" framing the entrance to some of Australia's biggest schools, with Big M school books and, of course, Big M hamburgers for sale at lunch.... GIVE ME A BREAK!
Kemp justifies his comment by sating, "A firm like McDonald's, for instance, trains some 35,000 casual workers and most of these are school kids."
"If we could provide a school end to that so there is some school study associated with those training, we would create a school-based, part-time treaineeship for these young people.
"The training would give them a qualification that would be recognised around Australia under the new national qualification arrangements."
Please send us your views on this proposed development.
About half of the delegates would be selected by the Federal and State governments, local authorities and Aboriginal groups, with the other half being selected by the people.
The Howard Government is expected to accept a proposal abolishing sugar tariffs this week. The move was recommended in a Federal-State government report late last year as part ofa review into the sugar industry.
Canegrowers chairman Harry Bonanno said that cane growers had reluctantly accepted the tariff's demise as part of a compromise to retain the industry's single-desk selling arrangement.
Under this arrangement the Queensland Sugar Corporation is the sole arbiter of export sugar prices shielding the industry from the full force of competition.
The West Indies now lead the Australians by 110 runs with 3 days still to play - a commanding position to be in at this at this stage.
Average weekly income all Australian workers:
Yesterday we watched as a solitary off-road motor cyclist churned up the mud on the valley slopes of the Brisbane River opposite the global office. Large trackes were broken into the grass - perfect starting point for widespread erosion. The noise was so bad that I could not make a phone call from my global office, and people living on the other side of the road could not sleep. We called the police who, on arrival, said that they could not do anything because the motor cyclist, who had left by the time they arrived, was on crown land and, although he had trespassed across private land, could take no action without a written complaint from the owner.
As we spoke to the police four large trucks appeared on the banks opposite and started to carve tracks up and down the slopes. The police were rather taken aback - but we were delighted at their timing - the official position, once again explained to us by the police, was that they could not do anything.
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