Tuesday 4th February 1997
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Issues - The banking system under the spotlight. Darville is in the hot seat for allegedly breaching copyright by apparently plagiarising a copyright article from the Internet authored by Professor Anspach. The Darville article appeared in last Saturday's Courier Mail and was entitled "When I am an Evil Overlord".
It was a very tired and dejected Alan Bond who yesterday pleaded guilty to fraud offences committed in the Au$1 billion Bell Resources swindle. Bond's counsel, Mr Ian Callinan QC, said that Bond was "hugely remorseful" and apologised to Bell Resource shareholders who had lost money in the nation's biggest fraud.
Bond is already serving a three year jail sentence to which another ten years could now be added. A big downfall from the heady days in 1983 when he won the America's Cup and a ripple of this day in 1988 when Australia lost the America's Cup to Amercian sailor Dennis Connor at the port of Fremantle in Western Australia.
Bond sat imassively in the dock clutching a copy of Mario Puzo's novel, The Last Don, while new wife Diana Bliss and his children from his previous marriage to Eileen, John, Craig and Jody sat in the front row of the gallery.
In Bond's defence Ian Callinan said, it would be "crushing" to impose a further burden on Bond, as the deterrent value would have little or no significance given it was unthinkable that he would offend again.
The hearing continues today.
Howard has said that the agreement will give the forestry industry greater certainty of access to timber, create 400 new jobs and provide a Au$140 million boost to the Australian economy.
Howard and Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett signed the 20 year agreement in Melbourne yesterday four years after a national forestry plan was mooted by the former Keating government. The agreement covers nearly 1.2 million hectares - defining native forest areas protected from or available to be logged.
At least 60% of old growth forests and 90% of wilderness areas are protected from logging.
The Democrats spokesperson, Senator Meg Lees said, "This agreement ensures 19 football fields worth of forest a day will continue to be cleared in East Gippland and more than 100,000 species a year will be affected by logging.
Now let's just wait for the native title claims to start rushing in on the backs of eager native title legal specialists.....
Hi Scott,
How could McDonalds provide any form of worthwhile education?!?! As a restaurant producing mass-produced food, it relies on technology to do all of the value-adding work. What could young kiddies gain from that, other than knowing how to press the right button and not sneezing on the chips?
Kemp's suggestion seems to fit right into the notion that we are now valued by governments as consumers (note the state govt.'s adoration of gambling casinos) rather than citizens.
Given that the federal govt. seems to be going out of its way to make a
university-based education inaccessible for those who cannot afford the
fees, traineeships must be quite appropriate for those supposed lower
achievers, and lower income earners - most of them probably aren't
traditional true blue-rinse Liberal voters anyway. Thus naturally
McDonalds would the perfect workplace environment in which:
All the best, and I hope everything is going well.
Matt H.
Subject: re report on human rights
It's a pity that these bleeding heart do-gooders from across the waves don't bother to spend some time in this country to find out what the situation really is before they make their report. If they did, they might find the truth.
And the truth is:
Jason
The announcement by the bank follows successful applications to acquire banking licences in both Thailand and Taiwan.
Mr Bob Prowse, National Australia Bank's general manager, US and Asia, is quoted as saying, "Malaysia is an important market for National Australia Bank.
"A growing number of our business customers around the world, including group customers in other parts of Asia, participate in trade and investment flows with Malaysia."
Australia won the five match series 3 - 2.
Once again captain Mark Taylor failed dismally at the crease yesterday - at a time when Australia most needed him to perform. The Australian cricket captain was bundled out for 1 run. In 17 innings this season Taylor has managed just 153 runs with a top score of 43.... really not good enough.
Taylor has already been selected to captain the team touring South Africa later this month - so one can only hope that the poor form that he has been showing faces a dramatic turnaround.
Follow up from my Global Gripe of the Day yesterday.
The police did interview the drivers of the vehicles who claimed that they had permission from the owners of the land to be there. I took the bull by the horns and contacted the owners who said no such permission had been given and that they would be contacting the police regarding the matter.
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