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Saturday 25th January 1997

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Issues - The banking system under the spotlight.

International:

The Aboriginal leaders meeting in Cairns have resolved not to placate the mining lobby by accepting laws that validate hundreds of threatened leases. However, the meeting failed to get a guarantee from the Federal Opposition and the Australian Democrats that they refuse to support any validating legislation.

Noel Pearson, a facilitator of the summit, highlighted resistance by indigenous groups to pressure from industry for legislative validation of non-pastoral activities on pastoral leases which may be invalid because the High Court found that native title could exist on leases.

He said, "Government and industry were on notice about possible existence of native title, and therefore for there to be across-the-board statutory forgiveness of people's failure to follow the law arouses a lot of opposition from the Aboriginal side about the justice of statutory up-front validation."

There were also "problems with simply assuming that compensation cures the up-front validation because gaining compensation for removal of native title under the Native Title Act had proved a difficult process".

The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) release their mascots.

Political:

Opposition Labor Party leader Kim Beazley yesterday revealed his plan for winning back the hearts and minds of mainstream Australia.

These include:

Supporting a moratorium on further reductions of car tariffs after 2000 and backing a more interventionalist industry policy.

Attacking Howard's view of mainstream Australia saying that "you won't always find them standing behind a white picket fence".

Saying that job insecurity that used to effect only blue-collar workers was now felt among all Australian workers.

He also accused Transport Minister John Sharp of spoiling for a fight with waterfront workers because the Howard government believed that it would win them political kudos.

He also took the Howard government to task over the threat to the universal health care system and the shift to "privilege" in the university system as major issues for Labor attack this year.

Social:

This coming Monday is a public holiday in Australia - a day to celebrate Australia day and honour those who typify what we like to think as Australian qualities.

Qualities like defiance against the odds, down-to-earth practicality, courage, committment, mateship and love of the country.

Here are the Australia day winners over the last 25 years:

YearActivityWinner
1971Economist and Aboriginal activistDr H C "Nugget" Coombs
1972Former Prime MinisterMr Gough Whitlam
1973Nobel prize-winning authorPatrick White
1974Former Premier of QueenslandSir Joh Bjelke-Petersen
1975NO AWARD
1976Fraser Island conservationistMr John Sinclair
1977Former Family Court chief judge
Former Prime Minister
Justice Elizabeth Evatt
Mr Malcolm Fraser
1978Former New South Wales PremierMr Neville Wran
1979Founder of bone marrow register
Former Governor-General
Ms Shirley Nolan
Sir Zelman Cowen
1980Former CSR Chief ExecutiveSir Gordon Jackson
1981BussinessmanKeith Campbell
1982EnvironmentalistDr Bob Brown
1983Former Prime MinisterBob Hawke
1984Heart SurgeonDr Victor Chang
1985Mudginberri abattoir ownerMr Jay Pendarvis
1986Tourism Minister
Comedian and film star
John Brown
Paul Hogan
1987Former TNT boss
Australian Cricket Captain
Dancer
Wool Industry leader
Sir Peter Ables
Allan Border
Graeme Murphy
David Asimus
1988Queensland corruption inquiry headMr Tony Fitzgerald QC
1989Operatic divaDame Joan Sutherland
1990Eye surgeonDr Fred Hollows
1991Former CSIRO chief executiveDr John Stocker
1992Aboriginal land rights activistEddie Mabo
1993Salvation Army leaderGeneral Eva Burrows
1994Medical researcher and humanistSir Gustav Nossal
1995Professor David PenningtonProfessor Mal Logan
1996Nobel Prize winner for medicineProf Peter Doherty

Personal trivia, from the global office:

Well my wife arrived back safely by plane from Perth this morning. It was raining at the ridiculous hour that I got up - 4am. Now it is clearing to be another beautiful day in paradise.

Have a great day!!


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