Saturday 22nd June 1996
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This week they had the opportunity to return the favour when Downer appointed Mr Miles Kupa as Australia's ambassador to Indonesia. You see Miles had said some nasty things to say in a confidential paper in 1988 about President Suharto's corrupt regime. Remarks that, when leaked, hit the headlines in Australia and Indonesia in 1992 and got right up the old man's nose..
The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Ali Alitas, was quick to point out to the Australian government that Mr Kupa's appointment would not really be such a good idea and the newly appointed ambassador quickly got the message and quit.
The question raised is "How could Downer have selected such a poor candidate?" - Guess one could call it a "Downerism".
In the latest incident Herron accused O'Donoghue of leaking the suggestion that "ATSIC was was facing more storm clouds on the horison" to the media. He later apologised to O'Donoghue but refused to explain his comment.
Sources last night claimed that Herron offended members of the ATSIC board in a separate incident recently when he pointed to them and remarked on their remuneration saying to O'Donoghue "Do you realise that you get paid more than me?"
In a separate decision being considered by the Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, ATSIC could be disbanded and Aboriginal community's be cared for by private companies who would be paid to take care of certain aspects previously handled by the organisation.
"Our position has always been that if all things are equal we should have a stronger disposition to local ownership," Alston said in Sydney yesterday.
Here in Ipswich Optus Pay TV (half owned by Packer) started trundling their cable out "pole to pole" after agreeing to pay the city council Au$600,000 or Au$8 per pole for the priviledge.
Thank God for the Internet or we might just have to re-name Australia Packerville.
They are now on a mission trying to find any country that can whack a team together that they can then play in a test. The latest target appears to be Fiji.
The Fijian Rugby League General Manager, Culden Kumea, said last night that he "feared for the safety of his countrymen after this crazy decision". The chances of the match ever taking place slipped quietly into file thirteen last night when the Fiji Rugby League announced a 4 year ban on any player who took part.
"This is crazy. It's frightening, really. The people who will play for the ARL's Fijian side, if they do take part, had not played the sport until this year," Kamea said.
"They will be slaughtered and that would be criminal. The Australian team would run up 100 points and my biggest fear is that the Fijians would be in danger of serious injury because thay simply are not up to it."
Sounds to me like a team from the Galipolese Islands might be the next consideration... I wonder!
The study by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training at Sydney University found that many childcare workers in the booming childcare industry were in a vulnerable position, isolated from other workers and quite often dealing with inexperienced managers in private childcare centres.
The national childcare sector employs about 40,000 people. The major breaches of their award were: no rostered days off, no lunch breaks, unpaid stand downs, unpaid overtime and the requirement to play a co-ordinator's role at a lower arte of pay.
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