Monday 25th November 1996
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"These people (the Australian mainstream media) are big liars," he said. "They are incapable of telling the truth. They are congenital liars."
He vowed not to talk to the Australian media saying, "No point talking to them. If we do something good, they don't say it is good. So why be good to them?"
On the other hand Prime Minister John Howard has been making quite a positive impression with the leaders of both Malaysia and China. The issue of racism in Australia did not even get to home base despite the best efforts of the Australian mainstream media to blow it up and to make it an issue.
Once again one can only wonder why... and to whose benefit this might be?
Transport Minister John Sharp and Industrial Relations Minister Peter Reith said that the waterfront would be reformed and cautioned the ACTU against the threatened militant action.
Sharp said, "If the unions want to make this a costly exercise, then the responsibility of that will have to be on their shoulders.
"I hope that we can work with them because at the end of the day we will achieve these reforms."
Responding to Mr Sharp's comments ACTU President Jenny George said, "It would be very damaging for the national interest if the Government moved in a vindictive way to punish the maritime union."
The rising Australian dollar is putting more and more pressure on calls to support a further official interest rate cut.
Now National Australia Bank's managing director Don Argus has joined the happy throng suggesting that a 0.5% cut might be just the right medicine to cool the pressure on the little Aussie dollar.
Wasn't Greg Norman in fine form on the golf course. He swooped the rest of the field with an 8 under - 8 strokes ahead of the runner-up to win his fifth Australian Open.
Mortality rates are 2.5 times that of other Queenslanders and that jumps to between five to seven times as great as middle age approaches.
"There has been little improvement in adult mortality over the past 20 years, and this lack of progress is virtually without precedent on a world scale," the report says.
OK, so what has the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission done with the billions of dollars intended to improve the lot of the indigenous Australian people?
One to be enjoyed at the global office.
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