Saturday 18th January 1997
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Spare a moment for that incredible actor and comedian Bill Cosby who's 27 year-old son Ennis was murdered in an unprovoked act after his car broke down in Los Angeles this week.
For me the world changed when I read about it, and saw the distraught face of the man that everybody loves. Somehow I think that the world has changed forever for him..... and for us.
The man accused of over 150 child sexual assaults, Phillip Bell, was arrested in the beautiful surfing town of Jeffreys Bay, South Africa after an extended police search - on the lines of Skase, the failed Australian businessman.
Bell has eluded police by keeping on the move but was eventually tracked down to Jeffreys Bay and arrested at his home by a New South Wales detective accompanied by the South African Police acting as agents for Interpol.
The hunt for the millionaire businessman spanned seven countries Including Gstaad, Switzerland (where he was tracked down last year by Channel Nine's A current Affair programme), Italy USA, England, then Albania (where he went to Tirana and landed up as director of of an English language college), then South Africa.
62 year old Bell, dubbed the "Pied Piper" or "Filthy Phil", denied that he was a paedophile saying he was a "hebaphile" - a father figure who initiated teenage boys into the adult world.
President Mandela has ratified the extradition treaty between South Africa and Australia meaning that Bell can now be sent back to Australia to face the courts in Sydney - where most of his alleged paedophile activities took place.
In an advance copy of a speech to be delivered in Canberra to the Demorat Party faithful today Kernot lashes the Howard Government for putting economics before people.
"We are being valued as consumers first and citizens second and our rughts and entitlements and responsibilities arte tied not to our status as citizens but to our capacity t6o buy goods and services," Kernot's speech notes say.
Senator Kernot also attachs Howard for his definition of the meaning "mainstream Australia".
She says to Howard mainstream Australia represented "Mum and Dad and two or three kids living in a leafy suburb, earning a reasonable income, buying a house, waiting to send their children to private school, and resenting having to pay taxes to fund assistance to others".
Senator Kernot will tell delegates that the next Federal Election will provide an opportunity for the Democrats to regain the balance of power in their own right in the Senate, with only two of seven existing senators up for re-election in a normal half-Senate poll.
Let me see if I have this right.
AOC invests 7.2 million in Cairns casino owned by "Reef"
AOC loses 5 million due to "Reef" share price drop
John Coates is President of AOC
John Coates is Chairman of Reef.
Therefore, two plus two equals 5 million.
Therefore, my socks must need washing because something certainly does not smell right.
Jason
Ford, which holds over 20% of the Australian market, said yesterday that production at the Broadmeadow plant and selected production lines at the Geelong plant would be halted to clear the current "overstocking situation".
1800 employees from Broadmeadow's 3,355 workforce and 150 of 2,800 employees at Geelong will be affected by the short term closures.
The closure has the support of Unions as Ford has guaranteed that it will pay 50% of the wages normally paid to those staff affected by the move.
The glut in motor vehicles became apparent during the Christmas period.... Mitsubishi, on the other hand, are claiming that the last two months have been very good with sales being very brisk - maybe that's where the Ford buyers are going!
Halbish was the driving figure behind the Australian Cricket Academy which has become a role model for other nations.
Britain wagged the tail with only 20% of those surveyed being able to respond to the 12 exercises (see below) designed to represent the basic maths needed in everyday living.
About 33% of Australians got it right with Sweden at 34%; Denmark 36%; Holland 38%, France 40% and Japan at the top with 43% - or more than double of the British.
Here are the questions:
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