Today's Headlines
Thursday 23rd May 1996
International:
Japanese power companies have expressed interest in buying more uranium from Australia Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher said yesterday.
Mr Fischer, who visited Japan last week as trade minister, said that he has explained that the Australian uranium industry was "back
in business" and that Labor's three mine policy was dead.
It was, however, revealed that Aborigines had said NO to mining in Kakadu the site of the world's richest uranium deposit.
Political:
Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer yesterdya criticised the High Court for taking too long to resolve confusion over Aboriginal
Land Rights. Mr Fischer said that he was "very unhappy" with the time the court was taking to hear a Queensland government
appeal against a Federal Court decision allowing a land claim on Cape York by the Wilk people.
"I understand that they have a heavy schedule, but we really are entitled to a fleshing out of the reasons that they gave in Mabo
number two, which point to the fact that pastoral leases extinguish Native Title," he said.
Business:
The Au$1.1 billion Century Zinc mine has been given a 40 day reprieve but could still be scrapped by September 30 if legal
title cannot be established. RTZ CRA Ltd chairman, John Uhrig, told shareholders yesterday that he was prepared to give
Century Zinc management until June 30 to reach an agreement with the Aborigines in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The board's move was based on encouraging developments in the talks with the Aboriginese.
Sport:
The Australian PGA Tour is negotiating to relocate from Sydney to the Gold Coast as the golf boom returns to Queensland.
At yesterday's launch of the Au$500,000 Players Championship at Robina Woos, PGA Tour chief executive Brian Alcan said that
negotiation to relocate were proceeding.
"Our plans are on a parallel with the US PGA Tour which moved its operation to Florida, an area with abundant courses," he said.
Social:
Traditional gender roles within families persist among young women a new study shows. Researchers Belinda Probert and
Fiona Macdonald found the at the expected "generation change" in attitudes had failed to emerge.
Instead views on work and home studies were linked more with educational opportunities and experience rather than age.
"Those who strongly identified themselves as mothers with only a marginal attachement to the labour force were the younger group
of Australian women with the least formal education and the lower incomes," they said.
Today I will be travelling down to the Gold Coast to see another sporting client. The Gold Coast,, as can be seen in the sport
section above, is fast becoming the headquarters of a number of Australian sports.
Beautiful day today, very cold overnight though - temperatures probably fell to a bout 5 degrees above celcius.
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