Monday 27th May 1996
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A senior Australian diplomat who resigned after being accused of being a paedophile was a member of a Philippines sex ring which abused hundreds of Philippino children.
The former diplomat, Robert Scoble, took sex holidays to a town in the Philippines while working as Australia's second highest representative in Manila. Australian Federal police have been shown documents linking Scoble and six other Australians to a paedophile ring of at least fifty men and almost six hundred children of both sexes, aged between seven and seventeen.
In parliament Alexander Downer revealed that three ex-Labor politicians are sitting pretty on the highest paid jobs in the game even though the diplomatic offices are far from being the most important or largest. Imagine - the ambassador for Harare (an ex-Labor politician) is getting a higher income than the ambassador to the United States! And the ambassador to the Hague is about Au$40,000 better off each year than his counterpart in the key trading nation of Japan!
The little "jobs for the boys scam" was revealed in Parliament last week much to the embarrassment of the Labor opposition.
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) yesterday said the economy needed a reduction in interest rates as a matter of priority.
In a scathing attack the ACCI said that the Reserve Bank's policy on interest rates needed to be reviewed to ensure economic growth was not "endlessly sacrificed at the altar of supressing inflation."
So here we go again fellows, up one day and down the next... even the big boss upstairs could be excused for being confused.
Broncos five-eighth, Kevin Walters is not holding his breath. Walters, by far the best player in Queensland in that position put the nose of the Australian Rugby League heirarchy out of joint because of his continuing support for the doomed Super League.
Women also complained that male managers worked longer hours "inefficiently" but they did not like their staff to leave early even if they were "super-efficient".
Yes, you got it right the researchers were two women, namely Belinda Probert and Fiona Macdonald.
Well Belinda and Fiona the paper you used to establish those "results" would probably have saved a couple of trees.
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