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Saturday 20th September 1997
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"It underlines the need to get on with real trade reforms of the US sugar market and the Federal Government is working closely with the industry on this and other trade concerns," Fischer said.
Australia has an 8.3% share of the US global quota which remains static despite the tariff cuts - reducing sales to the US by 40,000 tonnes after the US Department of Agriculture cut global import quotas by 500,000 tonnes to 1.2 million tonnes.
Olympic runner Raelene Boyle successfully sold her Olympic silver medal for Au$70,000 at a luncheon in Sydney yesterday. The money will go to meet her costs for breast cancer treatment.
The successful bidder for the medal was businessman Bill Gibbins who donated the medal to the museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and said that the medal was available for Boyle to use at any time that she wanted.
The lunch, which included an auction of several sporting memorabilia, raised Au$345, 000 for Boyle and for cancer research.
Making the
news" -Pastor Len Watson, speaking for the claimants said, "Mr Fischer should talk from knowledge, not from ignorance and prejudice against other people.
"The claim is simply for national parks, waterways and vacant crown land. We want to get in there with our children and save as much as we can through national parks.
"We are there to be inclusive and to co-operate with other people. We don't want to put anybody out of business, but we can only co-operate with people if they come in with goodwill and good intentions."
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