The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 3

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1997 3 "Kelty sends PM a warming on. waterfront By BRAD NORINGTON Industrial Editor The ACTU Secretary, Mr Kelty, served notice on the Prime Minister yesterday that an attempt to tackle union power on the waterfront would result in the biggest picket ever assembled in Australia's history. Mr Kelty said all unions would stand behind the Maritime Union of Australia during a strike. They would "not give an even if the government used troops to keep ports open. "The day we give away that support is the day we rip out our own heart and leave it pumping in irrelevancy," he said.

Mr Kelty was addressing the ACTlFs congress in Brisbane amid growing belief that the Federal government wants to do battle with the maritime union, forcing the introduction of nonunion labour on the waterfront and foreign labour on coastal ships. Tensions over a possible major battle have heightened after reports that the government has devised a plan to fight the maritime union. "The only promise I make to John Howard is this. If you seek to destroy The Maritime Union of Australia, we will be there and you won't have a picket of 30 people, or a picket of 40 people. You won't have a picket of 500 people.

"You will have the biggest picket that has ever been assembled in the history of this country." Mr Howard told parliament yesterday that productivity on the waterfront was woeful and change was necessary if Australia was to meet international standards. Mr Kelty said he believed the government's plan involved protecting thousands of workers specially hired to operate cranes on the docks during a strike. It would also involve hundreds of millions of dollars in legal expenses and the plan amounted to a declaration of war on a group of workers who had committed no crime. A confrontation could be avoided providing unions and employers were sensible and Mr Kelty wanted a "negotiated process" to continue rather than industrial conflict "We are not making threats. We do make one promise however that if they're under attack then we will be there, and we will be there, and we won't give an Government ministers have made repeated comments on inefficiency on the waterfront and spoken of the need to break a traditional closed shop that operates among unionists who are stevedores and seafarers.

The Maritime Union has a pact with the main building union, the Construction, For estry, Mining and Energy Union, under which both unions have agreed to come to the aid of the other if one is under attack. But yesterday's warning from Mr Kelty raises the spectre that a major conflict on the waterfront aimed at breaking the maritime union would involve all unions and would be fought to the end. Senior officials from unions in construction, mining, manu facturing, communication and education yesterday stood at the congress and volunteered their solidarity with the maritime union. Mr Howard said he would pursue the national interest; this meant higher productivity on the waterfront, especially for Australian farmers who had seen their produce rotting on the wharves because of the behaviour of some unions Mr Kelty sought to defend. Themes like yesterday for '60s mellow fellow Tobacco firms win on sport sponsorship 'Zeus' is coming to the Games By MATTHEW RUSSELL A marble statue of the Greek God Zeus which stood on plains where the original Olympiads were held thousands of years ago will be flown to Australia for the Olympic Games.

It is one of a range of ancient treasures dating back more than 2,700 years which have never left Greece but WW HWWWjWjlJll.ini i HI 1 "I I pi I m. i.l I IJjWWWIWIWWWWWWWMPWWW'MIH 11 11 II II II II I III III II I IUI si 1 I I i 1 1 1 I 1 I I 1 tj Tobacco companies will still be able to sponsor sporting events after the federal government yesterday ignored two reports recommending a total ban on cigarette sponsorship. The Federal Minister for Health, Dr Wooldridge, promised stricter scrutiny of applications for exemptions from the ban, available only to events which were of international significance and which would not be held in Australia without tobacco sponsorship. The Australian Medical Association said the the government had gone soft on Australia's worst drug problem which killed 20,000 people a year. "Half of all smokers will die prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses and yet the government is prepared to say that they are not going to move on tobacco controls," said the AMA's president, Mr Keith Woollard.

"It's hard to know what it would take to get them to act. There is going to be no increase in excise during this term of government, there is going to be no phase-out of advertising. "This is a government going soft on the most important drug issue of this country." Dr Wooldridge defended his retaining the exemptions power; it would be a great pity for Australia to lose events of national significance. "I think a very large number of Victorians wouldn't like to see the Formula One Grand Prix go to Malaysia," he said. "No-one can take it as given that an exemption will be granted automatically.

They've got to pass some pretty tough tests." The government yesterday released its response to the 1995 Herron report on smoking, which recommended phasing out all sports sponsorship by the year 2000. The government also released the 1996 Rassaby Report on tobacco advertising, which called for a similar ban. Earlier yesterday, a high profile Liberal backbencher, Dr Brendan Nelson, repeated a call for a ban on tobacco sponsorship of sport. "As a doctor, a human being, a parent and someone with a degree of commonsense, 1 would support any government, including my own, doing everything that it possibly can to reduce the promotion and the uptake of a product that is killing 54 Australians a day and is being taken up by 250 young children a day, from whom one in two will eventually die," Dr Nelson said. But a Queensland academic said cigarette advertising bans in Australia had no impact on getting smokers to quit.

The Professor of Marketing at Griffith University, Richard Mizerski, said: "Increasingly, the more we say it's advertising that influences people to smoke and not the individual, the less people see themselves as being in control and able to quit." GciDmmaDmwesallttllQ Donovan, one of the British music icons of the sixties, has been enticed back to singing and touring by the spirit of the '90s. In Sydney yesterday ahead of three "intimate" concerts at the Basement on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, he said the rise of interest in mysticism and other New Age interests were a relection of the themes that he wrote about 30 years ago. He wrote more than 100 songs ahead of his new album and most of the tracks chosen were the more reflective titles, reminiscent of the songs like Catch the Wind, Mellow Yellow, Hurdy Girdy Man and Sunshine Superman that put him into the US Billboard Top 40 over a dozen times in the 60s. IBsamIk9s ATTEQs will be exhibited at The Powerhouse Museum in 2000. Most of the artefacts come from the Peloponnese plains of south-western Greece and were found among the ancient ruins of the giant Olympic stadium near the modern town of Olympia.

The Premier, Mr Carr, will make the announcement later this week. It is a major coup for the NSW Government as it strengthens ties between Australia and Greece, and is made even more extraordinary because the organisers of the Atlanta Olympic Games tried unsuccessfully to secure the same pieces but had to settle for replicas. A spokesman for the Greek Press and Information Office (an arm of the Greek Government), Mr Dmitri Dzouma-cas, confirmed the marbles of Athens and Olympia will come to Sydney for the Games, and said it was hoped that the profile of the exhibition would assist the Greek Government's own bid for the Olympics to be held in Athens in the 2004 games. The deal to clinch the Olympiad marbles, kept in the Museum of Athens, is believed to have been clinched only in the past few days although negotiations began in October last year. The precise number of works to be featured at the exhibition is as yet unknown the State Government has been unwilling to release details of the deal.

Artefacts from the first modern Olympic games held in Athens in 1896 will also be featured. The Powerhouse Museum is believed to have set aside about 1,000 square metres for the exhibition. The Premier Mr Bob Carr, the Director of the Powerhouse Museum, Mr Terence Measham and Professor Manuel Aroney of the Uni versity of Sydney are negoti ating which pieces will leave Greece. Professor Aroney is also a member of the Acad emy of Athens and has received an honorary doctor ate from the University of Athens. The Greek Consul-Genera in Sydney, Mrs Rose Ieremia said yesterday the idea of having the exhibition came from Greek community leaders who promoted the idea to the NSW and Greek govern ments.

I'm not Pru Goward: groaned at the prospect of personal questions. Court frees young mother dDIpcBna 241 Hiicidtiiiips A 20-year-old mother who tried three times to suffocate her baby daughter while suffering postnatal depression walked free from court today, the judge saying she should not have to carry the stain of a conviction. County Court Judge John Dee put King on a four-year good behaviour bond on condition that she continues with her psychiatric treatment. King, of Lenne Street, Moo-roopna, in Victoria's north, had applied artificial respiration and called an ambulance. The baby was airlifted to the Royal Children's Hospital and it was there that it was found King had on two other occasions committed similar offences.

The court heard that the baby, Kiah, had suffered no ill effects and had made a full recovery. Kiah and King's four-year-old son Matthew are now in the custody of King's mother in Queensland. paying, says bride's NAB ANZ customers aire also mow welcome. pleaded guilty to three counts of engaging in conduct endangering life. The court heard King was living in Eildon, in Victoria's north-east, when on October 9, 1995, she pressed her hand over the mouth and nose of her six-month-old baby Kiah Rose in an attempt to stop her crying.

The baby, blue and not breathing, was saved by the prompt action of the father, her then de facto husband, who 13 as not a career she envisaged for her daughter. "Her father and I were both from an academic background and we were very ambitious for our daughters. I learned tolerance, though. You have to let your children do what they were born to do." Ms Goward, ho is Mr How ard's chief adviser on women's issues, told the audience, which included ABC Lateline's Maxine McKew, the Affirmative Action Agency head Catherine Harris, NSW Chamber of Commerce CEO Katie Lahev, Louis Yuitton head Julia King, SOCOG's Glen-Marie Frost and Westpac's head of media and public affairs Susan Brooks, that Australian companies were riven with "primitive, lazy" attitudes towards women in business. She said the private sector's record of appointing female board members only six per cent of company directors in Australia and New Zealand are women was mother especially in comparison with the public sector, hich has achieved a level of 32 per cent female appointments to boards.

"A lack of diversity in management and decisionmaking is a business liability. In order to effectively compete in a post industrial world business has to start tapping into one of the largest potential recruitment pools to meet future needs women." She said the lack of family-friendly orkplaces as one of the key factors in poor retention rates of staff, especially omen. hen people leave, it costs the company enormous money to replace them." She identified executive and professional search agencies which deal with private sector recruitment as companies which the OSW would work with to destroy the myth that women of merit do not exist. "Margaret Thatcher may not have been everyone's cup of tea, but she is the outstanding role model for women seeking to achieve in politics this century." By SALLY L0ANE Kate Fischer's mum groaned audibly when she was warned that one of the questions from the 500-strong business women's lunch crowd she addressed yesterday was going to be personal. Anticipating the inevitable, Pru Goward put her hands Firmly on the lectern and shook her head.

Tm not paying for it!" They may have been dying to know, but no-one at the State Chamber of Commerce's National Enterprising Women lunch was cheeky enough to ask for details of the coming nuptials between her daughter and James Packer. Well, not quite. What was her view on marriage? The head of the Office of the Status of Women and former ABC radio journalist told the audience that it was "quite nice" both times she had done it. Ml think marriage is a wonderful institution," Ms Goward said. She also said "Katie's" decision to become a model at We've just opened our ATM network to ANZ and National Australia Bank customers too.

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