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THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1997 Former league star dies of overdose in motel vision over A I fJ nv A reconcina" iciom By LES KENNEDY Peter Jackson, former Australian Rugby League test centre turned media sporting commentator, appeared depressed when he booked himself into a cream-and-orange motel ringed with palms at Engadine on Wednesday. Twenty-eight hours later, the man who played nine internationals for Australia was discovered dead in room 18 from hat a post-mortem examination yesterday determined was a drug overdose from a "prohibited A box of syringes as found in the room ith a drug, the nature of hich police ill not disclose. New of his death, and the announcement by police that it stemmed from a drug overdose in circumstances which a coroner will now have to determine whether were accidental or not, stunned the rugby league world yesterday. The 33-year-old father of three had earlier in the week been looking forw ard to moving his family into the new home he had built at Stanwell Tops. The owner of the motel, set on Sydney's southern outskirts on the busy Princes Highway, did not realise the public stature of the man he addressed when Jackson booked in at 3 pm on Wednesday.

The motel owner and his wife, ho asked that their name and motel not be identified, said it was the first time Jackson had been to their premises. "When manager telephoned the room, but got no answer. Police told him not to enter until they arrived. When they did they found Jackson lying on his back fully clothed on a double bed, arms outstretched, shoes kicked off. On a table next to the television he had emptied the contents of his pockets: a allet and change.

Next to them sat a box containing a number of syringes, the motel manager said. "I could not see any drugs," he said. Crime scene officers ho examined the scene estimated that Mr Jackson had been dead for some time, possibly since Wednesday night. Police issued a brief statement yesterday, saying Mr Jackson was found in "circumstances consistent with a drug Mr Neil Whittaker, the ARL chief executive, said yesterday, "Peter Jackson was a tremendous player in his day and was living out a dream by forging a career in the media. Jacko had a character that as almost larger than life.

"Everyone liked him. It's things such as this that show how fragile life can be." Former Queensland and Test team-mate Wally Lewis said: "I think the way you remember Jacko is just the ay everyone saw him every time. He was just a real bright, bubbly personality that was quite prepared to fit into every team." PAGE 64: So much more to Jackson's game than playing up. Rita Kok, the wife of the Dutch Prime Minister. Mr Dodson told the Government last week that he was unwilling to continue as chairman, given the Wik bill and the Government's refusal to apologise to the "stolen But pressure from council members changed his mind and he offered to stay if Mr Howard agreed to the drafting of a reconciliation document during the council's final term, to expire on January 1, 2001.

Mr Howard said he met Mr Dodson on Sunday to ask him to stay but he was rebuffed. He then offered the job to Queens-lander Mrs Evelyn Scott, who accepted. "Nobody has a right to bargain indefinitely with the Government," he said. "We have at all times tried to keep him on," he said. "No-one can deny I tried quite hard." Mr Howard said he had appointed Sir Gustav Nossal to replace Mr Viner as deputy.

Sir Gustav told the Herald he knew nothing about the detail of the Wik decision and had no knowledge of what had gone on at the council. cross-party consultation which was real and not desultory," he wrote. Mr Viner's letter was written the day after Senator Herron received Mr Dodson's letter of resignation from the council. Mr Howard yesterday ruled out reappointing Mr Dodson as chairman, saying Mr Dodson's offer was too late. The.

rejection came as the head of the NSW peak indigenous advisory body, Mr Sol Bellear, told an international dignitary in Sydney that an Olympic boycott was back on the agenda because of the Wik bill and the Government's final refusal this week to apologise to the stolen generation. Mr Bellear said black American and African athletes were waiting for an indication Australia was a friendly country which did not abuse the human rights of its black population, and they would be willing to stage a boycott if asked. "We have a Federal Government which has shown a callous disregard for Aboriginal rights and has encouraged a nasty racism which is dividing the nation," Mr Bellear told Mrs By DEBRA JOPSON and MARGO KINGSTON The outgoing deputy chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Mr Ian Viner, has accused the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Herron, of lacking frankness, understanding and vision. In a letter to Senator Herron, a copy of which has been obtained by the Herald, Mr Viner said that in recent meetings with the council's outgoing chairman, Mr Patrick Dodson, there was regrettably no vision. "The vision was barren in terms of the objectives for which the council was created or what Australia can achieve in reconciliation between indigenous Australians and the wider community," he wrote.

Mr Viner, QC, is a former Liberal minister for Aboriginal affairs. "There was no frankness of response to the chairperson, who had served the and the nation for six years in a position of great responsibility concerning the future composition of the council, nor any apparent understanding of the obligations under the Act for "He looked sad" Peter Jackson with wife Siobhan and two just finished building a family home when he died. of his three children. He had Photograph by WAYNE VENABLES entered the grey room and found him dead. The ow ners of the motel had called Engadine police 15 minutes earlier to express concern for Jackson's welfare.

The service maid had been unable to enter the room and by 6.30 pm, realising that the light had been on the entire time, the register in his name, giving details of his driver's licence and address at Stanwell Tops and his credit card. A short time later, after parking his car, he closed the door on room 1 8, and was not seen again until 7 pm on Thursday, when police, with the aid of the motel manager, he booked in he said he was staying for one night, possibly two. I had never seen him here before," the motel owner said. "He was just sad, he looked sad, I was a bit orried about him," the man's wife added. Jackson arrived at the motel alone in a chocolate-brown Holden Jackaroo and signed the Solar eruption may zap power, communications PISlSSMnSTOfn Isola, flare jj VMSTO -l.

JH, "VTWWHrilMWTnMlll TT corroding long-distance pipelines. "In 1989 a solar flare caused blackouts across Quebec and parts of Sweden." He predicted the world would probably escape such widespread disruption this time: "But I won't be prepared to stake my house on it." Hundreds of Australian HF radio users, including the defences forces and emergency services, were being warned of possible communications By RICHARD MACEY Australia's defences forces and emergency services have been warned their high frequency (HF) radio communications may be disrupted over the next few days by a massive eruption on the sun. The event, called a solar flare, may trigger auroras, play havoc with satellites and possibly even disrupt power supplies in high-latitude countries. Dr Richard Thompson, service manager with the Sydney- based IPS Radio and Space Service (previously the Ionospheric Prediction Service), said yesterday the eruption, at 10.49 pm Sydney time on Thursday, was one of the largest in at least 21 years. "It's much bigger in area than the Earth itself hugely bigger." Dr Thompson said solar flares were triggered by massive amounts of energy stored in intense magnetic fields twisting about on the sun's surface.

"It's a bit like storing energy in a spring. When the energy becomes unmanageable it is released causing a gigantic flow of electrical current, x-rays and gamma rays." The flares also cause ultra-violet radiation, radio noise and even part of the sun's atmosphere to spew out into space. Travelling at the speed of light, the x-rays and ultra-violet radiation from Thursday's flare hit the Earth eight minutes after it erupted, causing brief disruption to high frequency radio commu nications across Europe, Africa, India and South America. In the following hours the Earth entered a shower of protons and electrons from the flare. The cloud of "slower moving" particles blown away from the sun's atmosphere may take up to four days to reach Earth, "shaking" our magnetic field and inducing major electrical currents.

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