The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 2

2 The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday, November lt 1995 Fuiry sis nna.ii Is accused of iris imLUirdleF ifliisi mmmm VV StA Vs-Vp favourite song, Believe, was played as a teacher read a poem in tribute to the girl described by the principal, Mr Peter Koster, as "popular, talented and full of Mr Koster said some students were too upset to attend school, while others were being counselled to overcome their grief. "To say we are handling this with difficulty is an understatement," Mr Koster said. "We're trying to encourage the kids to talk about it and let it out We're looking at photographs of the girls. It's a huge loss." Mr Koster said pupils had been repeatedly warned to avoid strangers: "It's a problem of them thinking something like this couldn't happen to them." Mr Ken Large, principal of the Currimundi Primary School, which Patricia attended, said each class at the school had embarked on a project such as raising money for a plaque to commemorate the girls. interview relatives after the hearing.

Osborne, who lives in the beachside suburb of Wurtulla, about two kilometres from the girls' homes, was not required to enter a plea, no bail was requested and he was remanded to appear again on November 27. The girls left home about 2.30 pm on Sunday to door-knock houses in their neighbourhood, asking for odd jobs for pocket money to buy Christmas presents. They were last seen about 4.30 pm talking to a man on the beach, and are believed to have died between 5 pm and 6 pm. Both were sexually assaulted before being beaten to death with a lump of wood. At the Bokarina Primary School, where Leanne Oliver was a pupil, distraught Year 4 pupils festooned her desk with flowers and wreaths.

At a school parade, Leanne's By GREG ROBERTS A 27-year-old labourer charged with the murder of two Sunshine Coast schoolgirls was abused by their distressed relatives and friends when he appeared in court yesterday. Paul Stephen Osborne showed no emotion as the charges were read in the Maroochydore Magistrate's Court. The battered and semi-naked bodies of Leanne Oliver, 10, and her friend Patricia Leedie, 9, were found in dunes behind Warana Beach by Leanne's father, Alby, just before dawn on Monday. About 200 protesters gathered to scream abuse at Osborne as he was led into court. Across the road, a banner calling for the resumption of the death penalty hung from a crane on a worksite.

Some of the crowd then turned their anger on the media when television crews ignored police requests not to try to tillplilili Laughing all the way to the polls the Prime Minister with Andrew Denton after taping the show. Photograph by glenn shipley When larrikins collide: Denton Libs tell small business to rebel By GEOFF KITNEY The Opposition Leader, Mr Howard, has suggested that small business operators can reduce the costs of running their businesses by throwing away forms requiring them to provide information to government departments. Mr Howard said the weight of compliance costs on small businesses, caused by meeting their obligations to give government details for such things as fringe benefits and capital gains tax assessments and keeping details of their relations with employees for the Government's unfair dismissal laws, left them with "no alternative" but to not fill in forms. In strong comments to a candidate's breakfast in Perth yesterday, Mr Howard told small business supporters that "you've got to go out and throw out the things that don't look like cheques and then get off and try and make a He also said the next election should be more about the Government and what it has done to Australia than about the alternative offered by the Opposition. If the Coalition lost, there would be millions of Australians who felt "that their hope in the effectiveness of the political system will be badly He said said winning the election would require the Opposition "sticking to a strategy of making the Government and its failures the principal preoccupation of people in the run-up to the The key to the Coalition's plans to reinvigorate the Australian economy and fully realise its potential would hinge on reinvi-gorating the small business sector, which had been weighed down by government demands.

He had recently heard a small business operator say that "he basically comes into the office in the morning, opens up the mail and unwraps anything that looks remotely like a cheque, throws the rest in the wastepaper basket and then gets on with trying to make a "Now, I mean, it's a fairly sort of rough and ready description but it's pretty true in relation to a lot of people and the reason is pretty true you've got no alternative," he said. The Government was run by people who had no idea of how the average business operates, he said. Cabinet was composed of trade union officials, public sector employees, academics and Labor Party apparatchiks. Racing award Herald reporter Kate McCly-mont has been chosen as Foster's Australian Racing Writer of the Year for her revelations on corruption in the racing industry. Judges said McClymont's report on the "jockey tapes" in the April 7 Herald had triggered a turbulent inquiry into Sydney racing and the biggest racing story of the year.

McClymont is also the NSW racing writer of the year. unplugs Keatinj to declaring that he knew he as considered arrogant, but that it was misconstrued. "I know that the word used about me is arrogance. But people confuse pride in one's craft and getting the job done with arrogance." John Eastway, executive producer for Denton, said: "Basically, we're looking at the larrikin of politics meets the larrikin of television for a piece of eight o'clock entertainment." Would there be the same value in some of Mr Keating's opponents? "John Howard is welcome at any time on our late-night show. We've asked him.

But I guess it is up to the network and its program chiefs as to whether he would be prime time entertainment. That's their call." Denton yesterday defended what he considered an interesting exercise. "I'm not a fool," he said. "I know that Paul Keating hasn't done this interview just out of the goodness of his heart. "No politician ever appears anywhere in public without believing it's going to be of political gain to them.

That said, I don't think there's a journalist in this country who would pass up the opportunity of spending 90 minutes one-on-one with Paul Keating." By ROBIN OLIVER The question without notice about the Prime Minister is: when a larrikin meets a larrikin coming through the sky, do viewers get great television entertainment, or do they get a smart piece of political opportunism? The first, not the second, says the Andrew Denton production office at Channel 7. Tonight, in place of World's Wackiest Video the ratings for which a Seven spokesman yesterday readily admitted had been "going- down the toilet" Paul Keating dons designer cap and bells for a half-hour inquisition by funny man Andrew Denton. The special, Paul Keating Unplugged, is the first Denton has done since his August interview with actor Kevin Costner (539,000 Sydney viewers; a timeslot winner). "We got him laughing, oh yes, and he's quite droll," Denton said yesterday. "But anybody who suggests that this is a political exercise by Paul Keating is entirely right.

From my point of view it's about entertainment." The recording lasted 90 minutes. The Denton production team has edited the tape back to TVA minutes to make a standard commercial half-hour, during which the Prime Minister tackled the most common criticism of his style, West Coast London Annita's name is back in fashion USA free. for Iv Coast on not be able to afford to pay for it by other means. "And the industry has a great respect for the school because we have such a good employment rate," she said. "We have had a 100 per cent employment rate for graduates over the last three years.

We are proud to be a commercial school, producing students who can make an immediate contribution to their employer." Although Mrs Keating had been expected at the function to award the scholarship herself, she was unable to attend because of a back ailment. and a European trip to the fashion capitals of Paris, London, Milan and Amsterdam, with assistance from Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia, and the Hyatt Hotels. A panel of judges, which included Mrs Keating, chose Tanya's design portfolio from 30 applications submitted from around Australia. The principal of the school, Ms Leanne Whitehouse, hen asked why a scholarship to a private college would receive such sanction from Mrs Keating, said that the award meant a place could be won by a student who might otherwise In the competitive world of fashion, just getting a place to study at one of Australia's best fashion design colleges is a major achievement One young Australian fashion aspirant last night won not just a place, but a scholarship -with the added cachet of it carrying the name of the Prime Minister's wife. Offered by The Whitehouse School, one of the most respected private fashion colleges in the country, The Annita Keating Fashion Scholarship this year was awarded to Tanya Shakespeare, 23.

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