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6,. 195 AMA boycott Wran warns on industrial safety Lewis, officials talk on threat: to hospitals vO.The Australian Medical Association has agreed to review its threat to withdraw honorary doctors' servic from standard (public) ward patients if the Medibank hospital plan goes ahead in NSW. Employers could "cut -corners" on their industrial safety precautions following recent Govern- -ment amendments to the worker's compensation scheme, the NSW Opposition Leader, Mr Wran, warned yesterday. Mr Wran said the decision to limit the insurance premium discount to a maximum of 5 per cent har largely removed the incentive for employers to improve their safety programs. In the past, when discounts were as high as 40 per cent- for companies with good safety records, this had been a major factor in companies justifying their expenditure move would undoubtedly lead to more industrial injuries aad increased death compensation claims.

The building industry, the timber, industry, abattoirs and local government would be especially hit by the amendments. The Opposition would be seeking to reverse tha decision when Parliament was reconvened in August. The manager of Associated Country Sawmillers Mr Bruce Adams, said last night the change would set the State's-accident prevention campaign back by 50 years. Employers with good accident prevention programs would be harshly penalised under the new premium scales that came in operation on May 9. on saieiy precautions.

said the Mr wra vran x'0 a The matter will be discussed at a Sydney seminar called by the AMA on June 224: to discuss taedical services to standard ward patients. The move follows an hour-long conference between the Mr Lewis, and senior AMA k-officials, including the president, Dr lu Morgan, yesterday afternoon. I Mr Lewis has urged the doctors to; call, off their boycott of the hospital scheme and to take no ac- tion that could be detrimental to patients. AMA officials also gave Mr Lewis a new proposal for the method of payment for medical services to standard ward patients. Payment, whether on the basis of time or on the basis of fees for service, is a major issue to be discussed between the doctors and State officials.

Doctors generally favour being paid for services rather than by the hour. They say the latter would alter the doctor-patient relationship. Mr Lewis would not reveal any details of the AMA's proposal but it would be discussed at the Seminar and studied by the NSW Hospitals Commission. A meeting of 700 doctors in Sydney voted last Sunday to with, draw the services of honorary specialists to standard ward patients except in emergencies if the hospital scheme was in- traduced. i Mr Lewis said yesterday he was delighted with' the AMA's decision to review the threat.

"AMA officials out to me that i Sunday's decision was a recommendation and not policy," he said. "I am now hopeful that the June 22 seminar will ensure that no action is taken that would endanger the health of standard ward patients." Representatives from all medical organisations including specialists, the General Practitioners' Society, the Doctors' Reform Society, as well as hospital boards and superintendents, will attend the seminar, Mr Lewis said the State Govern- ment's Mediline telephone inquiry service had received more than 1,100 calls since it opened on Tuesday. Vera James with (be director of the Sydney Film Festival, Mr David Stratton, yesterday. $10,000 reward to find attacker The State Government has offered a $10,000 reward in an attempt to find the man who attacked Judge Goran of the District Court: The Judge was stabbed in the arm by a man in his Chambers at the Darlinghurst District Court on March 4. The 10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the attacker was announced yesterday by the Minister for Police and Services, Mr Waddy.

The Government has also offered a reward for information leading; to the conviction of the killer of a 78-year-old widow, Mrs Sarah Mac- kenzie, who was found lying in the hallway of her home at North Sydney on February 8, 1974. Fall kills workman A workman was killed and his teenage companion -seriously injured in a 20-metre fall at North Sydney yesterday morning. Mr Romeo Stazi, 50, of Waterview Crescent, Earlwood, and Daryl Clarke, 18, of Hollywood Drive, Lansvale, were painting from a swinging platform outside the sixth floor of Nepean House in Mount Street. Their platform broke loose and they fell to the concrete pavement. Mr Stazi died in the Mater Hospital.

Mr Clarke was in a serious condition last night with multiple fractures. y. Ml- 0 Pay grab flops Australia to join Medibank within 3 weeks Out of the silents, a flashback to 1921 By HELEN FRIZELL Miss Vera James, 83, sat in the dress circle of the State Theatre yesterday to watch her young self appear in A Girl of the Bush, a 1921 silent film. i by a drop A clumsy thief "Have you any games for the men's recreation?" that is the caption to this still from A Girl of the Bush. snatched a $6,391 payroll yesterday and drop-ped it.

i The abortive hold-up occurred outside' the Work sentences may replace jail Bank of NSW, Marrick-ville Road, Dulwich Hill, iust after two women em Rushcutters Bay and the film role. After that, it was Bourke and flies I'll never forget and the part of a girl who runs a big sheep station. ployees of a local printers returned to their car alter collecting the payroll. The thief, described to nolice as between 20 and Prisoner flees A Long Bay Jail prisoner who made off from Randwick Technical College on Wednesday was still at large yesterday. Paul Moffat, 18, was found to be missing when he did not attend a 3 pm roll call at the college welding class.

Moffat, who was serving a 31-year jail term on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing, is not considered dangerous. Films.were her life for to lead to a replacement of the New South Wales Crimes Act in its application to the ACT and also the ACT Police Offences Ordinance. 30 years old, approached the women, reached in side the car, lifted the 10 years after that. She made Know Thy Child for rranklyn Barrett, and then set off for Hollywood, where she was typed as a "fallen woman." land favoured it, the dominant National Party had indicated opposition. Mr Hayden -told the House earlier that Tas-manians would now be guaranteed the financial benefits of the Medibank hospital plan from the time it started.

But people in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia would not, at least for some time. Referring indirectly to the conditions these Suites have set for joining Medibank's hospital plan, conditions which are believed to be unacceptable to the Federal Government, Mr Hayden said the public hospital systems in these States would suffer severe financial a :i.tf.:x In his statement later, Mr Hayden said Tasma-nians would be entitled to free public ward hospital care, free of any means test, from July 1, Private patients in Tasmanian hospitals would be entitled to a Medibank subsidy of $18 a day, whereas they now received a bed-day subsidy of $2. four bags containing the cash and ran off. While the report refer red specifically to tne In his haste he dropped the money, all of which ACT. it could form the basis for criminal law in hours during a 12-month period for the community, without pay.

Failure to comply with an order would carry a $250 fine. In tabling the report, Mr Enderby said it proposed a completely new package of criminal law for the ACT. proposals-included taking into account modern in regard to. the law of theft, and reflection of "far more enlightened thinking" on sentencing. There would' be less reliance on imprisonment, was She appeared in Bavu with Wallace Beery and the other Australian in Lon Chanev version of The Hunchback of Mr Enrlerhv nnlif the CANBERRA, Thursday.

South Australia is expected officially to join. Medibank's hospital plan within three weeks. The State Minister for Mr Banfleld. said today he expected the agreement, covering a 10-year-term, would be signed within three Mr Banfleld completed the- agreement with the Minister for Social Security, Mr Hayden, by telephone The two ministers had conferred in Canberra on Tuesday. The SA Cabinet still has to consider the agreement but it is committed to joining by July 1, the official starting date.

SA will be the second after. Tasmania, to enter the Medibank hospital plan. 'Mr Hayden told the House of Representatives today that he had invited the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, at the suggestion of the Tasmanian Govern-, ment, to take part in the signing of the Federal-Tasmanian agreement within, one or two weeks. Legislation giving the Tasmanian Government power to sign the agreement completed its passage through the State Parliament last night when it was approved by. the Upper House.

The Queensland Cabinet is expected to consider an1 agreement next Tuesday, but Mr Hayden Said in a statement later today that white the Liberal Party in Queens On the board Stamp dealer robbed New and used stamps valued at $10,000 were sto V' len from a house in Alfred Street, Milson's Point, early yesterday. The owner, Mr J. Leredo, carries on business as a registered stamp dealer from, the premises. Oxy-acetylene equipment was used to cut open a safe containing the stamps. -report had.

not yet been considered by-, the Government but he was making public in the CANBERRA, Thursday. The minister for Overseas Trade, Mr The film is being shown in the Australian Feature Film Retrospective, which is part of the Sydney Film Afterwards, in the foyer, Miss James spoke to old admirers and talked of the time when she went back of Bourke to make the film. "I was never a glam-ourpuss," said Miss James, although she looked rather that yesterday in her fur hat and stole, black dress and gold link jewellery. From Dunedin, New Zealand, she came to Australia on holiday, took singing and dancing lessons, appeared i the Tivoli stage, but "wanted to go into Hearing of the part in A Girl of the Bush, she applied, and was interviewed by the film's director, Franklyn Barrett, in of all places a. Kin? Street shoe shop, He asked: "Can you swim?" "Not a stroke," she replied.

"Can you "No." To get the part, she soon learnt. She tooV her first riding lesson wear-, ing, as she recalls, "r-bined hat with a a city suit and heded shoes. The rqm swimming leoni at CANBERRA, Thursday. Courts in the. ACT may soon be allowed to sentence convicted criminals to do unpaid work for the community instead of putting them in prison.

The proposal was contained in a report on vision of criminal law in the ACT, -tabled in the House of Representatives today by the Attorney-General, Mr Enderby. The report was pre- Iiared by the senior ecturer in law at Adelaide University, Mr W. B. Fisse, and officers of the Attorney-General's Denartment. It recommends that service orders" be used in some cases where a person over the age of 18 is convicted of an offence punishable by a prison sentence.

These orders require the person to work between 40 and 208- interests of open Crean, announced today community service pro the appointment of Mr R. G. Strange as chairman and Mr W. J. Austen, and Mr R.

Paddon as part-time members of the Export Development now available Notre Dame. In 1931, Vera James returned to Australia after appearing in three films with Bill Desmond was a dope pedlar and after having her fur coat set afire in one film sequence. She made no more films but managed a beauty salon in Sydney. A widow now, Miss James has her own home unit, but at present is living at the Caroline Chi-sholm Nursing Home, Lane Cove, Three years ago' she had a severe strok-, bu' he" recover" -seems amaz- urants Board. posals would oe introduced and penalties would be rationalised and graded.

The proposals also called for the abolition of offences such as vagrancy, drunkenness and being a rogue and vagabond, or an idle and disorderly person. Mr Enderby said the proposals were designed Bus hits shop awning A male passenger was treated for a cut ear and a woman bus driver for shock when a double-deck bus hit a shop awning in Oxford Street, Woollahra, yesterday. The driver told police she pulled to the left to avoid a car as she was stopping at a bus stop near Queen Street. The bus hit the awning, which smashed along two metres of windows on the lower level of the bus. Hn.

"Jy 'he way she a iilked yester- day, this s'ar of the si-1 1. ts l-a-l made a good i comeback. Psychiatric nurses go back to work Ueinsst Me for MELBOURNE, Thursday. Striking psychiatric nurses returned to work tonight averting a threat-'; ened closure of the hos-' pitals. About 3,000 student nurses and ward assistants iwlklKutiiie not just a French name.

A true French Brandy. return to work. The nurses' wage claim would be heard again by the Victorian Public Service Board. It had also been agreed at today's talks with Mr Hamer that a Victorian Public Service appeals' board would be established. Y'" Last month the Public Service Board rejected a union claim for $13 a week extra for student nurses and ward assistants in Victorian psychiatric hospitals i ended their four-day strike I after -talks today between the Premier, Mr Hamer, I and officials of the Hosoi- tal Employees' Federation, No 2 Branch.

The federation's secre- tary, Mr R. F. Jimmieson, said tonight that his executive had recommended the ac Year 3 3 1 'N5'' y- Cvf -A it Any branch of the Commonwealth Bank. Any branch of the National FULL P. AX.

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