The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 3

says The 'fingeipi Lilbs to gt wMi poirfy a Is 'We don't have dissent and stuff, we have a good team' If I iiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiW -0 t-iV- Zi TTirTTTii i-iriniiriir" -i -ifl The Liberal Party's presidents designate, Mr John Elliott, talks to MICHELLE RATTAN about He at Elders and his political hopes. PAGE 4 no to return of hanging By JOHN 8CHAUBLE and INNES WILLOX The Premier, Mr Cain, yesterday rejected calls for the re-introduction of capital punishment He also dismissed suggestions that a referendum should be held on the matter. The Victoria Police Association at the weekend called for a referendum on the reintroductlon of capital punishment after a spate of killings in the state. Mr Cain said he wanted to make it clear that his Government would not countenance the re-introduction of capital punishment "it is of no deterrent value at all. It is a nice piece of revenge if you want that" Capital punishment could be characterised as a convenient cleansing system for society, but that was all, he said.

Capital punishment was abo Isbed In Victoria in 1975. The state is the last Australian jurisdiction In which a convicted criminal was': executed. Ronald Ryan was hanged at Pentridge in February 1967. In another response to the surge in killings, a protest group yesterday threatened to take further-action against gun dealers unless the State Government moved quickly to restrict public access to firearms. A spokesman for the group, Lobby Against Guns, called on the Government to arm police only in cases of potential danger and to allow farmers to own one weapon for each property.

The group used bricks to smash the windows of three inner city gun shops early on Sunday morning, but the dealers involved argue that any toughening of legislation could not prevent guns later being smuggled into Victoria. The group's spokesman, who wanted to be known as Alan, said it was likely that further "direct action" would be taken if its proposals weren't supported by legislation. A spokesman for the Police Minister, Mr Mathews, said the Government would continue to review firearms legislation and was considering reintroducing -legislation that would require a person to obtain a separate permit for each weapon owned. The gunshop owners affected by the protests said the group's proposals would not prevent people obtaining firearms Illegally. By LINDSAY MURDOCH, London A revolutionary test that can identify sex attackers and settle paternity, inheritance, and immigration disputes will soon be available for use in Victoria.

The British-discovered genetic fingerprinting was approved by a judge last week for use in a London criminal court for the first time. The test can identify individuals from minute samples of blood, saliva or other tissue. Using the technique, rapists will be easily and positively identified if they leave any trace of blood or semen which can be analysed for its unique genetic signature. A team of four forensic scientists based at Victoria's Forensic Science Laboratory at Macleod has been formed to develop the technique. Several laboratory staff been studying radioactive and non-radioactive forms of the test for about 12 months.

The director of the Victorian laboratory, Mr David Gidley, said yesterday that the team's work would probably take another 12 months. "We are fascinated by the discovery and are pursuing it avidly," Mr Gidley said. Revolutionary He agreed with a prediction by the British Forensic Science Service that the technique, also called DNA fingerprinting, would revolutionise forensic biology. "The test will not be used until we are confident that the technology is completely acceptable and satisfactory," Mr Gidley said. He said that civil liberties issues had to be balanced against bringing offenders to justice.

He said he hoped a system could be developed where people were voluntarily tested to eliminate them from inquiries, as in Britain. Several companies in Melbourne plan' to. offer the technology to settle paternity disputes. The test developed at Britain's Leicester University, has already been used by British police Investigating a double murder and by immigration authorities to establish whether potential immigrants were relatives of British residents. Police discovered that Richard Buckland, 17, had lied when he said he had raped and killed two teenage girls.

The killer remained free. About the same time as the killer attacked Lynda Mann, 15, in 1983, Dr Alec Jeffreys, a Leicester University geneticist stumbled on a technique that enabled an individual's genes to be printed out on an x-ray film. The test was used to uncover Mr The research team at Victoria's Forensic Science Laboratory at Macleod from left Mr Stephen Gutowski, Ms Elke Steiner, Ms Anna Glorgalis, Mr Bentley Atchison, and the laboratory director, Mr David Gidley. By MICHELLE RATTAN, Canberra The Liberal federal executive yesterday declared that the party would take a tougher line against dissidents, but party leaders were unable to spell out what this was likely to mean. Yesterday's meeting also cleared the way for Mr John Elliott, the business leader, to take over the party presidency at th end of October.

Mr Elliott's pressure to get into the job quickly forced a compromise from the incumbent president, Mr John Valder, who had intended to stay until closer to the end of the year. The executive endorsed a proposal to involve itself more actively -in disciplinary questions affecting MPs and organisation people and suggested that MPs who breached discipline seriously could have their preselections threatened. The executive said that it did notlntend to limit the "traditional independence" of Liberal parliamentarians. "But freedom and latitude could not be allowed to degenerate" Into self-indulgent acts of disloyalty and disruption. In such cases, resulting in damage to the standing and prospects of the entire party, parliamentarians could not realistically expect the support and endorsement of the party," the executive said.

Reticent li said that in future "serious acts of disloyalty" involving MPs or organisation figures would be examined by the executive and "appropriate action" taken. However, neither the Opposition Leader, Mr Howard, who seemed reticent on the question of nor Mr Valder, who had pressed for a tough line against dissidents, was willing to gjYf examples of past cases which might have triggered such provisions. Nor could they be specific abtfut defining disloyalty or say-ing-exactly what would happen in future cases. The executive hopes the threat will be a deterrent, rather than have to be invoked. Mr Howard said that crossing the floor did not of itself constitute disloyalty.

While the federal executive does not' have substantial direct -disciplinary power under the party constitution, Mr Valder indicated that the aim would be to put "steel" Into the backbone of state divisions to deal with the troublemakers. Mr Valder said the executive could call an offender before it, then make a statement or refer the matter to a state divK sion for action. State divisions have ultimate power to withdraw preselections. Mr Howard said the federal executive did not have power to expel members. of DNA, the gossamer, chemical strands of genetic material that determine individual bodily characteristics.

By analysing these sections, called mini-satellites, a clear genetic fingerprint could be built Dr Jeffreys said a year's-exhaustive program: culminated in an important experiment "The thing worked beyond my wildest dreams." Dr Jeffreys said police and forensic scientists around the world were keen to use the technique. ICI was setting up a testing laboratory in the United States. Using the genetic fingerprint police holding 20 rape suspects could identify the rapist with 100 per cent accuracy, Dr Jeffreys said. The British National Council for Civil Liberties has warned that the widespread use of genetic fingerprinting raises serious civil liberty issues. When Mr Buckland was freed from jail, police, who believed the been analysed by forensic scientists.

From the genes in the blood cells, they can determine who is the father of the child. The case is expected to clear the way for genetic fingerprinting to be used in other sex offence trials. The testing of potential British immigrants has angered some countries. Bangladesh has rejected it claiming that it is both humiliating and an invasion of privacy. Unlike blood tests, which cannot establish for certain whether individuals are related, genetic fingerprints are never the same, except for identical twins.

The genetic information is carried by every cell in the body, which means that scientists need only minute quantities of tissue or fluid for the test It can be carried out on traces of saliva. Dr Jeffreys, 36, said that the discovery had been accidental He was investigating haemoglobin genes when he discovered regions Buckland's lie and gave police conclusive proof that the man who killed Lynda Mann had also made a similar attack last year on another 15 year-old, Dawn Ash-wood. He remains free. Imperial Chemical Industries, the chemical company, opened a British genetic testing service last month. It is being sold to police, doctors, lawyers and the public.

An ICI spokesman, Dr David Parker, said yesterday that demand for the tests, especially in paternity cases, had been high. Each test costs about $A220. Lawyers last week persuaded an Old Bailey judge to allow genetic fingerprinting to be used as evidence in a case against a man accused of unlawful intercourse with a 14-year-old mentally handicapped girl. The trial has been adjourned while the test results are' prepared. Blood samples from the accused, the girl and her baby, which was born last May, have killer was from the local community, sent letters to all men who lived or worked in the village where the murders took, place, asking them to volunteer for blood tests to eliminate them from the Inquiry.

Almost 5000 men aged 13 to 30 have been tested so far, but none of the samples have matched that of the killer found on both the murdered girls. Only one man has refused to be screened. The chief constable of Leicestershire police, Mr Michael Hirst told The Age' that the man was no more a suspect than anybody else, but without a blood sample, could not be eliminated from inquiries. Dr Parker said that confidentiality of the testing underpinned Id's policy. Mr Gidley said he believed the techniques being developed in the Victorian laboratory were not covered by patents in Britain.

Forensic scientists are confident that the tests can be used to unravel old crimlmal cases. Earlier, Liberal unity was again broken when a prominent Wet, Senator Peter Baume, attacked the Howard plan to rotate his junior frontbenchers after a year. Senator Baume, who was bypassed in the reshuffle, said it was not fair to people to say they were going to be there for only 12 months. A "It will encourage the worst kind of actions on their part It will encourage them to take every political quick trick when perhaps what they should be doing is planning in the longer term. It will, encourage their backbench colleagues to try to undercut them." Mr Valder announced at yesterday's executive meeting that he would stand down at the next meeting, on 30 October.

Mr Elliott will be installed by the executive, rather by than the normal election, by federal counciL The executive decided to delay the federal council meeting until next year. The immediate past president, Dr Jim Forbes, expressed some concern at the meeting about the executive installing the president The executive also endorsed measures to strengthen the party's campaigning efforts, which were widely criticised in the election. It decided that all operational aspects of the national campaign should be subject to a single authority, with the leader's team being "an integral part of the total campaign A group has been set up to examine how all parties campaigned in the marginals. The federal organisation is to have more direct national input Into campaigning in the marginals. There is to be a strong "strategy and campaigning unit" at the secretariat to plan these campaigns.

The Liberal director, Mr Tony Eggleton, presented election-day research to the meeting to back the fact that greater unity was Imperative. The research found that 36 per cent of people polled thought that achieving unity and cohesion were the greatest challenges facing the Liberals, while 49 per cent of Liberal voters believed this. PAGE 13: Editorial Puppy survives an arrow through the head 'Acltie'fofi hard By LEITH YOUNG The RSPCA was last night trying to find the owner of a young doberman shepherd-cross to enoosetne ngnt investment. found on an island in Dandenong Creek with an arrow through its head. i -4 One of the association's inspectors, Mr Brown, said a Waverley Council worker bad seen the puppy yesterday morning sitting on tne isiana wnimpenng.

The broken shaft of an arrow was protrud ing about five centimetres from the top of its head. The metal tip had lodged just under the sun of the animal's lower jaw. Mr Brown said the angle of the arrow, removed by a veterinarian, suggested the dog had been snot at point-blank range as it looked up. Although the arrow had passed through An x-ray shows the arrow embedded the dog head there appeared to be no permanent damage, he said. in the dog's headr Probe into claim that ABC! alcohol money caused blacks to riot System 20 on the cards for Tattslotto in Victoria Invest in precious metal.

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Mr Paciullo said it was unusual for a person in Mr Olson's position to make such statements. The head of the federal Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Charles Perkins, claimed Mr Olson and the state National Party leader, Mr Wal Murray, were well known in north-west NSW for their racist comments. Five Aborigines have been charged after the violence. A 29-year-old man, who is not a local, has been charged with conspiracy to murder, riotous assembly, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and malicious injury. A 26 year-old man has been charged with riotous assembly and assaulting police; two men, 20 and 23, with riotous assembly and assault occasioning actual, bodily harm; and a 23-year-old with riotous assembly and common assault They have7 been bailed to appear in Brewarrina court tomorrow.

About 40 police remain in the tense but quiet town. Mr Perkins last night called for a treaty with Aborigines to be incorporated into the Australian Constitution. Commenting on the violence in Brewarrina, Mr Perkins said that vin the longer term Aboriginal needs such as housing would nave to be met and a treaty established. This treaty should acknowledge Aborigines as the owners of Australia before the arrival of white men, mention compensation for land loss, address Aboriginal languages and integrate Aboriginal law into the legal system. By LUKE SLATTERY.

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