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-5; THE AGE, Monday 1 August 1988 K1CJ Confusion reigns for a young man at the precipice ran ae atteaaea tie make island project a Taix-iniiiiiiiniter plain oomldL lead to secret files: Lib 8 priority Warren Henningsen is at "a really hefty" peint ia his life. i-: He is 17 and in year 11 at Lyn-- dale High SchaaL Last year, at Us wn initiative, he had six meatus as a trainee chef aad "laved It ta the "A chef has ne restrictions. He creates the leek, the fla-- var." Bat then, he says, he was dismissed while absent fram werk with aa injured back, sa, at the start of this year, he returned ta school. He might study law like his brother Lake bat he's oat sore about "the dedication He has also considered a career in the police force. His ultimate goal would be to join the SAS.

Terrorism sucks, he says, and should be crushed to the max. Warren loves weapons. He has a knife and sward collection and, once be has tamed 18, he will apply for a Ucence ta collect guns. He was walking home once when s4 assoclatloa's aatiaaal caafereace ia Caaberra, treveUlaf by trala with his -ghetta which takes up two seats; He has aaag la four bands aad, most weekeads, he daes the llxatiag for his brother Lake's rack band, 'Llqald Sky. liquid Sky, he says, has got a great future.

At 17, he talks a let about the future, aad that why he cannot let himself believe he is average, because far the average young person, as he sees it, there is little He knows the aext 12 months could be cracial la his life, that he could be about ta step lata what he calls "the pit af The most precious thing la Warren's world is his four-year-old sister Emma. His idols are Harrison Ford, Sir Charles Klagsf ord Smith, Dr Keith Suter, a Uaited Natlaas official, aad Araald Schwarseaegger, the actor aad body builder. These are confusing times, he says. admit the place where yen live Is violent, but It is." He thinks the gun laws are a really great idea, but says people will still get held af firearms. He has a similar attitude towards nuclear weapons.

Td like ta see them gone but to a degree you've got ta have them. They're a deterrent." He cannot envisage a world without weapons. But Warrea is also the secretary of the Victorian braach of the United Nations Tooth Association. His father is a White Russian aad his mother a Sri Lankan aad he cant see the paint la aayoaebeing considered second-rate. Australians, In Warren's view, are arrs- since the Australian Democrats have already vowed to block it in the Senate.

Legislation for the plan is to be introduced in the next session of Parliament Senator Hill said the numbering system could be used in conjunction with recent changes to the Social Security Act and the Veterans Entitlements Act The new social-security law had given the secretary of the federal Social Security Department the The reclamation of HerrlaspiK Island in the Yarra is a priority of a group of candidates running taf the Richmond Council eJectioa- The group, the Richmond ResP lc dents and Ratepayers team, plansf to make the area more accessible'' to Melbourne residents. 1. One of the plans for turning the. 4.5-hectare site into a ncreatJoa.no park is to fill in the flood channel which was dug In 1929 and cut the: area off from Richmond. Aite.

mound would be constructed as sound barrier next to the freeway and provide recreation space on" the island. One of the team's eight candid dates, Mr Mike Tanner, said the( group had spoken to a firm ofgrf landscape architects. Tract Coni sultan ts Australia Pty Ltd, about other options for the site. "Herring Island is part of Rich mond and must be used for benefit of all its residents, not for1 restaurants and billboards," he said. he was menaced by a youth with a butterfly knife.

"Yon dont like to Warren Henningsen with his travelling companion: at "a really hefty point" in his life. Clean-up of wmmmmmMKmmmmmmmmmmm'mmm 'If; 1 wmmmm By CARMEL McCAULEY, Canbafra The Federal Government could use its proposed tax-file-number scheme to build a computer-based dossier of personal information on millions of Australians, a senior Liberal backbencher said yesterday. Senator Robert Hill, who is the deputy chairman of the Senate legal committee investigating the system, said the Government's powers had become apparent after the committee's first two public hearings. He said that under the planned scheme, information could be transferred between departments and used for purposes unrelated to those for which the information was given originally. The individual would not know what personal information any department could hold and would have no opportunity to test the information's accuracy.

"The developing picture, therefore, is of a system with marked similarities to that of the Government's former discredited ID-card scheme," he said. The Federal Opposition has not yet decided its position on the new scheme and the outcome of the Senate inquiry is likely to be influential in its decision. The coalition holds the key to the success of the tax-file plan, mMmmMmmmmmmmmmm Dumping site A member of the Herring Island? Committee of Management, Mr? Kevin Grover, said last night that Herring Island had been used for many years as a dumping site for silt and was in the middle of a rehabilitation program. It would not be ready for full-scale recre- ational use for five or six years, he said. power to divulge personal information to another department if he believed it "in the public "The taxation commissioner could argue that a very large proportion of information held by the Department of Social Security would be of value to the Taxation Department in its efforts to combat tax avoidance and should be, therefore, transferred," he said.

"Individuals concerned would not be told of the transfer of information." The power of the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs would be even less restrained, he said. The secretary could transfer information to another department whenever it was "for the purposes of that "Not even a public-interest ground need be made out simply a request from the taxation commissioner would be adequate," he said. A spokesman for the Treasurer, Mr Keating, dismissed Senator Hill's claims, saying the senator was "off on a tangent" and could not make his arguments add up. "How he can come up with such a conclusion after only two public hearings of the committee suggests that he has pre-judged the issue anyway." He said the Taxation Office would not be requesting information from other departments, as Senator Hill had argued, because it would have no reason to do so, he said. Employers attack class-action proposal By MARK DAVIS Proposals to introduce "class actions" into the Australian legal system should be rejected because they could cost business millions of dollars, the Victorian Employers Federation said yesterday.

The executive director of the VEF, Mr Ian Spicer, was commenting on proposals being considered by the Australian Law Reform Commission to allow groups of people to take joint legal action, particularly in damages claims for negligence. Earlier this year, the commission issued draft class-action legislation for discussion and is due to make a final recommendation to the Federal Government later this year. Mr Spicer said class actions would increase litigation and so costs for business and consumers. "Employers would be forced to raise the costs of insurance to protect against unfavorable class-action decisions," he said. "They would also be forced to review research and expenditure on new products because of the extra risks involved.

These extra costs would be passed on to consumers." the worst of Portland's oil spill to be complete soon By ALEX MESSINA The task of vacuuming the tar-like portion of the fuel oil that spewed from a ship's gashed fuel tank in Portland last week is expected to be completed within the next 48 hours. Clean-up teams have worked around the clock since Thursday afternoon when 184 tonnes of fuel, similar to unrefined oil, spilt from a port-side fuel tank when the livestock carrier Al Qurain nudged against a wharf while docking. One fairy penguin died yesterday after being affected by the oil slick, and four more were being treated by wildlife officers. A spokesman for the Port of Portland Authority said last night that divers had not found any fish that had been harmed. The spill has been contained within the area of the K.

F. Ander-son wharf, where the spill occurred. The spokesman estimated that more than 100 tonnes of oil had been skimmed from the The residents' group was criticised yesterday by an independent candidate, Mr Alleyn Best, for breaching the electoral provisions. He said that a team circular soliciting postal votes that had been sent to owners of rented premises had not included the name of an authorising person. A complaint has been lodged with the returning officer.

A team candidate, Mr Malcolm Graham, said yesterday that the circular was "not electoral material. It is, in fact, a covering letter. I put my address at the top and I signed it at the bottom. I dont believe it Is a breach of the Electoral Act, but it is entirely up to the returning officer to decide those things." Port of Portland workmen cleaning up some of the spUt oil yesterday. surface or sucked up by machines and surrounding areas could take some would be dumped in a dislike industrial vacuum cleaners.

up to two week, he said. used sandpit nearby, he said. The task of cleaning the Some of the recovered oil The damaged carrier is being remaining thinner pil from rocks would be recycled and reused, but repaired. Senator Hill similarities to ID card scheme. Nationals fear Liberal support for bill nT1 Ym csma save by letting your mortgage work for you! MORTGAGE POWER the unique morttrofire Droduct Bloodstains matched rare group, court told Bloodstains believed to match the medical group of Bella Elmore, an alleged murder victim, were found bn items in the Exmouth home of the missing woman, a United States court martial sitting at Exmouth has been told.

The court martial was told on Saturday that Petty Officer Charles Wayne Elmore, charged with the premeditated murder of his wife, had blood group 0 and his wife group A. A forensic scientist, Mr David Werner, of the US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory in Georgia, found that bloodstains on a knife taken from the house and on a mattress in its main bedroom were group A. Further tests revealed a particular type of group A blood that was limited to nine per cent of the population. Petty Officer Elmore, 27, based at the Naval Communication Station at Exmouth, is alleged to have stabbed his Filipino wife in their home on 16 March. The prosecution claims he later threw her body off the Exmouth naval pier into the waters of the Indian Ocean.

A witness who had been fishing at the pier told the court martial there had been no one else at the pier until he left at 2.10am on 17 March. A naval security guard told of seeing Petty Officer Elmore's distinctive white Ford Mustang hatchback heading past the base towards the pier between 3.30 and 4.30 that morning. The court martial will reconvene today. By ROBYN DIXON If the Victorian Liberal parliamentary party supported proportional representation it would jeopardise the new, close relationship with the National Party, Mr Peter Ross-Edwards, the Victorian leader of the National Party, said yesterday. Mr Ross-Edwards said proportional representation would mean the Victorian upper house would probably never be controlled by the conservative parties again.

He said the Liberals were being "blackmailed" by the Democrats, who have threatened to direct their preferences against any party which fails to support proportional representation for the upper house. But he said the conservative parties still had "every chance" of winning government in the next election, even if they voted against the bill, thus losing Democrats preferences in vital marginal seats. "It would be tragic to finally win government only to find our aims and objectives for Victoria frustrated by a hostile upper house where the balance of power was in the hands of unpredictable, bill one of the first items on the agenda. "They should have done it over the winter," he said. "It would mean the Democrats or some equivalent party which is very much a minority party will control the upper house for ever and a day.

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