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THE AGE, Thursday 25 October 1990 -A Ex-parrot may carry a price tag of $50,000 GMH says By OftCd MBMTB, tariff cunts Stalemate as Esso balks at peace package WOUlM mum pi1 i AH ys Wastry car Chair found, suspect missing Police turned their back on a fin they were questioning last niglt long enough for him to pick up tie chair to which be was handcuff and escape. The chair, somewhat damaged, was found elsewhert4n the St Klida Road Police Comdjex but police are are still missing a pair of handcuffs and a 25-Jrear-old suspect Action Officers at the Turana youth training centre yesterday suspended Industrial action after the centre management decided to review staffing levels. Jury discharged A Supreme Court Jury was'jjff-charged yesterday In the case, of a Healhmont woman who was suing a Richmond surgeon for alleged negligence over a stomach stapling operation In 1982. Mr Justice Phillips adjourned the case date to be fixed. 'irA Rose satisfactory Former world boxing champion Lionel Rose was resting In the cop-onary care unit at the Box Hill Hospital last night after bis second heart attack in three years.

A hospital spokesman said the former bantamweight titleholder was In a satisfactory condition. Staples compo blast The dumped Arbitration Commission deputy president, Mr Jim Staples, yesterday reacted angrily to a Federal Government decision not to compensate him. In a letter to the Industrial Re latlons Minister, Mr Peter Go he said the Government had caused a constitutional revolution by inventing new rules urCtfr which courts had no protection from the executive. Mr Staples was the only Arbitration and Conciliation Commisildh member not appointed to the lh-dustrial Relations Commission when it came into operation March last year. Girl raped Police are investigating the rape of a girl, 16, who was attacked by four men in the back of a van pn Tuesday night.

The girl was driven from St Kllda to Port Melbourne and later dumped back hi St Kllda. Police yesterday said the driver was 190 centimetres tall, fat, with a freckled complexion and short grey hair. He wore a white business shirt brown pants aruj brown belt. The other three men were described as being in jhtlr 20s. All had dark, curly hair; and olive complexions.

The msiuiM The Australian Ottfraphle' aid Its celtrful publisher, Dick Smith, nay have part with ffMN feecMte ef milllea-te-eae aeeldeat In the Queenilaad ratback. The potential payeut follows the dltcevery ef bird, believed by many te be extinct, by two proolaeat ornithologists whe found Its bedy beside a read. The alght parrel was last recorded la lilt, whea a specimen was eelleeted at Nlchel Sprlag la West era Australia and only 22 specimen have ever been collected. Last April Mr Smith and his magailne posted a reward far conclusive evidence of Its continued existence but a condition ef the reward was that It should net be killed purposely. This was thought te make proof almost impossible as a photograph could be challenged.

The dead bird was spotted by Mr Walter Boles, the ornithologist at the Australian Museum In Sydney, who had just completed a twe-menth museum expedition to the Klmberleys. It was lying by the roadside In arid grassland near Boulla, In western Queensland. Mr Boles said his party stopped to look at some live birds on the read south of Mount Isa. He was standing near his vehicle, waiting for a second vehicle to catch up, when he spotted the bird's body at his feet "I was Just standing there when I looked down at my leet and there It was. I knew what It was straight away.

I picked It up and casually showed it to a Queensland Museum associate, Wayne Longmore," Mr Boles said. The magazine's editor, Mr Howard Wbelan, said a panel of experts would be established to confirm the now mummified bird's identity. "We are very excited about what Is happening and look forward to verification of the evidence," he said. Mr Whelan said he hoped the reward money would go towards protecting or researching the night parrot The reward Is expected to be paid to the Australian Museum. The specimen will be lodged In the Queensland Museum.

The night parrot is nocturnal and lives en the ground, flying only when dlsturbed-It Is emerald-green with yellow blotching and barring the underpin. So little Is known about the bird that scientists are net even -sure what It sounds like. By QIKON HAIQH Drastic tariff cuts recommended by the Industry Commission In its draft report on the car Industry would spell the end of car manufacturing In Australia and inflict heavy economic damage, General Motors-Holden's representatives told the commission yesterday. A GMH paper submitted at the commission's draft report hearings at the World Trade Centre concluded that the proposed reduction In tariffs to 15 per cent between 1092 and 1996 would "result In a general cessation of vehicle manufacture" unless unlikely Improvements in competitiveness were made. GMH's director of finance and strategic planning, Mr Kevin Wale, told the commission that his company accepted the need to reduce protection.

"However, we believe this must be related to the Industry's capacity to cope with the reductions," he said. "If this linkage is not made, the Industry will simply be destroyed." Econometric models prepared for GMH also suggested that the net effect of implementing the commission's report would be a substantial worsening of Australia's balance of trade and unemployment and a fall In gross domestic product Dr Peter Brain, of the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research, said his projections suggested that towards the end of the decade, the winding down of the industry as a result of the proposals could cause an annual deterioration in Australia's net trade balance of up to $2 billion, cost as many as 50,000 Jobs a year, and reduce gross domestic product by $4 billion. Mr Wale said the minimum level of protection with which the industry could survive was a duty rate of 27 per cent at the end of the decade, which could be achieved by a one per cent annual reduction from 1992 to 2000. He said that this rate of reduction still committed Australian iroducers to achieve cost mprovements faster than Japanese car makers over that period. "We believe that In proposing this we have made clear our recognition of the need for further duty reductions to the limit of our capability." Questioned by Mr Tony Cole, the commission chairman, Mr Wale said the local car Industry could probably sustain only three car manufacturers producing at least 100,000 units each.

Even the modest tarriff cuts proposed by GMH depended on macro and micro-economic reforms affecting the car Industry. Mr Wale said a viable local industry was critical If Australia wished to arrest an undesirable "skewing" of economic activity further towards primary production. "The world's growing economies in most cases reflect a steadily Increasing share of complex manufactures in their output and the prosperous economies in virtually all cases include a much higher Involvement in complex manufactures than Australia has achieved," Mr Wale said. "Australia's Involvement in complex manufacturing is bordering on a Third World level, and despite this it is decreasing at a higher rate than any other country we can Identify." GMH's submission also said that the levels of protection Australia imposed were low by international standards. Its submission attacked the commission's figures that estimated the present cost to the community of Industry assistance to be about $4000 a car.

The hearings continue today with submissions expected ironi Ford and the State Government. By LVN DUNLCW Negotiations to resolve the long running Esso dispute reached stalemate yesterday when the company rejected a peace package put forward by the Federal Government Esso told the Industrial Relations Commission that the company had serious problems with the package, partlculary a claim that required the company to buy the houses of workers made redundant The manager of Esso's Gipps-land operations, Mr Terry Dar-gan, said Esso would now proceed with action in the commission that would enable it to apply to the Federal Court to have fines of $500 and $1000 a day Imposed on workers and unions for breaching bans clauses In their awards. The commissioner, Mrs Leary, directed Esso to talk further with the Federal Government to resolve the deadlock, and called on the parties to report back to the commission later today. Mrs Leary said she was concerned that days were going by, the dispute was not being resolved and the day would have to come when the parties got together and a decision was made. But Mr Dar-gan said he was doubtful anything new would come out of the talks.

The Government's peace package was accepted unanimously by a meeting of oil industry unions on Tuesday and the unions have indicated they are not prepared to negotiate on any of its provisions. Outrageous An organiser with the Australian Workers Union, Mr Rob Outhred, said yesterday the unions' position was not negotiable and it was now up to Esso to agree to the package. Mr Outhred said the claim for Esso to buy the houses of workers made redundant as part of the company's restructuring was not new. He said it was part' of the claim put to Esso in the unions' original proposal for redundancy packages. But Mr Dargan said Esso first heard of the claim last Fttday.ln a document from the ACTU putting forward the unions' basis for settling the dispute.

"We are not at all happy that the Government has prepared a package that includes a brand new Issue which we believe to be a quite outrageous claim on us and that we now, after a five-week dispute, ought to be acceding to that brand new issue." Mr Dargan confirmed that Esso had already offered to buy the houses of about 250 management staff working for the company in Sale and transferring with the company when it moves Its headquarters to Melbourne. He said this offer did not extend to workers hired out of Sale who are to be made redundant Wanted, dead or alive: Mr Boles with the mummified parrot, which may bring in a $50,000 reward. Caltex summonsed over Apollo Bay, oil spill DAN MURPHY BEATS ALL COMPETITION NOT BY A LITTLE BUT BY A LOT SEPPELT'S NEW CLASSIC RANGE Behold! Seppelt suddenly looms as a force to be contended with by the Penfold group. This collection of great wines certainly puts Seppelt in the forefront of top My Price Bottle Ooz. 13.99 By BRUCE TOWN, chief police reporter The Australian Federal Police have Issued summonses on the Caltex Tanker Company (Australia) after an oil spill off the Victorian coast In May.

Caltex faces two charges under the Protection of the Sea (prevention of pollution from ships) Act 1983 with each charge carrying a penalty of $250,000. The summonses name the tanker Arthur Phillip as the ship involved in the oil spill near Apollo Bay about 21 May. More than 200 fairy penguins were killed, but It is feared the death toll could be as high as 700 birds. Mr Crabb said the compensation was for the loss of wildlife and damage caused by the pollution along the coast. The Australian Federal Police were called in to investigate the cause of the spill In June.

Officers served the summonses on the Caltex Tanker Company at its head office In Collins Street Melbourne, on Tuesday. Police sources said the captain of the tanker had refused to be interviewed by Federal Police investigators. The charges will be heard in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on 14 December. Only 65 of the .130 penguins that were alive when picked up survived. The birds have been gradually released back into the sea after recovering at the Phillip Island Penguin Reserve.

Caltex said last night it would defend the charges. The company said the charges did not link the ship with the spill. The Environment Minister, Mr Crabb, last night said the State Government was determined to seek about $300,000 In damages. "I'm determined to recover the full costs of cleaning up the oil slick and compensation for the loss of several hundred fairy penguins," he said. winemakers at present Code Rec'd Price 14986 konbork Cabernet Merlot Malbec 1987 750mL 15.49 14978 Harpers Range Cabernet Sauvignon 1987 750ml 11.74 14980 ClMtambarHermitage 1988 750ml 11.74 14982 Clover Ridge Chardonnay 1989 750ml 11.74 14986 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 1 987 750ml 20.39 14984 Rhymney Chardonnay Sauvignon Blanc 1989 750mL 15.49 9.99 9.99 9.99 163.00 118.00 118.00 118.00 210.00 163.00 17.99 13.99 HARPERS RANGE CABERNET SAUVIGNON 1987 Floral, sweet attractive bouquet, deep and penetrating! Lovely flavour, flowers, initial fruit, small berry, beautifully balanced, intense, fine alcohol, pleasant tannin grip, full of fruit in the centre a red wine person's red wine.

IRONBARK CABERNET MERLOT MALBEC 1987 Among the best reds I have tasted in recent years from any country with a lovely chocolate, peppermint, vinous bouquet and these flavours come out on the palate. Bordeaux in grape variety mix, Bordeaux in style and equal to many top Bordeaux in total satisfaction! Velvety in texture, great body, nice soft tannin, some anise, some licorice, some French oak. Floral, complex, sweet, Bordeaux style middle palate, some nutmeg and cloves. Absolutely beautiful! A classic Australian red! THESE WINES ARE ON TASTING AT BOTH STORES THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Be positive on premiers' talks, Greiher tells Libs Trade Rec'd My Price Price Bottle Dot. Trade Rec'd My Price Price Bottle Doz.

Premiers' Conference as a sham. By ROSS PEAKE, Code Code VARIOUS CHAMPAGNES (750ml) VARIOUS WINES (750ml) 08854 AnoVewGarettrirwtChampogneNon Vinfoge 15.98 9.84 115.80 13166 JosephrWerCuveeSovoleBratNV 42.97 29.99 350.00 02690 Pol Roger BrulNon Vintage 48.11 32.95 385.00 09228 Seppeft Salinger Champagne 1985 27.40 19.95 217.80 02706 Veuve Clicquot Brut Non Vintage 51.70 32.95 395.40 02710 Veuve Clicquof Brut Vintage 1983 60.10 39.94 467.40 01070 YalumbaAngoiBrut 7.82 4.45 51.40 KILLAWARRA CABERNET SAUVIGNON 1988 $2.99 a bottle Let's be fair! In my opinion this is all it is worth! (ft seems today that many well known wines are being sold on the reputations they had earned many years ago but now the contents ol the bottles do not live up to the labels) Buy this wine now! When it is sold it is finished. (I will wait for something better than this before I restock.) The Federal Opposition Leader, Dr Hewson, received a rebuff yesterday when the Liberal federal couacll elected a Queensland businessman, Mr Ashley Goldiworthy, federal president PAGE 16: Fun report. PAGE 13: Liberal adopts a solid approach. the Premiers' Conference, saying it was worthwhile.

"I don't believe we do ourselves any credit at all In saying this is a sham, a waste of time, simply a central grab for power," he said. He described the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, and the Treasurer, Mr Keating, as "fair dinkum" in their efforts to simplify regulations and Implement micro-economic reforms. Mr Greiner's speech was significant because he Is the only Liberal Premier. It follows a week-long campaign by bis federal colleagues denouncing the He said the Premiers' Conference should take positive action for reform, Including moves for the states to receive more federal revenue and become responsible for raising more money themselves. He suggested removing duplication between the federal and state governments.

Australia had to move to a single economic market if it was to make progess, he said, referring to the example used by Mr Hawke, that by 1992 Europe's economy will be more unified than Australia's. He pleaded for the reform of food regulations and said this was an area where the states' rights had "no place at He called for a national policy on nursing homes but said they should continue to be managed by the states. He supported moves by the Opposition Leader, Dr Hewson, to deliver health and social security services through the private sector. The New South Wales Premier, Mr Grelner, yesterday called on the Liberal Party to be constructive towards next week's special Premiers' Conference. Mr Grelner advocated an overhaul of widely varying state food regulations and said it was nonsense to suggest that national environmental standards could not be developed.

He also told the Liberal Party's federal council that It needed to overhaul Its Image radically If it wanted to win elections. "I always cringe when we come to these meetings and we tell the world, don't vote for the Labor Party, they're socialists," he said. The success of the Labor Party at state elections demonstrated that the message was too simple and not saleable to the Australian public In the 1990s. Mr Grelner broke ranks with other Liberal Party leaders over 03006 BaileysCkssicCabemet 1988 11.97 8.90 99.40 00202 ChateoufahbilkMatsanne 1989 10.17 6.94 81.40 13342 De BortoH Riverina Chordormay 1988 8.22 6.90 81.00 11976 EaglenawkShiraz Merlot CabSouv 1988 8.48 5.95 71.40 14124 leasingham Domaine CobSouvMolbec 1988 10.76 7.94 93.00 00498 Lindemans Podrhaway Chordonnay 1989 17.06 10.95 131.40 14020 UrKtemomPadthowoySouvignonBlonc 1988 17.06 10.95 131.40 14906 Undemaru CawarrraClaret 1988 5.96 3.95 46.00 03500 McWtlliam's Ml PI. Elrabetti 1983 12.23 7.90 99.40 00622 Mitchelton Rhine Riesling 1989 10.33 6.95 83.40 00654 Norman fine Hermitage 1989 9.45 4.94 58.40 13378 Orlando Gramp's Cabernet Merlot 1988 10.76 7.95 95.00 00698 Orlando R.F.

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there can be areas of agreement and that the debate about disagreements does not have to degenerate Into mud-slinglng. Most of the Grelner message was wasted on the council. Ironically, as the federal Liberals look an increasingly likely bet to win government next time, the party's council seems to have sunk to a new low. Many speakers lamented that the grass roots had little voice in policy. If the debate so far at the council the organisation's top body Is any guide, It's a good thing they don't have much say.

The policy discussion has been sterile. On key issues like the economy and Immigration, It was a struggle to find speakers, and there was time to spare. fresh air Into the fusty atmosphere at the Liberal federal council yesterday. Mr Greiner's exhortation for the party to put away old obsessions (on states' rights) and outdated shibboleths (about the Labor Party being bore the mark of a confident politician in power, who could Identify a new mood In the electorate. His very positive attitude to next week's Premiers' Conference Is by Implication a warning that the Federal Opposition should not succumb to superficial point-scoring.

Mr Grelner Is tak- -Ing a wait-and-see attitude to the meeting called by the Prime Minister. i Despite differences Imposed MICHELLE GRATTAN by being In opposition or government Mr Greiner's careful, measured style carries lessons for Dr Hewson and his cohorts. Although they are committed to the politics of reason, they are Inclined In practice to go over the top and exaggerate the differences between themselves and the Hawke Government. In pointing to what he termed "a post-ideological stage In politics everywhere In the Mr Grelner Is highlighting the desire In the electorate for politicians to adopt a subtle, less abrasive political tone, accepting including design, content AI PI-IIMfZTON MONDAY-THURSDAY 9 am -8 pm KWAY am-9om 789 Heidelberg Rd Saturday 9om-pm 497 3388 Sunday 12 noon -6 pm Poitcod Charg my Bankcard Expiry dale Charge my Mastercard Cord numbor Charge my Vltocord My telephone number It: Bui Horn and, most importantly, anticipating the reaction of PRAHRAN 282-284 Chapel St 51 8531 monday-weonisday thursoay FRIDAY SATURDAY 9 am 7 pm 9 am I pm 9 am 9 pm 9 am 8 pm Melbourne: 287 .1.147. Sydney: 363 2958.

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