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10- THE AGE, Monday 12 December -jr; fti 'it 1 (Lima aid SOI WSSh Unions jjto an economic risk, says Stone By ANOREW STEPHENS, Mon rcnbocti plip and saoat tua Owe. GARRAN, f.Tedal for activist One of Australia's most persistent human-rights activists, the Reverend Dorothy McMahon, has been a wanted the 1988 Australian Human Rights Medal Mi McMabon, the minister at the Pitt Street Chorea in Sydney since 1983, has championed human rights for more than 30 years. High commissioner dies Australia's high commissioner to New Zealand, Mr BUI McKinnon. had died at the weekend after a heart attack while on leave at Mollymook, New Sooth Wales, the Foreign Minister, Senator Evans, tig yesterday. Mr McKinnon, 57, was secretary of the Immigration Department before taking up the flew Zealand appointment in July last year.

oun jw tayw aua a casaea trotyl iKctme pajtktixte'eru-dal ever the Cariatmts pabUc fceftiaya when ite child prptoc-tioa service atatf would Boierork. also aaid the service was 100 staff because of putar -A spokesweaa dittr Spyttrt oOct saJd iccur-jat tor thMflur service wee ajrty the ceatral wSk try! to -ba jeaed. aritsin two servkftTWttiaJtrwlt- -eMiA(isaeaatSNVK20B Law Reform Commhrton aad the parliamentary social development committee, which showed the Victorian child protecttoa services to be Inadequate and recommended broad changes to the law. Yesterday, the Opposition spokesman on commuaity services, Mr Hayward, said many children were at risk because of the Government's coatueed alUltyto gee service operating comprehf nsivelybeyocd auiiual woridog noun He said the "duaHrack" system, where police aid Commenl-ty Services Victoria tax equal respoasibUity for calU atwse cases, should be phased oat ever -the next year if the Coveipmeaj The State Government yesterday rejected Opposition claims that nothing had been done to extend its troubled child protection service to 24 hours or to set up a central registry of child abuse cases. The Opposition claimed that the failure to extend services, announced last July in a $7 million child protection scheme that included plans for the registry, was putting many children at risk of death or serious injury.

But the Minister for Community Services, Mr Spyker, said, all Victorian regions, would have a 24-hour service within about six The manager of a Footscray men's-wear store had a gun pointed at his head alter two men ransacked his shop in Barkjy Street. Police said this thieves stole leather jackets and suits from Gotz for Men clothing store on 27 October: The manager was forced into a changing booth and tied up with adhesive tape after they entered the store about 9.50 am. Police said the thieves, one armed with a pistol, placed the stolen clothes in the manager's silver Nissan Urvan, which was was parked outside where a third man was waiting. The stolen items included about 34 leather jackets with the brand names States, Martin and. Peziai, 12 Travellers mens suits and some fash, The stolen vehicle was later found oNmped outside Ministry of Housing flats in Racecourse -Road.

Flemington. Jtolice said one of the thieves was about 1 XZjtfmetres tall, of medium build. With bK Wand aeed in his late teens to mtd.20c Swetpiag deregulation of labor saarfcets and; a winding-back la xc five trade aalen power were vital to Australia's aceaecale latere, the Natioaal Party Senate leader Seaatar Steae, aaid yesterday. Seaatar Steae told a Heritage AaseclatlM semlaar that the aeeerd between the Government aad the ACTU was a sigaifJeaat step towards giviag the aalaa aMvesMat the kiad ef political aseeadaacy Its Argeatiaiaa eaaaterpart had aaee had. With the growth la state welfare, the rise ef trade aaiaa power had seat Argeatiaa dewa a read at disUlaalra aad despair, Seaatar Steae months, with the first Inner-metropolitan region extending its hours later this month.

The latest claims of staff deficiencies and failure to meet commitments made In the July-scheme follow the release of two reports last week by the Victorian rt review Industry Minister, Senator Button, yesterday iaouneed the appointment of a committee to re- Government assistance to export industries. Lat committee will be chaired by Professor Helen leader Macphee again takes Hji jattbes, head of development studies at the Austra-jitf National University. Detect JaJso want information from mtnnm who WrpouRht the stolen clothes. jjftwil deaths He said tae aalaa preserlp- mm 17-year-old Australian-born girl and a Brazilian ceataued la 'Austraua Is and who were ndnapped, tortured and snot aeaa oy semen in Rio de Janeiro state, police said yes- ReceaatraetedY if achieved, "weaM represent a farther giant leap backward towards that out- tocclact lirday. Police in the town of Nova Friburgo said tar policemen had been charged with the murders "What Is clear is that umone Amarai lerqueira ana a Brazilian, vis- Erwin Rodrigues.

ty within a framework of unity that has its foundations In shared values and institutions and language." Mr Howard has been critical of multiculturalism, stressing instead the notion of One Australia. Mr Macphee said multiculturalism required a -recognition of the right of each Australian to identify with a particular ethnic origin if they wished to help retain and pass on parts of that culture. He was delivering the Alan Mis-sen Memorial Lecture. The late Few people could doubt that Australia waa eipertencing dark days, with the prospect of even daiter oaeii he stld. Alas afjawa "would have been appalled at tie level of public coouoes4 oo hvoes as diverse ae AIDS eatf the.

faf Crimes KIL Irnsflaa hie borror at the tyfff stW apyent, and the racism becoming rampant same might be7 ap. pUed to our society, Australia Is multicultural That Is a fact, aad one of which we should be Alan Missen was a smaiH liberal senator; Mr Macphee said Alan Missen would have shared the horror of many people today "at we see a few powerful sectional interests combining with desperate, ambitious and cynical politicians to undermine the Parliament and betray the essential integrity of a free media." Mr Macphee, speaking on Human Righto Day, said that Australia needed thousands of people who would crusade courageously but effectively for human rights. BylflCHEtiE GRATTAN, Canbefn Mr Ian Macphee, the Liberal federal backbencher, at the weekend again challenged criticism by the Opposition Leader, Mr Howard, of multiculturalism. Mr Macphee, a leading Wet, said all Australians should be made aware of the great benefits to them of increased sharing of cultures. "Australians must be encouraged to see multiculturalism for what it really is.

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