The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 2

Tuesday, September 5, 1989 2 The Sydney Morning Herald Govt in confusion after Ahern's casino switch Tl Tf Why her stick is a must to wheelchair-user Faye jroiicy reversals siammea mm ill it iiiljili Airline chief new head of theatre trust ly ftTCJI COCHRANE Arts Editor A businessman has been named as the new chairman of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust The chief executive of Australian Airlines, Mr James Strong, replaces Mr Andrew Briger, who is stepping down after nearly seven years as trust head. The streamlined organisation is seeking to re-establish itself on the Australian arts scene after losing $4 million in a two-year period. In June last year Mr Briger appointed a young and little-known chief executive, Mr Adam Salzer, who is leading the organisation back into the black. The trust will lose its orchestra at the year's end to a new company composed of opera and ballet representatives. The trust will retain the Halftix ticketing operation, its Australian Content Department, the Theatre of the Deaf, management of a performing arts superannuation scheme and a tax-deductible public donation program which last financial year earned more than S6 million.

mm his mind. He announced approval for a $150 million casino-based development. The casino licence would be available" for a premium of about $100 million, Mr Ahern said. Soon after he became Premier, Mr Ahern said a casino would be built on the city's Expo site. He then ruled that out and said one might be approved in Brisbane's city centre.

More recently, Mr Ahern said there were no plans for a casino in Brisbane. Yesterday, he said new casinos would be approved not only for Brisbane, but for Cairns and "somewhere" between Noosa and Rockhampton. Mr Ahern said he believed Queensland was big enough to have five casinos. The existing Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast was a "real generating $20 million a year in government revenue, although the Breakwater casino in Townsville was "doing less Mr Simpson's decision to quit follows the resignation of the former Speaker, Mr Lin Powell, and the announced retirement of two former ministers, Mr Martin Tenni and Mr Peter McKechnie. In a statement, Sir Robert accused Mr Simpson of a "gross breach" of party rules by speaking out and said disciplinary action against him would be considered.

But the former Minister for Health, Mrs Leisha Harvey, said the party organisation should intervene. "It's a very unhealthy situation when your good members are saying they have to get out," Mrs Harvey said. "When it gets to that stage you're in trouble. The party could be doing more in the way of talking to people." Meanwhile the former Attorney-General, Mr Paul Clauson, joined the former Minister for Police, Mr Russell Cooper, in demanding that Mr Ahern apologise publicly for his claim that Sir Joh was behind Mr Cooper's failed leadership challenge last week. Mr Clauson and Mr Cooper are understood to be considering legal action against the Premier.

One National MP said yesterday that a fresh challenge at a meeting of the parliamentary party tomorrow "cannot be ruled out there's a feeling that the air should be Mr Ahern had other things on By GREG ROBERTS BRISBANE: Amid speculation that a fresh leadership challenge could be mounted against him as early as tomorrow, the embattled Queensland Premier, Mr Ahem, was publicly criticised yesterday by two former ministers. Confusion about the Government's direction was further heightened by another about-face by Mr Ahern, this time with his announcement that a casino has been approved for Brisbane. The Premier refused to answer questions on the continuing rumblings about his leadership, and indicated instead that with five casinos, Queensland could become the gambling capital of Australia. The National MP for the Sunshine Coast-based seat of Cooroora, Mr Gordon Simpson, said he had decided not to seek re-election "Either you have it or you don't and he doesn't have it," Mr Simpson told The Herald. "One of the qualities of a leader is to be seen as someone who makes decisions and sticks to them.

You don't backtrack, and that's what he's been doing all along." Mr Simpson, who served briefly in the last Bjelke-Petersen Cabinet, I. 1 I. IN H.U.U I I- I I ,,11111. i I- pl-l 'YMMWiS I r'lf r1 0b I i 4tr rv- v. rmihff Ms.

1 sa-ia-. Sir Robert Sparkes considering disciplinary action. said Mr Ahern's "lock, stock and barrel" commitment to implement the Fitzgerald recommendations had angered many MPs. "He was consistently advised of the dangers of that path but he kept on with it. Now he and the Government are paying the price." Mr Simpson also called on the State party president, Sir Robert Sparkes, to resign.

"He's lost touch with our grassroots members. The Government would have a much better chance at the election if he wasn't there." By CATHY JOHNSON Footpath ramps, lift buttons, stairs and public toilets are just some of the physical hazards Faye Druett has to consider before any simple outing. Ms Druett, 39, has rheumatoid arthritis and has moved around by wheelchair since 1980. Yesterday, she helped launch Imagine it From My Side, a physical disability awareness training program produced by the Office of the Director for Equal Opportunity in Public Employment, where she is a policy adviser, and the Anti-Discrimination Board. The program is aimed at encouraging the employment of more physically-disabled people.

At the launch, the Premier said he wanted the State's public sector to take the lead in giving the physically disabled "a fair go" in employment. But disabled people also want a fair go at the simple things that everyone else takes for granted. "I get tired of thinking about everything before I go somewhere," Ms Druett said yesterday, manoeuvring her wheelchair up an uneven pedestrian ramp in Sydney's Young Street. "It's very hard to be spontaneous." If the join between the footpath and the road is not completely flush, her 64-kilogram electric wheelchair can flip backwards. She goes nowhere without her stick, used to press out-of-reach buttons on lifts and traffic lights.

It takes two people to lift her into most cinemas. Once in, she has to sit apart from her friends because it is against fire regulations to have a wheelchair in an aisle. She cannot reach counters, automatic teller machines are too high and public transport is too difficult. "Those in areas of power like architects and council staff don't consider people with disabilities," Ms Druett said. "It really annoys me when they build new buildings without access ramps." Even the public toilets designed for people in wheelchairs reveal a basic lack of understanding of 14 Australia top US 4 lie but still fluctuating, many astute investors are taking advantage of the high daily gains to be made from a Chase AMP Bank Money Market Account.

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The two murders, which occurred only 20 minutes and five kilometres apart, have some similarities no apparent motives, no suspects and no leads for the police to work on. Detective Senior Constable Mick McGann, heading the investigation into Mr Papalia's murder, said: "I know it's a cliche and I hate to use it but police are baffled." According to neighbours, voices were heard shortly before a series of shots rang out at the Croydon Avenue block of flats in which Mr Papalia lived and one witness told of seeing two people running from the scene. But otherwise, nothing. "It would appear to us that the victim was ambushed and it would also appear that it was an execution," Senior Constable McGann said. Police said that a .25 calibre automatic pistol found wrapped in a handkerchief in his trousers was an indication that Mr Papalia may have been "expecting Detectives are also seeking help in finding Mr Papalia's missing silver 1981 Holden Commodore sedan, NBH 689.

Detective Sergeant Garry Gil-lett, in charge of the second murder investigation, said it was believed two men assaulted the victim outside a telephone booth as he walked home from Banks-town railway station. A witness who was driving By LUIS M. GARCIA Lessons on sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, should become part of the general curriculum for all secondary school pupils in NSW, according to a State Government discussion paper released yesterday. The paper, which was compiled by a senior policy analyst in the NSW Health Department, found that there was no uniform system of teaching pupils about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially the more "traditional" ones, such as syphilis and gonorrhoea. While most pupils received some lessons on STDs during secondary school, the decision on what was taught rested with individual principals, who could decide to skip the topic altogether.

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