The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 3

Wednesday, August 16, 1989 3 The Sydney Morning Herald T1 "Tl fD "TJ ilots ready lor indefinite striJke Big risk of violence in hospitals, says study union leadership deemed necessary to win the pay dispute. Compounding the pressure on the wages system, Sydney-based air traffic controllers have moved to join the pilots in their campaign to break out of the centralised wage-fixing system. Senior union sources told the Herald that talks were being set up between the two groups. The controllers are experienced industrial tacticians, having run a sophisticated campaign in recent months. And the pilots are no Ansett, Australian Airlines, East West and I PEC yesterday, the airlines restated their willingness to negotiate with the union over pay rises, on condition that they were within the guidelines.

Should the -airlines cancel the pilots' pay award, it would be welcomed by the union, which would support any action that pushed its members out of the arbitration system and enabled it to negotiate their pay and conditions by contract. strangers to prolonged strike action. They went out for 28 days in 1966. If the two groups decided to take strike action together they would make a formidable industrial force. The airlines refused to comment on the dispute yesterday, other than to welcome the orders handed down by Justice Coldham that pilots hold off all industrial action to allow negotiations to continue.

The secretary of the ACTU, Mr Bill Kelty, has written to the airlines warning that if they conceded to the pilots' demand for a 29.47 per cent pay rise, the ACTU would do everything to win similar rises for other airline workers. His letter, tendered as evidence to the commission yesterday, said that if an offer was made to the pilots which exceeded pay rises negotiated through award restructuring, the ACTU would seek "with the greatest vigour' similar rises for other airline workers. In a joint statement issued by is understood that key officials of the union met last night to map out their industrial strategy over the coming weeks. It is understood that at the very least, pilots will engage in a series of rolling strikes. If this is not enough to make the airlines grant their pay demand, the pilots do not intend to back down from their threat of an indefinite stoppage.

In a secret ballot over the past week, 95 per cent of pilots gave their backing to any action the backing behind any action the airlines took to bring the dispute to a head. Mr Hawke said that unless the pilots agreed to work within the wages system, the Federal Government would support any moves by the airline companies to suspend or cancel their award. The president of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, Mr Brian McCarthy, refused to make any comment after yesterday's short hearing in the Industrial Relations Commission in Melbourne, but it By AUCIA LA.RRIERA Industrial Reporter An indefinite strike by domestic airline pilots pursuing a 30 per cent wage rise is almost certain, after their union told the Industrial Relations Commission yesterday that the pilots had no intention of negotiating within the national wage-Axing guidelines. With their action putting tremendous pressure on the wages system, the Prime Minister warned the pilots in Parliament yesterday that he would throw his killed. in jail siege oman missionary 9, I 7W By RUTH DEWSBURY Medical Reporter Violent crimes happen three times more often in hospitals than they do in the community at large, according to the first comprehensive study of crime in the State's hospitals.

Nurses are most at risk from violence, and patients are the most common offenders, the NSW Hospital Planning Advisory Centre (Hosplan) has reported, yet very few of the attacks result in arrests. Surveying 30 public hospitals over 12 months throughout the State, Hosplan security adviser, Mr Paul Hanley, said a total of 666 violent crimes had been recorded. The rate of aggravated assault alone in hospitals was twice as high as police rates for the general public, he said. Yet only three arrests had been made for all violent crimes during the survey. More than half the victims had been nursing staff, and 65 per cent of the offenders were patients.

Despite a spate of deliberately-lit fires in Sydney towards the end of the survey period, Mr Hanley said, arson was still more frequent in hospitals than in the general community. Hospital staff and patients were also more likely to be the victims of bomb scares. Hosplan's report, a final copy of which is due to go to the Minister for Health, Mr Collins, later this month, concluded that a "Hospital Watch" program similar to the police neighbourhood watch campaign was the best way to tackle crime in both private and public hospitals. Initiating such programs in IS of the 30 hospitals halfway through the survey had found that Hospital Watch cut violent crime by more than 1 0 per cent. Property offences like breaking and entering, vandalism and trespass were reduced by more than 1 per cent, and stealing had been cut by 8 per cent Twenty hospitals had already enrolled staff in intensive two-day courses run jointly by Hosplan and the Police Department.

The NSW initiative was likely to lead to a national Hospital Watch program. Jackie Hamill, left, with her twin. .385 "fS'MM jz. mi ry iteE 1 -r- tr-i sSi-r? rWr rr i- rum J.4 -X 1 By GREG LARSEN MANILA, Tuesday: An Australian woman missionary, four other hostages, all Filipinos, and 16 prisoners are confirmed dead after soldiers and police stormed a detention centre in Davao City today and ended a two-day hostage siege. The missionary, Jacqueline Ham-ill, 36, was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital.

She was rushed there after a heavily-armed force had retaken the Davao Metrod-iscom Detention Centre in Davao City at 5 pm Australian time. The Australian Embassy in Manila confirmed her death later. The soldier who carried Ms Ham-ill's body from the prison said: "She's dead. Her throat's been sliced, and she's been shot through the neck." According to a military official, Ms Hamill was raped before she was killed. He said that many of the women hostages had been raped in the two days they were held captive.

Ms Hamill is known to have sung hymns to calm the other hostages but it is not yet known whether she was killed earlier today or in the final assault A military videotape reportedly shot from the top of a prison building showed Ms Hamill lying still, if not dead, on the floor of the detention centre. Nine hostages escaped from the siege alive, although several were wounded. Collette Saldana of the Civil Relations Service of the Philippines Armed Forces said soldiers and police stormed the building with high powered automatic weapons after the inmates holding the hostages hurled "some sort of bomb and a grenade" out at the troops. A local reporter confirmed an explosion had taken place. The final assault came as the deadline for freeing the hostages expired.

It had been extended on Monday until 5 pm Australian time today. Talks broke down when the military refused to grant the prisoners demands, including a bus to take them and their hostages to freedom. This morning several inmates reportedly ran from the building with their weapons, starting a shoot-out with police. It is believed two of these prisoners were killed in that exchange, and perhaps as many as two hostages. The 16 prison inmates involved in the siege were reportedly angered that a promised transfer to a prison outside Manila had not been completed.

That promise was part of the settlement of an April hostage siege at the Davao Penal Colony, where the same prisoners, complaining of inhumane conditions, took 15 hostages. In Sydney last night, Donna and Denise Hamill were calm after being told, in their North Rocks home, of their sister's death. "We are fine, though we are all a little bit shocked and there is a bit of grief, Denise said. Evans calls for justice By BERNARD LAGAN The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Evans, said last night he was shocked and saddened by Jacqueline Hamill's death. He said he had asked the Australian Ambassador in Manila to make representations to the Philippine Government "urging them to spare no effort in bringing to justice those who have perpetrated this outrage'.

Senator Evans said he had called for a full report into the circumstances surrounding her killing. "However, I am satisfied that the embassy acted with the maximum speed in despatching a senior consular officer to Davao as soon as Ms HamilPs plight became known and that the officer did all within his power, in co-operation with the Philippine authorities," he said. Earlier, he had told Parliament that his latest information was that Ms Hamill was injured but not dead. Senator Evans said during the Senate Question time that an Australian consular official, in touch with the Philippine Government negotiating team, was reporting to Canberra. The Government's latest information at that stage, together with wire reports, was that three of the hostages had succeeded in an escape attempt and one had been killed.

One of the escapees had reported that Ms Hamill was alive inside the prison, though she had suffered a laceration to the face. "We all know where she is now. She is in heaven with Jesus, whom she lived for. We have got that and we know we will see her again one day." Her sisters were not surprised by Jackie's resilience under gunfire. "It would be just like Jackie to be singing hymns during all the trouble she would be concentrating on keeping the other hostages calm," said Denise.

Jackie, a twin, was one of 10 children of Ray and Jean Hamill of Strahan, in Tasmania. She became a born-again Christian eight years ago and three of her sisters followed suit She had been living in Sydney for four years before she went to the Philippines. Ms Hamill left Sydney for Davao City on July 15. She had been invited to the Philippines to work as a missionary representing her church, the Joyful Assemblies of God, for six months. Just before she left, her sisters threw a big surprise party for her and her twin sister, Avalon, flew up to see her for the first time in more than 18 months.

At the party and prayer night, the sister's Sydney home was packed with members of the local Filipino community. Robert Hamill, Jackie's brother, is comforted by his young daughter, Ashlea. Prisoners use Jackie Hamill (centre, striped dress) and other hostages as a shield in their attempted breakout on Tuesday. Aust martyr did not have church backing It's high yield. It's guaranteed.

It's our future. 7 Lr? By WANDA JAMROZIK Religious Affairs Reporter Jacqueline Hamill, the Australian missionary killed in the Philippines hostage siege, was just one of thousands of Christians to have visited the troubled nation in recent years. After President Corazon Aquino was swept to power in 1986, ber Government opened its doors to missionaries from all denominations. Australian Christians were not slow to step in. But Ms Hamill was unusual in one respect.

While most Australian missionaries are posted to the Philippines by the mainstream churches or make short visits with charismatic groups, Jacqueline Hamill went there without any formal church backing. Her pastor at Christian City's Girraween church, the Rev Gary Dench, said the young born-again Christian had received her church's blessing but no financial support. "Groups of 30 or 40 people from our church have been going to the Philippines twice a year for the last three years," Mr Dench said. "But this is the first time someone has gone over there under their own steam. "Jackie wanted to put her faith in God." The short visits are usually taken up with street crusades ia regional centres, Mr Dench said.

The visiting missionaries sing hymns and pray in public thoroughfares, and sometimes conduct training sessions for local Christian groups. "Usually we go to the mayor of whichever city it is and tell them what sort of things we'll be doing. They welcome us with open arms. The Philippines are very open to the Gospel at the moment." Christian City is a charismatic Peatecostalist church established nine years ago by Pastor Phil Pringle, formerly of Chrisichurch, New Zealand. Mr Pringle's services at the church's Brookvale centre regularly attract congregations of more than 2,000.

Sydney's other seven Christian City churches are smaller but growing fast, according to their followers. Christian City has expanded to Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and, recently, to the United States. A. AT CALL LJ Why Jackie was there Missionary may be freed HOBART: The parents of Jackie Hamill tried to dissuade her from going to the Philippines, but Ms Hamill wanted to help "the small Ms Hamill was a Christian who had a calling for the Philippines, her family said yesterday. Jean and Ray Hamill, parents of 10, including Jackie and her twin sister, Avalon, yesterday waited anxiously as news from Davao filtered through to their home at Strahan.

Mrs Hamill said she and her husband, a retired tradesman from Queenstown's Mt Lyell mine, tried to tell Ms Hamill that the Philippines was not the right place to go. "But she had been there before, and she was only thinking of the small people, the poor people, the people that were in need." Avalon Hamill said the family would continue to pray. Jackie Hamill was on her first long-term mission for the Christian City Church of Sydney, where she had lived for the past three years. She grew up on Tasmania's West Coast and worked as a secretary for the Mt Lyell Company and the Hydro-Electric Commission. ANDREW DARBY mmmmzm Your investment with AIDC will be helping Australian industry to grow and prosper.

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Call for an application form now (02)2522700. The imprisoned Australian missionary Mr Ian Grey may be released this week under an amnesty declared by the Mozambique Parliament. Sources close to the Mozambique Government said Mr Grey, jailed by a revolutionary tribunal for having contacts with a resistance group, may be freed when paperwork is done. But the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Mr Grey's family in Toowoomba, Queensland, could not con firm the reports. Mr Grey's father, Mr Alan Grey, said: "We don't want to make any comments or discussion on it." Mr Grey was jailed for 10 years in March last year over contacts with the group during his missionary work.

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One, a 34-year-old, was charged with conspiracy and the other, aged 18, was charged with setting fire to a building and causing an explosion at Perth's Co Sing Chinese restaurant. They were held in custody pending an application tomorrow by WA detectives for their extradition. Mr John Rando, counsel for van Tongeren, a pensioner, and the four charged with him in Perth, told the court that van Tongeren was a Vietnam veteran who had convictions for holding unlicensed ammunition and gunpowder, and for "patting up The allegations of threats to civilians and police were denied, he said. alleged offences behind the charges against the five people. Numerous charges would be laid against all five within 48 hours, he said.

Sergeant Mclnerney opposed bail because of alleged "threats to civilian witnesses and police and their Also charged with van Tongeren were John Anthony van Blitterswyk, 38, and his de facto wife, Judith Ann Lyons, 34, both of Bindoon, Wayne. Craig van Blitterswyk, 26, of Leonora, and Christopher James Bartle, 30, of Bindoon. The magistrate, Mr Terry Mcln-tyre, remanded all five in custody until tomorrow. Another ANM member, John Christopher James Lyons (no relation to Judith Lyons), 41, of Bassendean, was charged with arson and with false pretences by claiming an insurance payment of $47,000 for fire loss. He was granted bail.

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