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I I I -s I "3 A If 134th Year, No. 41,550 250 Spencer Street, Melbourne. 6004211 (Classified 604 1 144)- Saturday 30 July 1988 254 pages etemrg ft I jE THE DRUGS, THF Air WAR. -s1 MMKET Are we winning? LrHjaiPi Howard rejects 'multicultural'' tag 1 out of court Fmstrated juror smoked I 1 VICTORIA Melbourne Wetun JOHN WOUOSTM SBS allowed to sell aciycrtising The Special Broadcasting Service is to be allowed to seU television advertising, a move designed to establish the service as an independent broadcaster. The Federal Government change has not been welcomed by ethnic community councils, which say the Government has ignored their objections to advertising.

PAGE 3 Defence review A review of Australia's defence facilities recommends closing RAAF Laverton and turning RAAF Point Cook into an air force museum. PAGE 3 Race to contain Portland oil spill By LETTH YOUNG, IPS -S kif war tttafc Drought relief The United States Senate and House of Representatives approve billions of dollars in drought relief. PAGE 7 1 Blocking manoeuvre Adelaide Steamship is believed to have bought 20.4 million Bell Resources shares in a bid. to block Bond's merger plans. PAGE 27 romips 3 and RICHARD SMITH ERS Emergency service teams at Portland were working last night to clean up 184 tonnes of oil that spilt into the harbor after a live-sheep carder gashed a fuel tank while docking.

Port officers said the oil had been trapped within booms inside the harbor immediately after the accident on Thursday afternoon. Cold water temperatures and a lack of wind were helping contain the spill, and there was no danger of its spreading to nearby beaches. The Al Qurain, in Portland to take on a cargo of live sheep, hit the pier at 3 pm, holing its stern fuel tank, a spokesman for the Port of Portland Authority said yesterday. Port workers moved immediately to surround the livestock-berthing area with mobile booms. By last night most of the oil was under numbers five and six berths and- along the K.

S. Anderson Wharf. Amusements 154-180 27,2143 Business Age Race Guide 37-38 2840-33 Senior Appts tot Mont" I Ms Luanda UcKnighL "At the end 0 the day I World News By JOHN SCHAUBLE She wM MHf iud beta iMkiae SATURDAY EXTRA (Part 2) able. Becaase the law demands that juries be selected at random, there Is no way smokers and non-smokers can be Arts and Books 11-14 Comics 13 14 Crosswords forward to the expertonee of slt-tlaf on a jary. "I was reaBy horrified that I CMld Mt Jury duty, beeasse it was my right" The sheriff, a non-smoker, had been nywnatfaetic bat had told her nothing eevld be done, that It was unfortunate that she had been selected with a large number of smokers.

exeased by the sheriff the cent for the sum rutosv Ms McKWglai MM she mpeet-ed peaf? right to saMke hat the eo adltieu la the jmry pool room were IntoleraMe; it' was cramped, the windows ceald net be opened, and extractor fans were turned on only Intermittently. "I would never have voluntarily subjected myself to that," Ms McKalght said. "At the end of the day, I felt quite ilL I felt qnlte angry towards the other people In the room." A woman excused from Ceoaty Court jury duty this week expressed anger yesterday at being denied the chaaee to sit a jury because she felt sick after sitting all day la a reem filled with cigarette smoke. Ms Lucinda McKalght said the sought to be exeased from Jury service after being locked up ia a room at the court last Friday la which about St of 5f prospective jurors were smokers. Another woman was also 20 tonnes of oil had been removed from the slick by 7 o'clock last About 1200 garbage collectors A spokesman for the state Attorney-General, Mr McCut-eheon, said the decision whether to permit smoking in jury rooms rested with judges.

In the Supreme Court, smoking has already been banned in the jury-pool room, aid a ban on smoking in the County Cowl jury-pool room is being considered. have gone on strike in the Punjab city of Jalandhar to protest against plans to end a popular TV serial. The serial, 'Ramayana'. is based on the story of Lord Rama, a legendary warrior-king in Hindu folklore. The Incident poses a delicate problem for court officials at a time when smoking is becoming increasingly socially unaccept- Cats too strong for Sydney Discount for students who pay as they learn TODAY: Shower or two.

Expected top 14 (yesterday 14). TOMORROW: Few showers. About 14. MONDAY: Becoming fine. About 14.

TUESDAY: Fine. About 15. Details 29 Geelong thrashed Sydney by 63 points at the Sydney Cricket Ground last night The win continued an unlikely late-season surge by the Cats, who last week: soundly defeated the finals aspirant Footscray and now the unpredictable Sydney side. It is only the third time this year that Geelong has won consecutive games. Shane Hamilton, a 17-year-old former Teal Cup player in his third VFL game, kicked seven goals.

Hamilton capped the good work of his teammates, In particular the ruck-rover Mark Bairstow. PAGE 40: Report, details. Kirk, said Mr Howard had supported the aims of the foundation, but the word "multicultural" was something Mr Howard "could not subscribe It is believed that there has been some pressure on the authority to change the name of the foundation to the Australian Bicentennial Foundation. Mr Kirk said he could not say categorically that the word "multicultural" would remain. The multicultural foundation has on its board "nine eminent headed by Mr Justice Gobbo, of the Victorian Supreme Court Set up with a $2.5 million grant it has among its aims "to cultivate in all Australians a strong commitment to Australia as one people drawn from many different cultures" and "to promote awareness and tolerance of Australia's diversity of Mr Howard's spokesman said the Opposition Leader was not against people of individual nationalities having their own identity.

The Minister for Transport and Communications, Senator Evans, who is responsible for the Special Broadcasting Service and regularly deals with ethnic groups, said the difference between Government and Opposition policies was starkly demonstrated by Mr Howard's refusal to join Mr Hawke in patronising the multicultural foundation. The Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia says Australia's performance in building a cohesive and harmonious multicultural society is the best in the world. The executive director of the federation, Ms Frances Milne, said: "It is extremely disappointing that the Opposition appears to be polarising the community on this issue." The honorary president of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, Mr Walter Lippmann, said that if Mr Howard did not accept the reality of multiculturalism it was "a sad outlook for the Liberal Party and for By PAMELA BONE Ethnic groups yesterday reacted angrily to the refusal of the Opposition Leader, Mr Howard, to put his name to the Australian Bicentennial Authority's main multicultural project because he objected to the word "multicultural" in its name. A spokesman for Mr Howard said yesterday that the Liberal Party leader believed multicul-turalism was divisive and there should be "one Australia for all Australians, not a hotchpotch of different The invitation to be a "subscriber" (or patron) of the Australian Bicentennial Multicultural Foundation was given to Mr Howard and the Prime Minister. Mr Hawke, who last week strongly defended his Government's policy of multiculturalism, has accepted.

Mr Howard's refusal to subscribe to the foundation while the word "multicultural" remains is the strongest statement so far from his party against multiculturalism, and appears to show a big shift in Liberal policy. Until now. Liberal policy has supported multiculturalism. The Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs was an initiative of the former Liberal Prime Minister, Mr Eraser. On Wednesday, the Liberal Premier of New South Wales, Mr Greiner, said multicultural society was a credit to Australia.

The Liberal Party appears uncertain about its policy. The Opposition spokesman on immigration, Mr Cadman (Lib, NSW), was unaware of Mr Howard's refusal to support the foundation when he spoke to "The Age' yesterday. He said he could not comment until he had consulted Mr Howard. On Thursday, a spokesman for Mr Howard denied that he had refused to support the foundation. But after speaking to Mr Howard on his return from England early yesterday the spokesman confirmed the refusal.

The director of the Australian Bicentennial Authority, Mr Jim night Equipment and two emergency services teams from the Port of Melbourne are helping to control and clean up the spill, which was expected to take until early next week. The spokesman said there was little chance of the oil moving outside the livestock-berthing area and no danger of its spreading outside the harbor. The port had remained open. Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands officers monitoring the area have so far found three fairy penguins covered in oil but said they had been cleaned and returned to the sea unharmed. There were no reports of dead marine animals or plants and no long-term environmental damage was expected.

The spokesman said the oil, which was dense and sticky, would be pumped from the water to a large hole dug in the beach, and from there removed by truck to a storage tank at the Shell depot Late last night two federal experts sent at the request of the Victorian oil-pollution authorities arrived in Portland and were being briefed. The officers, from the Department of Transport and Communications, are advisers to a national body set up to help states stop contamination from oil spills. A Port of Melbourne Authority spokesman said the spill was not the largest in Victorian waters. In 1982, a valve at the Yarraville refinery had been left open, spilling 500 tonnes into the Holden Dock area. Come in for your 108-115 36.

149-150 Businesses, Hotels Tenders, tEJU. ESTATE ICCOKS-SBHTIOH Pm9. Bowd Vacant -4B Cabinet has also agreed to a uniform $1800-a-year charge for all courses. The original Wran proposals had different charges for different courses, and a general two per cent levy. The Government will also announce some changes in the Aus-tudy arrangements.

The Wran plan suggested a possible 40 per cent discount for students who paid their tertiary education charges at the time they undertook their courses. But both the caucus committee that examined the plan and Cabinet believed this would be too much of a bias in favor of the wealthy. A 15 per cent discount was regarded as being still an incentive to pay while studying, which would get a flow of revenue started under the scheme. Yesterday the chairman of the caucus education committee, Mrs Elaine Darling, said she considered it inevitable that the Government would suffer electoral damage because of the new tax, but there was little alternative. 41-45 By MICHELLE RATTAN, Canberra Students who pay for their tertiary courses as they study will be eligible for a discount of about 15 per cent on the $1800-a-year charge for courses under the Federal Government's new tertiary-tax plan.

Federal Cabinet's expenditure review committee has completed the plan, which will be announced in the budget next month and begin operating next year. The proposals have been substantially modified from the original scheme set out in the report from a committee headed by the former New South Wales Premier, Mr Wran. But the tertiary tax follows the basic principles of the Wran plan. The expenditure review committee has agreed to a sliding-scale levy. People will have to start repaying a portion of the cost of their tertiary education when they reach an income of $22,000 a year.

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UtsWaa. Sc. 141-143 Motor Cydas v-V lit Mot Market 121 145 Tyres 144 bsadCars 121-141 AiniaBaWfVMntS i Chelmsford Hospital: the scandal escaped proper inquiry for 20 years. 154-160 146 90 154 Educational occurred as a result of concerns about the treatment And even then there were only two inspections (in October 1978 and November 1979). "No investigation took place into the clinical appropriateness of this treatment, and had it done so many of the deaths since 1970 may have been prevented." The report also reveals that large sections of the Health Department's Chelmsford files are missing.

A separate confidential report written by police investigating the hospital In 1985 says Health Department inspectors visited the hospital and interviewed the late Dr Harry Bailey, the main proponent of deep-sleep therapy. "The Department of Health approved the pro-forma drug regimes for deepsleep therapy and the use of them by Dr Bailey at Chelmsford Hospital," it concludes. NEXT: The tof story of the cover-up. PAGE fc Not fterapy.not stoop, but SATURDAY EXTRA: The Chaimtford By JOHN O'NEILL and ROBERT HAUPT A medical scandal that escaped thorough investigation for nearly 20 years has involved the deaths of at least 24 people who underwent a controversial "deep-sleep therapy" at a Sydney hospital. An investigation by The Age' has, revealed that the New South Wales Government was told about the; therapy at Chelmsford Hospital in 1970, nine years before the treatment was stopped.

Two years ago, the Cabinet of the then Labor Premier, Mr Wran, rejected a plea by the Health Minister, Mr Mulock, for a royal commission on the therapy. The therapy involved keeping a patient in a continuous barbitu-rate4nduced coma for up to four weeks. The treatment was administered for everything from premenstrual tension to obesity. It was subsequently banned in NSW. Many former patients at the hospital ia Pennant Hills have spoken to The Age about their experiences at Chelmsford.

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149-160 I Gifts Thot's EntaWtaBsnnont 167 Wanted to Enfianga 4S ruled out a royal commission on Chelmsford, despite having promised one in Opposition. Mr Mulock's submission was based on advice from independent legal experts. It said: "In view of the fact that investigations have already been conducted unsuccessfully into alleged malpractice at Chelmsford Private Hospital, it would appear essential to establish an inquiry with the widest range of investigating powers." A section of a confidential Health Department report on Chelmsford obtained by The Age' said that "despite the department being aware of concerns about BRUNSWICK 101 Sydney Rd. (near Brunswick Rd.) (03) 3880777 ABBOTSFORD Aust. Head Office.

426 Johnston St, (Studley Park end) (03)4199599 BLACKBURN 149 Whitehorse Rd. Inear Blackburn Rd.) 03IC941S22 ly linked some of the 24 deaths to the deep-sleep therapy. A confidential Health Department report obtained by "The Age' states that deaths could have been prevented if proper investigations into the treatment had been made in the 1970s. Mr Mulock told the Wran Cabinet in 1986 that a royal commission was essential to maintain confidence in the NSW hospital system. The submission was made after a police report identified at least 24 patients who died at Chelmsford, six more than has ever been acknowledged publicly.

The Greiner Government has also 'v i raadWtflBVnaj RsjOjsr) CaWfJla UrMcIl URt fMnsassaMsl 0JH MsJMajt TiMM jaTednVJO sH OaaWSnMnBV snlaaraenWrajaB Si Dr BaSey; report says therapy was approved. this treatment for the next eight years routine inspections associated with the licence of the hospital took no particular concern or note about the activities of the hospital. was not until 1978 that an inspection of the hospital Trial AajV MOFMB tfMt It M( SaOt lllseelasssaajrlliiii sdimlin lain Saji II aj jiJLLii ir aai Wttlrttra J.Vl. 1 1).