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The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, June 26, 1987 Page 3 Killer's target is awarded $20,000 Doctors threaten 'bulk-bill, revolt Ml 1 1 L- tm Tit By MALCOLM BROWN The' intended victim of a girl intent on murder was awarded $20,000 criminal injuries compensation in the Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, yesterday for stress she has suffered. It was another chapter in the story of the death of Darryl Blakemore, innocent victim of the -bullet intended for Narelle Crankshaw. Darryl, 20, was with his girlfriend on the disco floor of the Bay View Hotel, The Boulevarde, Woy, on Thursday night, October 27, 1983, for a last dance before they went home after a snooker evening. A shot rang from outside and he fell mortally wounded, his girlfriend screaming and other dancers confused and yelling in the semi-darkness. The girl who fired the shot, Therese Bell, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Blakemore, with another 12 years for the attempted murder of Miss Crankshaw.

Though it all happened nearly four years ago, the bitterness can still be almost cut with a knife. "Go away," Narelle's mother, Margaret, said at her home in Dunalban Avenue, Woy Woy, yesterday. "Narelle is so upset she xJ Alii 1 11 fv imJrs Mr Cohen interrupts Mr Howard, right, inside the State Theatre; a young Liberal meets a protester outside, centre, and a flashback to Mr Cohen's last protest. Remember the 60s? Well, the times they have a-changed 4 suffer from chronic diseases in these categories. "When a patient with one of these conditions is referred to a consultant physician, the first visit is to take down the patient's history, discuss the disease with them and take various tests," Dr Eastman said.

"The second and third consultations are usually taken up with providing a final diagnosis. "This new regulation gives the doctor no chance to assess any on-going therapy or medication. "Often, the patient will become unstable and will have to be referred back to the physician." Dr Eastman said that in these cases, patients would have to pick up the extra costs because it would be not be financially viable for the doctors to lower their fees. The schedule fee is $41. If negotiations between the Commonwealth Health Department and the doctors are unsuccessful, the Medicare rebate would drop from $37 to $21.25 after the third consultation.

This would leave a gap of $15.75 for patients to pay. Dr Blewett has recommended to the doctors that the follow-up consultation fee be reduced to $25, leaving the patient less than $4 to pay. This has not been accepted by the physicians. Dr Eastman said that if the Government went ahead with the change on August 1, the doctors would not bulk-bill and they would refuse to put Medicare item numbers on administrative forms. Dr Blewett's spokesman said it was typical of the doctors to protest during an election.

But Dr Eastman said it was intriguing that the changes were not scheduled until August 1 after the election. Medicare changes have already struck rough ground, with NSW country doctors protesting ogainst a reduction in the after-hours hospital consultation rebate, and cancer specialists angry over the dropping of the rebate for the removal of warts and skin cancers. By CHRIS THOMAS The Federal Government's attempts to slash the cost of Medicare have been snagged yet again, with up to 4,000 doctdrs across Australia threatening to refuse bulk-billing for patients. The doctors, consultant physicians, claim that the lowering of the rebate for their services after the third consultation would leave many patients with excessive health costs. Consultant physicians provide expert diagnosis and treatment to patients who are referred to them by general practitioners.

In the Federal Government's May economic statement, Medicare rebates to patients for fourth and subsequent visits to consultant physicians were reduced by 43 per cent. A spokesman for the Minister for Health, Dr Blewett, argued last night that traditionally, consultant physicians were used to make expert diagnosis of a patient's condition. But he said that over the past few years, the consultant physicians had moved into providing continuing treatment for their patients and, therefore, they should be paid the same rate as specialist physicians, another category of doctors. But a spokesman for the Australian Association of Consultant Physicians, Dr Cres Eastman, dismissed Federal Government's argument yesterday. He said that consultant physicians had always provided continuing care to patients because many illnesses could not be continually handled by general practitioners.

Dr Eastman said consultant physicians provided treatment to patients with illnesses including diabetes, heart coDditions, leukaemia, arthritis, cancer, kidney diseases, Parkinson's Disease and severe asthma. About five per cent of the population, most of them pensioners and the disadvantaged, (SCAM) lobby group marched through city streets. Since then, the entry of ships of the US Seventh Fleet into Sjdney Harbour on June 3 has been the only possible hope for rally lovers -and protesters. On that day, 100 people were involved in water-borne protests and another 80 maintained a land vigil for the entire visit. All this from a Sydney population of about 3.5 million.

All this, when a mere nine years ago the State Government was debating possible restrictions on street protests because of the disruption Ian Cohen, that man again, offered a clue yesterday to the reason for the decline in protesting in this country. Majbe he offered the first sign of a resurgence. Outside the State Theatre after he had been removed from the Liberal policy launch for heckling Mr Howard, the Green Party candidate for a NSW Senate seat said: "People don't fight any more. We're all getting too comfortable and too cosy. I will do whatever I have to to get vital issues on to the national political agenda.

Who else is with me?" If anybody was capable of such civil disobedience in yesterday's crowd it was Mannie de Save from Socialist Action. He would like a "true workers' government" and would put an end to the Westminster system and do away with politicians altogether. Just one revolution would fix the lot. "We must have worker control of this country's assets," Mr de Saxe said, "and we have to mobilise the people now if we are to do it." Why are there not more people on the streets protesting against these perceived injustices? "Because we are all being oppressed. It's just that some Australians don't know it yet." Sydney's demonstration score-card does look thin.

So far this year the major public mobilisation took place on March 25, when 1,500 students marched against the rein-troduction of university fees. On May 23, only 600 chanting protesters crossed the bridge to demonstrate against the new toll and the tunnel. Seven days later, a mere 200 members of the Sydney Citizens Against the Monorail By SIMON KENT People don't revolt the way they used to. They don't scream, shout, march, demonstrate, protest or even lie down in the roadway in the numbers they did in the 1960s and 1970s. How do we know this? Taking yesterday's public housing demonstration against Mr Howard as a guide, the state of a demonstration in 1987 stands at: 40 people, 16 placards, three chanted slogans, two megaphones and a man named Ian Cohen.

"We demonstrate all the time," Michael Shirley, member of the Darlinghurst Area Rental Tenancy Service (DARTS), "because we simply want a better deal for the poor and the homeless. Howard doesn't represent a better deal. He represents capitalism." Standing and fighting is very important to a demonstrator. So is lying down. One of Sydney's most successful anti-American demonstrations in the 1960s saw protesters lie on the road in front of the car carrying the then Premier, Bob Askin, and President Lyndon Johnson through the streets of Sydney.

February 11; ISO Newcastle dock workers storm Parliament House to protest closure of their dock. March 25; 1.S0O students march against re-introduction of tertiary fees. April 12: 110,000 join Palm Sunday Peace March. May 22: 23 protesters from Unemployed Tenants and Squatters Union try to enter NSW Parliament. May 23: 600 protesters march across the Harbour Bridge to protest against the harbour tunnel and the $1 bridge toll.

May 26: 100 art students march in protest against the formation of the NSW Institute of the Arts. May 30: 2CK) anti-monorail demonstrators march to meeting at Town Hall Square. Jsae 3: ISO anti-nuclear protesters take to the water against US seventh Fleet entering Sydney Harbour. Qld police corruption inquiry told to dig deeper, go back further doesn't want to talk to anybody." At Wyoming, near Gosford, Darryl's mother, Mrs Helen Blakemore, said: "I am disgusted, absolutely disgusted, with everything that has happened. "1 don't think you can print what I have to say." Her, son had grown up on the Central Coast's idyllic stretch of waterways and holiday homes, with a younger brother and two younger sisters.

His father, Max, drove a truck. Darryl obtained his School Certificate at Umina High School and took on a four-year apprenticeship to be a boilermaker. "Darryl played Rugby League and was into archery," Mrs Blakemore said. "He was starting to level out and getting his life together, getting over that 'silly boy stage, you know, the way they all go on. He had finished his apprentice-' ship and was waiting for his trade papers." He had gone to the Bay View Hotel the night he was shot to participate in a snooker championship.

It was part of the normal snooker round. On the next Thursday night he would have gone to another hotel. The Bay View liad the normal array of young people, drinking and dancing, playing snooker and listening to the music. "It was just a hotel where people went and like every hotel it had its moments," Mr Rick Powell, who took over the licence a year after the killing, said yesterday. "I wouldn't say it was rough.

It was just like any other hotel. But it has certainly been cleaned up." It was disclosed in court that Catherine Bell, then aged 25, had taken heroin since she was 17 and drank heavily. On the night of October 27, 1983, she got into a fight in the Bay View Hotel with Narelle Crankshawi Separated twice by patrons, the two kept at it, and were told to leave by a member of the hotel staff. Bell certainly left, at least long enough to get a .22 calibre rifle from her home in nearby Koole-wong and take it back to the hotel to kill Miss Crankshaw. "Darryl had not even had a drink," Mrs Blakemore said.

"He was with his girlfriend. They were thinking of getting married. Darryl said: 'Oh, let's have a dance before we leave." He never finished the dance, and he died two days later. Mr and Mrs Blakemore were later awarded 55,000 each in criminal injuries compensation. The event seems in their minds to have been only yesterday, and the compensation does not really make up for anything.

"We have just put it away for a rainy day," Mrs Blakemore said. "I am sure Darryl would have wanted us to have it," The girl Darryl Blakemore intended to marry had never got over it, Mrs Blakemore said. "You go into Woy Woy and you pass the hotel and you cannot help looking to the left and seeing it. "But you avoid Woy Woy as much as possible." draft statement." A spokesman for the Attorney-General, Mr Clauson, has said there was nothing sinister about the request. The commission, due to start its full hearings on July 13, is investigating whether Geraldo," Antonio and Vin-cenzo Bellino, Vittorio Conte and Hector Branden Hapeta were linked with premises used for prostitution, unlawful gambling or drug sales.

Other terms of reference are: whether the Queensland police took money or accepted favours not to enforce the law in relation to these premises, and whether the Bellinos, Conte or Hapeta made a $50,000 donation to a Queensland political party. Mr Fitzgerald will also report on whether new laws are needed to monitor law enforcement and detect corruption. police officers and government workers. They would not be prejudiced in their employment because of co-operating with the commission. The controversial memo, under the letterhead of the Police Commissioner's legal section, and signed by Superintendent E.

G. Walker, was sent to some members of the Licensing Branch, the CIB and the former Consorting Squad. The memo told them they would be asked by the Crown solicitor to make a statement about the allegations in the Four Corners program, and asked them to prepare a draft statement. The final paragraph read: "I have also been asked to mention to you that you should consider your personal and family situation so that you will be able to answer any questions at a later date. Note.

This information is not required or to be included in your By MARK COULTAN BRISBANE: The Queensland Government has significantly widened the inquiry into police corruption prompted by a Four Corners program. This comes on top of a revelation that a memo to some police said they should consider their financial situations so they could answer questions. The Police Minister, Mr Gunn, said yesterday that the commission of inquiry's terms had been widened to take in events since January 1977, instead of June 1982, at the request of the commissioner, Mr Gerald Fitzgerald, QC. Mr Gunn said that an original reference to investigate an allegation of a donation to a political party on a date in September 1983 had been widened to the latter half of that year. Mr Gunn also said that the Government had given a limited indemnity to Major new penalties for late payments.

The facts about Workers Compensation. Eight jailed for horror rampage and gang rape To Grant and Lisa, a girl BRISBANE: The triple Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lisa Kenny gave birth yesterday at Nam-bour to a baby girl, weighing 4.22 kilograms. And, according to the proud father, the iron man champion and Olympic bronze medallist, Grant Kenny, little Jaimi Lee has all the signs of a potential swimming champion large hands and long legs. Despite early indications that the baby may be a future superfish like her parents, Grant said he and Lisa hoped their first-born would not follow in their footsteps. "For no reasons other than the fact we know what it's like to do swimming training every day, but whatever she wants to do, will be fine," he said.

He will return to Germany in three to four weeks to train for the world Kayak championship in preparation for next year's Olympics in Seoul. booklet Workers Compensation Changes Explained" to help you understand the new legislation. Find out the facts on the changes, the obligations, the benefits and the penalties. For your free copy, phone 2906222 ext. 400 if calling from Sydney, or TOLL FREE on 003 251 492 if calling from outside the metropolitan area.

PORT MORESBY, Thursday: Eight members of a Port Moresby gang have been jailed for a total of 1 1 5 years for the abduction and repeated rape of an Australian woman. The National Court in the Papau New Guinea capital was told that the men, armed with a rifle and ammunition, went on a rampage of assault, robbery, abduction, and rape. The victim, a 23-year-old former schoolteacher, is now incapable of having children or a normal sex life because of injuries. Her marriage of three years has broken up. "They should have been taken outside and shot," she said.

"They got 20 years, we got life." One sentencing judge commented: "I kn6w of no animal species that would treat its own kind in such a foul and inherently degrading way." The brutal assault began on April 1, 1986, when they forced their way into a flat occupied by an expatriate couple, beat the husband unconscious and took the 23-year-old wife on an "evil journey" during which she was repeatedly packed-raped and then stabbed in the vagina. At, one stage she was thrown from the moving car, picked up, driven off and again assaulted. She was raped with a machete at her throat and gun pushed in her stomach. After a high-speed police car chase one gang member was shot dead by a policeman now facing a manslaughter charge. The other wounded member confessed and informed on his accomplices.

He was tried separately and sentenced to 18 years' jail. The 23-year-old gang leader was jailed for 20 years, other gang members for 10 years and more. CHANGES TO Workers Compensation legislation make several new demands on employers. You are now required to pay your premium within 30 days of notice. Late payments will attract interest at 15 p.a.

compounding quarterly. For large corporations this could mean tens of thousands of dollars. Payment by instalments is still available. But miss a payment and the total balance becomes immediately due. Major penalties can also be incurred for late submission of wages declarations, as well as misleading declarations.

As Australia's leading Workers Compensation insurer, MMI has produced a free Council chided over cheap loan to town clerk MMI Workers Compensation em A By MICHAEL LAURENCE. Civic Reporter The Minister for Local Government, Mrs Crosio, has accused WoIIongong City Council of being "morally wrong'' in lending its Town Clerk $185,000 to buy a new home. The council made the loan to the Town Clerk, Mr Phil Berthold, in a late-night closed meeting after some of the aldermen had gone home. Mr Berthold, who earns about $1,200 a week and has the use of a council-owned Ford Fairlane car, was unavailable for comment yesterday. He is in Townsville for the opening of a tourist resort.

A spokesman for the minister said yesterday that although the loan was legal under the Local Government Act Other alderman are angry about its approval. A mayoral candidate, Alderman Norma Wilson, said last night: "The loan was not on agenda. It was dealt with after I left at 11 pm. "I don't think it is the place of local government to offer those perks to senior staff. In today's economic climate, it is inappropriate." The loan was made after a recommendation by the City Treasurer, Mr Sil Rostirolla.

On the report, he had written: "This item be dealt with as a confidential item for the reason that the recommendation relates to the personal affairs of private individuals or organisations." Mr Berthold, who returns to WoIIongong today, has already bought the two-storey house. it had not been made in the spirit of the law. The section under which the loan was approved was introduced in the 1940s to help overcome the post war housing shortage. One of the terms of the loan was a lending rate "equivalent to the Commonwealth Bank first-home buyers rate which is currently 13.5 per The chairman of the council's finance committee, Alderman Peter Bolt, has defended the loan as has the Deputy Mayor, Alderman Bill Mowbray. WI don't think the loan was wrong," Mr Mowbray said last night.

"I was there when it was passed. "Politicians say lots of things whether they are fair or not," he said, referring to Mrs Crosio's comments. Piwne either 290 6222 ext. 400 if calling from Sydney, or TOLL FREE on 008 251 492 if calling from outside the metropolitan area, for your free copy of "NSW Workers Compensation Changes N.B. All brokers and current MMI Workers Compensation policy holders ill receive the booklet by post this ueek.

A member of the Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Group. MMI Mr Berthold loan made after some aldermen had gone..