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The company plans to double its Australian car production by 1992 and become a design and manufacturing centre for Japan. Its parent company, Japan's second largest car maker, made a limited announcement which gave only a glimpse of a huge overhaul for its Australian subsidiary. The linchpin of this five-year plan is to make Nissan Australia an exporter of cars and parts to Japan, but more importantly a supplier of high-volume, re-badged models to both Ford and Holden. If it works, the Nissan re-structure will create 800 jobs by 1992. There will be an in-pouring of yen from Nissan Japan over the next three years.

Given the huge scope of the plans announced, SI 75 million is a conservative figure. The Nissan blueprint involves the design and production of a specialised version of a two-litre car code-named Matilda. It will be exported back to Japan at the rate of around 10,000 a year. I I Name "'Aria Address I II Ptodc 1 (07 77. AZdR no.

jerry, urcuiar uuay, jyanty tvw. "-MjiJIllBl HI I TAFE cuts to hit 80,000 students MORE than 80,000 students could miss out on Technical and Further Education (TAFE) placements next year and part-time teachers' jobs are in danger and it's all because of the mini-budget, says the TAFE Teachers The Sydney Morning Herald "Private Health Insurance Survey" (Thursday, 9th April, 1987) shows that you can enjoy N.I.B.'s top hospital cover (with all the extra benefits this table provides) for than the cost of just basic hospital cover with some of the other health funds. Association. Association national secretary Cassandra Parkinson told the NSW Teachers Federation annual meeting yesterday the Federal Government's $30 million TAFE funding cut would spell disaster. She criticised the Government's $32 million fund increase to the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (DEIR), claiming the funds would not offset the TAFE cuts.

"The funding cuts as well as cuts to State grants will lead to a massive increase in unmet demand for TAFE places next year the figure could be as high as 85,000," Ms Parkinson said. "Part-time teachers' jobs will be targeted for cuts in those courses which have experienced growth in recent years." COMPARISON OF FAMILY WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION RATES From 1st March. 1987 Chernobyl kills film man MOSCOW: A Soviet film-maker who worked in rirnrhvl uttVtin Have nf lact oq r'c nnMaQr oriHant ic MEDIBANK MBF. HCF PRIVATE BASIC PRIVATE 'TOP HOSPITAL COVLR 1990 650 UO40 $750 $1900 $1QW J13oo $2160 J1L2 47s iJ 'ANCILLARY 'TOTAL fTOPHOSC ANCILLARY) 46" 'SINGLE RATES HALF FAMILY RATES reported to have died of radiation sickness. The weekly Nedelya reported Vladimir Shevchenko, director of the film Chernobyl: A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks, died two months ago from an excessive dose of radiation.

Two cameramen who worked with him were receiving hospital treatment, it said. Nedelya said the film, which was screened at the Soviet film festival in Tbilisi last week but has not been released in Moscow, had shocked its viewers. The official Chernobyl death toll stands at 30. Plumber electrocuted A MAN was electrocuted yesterday while using an electric eel to clear out a blocked sewer pipe. The 33-year-old plumber was using the machine at a house in Flyde Street, Caringbah, when residents in the house heard a scream.

They found the man lying on the ground with part of the eel across his chest. An ambulance was called but the man was dead on arrival at hospital. Mercy flight for knight AN INJURED knight has been flown to Brisbane from Papua New Guinea by an RAAF Hercules carrying an air force medical team. Sir Bruce Jephcott, 57, was injured in a car crash on Tuesday and had been in intensive care in Lae Hospital. He was taken to Brisbane for treatment.

Sir Bruce, who was born in Victoria and became a PNG citizen in the island's first naturalisation ceremony in 1976, was last night on the dangerously ill list, although his condition was said to be stable. Foreman crushed to death A MAN was crushed to death at the ANL Container Terminal in Port Botany yesterday when he was run over by an industrial forklift truck. Michael Brownett, 41, a foreman from Werrington, failed to respond to treatment by ambulance paramedics. Police are investigating the incident. Pam eyes wobbly voters LONDON: Comedienne Pamela Stephenson is to stand for Parliament in Britain's elections on June II.

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