The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 5

Page 5 The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, November 19, 1986 Richard Silvertails honour a bushie Ubs worth. UNT COIH1DO gets ill Christmas. Here. Now. At Hunts.

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on tosses Joy McKeaii celebrating 40 years of recording the have made him Australia's king of country. wmmm Slim Dusty arid his wife sort of songs that By PETER COCHRANE The Prime Minister called him a "national living the Minister for Trade, Mr Dawkins, said he was a bigger drawcard in the Solomon Islands than either the Queen or Pope John Paul II. Record company executives happily reeled off the statistics: 800 recorded songs, 69" albums, 75 gold records, sales of 3.3 million copies. Two hundred elegantly attired people gathered at the swish Sebel Town House last night to honour David Gordon Kirkpatrick, the 59-year-old country music singer better known as Slim Dusty. The guest list of mainly city 'f' 672 UCTii Telephone 2326633 Since 1889 '4' Hanging accident Ken Mitchell, 12, of Canley Vale, was in a serious condition in Liverpool Hospital last night he accidentally hanged himself on Monday afternoon.

He was swinging on a rope over the Orphan School Creek at Canley Vale when he slipped and the rope caught around his neck. He was revived by a neighbour. Opposition to EST Moves to switch South Australia to Eastern Standard Time have been rejected by the State Opposition because of problems caused by increased leisure time. The Liberal Leader, Mr John Olsen, said yesterday the extra half-hour of daylight at night could have major implications for crisis care centres and women's shelters. Check on claims Claims of police brutality by a group of disabled people demonstrating against the Miss Victoria Quest on Monday have been referred to the Victoria Police fpr internal investigation.

Four people, including two blind men, were arrested during a violent demonstration involving the group People for Equality not Institutionalisation. Murder charge William John Furlong, 36, of Miranda, appeared in Kogarah Local Court yesterday charged with the murder of a 35-year-old man. Furlong was arrested at Taren Point late on Monday night. The dead man was stabbed three times in the heart at Brighton-Ie-Sands on Monday. Furlong was remanded in custody and ordered to appear at Glebe Coroner's Court on November 24.

Waterhouses sue Bill and Robbie Waterhouse took out summonses for criminal libel yesterday against two officers of the ABC over a recent Four Corners program called Horses for Courses. The summonses, signed by Mr Mai McPherson at Central Court, are returnable in Castlereagh Street Court on December 3. Hallelujah! People who attend the fourth annual Carols in the Domain this year may not have to pay parking fees for use of the Domain Parking Station, and could be coaxed into the Christmas spirit by Sydney City Council attendants dressed as Santa Claus. flu tpl Picture by JOHN NOBLEY "Academy Awards night for Slim the singer was treated to five different presentations, ranging from a specially commissioned copy of The Little Nipper, EMI's original trademark, to a simple painting by a South Australian fan. Dusty belongs to a select club of EMI recording artists; he is one of three who have.

been associated with the company for at least 40 years, the others being a fellow Australian, the tenor Peter Dawson, and the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Slim Dusty's career began at the age of 15. singing on the Kempsey radio station's Gum Nut Show. Dogs locked in for two years BRISBANE: Police were looking yesterday for the owner of a house in the Brisbane suburb of Nundah, where two dogs had been locked up for two years. Police said they went to the house after an anonymous phone caller said it had been broken into.

Inspector Ken Martin said that when he arrived at the house, he found it in a shocking condition. "It was covered in dog excreta," he said. "It was inches thick on the floors." Inspector Martin sard police had located a man who admitted he had broken in to free the dogs. "The insurance industry calls upon the Government to take all necessary steps to avoid the inevitable chaos resulting from the Government's failure to implement reforms. "Private insurers seek the same financial protection as that which the Government has already afforded to the GIO for workers compensation insurance." Mr Westmore said the Government could avert this by giving private insurers "aggregate stop-loss protection for the 19867 accident year on a basis to be He set a deadline of November 28 for the Government's response to the Insurance Council proposal.

A spokesman for the Premier said last night that Mr Unsworth would be responding to the letter, but it was unlikely that he would agree to the insurers' request for loss protection. Earlier, in Parliament, the Premier accused the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Greiner, of taking "slings" from the insurance industry while siding with the insurance companies in attributing the delay in reforms to trade-union pressure. "Well will he be concerned with the insurance industry because he is the one who takes the biggest sling off the insurance industry," Mr Unsworth said. An organisation named Club 500 was financing the Liberal Party and the biggest donor was Mr Larry Adler of FAI Insurances, he said. in Qld Ministry the seat of Redlands just over a year ago, will become Minister for Justice.

The other new face in Cabinet is the former Government Whip and Member for Balonne, Mr Don Neal, 47, who becomes Minister for Corrective Services, Administrative Services and Valuation. By ROSS COULTHART The State Government got a stern ultimatum from NSW insurers yesterday either to protect them against losses in the workers' compensation system, or face the prospect of employers not being able to get insurance cover. In a letter to the Premier, Mr Unsworth, the assistant chief executive of the Insurance Council of Australia, Mr John Westmore, said the 16 private insurance companies underwriting workers compensation wanted the Government to protect them against losses likely to come from delays to proposed reforms of the system. He made it clear that if the Government did not take steps to protect private insurers, the insurers would not be able to provide cover for nearly 40 per cent of NSW employers whose policies were due for renewal after the end of the year. This followed the State Government's announcement on Monday admitting that cost-cutting reforms to the workers compensation and third party accident insurance schemes would be delayed until at least March next year.

This was despite an earlier promise by the Premier to have the new scheme in place by the end of this year. Mr Westmore's letter said: "The majority of private insurers simply cannot provide workers' compensation insurance cover for the estimated 40 per cent of employers in this State whose policies are due for renewal on or after 31 December 1986. Two new faces BRISBANE: A former Red- lands solicitor, Paul Clauson, 37, is the surprise elevation from the National Party backbench to Cabinet in the reshuffle of the Queensland Ministry yesterday by the Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Mr Clauson, who entered Parliament at the by-election for Ahvaj'5 the most Free demonstration i.ii.M.. 260mm 990mm 95108000 OMEGSBQigrOB T11 wmp fCfeB slickers included the head of EMI Music International, Mr Ken East, who flew from London for the night, stars of radio and the recording industry, Mr Gordon Parsons, the man who wrote A Pub With No Beer, and members of Dusty's own family.

Elton John's manager, clad in the family tartan, was a colourful addition. Mr Dawkins presented Dusty with a tribute signed by all members of the Federal Cabinet, hailing the "authentic voice of country Mr Dawkins said the 250,000 copies of A Pub With No Beer sold in the UK justified his presence. In what Mr East described as (STV-8) has been excluded from the aggregation plan. The Government has justified this exclusion on the grounds of needing to balance the new markets and provide the larger regional stations with a sufficient share of the new aggregated markets. It is hoping that the owner of MTN-9, the Linter Group, will establish another service in its viewing area.

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