The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 10

10 THE AGE, Monday 4 February 1985 New policy attacks freeway plan WW, 6 LANE MULGRAVE 1 FREEWAY GARDINERS I CREEK VALLEY I C3 FREEWAY 'ntcrest paid quarterly. For monthly in. EXPANDED SOUTH I EASTERN FREEWAY IT RICHMOND IT FUTURE CLOVER I FLARING OF BRIDGE ments of 54nnn invst- ROAnMBr VI I FLYOVER ACROSS THE YARRA The party's president, Mr Bryant, yesterday accused the Government of pork-barrelling in swinging electorates at the expense of urgently needed roadworks in Melbourne and country Victoria. In the past fortnight, Mr Crabb has promised $30 million to a committee of six mayors from Doncaster, Box Hill, Nunawading, Ringwood and Camberwell for roadworks to ease traffic congestion at the end of the Eastern freeway in Doncaster. The Public Transport Party is most concerned that the State Government is undermining the policies it was elected to implement Mr Peter Atkins, an officer with the Conservation Council of Victoria, yesterday accused the Transport Ministry of paying lip service to the Government's own amendments to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Planning Scheme and basing Melbourne's 13 new district centres on private motor cars.

Another speaker at yesterday's meeting. Dr Clive Beed, a senior lecturer in economics and urban studies at Melbourne University said the Government had to employ more lateral thinkers and adopt an integrated approach to land use planning, housing and transport policies to encourage more people to move back into Melbourne's middle suburbs. Mr Crabb said last week that the Government's district centres were designed to contain urban sprawl and that the Transport Ministry was reorganising suburban bus services. He said the Government this year had set aside a quarter of the Federal Government's bicentennial road fund for public transport. By BRONWYN CRAN, environment reporter Plans by the State Government and the Road Construction Authority for more roads, freeways and bypasses in Melbourne would increase urban sprawl and air pollution from private motor cars, the president of the new Public Transport Party said yesterday.

Mr Rod Bryant said yesterday tbe road plans were directed at Melbourne's middle and inner suburbs and threatened private property, river and creek valleys and open space in the city. Mr Bryant was one of the speakers at the official launching of the Public Transport Party at Royal Park station yesterday morning. Mr Bryant said Royal Park had been chosen because the State Government had not restored Sunday train services there, though the Melbourne Zoo was nearby. The Public Transport Party, a coalition of transport activists, environmentalists, pressure groups and union representatives, will field two candidates against Labor MPs at the 2 March state election. The party will campaign for no further work on the Gardiners Creek freeway link, no further erosion of Metropolitan Transit Authority staffing levels, lower fares and improved public transport in Melbourne.

Mr Tom Tyrer, the party's candidate against the Transport Minister, Mr Crabb, in the outer suburban seat of Knox, yesterday accused the Government of sacrificing the quali- 'orm In the prospectus. ME- 'Cbi nnuAiu DOMAIN TUNNEL 0 SIDNEY MYER MUSIC BOWL Amamber Bank Group "-pnone 657121). The Public Transport Party's election poster. ty of life in Melbourne's safe Labor inner suburbs for the benefit of outer marginal electorates. The C3 link between the Mulgrave and South-Eastern freeways will service motorists from the marginal out er suburban Labor-held seats of Bennettswood and Syndal, and the Liberal-held seat of Forest Hill, where swings of between 1 and 2 per cent would see the seats change hands.

Cain rules out new taxes, duties on the feirs of the electorate." Mr Cain said the Liberal leader, Mr Kennett, had already laid the groundwork for a tax scare campaign with his "wild claims about reintroduc-tion of probate duty or gift duty or perhaps even a wealth Speaking on radio station 3KZ, Mr Cain said the Liberals had lost touch with the electorate and their policies revealed nothing except attempts at slick marketing. Mr Cain said the Liberal Party had handed its policymaking over to its advertising agency. "What that points to however is the possibility of a desperate edge which may creep into the Liberals' campaign," Mr Cain said. "I believe that a scare campaign on an issue like taxes and charges is not beyond the Liberals," he said. Mr Cain warned ALP members to be ready for sucb a scare campaign but not to be distracted by it.

"They tried it last time, as they have done often in the past," he said. "When they are hard-pressed, the Liberals invariably turn to campaigns of one kind or another which play By DAVID BROADBENT The Premier, Mr Cain, yesterday ruled out the introduction of any gift duties, wealth taxes or probate duties if the Labor Government is re-elected on 2 March. Mr Cain predicted that the Liberal Party would soon launch its "traditional tax scare He said suggestions of wealth, death or gift taxes should be dismissed as Mr Cain said the Liberal Party was getting desperate because its campaign had stopped in its tracks and the Liberals had run out of ideas. The classic marque continues. With the luxury of a T-bar roof, seven way adjustable bucket seats, comprehensive climate and sound system controls, retractable quartz halogen headlights, and awesome fuel-injected V6 performance, this truly is a remarkable car.

Ercaaemllfl 2. Nationals beat Liberals The National Party easily held its Legislative Council seat of North Eastern Province in a two-horse by-election against the Liberal Party at the weekend. With only postal and absentee votes still to be counted, the National Party candidate, Mr Bill Baxter, had won 61.4 per cent of the vote compared with the Liberal candidate, Mr Stephen Blair's 38.6 per cent. An unusually high 10.5 per cent of the votes was informal. The ALP did not contest the by-election, which was forced when Mr Baxter resigned from the seat in an unsuccessful attempt to enter Federal Parliament in December.

The National Party leader. Mr Ross-Edwards said yesterday that the vote was an overwhelming endorsement for his party and a further sign that its presence in Parliament was vital. Mr Ross-Edwards said the result showed the National Party was growing stronger and could be expected to make an even better showing at the 2 March state election. The Liberal leader, Mr Kennett, said the result was good for his party, which had improved its vote 50 per cent on the last election. Mr Hawke introduces 'The Australian Business Report' Business news goes to air on US network Bumper year for wages, says Kelty The executive director of the VEF, Mr Ian Spicer, said the ACTU should concentrate on the "cries for helD" from the unem ployed and not the claims of its union affiliates and those with jobs.

"It seems that trade unions are suffering from some lack of clear thinking when they think that if you provide benefits like superan nuation payments they don't af Jim Waley of the Nine Network's 'Sunday' program hosts the show, which includes a short news round-up, bond and exchange rate figures, and an analysis of share market activity by a leading stock broker, Renee Rivkin. In the first program Richard Carleton tells viewers that Australia is firmly behind the Anzus alliance, though Labor's left wing support New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance. Although the news bulletin in the first edition tended to plug the program's sponsors and court the mining industry with good news on the government's decision not to implement uniform land rights legislation, it was balanced with news of the $250 million cost of the NSW train strike and Mr Keating's gloomy remarks on OECD figures. Mr Cosser said: "We believe the report is fair and balanced we cover anything we think will be of interest to the US business community. "There's a lot of goodwill towards Australia at the moment and we expect to extend the show long after the first three-year contract." yVa.

nr fffiPniiHliniii'i'iii 1hmmmmUm gtatMMi "nw iiiiiii'irMirrawrawm' mmnw 'jBWffi fect the costs of employing people, Mr Spicer said. "Any move to extend superan nuation by industrial muscle will be opposed." Mr Spicer estimated that super annuation could add about 3 per cent to labor costs, as it did in the building industry under the re JJM' ijiju LmjJ'Ai wm il i ww 'i 'I ninni Trmnim ii SYDNEY. Australia and its politico-financial luminaries will enjoy almost as much American television exposure as Mr Reagan when a new program goes to air coast-to-coast in the United States and Canada today. Featuring the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, and detailing Australian economic news ranging from the recent NSW train strike to Mr Holmes a Court's BHP takeover bid, 'The Australian Business Report' will set a precedent for national promotion overseas. Timed to coincide with Mr Hawke's United States visit this week, the 10-minute economic update will be the first of a series broadcast daily in tbe US and Canada, from Monday to Friday for the next three years.

It is designed to promote interest and investment in Australia and will reach 18 million subscribers on the Financial News Network's cable service. It is produced by a Sydney-based company. Corporate Television Australia. A joint managing director of the company, Mr Steve Cosser, said the program had four sponsors Westpac, Ansett, Qantas and the Victorian Government, which was aiming to establish Melbourne as the financial capital of Australia. Other companies had shown interest and the venture could eventually accommodate up to three more sponsors.

"It is the first time anywhere in the world a country has decided to promote itself in this way," Mr Cosser said. Today, the American business community will hear Mr Hawke expounding the virtues of financial deregulation, Australia's financial sector as "one of the freest in the world" and urging more information exchange between "our two great cently formed Building Union Scheme, initiated through the AL1U. Mr Kelty said unions would use their bargaining and industrial ca pacity to pursue superannuation benefits. As with the national wage rises, he was confident the ACTU would succeed. Mr Kelty said low income earn ers should have some special treatment through supplementary wage payments.

THE AGE We were wrong "Again I believe that the trade union movement is committed to it as part of the industrial strategy for 1985, part of a total package tnat can succeed, he said. But, there could be no effective redistribution in the taxation system unless there was additional revenue gained. A story in "The Age' on Saturday described the new Victorian Administrative Appeals Tribunal Judge Alwynne Roland as "formerly of the County Court" and "chairman of the In fact Judge Roland remains a County Court judge and is president of the tribunal. Tbe errors were in information supplied to the reporter. "If there is going to be a tax- reform system which is effective in practical terms, that task is to ensure that those with the capaci NSN 2427 ty to pay taxes but currently don't pay it, do it, Mr Kelty said..