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1 THE AGE, Wednesday 24 April 1985 5 'Cruel' Kennett is exploiting family tragedies, says minister Dollar decline skyrockets defence costs By IAN DAVIS CANBERRA. Australia's falling dollar has added more than $100 million to payments due this year on Australia's new tactical fighter, the F-18. Sllll pit Jack Chalker's painting of surgeon Edward Weary' Dunlop (second from left) hard at work in an operating theatre at Chungkai on the Kwa-Noi River. mm I 2 tltlSllliiill By DAVID BROADBENT and JILL BAKER The State Opposition Leader, Mr Kennett, was accused in Parliament yesterday of cruelly attempting to exploit family tragedies and criminal offences against Labor party leaders. During uproar in Parliament, the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Mr Mathews, claimed Mr Kennett could not have been "more crooked if he was conceived in a corkscrew He also accused Mr Kennett of being a "clockwork Goebbels" but was forced to withdraw a remark about "reckless Mr Mathews claimed Mr Kennett had sought to exploit threats against Mrs Nancye Cain, the wife of the Premier, and the drug addiction of Ms Rosslyn Hawke, the daughter of the Prime Minister.

During the rowdy scenes, several Opposition MPs joked as Parliament was told of an armed intruder terrorising Mrs Cain with a rifle in October 1981. Mr Mathews had been asked for information about criminal offences committed against leaders of political parties. The question came after Mr Kennett told the Liberal State Council at the weekend that ALP supporters, not Right to Life demonstrators, had ruffled Mr and Mrs Cain at a Rosanna demonstration just before the state election. Mr Mathews told Parliament that Mr Kennett's remarks were "particularly cruel and untruthful He said anyone who watched a video of Mr and Mrs Cain being jostled in the Rosanna demonstration would come to a different conclusion from Mr Kennett's. The vast majority of decent Australians had felt a mixture of admiration and sympathy for Mrs Hazel Hawke when she appeared on television last year to discuss her daughter's drug problems, he said.

In an emotional speech, Mr Mathews several times claimed that Opposition members had no stomach for the truth. "They will get up and applaud the fantasy that this man offers at a party conference but they have got no stomach what-sover for the truth," he said. Mr Mathews said it was utterly disgraceful for Mr Kennett to try to create the impression that the offences were "contrived, imaginary or jumped up for political i 1 13 mil Mr 1 i mm 7 ,7 i 7 -n y'smmjviwi Unquenchable spirit of the PoW recalled as the surgeon and his artist reunite "Whatever the Japs did to him (Dunlop) he was always there. He had enormous impact on our lives because of his humanity and courage. There were a lot of marvellous people in the prison camps but there was only one 'Weary' Dunlop." After the war, at Dunlop's request.

Chalker stayed in Bangkok to complete a catalogue of drawings on the terrible diseases and injuries prisoners were subject to and the means and methods used to try to counter them. Chalker's dual talents as a masseur and artist led him to have a curious war. One of the commandants in the Chungkai prison camp was a violent man named Kokabu. who beat to death in front of the English prisoners two of his own soldiers for leaving the camp without permission. One night, Chalker was one of five prisoners summoned to Kokabu's hut by guards with fixed bayonets.

There, one by one. they were instructed to massage his neck and shoulders. After this strange episode. Chalker was told he was to return at sunrise each morning to massage the officer's neck. "The extraordinary thing was that gradually I got to know him and it even got to the stage where we exchanged views," Chalker recalled.

"I asked him why he regarded human life as being of so little importance. He said: 'I am a soldier and I would not be taken prisoner. Looking after prisoners is a disgrace'. "Everything was black and white to him he was on earth for killing and killing was wluit it was about." Chalker's war-time sketches did not avoid the horror of the prison camps one being a depiction of a bound man having his hands smashed by a guard with a hammer but the aspect he now chooses to remember about PoW life is what people could achieve in degenerate circumstances by working together. By MARTIN FLANAGAN KANCHANABURI (Thailand), 23 April.

With Edward Dunlop's article on the "abundant but exceedingly bitter" medical lessons to be drawn from his prisoner-of-war experiences, printed in the 'British Medical Journal' in 1946, were two pages of illustration by Englishman Jack Chalker. A small part of the illustration showed medical equipment cobbled up by PoWs from bamboo, scraps of metal and thread. Among the pieces were retractors made from mess tins, an Ovaltine tin converted to a suction pump and a surgical bed with pulleys shaped from bamboo. The depiction of these chilling reminders of man's ability to improvise cleverly in dire circumstances was just one small part of Jack Chalker's wartime art legacy. Two of Chalker's ink drawings are to be found in the official Australian Government history of the Second World War.

One is of the Cholera Hospital at Hintok, just a series of tents pitched in mud and water amid clumps of tall bamboo. The other, "Working was sketched in Kenya in January 1943 and shows a shoeless man supporting a gaunt figure who is hobbling, legs rigid, with the assistance of a walking stick. Chalker and Dunlop (later Sir Edward Dunlop) were together as PoWs under the Japanese from late 1943 to 1945. Now the Englishman and the great Australian wartime surgeon are together again on a tour of the areas they knew as interns more than 40 years ago. The two corresponded for some years after the war, lost touch, then recently renewed contact when Dunlop advertised for Chalker's address in a British ex-PoW magazine.

"Weary" Dunlop was the principal personality of Chalker's prison camp life. The Englishman said of Dunlop: "As soon as he turned up, he had this kind of aura about him that gave people confidence." Dunlop believed it important to keep records, so Chalker sat in on operations, sketching. "I saw them perform a craniotomy (taking bone out of the skull to release pressure on the brain) on a man who was in a continual state of fit from a depressed fracture of the skull." Chalker said. "Their equipment was crude but what they achieved was magical. But the increased cost was not apparent in revised Defence Department estimates handed to Parliament last week.

According to the additional estimates, expected payments for Australia's new fighter aircraft had fallen from the $757.8 million projected in the budget last August to $737.1 million. Behind the $737.1 million figure, however, is a $103.4 million increase in payments due this year as a result of the decline of the Australian dollar between July 1984 and March this year. Balanced against this is the fact that delays in orders have cut $127 million from the payments estimated for when the budget was drawn up at the beginning of 1984. While the figures on the effect of the falling Australian dollar were available within the Defence Department they were not provided to Parliament. The purchase of the F-18 is the Defence Department's largest single equipment project and has been affected more than any other by the dollar's fall.

Also among the hard-hit projects is the modernisation program for Australia's DDG destroyers, payments for which will increase $14.1 million on the budget's $71.5 million allocation. Other projects for which costs have increased this year include: The modernisation of P3C Orion aircraft for the RAAF (up $7.9 million this year). The acquisition of equipment for the new Australian-made frigates (up $6.6 million). The cost of the FFG destroyer program (up $4.5 million). Although the Defence Department has calculated the effects of the falling dollar on defence payments due this financial year, it is reluctant to make available any calculations over a longer period.

This is largely the result of uncertainty about the course of the dollar over any period beyond the end of the financial year 30 June. Also, any figures would disclose government expectations about future movements in the dollar. As it is. the figures prepared for the supplementary estimates are already out of date. For instance the $103.4 million added to the cost of the F-18 during this financial year was calculated by the Defence Department on the basis of the value of the dollar on 6 March.

Since then the Australian dollar has fallen from about 70 US cents to about 63 US cents, a decline of about 11 per cent. 77 Task force sees crime network SYDNEY. The theft of goods from containers and the seizures of drugs were strong indications that organised crime did exist on the NSW and Victoria waterfronts, according to the report of a task force set up after the Williams and Woodward royal cpmmissions. The report of the findings of the joint Commonwealth-NSW task force on security of wharves and containers was tabled in parliaments yesterday. Marrow donor SYDNEY.

Australia's first operation involving the transfer of incompatible bone marrow took place last night to try to save the life of a two-year-old boy. The boy's mother. Mrs Barbara Towns, of Lemon Tree Passage, near Newcastle, donated the marrow to her son Ben, who is suffering from an inherited immune deficiency disease. Police criticised SYDNEY. The New South Wales police force was falling short of the ideal for a democratic society and of the public support and involvement needed for it to be effective, the inaugural annual report of the NSW Police Board says.

Shooting fine A man who shot a champion rottweiller dog estimated by the owner to be worth $55,000 was fined $120 in Lilydale Magistrate's Court yesterday. Russell Sanders, 54, of Lincoln Road, Mooroolbark, was fined $70 after pleading not guilty to unlawfully destroying a dog at Wandin East on 18 November 1984. Sound barriers The State Government is spending $6 million over the next six years to build noise barriers, to cut freeway traffic noise by a third. Restaurateur shot SYDNEY. A 42-year-old Sydney restaurant owner died on the op- erating table after being shot five times in a gangster style killing in Sydney last night.

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He was ordered to serve 100 hours of community service. Speaking after his first visit to the Office of Corrections, Krakouer said he had been under considerable pressure since charges were laid against him in January. The case, he said, had "not really" affected his career, and he doubted the outcome would influence his prospects. He Office of Correction in Nicholson Street by 3 pm yesterday. Mr O'Day said the case was "an unusual matter" in which Krakouer and the girl (whose name has been suppressed) appeared to share a "mutual While he had "behaved poorly towards her, and that is reflected in the charge of Mr O'Day said Krakouer had had to spend time in jail, until an application for bail was granted by the Supreme Court.

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