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6 THE AGE, Friday 22 June 1984 Academic admits to errors before Evatt 'The Agent Orangefik Inquiry New migrant program seeks white-collar workers in high tech From KATE IEGGE CANBERRA. The Federal Government has produced a new list of occupations in demand under Australia's skilled migration program, giving priority to white-collar workers in high-technology areas. The dramatic shift to highly skilled occupational categories could have implications for the immigration debate because of the likely interest from Asia in high-technology professions. traditionally, Australia has relied heavily on recruitment from Europe and the United Kingdon for skilled workers in the blue-collar trade categories. In an attempt to link the skilled migration program more closely to labor market needs the Government has Identified the occupations that will play a critical role in the recovery.

White-collar workers are expected to make up at least two-thirds of the total skilled-migrant intake in the next financial year. This represents a sharp reversal of the trend established prior to 1983 when CO per cent of the intake comprised workers in the blue-collar trades area. Priority has been given to occupations in the professional engineering area, including civil, mechanical, electrical and electronics engineers, as well as After being queried on his sources, Dr McCulloch said: "I thought the conclusions reasonable. I have not said that no other reasonable conclusions are available to this inquiry." He denied that be was trying to suggest in the article that the commission was involved in a strategy or that the commission transposed -questions. He added that anyone who drew that conclusion from reading the article would have drawn the wrong conclusion.

Although Dr McCulloch was called to the stand to be questioned on his article, he was also questioned on his book 'The Politics of Agent Orange', released this week. Mr Coombes said that on page 37 of the book he had said that Australian troops were authorised to use pesticides without the approval of the Prime Minister. Mr Coombes said that there was a' footnote to that statement Mr Coombes said that the footnote referred to a page in an Army document which said that pesticides could be used with the knowledge of the Prime Minister. "Do you propose to footnote a sourced document reverse its conclusion and talk your way out of it" Mr Coombes asked Dr McCulloch. Dr McCulloch said he would like to examine the material before answering but he later said it appeared he was incorrect Justice Evatt adjourned the matter until 10.15 am today.

From DEIRDRE MACK EN SYDNEY. A political scientist, Dr Jock McCulloch, yesterday denied that an article he wrote for "The Age' suggested that the Agent Orange Royal Commission was involved in a strategy. Dr McCulloch, a visiting fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, was appearing before Mr Justice Evatt at the commission following an article he wrote, which appeared in 'The Age' last month. Counsel assisting the commission, Mr John Coombes, QC, told the commission that Dr McCulloch was told last Friday that the commission was not happy with the article, which, he said, had a potential to hinder its work. Dr McCulloch was questioned at length about his research and conclusions in the article, particularly his claim that the Vietnam Veterans' Association had been asked to agree to a study before it had seen the protocol, or method, to be used in the study.

Under questioning by Mr Coombes, Dr McCulloch said that he had not read the protocol to be used in the study on the morbidity of Vietnam veterans, which the commission bad requested. Dr McCulloch said he had spoken to the president of the Vietnam Veterans' Association, Mr Phil Thompson, about the study. He said he had based his conclu- Queensland's ALP president, Denis Murphy, dies at 47 BRISBANE. The Queensland ALP president Dr Denis Murphy, who played a big role in restoring the party's fortunes after bitter faction fighting sparked Federal intervention in 1980, died last night after a long illness. He was 47.

Dr Murphy was married to Gwen and had two children, aged 11 and 14. In 1980, after a distinguished career as an academic, he was appointed president of an interim administrative committee set up to restore party unity after the Old and New Guard dispute. He was later elected party president and last year won the State seat of Stafford for Labor by a handful of votes although he was forced to spend the last two weeks of the campaign in hospital. A lecturer in history at Queensland University. Dr Murphy became the first academic to hold the post of State ALP president when he was voted into the position at the Party's June 1981 conference.

He had studied and written about the party's history for most of his academic life. He played a major role in overcoming faction fighting and in building up the party's base in country areas where it had lost considerable ground to the National Party. Two weeks ago, Dr Murphy, announced he would stand down at the party's 1984 State conference in Townsville at the end of the month. Dr Murphy was Labor's spokesman on health in the Queensland Parliament but his deteriorating health forced him to resign from the shadow Ministry in March this year. The Prime Minister.

Mr Hawke, said from Canberra that Dr Murphy had played a significant role in the revival of ALP fortunes nationally and in Queensland. DEBENTURE STOCK 11.50 for 6 months I 13.00 for 3 years 11.75 for 1 year 13.00 for 4 years 12.50 for 2 years 13.50 for 5 years UNSECURED NOTES 11.50 for 3 mths then 'at call' I 13.00 for 2 years 12.00 for 1 year 13.50 for 3 years sion that the association had been asked to agree to it "sight unseen" on his own interpretation of events. Asked whether he was aware that negotiations over the protocol had been under way for three months, Dr McCulloch said he was not aware of that and he conceded that his statement in the article was inaccurate. In the article, Dr McCulloch said that the same morbidity study would be based on the belief that sprays used in Vietnam could not drift more than five kilometres from the target Questioned on this, Dr McCulloch said be had not read the proposed index to be used in the study but based his opinion on common knowledge in Canberra. Mr Coombes said the conclusion that the study would be based on the belief of a five-kilometre drift was wrong.

In the article Dr McCulloch also said: "Any person familiar with the major documents describing the use of pesticides during the Vietnam war will come to the following conclusions: all US and Australian troops were exposed to pesticides If you're thinking of investing, you should read Esanda's Prospectus. It outlines various options like these and other investment opportunities. It tells you how interest can be paid monthly, or on a deferred compound basis, as well as quarterly. Also that you can invest for as little as $200. Applications can only be made on the form in the Prospectus.

Pick up a copy at any Esanda office, EZS JVIJTV ANZ Bank, or from your stockbroker. ZSSAIBJLJa We know finance. Mr West: challenged Opposition claims on skilled migrants. draftsmen and technicians In these fields. Occupations in the management-support category will account for a high proportion of the total intake.

The Government has Identified a growing demand for computer-program analysts and accountants and has increased the quota for these skills accordingly. There will be less scope for migrants skilled in manual trades as a result of the recession, but some provision has been made for carpenters and joiners, bricklayers, cabinetmakers and plumbers as a result of strong recovery in the housing sector. The Government has set strict quotas on each occupational category based on labor market predictions and the potential for training programs to counter skill shortages. These quotas have not been announced. As a part of the revamped approach to skilled migration the demand for different occupations will be monitored regularly and the entire program will be reviewed twice a year.

Ths skilled migration program attracted a lot of attention during the rowdy immigration debate in Parliament when the Federal Opposition claimed that drastic cuts in the overall intake had upset the balance between migrants from Asia and Europe. The Opposition argued that the reduction in numbers resulted in fewer migrants from Europe and the United Kingdom. Although the Government has increased the total intake under this program by 3M9 the new list of occupations in demand may not favor skilled migrants from traditional sources. The Immigration Minister, Mr West, warned that the reverse could occur in response to Opposition attacks. In Parliament last month, Mr West challenged claims that an Increase in the number of skilled migrants would lead to more European migrants.

"There is no guarantee, unless they impose quotas especially for people from Europe and the United Kingdom, that they will get any more of those people than they will Asians," he said. ESANDA LIMITED INCORPORATED IN VICTORIA AMEMBER OF AHBGROUPOFCOMPANIES. 3 7 Dr Murphy: put a stop to faction-fighting. Money came from navy and gambling, not drugs, court is told By PAMELA PINTO Mr Darryl Sorby, alleged to be a Melbourne link of the "Mr Asia" drug syndicate, told a Supreme Court jury yesterday that he had never sold drugs, nor had he ever made any money out of selling drugs. Mr Sorby said that the "riches" which the Crown alleged he had accumulated from the sale of drugs was in fact money made while in the merchant navy, from buying and selling gold, from gambling, from renovating houses, from buying and selling cars, and from his "consuming the development of Bri-bie Island.

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