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I 1 le Sjjbnej pprninfl Sjeralb Equal opportunities? Steady on there, mate AUSTRALIA showed that senior American officials disagreed about the objectives of the operation. Page 6 Some of the evidence given to the inquiry investigating the assassination of the Filipino Opposition leader, Mr Benigno Aquino jun, contradicts the Government's account that Rolando Galman killed Mr Aquino when he arrived at Manila airport last August 21. Page 6. Report backs private school funding. AH private schools in Australia, regardless of private income or resources, should be entitled to Federal funds and the wealthiest should not have their recurrent grants cut again by the Federal Government, the Commonwealth Schools Commission has recommended.

This recommendation is one of several in a major report released by the chairman of the commission, Dr Peter Tannock, in Canberra yesterday. Pagel Cricket allegations. An article written in The Age on January 21, 1982, contained "atrocious allegations" against the West Indies cricket captain, Clive Lloyd, Mr Tom Hughes, QC, told the Supreme Court yesterday. Page 2. Drop in growth forecast.

A big drop in farm production next year will knock up to 1 per cent off economic growth in 1984-85, according to figures issued yesterday by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Page 3. Ombudsman questions suppression. The NSW Mr George Masterman, QC, has questioned the suppression of a police report of an investigation of the circumstances in which the Police Internal Affairs Branch produced a misleading report which was then quoted by the Premier, Mr Wran, in Parliament, causing him to give innaccurate information. Page 4.

High Court view on ASIS secrecy. The ASIS agents involved in the Sheraton Hotel raid last year could offer no reason for wishing their names kept secret if, as was claimed, they had committed no crimes a High Court judge said yesterday. Page 12. Irian Jaya's immigrants. Irian Jaya's Governor, Isaak Hindom, sits in a gigantic, air-conditioned office in the main administration block near Jaya Pura's waterfront and preaches the doctrine of TM or 'trans migrasi'.

This is a shorthand reference to the large-scale importation of landless mainly Javanese peasants. As Peter Hastings writes, Mr Hindom sees TM as the road to development. Pages 14-15. Brazilians march for right to vote. More than one million people turned out yesterday in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, to demand the right to vote for the country's next President Page7 BUSINESS Boss ordered killing, court told.

Mr George Tan, boss of the collapsed Hong Kong property and finance giant, Carrian Holdings, ordered the killing of an unco-operative banker, a Hong Kong court was told yesterday. Page 25. Food group increases profit. Allied Mills Ltd, the diversified food group, reported yesterday a 1 6.6 per cent rise in net operating profit to $11.18 million for the six months ended February 29. The solid result was achieved despite higher interest charges and poor performances by the company's rural and bakery divisions.

Page 25. SHARE PRICES Down Up BHP RTS Ampol Pet -10c -05c -06c -06C -20c I5t 23 14c I3c 20c Cork inv TNT CRA ROC Cons Petro Glden Shmr Weeks Aust Weeks Pet IT is not surprising that ttielcind of conservative economist who appeals for lower wages as a way of reducing unemployment should' also argue that attempts to reduce discriminatory employment practices are far too costly and will cut jobs. In the case of Sydney University, whose vice-chancellor has taken a strong stand against the imposition of State anti-discrimination legislation on his domain, conservative economists and male academics have rallied to the defence of that mystical sacros-canct notion of academic freedom. What they really mean by academic freedom, the barrister Chris Ronalds told a seminar on Discrimination and the Law at the university on Saturday, is institutional autonomy. They think accountability is intrusion into what they are doing.

Ronalds, a consultant to the Office of Status of Women, though here speaking for herself, said it may well be that the private sector is more responsive to the idea of equal employment opportunity than the public sector with' its rigid bureaucratic structures. The private sector must worry about image, unlike universities and CAEs, and is keener to conciliate. It" remembers only too well the case of Deborah Wardley and Ansett and the drop in profits that resulted from all the adverse publicity. The company that spends a fortune on advertising a product does not want its ads followed by a news report on how discriminatory it has been. Cases before the Equal Opportunity Tribunal have seen State Government departments and universities the most consistent respondents.

The private sector must also worry about productivity and profitability. Bureaucracies, academic or otherwise, have much greater capacity to cany non-productive units, the dead wood. "The question of the. productivity of senior academic staff in universities is not addressed," said Ronalds. "Junior staff, mainly women, are put under huge pressure to design courses and publish papers to get tenure.

The older males just have to turn up eight hours a week." Universities like to see themselves as socially responsible, but this is not the way they are seen from the outside. Said Ronalds, "Their own assessment of their worth is exactly that, their own assessment. And where they resist equal employment opportunity they show that- they are not interested in expanding their social responsibility." They like to scrutinise and research everything and everybody else, she said, but not themselves. A good example has been Wollongong University's approach to the finding against it by the Equal Opportunity Tribunal in the case of an Egyptian student who charged that the university had racially discriminated against him and victimised him by terminating his PhD course. He had been denigrated as a Muslim, abused as a non-drinker and attacked for the role Egypt had playedin the Suez War.

The university, said its Equal Employment Opportunity Co-or-dinator, Elizabeth Johnson, was now bent on having the tribunal's decision overturned. So far it has spent $250,000 of public money taking the case to higher and higher courts. The student was awarded $46,500. The rest has gone in lawyers' fees. Multi-national companies, she says, would be much warier about inviting such large actions against them.

"They have developed a siege mentality," Johnson told the seminar. "They feel they have been done a terrible injustice. They are determined to ensure that it will not happen again, but not for the right reasons." If the University of Wollon-gong's appeal succeeds State legislation on race and sex discrimination will be struck down. AH of which speaks volumes for the way universities may interpret academic freedom or perceive their social responsibilities. This week the Federal Government's Green Paper on affirmative action was approved by Cabinet.

It will be tabled in Parliament next month. It, too, is expected to meet a lot of opposition and some of the staunchest from within the Labor caucus. It will mean everything will be up for scrutiny, said Chris Ronalds. "All those areas which have until now been effectively hidden, like patronage, which is so very important in universities. Old boys adopt young boys to regenerate the breed," as she put it "It's not about changing the boys' rules slightly to let in the girls.

It's much more than that and some of the senior boys have recognised this. That's why there is such resistance now. "The mid-level boys in the public service were not concerned at first But now they are resisting because they realise that what this means is that they will have to be promoted on merit" All the acronymic jargon of EEO and AA means exposing old boys' patronage to public scrutiny, questioning the whole system of tenure in universities and encouraging the idea of promotion based on merit If that means, along the way, a terrible invasion of academic freedom, then so be it TOP TURNOVERS 448.266 1,224,076 1,023,000 166,600 BHP Holland Cons Petro CRA $5,696,029 $3,237,391 $1,190,348 $1,021,131 THE WORLD All-ords index dwn l.4pts to 763.1 INTEREST RATES, INDICES l2'i-l4'-6pc 90days UK gold SUS380.10 per fine oz (up SUS0.85. New York Dow Jones av 1160.28 (up 1 0. 1 5pts London Financial Times av 875.2 (dwn 20.0 pts EXCHANGE RATES (to $A) USA 0.918, UK .645 France 7.454, Germany 2.419, Japan 206.78, NZ 1.393.

Bay of Pigs a muddled affair. Were the Americans out to overthrow the regime of President Castro and conquer Cuba in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion 23 years ago? Or was it just a military operation to reinforce anti-Castro guerillas? Previously secret transcripts released yesterday by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee DIARY to spi mm GRADUATION: 190 arts graduate students receive their degrees in the Science Theatre, University of New South Wales, 2.30 pm. CEREMONY: Mr Barrie Unsworth, MP, presides over the presentation ceremony of 80 new inter-urban passenger rail carriages at 11 Berry Street, Granville, at 2.15 pm. HEARING: The joint Foreign Affairs-Defence Parliamentary Defence Committee conducts a public bearing from 10 am to 5 pm at the Australian Government Centre, Chifley Square, Sydney, into ASEAN-Australian relations. SPORT: The TAB will cover races at Canterbury, Moe and Doomben; pacers at Moonee Valley and Newcastle; and greyhounds at Bulli and Maitland.

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The Swans were due to arrive in Melbourne about 5 pm for the 8.30 pm match. But their flight was more than three hours late. The Sterling Cup organisers decided at 7 pm to postpone the match. Melbourne television viewers, who had been expecting to see a gripping contest, instead were treated to an interview with the Swans' president, Mr Michael Edgley, who was patiently waiting for his team to arrive. fan Manning going all out to fight the Ipswich Touch Football Association's decision to ban her for life for allegedly striking a male referee, Paul Pisas-ali, after a match last month.

Henderson, who plays for the Dodgers, apparently had Pisasali doing the dodging, as the Association's committee last night dismissed her appeal and upheld the referee's charge that she had hit him. Henderson now intends fighting for justice in the Supreme Court. Australian Football officials persistently claim that they will play matches under any conditions. But it is a bit hard when one team does not turn up, as in last night's Is this man employable? Tirtha Phani, an Indian long-distance runner in Australia for the West-field Sydney to Melbourne marathon on April 27, claims that he regularly trains for 21 hours a day. Sometimes, he says, he sticks to the strenuous program for 15 consecutive days before taking a break, which does not allow much room for a job.

The 25-year-old, a champion chess player, also claims to have walked 29,000 miles in 665 days and pedalled a bicycle for 35,000 miles in 237 days. Still, it is1 hardly surprising for the Bengal-born athlete who obviously has a tiger in his tank. A Queensland female touch football player, Trisha Henderson, is Suburb: Newsagent Name: Suburb: 5 i Date: 4) ror unice use unty tuocx no. PLEASE COMPLETE aV BLOCK LETTERS I ef I nK Auyir mrrrnA. unc recti run vcurcnr iw bvmnntc cu.