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Page 11 Man who threatened t6 kill faces Bicentenary Policeman tells of fear in Moree bar judg snub from churches i By ALAN GILL Australia's Christian denomi nations were asked yesterday to consider carefully "the nature and extent of their participation in the 1988 Bicentenary celebrations. A man who sent -a letter to the State Attorney-General threatening to shoot a judge in the Workers Compensation Division was sentenced to four years jail at District Court yesterday. .2: Judge Torrington imposed a.non-parole period of three years on Peter Draganis, 56, who pleaded guilty to sending a threatening letter on December 2 last year. The sentence and non-parole period are to date from December 5, 1983. The judge said Draganis, of Pitt Street, Redfern, had threatened to shoot Judge Gibson of the A resolution to this effect was passed at the general meeting of the Australian Council of Churches in Melbourne.

The request followed pro and last October had been declared a vexatious litigant i '-v Draganis had alleged 'that the matter before Judge Gibson had been pending for more than 12 years. In his letter to the Attorney-General, Mr Landa, Draganis had said his political rights had been and after the injustices at his expense remains nothing else" for me to do but to become a killer since life for me has no more significance and the first man I will shoot will be Judge Gibson from, the Workers Compensation Commission and he already knows that Judge Torrington said it was clear in the letter there was a threat to kill which constituted a danger. "It was hot to be regarded as a mere nastiness," he said. "It is a letter which the law has provided is a serious crime. "It is a crime whether directed towards a judge, a public officer, a relative, a neighbour or any other citizen." longed debates on racism, the 5T' air Bicentenary and the condition ot Aborigines.

Workers Compensation Commission because of -what he believed to be injustices imposed by the, courts over his compensation case. He said that an 1972 while working for the railways Draganis had injured his back and had gone off duty on workers compensation. Police had given' evidence that Draganis had been before the Workers Compensation Commission twice and had since tried to have the case brought back before the commission. He had also spent about $2,000 in civil--proceedings against a number of public officers The resolution stopped short of demanding a boycott of the Bicentenary, although this was implied in a statement "recommending a resolution to this member churches. Others felt the council had a prophetic leadership role, which was a major reason for its existence.

Several members warned this was probably the deciding factor that the Church would lose total credibility among Aborigines if it failed to stand alongside the "poor and dispossessed on such a public occasion as the Bicentenary. On other issues, the council passed a resolution that the mining and export of uranium "add to the world's problems" and should be deferred. The council also endorsed a Quaker proposal inviting members of the public to voluntarily withhold that portion of their income tax which the government devotes to military spending. The meeting referred to the executive a recommendation that in line with the above a Trust Fund for Peace be established into which tax withholders could deposit the military-related proportion of their tax until such time as the money set aside could legally be directed to peace. The Australian Council of Churches includes the Anglican and Uniting Churches, Churches of Christ, Salvation Army, Society of Friends, the Greek Orthodox Church and seven other Orthodox Churches.

restrained by two other Aborigines, one of whom he now believed to be Lyall Munro jun. "I said to these two to get him out of here, Sergeant Smith said. "I did say to the group of Aboriginals, on you blokes, you know you are barred, you will have to leave'. "They did not respond to that direction. "I then said to Cecil Craigie, 'Get out of the hotel, you are barred.

If you don't I will have to arrest you. And he said 'Get there is only one of you. Craigie's eyes were bloodshot and he appeared to be very intoxicated. He had pointed to the licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Mr Ian Bowen, and liurled an insult at him. As both the patrons and: the six continued to exchange abuse, Cecil Craigie and Lloyd Munro had walked further into the bar.

Someone had yelled out "Land rights, land rights and things looked very serious. -T Sergeant Smith said he had another conversation with Mr Bowen and then left the hotel to get help, noticing as he did that another 12 Aborigines were in the street just outside the bar door. Sergeant Smith had contacted Inspector Lloyd Goddard and given directions to another constable and on returning to the Ned Kelly bar had found it extensively damaged. He had accompanied Inspector Goddard to Endeavour Lane, Moree at about 1.20 am to try to disperse a large group of Aborigines barricading themselves there. The hearing, before Mr Derek Kearney, SM, will continue at 10 am today.

effect passed at a general meeting of the council in 1980. By MALCOLM BROWN An Aboriginal man who had entered a Moree hotel in 1982 while still barred from it had screamed abuse at the policeman who went to the scene and reminded him he was all by himself, the Moree Court of Sessions heard yesterday. Sergeant Laurence John Smith, of Warialda, NSW, said that finding himself alone in the Ned Kelly bar of the Imperial Hotel, Moree, with a brawl likely to erupt, he had felt very afraid. Sergeant Smith, answering questions from Sergeant Winstan Probert, prosecuting, said he had gone to the Imperial Hotel about 10.30 pm on November 4 after a telephone call. At the hotel he had found a group of up to 60 patrons, mostly white, at one end of the Ned Kelly bar with a group of six aggressive and apparently intoxicated Aborigines at the other.

Both sides were exchanging abuse. Before the court are 14 Aborigines: Michael Paul Baker, Brent Beale, Cecil Wayne Craigie, Michael Duke, Phillip Duke, Alfred Graham Duncan, Kevin Wyndham Duncan, Michael Robert James Foote, Keith Munro, Lloyd Munro, Lyall Munro jun, William Munro, Stephen Porter and William Porter. They have been charged that on November .4, 1982, at Moree, they knowingly joined an unlawful assembly at the Imperial Hotel. Sergeant Smith said that in a group of six Aborigines in the bar he recognised Cecil Craigie and Lloyd Munto. One Aboriginal, whom he now believed to be Michael Foote, was screaming abuse and was being The 1980 resolution was conditional upon lack of progress in.

the "just claims of the Aboriginal Court told of reaction to Singleton TV show Dr Wood new council president. ments by Professor Geoffrey Blainey and Western Mining Corporation's chief executive, Mr Hugh Morgan, and the recent heated debate in Federal Parliament for the rise of racism in the community. "In the short term, politicians-should refuse to make political capital of the issue, he Dr Wood replaces Bishop Gabriel Gibran, of the Anti-ochan Orthodox Church, who has held office for four years. On the Bicentenary -some speakers said the council did not have a right to ram its views "down the of people for land rights, freedom to rebuild their society and financial compensation. Members spent some time debating what progress had been made in Aboriginal land rights since 1980.

The consensus was that gains had been modest, with considerable setbacks, mainly in Queensland and Tasmania. The council's newly-elected president; the Rev Harold D'Arcy Wood, a lecturer in theology at Parkin-Wesley College, Adelaide, blamed state- Handcuffs on woman during attack: police UBli, Five men on parole had. 'sexually assaulted a woman in a trt Glebe park after drinking with ,7., her at a hotel on Sunday night, Balmain Court was told yester- day. William Gordon Brady, 23, and Michael John Morrison, 20, of Wigram. Road, Glebe; Brian William Stoker, 25, of no rt fixed address; Glen, Darren; 21,.

of Darley Street Newtown; and Mark Ronald Sterry, 20, of Glebe Point Road, Glebe, appeared oik charges' of having sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent and with maliciously inflicting actual bodily harm with intent to have intercourse. The court was told the woman was drinking with the men in the Toxteth Hotel at Glebe on Sunday night when she was invited to go to a shed in a nearby park. Air NSW drops cheap Fokker fare Taxi driver sentenced to nine years for sex attack John Farragher crippled in football match. because it made me and the other trustees look like a bunch of Mr Cowan said. The son of the Penrith Leagues Club secretary-manager, Mr Roger Cowan, had told his father a John Singleton television show interview had made his father and two other men "look like a bunch of crooks, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.

Mr Cowan, Mr John Ffrench, a solicitor, and Mr Geoff Schwart-skoff, an accountant, were the trustees for a fund set up for a crippled footballer, Mr John Farragher. Mr Farragher, a Penrith Rugby League forward, was made a quadriplegic in a match on May -28, 1978. Soon after, a fund was set up, including a telethon appeal on Channel Tea on June 10, 1978. On July 9, 1980, oir his Channel Ten television show Mr Singleton interviewed Mr Far-' rag her and referred to the same matter again the following night The three trustees are claiming damages from Mr Singleton and Channel Ten, alleging they were defamed in the two programs. Yesterday Mr Cowan said in evidence that on July 10 he received a phone call from his son.

"He said John Singleton had interviewed John Farragher and as a result I should see die show It had its origins in a bitter feud between the head of Ansett Transport Industries, Sir Peter Abeles, and his former aide, Mr Bryan Grey. After Mr Grey left Ansett and bought East-West Airlines in 1982, he started the Sydney-Albury-Melbourne services. Air NSW matched East-West's cheap fares twice daily in an operation designed to turn Mr Grey's marginally profitable service into a money loser. But this strategy may not have succeeded. The Air NSW flights were never promoted, unlike the East-West fare.

As a result East-West's flights on the route were almost invariably booked out but Air NSW flights often carried only a handful of passengers. By BEN SANDILANOS and BRAD NORINGTON Air NSW, the wholly-owned Ansett subsidiary, will end its discount return Fokker Friendship flights between Sydney and Melbourne via Albury on June 30. The service was Ansett's response to East-West Airlines introduction of a half-price Sydney-Melbourne Friendship service in March 1983. The general manager of Air NSW, Mr Jon Hutchinson, said the Friendship service was now more expensive than Ansett's discount flexifare between the two capitals. The closure marks the end of probably the most bizarre passenger service in the history of Australian domestic aviation.

A taxi driver who sexually assaulted a 23-year-old woman passenger was sentenced to nine years jail at the Central Criminal Court yesterday. Justice Maxwell awarded the woman, a clerk, of Katoomba, $10,000. criminal compensation, which he said was "quite paltry and inadequate" in this case. The judge sentenced Laurence. John Brownette, 27, of Frank Street, Mt Druitt, to nine years jail for inflicting actual bodily harm on the woman with intent to have sexual intercourse and to seven years jail for having sexual intercourse with her without her consent Brownette had pleaded guilty to the two charges, arising from incidents which occurred last year.

The judge said the woman had gone to a disco at Penrith which she' left in the early hours of September 24 and just missed a train to her home. Brownette had offered to drive her home for $30, returned his taxi to a depot and collected his own car to save him returning the taxi later. At Hazelbrook Brownette had forced the woman to have intercourse had left her at Glenbrook railway station, the judge said. In answer to his counsel, Mr Alec Shand, QC, Mr Cowan said lie was "very upset" after receiving the call. Justice Enderby told the four-member jury that later in the trial one of their tasks would be to put a meaning on the words complained of by the plaintiffs in this case.

He instructed the jury that it was peculiarly a matter for the jury alone to put an ordinary and natural meaning on those words. The hearing resumes today. The five men allegedly followed her to the shed, handcuffed her and then sexually assaulted her after hitting her a number of times about the head. Four of the men were remanded to July 3 and allowed $4,000 conditional bail. Morrison was allowed $2,000 conditional baiL Bullet hii.wrong target: woman gets life for hotel, killing ass) oDas' (flsax? IjlbOtPiXt' Lawy names more as "an innocent bystander" Bell had been aiming at Narelle Crankshaw.

Justice Maxwell said. Crankshaw and Bell had fought three times in the hotel before Bell was ordered to leave. He said she returned to the hotel with a gun and aimed at Crankshaw; who was dancing. However the bullet hit Blakemore, who was also on the dance floor. As well as the life sentence for murder.

Justice Maxwell jailed Bell for 12 years for the attempted murder of Crankshaw. A non-parole period was not set Bell had been found guilty by a jury on both Justice Maxwell awarded compensation each to Kenneth and Helen Blakemore for nervous problems caused by the loss of their son. The, Sydney. Central Criminal Court; yesterday sentenced 26-year-old woman to life imprisonment for the murder of a. man hit by a bullet intended for a woman.

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