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SATURDAY 16 MARCH 1996 THE ACE A 9 JECT MANAGER as Premier nGrooiiM resins EXPANDING BUILDING CONSTRUCTION GROUP Picture: ROGER LOVELL YOUR NEW COMPANY develops, designs, manufacture and installs a ranee of soedaltsed Facade elements together with other bufldinf oraducts for the non residential construction market This highly successM By ANDREW. DARBY, Hobart Mr Ray Groom yesterday resigned as Premier of Tasmania and leader of 'the parliamentary Liberal Party, leav-frVg a successor to decide how the Liberals will keep power. Mr Groom shocked some of his vown colleagues when he told them he was quitting after losing a majority at the 24 February election. Despite the organisation has extensive operations throughout Australia arid the PacWc Basin with ongoing profrtabKtty and expansion having created rhis position. YOUR NEW POSITION wiH be as a Project Manager in Melbourne looking after projects in the southern states of Australia Including Tasmania.

You wil be responsible for all matters associated with the project management of several projects at once and be required to travel throughout your region. YOUR EXPERIENCE will be as a professional person with 6 to 10 years In the construction industry preferably with a design and contracting background 'toss, the liberals intend to tough out rou will be a sen motivated person witn excellent communication and analytical abilities, complimented by your client liaison skills and Industry knowledge. Your experience also should include some major project work. You will enjoy working for a successful forward thinking company who wit provide you with long term career prospects. Written appkatkxa an to be forwarded to: Contracts Manager PO Box 2264 Dandenong North, 3 1 75 government with 16 of the 3S1 seats.

'Mr Groom said he intended to stay in Parliament, and was prepared to either a minister or backbencher. The party must now choose a successor who can work through a parliament with 14 Labor MPs, four Greens, and one independent. Mr Groom called Liberal MPs to a meet-ing on Monday to choose a new premie. ''Clearly emotional as he dropped his bombshell, Mr Groom said it was his1 decision. "I am certainly very sure that had I would still have HIIIITITHHITTTTTTTTTTTTin I Mr Groom with his wife, Gill, announces his resignation.

"I've got to accept responsibilty as leader for the been premier after Monday, he said. Well-placed sources confirmed he did nor face a push against him. Instead, the party's loss of a majority Was taken as a personal rebuff by Mfl Groom. "I've got to accept responsibilty as leader for the results," he said. "You get the glory If you win.

You get the pain if you don't." Mr Groom said the party needed a he image and approach. He refused to comment on a successor, but two runners emerged last night: the like-named but unrelated Health Minister, Mr Roger Groom, and the Treasurer, Mr Tony Rundle. Roger Groom narrowly lost the Responsibility for election comment In 'The Age' Is taken by B. Guthrie, of 250 Spencer Street, Melbourne. To comply with the Electoral Act, all letters must be signed and must bear the full postal address of the writer.

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1 Samuel 12:22 (Revised Standard Version) (Provided by the Bible Society). Vice-regal notes FEDERAL: Yesterday, at Government House, Canberra, the Governor-General, Sir William Deane, received Mr M. Llghtowler, former Australian ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Later, Sir William received Sir Anthony Kenny, secretary, Rhodes Trust, and Professor J. Poynter, Australian secretary to the Rhodes Trust.

STATE: The Governor, Mr McGarvie, and Mrs McGarvie held a reception at Government House on the occasion of Senior Citizens Week. Mr and Mrs McGarvie received the call of General Paul Rader, international leader of the Salvation Army, and Mrs Kay Rade, accompanied by Commissioner John Clinch, territorial commander, and Mrs Beth Clinch, who lunched at Government House. Mr McGarvie, accompanied by Mrs McGarvie, gave the keynote address at the opening of the annual conference of Rotary International District 9780 at Ocean Grove. YourownNEW Terrace Home from $176,950 2 or 3 Bedroom Close to Melbourne University Greens. Mr Rundle is expected to put in a formidable contest over the weekend, but observers narrowly favored Mr Groom to succeed.

This week, many Liberal MPs were making conciliatory statements, suggesting for the first time that they should accept the election verdict and make minority government work through cooperation in the previous leadership spill, and is favored by the Greens. Their leader, Mrs Christine Milne, pointed to his reformist record in parliamentary -practice and social justice. Mr Rundle said he was committed to making minority government work. "Despite my fairly direct approach, those people who know me, know that there is a softer, more conciliatory side." He ruled out making any formal arrangement with the Mr Ray Groom said: "All the feedback I've had is that people don't want a second election, especially if they have had a federal election as well. There's an obligation on the Parliament to make it work." Mr Groom came to power in 1992, three months after wresting the leadership from Mr Robin Gray.

One of his proudest reforms was the state's first hand-back of land tide to Aboriginal people in December. ALP readies for opposition Employees tell court of coercion in cash-out bid The Left yesterday selected its front-bench nominees in a meeting that saw two separate tickets put forward. Four former Left ministers, Senator John Faulkner, Senator Nick Bolkus, Mr Duncan Kerr and Mr Peter Baldwin, will return to the front bench. They will be joined on the front bench by new Left members including the former ACTU president, Mr Martin Ferguson, his brother Laurie- Ferguson, Mr Daryl Melham, Mr Lindsay Tanner and Ms Jenny Macklin. The expected new independent alliance faction, formed from the Centre-Left and independents, will take sue ministry positions, with two members, Senator Peter Cook and Senator Nick Sherry, seeking the party's deputy leadership In the Senate under the Left's Senator Faulkner.

The former Prime Minister, Mr Keating, is expected to outline his intentions at Tuesday's meeting. Party members expect him to retire from his seat of Blaxland almost immediately. By INNES WILLOX, political correspondent, Canberra Labor's shadow ministry has begun to take shape, with the main factions finalising their nominees ahead of Tuesday's caucus meeting that will begin the party's formal review of its 2 March election loss. The shadow ministry is expected to have 27 members one less than the Government with at least 16 former ministers not on Labor's new front bench. The Right faction will have 12 mem-, bers in the ministry, including the prospective Opposition Leader, Mr Kim Beazley, and his deputy, a position being contested by former ministers Mr Simon Crean and Mr Gareth Evans.

A preference for Mr Evans to shadow the Treasurer, Mr Costello, is emerging, although Mr Crean is considered favorite to win the deputy leadership. allowances for a 9.6 per cent pay rise. The company, backed by the Federal Government, took action yesterday to have overturned a decision by the full bench of the Industrial Relations Commission which quashed the agreement. Counsel for the company, Mr John Trew, QC, told the full bench of the court that the IRC had been outside its jurisdiction when it approved an appeal against the non-union agreement by the union representing workers at the plant. The Federal Government has backed the company in support of the right of employers and employees to negotiate workplace agreements without third party intervention.

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