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THE SUNDAY AGE NEWS 9 17 Jul 1994 Calls for help unheeded MARRIAGE ENRICHMENT Enrich your life as a couple, loin ui ior weekend of romance and discovery In a qutei haven 1 houri drive from city. Sal Sun 30-31 July. Motel accommodation $325 per couole. "WHY DID JESUS DIE AND RISE AGAIN" call 008 016 314 for more details By Gary Tippet not the children' 1 mill (tii lihtw Info (0S) Ml 125 If If II Every week, the University of Melbourne hosts all sorts of interesting lectures anyone can attend. And they're all free.

So if you see anything you like the sound of, just come along. There's plenty of parking within the University grounds for just $2 per car. Friday, July 22 oaaaaKB i tragedy: From last week's 'Sunday Age' Enrol now for the next quality accredited MYOB course to be held from 9am to 5pm on two consecutive A Better Death The philosophical, legal and practical questions which en surround death and dying are of vital concern to the community. Is there a right way to die? Who makes the decisions? How do we best care for the dying? This seminar, hosted by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, as part of the Dean's Mondays, 25 July and I August. To register, please telephone Bernadette Ritoli at Unimelb on (03) 344 6098.

WiEN Gennaro Manna took the lives of himself, his wife and three children in an' explosion of gunshot and flame early last Saturday morning, friends and neighbors were deeply shocked but, on reflection, unsurprised. For the past 18 months Mr Manna, an unemployed concreting contractor and diagnosed schizophrenic, had been sending signals that such a tragedy was inevitable. Police, after attending a series of domestic disputes at the Manna home, had confiscated a gun from Mr Manna and taken out an intervention order against him on behalf of his wife, NilTa. Child protection officers had been called to the home and fellow church members had reported their fears for the family's safety. But, for whatever reason, the signals were not acted on.

Mr Manna, 38, his wife, 33, and their children Ida, 1 1, Chiarina, 7, and Johncarmine, 5, died in a fire that destroyed their home in Dixon Court, Boronia, about 4 am last Saturday. Police are treating the deaths as a murder-suicide. Police had been called to the Manna home regularly at least 25 times, one neighbor claimed last week to quell domestic disputes. Child protection officers from the LIMITED UNIMELB In 1989, he was admitted to Mar-oondah Hospital after being diagnosed schizophrenic. Then last year he stopped taking his medication and grew increasingly aggressive, assaulting his wife ana emotionally abusing his children.

Mr Manna was excommunicated from the church because of they way he treated his family, but Mrs Manna continued to attend. On 6 June, following a service, she asked Mr Walters for a lift to her sister's. On the way she revealed that she feared for her and her children's safety. "I said: 'For your children's sake, please leave I said I had a holiday place and she could stay there as long as she liked," said Mr Walters. "I even offered to take her, but she said: 'No, he'll still get at me'." Three weeks ago Mr Manna cornered Mr Walters, asking questions about where people go when they die.

Mr Walters said he believed Mr Department of Health and Community Services were called in October to investigate reports of a child screaming. Following one violent family dispute last year, Knox police seized a firearm from Mr Manna and on another occasion a police constable took out an intervention order on behalf of Mrs Manna which she failed to act on. About three weeks ago, after Mr Manna hinted to an elder from his church that he might kill his wife and children, the man's wife telephoned Health and Community Services about her fears for the family's safety. A spokesman for HACS said last week that there was no record of the call. Mr John Walters, an elder of the Knox branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, said Mr Manna had been a "humble guy, meek and mild-mannered and very polite" when he joined the church about three years ago.

UMC 1304 Thornton WNufFCB Lecture Scries, attempts to answer these and other questions. 2pm, Sunderland Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Medical Building. Please phone 344 5888 for further details. Parking is not available on University grounds for this seminar. Thursday, July 28 Making Things Fit Measurement in Modern Engineering Associate Professor Clive Frascr.

who has a world-wide reputation in pliototrrammctric spatial data collection, will provide an overview of the current state of the art in precision 3D I) measurement systems. Recent developments in automated and semi-automated robot and machine vision systems will be emphasised. 6pm, Lecture Theatre Al, First Floor, Old Engineering Thursday, Tulv 28 Australia's Role in a Growing NAFTA Mr Sydney 1. Mayer will review the historical background of Australia's trade with Britain and the Festival's MC takes first bow United States and our trading position in the world, as SPECTACULAR ANTIQUE AUCTION To Be Held At The Auction Rooms on Sunday 24th July 1994, Commencing at 11 AM Including: Superb French Decorative Furnishings; A Mien if icent Collection of English Furniture Ou (stand ingCollectionof Royal Worcester Uy artists: IT Davis, Baldwyn, Salter, Blake, Phillips Hawkins; 18th Century Meissen figures; Koynl Vienna; Collection of Imperial Satsuma; Two World Class pairs of French Sevres Vases Collection of 23 Ivory and Tortoiseshell Miniatures; Collection of Eastern Cloisonne, French Ormulu and Signed Bronze figures and groups Collection of Viennese Bronzes; Pair of Australian Silver mounted Emu Eggs by Willam Edwards; Collection of 18fh Century Air twist Wine Classes; 18th St 19th Century Sterling Silver Toddy Ladles, Gravy Boats, Snuff Boxes; Two Sterling Silver flatware Canteens; Exquisite Collection of French Sevresand Ormulu Clocksand Timepieces and Clocksets. Interesting Section of Diamond, Cold and Pearl Jewellery; Collection of French Art Glass by Devez, D-Arsall.

Collection of Decorative Oil Paintings and Watercolours. Item of interest: Silent Movie 9.5mm Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Viewing for this Sale is highly recommended and obtaining the Catalogue fur comprehensive listings; well as discussing Australia likely future, both world trade and politically, vis a vis other countries. In the chair will be Professor Stuart Macintyrc 5pm-6pm, Margaret Kiddle Room, 3rd Floor, John Medley Building. By Muriel Reddy Manna was playing mind games. "But he did say at the end, which really freaked me out: 'If 1 know that my wife or my children are threatened in any way, or I'm going to lose them if I go, I'm going to take them with Mr Walters said his wife phoned Health and Community Services in Melbourne to report her fears.

A HACS spokesman, Mr Graeme Walker, said last week that there was no record of the call, despite the department having "well-established procedures for receiving and acting upon Mr Walker said child protection officers visited the family last October after a caller reported a child screaming. "The child was distressed because of fighting or some sort of dispute between the parents," he said, but it appeared there was no threat to the child's well-being. Inspector Ray said Knox uniformed police had attended the Manna home a number of times. Knox Bishop Jeff Tempany said Mrs Manna had often expressed a fear for her life. "He always threatened he would do something like this.

But and I think I echo the feelings of the people who lived in the street, the church members and the police I guess it was always a concern. I hoped with all my heart that it would never get to this extent," he said. Wreckage of RAAF jet found near Weipa WRECKAGE believed to be that of a RAAF FA-18 jet fighter which went missing on a training flight in 1991 has been found in a remote area of Cape York Peninsula. The aircraft took off from 75 Squadron at RAAF base Tindal, near Katherine in the Northern Territory, and disappeared with its pilot, 26-year-old Flying Officer Cameron Conroy, slumped apparently unconscious over the controls. Australian Defence Force spokesman Brigadier Adrian D'Hage said yesterday a stockman looking for missing horses found the wreckage of an aircraft on Friday morning.

The aircraft had apparently disintegrated on impact, creating a crater 10 metres wide and three metres deep. But there were enough recognisable pieces to indicate it was probably the missing jet. The wreckage is located in rugged country about 100 kilometres north-east of Weipa. The remains of the pilot have not been found. An RAAF team has been flown in to secure the site and an accident investigation team will arrive there this week.

The team will look for the cockpit pressurisation valve and the aircraft's maintenance data recorder, similar to the "black box" used on commercial airliners. Flying Officer Conroy, of Karin-yup in Western Australia, took off from Tindal on 5 June 1991 on a routine training mission. He was last seen by another FA-18 pilot slumped forward in his cockpit with his oxygen mask off. It was estimated the plane would have run out of fuel and crashed about 60 nautical miles east of Weipa. Despite an extensive search, it was not located.

A RAAF board of inquiry suggested the pilot may have removed his oxygen mask in a cockpit which should have been pressurised but was not. Friday, July 29 What's New in Magnetism In the first of a series of Physics Lectures, Professor G.I. Opat will talk on the history and nature of magnetic materials such as iron and the exciting new magnetic materials and their potential applications. This is undoubtedly one of the finest collections to be auctioned for many years. Tupeq; Tomorrow, Sun, from 9 am am 8pm, Laby Theatre, adjacent to the Pliysics Building, Cnr Th Alley and Swanston Street.

K. Til it 'Ail Saturday, July 30 Melbourne Writers Group Workshop Presented by Les Harrop, Catherine Johns and Clive 'A Mitchell the workshop will cover the purposes of writing, good writing style and building character, and will include a Consummate programmer: Leo Schofleld has stayed clear of themes. Retain: DOMINIC O'BRIEN panel discussion on the writer's role. It's free but you must book by July 22. Please phone (03) 497 1741.

11am to 4.45pm, Reader Education Room, 1st Floor, Baillieu Library. Sunday, August 14 Discovery Day: Plot your course into the future HE'S wearing a black tie but there's nothing funereal about Leo Schofleld's mood. In fact, the artistic director of the Melbourne Festival Is feeling rather pleased with himself and with the response to his first festival program, launched on Friday. It's an upbeat, optimistic program designed to win back the disaffected, woo newcomers and silence the critics. It has something for everyone opera, theatre, music, food, even the re- turn of the Botanica exhibition.

"I wanted to bring a lot of products that I knew to be of high quality to Melbourne," he said. "There is room in later festivals to experiment." his predecessor, Richard Wherrett, Schofleld has stayed clear of themes. Still, -there are some strong elements in the program. There is a solid representation of solo women performers, an element of classicism and a broad popular strain. Schofleld has already put his own stamp on the festival.

He has changed its name from the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts to the "more modern" Melbourne Festival, moved its offices from City Road to more spacious accommodation In St Kilda Road, and introduced a BASS terminal at Tourism Victoria to allow Interstate visitors to book shows with their travel arrangements. If the festival proves to be popular, then the future of Schofleld, a controversial appointee, will be assured. He has Just renewed his contract for another year defying critics who said he would not last a year. "Initially, It was a bit scary," he recalls. "I wasn't prepared for the Conic and explore Melbourne's most vibrant University.

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I mean I expected some flak as someone from Sydney but it seems to have been bigger for me than Kevan Gosper or Robyn Nevin or Richard Wherrett." Still, time has soothed and silenced. Even Carlllo Gantner, one of the harshest critics who described Schofleld as a "dilettante" last year, would not be drawn further. He said that to suggest Schofleld was doing a good job could be construed as sychophancyj to criticise would be seen as sour grapes. Schofleld says he now feels quite cosy in Melbourne. "I have had moments of incredible loneliness because my entire time down here has revolved around the festival," he said.

"But for the most part my diary is pretty full and being a festival director, you have to give your life to It It was sold to me as a part-tune Job but It is no such thing. Even weekends are taken up with it" Schofleld says Vie has worked furiously over the past year to generate publicity for the October festival. "There were selective leaks of the program from January of this year," he explained. "This was to get people excited about what was coming to Melbourne. I think there was a sense of disaffection and alienation In previous years.

I made It my business to conduct a one-man market research program. I have essentially followed a brief that was culled from Melbumians. I have responded to what people want from the festival." Schofleld said the program for 1995 was almost complete. It will have a strong Australian component and will feature a number of International artists performing new Australian works. Ideally, Schofleld says, he would like to do three festivals.

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