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THE AGE WEDNESDAY 13 AUGUST 1997 A2 JUST We need special 9Jr TM a 0 Premiership class: Mr Kennett joins schoolchildren at morning assembly in his tour of the Mornington Peninsula yesterday. Picture: VIKI YEMETTAS. Unrepentant Kennett flies in the face of ALP By SUSHILA DAS The Premier, Mr Jeff Kennett, was yesterday accused of being too frequent a flyer at taxpayers' expense, after he used a helicopter to go to the Mornington Peninsula. The Opposition accused Mr Kennett of acting like a Third World dictator out of touch Mr Kennett, who has said several times that he dislikes flying, yesterday flew about 25 minutes from Melbourne to Mount Martha for a business breakfast, and then for a further 10 minutes to Seaford, a few suburbs away. "Nine per cent of Victorians have their head in an unemployment queue as a result of Mr Kenriett's policies.

We have average Victorians trying to get their head on a hospital bed, and Mr Kennett has got his head in the clouds somewhere between Mornington and Seaford," Mr Hulls said. Using of a chopper was appropriate for some visits to Vilaplr By DEBRA JOPSON The indigenous leader Dr Lois O'Donoehue last night urged the Federal Government to change the Constitution to 'recognise her people's status as "the first Australians" because otherwise they would have to on "the goodwill of the "We would like our rights to be enforceable within the legal of the nation," Dr "O'Donoghue said while delivering the Institute of Public Administration Australia's Spann Oration at the New South Wales State Library. Dr O'Donoghue also called on the Federal Government to consider another agenda beside its emphasis on economic development and "The Minister (for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator John Herron) talks up economic development as the new way out of welfare dependence. One cannot object to this, but it proves that in indigenous affairs nothing is new, just forgotten," she said. But "getting from A to in indigenous affairs is not as simple as it might be she said.

The Government should implement recommendations of three key social justice reports delivered by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Human Rights Commission, she said. But it no longer even mentioned their existence. A former ATSIC chairwoman, Dr O'Donoghue admitted that the commission was still not "universally accepted" as representative within the indigenous community. This was because of "the very many divisions within that community and because of competition from other powerful organisations such as land "And as a government agency disbursing government funds, it has had to act bureaucratical- 1. i ty, sue sum.

"In fact, in making ATSIC an indigenous-controlled organisation, the former government made the demands of accountability even more imperative. ATSIC has spent a lot of time looking over its shoulder," she the special auditor the Government appointed to investigate the organisation last year found that 95 per cent of funded organisations were "fit and proper" bodies to receive public money. "Most accountability problems related to the small size of the organisations and the need Ifor management training," Dr -O'Donoghue said. The auditor found "ATSIC's of grant administration was detailed and rigorous, even i QK with reality and with priorities all wrong. "I understand this helicopter jaunt cost taxpayers about $5500," said the shadow attorney-general, Mr Rob Hulls.

"I mean, this is an obscene use of tax payers' funds. The Premier is flying around this state in a helicopter as though he was some Third World dictator." ater nurses were under increased pressure with greater workloads than previously. But it was obvious that the network did not have the extra money to fund nurses beyond a 6 per cent pay rise over two years, let alone to add extra staff or improve rostering, she said. The nurses' claim includes an ambit pay rise of 15 per cent over two years. The union is scheduled to meet other networks in the commission over the next few days.

Talks may continue through the weekend. Nurses are due to meet en masse again next Wednesday. "At the end of the day, as we're going through each of the 11 points, it is becoming more and more obvious that they don't have the money within their budgets to deal with the issues," she said. The union says 3500 nurses have been removed from the system since 1992, and that at least 500 positions needed to be reinstated. The Victorian Hospitals Industrial Association denied there was a shortage of nurses.

keep Nnjirses likely to talks fail peace immMmmmfm? criticism "If he earns the right, then he will have access to modes of travel that Tit time constraints and demand," Mr Kennett said. Mr Steve Murphy, a spokesman for the Premier, said the Opposition's calculations of the cost of hiring the helicopter were wrong, and the figure was in fact less than $5500. Dealer gives gamblers' money back By PATRICK DONOVAN, court reporter A Crown casino dealer returned $1 100 to losing gamblers because he felt sorry for them, Melbourne Magistrates Court was told yesterday. Senior Constable Chris Cor-bell told the court that on 28 lanuary, Mark Quentin Fairhall, 26, of Melbourne, pushed $450, $300 and $350 worth of chips back to gamblers after they lost hands of the traditional Chinese gambling game pai gow. Senior Constable Corbcll said $150 had not been recovered.

Mr Fairhall's barrister, Mr Charles Chow, said his client had returned the chips because he "felt sorry for some of the He said Mr Fairhall had treated the gambling chips as his own, and had received no personal reward. He said the three charges of theft his client faced would be argued in legal discussion. Mr Chow said there was no issue over the facts, but it was a matter of law whether the prosecution would pursue the theft charges. The deputy chief magistrate, Mr Brian Barrow, said it was "an interesting scenario" and adjourned the matter until 7 October for a hearing. the bush, but a trip by air from Melbourne to Seaford was unacceptable, as a car journey would have taken about an hour, he said.

But Mr Kennett hit back, saying Mr Hulls was a "spiteful little man" who had to cam the right to be in government before he could enjoy certain types of travel. bed 1 1992: Nurses move to federal award to beat the Kennett Government's contract system. 1993-1994: Enterprise bargaining agreements finalised in several large public hospitals. Nurses agree to roster changes and forgoing accrued days off in exchange for $8 a week increase. 1994: Nurses gain the $8 safety net increase awarded by the Industrial i Relations Commission, first pay rise since September 1991.

199S: Nurses gain a 10 per cent rise in three stages over years under enterprise bargaining. 1 1997: Nurses impose work bans in June and again in August, seeking a 15 per cent ambit pay rise and roster improvements. Government offers 6 per, cent through hospital networks. BRIEFLY Garibaldi pair remanded TWO directors of Garibaldi Smallgoods, awaiting sentence on charges relating to the food-poisoning outbreak' that killed a girl in Adelaide two years ago, were remanded in custody yesterday. In a surprise move, South Australian Supreme Court Judge John Perry ordered that Luciano and Philip March! await their fate in custody.

Last month the Marchis were granted bail after pleading guility to a charge of creating a risk of harm by failing to inform the Health Commission over a week in early 1995 of possible contaminated salami produced by Garibaldi and by failing to issue a product recall. Welder burned in factory blast A 30-year-old man was severely burned on the legs and stomach when the drum he was welding yesterday at a road repairs factory in Elliot Road, Uandenong South, blew up. He was taken to Dandenong Hospital. Three charged over school pot THREE people have been charged in connection with the sale of marijuana to Swan Hill secondary students. Police said a 21-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman from Swan Hill and a 29-year-old man from Lalbert, 45 kilometres west of Swan Hill, had been charged with various offences, including the use, possession, cultivation and trafficking of marijuana.

The two men were remanded in custody at the Bendigo Magistrates Court on Monday and will appear in the Swan Hill Magistrates Court tomorrow. The woman has been bailed to appear at the court on 27 August. Woman killed as car, truck collide A 26-year-old woman was killed when her car and a truck collided in Clayton South yesterday morning. The woman was attempting a right-hand turn from Springs Road into Centre Road. Quote of the day "It is my belief that the -Department of Education made an incorrect assessment in the case of Emily Schwab, which has caused unwarranted grief to (her) family the Education Minister, Mr Phil Gude And the winner is Justice Kenneth Hayne, who has been appointed to the High Court.

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"In respect of the Inner and Eastern Network there is not an acute (nurse) shortage as has been suggested," he said. "There are small patches of workload issues but there is nothing in the order the ANF is suggesting." Mr Djoneff said hospitals expected the effects of the nurses' bed closures to accumulate as time went on and patients were discharged, while elective surgery in many hospitals had been cancelled. The ANF's state secretary, Ms Belinda Morieson, said an injection of 500 nurses was desperately needed to maintain the state's public hospital system. "You cannot take 3500 nurses out of the system (and) increase the number of patients by 190,000," she said. The Health Minister, Mr Rob Knowles, has said he has put $93 million extra into the health care system, but the union said that money was for capital works.

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But the row continues because many nurses are on classifications at lower rates of pay. "1990: The final professional pay increase is awarded. A first-year nurse who had been earning $337.40 in 1986 was now earning $458.20. I I bams By STEVE DOW, health editor Victorian nurses are unlikely to lift their industrial bans when they meet next week after their union failed to strike an agreement with a key hospital network in the Industrial Relations Commission yesterday. More than 1000 beds closed yesterday, according to the nurses' union, and the figure is likely to increase to 1200 by today as nurses maintain their ban on one in five public hospital beds in support of their 11-point industrial claim.

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