The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 7

The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, April 2, 1986 Pa'ge 7 1 Subsidy for Expert warns of Star Wars hypocrisy lew sana-minm monorail: attle near in Old But the regional director of the Far Northern National Parks and Wildlife Service, Mr James Stanton, said the Shelburne Bay area was "irreplaceable for An Aboriginal resident of the Wuthathi tribe, Mr Alex Pablo, told the court: "I no want white man to take away white sand." At least three significant Aboriginal sites, including burial grounds, have been found among the dunes. The court heard that a reef-destroying Japanese mussel could invade the area after being flushed from the bilges of the sand ships. The court rejected the mining application until it could be proved "the introduction of the organism will not devastate the Reef. Conservationists now are waiting on a new environmental By DAVID MONAGHAN BRISBANE: A spectacular area of silica sand dunes off Cape York is likely to be the next flashpoint between conservationists and the Queensland Government. The Minister for Mines, Mr Ivan Gibbs, laid battlelines this week by backing sand mining at Shelburne Bay, only two weeks after the Queensland Mining Warden, Mr T.

J. Black, recommended the mining application be rejected. The conservationists want to stop a Japanese joint venture mining dunes near coral reefs. Shelburne Bay is the centre of a 500-square-kilometre system of dunes, open heath, wetlands forest and lakes adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. The area is on the Federal Government's Register of the National Estate (a list of the country's best natural areas) and is the subject of international research.

Though extremely it is hailed as an unmatched spectacle among the flat savannah of Cape York. In 1984, A. S. P. Resources and Shelburne Silica Pty Ltd, representing Japanese glass factories" and foundries, studied the area.

They put forward a plan under which, eventually, 400,000 tonnes of silica sand a year would be shipped to Japanese factories through a major port to be constructed on coral reef off Rodney Island. Last July, the Thursday Island Mining Warden's Court began a hearing between the miners and seven objectors. The director of Shelburne Silica, Mr Peter Bingley White, told the court that the dunes were "a god-forsaken place on the coastal published, which graduate students they had working with them and what meetings they attended were being restricted, he said. "It's a means by which the Pentagon can take over American science." Dr DeWitt said he strongly approved of the offer of a ban on all nuclear testing by the Soviet Union, and its self-imposed halt to tests since August 6 last year. "It is to the grave discredit of the US Government that the Reagan Administration has not only ignored Soviet overtures, but has gone on and even accelerated their testing program," he said.

The Star Wars scheme was one reason for the rejection of the offer of a test ban, he said. "The big bugaboo in President Reagan's mind is that the Soviets might cheat and hide their tests," he said. But recent development in seismology, interpreting high frequency waves, "had removed the last obstacle to a test ban treaty in a verification "I know that Caspar Weinberger, when he comes to Australia will maintain that verification makes a test ban treaty unfeasible and I says it's a lie, it's just untrue." Dr DeWitt explained that his work concerned astrophysics, especially the study of matter in the interior of stars such as the Sun. This research was supported by the US Defence Department because it resembled nuclear explosions, he said. PAGE 14: Editorial.

By DAVID McKNIGHT Acceptance of funding by Australian scientists for Star Wars research would mean an element of hypocrisy in the Australia stance against the program, a leading US nuclear weapons scientist said yesterday. Dr Hugh DeWitt, whose visit to Australia is sponsored by Scientists against Nuclear Arms, is a physicist from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, one of the two major US nuclear weapons laboratories. Dr DeWitt said the Strategic Defence initiative (Star Wars) program was one of the reasons for the US rejection of the current Soviet offer of a test ban treaty. President Reagan was concerned that all US allies accept the "technological spin-offs" of the Star Wars research in order to win domestic approval for the system, he said. The visit to this country of the US Defence Mr Caspar Weinberger, would probably include discussions on the "administrative framework" for research co-operation on Star Wars.

The funds being dangled in front of the research people were very attractive, Dr DeWitt said, because normal scientific funding in the US had been cut back. About 1,500 American scientists, led by Professor John Bardeen, a Nobel prize-winner, had signed a statement refusing Star Wars funding, he said. Those who accepted often found that after two or three years their work was classified. hat they published, where they alderman By PIUTA CLARK The State Government -has strongly rejected claims that the Darling Harbour monorail could be partly paid for by taxpayers. An Independent Sydney City Council alderman, Mr Michael Mobbs, said the agreement between the Darling Harbour Authority and TNT Bulkships released by the State Government last week raised more questions than it answered.

Alderman Mobbs, an environmental lawyer, said: "The monorail agreement refers to nine other documents which haven't been produced. "Without those documents the public cannot know what is proposed. For example, we don't know what the cost will be to the Government "While the Premier has said the monorail won't cost taxpayers a cent, the monorail agreement reveals just the opposite. "TNT Bulkships's rates, land tax, water rates and stamp duty costs will be paid for by the Darling Harbour Authority. "The agreement only requires TNT to share part of the profits.

I consider this to be an improper gift to a private developer." A spokeswoman for the Minister for Public Works, Mr Brereton, agreed that TNT was exempt from paying land and water rates but said this was normal practice in any transport contract. impact study- Opposition on Rival unions gave Sir Peter freedom to axe Piclure by BRKNDAN READ US verification claim "a Dr Hugh DeWitt wild spending spree: Walsh CANBERRA: Policies put forward by the Federal Opposition would add $7 billion to the Budget deficit, the Minister for Finance, Senator Walsh, claims. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Howard, and his colleagues had been engaged in "a wild and irresponsible spending spree while at the same time condemning the level of spending by the Senator Walsh said yesterday. Opposition promises, if implemented, would add more than SI. 4 billion a year to government spending and would cost revenue almost S6 billion if the full cut in petrol prices, due to the fall in world oil prices, was passed on to consumers.

Senator Walsh identified Mr Howard's proposal to make attendance at some form of educational institution a qualification for unemployment benefits for young people as the biggest boost to outlays, costing S600 million. Passing on the full benefits of falling oil prices, at a cost to revenue of $2 billion, is the biggest cut on the revenue side. STEVE BURRELL "This meeting calls on Ansett Airlines to continue to resist these unjustifiable demands and should the TWU fail to utilise the ACTU demarcation mechanisms the unions will pursue all other avenues to finally resolve the matter." It was this final paragraph that gave Ansett the green light for the mass dismissals. The resolution was the strongest against an ACTU-affiliate since the ACTU blasted the BLF over the Sydney police centre dispute, although it stopped short of authorising other unions to carry out the strikers' duties. Mr Barry Robinson, secretary of the airlines secretariat of ATOF, said last night: "The TWU have become the BLF of the airlines.

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