The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • 1

Wednesday November 2 1977 2S0 Spencer St Melbourne 600421 (Classified 600611) 54 Pages 124th Year 12c The surge to victory through a wall of horses ELEnum '77 No help in Liberal campaign From STEPHEN NISBET CANBERRA Public servants in at least three departments have refused to help prepare background material for the election policy The ACT branch president of the Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association Mr A Simakoff said yesterday the public servants objected to work requests from the Prime Minister Mr Fraser The departments are Prime Overseas Trade and Foreign Affairs officers objecting to preparation of material which they class as electioneering are believed to have told section heads they will not do the work The section heads then reallocated the work or did it themselves The work included details and -costing of programmes which the Government might adopt as election promises Mr Fraser ordered all Ministers to submit by last Monday lists of departmental schemes for possible inclusion in his policy speech It was left to individual Ministers to work out how the lists would be prepared Ministerial staff shared in the work but some Ministers asked departmental staff to draw up the lists Mr Simakoff said ACOA members would be urged in the Journal to notify departmental heads if they were asked to perform election wont to which they objected Mr Simakoff said that once an election date had been announced public servants should not provide any information other than that required to carry on the normal day-to-day administration of their departments He said he would propose that the ACOA adopt this policy Qne political party should not hold an advantage over the other in access to information about programme costs and details of financial spending in electorates he said The secretary of the ACT branch of the ACOA Mr Geoff Blunden said some complaints had been received from members who had been asked to do work of a political character for the election number of complaints is significant because the work is done Agreement soon on safety Frem TONY THOMAS CANBERRA The Australian and British Governments are expected to reach an agreement on nuclear safeguards before Christmas The move is a preliminary step towards a SI 200 million uranium contract The Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr Peacock told Parliament yesterday that both sides expected a successful end to the safeguard talks The talks are with Britain's Minister of State for Energy Dr Dickson Mabon and his officials The Deputy Prime Minister Mr Anthony said Dr Mabon was canvassing the possibility of a contract for 1000 tonnes of uranium a year from 1982 to 1995 worth $1200 million -This contract would guarantee this supply of uranium so that the British Government can help the working people of England to remain employed11 -To Australia it means added income that will maintain living standards of this country" He said that if the Labor Party wanted to disown such a contract the party should do so during the election campaign Dr Mabon has already become controversial here over his appeal last week to the Labor Party to drop its ban on uranium exports Deputy Leader Mr Uren has accused Dr Mabon of helping the LNCP election campaign safeguards policy is to negotiate a bilateral safeguards agreement with each nation buying our uranium Among the criteria in our safeguards policy are: Agreement against use of the uranium for weapons Prior Australian consent to re-export of the uranium and to reprocessing of spent fuel and Adequate physical protection of British nuclear sites Australia so far has given only a con- 400 metres to the winnlng post and the Mg two Gold And Black and Reckless are locked behind the pack of surging horses NEWSlSUMMARY ODD SPOT Gippsland truckle had the hut laugh when they slipped the bolt on the door of the Trafalgar weighbridge toilet being used by the highway policeman who booked them He had to sit it out for six hours Cup jockey i stands tall INDEXrOIPAGES Weather hipping lew list 24 Amusements 19 Taft's Sweeps 20 Spert 27-30 Arts 2 Pinkney TV 2 WerM news 6 7 10 Letters a a 0 Edifnrinls 9 Access Ays 14 Accent 20 lusineie Age 21-24 Quntes 24 Blacks and alcohol A Parliamentary committee blasts sections of the Aboriginal Affairs Department for "glossing the alcohol problems of Aborigines'- 3 Wheat sale threatened A $10 million wheat sale to Indonesia could be jeopardised by a trade union ban on Indonesian ships 4 Pretoria faces curbs and West Germany put forward in the UN Security Council new proposals for a ban on arms to South Africa 6 China hits superpowers China calls for an international united front against the US and the Soviet Union Violent crime Victoria's police chief says the public should not be lulled by the high solution rate of violent crimes Out on a limb Australia home 'of the gum tree is importing eucalyptus oil from Swaziland 18 at a very senior level where great emphasis is put on responsibility and discretion' Comics Crossword Oy TONY BOURKE It was inevitable that trainer Bart Cummings would set a record of six Melbourne Cup victories But for jockey John Duggan yesterday's win was the most important moment of his life "1 may be a jockey but I feel eight feet 'tall right Duggan said-during the presentation Duggan treated the crowd of 83000 at Fiemington racecourse yesterday to a great riding exhibition as he drove the five-year-ck to old Gold And Black Classified index 31 Personal notices 25 ditional go-ahead to the Ranger uranium project And policy on Panconti-nental's uranium field is awaiting a decision on environmental statement Negotiations with Aborigines also need to be completed WEATH ER5TODAY) gelding CITY: Cool Showers Expected highest temperature 18 (yesterday 26) Details 24 John Duggan the winner ml last to the saddle with an immediate win on the Cummings-trained long shot Just Ideal in the Doncaster in Sydney but was then suspended for -a month Another suspension shortly after resuming meant that he had missed more than six months of riding since last vtt How our economy rates iWe have important names donvirsex fli ''y'S I- Silly games In another campaign development yesterday the Government was accused of trying to thwart Labor's campaign opening The ALP national secretary Mr Combe said the Liberal Party was playing "silly He said the Liberals had Iwoked the Sydney Opera House for three lunchtimes on November 17 18 and 24 The Opposition Leader Mr Whitlam is planning to deliver his policy speech at a lunchtime meeting at the Opera House The party hopes to announce the opening date today It seems most likely to be November 16 although a final decision has not been made Mr Fraser is expected to deliver his policy speech on November 21 Mr Combe said the Liberals' behavior was "childish" He said the Opera House Trust had asked the Liberals to choose which booking they wanted oy yesterday afternoon But at 6 pm yesterday they still retained the three bookings Mr Combe said can only assume that this is their idea of a bad joke or some strange conception of dirty he said The Labor campaign will have two slogans: Australia working: vote ALP" and "Uranium play it safe: vote in imported garments 5 -V I There were also rumors that ha could be replaced as Gold And Mack's rider after he finished second on the gelding in the last Gold And Black outstayed his main rival Reckless and the 661 outsider- Hyperno in the 3200-' metre race The 25-year-old Jockey had four rides in the Cup before yesterday and was second in the last two on Holiday Waggon in 1975 and on Gold Und Black last year Duggan was determined this would be his year even though he has had mixed -fortune in tne past 12 months He had a race fall last Dec-ember This put him out of the saddle for four and a half months and could easily have ended his career "My neck was in a brace for most of that time and the doc-tors considered a bone graft operation which probably would have stopped me from riding again" Duggan said Duggan celebrated his return Sydney Cup Reckless less Kenneth Davidson our Economics Editor looks at the Fraser Government's economic performance and compares it to that of tha Whitlam Government ana other Western nations 9 The Melbourne Cups king1: trainer Bart Cummings -irX The final extract of the Onassis biography beat him that day and that was the horse he was most concerned with yesterday "He certainly kept me Duggan said after the stirring finish which had the crowd roaring wife Joanne admitted that her husband had been "quietly before the race than first time seen John so confident before a big race But he waa still a bit hard to live with over the last few Duggan telephoned his parents in Riverwood Sydney on Monday night and told them he would be bringing home the Cup: Cummings said although he had won a cups yesterday was the proudest moment of his career "When 1 started training I never thought 1 would have a chance at a record such as this" he said winners were Light Fingers (1965) Gali- lee (1966) Red Handed (l967) and Think Big in 1974 and 1975 A feature of yesterday's crowd which was up about 2U0U on last year but down many thousands on soma of the big Cup crowds was the carnival atmosphere in the centre of the course The MU no longer a bargain Cup fashions 20 Tails sweep winner 20 Full Cup cover 30 DREAMS CRUMBLE 12 TOMORROW America to quit ILO WASHINGTON November 1 President Carter is expected to announce today American withdrawal from the International Labor Organisation I he decision which sources Hd caused some dissent in the Cabinet follows a meeting yesterday between the President and US trade union leader George Meany the US one of the founder members of the 134-nation organisation which works to improve conditions of labor around the world served notice two years ago of ils intention to withdraw It said the ILO was being used as a political forum ffltKJMfiJ-IEE- Li Domlnex House 75-77 Bourke Sheet Melbourne Between Exhibition and Spring Sts Phone: 638315 Domlnex Toorak 533A feorak Road kxxak Phone: 247188 NTG35E3 Tomorrow "The Age" presents the full guide to the week's TV and radio programmes Getting near the post and the whipa are cracking Reckless on Um Inside tackles Gold And Black A.