The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • 5

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10 1998 fflft fffhtfg jttimag jjjeralb i 5 wwwsfnhcofnau Home is where the hanger is favoured by British designer John Galliano or Australia's Collette Dinnigan For Zampatti frequent trips to Europe where her husband John Spender is Australia's Ambassador to France have exposed her to the full force of international fashion movements She finds being in Europe every second month are right in the middle of what is happening in the world You gist a sense of where and how fashion is up to now American minimalism is influencing the world and it's influencing me simply because it's very wearable different linear and very modem" The Zampatti version of minimalism will do well judging by the enthusiastic comments of those in the front row yesterday Mrs Packer described an ivory long skirt satin top and zip-front jacket as "sensational for the and Lady Atwill waxed lyrical about an ivory devort velvet evening gown By JANE de TEUGA Sfe and Fashion Editor a long way from the grungy inner-city warehouse favoured by some of fashion designers but for Carla Zampatti and lisa Ho -the luxurious family mansion will do nicely Yesterday Zampatti opened her home in leafy WooQahra to the fashion media and a select group of clients including Ascham head Rowena Danziger Ros Packer Lady AtwiU and Caroline Laws to show her autumn winter 1999 collection Today it will be Lisa Ho's turn when she parades her embroidered grey flannels beaded velvets silver laces and faux fur against the backdrop of a sparkling harbour view at her Point Piper home Zampatti and Ho represent the two dominating trends in fashion the pared-down modernism of American designers such as Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford and the romantic retro CARR BACKS TAX The Premier Mr Carr attacked prominent tax avokters when opening the $80 million upgrading of Canterbury Hospital yesterday saying the State land tax on milliorvdollar residential properties had helped pay for the work GILFORD TO ACT Deborah Parry one of the British nurses convicted of the murder of Australian Yvonne Gilford in Saudi Arabia is planning to turn her story into a book and a television drama according to British newspaper reports But Mr Frank Gilford said from Adelaide yesterday that he would take legal action to stop anyone profiting from his sister's death Mr Gilford is also reportedly seeking legal advice with a view to suing Lucille McLauchlan convicted as an accessory to the murder over a book she has written MURDER A 17-year-old Cairns youth was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for the murder of a Japanese backpacker Ms Michiko Okuyama 22 who choked on her own blood after having her face repeatedly bashed into a wall in September last year $55000 TROPHY A Melbourne Cup trophy won by the New Zealand gelding Catalogue In 1938 fetched $55200 at auction in Melbourne last night three times more than predicted A NSW family made the anonymous winning phone bid SPEAKER PICKED Liberal Party MPs yesterday chose Mr Neil Andrew a South Australian to replace Mr Ian Sinclair as Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr Andrew will be formally elected to the position by a vote of the full House today LOTTO NUMBERS Last night's winning numbers: 61315161721 Supplementaries: 10 and 43 Strike: 6 21 15 13 Straight from living room to you Carla Zampatti shows some of her new range at her Wooflahra home Photograph by Patrick cummins The job driving police to drink LEAGUE CLUBS TACKLE THE BEER-FIGHT CULTURE By DEBRA JOPSON Nearly half of all policemen and two in five women officers in NSW consume alcohol at hazardous levels both by downing too many glasses over a week and by binge drinking a study released yesterday found This level of drinking is serious" for police because slower reaction times increase the risk of injury from road crashes or firearms according to the author Dr Robyn Richmond associate professor of community medicine at the University of NSW It is hard to envisage that the work performance and safety of at least some police was not sometimes impaired by alcohol given the reported levels of she said in a report in Addiction magazine In a survey of 852 police with an average age of 33 at 19 work sites across Sydney Dr Rich Two clubs are putting the boot into the hard drink hard fight hard rugby league culture and several more are likely to join them the drug and alcohol conference was told The Canberra Raiders and the North Queensland Cowboys had joined the A program in which footballers' learned to drink safely manage their anger and say no to drugs and gambling counsellor Mr Mark O'Connor said The two pilot clubs had already had Initial sessions in which the job and a hierarchical culture which prized conformity another study the women were saying they needed to drink to keep up with the men It is a very difficult culture and a very stressful place to work There are court appearances violent situations where mond and colleagues also found most had a less than optimal healthy lifestyle Almost half reported that they were overweight More than one in five did no exercise at all Some 27 per cent of the men and 32 per cent of the women said they smoked both rates much higher than the general population Nearly half of the women aged 50 to 65 smoked Dr Richmond said she was confident that the sample surveyed in 1995 was representative of NSW police in cities with two-thirds of all police being in Sydney than one in seven respondents had no unhealthy lifestyle she said when presenting her findings at the national conference of the Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs Such high levels of drinking and smoking were part of a lidomide to deformities in unborn children in 1961 received the news at a hearing of the NSW Medical Tribunal yesterday been very said Dr McBride 71 who was health would not have been classified later as But die praised NSW police management for acting on the report by setting up a team which is now doing the rounds of police districts to assess individuals' health and counsel them on healthier lifestyles morning sickness and in 1993 the medical tribunal deregistered him Asked yesterday if he could ever restore his reputation Dr McBride said: I don't know but we have done some At 71 disgraced hero declared fit and proper to practise medicine again rate of the general population At 7 per cent the death rate from lung cancer was also higher than the overall rate of 54 per cent figures are probably die said those who leave the sendee prematurely because of ill- of hearts he is a changed man and I admire his stoicism and Sir Laurence wrote In 1987itwasdaimedhehad misrepresented the results of a deeply flawed experiment in 1982 involving another drug for lA very important work-in the last five years which has not had its full impact on science yet hear a lot more about the work that's been done in Foundation 41 a research KAZOO AUDT70fSMH players could talk about their problems Later they would i education sessions tests of how well they I computer games before and after drinking research in the early 1990s found players drinking in excess of 30 standard drinks in one session he said -Recent embarrassing public brawls had helped dubs overcome their hesitancy about educating their players about the demon in the drink he said DEBRA JOPSON people have died such as car cradles There are personal dangers shift work and a culture of she said An analysis by the Australian Bureau of Statistics which she commissioned also revealed that 12 per cent of police died of alcoholic liver disease twice the McBride is a fit and proper person to resume the practice of Justice Blanch quoted a character reference from former NSW Chief Justice Sir Laurence Street know that in his heart wa sfc distinguished obstetricians and gynaecologists that Australia has McBride has now frankly admitted it was his dishonesty which caused his he said is my view Dr TiflSr-'-ff ADL 123456 Permit No TC9I9261-NSW T9S3373-SA TP4II535-ACT i tj hi in LLnA'wak By JON MARSH Dr William McBride a national hero who disgraced himself by falsifying scientific research is free to practise medicine again The man credited with linking the morning-sickness drug tha Term lad condition nppl Permit no hh 1 Vt i ii 'ii nn i i -i VS 1- cm a A male-dominated culture in which after-hours social talk was of fighting and violence at the end of shifts is an important part of police she said Other factors turning police to drink were conflict with management a sometimes limited commitment to Dr McBride deregistered five years ago very happy to get back to He said he planned to work in a hospital in Samoa Justice Reg Blanch described Dr McBride as of the most ft -j fo: AiicH if 1 '1 im- a I JL GOOD Audi Take advantage of our Audi Dealer Deals and we'll throw in a free demonstrator For a strictly limited time Audi dealers are doing deals on two of the most talked about cars of the year These offers are available on both 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