The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • 1

DfltUtj MONDAY FEBRUARY 10 1997 No 49747 FIRST PUBLISHED 1831 62 PAGES 80c Bruce Springsteen's Newking potent Sydney show the French Careers babies the ABC series THE GUIDE LIFTOUT BRUCE ELDER PAGE 12 SPORTING LIFE COLUMN 8 Ifouth work-for-the-dole plan It will set up at least 30 voluntary and compulsory work-for-the-dole schemes and monitor their success before possibly establishing a more comprehensive scheme to try to create a "work ethic" and skills for the young facing long-term unemployment The cost and details of the plan are being studied by Cabinet's Employment Committee set up by the Prime Minister last year to try to find ways of generating jobs and reducing youth unemployment rates The work-for-the-dole scheme will be the first of its kind in Australia and is being strongly pushed by Mr Howard But the plan brought an immediate and hostile response from youth groups welfare organisations and the Federal Opposition which called' it a "Mickey Mouse stunt" The Australian Council of Social Service said it was a third-rate and discredited policy Its president Mr Robert Fitzgerald said the idea appealed to sections of the community which felt the unemployed were "bludging" but "if this is the best the Government pretend wage in a pretend enterprise" he said Mr Howard announcing the program yesterday said it would involve young people in depressed rural and regional areas being given work in projects generated by local business and community groups Those employed would be paid the award rate and would work for the period it would take for this to amount to their dole payment about 15 to 20 hours a week Mr Howard said an example of work under the scheme would By GEOFF KITNEY and DIANE STOTT Some young unemployed people will have to work on community projects before they receive benefits under a controversial Federal Government plan to try to cut disastrous youth unemployment rates in depressed regions The Government plans to legislate by mid-year to give the Department of Social Security the power to deny benefits to young people who refuse to take jobs in pilot projects in rural and regional areas can offer when it is at its most creative and innovative then unemployed people must feel devastated" Such policies had failed in the past because they did not create long-term jobs and were expensive to administer The Australian Youth Policy and Action Coalition said the proposal had "serious problems" Its chief executive Mr Julian Pocock said work experience needed to be linked to career aspirations "Young people need real jobs not a pretend job on a be for young people to meet and greet visitors to Sydney They would be given short "hospitality" training courses at a TAFE college as part of the scheme Mr Howard said the program aimed at giving young people a work ethic which broke "the cycle of despondency and despair which can be so destructive of the spirit of younger people" Speaking on the Nine Network's Sunday program Mr Howard also: Said he might go to Britain to brief the Queen about the proposed republic convention and confirmed that the vote for delegates to the convention would be by postal ballot Announced that he will visit China at Easter to try to improve strained relations with Beijing Refused to give an assurance that the $45 billion allocated by the Labor Government for tax cuts and superannuation assistance in 1998 would be paid Revealed that he had called a Wik summit for Friday to try to find a common position between Aboriginal pastoral and mining interests PAGE 6: Fightback connection THE smiling visage of Peter Fussell Liberal candidate for the Federal seat of Sydney has beamed down from posters hung the length of Sussex Street since the March 1996 election Arthur Carruthers operations manager of the Sydney Entertainment Centre tried to discover whose responsibility it was to remove the posters The Liberal Party switch told him: "Oh that's terrible we'll get on to it right away" The Sydney City Council switch said: "I'm not sure which department looks after that" Sydney City Council Law Enforcement said: "Try the Electoral Commission" The Electoral Commission said: "Try Sydney City Council" Watch this space FROM the Southern Highland News Sheena Hill of Bowral sends us this plaintive advertisement "Who on earth" she asks "would want him back?" Summer takes a 36 degree turn for the hotter LOST AND FOUND Lost one small grey and white striped maie vicinrv of Duke Street Bow-a: DR Edward Duyker was not amused when he arrived in Beirut recently with his family and found that all their luggage had been mislaid He was given S50 by the airline to buy necessities but tells Column 8 that the local underwear does not inspire confidence: its brand name is Apocalypse JENNY Rush of Birchgrove flipping through the Louise Hay desk calendar "to see just how trite the daily homilies can get" found these reassuring words for May 30: "I affirm that each person in our government is loving honest honourable and truly working for the betterment of all people" Oh yes? EAGLE-EYED Greg Jones of Croydon has spotted an error in newspaper ads for Mr Reliable The film is set in rural Australia in 1968 but a scene-setting road sign in the ad warns of kangaroos for the next "15 kms" Australia did not begin to convert to metrics until 1970 ANY old wigs and gowns? The Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney is seeking donations of barristers' and judges' wigs gowns and other court apparel to form part of a sculpture on the Quay Street facade of the faculty's new Haymarket building to be opened in June The sculpture is the work of the artist Richard Goodwin and the wigs and gowns will be preserved in two glass canisters filled with nitrogen Donors' names and the provenance of the wigs and gowns will be recorded on a roll of honour If you can help phone George Marsh at UTS on (02) 92812699 Anger as police track mobile phones By MARIANNE KEARNEY and NICK PAPAD0P0UL0S Privacy groups and civil libertarians expressed outrage yesterday that police are effectively monitoring mobile phone users without their knowledge Police can track suspected criminals with mobile telephones to within several hundred metres by studying signals transmitted from the phones to nearby base stations The suspects can be located whether or not they are making a call a spokesman for Telstra said tell-tale signals were emitted from its mobile phones on average every 30 minutes The chairman of the NSW Privacy Committee Mr Chris Puplick said walking around with a mobile phone was "like walking around with a beeper or an implanted transmitter" "If I wanted to track in three weekends time who is at the Gay Mardi Gras presumably I could work out which members of the judiciary have got their mobile phone with them at the party" The president of the NS'w Council for Civil Liberties Mr John Marsden said the use of phone records by police was an "invasion of privacy and a vicious attack on people's rights" Telstra and Optus do not keep records of the signals transmitted from phones to base stations but if a warrant is issued in advance they can track a user's position In some cases even streets can be identified but accuracy is affected by topography interference from buildings the position of base stations and the number of mobile phones in the area Police have also been using mobile phone records kept by Telstra and Optus for billing purposes to check the alibis of murder suspects and to establish whom drug dealers are calling They say the records are a "very valuable investigative tool" and according to Senior Sergeant Frank Helsen of the NSW Police Service Crime Data Centre officers make daily requests for them Both Telstra and Optus have confirmed that they keep these records which give the date time cell area from which a call is made and its destination for seven years "We will provide the police with whatever level of information they're after and if it's a legitimate request then they will be looking for information that will help them as much as possible" said Ms Melina Reed of Optus "In most cases we cannot provide the level of accuracy that police are after" Under the Telecommunications Act (1991) phone companies must provide "all reasonable assistance" to law enforcement agencies where a prosecution is underway and After an unseasonably cold start summer made a late but grand entrance yesterday with temperatures reaching 36 degrees in the city While youngsters at Bronte Baths took the plunge for a cooling swim sporting types were left to sweat it out Patrick Rafter top left felt the heat at White City at the World Sevens drink bottles doubled as showers while one athlete at Homebush above left put on a brolly good show Today's forecast is for a cool change by midday Page 5: Full report Main photograph by david mariuz Anglicans support homosexual priests New Zealand killings add to toll in a decade of massacres The Archbishop of Sydney the Most Rev Harry Goodhew told the Herald that many homosexual men were priests and that the Anglican Church was better for it As well there were many chaste lesbians in the Church "I have certainly had close friends in the clergy whose orientation was homosexual and have led chaste lives who have had very productive ministries" he said Priests with homosexual tendencies were expected to lead celibate lives just as unmarried heterosexual priests were "Being a priest has never been related to the condition of homosexuality or heterosexual-ity it has been related to moral practice" Archbishop Goodhew said there were undoubtedly many homosexual priests in parishes throughout Australia Both he and Archbishop Rayner said that while sexual orientation was not a sin committing a homosexual act By ADAM HARVEY and AAP Homosexuality is no barrier to a person becoming a priest the leaders of the Anglican Church in Australia said yesterday The Archbishop of Melbourne the Most Rev Keith Rayner told the National Anglican Conference in Canberra that sexual orientation was not a sin "It's the practice that is a sin" he said in an interview Archbishop Rayner who is Primate of the Anglican Church in Australia said he was seeking quiet negotiation with homosexual clerics and other groupings in the Church on the issue His comments follow the rejection by the Victorian Uniting Church of a lesbian as its elected head and the removal of a homosexual bishop in Britain Previous Archbishops of Melbourne have strongly rejected homosexual priests with the former Archbishop David Penman refusing to allow homosexual men to begin training for the priesthood By WARWICK ROGER in Auckland and agencies The long freight trains that wind their way through the rugged centre of New Zealand's North Island and down the famed Raurimu Spiral slowed as a mark of respect yesterday for the six people who were shot dead at the weekend It has been a decade of massacres for New Zealanders Since 1990 there have been five before that there was just one this century in 1941 Yesterday bunches of flowers wilted by the roadside of State Highway Four where one victim's body had lain overnight a flag flew at half-mast outside a ski lodge and light rain fell on nearby hills as the 50 inhabitants of the quiet hamlet of Raurimu were allowed back to their homes Thirty kilometres to the north Stephen Lawrence Anderson 22 from Wellington dressed in a white police boiler suit and handcuffed to detec- Police escort Stephen Anderson from the court yesterday rives made a three-minute appearance before a justice of the peace in the Taumurunui District Court charged with one count of murder He was remanded for psychiatric assessment to appear in the Hamilton District Court on Wednesday By the time the shooting had stopped on Saturday six people were dead and five others seriously injured Police were told that Anderson had recently spent time in a psychiatric institution A decade ago a single murder was enough to send the nation into shock Now there is an average of more than one killing a week For New Zealanders vital Continued Page 9 tcriam steps are taicen A Homicide Squad officer whose requests for phone records helped lead to the arrest of two suspects in separate murder cases said: "They said they were in a particular spot when we could prove they made phone calls from a different area near the scene of the crimes" 27 countries and over 98 Qantas flies to 5 continents ISSN 0312-6315 destinations every week Why do business with anyone else? 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