Monday, 31 May 2004

Celebrity chef's death 'a shock', The Australian, 31 May, 2004.

Celebrity chef's death `a shock': [1 All-round Country Edition]

Helen Tobler, John StapletonAuthor InformationView Profile. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 May 2004: 5.
SYDNEY restaurateur, food consultant and artist Anders Ousback has been found dead in his home at scenic Wombarra, south of Sydney.
Ousback, 52, was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's leading chefs. He was also known for his wicked sense of humour, extensive knowledge of the arts and urbane flair.
Wine-maker Len Evans, a close friend of Ousback's since employing the 18-year-old school leaver, said his former employee was "like a son in many ways".

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SYDNEY restaurateur, food consultant and artist Anders Ousback has been found dead in his home at scenic Wombarra, south of Sydney.
Ousback, 52, was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's leading chefs. He was also known for his wicked sense of humour, extensive knowledge of the arts and urbane flair.
In recent years he became more reclusive, turning to pottery making at his coastal retreat. His regular shows at the Rex Irwin Gallery in Sydney were always a sell-out and greeted with critical acclaim.
Well-known Sydney restaurants in which he had either worked as a chef, owned or helped renovate included Berowra Waters, Dov, The Wharf, The Clock, the Art Gallery Cafe, The Summit and Bennelong.
One of his latest ventures was operating the pre-cooked meal business Margaret Fulton's Kitchen.
"He was just great fun to be with," said longtime friend Jane Fraser. "He was an amazing raconteur, a great bon vivant. He was really a very, very clever person and had a great capacity for friendship.
"When he showed his dark side he was not easy to be with, but those who knew him always stuck by him."
Police were called to Ousback's home on Saturday morning after receiving a message expressing concern about his welfare. They found his body. There were no suspicious circumstances.
Friends in the wine and restaurant industries were shocked to learn of his death.
Wine-maker Len Evans, a close friend of Ousback's since employing the 18-year-old school leaver, said his former employee was "like a son in many ways".
"He was a great chap to have working with you," Mr Evans said. "He was an extraordinarily gifted man. He had a tremendous memory retention about food, wine, opera, stories. Anything he took up he did very well."
Mr Evans said his friend would be "very badly missed by a lot of dear friends, who will not understand".
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Friday, 28 May 2004

Daughter on murder counts, The Australian, 28 May, 2004.

Daughter on murder counts: [8 NSW Metro Edition]

Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 May 2004: 5.
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The bodies of Tudor Llewellyn Jones, 78, and his wife, Della, 79, were left under the house in Ingleburn for more than a year.
Ms [Karen Leslie Kramer] is believed to have lived in the house during the entire period the bodies were decomposing underneath thehouse.
Ms Kramer was last night refused bail and is to appear in Campbelltown Local Court today.
POLICE last night charged the daughter of an elderly couple with murder after their skeletal remains were found under the floor of thefamily's southwestern Sydney home.
The bodies of Tudor Llewellyn Jones, 78, and his wife, Della, 79, were left under the house in Ingleburn for more than a year.
Karen Leslie Kramer, 42, was last night charged with two counts of murder.
It is alleged the woman killed the couple after a verbal fight on January 21, 2003.
Ms Kramer is believed to have lived in the house during the entire period the bodies were decomposing underneath the house.
The lawns had been neatly mowed and the single-storey blonde- brick house was well maintained. Vents around the home had been covered so no smell could be detected.
Ms Kramer reportedly told neighbours both her parents had died while in Britain on holiday.
Residents in the quiet street said they suspected nothing and that the elderly couple largely kept to themselves.
Police found the bodies after receiving a call from a relative in England who had tried for several months to make contact with thecouple.
Macquarie Fields local area commander Mark Rattenbury would not provide specific details about the call but said similar calls over welfare were often received about elderly people who had not been seen for some time.
"The call was received here at the police station by our desk sergeant and we've made contact there and subsequently located theskeletal remains under the house."
Ms Kramer was last night refused bail and is to appear in Campbelltown Local Court today.
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Thursday, 27 May 2004

Sorry Day's in a sorry state, The Australian, 27 May, 2004.

Sorry Day's in a sorry state: [1 All-round Country Edition]

Misha Schubert, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 May 2004: 6.
The first Sorry Day was held in 1998, acting on a recommendation from Bringing Them Home , which called for a day when the community would acknowledge the suffering caused by the policies of forcible removal on Australia's indigenous populations. Speaking in Sydney, Pamela Young, who describes herself as "second-generation stolen generation", denied that Sorry Day was on the way out, saying it was being marked in schools and communities across the nation.

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SIX years after Australia marked its first national day to commemorate the tens of thousands of Aboriginal children removed forcibly from their families, the annual event is in a sorry state.
Small gatherings observed the Sorry Day anniversary around the nation yesterday, but hopes are fading that either side of mainstream politics will make adequate reparations for the policies of the past.
In Sydney, former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, said the stolen generations had been bitterly disappointed by the Howard Government's response to the Bringing Them Home report -- which documented the policies of forced removal and their devastating impact in vivid detail in 1997.
Mr Fraser said he could not justify the Howard Government's actions in spending millions of dollars to defeat test cases for compensation brought by people taken from their families as children.
The former Liberal leader said neither party was prepared to commit the money needed to improve Aboriginal health and the death rate of indigenous people.
"Yet we have just had a federal budget which gave several billion dollars to middle-class and wealthy Australians," he said. "The situation shames us all. But there is no sign either party is taking it seriously."
The first Sorry Day was held in 1998, acting on a recommendation from Bringing Them Home , which called for a day when the community would acknowledge the suffering caused by the policies of forcible removal on Australia's indigenous populations. Speaking in Sydney, Pamela Young, who describes herself as "second-generation stolen generation", denied that Sorry Day was on the way out, saying it was being marked in schools and communities across the nation.
"We have Anzac Day every year, they are lost souls too. We are still fighting, fighting for healing. You don't have to be in people's faces, the story is being told constantly."
Elaine Hughes, visiting from Cairns, who had just been to a Cootamundra Girls Home reunion, said Sorry Day was getting stronger.
"You just have to look around ... black and white mingle," she said.
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Volkers evidence 'was not enough', The Australian, 27 May, 2004.


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Typical Media Alert. This one for Kevin Rudd. 27 May, 2004.


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Monday, 24 May 2004

Jane McGrath cancer returns, The Australian, 24 May, 2004.

Jane McGrath cancer returns: [1 All-round Country Edition]

Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 May 2004: 3.
Mrs McGrath, who adheres to a diet of mainly organic food, says everyone in life has challenges. "This is one of mine and I'll rise to the challenge, though you sometimes feel that that bar's getting higher and higher, but it'll never be too high so we'll do whatever we can."

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CANCER has returned to haunt the family of Test cricketer Glenn McGrath, with wife Jane revealing she has been diagnosed once again with breast cancer.
Mrs McGrath had been in remission from breast cancer for some years.
Although she first was diagnosed in 1997, the couple went on to have two healthy children, James and Holly, despite being warned that the chemotherapy could make her infertile.
The children were even breast-fed. Mrs McGrath's story was an inspiration to women around the country.
But last year she was diagnosed with secondary cancer. Her husband rushed home from a tour of the West Indies.
"I think I was less of a victim the second time," she tells Andrew Denton on the ABC's Enough Rope tonight.
Mrs McGrath, who adheres to a diet of mainly organic food, says everyone in life has challenges. "This is one of mine and I'll rise to the challenge, though you sometimes feel that that bar's getting higher and higher, but it'll never be too high so we'll do whatever we can."
She recalls the moment when she first became aware of the lump in her breast. She asked her husband what he thought, to which he replied "looks all right to me".
"As men are with breasts," she jokes. Luckily, a friend persuaded her to go to the doctor.
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Wednesday, 19 May 2004

Fairfax job cuts to 'gut papers', The Australian, 19 May, 2004.

Fairfax job cuts to `gut papers': [1 All-round Country Edition]

Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 May 2004: 6.
SENIOR journalists will be offered redundancy at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald as part of an $8 million program that unions said would gut the Fairfax newspapers.

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SENIOR journalists will be offered redundancy at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald as part of an $8 million program that unions said would gut the Fairfax newspapers.
John Fairfax Holdings issued a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon saying the redundancies would be voluntary in the first instance and it was hoped that between 35 and 45 editorial employees would take up the offer.
The editors of both papers, Robert Whitehead and Phil McLean, issued a joint statement to staff saying that the average pay for their journalists was more than $100,000 a year and that they had a disproportionately high number of staff on senior pay levels.
"This staff mix has severely limited our ability to award pay increases and to hire new staff," the statement said. "Low turnover ... has created a bottleneck for those seeking more opportunities. It has constrained our ability to support the promotion of junior editorial staff."
Federal secretary of the Media Arts and Entertainment Alliance Chris Warren said the announcement had come "out of the blue".
"One in 10 staff will go, one in five of their senior staff will go," he said. "I don't think any paper can just cut that sort of experience and produce the same paper."
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Monday, 17 May 2004

High-powered summit to save Mitsubishi plants, The Australian, 17 May, 2004.

High-powered summit to save Mitsubishi plants: [2 All-round First Edition]

Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 May 2004: 4.
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The Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that Mitsubishi's engine plant or assembly factory, both located in Adelaide's south, would close under Mitsubishi's rehabilitation plan to be detailed next Friday.
The report came ahead of a meeting in Japan today between Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane, South Australian Treasurer Kevin Foley and Mitsubishi executives over the future of the operations.
Mr Foley said as he flew out to Japan on Saturday his "gut feeling" was that Mitsubishi's Adelaide operations would survive.
MITSUBISHI Motors Australia yesterday dismissed as "mere speculation" a report that one of its two South Australian operations could be scrapped in a global restructure.
The Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that Mitsubishi's engine plant or assembly factory, both located in Adelaide's south, would close under Mitsubishi's rehabilitation plan to be detailed next Friday.
The report came ahead of a meeting in Japan today between Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane, South Australian Treasurer Kevin Foley and Mitsubishi executives over the future of the operations.
Mitsubishi Motors Australia corporate affairs manager Charles Iles said the newspaper report was "just another speculative theory".
"There's been a whole bunch of them (theories) coming out of Japan," Mr Iles said.
"This is just another one of the theories and I'm not going to comment on speculation."
Before departing for Japan, Mitsubishi Motors Australia president Tom Phillips said he was optimistic that Mitsubishi Australia would continue as a car-maker, but could not comment further.
Mr Foley said as he flew out to Japan on Saturday his "gut feeling" was that Mitsubishi's Adelaide operations would survive.
"I would appeal for calmness as there has been an ongoing saga of unsourced reports published in Japan and we need to ascertain what the real position is," Mr Foley said.
"I am confident the united message from the federal and state governments about the importance of Mitsubishi will have an impact.
"I have great confidence we will get through this but just how we get through it only time will tell."
The high-powered Australian delegation to Tokyo follows months of speculation about the future of the car-maker's Australianoperations, considered crucial to the South Australian economy.
Mitsubishi has a workforce of about 3500 at its plants in South Australia.
Concern for the future of the Adelaide engine plant at Lonsdale and the assembly factory at Clovelly Park heightened two weeks ago when German-US car giant DaimlerChrysler withdrew support for a $10billion bailout for Mitsubishi Motors Corporation.
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Sunday, 16 May 2004

Needle Exchange Redfern The Australian 2004


John Stapleton
THE NSW government has met with almost universal opposition to its proposals for a needle exchange and drug service opposite Redfern Station in inner-Sydney, the scene of major riots last year. The proposed multi-million dollar seven day a week service is to be set up in a building next door to where young children are living.
Shopkeepers, residents and aboriginal groups report significant drops in crime since major busts last July, when 250 police coated the increasingly derelict area and closed down many major drug dealers. Locals fear crime will once again escalate as the needle exchange creates a ``honeypot'' affect.
Residents and community groups have until this Friday to lodge their potests against the development application.
The service is designed to replace the area's controversial ``needle bus'', which has serviced addicts since the 1980s. At a hurriedly organised meeting last weekend angry locals, some of whom face seeing their homes drop in value by an estimated $200,000, condemned the centre.
Chief Executive of the Aboriginal Medical Service Dr Naomi Mayers said it was disgusting to place a needle exchange next door to a young family. She said there had been significant improvements in Redfern over the past 12 months and the provision of free needles would drive the area back 20 years. ``They are encouraging drugs back,'' she said. ``The situation has vastly improved, and they are going to bring it back all over again. They don't learn from history. I am livid. We have told them straight: we don't want it.''
Project Officer at the Aboriginal Housing Company Peter Valilis, said they had worked hard with the police and the Department of Housing to evict drug dealers from the Block and it had been transformed as a result. He said the bag snatching, assaults and blatant drug dealing which had been such an embarrassment to the aboriginal community had almost disappeared. ``This would undo all the good work we have done,'' he said. ``This will attract drug addicts into the aboriginal community from all over Sydney. This is not an amenity that has been requested by anyone. It is not required and not wanted.''
Craig Kentall, who lives next door to the proposed centre with his wife Mell and two daughters, said hundreds of people with serious mental health and drug issues would be attracted literally to his doorstep. ``You cannot build a brothel next door to where children live, so how can you build a needle exchange next to young children? In conjunction with the aboriginal community, a lot of good has been done in minimising the drug problem and associated crime since the Redfern riots.''
Health Minister Morris Iemma said he was aware of the level of opposition to the needle exchange and its placement near young families, but could not turn his back on his public health obligation to provide clean needles for injecting drug users.
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