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Tel.: 6582 28 MITCHELL ST., DARWIN
Vol. 20, No. 188 DARWIN, SATURDAY, SEPTEM8ER 11, 1971
Aic The Minister fo1·
Health, Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, is considering a number of urgent te·:nporary measures to improve conditions for Aboriqcnal children at the Aiice Springs hospital.
Sir Kem1et:h visited the hospital last week, and ::aid later he w~s disturbed at v;hat he saw.
H~:.; v:.,:~ followed Lhe publication of official figures showing that almost one in five Aboriginal children born in the southern division of the Territory last year died before the age of 12 months.
Wallaby sho ters "threat t rfe"
Someone would be killed soon if something were not done soon about the· indiscrimina!e shooting of wallabies a !' o u n d Leaning Tree lagoon, Mr Kevin McGregor said yesterday.
The lagoon is off th~ Humpty Doo ro:td just past the Adelaide River bridge.
"People are camping at the billabong all th 3
time, an::l. I <tm living there permanently," h e said.
"Some ueonle ar·~ coming down ·there <tt;
weekends an::l. blastin~ :::.way at everythinG that moves.
"Wall abies :ue being shot right, left and centre.
"Apart frvm the unnecessary destructio:t o f a nimals, this is makin:; thing:; very dangcrou·.; down there for peoi)le.
"Someone is going tn
get shot, if not killer. . pretty soon if something is not done abou ·; it.
"I have put a few signs up here and there , and it seems to have stopped them n. bit, b~t not much." Mr McGregor said.
He said he had hls suspicions that it was people connect.P-d w~t.h r:reyhound racing whc. were doing the sho:>ting to get meat for their dogs.
His visit a.lso came in the wake o> complain t:> by nurses and Al:c2 Spring.:; clergymen (hat o'ercrowding and c;:ossinfecti -n at the hosv.it.al were contributing tc the high death rate.
They called on the Government to take immediate stq:s to improYc nursing conditions pending completion of R.
new hospital by . 1975.
It is understood that one of the measures bE'ing considered by Senator Anderson involves action that would en-
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A spectator at the big burn. This govern- 4 ment official watches ~ as smoke billows to 18,000 feet during the fire-bombing of the Darwin River catchme·nt yesterday. It was the biggest deliberately - lit bushfire Australia has ever seen. It was necessary to burn vegetation from the bed of what will become with the next wet the new Darwin River Dam storage area. The fire- bombing began about 12.37 pm and ended just on 1.50 pm. It was estimated that lOO,OO<t tons of fuel wa 1
burnt in the first two hour!'. The official above was part of the observer team photographing the fire and was measuring its heat. - Story on P. 8.
S·O·UTH AFRICANS T SYDNEY. South
African cricketers are expected to dominate the 14 - wan Resi - ofthe • World cricket team which will be in-
• vited to play in Australia this summer
The World XI tow: has been decid-:d on as a replacement for the canr·elled South African cricket tour. which was to have starte:l on October 22.
But Iv'i:CC officials in London say Australia will
face many more problem!i in organising a rest of ~he world eeries than
England had last year.
Last year, as e\'ery season, most of the world's best players were contracted to English county sides and the MCC had to bring only two players frcm overseas Eddie Bar-
low and Graeme Pollock from South Africa.
The position would probably be reversed for Australia with cricket authorities h::tving to import the bulk oi t he side.
England fast bomler John Sr..o .1 y, ill no t be available for the World XI.
The Carlton Cricket Club in Melbourne, which is bringing him to Australia to play district cricket, will not l'Ciease him.
"'est Jml'an Capta~n, Gary Sobers, and South African tatsman, Edd 'c
~ E:!rlow al o will not be U\'aila b!c.
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able hospital staff to t eparate the acu ely ill children from tho~e who are convalescing.
There are about 9G Aboriginal children in the hospital and only a handful of European children.
Mos c of the Aborig!.nals have been brought in from ou LJying Governmen0 l' ettlements, missions and cattle stations.
They are reported to be suffering from respiratory tract and bowel infections, gastro-enteri-
tis, vitamin ctefic:encies protein caloric malm.!~ tnticn, pneumonia and o~her conditions.
In a bid to ensure maximum reco\•ery and return to good heaHh the medical staff at t.hc hospital have been holding Aboriginal children in the wards for lengthy conva.lescent periods.
This has contributed to the overcrowding problem.
A panel of senior medical men from the Health Department will soon visit the northwest NSW town of
the Collarcne'bri to discuss claims by the resident doctor there that the high <ieath rate of Aboriginal children in central AusLralia has been aggravated by Government immunisation campaigns.
The claim-; \Ve!·e made by Dr A. Kalokerinos, who · has been campair,ning· for changes to tmdawnal methods of treating Aboriginal children.
He says two main rea<ons for h s success in keeping the death rate do-;vn to a minimum in his area have been the use of vitamin C injections to make up for chronic deficiencies and strict regulation in the timing of vaccines.
CANBERRA.- Federal Cabinet is becoming increasingly alarmed at growing indications that the business community is 11talking" rhe economy into a recession.
It is concerned that its own anti-inflation campaign since February has generated too high a degree of cautio·n and pessimism about economic ·rrends.
The Prime Minister, :rv:r "H will iJe ciear- i>ter~> ------.-----.'icMahon, and the Trea- is no warrant for the pre-surer, Mr Snedden, are rent spate of alarmi~t rc· no'\· intent on curbing the adions, but if they con~ pes~imism and the deve- tinue they coul.d do lopment o.f what it fears harm," he said. is a "recessio:1 psycho- Mr IvrcMahon in his
budget speech spoke ot tho::e who "relish playing the role of prophets of gloom ."
logy".
Thi ; was evident in P~rliz.ment yesterday ~vhen, for t.lle third time :n three days, the Govcrnmrnt declared its willingness to bring down a. r,u;1;l(:m~nt::Lry bud~e! if anti-i:1flai.ion measures proved too restrictive.
Mr Snedden said firm ly: "As I said in my budget speech, v.re will be keeping .';,he whole situation under very close review so as to make any adjustments in policy that might prove necessary."
Mr McMahon made a similar statement in his bud'get speech last Tuesday night and again during question time 0-:1
Wednesday. And like Mr McMahon
on Thesday night, Mr Snedden y e s t e r d u. Y strongly conC.emncd what he called "alarmist reactions" to business fore casts of economic trends.
"The sooner ,,.e learn to ignore them the better it will be for the development and prosperity of this country," he &aid.
The lated economic in dicators re:.:eased were Thursday's survey by thz Associated Chamber of Manufactures and the Bank of NSW, and Commonwealth statistics on private capital investment.
Both forecast industrial and capital spending t-rends for the six months to D ecember 31 which have been described by economic commentators as depressing.
The latest unemployment figures, due out on Monday, are expected to follow the same pattern
The Fe..: era~ Oppos~;ion Leader, Mr Whitlam, asked Mr Snedden in Parliament yesterday: "Do the statistics r.eveal that
---- ------- the budget strategy has been based on a complete misjudgement of tren~s in the economy, and, 1f pursued, will produce con"equences of the most damaging kind G
Sir Donald Bradman, Chairman of the Australian Cricket Board of Control, said the board had received and accepted an offer by a consortium of newspaners to sponsor a World XI team.
The president of the anti-apartheid movement in Sydney, Miss Meredith Burgmann. said no demon c::tr ations would be conduc ted aga ins t the W orld XI team if it did
Mr Snedden reacted l\.n~rily. He accused ~r Whitlam of totally miscunstructing what he had said in the budget.
Later, to another questioner. he claimed the forecast of the two sur-veys were being . ~isrepresented and Imsmterpreted .
Two opal thieves gaoled
The three .men charged with the theft of $84,000 worth of opals from a bus at the Three Ways near Tennant Creek on June 16 have been found gui lty in the Alice S p r i n g s Supreme Court.
The men ·were found guilty at 7 pm on Thursday nighL after the jury had been out for four hours.
Two of the men received gaol sentences and the other a good behaviour bond.
Mr Vlaa·o Lipahor was found g·ui!ty of larcenyand was sentenced by Mr Justice Forster to 18 months' gao!.
Mr 1\'Iarkos Seric was sentenced to 6 months gaol for aiding and abetting the crime, and Mr Anton Antunovic rereived a three year, $300 good behaviour- i.>ond after h e was found guilty of being an ace~csEory
fact. after the
All three men were chargeci' with larceny.
Judge Forster sentenced the men at 9.30 am yesterday.
Rural magaztne
inside
"It must be remembered in relation to that survey lby ACMA-Bank of NSW) that the people surveyed are members of an organisation which is publically making- clear its view that the Govern-~
include South African mr:n t . ough t to r~lax its r·cst:·a "n ts ," he "a1d. ---------=--pl:lycr,:;
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