FED: Travel agents to experience business lull because of Games

AAP General News (Australia)
08-22-2000
FED: Travel agents to experience business lull because of Games

BRISBANE, Aug 22 AAP - Australian travel agents will have to weather a serious lull
in their domestic business in the next couple of months because of the Sydney Olympics.

Australian Federation of Travel Agents chairman Ian Carew-Reid said today the Olympics
were "distracting" people from their normal holiday patterns.

He said Australians were staying home and waiting to travel after the Games.

"There's no doubt the Olympics has reduced the amount of travel bookings," Mr Carew-Reid said.

"September school holidays are normally huge.

"Travel hasn't stopped altogether but it certainly has had a dampening effect."

Mr Carew-Reid said there was currently a rush in domestic corporate bookings with businesses
keen to finalise travel before the Games because of the perceived difficulty of getting
into Sydney.

It was initially thought that the Olympics would produce an extra 3,500 aircraft movements
at Sydney Airport in September and October.

However, this figure has been slashed to 2,300 - 250,000 less passengers than the 700,000
originally predicted.

This has been reflected in reports that official Olympic travel agency Traveland has
had to slash its prices on multi-share accommodation in Sydney during the Games period
by 50 per cent.

Mr Carew-Reid said corporate as well as retail business, which has slowed this month,
was expected to "grind to a halt" during the Olympics.

"The Olympics are terrific for the country but for the travel agents largely relying
on the local market it certainly hasn't helped," he said.

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SA: Main stories in today s Adelaide newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-07-2000
SA: Main stories in today s Adelaide newspapers

ADELAIDE, April 7 AAP - The main stories in today's Adelaide Advertiser:

Page 1 - Prime Minister John Howard apologises for the hurt caused by denying the existence
of the stolen generation.

Page 2 - South Australia goes against the trend in job figures, with a fall in unemployment
and 5800 more people gaining jobs.

Page 3 - The public prosecutor appeals against the suspended sentence given to a woman
robber involved in a struggle which left a man with permanent brain damage.

World - Two fans die in soccer violence in Instanbul (London); Legal problems not mentioned
when Bill Clinton and Bill Gates meet at the White House (New York).

Finance - The Olympics cast uncertainty over Ten Network Holdings' fourth quarter revenue
budget after exceeding its third quarter, the company warns; Adelaide Bank primed to push
into rural Australia after signing a major agreement with the Australian Wheat Board.

Sport - Sir Jack Brabham named International Motorsport Ambassador to South Australia
on eve of Clipsal 500 Adelaide V8 Supercar race; Crows make six changes for tomorrow's
match against Brisbane at the Gabba; Hewitt to face German Davis Cup debutant Michael
Kohlmann in first singles at Memorial Drive today.

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Diary Add for Monday, January 10, 1999

AAP General News (Australia)
01-10-2000
Diary Add for Monday, January 10, 1999
SYDNEY


1000 - Sydney firefighters to meet Singapore's highest ranking firefighters, 175-179 James
Ruse Dve, Rosehill. Photo opportunity available. Contact: Rebecca Lang 9846 3350, 0417
265 793.

1320 - Media call for Sydney Festival play The Weir, Theatre Royal, …

QLD: One Nation officially off the register = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-1999
QLD: One Nation officially off the register = 2

Ms Aurisch said steps would be taken immediately to ensure the immediate return of the
payment of electoral monies, which totalled $498,637.33.

The funds were paid to One Nation on the basis that the party had secured a certain
percentage of the vote at last year's state election.

"We'll be proceeding to do our utmost to get those monies back," she said.

"We're getting legal advice as to the exact way to do it.

"I think the first step is a letter of demand ... requesting the monies go back.

"That should happen very shortly. If the letter of demand doesn't work, court action will
have to commence to get the monies back."

Ms Aurisch said the electoral commission would not have to wait until the appeal process
was exhausted before taking steps to recover the money.

"We feel as responsible people under the Electoral Act we've got to proceed straight away.
It won't await any appeal."

Supreme Court Justice Roslyn Atkinson ruled today that a possible threat to parliamentary
entitlements of the five One Nation politicians was not a good enough reason for a 14-day stay
pending an appeal.

"The possibility of prejudice (to One Nation politicians) is not enough, in my view, to
represent a special circumstance," Justice Atkinson said.

She ruled yesterday that the party's registration had been induced by fraud and
misrepresentation and that One Nation was therefore not entitled to registration as a
political party in Queensland.

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SA: Murray flush underway

AAP General News (Australia)
02-26-1999
SA: Murray flush underway

The South Australian Government's begun flushing out the mouth of the Murray River with a
release of 90,000 megalitres of water upstream that will run over three or four days.

Environment Minister DOROTHY KOTZ says the release of water from the Goolwa Barrage began
last night, a few days earlier than originally planned.

It's designed …

NSW:Former GG and Aboriginal activist give blast on rights

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-1998
NSW:Former GG and Aboriginal activist give blast on rights

By Scott McFarlane

SYDNEY, Dec 8 AAP - Australians knew more about the Jewish holocaust than the slaughter of
Aboriginal people in their own country, a major human rights conference in Sydney was told
tonight.

Reconciliation could not occur until non-indigenous Australians were told the truth of the
nations history, Aboriginal activist Professor Gracelyn Smallwood told the opening of the
conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

"Most Australians know more about the Jewish holocaust, but I hear very few of them talking
about the slaughters of Aboriginals in this country for the past 210 years," Professor
Smallwood told 200 delegates.

"Even though it might not be happening openly, genocide was committed on my people from 26
January, 1788.

"Institutionalised racism is still occurring."

Former Governor General Sir Zelman Cowen also spoke at the conference tonight, telling
delegates the 21st Century would be ushered in by hunger, poverty, intolerance and violence
and international laws were inadequate to guarantee human rights.

Professor Smallwood, the first indigenous person in Australia to graduate with a masters of
science in public health, said Aboriginal birth mortality and life expectancy rates were
atrocious.

"Let me tell you the world is now focused on this country," she said.

"Yes, its been 50 years and Im very pleased to see you working on a journey, but you have
a hell of a long way to go."

Professor Smallwood told the story of her late father, arrested and bashed by police as a
five-year-old before being sent to the notorious Palm Island off the Queensland coast for 12
years.

She had only heard him speak his Aboriginal language for the first time just before he died
10 years ago.

"I asked him why he didnt teach us the language and he said we had too many psychological
wounds of the beatings we received when we spoke our language and of the rape and violation of
our mental, physical, spiritual, cultural and religious values.

"Every time I wanted to talk to you about speaking the language, I used to dry retch."

Professor Smallwood said she had visited the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission where reconciliation was occuring with the benefit of the truth.

"We cant start our healing journey until you all know the truth."

Sir Zelman told the conference there would be no human rights golden age as we entered the
next century.

"After fifty years of human rights achievement we are faced with the greatest challenges
yet to come," he said.

Sir Zelman said he was 30 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was announced half
a century ago.

"We still have some way to go in terms of our record of domestic implementation.

"The mechanisms which are available to us serve as a limited deterrent to murderous regimes
such as those of Idi Amin and Pol Pot."

Sir Zelman said old evils could flare up, despite international laws.

"The reality is that, as things stand, national laws and international instruments serve as
inadequate safeguards to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights."

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and actor Bryan Brown will speak at the conference
tomorrow.

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NSW:McGuire ready to govern

AAP General News (Australia)
02-20-2011
NSW:McGuire ready to govern

FRANK MCGUIRE .. who won the Broadmeadows by-election in Victoria yesterday .. says
he's ready for politics and won't put a time limit on how long he wants remain in state
parliament.

With 77 per cent of the vote counted last night .. the journalist-turned business consultant
and ALP candidate swept a resounding 54 per cent of the primary vote in the safe Labor
seat of Broadmeadow.

But the figures show an eight per cent …