SA: SA moving towards achieving goals, survey finds

AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2000
SA: SA moving towards achieving goals, survey finds

A new survey shows most South Australians believe the state will achieve its social
and economic goals, a survey has found.

The survey, conducted for SA Business Vision 2010, found 56 per cent of respondents
were confident in the state's future.

Of the 300 people interviewed last month for the survey, 48 per cent agreed that the
state was progressing towards positive social and economic goals.

Eight per cent strongly agreed and 36 per cent disagreed, while the remainder did not
express an opinion.

SA Business Vision 2010 chief executive IAN HARRISON describes the survey results as heartening.

He says respondents aged between 18 and 29 hold the strongest confidence in the state's
future, with two-thirds of survey respondents agreeing with the survey proposition.

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KEYWORD: BUSINESS SA (ADELAIDE)

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Fed: Cabinet ministers caught in tampon protest

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2000
Fed: Cabinet ministers caught in tampon protest

Federal cabinet ministers have been bombarded by tampons in a women's protest against
the GST on sanitary products.

The protesters threw tampons at the ministers as they entered a cabinet meeting at
Nowra on the New South Wales south coast.

They were carrying red banners and were dressed in super hero costumes with capes bearing
the words MENSTRUAL AVENGER.

The protesters chanted …

Fed: ABC staff reject non union proposal

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-1999
Fed: ABC staff reject non union proposal

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance says a ballot of ABC staff has rejected
a non-union agreement proposed by management.

The management offer and plan to place the offer outside staff unions led to a series
of stopwork meetings earlier this month.

MEAA federal secretary CHRISTOPHER WARREN says more than 2,700 of the ABC's 4,100 staff
voted by a margin of 57 per cent to 43 per cent to defeat the ABC's proposed non-union
agreement.

Mr WARREN says the federal government and its chosen ABC directors should apologise
to ABC staff and recommence negotiations for a new agreement.

AAP RTV dep/as/jn

KEYWORD: ABC (CANBERRA)

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VIC: Bikie chronology

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-1999
VIC: Bikie chronology

MELBOURNE, Aug 8 AAP - Recent incidents related to bikie violence.

* April 28. Perth police seize bulletproof vests as part of raids on the Gypsy Jokers gang.

* May 1. Arson attack on Bandidos clubrooms at Osborne in Adelaide.

* May. Violent clashes in Gladstone in Queensland between members of the Rebels and Black
Uhlan gangs.

* July 13. Police use a bulldozer to raid the Melbourne headquarters of the Hell's Angels
gang as part of a murder probe.

* July 15. Huge explosion demolishes the unoccupied HQ of the Rebels bikie gang in
Adelaide.

* August 2. Second shooting incident in two days in Adelaide is linked to a dispute between
rival gangs.

* August 4. South Australian police announce crackdown on gang-related attacks.

* August 4. Member of the Comancheros bikie gang is murdered and his body dumped outside a
Sydney home.

* August 6. Fire destroys a Rebels bikie gang clubhouse in western Sydney.

* August 8. Bomb attack on Bandidos bike club in Geelong.

AAP sp/arb

KEYWORD: BANDIDOS CHRONOLOGY

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SA: South Australian s gather to honour Don

AAP General News (Australia)
02-12-1999
SA: South Australian s gather to honour Don

By Tim Dornin

ADELAIDE, Feb 12 AAP - It was a day of sadness and celebration.

The day South Australians officially mourned Don Dunstan, the state's second
longest-serving premier.

With his passing South Australia had lost one of its favourite sons.

So they came, as he would have wished, to celebrate his life, gathering in Adelaide's Elder
Park for a memorial service that was playing to a packed house in the neighbouring Festival
Centre.

Some 3,000 people also stood, sat and sprawled under a blazing run, listening to current
and former politicians, community and Aboriginal leaders and members of Mr Dunstan's family.

The service was broadcast live on both local radio and television.

It was a diverse gathering -- office workers, tradesmen and women, housewives, grandmothers
and grandfathers, university and school students.

Buskers and street performers added colour and entertainment, especially for those too
young to remember The Dunstan Decade.

All the while, a steady stream of Dunstan fans converged on sellers of caps and shirts for
the Dunstan Foundation.

Meanwhile, many speakers remembered conversations with Mr Dunstan and praised his work.

And those who spoke of his period of great progress and reform got the loudest cheers.

"I'm a great admirer of Don Dunstan and I just had to be here," said one bystander.

"He was the best thing that ever happened to South Australia."

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KEYWORD: DUNSTAN CROWD

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FED:AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, Jan 17

AAP General News (Australia)
01-17-2012
FED:AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, Jan 17
Breakfast Round-Up: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AAP RTV FILE AT 0430


Italy Ship (GIGLIO ISLAND)

Italian rescuers have resumed an increasingly desperate search for survivors inside
the wreck of a luxury liner that had to be halted when the vessel began moving in choppy
seas.

Coastguards say the half-submerged ship has now stabilised, as weather conditions off
the Tuscan coast improved, but added there's still a risk the hulk could slip off a rocky
shelf into the open sea and sink entirely.

The death toll from the tragedy stands …

QLD:Gvt extends flood grant assistance

AAP General News (Australia)
01-12-2011
QLD:Gvt extends flood grant assistance

The Queensland government has extended flood assistance grants and concessional loans
for primary producers and small businesses.

Premier ANNA BLIGH says there are now 22 Local Government Areas and 4 partial Local
Government Areas in the state .. where primary producers and small businesses are eligible
to receive grants of up to 25-thousand dollars for clean up and flood recovery.

…