Fed: Wages rise revised down = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2000
Fed: Wages rise revised down = 2

The gap between male and female wages is widening.

Average full-time wage for males, excluding overtime, grew 1.2 per cent or $10.10 in
the three months to May to $833.90 a week.

While female wages grew at a slightly higher rate of 1.3 per cent in the quarter, the
rise was only $8.70 a week to $698.60.

Average full-time male wages grew 4.3 per cent for the year or $34.50 a week, while
average female wages grew only $28.40 a week or 4.2 per cent.

The figures had no immediate impact on the dollar, which has been trading at, or just
above US59 cents all morning.

AAP ss/mfh/cd

KEYWORD: WAGES 2 CANBERRA

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HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 20:00, Feb29

AAP General News (Australia)
02-29-2000
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 20:00, Feb29



BRISBANE - Cyclone Steve returned to life today, threatening to turn its fury on the
Northern Territory after claiming its first victim and causing millions of dollars of
crop and property damage in Queensland. (Steve Nightlead. See also Floods WA)



MELBOURNE - The Victorian government today demanded an urgent review of National Gallery
of Victoria (NGV) lending protocols after a $50,000 oil painting was found at the home
of former premier Jeff Kennett. (Painting Second Nightlead)



ADELAIDE - A toddler was today …

SA: Aboriginal protesters make Proclamation Day stand

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-1999
SA: Aboriginal protesters make Proclamation Day stand

Aboriginal protesters have interrupted Proclamation Day ceremonies in Adelaide to
take their message to South Australian Governor Sir ERIC NEAL.

Lake Eyre Aborigine KEVIN BUZZACOTT, who has been leading a protest outside Adelaide's
government house for nearly two weeks, was among the group who presented the governor
with a statement of claim over SA land.

Mr BUZZACOTT draped an Aboriginal flag over the Old Gum Tree at Glenelg, the site where
South Australia was proclaimed 163 years ago.

IRENE WATSON, of the TANGANEKALD (pron. Tungunnakarl) people then presented the governor
with the statement of claim.

She said it was in a spirit of hope that negotiations could begin to decolonise Aboriginal
territories.

Sir ERIC spoke briefly with the group's members before they returned to their seats.

A strong police presence was on hand as the presentation was arranged shortly before
the start of scheduled proceedings and police escorted the group to and from the stage.

The event remained peaceful, except for some shouting as some of the protest group
left after Premier JOHN OLSEN delivered his speech towards the end of the ceremony.





Earlier in the day, the protesters had released a statement saying they were drawing
up a list of people they wanted to charge with genocide.

And Mr BUZZACOTT called on the governor to direct the state government to recognise
genocide in SA courts.

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KEYWORD: PROTEST (ADELAIDE)

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NSW: The main stories in today s Sydney newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-14-1999
NSW: The main stories in today s Sydney newspapers = 2

THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW:

Page 1: Index.

Page 3: The chairman of the Review of Business Tax, John Ralph, intensifies pressure on the
federal government to release his report immediately, warning that any delay will only
encourage Cabinet ministers to leak sensitive details; Retailing giant Harvey Norman plans a
free, national Internet service for its customers that may be announced early next week.

Page 5: Pacific Dunlop and Andersen Consulting to form a strategic alliance to handle all
the company's back office processes with the aim of later selling the capabilities to other
firms.

World: China President Jiang Zemin consolidates his control of the leadership through the
country's mounting confrontations this year - to the point where he contemplates seeking
another term as party chief to take him through to 2007, when he would be 81.

Business: Food ingredients group Burns, Philp & Co deliveres strong turnaround in
profitability for 1998-99 but forecast earnings are predicted to dip in the current year
before rising again in fiscal 2001; Technology and Internet companies without histories of
financial performance will find it easier to list on the ASX from next month after the removal
of a raft of barriers blocking small- to medium-sized companies from being publicly traded.

Shares and Markets: A rally in the resources sector helps the Australian stockmarket finish
the week on a positive note, with brokers noting solid offshore interest in the sector.

MORE jo/cdh

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Qld: Windfall for ambulance service

AAP General News (Australia)
02-21-1999
Qld: Windfall for ambulance service

The introduction of free ambulance service for Queensland's pensioners and seniors card
holders has resulted in a windfall of almost half a million dollars for the state's ambulance
service.

The Queensland Ambulance Service sent refund cheques to more than 34,000 people eligible
for the free services who had paid subscriptions beyond …

SA: SA Farmers welcome AWRAP no confidence motion

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-1998
SA: SA Farmers welcome AWRAP no confidence motion

ADELAIDE, Dec 1 AAP - The South Australian Farmers Federation has welcomed the success of
a no confidence motion in the Australian Wool Research and Promotion (AWRAP) board.

Federation wool and meat section chairman Ian Rowett said the motion, carried at AWRAPs
annual meeting in Goulburn and leading to the dumping of the wool marketing body board today,
gave Australian woolgrowers a chance to take control of the industrys future.

"This outcome gives Australian woolgrowers an opportunity to steer the industry into a
grower-controlled future," Mr Rowett said in a statement.

"It now remains essential that woolgrowers unite to ensure the best structures are
established and confidence in the industry is restored."

Mr Rowett said the federation did not see the decision as solely a replacement of the
board, but as an opportunity to constructively put forward growers views and to redirect the
industry with a more commercial approach for the future.

"The industry has been beset by disunity for too long. This opportunity to restructure the
industry must be viewed as positive and for the betterment for all Australian woolgrowers," he
said.

AAP vm/kr

KEYWORD: WOOL AWRAP SA

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VIC:Vic gov't closes nine schools

AAP General News (Australia)
02-07-2011
VIC:Vic gov't closes nine schools

The Victorian government has announced that nine schools will be closed today because
of the floods.

They are Cardross Primary .. Cranbourne Carlisle Primary .. Hampton Park Secondary
College .. Irymple Secondary .. Lynbrook Primary .. Lyndhurst Secondary …