NSW: Police divers recover body of snorkeller

AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2000
NSW: Police divers recover body of snorkeller

SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - Police divers have recovered the body of a snorkeller who disappeared
while spear-fishing off the NSW north coast last Tuesday.

Police said the body of 29-year-old Queenslander Andrew Baretta was found at Sugarloaf
Point at Seal Rocks yesterday afternoon.

Mr Baretta disappeared while spear-fishing with another man near Seal Rocks Lighthouse.

His body has been taken to Newcastle morgue for a post mortem.

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KEYWORD: SNORKELLER (CARRIDE EARLIER)

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Vic: Workers blockade gate at Yallourn

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2000
Vic: Workers blockade gate at Yallourn

Industrial strife is looming again at the Yallourn power plant in Victoria with union
members blockading the front gate with trucks.

The trouble began yesterday when officials from the Construction, Forestry, Mining
and Energy Union were denied vehicle access to the site.

But a Yallourn Energy spokeswoman says the unions were notified a month ago about a
change of policy which - for security reasons - requires people visiting the station to
get permission.

CFMEU organiser RODNEY HART says the union has written to Yallourn management requesting
an urgent meeting today.

And he concedes that management has written to the union about site access.

The CFMEU, along with the Federated Engine Drivers and Fireman's Association and the
Australian Services Union is yet to negotiate a new enterprise agreement at Yallourn.

The Electrical Trades Union and the Australian Workers Union have finalised an in-principle
agreement which includes a 36-hour week and a nine-day fortnight after prolonged strike
action by members.

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KEYWORD: YALLOURN (MELBOURNE)

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Fed: Cold response ADF global peacekeeping role call

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-1999
Fed: Cold response ADF global peacekeeping role call

There's been a cold response to calls for a greater global peacekeeping role for Australia
by the head of the country's defence forces.

Australian Defence Force chief Admiral CHRIS BARRIE's comments echoed Prime Minister
JOHN HOWARD's controversial remarks in September.

Mr HOWARD had said that Australia could be a future deputy peacekeeper to the United States.

Admiral BARRIE, fresh from a visit to East Timor, claims the ADF is now a force of
choice for future UN peacekeeping operations because of its success in East Timor.

Opposition Leader KIM BEAZLEY has bristled at the suggestion, saying East Timor presented
a special set of circumstances, not to be seen as a template for elsewhere.

He says the defence of Australia should always remain Australia's priority.

And Australian Democrats leader MEG LEES says the ADF's role should be concentrated
on assisting Australia's closest neighbours.

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KEYWORD: TIMOR AUST (CANBERRA)

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VIC: One shot dead at La Trobe University = 3

AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-1999
VIC: One shot dead at La Trobe University = 3

Police spokesman Senior Constable Wayne Wilson told 3AW the injured person was a woman, but
police were not sure of her condition.

Snr Const Wilson said the danger had passed with a man being taken into custody.

"There is no one loose in the area," he said.

He said Homicide Squad members were on the way to the university, as well as local police,
CIB and ambulance.

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KEYWORD: LATROBE 3 MELBOURNE

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SA: Dunstan determined to have a useful death

AAP General News (Australia)
02-06-1999
SA: Dunstan determined to have a useful death

By Sherrill Nixon

ADELAIDE, Feb 6 AAP - "I don't want simply to have some great occasion where people are
nostalgic about what's happened during my period in South Australia and then say 'Well that's
it, that's gone'.

"I'm determined that my death will be useful."

Don Dunstan might be best remembered for wearing pink shorts in parliament, but there was a
lot more to the former premier of South Australia.

Long after he resigned as premier in 1979 due to ill health (announcing his retirement to
the press while wearing short …

WA:Popular national park in WA flooded

AAP General News (Australia)
01-10-2012
WA:Popular national park in WA flooded

Flash flooding has forced the closure of a national park in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

Karijini National Park, about 14-hundred kilometres north of Perth, has been closed
after roads and sites in the park were inundated.

The popular tourist destination …

NSW: Eighth person charged over alleged drug syndicate

AAP General News (Australia)
01-01-2010
NSW: Eighth person charged over alleged drug syndicate

A woman has been extradited to Sydney from Victoria .. charged for her alleged involvement
in a drug syndicate which has allegedly been smuggling Ice on domestic flights between
New South Wales and Western Australia.

Police say the 26 year-old woman was arrested on Wednesday and extradited to Sydney
yesterday .. where's she's been charged with supplying a …