NSW: Sydney Airport baggage crisis worsens

AAP General News (Australia)
08-25-2000
NSW: Sydney Airport baggage crisis worsens

SYDNEY, Aug 25 AAP - Problems with the troubled $43 million baggage system at Sydney
International Airport have reportedly worsened.

The Sydney Morning Herald said today that an average 61 bags go missing from the airport
each day because of breakdowns - a rate more than 20 times the acceptable international
standards.

Angry workers have told the newspaper more than 3,200 bags have gone astray in the
past two months.

They have predicted huge delays and baggage problems during the Olympic Games.

The newspaper said relations between airline staff and Sydney Airports Corporation
plunged to new lows in the wake of a baggage system collapse last weekend.

AAP km/was

KEYWORD: BAGGAGE

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Fed: RBA official s cheap home loan sparks political row

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2000
Fed: RBA official s cheap home loan sparks political row

The federal opposition has condemned the Reserve Bank for giving one of its highly-paid
senior officials a discount home loan -- while again lifting interest rates for ordinary
Australians.

But Treasurer PETER COSTELLO has accused Labor of hypocricy, because it didn't object
to similar loan favoritism when it was in power.

The bank's refused to comment on reports the loan was given to deputy governor STEPHEN
GRENVILLE, whose salary package exceeds $300,000.

But its annual report confirms a single home loan has been extended to either its Governor,
IAN MACFARLANE, or his deputy.

The revelation comes less than a week after MR GRENVILLE and the eight other board
members approved a quarter per cent interest rate rise, the third increase in five months.





Banking industry sources say the Reserve Bank is no different from other banks in offering
staff discount loans as part of salary packages.

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KEYWORD: RESERVE (CANBERRA)

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AAP General News (Australia)
01-13-2000
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NSW: Snow report for New South Wales

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-1999
NSW: Snow report for New South Wales

SYDNEY, Aug 23 AAP - The New South Wales snow report:

FORECAST: Fine and mainly sunny with light to moderate northeast to easterly winds.

OUTLOOK: Tomorrow, fine; Wednesday, fine; Thursday, mainly fine, freshening winds.

CONDITIONS: Excellent cover across most resorts, with morning runs the fastest.

PERISHER: 26 lifts operating, including Mt perisher and Olympic for the more advanced.

SMIGGINS: 12 lifts, great for all standards.

BLUE COW: Eight lifts.

GUTHEGA: Four lifts.

THREDBO: All lifts operating, with top to bottom cover on all trails.

CHARLOTTE PASS: All lifts operating.

SELWYN: Six lifts, including Racecourse, Township, New Chum Bowl and Home Run.

CROSS-COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Nordic shelter groomed yesterday. Learners Loop and the 2.5, 5,
7.5 and 10km loops were groomed and set this morning. The Smiggins 2km and 4km loops were
groomed Friday, have good cover but thin in areas. Kosciuszko Road and the Wheatley and
Porcupine links both have good cover and were groomed on August 14. Piper Link was packed on
August 10 but is thin in areas.

ROAD: Kosciuszko Road is open to Perisher; Guthega Road is clear and open; Alpine Way is
open to Thredbo over Dead Horse Gap and Leatherbarrel Creek; The Snowy Mountains Highway is
open.

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KEYWORD: SNOW NSW

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NSW: Patients to sign declaration of honesty on sick notes

AAP General News (Australia)
04-05-1999
NSW: Patients to sign declaration of honesty on sick notes

Patients will have to sign a declaration of honesty on work sick leave forms following the
introduction of new doctors' certificates in New South Wales.

The Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that patients who ask for a medical certificate after
an illness will have to sign the declaration saying they are being honest about their
symptoms,

The certificates are designed to reduce the $7 billion in annual costs in sickie frauds,
protect general practitioners and put the onus on the patients to be honest.

Australian Medical Association president Dr DAVID BRAND says the certificate has been
developed in response to reports that seven out of ten doctors issue sick notes without
evidence of illness.

Victorian doctors are already using the certificates.

AAP RTV knr/pa

KEYWORD: NOTES (SYDNEY)

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Aust union appears to have ignored Rio =2 Melbourne

AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-1998
Aust union appears to have ignored Rio =2 Melbourne

No union message had been received by the ABCs Newcastle
newsroom either, chief of staff Phil Ashley-Brown said.

A spokeswoman for local television station NBN 3 said no
union notification has been received.

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KEYWORD: COAL ORDER DISOBEY 2 MELBOURNE (REOPENS)

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NSW:Dump part of NSW power sale, report says

AAP General News (Australia)
02-23-2011
NSW:Dump part of NSW power sale, report says

A New South Wales upper house report into the state's 5.3 billion dollar power privatisation
has called for part of it to be cancelled because of significant concerns about the sell-off.

The upper house committee .. chaired by Christian Democrat FRED NILE .. has handed
down a scathing report on the controversial sale of state-owned electricity assets.

The partial privatisation has been marred by scandal since it was announced in …