ACT: Police find car allegedly involved in hit and run

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2000
ACT: Police find car allegedly involved in hit and run

CANBERRA, Aug 30 AAP - ACT police have located a car allegedly involved in a hit-and-run
fatality in suburban Richardson last Sunday.

They expected to speak to the driver some time this week, an Australian Federal Police
spokesman said.

"At about 9pm last night a man and his solicitor walked into the City Police Station
and surrendered the vehicle to police," the spokesman said in a statement.

James Dudley Bolton, from Cooma in southern New South Wales, died when he was struck
by a car in Clift Crescent about 3.30am on Sunday.

Police said on Monday a small white car with a smashed windscreen and front panel damage
was seen leaving the area shortly after the incident.

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FED: Kosovars due to leave Australia today

AAP General News (Australia)
04-16-2000
FED: Kosovars due to leave Australia today

Almost 150 Kosovar refugees are due to leave Australia today, having exhausted all
possible avenues of appeal in their bids to stay.

And the federal government has moved against nine of the Kosovars who don't want to
leave, taking them into detention.

Immigration Minister PHILIP RUDDOCK says the nine have made it clear they won't leave
voluntarily by today's deadline.

The nine are among 146 refugees at the Bandiana Army Base near the NSW-Victoria border.

More than 30 of the Albanian Kosovars, given temporary refuge in Australia last year
to escape Serb violence in their homeland, are still refusing to return home.

Mr RUDDOCK says any more Kosovars who don't agree to leave by today will also be taken
into detention.

Albanian community spokesman ERIK LLOGA says the refugees were in a distressed state
when he visited them at Bandiana yesterday.

Mr LLOGA says most of those still refusing to go are from a region called Eastern Kosovo
-- an Albanian-dominated area inside Serbia itself.





Mr RUDDOCK's declined to say where the nine have been taken, but observers believed
they may have been flown to detention centres in Port Hedland or Woomera.

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KEYWORD: KOSOVO AUST (MELBOURNE)

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FED: Senate to today overturn NT native title regime

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-1999
FED: Senate to today overturn NT native title regime

CANBERRA, Aug 31 AAP - The Senate is almost certain today to sink the Northern Territory's
native title scheme, amid warnings the same fate may await upcoming regimes in Western
Australia and Queensland.

Australian Democrats native title spokesman John Woodley confirmed his party would join
Labor and the Greens to disallow the NT regime.

The parties are concerned further changes could be made to the NT's regime without any
ongoing monitoring role by federal parliament.

"We will vote for the disallowance today but I hope that won't stop the negotiation from
going on," Senator Woodley told ABC radio.

"We don't want to just vote against something, we want to find a solution to this one."

The federal Wik legislation, passed with the support of independents Brian Harradine and
Mal Colston, allowed the states and territories to establish their own schemes for deciding
native title.

But those schemes can be overturned in the Senate.

Senator Woodley said impending schemes in Western Australia and Queensland could suffer the
same fate as that in the NT.

"It leaves them with the same problem because if we can't solve it before their legislation
comes on the same fate awaits it."

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KEYWORD: WIK DAYLEAD

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VIC: Victoria prepares for Kosovo refugees

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-1999
VIC: Victoria prepares for Kosovo refugees

By Heather Gallagher and Ilsa Colson

MELBOURNE, April 8 AAP - Victoria is already preparing for the arrival of Kosovo refugees
amid warnings from experts that more planning for their care is vital.

Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett said a task force had already begun assessing various
accommodation options for the refugees, who could arrive as early as next week.

An air force base at Point Cook, south-west of Melbourne, and a former World War II migrant
hostel at Bonegilla, near the Victorian-New South Wales border, were the two obvious options,
the Premier said.

However Professor Lenore Manderson (Lenore Manderson), an expert in immigrant health
studies from the University of Melbourne, said Australia had a history of giving political
refugees amnesty and then failing to address their needs.

"I'm pleading for people to start organising so all of Australia can be reassured that this
next group (of refugees) are not going to be brought to Australia and dumped," she told AAP.

News of the impending arrival of refugees drew a mixed reaction today.

The local council covering the Bonegilla site, the City of Wodonga, said it would happily
support plans to help the refugees but it had not yet received word from the state and federal
governments.

"Once the federal government has told us what it wants, we would be quite willing to work
with it to assist," Wodonga chief executive officer Peter Marshall told AAP.

Point Cook local municipality, the Wyndham City Council, said while it supported the
federal government's move to accept the refugees, it did not think the airforce base - on
Commonwealth land - was appropriate to house them.

"I'm not sure there would be adequate services available at Point Cook ... they'd have to
build a new temporary city at that location, which may not be consistent with the flying
operations that operate there," Wyndham mayor Frank Purcell told AAP.

Mr Kennett said options were under examination for accommodating anything from 100
refugees to the total 4,000-plus that Australia has agreed to take.

"We can work with the local community here - the Albanian and non-Albanian community - to
give them solace and try and repair some of the incredible emotional damage that has been
done," he told radio 3AW.

Professor Manderson applauded Mr Kennett's actions, but was not impressed with the idea of
using internment and army camps as accommodation, describing the proposal as "chilling".

"If Victoria is saying 'we'll help', the state and federal government have got to get into
a room together with the communities who know about the people who are coming," she said.

Immediate consultation was also vital with immigration officials, health services,
interpreters and counsellors.

Wodonga's Peter Marshall said defence force accommodation was still available on the
Bonegilla site, but it was unclear how many people it could house.

The Albury-Wodonga area had a strong tradition of supporting refugees, with many immigrants
settling there after the 20-year-old Bonegilla hostel closed in the 1970s, he said.

The two cities also offered a multicultural resource centre with a program specifically
designed to support refugees, while many local people had already said they were prepared to
take part in a billet program.

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KEYWORD: KOSOVO VIC NIGHTLEAD

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FED: Costello say no to food exemption as Dems seize on poll

AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-1998
FED: Costello say no to food exemption as Dems seize on poll

By Stephen Spencer

CANBERRA, Dec 22 AAP - Treasurer Peter Costello today ruled out exempting food from the GST
as the Australian Democrats seized on a new survey showing overwhelming opposition to a tax on
food to harden their position ahead of next year's Senate vote.

The Melbourne Institute survey found support for a GST had recovered to around 45 per cent,
close to the level of support it received when the government's tax package was released in
August.

However, opposition to a tax on food remained fairly solid at around 66 per cent.

Democrats Leader Meg Lees said the survey showed the government's arguments that food had
to be taxed had failed to convince voters and toughened her resolve to demand it be exempted.

"Very much so, and it certainly isn't surprising as Treasury itself well knows, we can take
the GST off food and get all the other benefits that a GST will give to us, and hopefully this
will get the government thinking again," Senator Lees told Radio National.

"Australians don't need lengthy surveys to tell them that those hardest hit by a tax on
food are going to be those at the very bottom."

A spokesman for Opposition Leader Kim Beazley said the survey made little difference to
Labor's stand on the tax.

"We don't support a GST on food, we don't support a GST on anything," the spokesman told
AAP.

"We will continue to oppose it lock, stock and barrel."

However, Treasurer Peter Costello today again made clear that while the government was
prepared to make some compromises to get the GST through the Senate, exempting food was not an
option.

"If they want to knock around stuff out of the GST, one it will knock around the
compensation, secondly it will knock around the costings," Mr Costello told the Herald Sun
newspaper.

"If you knock a huge whole in the tax package, blew its cost out by billions, you are going
to threaten the government's economic strategy, threaten interest rates, threaten growth - you
are going to threaten unemployment."

Mr Costello's stand was endorsed today by the Australian Society of Certified Practising
Accountants which branded the Melbourne Institute finding a "no brainer".

"If you ask most people if they support tax on a particular item, particularly one of the
necessities of life, it is fairly obvious what the result is going to be," CPA senior tax
counsel Paul Drum said in a statement.

"Calls for GST-free food often ignore the facts.

"Making food GST-free would create a veritable compliance nightmare for small business."

Mr Drum said the government should not create populist tax reform by dropping the GST on
food, but should instead consider increasing the compensation for low income earners to offset
the cost of the tax.

AAP ss/ms/de

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NSW:NSW mum broken over daughter's murder

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-2011
NSW:NSW mum broken over daughter's murder

By Vincent Morello

SYDNEY, Dec 9 AAP - The "broken mum" of a murdered young woman still counts the days
since her daughter's death.

Sue Morrissey wept on Friday as she read her victim impact statement to the Supreme
Court in Sydney, saying she has made visits to the cemetery a daily part of her life.

Michelle Morrissey, 19, was stabbed at least 10 times to her throat, chest and abdomen
at her family's home in the central western NSW town of Mudgee on March 27, 2010.

Her killer, 20-year-old Luke John Cotterill, sat slouched in the dock as Michelle's
mother laboured to read her statement.

"I sit here a broken mum," she said during sentencing submissions.

"I have lost an irreplaceable part my life, my Shelley."

Others in the court began to cry as she described the ongoing devastation.

"Today I have not seen Michelle for 622 days," Ms Morrissey said.

"It has been 89 weeks of my new life. A life I didn't choose. A life I don't deserve.

"The cemetery has become a major part of my life."

Cotterill intended to rob the family home and came upon Michelle as she was ironing
a party dress.

The crown's barrister Peter Barnett said the evidence showed Michelle was first attacked
near the stairs of the house and then again after she entered the kitchen.

"It goes, your honour, to the nature, the intensity, of this attack," Mr Barnett told the court.

He said Cotterill, who has pleaded guilty to murder, had been a violent and troubled
child and had spent time in the juvenile justice system.

He was known to attack other students in school and once took six hours to calm down
after throwing furniture.

At one point, his parents expressed fear for the safety of their other children.

Defence barrister Stephen Hanley said Cotterill had been "a disturbed young child"

and that all the psychological reviews of his client over the years had never once recommended
treatment.

Mr Hanley recommended that Cotterill receive a sentence that reflected an attempt to
rehabilitate him.

"Because of his youth ... there is a need particularly with this young individual to
give him a carrot," he told the court.

Volumes of evidence were presented to Justice Lucy McCallum by the crown and by Cotterill's
barrister.

Both families will endure another two months of suspense after Justice McCallum reserved
her decision on sentencing until early February.

"I know that will feel like a long time for everybody to receive that decision," the
judge told the court.

Cotterill will also be sentenced for trying to flee while being transported from Bathurst
Correctional Complex to Sydney's Silverwater Jail.

He ran six metres before a guard shot him in the arm, hip and left leg.

The matter will return to the same court for sentencing on February 17.

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