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100-day
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PUB: NT NEWS
DATE: 16-AUG-2012
PAGE: 10 COLOR: C M Y K
THE COUNTRY LIBERALS have
constructed a detailed 100-day plan to
ensure our policies and promises are
honoured, that we are fully accountable –
and that we hit the ground running.
The responsibility of Government is
taken very seriously. Good government
that serves the people well doesn’t happen
by accident but by proper planning and
passionate service.
If we are elected on Saturday week,
I am determined our government will be
immediately ready to move into action. The
only way forward for the Territory is through
proper strategic planning.
We will be accountable to the community.
We will deliver on our promises. Our
government will be transparent.
Crime statistics will be released so that
you can measure our performance.
We will immediately conduct a “crime
audit” to determine the streets and areas most
affected by Labor’s epidemic of violence.
The Country Liberals have a 100-day
plan to ensure our promises are honoured
and to keep us accountable.
Most Australians are well aware of
the promise made by Prime Minister Julia
Gillard that there would be no carbon tax
under her government.
Now Labor is again making reckless
promises to Territorians – which Paul
Henderson no doubt will dishonour! Six
hundred million dollars in just the first six
days of the campaign -- $100 million a day!
Pork barrelling gone mad.
This Labor “spendathon” relies on
Federal funding: Julia Gillard has promised
to send her ‘cheques-in-the-mail’ to NT
Labor? They will surely bounce.
Labor is so ashamed of its record that it
is running away from its brand. Labor has no
plan except to spin promises it has no intention
of keeping. Imagine another four years.
The CLP 100-day plan will be the
catalyst for a new era of Territory prosperity.
TERRY MILLS
Leader of the Opposition
To find out more about the Country Liberals’
exciting plans for the Territory, go to:
www.countryliberals.org.au
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Ban on shots after midnight
Warming to hot water bottles
SYDNEY: Licensed venues in Sydney’s Kings Cross will be
banned from selling shots after midnight on Fridays and
Saturdays under tough new restrictions to be introduced
by the NSW Government. Premier Barry O’Farrell
yesterday announced the results of an audit into the
precinct’s bars, clubs and restaurants, which found more
people were being thrown out of venues than refused
service. The audit was ordered after the death of
teenager Tom Kelly last month.
SYDNEY: Households are stocking up on hot water
bottles, heavy blankets and door stoppers in a desperate
bid to cope with soaring power bills and a bitter winter.
Big W’s national sales of hot water bottles more than
tripled last month compared with the same time last year.
That 216 per cent spike was only surpassed by demand
for hot water bottle covers, which surged 428 per cent.
The national chain sold a combined 40,000 bottles and
covers last month.
Woman teeters
on ravine’s edge
Police officer Dave Cooper where a lost 90-year-old woman was found — hundreds of kilometres from home
GEELONG: A 90-year-old woman who got lost driving from
Melbourne Airport to Lilydale
ended hundreds of kilometres
away, stranded on the edge of a
40m ravine near Lorne on the
southwest Victorian coast.
The Lilydale woman may
have been stuck on a steep Erskine Falls embankment for as
long as two hours before being
spotted by her rescuer about
3am yesterday.
She was on her way home in
Melbourne’s east after dropping
her son at the airport. Chef Josh
Harrison was on his way home
after work when he saw the woman trapped in her silver
Subaru Impreza.
‘‘It was unbelievable to see
the car where it was teetering
over the edge, which was pretty
steep. I simply saw head lights
shining up into the air,’’ Mr
Harrison said. ‘‘If she had
teetered down who knows if
anyone would of found her.
‘‘When I left her to go and get
phone reception to make the
call, I was worried and thought
‘what if she’s not there when I
get back’ because she was really
stressed, but she hung on.’’
Fire brigade, police and
emergency crews rushed to the
area to find the woman in relatively good shape.
She had her foot on the brake,
stopping her vehicle from
plunging more than 40m down a
ravine off Erskine Falls Rd.
Mr Harrison said if he hadn’t
stayed back late to do paper
work the woman may never
have been found.
Lorne policeman David Cooper said the woman had dropped her son at Melbourne Airport, become disoriented and
driven to Lorne.
Picture: LEON WALKER
Sgt Cooper said the woman
was extremely lucky Mr Harrison had come along.
‘‘Sometime during the night
she’s attempted to execute a reverse U-turn and veered off the
road way down an embankment
where she’s put her foot on
brake, turned off the engine and
sat there until a local resident
found her,’’ Sgt Cooper said.
‘‘We have no idea how long
she may have been there for.
‘‘Possible an hour or two because she was relatively cold,
but in remarkably good health
and without a scratch on her.’’
Reserves fire blanks
Jail for baby death
CANBERRA: The Federal Government insists budget constraints haven’t forced reserve
soldiers to yell out ‘‘bang bang’’
in place of firing blank ammunition in training.
Neither have budget cuts
spelled the demise of the
army’s iconic rising sun hat
badge as the Coalition has claimed, it says, after the latest Op-
SYDNEY: A woman depressed
and suffering ‘‘abnormality of
mind’’ when she left her
baby daughter in a bath to
drown could be free in less
than two months.
The woman, 27, who cannot
be named, was sentenced in
Sydney’s Supreme Court yesterday to a maximum five
years in prison with a non-
position attacks on the Government over cuts to defence
spending in this year’s Budget.
Liberal Senator Ian Macdonald used question time yesterday to ask if it was true that
soldiers were being told to
shout ‘‘bang bang’’ to simulate
weapon discharges as they had
not been issued blank ammunition because of budget cuts.
parole period of three years
and two months.
She has been in custody
since her arrest on August 10,
2009, and could possibly get out
of jail on October 9.
In a unanimous verdict last
week, a jury found the woman
not guilty of murder but
guilty of the lesser charge
of manslaughter.
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