NATION
Opportunity
out of box
SYDNEY: A cardboard
coffin maker is up for
sale after going into
voluntary administration.
LifeArt Australia makes
customised, creative design
coffins out of biodegradable cardboard. The administrators,
SV Partners, are seeking a buyer for the business.
They say it has a trained workforce and developed
customer base, and would suit parties already in the
traditional wooden coffin-making industry or those involved
in light assembly, such as kitchen makers.
Weary commemorated
Crocs revel in Qld floods
CANBERRA: Sir Edward ‘‘Weary’’ Dunlop,
perhaps the best known of more than half a
million Australians who served in World
War II, has returned to the Australian
War Memorial.
A 320kg statue (pictured) of the
esteemed surgeon and prisoner of war has
been lowered into place by a crane —
marking the end of a $18 million
redevelopment at the memorial.
The war memorial grounds feature a large
number of plaques commemorating particular
units but the Weary Dunlop statue, a duplicate
of one in Melbourne, is special in its
commemoration of an individual.
BRISBANE: Locals in the flooded northwest Queensland shire
of Burke say they’re enjoying expansive water views as
glorious as the Gold Coast’s.
But the crocs that have followed the flood waters are
less appealing.
‘‘They’ve sighted one right at Gregory township itself,
there’s a 14-foot saltie right at the
bridge crossing,’’ says Kylie
Camp, whose husband
Ernie Camp is mayor of
the shire.
Another croc’s been
sighted close to the
Burketown caravan park.
Tourist fights for life
Lovers lane re-enactment yields clues Dead girl’s loan owing
STRANGLED: Bianca Girven with her son Ziggy Indrawan
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BRISBANE: A re-enactment of
the final moments of a murdered
mother’s life at a Brisbane
make-out spot has yielded more
leads, police say.
Bianca Girven, 22, was
strangled at Gertrude Perry
Park, off Shire Road at Mt
Gravatt, at about midnight
(AEST) last Tuesday after she
visited the spot with boyfriend
Rhys Austin.
Mr Austin is assisting police
and is being treated as a person
of interest.
Police say several new
witnesses have come forward
after they staged a re-enactment
of the couple’s movements on
Tuesday night.
They dressed two
mannequins as the couple and
parked a white Mazda van at the
Mt Gravatt Mountain lookout
and then at the park below from
7pm to 11pm.
The couple were believed to
have visited the lookout in a
white Mazda van before driving
down to the nearby park where
the attack happened.
Police believe Ms Girven and
Mr Austin attended West End’s
Full Moon Festival after 8pm
before driving to the Mt Gravatt
Mountain lookout on the night
of Ms Girven’s death.
Nixon dined out as fires raged
MELBOURNE: Christine Nixon says she won’t
resign as head of Victoria’s bushfire reconstruction after admitting she went out for dinner on the
night of the fires that killed 173 people because she
‘‘had to eat’’.
The state’s police chief at the time, Ms Nixon has
said that after receiving a briefing about the fires
as they savaged Victoria at around 5pm on
February 7 last year, she went to a pub for dinner
with friends.
Victorian Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu, Family First senator Steve Fielding and the police
union have all called for Ms Nixon to resign or be
sacked from her job as head of the Victorian
Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority.
Some victims of last year’s Black Saturday
bushfires said they were ‘‘disgusted’’ and com- GRILLED: Former police
chief Christine Nixon
pared her to the Roman emperor Nero.
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PERTH: The family of a Perth woman who died after
a controversial liver transplant will still be expected
to repay a loan to the West Australian government,
says WA Premier Colin Barnett.
Claire Murray, 24, died in a Singapore hospital
last week.
Ms Murray, a former heroin addict, received a live
transplant using part of her aunt Carolyn’s liver.
The WA Government gave her family a $250,000
two-year interest-free loan to pay for the surgery.
PUB: NT NEWS
BRISBANE: About 150
tonnes of oil could wash up
on the Queensland coast if
an operation to extract oil
from a stricken ship on the
Great Barrier Reef goes
wrong, computer modelling
has shown.
A barge will leave Gladstone today to collect more
than 950 tonnes of heavy
engine oil from the Shen
Neng 1, which remains
stranded on Douglas Shoal
off Rockhampton after running aground on Saturday.
Queensland Transport
Minister Rachel Nolan says
final preparations are being
made for the mission as
contingency plans are put
in place in case of a spill.
Last year, 250 tonnes of
oil escaped from the Pacific
Adventurer and washed up
on Sunshine Coast beaches.
‘‘This remains a precarious situation and one of the
most delicate operations in
recent marine history is
about to get under way,’’
said Ms Nolan.
notified and is believed to be
preparing to travel to Sydney.
The attack ended the couple’s
plans to travel around Australia.
Supt Begg urged the boys who
were involved, or their parents, to
contact police.
The attack came less than a
month after the bashing of a
wheelchair-bound Canadian man
at a railway station.
Department of the Environment,
Water, Heritage and the Arts
Call for Public Submissions
The Australian Government is calling for public
submissions on the review of the Water Efficiency
Labelling and Standards (WELS) Scheme.
The WELS scheme has been in operation for five years and
is now being independently reviewed as required under its
legislation: the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act
2005.
The scheme promotes water use efficiency and conservation
by ensuring that consumers are properly informed on the
efficiency of designated water-using products offered for
supply. Currently, clothes washing machines, dishwashers,
shower heads, toilets, urinals and certain types of taps are
required to be registered, and labelled to indicate their water
efficiency, prior to being offered for supply. The scheme
also provides for voluntary registration and labelling of flow
controllers, as well as mandatory minimum water efficiency
standards for toilets.
The review will look at all aspects of the scheme including cost
effectiveness, appropriateness, efficiency and improvements
that can be made to enhance the scheme. As required by the
WELS Act the Government has appointed an independent
reviewer, Dr Chris Guest, to undertake the review.
The review’s terms of reference and a discussion paper
are available at www.environment.gov.au/WELSreview.
Submissions can be lodged at this website or emailed to
[email protected].
Alternatively submissions can be posted to: WELS Review
Secretariat, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage
and the Arts, GPO Box 787, Canberra ACT 2601.
Submissions will be accepted over a four week period from
8 April to 7 May 2010.
Further information is also available by calling 1800 218 478.
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Salvage
risks
oil spill
after there was a physical fight
between Mark and the four males,’’
Detective Superintendent Helen
Begg said yesterday.
‘‘Mark has fallen and hit his head
on the footpath.’’
A passerby confronted the attackers, called an ambulance from a
nearby public phone and Mr Willis
was rushed to St George Hospital.
His family in Scotland has been
COLOR:
Mark Willis, 25, and girlfriend
Jane McLean, in her 20s, were
heading home in Sydney’s south
after a night out when he was
The couple had caught a bus from
the city to Rockdale railway station
in the early hours of Wednesday
when a row ensued with the boys.
But the dispute escalated into
violence after the couple, who have
been in Sydney since December on
working visas, got off the bus and
were walking home.
‘‘There was a verbal exchange
between the two parties and shortly
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FOUR boys as young as 10 are
believed to be responsible for a
brutal attack that left a Scottish
tourist in a critical condition
with head injuries.
assaulted. A verbal argument became physical when he was
punched by one of the gang of
youths and fell, hitting his head on
the footpath.
He is in a critical condition after
undergoing emergency surgery.
Police say they’re worried about
the age of the attackers, urging
them to come forward and calling
for witnesses to contact them.
DATE: 8-APR-2010
By ANDREW DRUMMOND
in Sydney
C M YK
Police seek gang of young boys who bashed man in street
Northern Territory News, Thursday, April 8, 2010 — 9