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28 February 2000
Northern Territory News headlines
'Shoal Bay Saved' - page 1
An amazing story if true. The Government has announced that a prawn farm adjacent to Shoal Bay will not proceed, the venture moving to another location. Our Chief Minister announced the deal at a meeting of the Amateur Fishermen's Association NT. But the deal came about because of the NT Opposition (who? - yes I made the same comment) approaching the developers with the alternative. And with true grace the Chief Minister was quoted 'You'll never change the opinion of the amateur fisherman, no matter what scientific analysis you do. But the jury was still out in terms of what the impact could be'. The Opposition member, Peter Toyne's version was 'What I found was that we simply don’t have enough science to make a decision about an aquaculture development at Shoal Bay. Scientists say if you don’t know, don’t do it.'
'So what? Says CM to UN law threat' - page 2
'Any UN recommendation to scrap Northern Territory mandatory sentencing laws would be greeted with a firm 'so what?' Chief Minister Denis Burke said yesterday'. And commenting on the referral to the UN by Kim Beazley and ATSIC chair Geoff Clark, Mr Burke was quoted as saying 'Let 'em all run off to Geneva, frankly. I reckon people are gutless running off to the UN'. And this is our leader!
New game - pick the page number and column inches of the following flood stories
The choices are
i) page 12 (18.6*17.6cm), ii) page 7 (7.4*6cm),
iii) page 4 (22.3*26.6cm), iv) page 7 (about 26*25cm)
A. 'Have car, will swim as rains continue'
Floodwaters were set to rise above the Victoria River Roadhouse cutting off road access to Western Australia with travellers being asked to stay put. All drivers nonetheless managed to pass through yesterday. Meanwhile at Camooweal. 70km east of the NT border, floodwaters were slowly dropping. And an update on news from yesterday - at least 34 road trains and 1 bus remained stranded.
B. '100 cut off by floods'
More than 20 households in north western New South Wales will be cut off for anything up to six weeks after heavy rains in northern and central Australia..
C. 'Cyclone Steve hits Cairns at 150kh/h'
'Hundreds of backpackers sheltered along the Cairns Esplanade last night as winds of up to 150km/h and heavy rain battered the city as Cyclone Steve crossed the far north Queensland coast'.
D. 'New surge stops flood food help - 36 000 hungry'
A new flood surge caused airlifts of emergency supplies to homeless Mozambicans to be suspended. At least 50 people are believed drowned with up to 36 000 having been driven from their homes'
And a very tough lesson
'6 schoolgirls drown in forced swim'
Six Thai girls, aged 10 to 12, died after being forced by teachers to walk blindfolded through a 10 m deep pond near their school in Songkhla Province, 800km south of Bangkok. Parents are trying to press charges against the teachers.
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