NSW: Post mortems carried out on Queanbeyan fire bodies

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2000
NSW: Post mortems carried out on Queanbeyan fire bodies

Post mortem examinations will today be carried out on the bodies of two people killed
in a suspicious fire in southern New South Wales yesterday.

Queanbeyan Police Inspector MARTIN WOOKEY says the bodies of the dead couple were taken
to Glebe Coroner's Court overnight.

Three small children were left orphaned after the early morning house fire in Queanbeyan
yesterday.

Four police officers have been credited with saving the lives of two of the youngsters,
braving the flames at the height of the inferno to drag them from under a bed in a smoke-filled
room.

The blaze is believed to have been deliberately lit, with police sources saying detectives
are investigating the matter as a murder-suicide.

The dead couple's eldest child is believed to be responsible for raising the alarm
by calling triple 0 shortly before 6am (AEST).

AAP RTV km/nf/wz

KEYWORD: BLAZE (SYDNEY)

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NSW: Aussie charged with stalking Hingis at Miami tournament

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2000
NSW: Aussie charged with stalking Hingis at Miami tournament

A man who claims he is romantically involved with women's tennis number one MARTINA
HINGIS says she would NOT deny their relationship if she was standing next to him.

Carrying an Australian passport, 45-year-old DUBRAVKO RAJCEVIC was arrested and charged
with stalking the 19-year-old star whilst in Miami for the Ericsson Open.

Told by a Channel 10 news crew that HINGIS has denied knowing him, RAJCEVIC said they
were wrong and he also claimed to be romantically linked to her but refused to give details.

He made his comments outside the Miami County Jail.

HINGIS' mother and coach MELANIE MOLITOR have told police RAJCEVIC has been following
HINGIS and sending her letters.

RAJCEVIC describes the letters as supportive and says MARTINA is enjoying his letters
and feeding off his positive energy.

HINGIS declined to comment, but MOLITOR says RAJCEVIC has followed HINGIS at other tournaments.

Police says he was told on Wednesday to stay away from HINGIS' tournaments, but spotted
at the tournament again on Thursday and arrested.

He was formally charged with stalking and trespass after warning, but was released
today on $A1,600 bond.

AAP RTV psm/es/wz

KEYWORD: TENNIS HINGIS (SYDNEY)

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NSW: John Devitt talks about Des Renford

AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-1999
NSW: John Devitt talks about Des Renford

Dual Olympic gold medallist JOHN DEVITT describes himself as marathon swimmer DES RENFORD's
second best friend.

Mr RENFORD is in a critical condition after suffering a heart attack while training
at a Sydney pool this morning.

Mr DEVITT wrote the forward to Mr RENFORD's 1992 autobiography Nothing Great Is Easy,
but stopped short of claiming best friend status.

He says that honour goes to his devoted wife PATTY and that as a team they've experienced
plenty of ups and downs.

Mr DEVITT, a swimmer from Australia's golden era, won two gold, a silver and bronze
Olympic medals, in Melbourne and Rome, is now Australian Olympic Committee vice president.

He's clearly shaken when talking about his critically ill mate but says Mr RENFORD
is on a respirator and he believes he's going to fight like hell.

AAP RTV maur/as/jn

KEYWORD: RENFORD DEVITT (SYDNEY)

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QLD: Gold Coast police raid nets large drug haul

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-1999
QLD: Gold Coast police raid nets large drug haul

By Chris Herde

GOLD COAST, Aug 16 AAP - A weekend raid on the home of a 65-year-old Gold Coast man netted
police a substantial amount of heroin, almost $30,000 in cash and other unlawful property, the
Southport Magistrates Court was told today.

John Adamic, 65, of Labrador, faces 10 charges relating to the possession, supply and
trafficking of heroin between October last year and yesterday.

The court was told police found a number of plastic bags in the house and in Adamic's
pockets which contained more than 150 grams of high-grade heroin.

They also allegedly found two separate cash amounts of $501 and $28,410 in his dryer, two
handguns, including a .22 calibre pistol, and a range of other stolen or unlawful property.

In asking for bail, Adamic's solicitor, Chris Nyst, said his client had a heavy addiction
to heroin which he picked up in his late 50s while serving time on a prison farm.

He said Adamic and his wife were trying to get off drugs and he was unlikely to reoffend if
he was on bail.

"He is a drug user who ... is used by others who were perhaps smarter and more ruthless
than he," Mr Nyst said.

In opposing bail police prosecutor Sergeant John Fisher said Adamic had prior drug
convictions and was imprisoned for seven years in 1991 on drug trafficking and supply charges.

Magistrate Trevor Pollock refused bail and remanded Adamic in custody to reappear at the
Southport Magistrates Court on August 30.

AAP ch/kr

KEYWORD: ADAMIC

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NT: Jabiluka trespass case could affect all Aborigines = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-1999
NT: Jabiluka trespass case could affect all Aborigines = 2

Mr Dalrymple said it was easy but racist to stereotype Aborigines living in the bush as
stuck in the traditional ways of the past.

"Yvonne Margarula is a modern woman; although she is a woman of the bush she is allowed to
have modern motives," he said.

"She believed it was her duty to protect the country from a threat to it."

He said the law allowing Aboriginal people to live on their traditional land under the
Northern Territory's Land Rights …

NSW: Noeline Brown to contest state election

AAP General News (Australia)
12-02-1998
NSW: Noeline Brown to contest state election

SYDNEY, Dec 2 AAP - Former Blankety Blanks star Noeline Brown today promised to use her
comedy talents to win the seat of Southern Highlands for the ALP in the March state election.

Ms Brown, who became a 1970s icon starring on the Naked Vicar and Mavis Bramston Show,
announced her bid for parliament today.

She conceded unseating the National's Peta (Peta) Seaton, who holds the seat by 11.6 per
cent, would be a difficult job but said her high-profile and humour would help her campaign.

"If I can bring that into the campaign I'll certainly be doing it, I don't mean to
trivialise it in any way because it is important but I want to have a bit of fun and I want
everybody else to have a bit of fun too," she told reporters.

Ms Brown said she was already working on her Peta Seaton jokes.

She said she had always been a Labor supporter and had been involved in the "It's Time"
campaign, "jumping up and down next to Gough (Whitlam)".

New South Wales Premier Bob Carr also announced preselections in a number of other country
seats being targeted by Labor -- Gerard Martin for Bathurst, Neville Newell for Murwillumbah,
Peter Black for Murray-Darling and Michael McManus for Burrinjuck.

AAP ns/sb/it

KEYWORD: BROWN

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FED:Labor MPs quiz Gillard on welfare reforms

AAP General News (Australia)
02-07-2011
FED:Labor MPs quiz Gillard on welfare reforms

By Susanna Dunkerley and Paul Osborne

CANBERRA, Feb 7 AAP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard is under pressure from the Labor
caucus to ensure the right balance is found in any overhaul of the welfare system.

The prime minister has listed getting more people off the dole and pensions and into
work as one of her priorities for 2011.

There has also been speculation the welfare overhaul could be used to find savings
to pay for rebuilding following the summer floods and Cyclone Yasi.

In a speech last week Ms Gillard flagged welfare reforms …