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Good evening everyone. The former head of the New South Wales judicial system, Murray Farquhar, will seek to have his case reopened.
Mr Farquhar was freed from Long Bay Jail today after serving 10 months for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The former Chief Magistrate spoke exclusively to Terry Willissey tonight and strongly maintained his innocence.
Officially Murray Farquhar's punishment ended today when he made a speedy departure from Long Bay Jail.
Privately, the former judicial leader believes his public disgrace will continue until he obtains a reversal of his conviction for attempting to influence Magistrate Kevin Jones.
The issue then was whether Rugby League Chief Kevin Humphreys should have been brought to trial back in 1977.
If you had your time again, would you have spoken to Magistrate Jones about the Humphreys case?
Well, if I'd realised he was going to tangle it so much, I certainly would not. But frankly, that's water under the bridge and I propose to seek a way of redressing it.
How would he do that?
Well, there are Section 475 inquiries there, seldom given, but there is material available which might permit that.
I think I can only do no more than leave it in that area of speculation at this stage.
Describing prison as a microcosm of society with both good and bad guys, Farquhar is planning to write a book about his experiences, but top priority is clearing his name.
I think I've served my country extremely well in every sphere and I certainly don't feel any sense of personal disgrace and I don't propose to move around in any depressed or humiliated way.
It's now an offence to publish details of jury room proceedings in Victoria, punishable by three months' imprisonment, a fine of up to $10,000 or both.
Attorney General Jim Kennan says the legislation which came out after a recent number of media disclosures was necessary to protect the system of trial by jury and the freedom of speech in the jury room.
However, it does not prevent press reports on jury experiences generally or stop jurors talking privately about their experiences.
Victoria's opposition leader called his first media conference for the year today, but it broke up when Mr Kennet refused to be sidetracked.
Recent Gallup poll figures showing the waning popularity of the Victorian Parliamentary Liberal Party and its opposition leader, Geoff Kennet, were taboo at today's conference at State Parliament.
Nor was Geoff Kennet prepared to discuss the censured comments by deposed Liberal backbencher, Ian Smith.
I don't intend to be drawn by you or anyone else here today into other matters that may have been discussed in this last week.
The opposition leader called the conference to announce the establishment of a Parliamentary Liberal Party committee to develop policies to tackle drug abuse.
The Liberal Party on this issue here in Victoria has perhaps done more constructively on this problem than any other political party.
But I don't see this problem as a political problem. It's a community problem.
The new Liberal committee consists of five Liberal backbenchers and Vin Heffernan, Geoff Kennet's assistant on youth affairs.
The group is headed by Sindal MLA Geoff Coleman, president of Melbourne's family care organisation.
Police tonight released the name of a man who died in a mine cave-in at Gunnedah in north-western New South Wales.
He was 25-year-old Stephen Ranick.
The miners were working a kilometre underground when the collapse occurred at about one o'clock this afternoon.
One man was killed during the cave-in and two others taken to nearby Gunnedah Hospital by ambulance after being rescued by emergency teams.
Both men are reported to be in a satisfactory condition after what appears to have been a lucky escape.
A mines department inspector is on his way to the colliery in an attempt to find the exact cause of the fatal collapse.
Police in north-eastern Tasmania have recovered the bodies of two crew members who died in yesterday's horror crush between a freight train and a semi-trailer.
They were the driver Harvey John Smith, 48, and fireman Donald Atkinson, 36, both of Devonport.
Tasmania has never had a more serious level crossing smash than the one which occurred on the eastern edge of Burnie at 20 to 1 yesterday afternoon.
While some of the wreckage had been cleared the night before, most was unmoved this morning.
A crowd had gathered to see the rescuers at work. The train's cement carriages still pinned one of its locomotives.
Another, the one which had carried the two railway workers, was submerged. Retrieving it became the hardest task for police.
But retrieve it they did. It took the power of two bulldozers and a crane, and even then workmen had to virtually disassemble it and bring it ashore in parts.
After work on the cabin of the locomotive, the bodies of the train driver and his firemen were removed shortly before 3 o'clock.
John William Riley, a 59-year-old Burnie man, was the truck driver. Work has already begun on repairing the bridge.
The only comment rail chiefs will make on the whole incident is they expect the vital north-west line to be open again on Monday.
In news still to come, rain has again delayed the landing of the trouble-plagued US space shuttle and fighting continuing in the south Yemen capital, Aden.
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