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The Dole Diary.
The government wants to know what job seekers are doing.
The high price of success an Aussie swim star tells of death threats.
And a little girl lost and found.
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Criticism tonight from welfare groups after the government revealed it wants jobless people
to keep a diary in order to get the Dole.
The federal government announced the measure as the Prime Minister faced a rowdy protest
over cuts to higher education.
John Howard is paying his own price for the coalition's tough spending cuts.
A prime ministerial lunch at Sydney's Macquarie University disrupted when federal police were
forced to reject a student protester.
Let go of me!
Let him go!
Let go of my arm!
Let him go!
The last John Howard policy, Liberal Party policy, was a three dollar wage.
The answer wasn't long in coming.
The government revealing it's about to introduce a so-called Dole Diary, requiring the unemployed
to detail their attempts to find jobs so they can be checked.
You are meant to be looking for work.
If you are not looking for work and it is demonstrated that you're not, well then you
lose your entitlement.
Coming hard on the heels of an official Dove in a Dole bludger hotline, welfare workers
say it's a kick in the guts for the jobless.
A vast majority, over 90%, are fair dinkum about finding jobs.
In Tasmania, where the forerunner to the Dole Diary has been secretly trialled, social workers
say a teenage pregnant girl was reduced to tears.
She had gone to 11 employers and it was only after pleading with two of them she'd been
able to get the two certificates.
But the government says employers won't have to sign the new diaries, which will be introduced
for all new job seekers after July 29.
In Canberra, Glen Mern, Seven Nightly News.
Controversy continues in the Australian Olympic camp as Cathy Watt fires off legal action
after missing out on selection.
Daniel Kowalski has revealed a series of death threats.
Kowalski's coach says the threats were made a year ago after the swimming champion beat
Kieran Perkins.
Daniel Kowalski trained as normal this morning, wanting to leave the death threats controversy
in his wake.
His coach though said the incident was over, but never forgotten.
I mean, I was worried for Daniel, I was worried for my wife, and certainly worried about my
three kids.
The threats came last year.
Kowalski was told in phone calls and two letters that if he beat 1500 metre rival Kieran Perkins,
he'd be dead.
Now the guy just said to him, if he wins the Grand Prix, you know, I'll kill you.
And he said that straight off the bat, and Daniel put the phone down, and then it came
back about ten minutes later and said the same sort of thing.
And as Kowalski did his best to put those dramas behind him, so too Australia's champion
cyclist Cathy Watt took to the streets of Atlanta today, trying to ignore the controversies
that surround her.
Neither Watt or coach Kerry Hall would comment further on her axing from the 3000 metres
pursuit, but as she lapped the road race course, in Australia Dawn Fraser was wading into the
rail with fresh details on a conversation she'd overheard.
And I was standing behind Cathy Watt when I heard the Australian coach say to Watt,
as long as I'm head coach of the Australian cycling, you will never ever represent Australia.
More support too, coming from Australian Olympic chief John Coates.
And hard as it may be, she's just got to focus on her job over the next few days.
A decision isn't expected before Friday.
She would not be proceeding with this appeal unless she believes she had a reasonable prospect
of success.
In Atlanta Chris Reason, Seven Nightly News.
Three men who ran the Garibaldi Small Goods Company have appeared in court, accused of
killing four-year-old Nicky Robinson.
The company's three directors stood in the dock this morning and pleaded not guilty to
manslaughter.
Garibaldi directors Lou Markey and his son Philip arrived together around 15 minutes
before this morning's hearing, while the company's financial controller Neville Mead turned up
moments before the 10am arraignment.
The trio was charged with unlawfully killing four-year-old Nicky Robinson on February 1st
last year.
They also faced two charges of creating risk of harm.
Those charges alleged they failed to maintain adequate standards of production of fermented
meat products.
And they failed to inform the Health Commission of the possible contamination of Garibaldi
salami.
It's alleged they knew these failures were likely to cause harm and were recklessly indifferent.
Nicky Robinson was one of dozens of children struck down during an outbreak of hemolytic
uremic syndrome, a virulent and deadly bacterial condition allegedly linked to Garibaldi metwurst
and salami.
Director of public prosecutions Paul Rove has also charged the company, which is now
in liquidation.
If it's found guilty, the liquidators face paying a huge fine.
Meanwhile the lawyers told the court this morning they're not sure yet who's going
to pay for the defence.
And they've asked for a further two months to consider whether they want a jury trial
or a trial by judge alone.
Graham Hunter, 7 Nightly News.
A desperate plea tonight from parents of a teenager beaten to death in a Melbourne restaurant
over the weekend.
Raymond O'Enati would have turned 19 tomorrow but instead of celebrating his devastated
family is mourning his violent death inside a Carlton bar and cafe.
His father says Raymond never liked fights and is pleading for tighter security in bars
to save other families the same heartache.
Police are hunting a group of 10 men believed responsible for the attack.
In Sydney police have arrested a 48 year old man in connection with a stabbing murder executed
in front of horrified motorists.
Police say one driver dragged another from his car and killed him.
The 46 year old victim suffered several knife wounds to the back.
The stabbing was first thought to be a violent case of road rage.
Police now believe the two men may have known each other.
Police arrested the man tonight at a house in Sydney's west but no charges have yet
been laid.
Former tycoon Alan Bond went on trial today on four fraud charges involving the famous
French painting La Promenade.
The jury was told it's not a complicated trial, just a long one.
Alan Bond faces eight weeks in the dock as 50 witnesses are called over his business
dealings in the 1980s.
Dealings involving this famous painting La Promenade by Edouard Manet and an even more
famous painting Van Gogh's Irises.
Prosecutor Brian Martin said Bond bought Irises in 1987 for $53 million for his Perth office
and because he still owed half its purchase price arranged to put up La Promenade as security.
But Mr Martin said La Promenade was being leased by Bond Corporation, a public company,
and Alan Bond deceived directors to get hold of the painting.
The jury heard that when auditors queried the transactions involving both paintings
a fictitious story had been made up.
Alison Phan, Seven Nightly News.
And in the news ahead Prince Charles parties as Diana is caught crying and an air show
tragedy as a stunt goes terribly wrong.
A tearful reunion tonight in Brisbane after a two year old girl wandered away from her
family home spending five hours lost in freezing conditions.
Lucy Stirling was found huddled on a rock in Bushland after a desperate search by police
and more than 80 SES volunteers.
The little girl had apparently followed her dog, the faithful pet staying by her side
until she was found.
Lucy was checked by a doctor before being taken to hospital for observation and police
say it was extremely fortunate the child was found safe and well because the area is dotted
with dams and creeks.
British police have arrested several men in London and seized a large amount of bomb making
materials.
They are being held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and in Belfast thousands of
Catholics have gathered for the funeral of a man killed during the weekend riots in Londonderry.
Overnight the streets of Northern Ireland fell into an eerie silence.
For the first night in four the police and army had the streets to themselves.
None of the violence, the rocks, bottles and gasoline bombs of the previous week were there
to rock the peace process.
Instead in the afternoon and evening many Catholics chose to march in a peaceful rally
mourning the death of a Catholic man from Londonderry who was killed early Sunday battling
with police.
He will be buried today.
The mood was defiant.
We croppies are never ever going to lie down.
But equally defiant are the Protestants angry over the bombing of a hotel on Sunday.
Seventeen people were injured and it has Protestant loyalists talking reprisals.
I do get annoyed whenever people like Gerry Adams says that the peace process is in tatters
over an orange parade when he didn't say it after Canary Wharf.
The fighting may have come for the moment but the rhetoric hasn't and the future of
the peace talks is dubious at best.
There's a major health scare in Japan tonight forcing the closure of 92 public schools.
Three thousand school children have fallen ill with food poisoning.
It's believed the children have been affected by the E. coli 0157 bacteria.
Inspectors are now testing the schools dining rooms and bathrooms for any links to the bacteria
which can be fatal.
In Britain a judge has granted Prince Charles and Princess Diana a decree nysi the first
stage in their bitter divorce.
But Charles has escaped the media spotlight by flying to a lavish birthday party in Brunei
thrown by the world's richest man leaving a miserable Diana back home.
Neither Charles nor Diana were in court to hear a judge grant them a decree nisi paving
the way for a decree absolute which will formally end their unhappy fifteen year marriage on
August 28.
The prince had already flown to Brunei on a private plane sent by the Sultan an ideal
escape from the pressures back home.
The oil rich Sultan turned on a warm welcome for his guest and Charles was clearly enjoying
the break.
In stark contrast Princess Diana's unhappiness was being trumpeted by the media snapped outside
Kensington Palace pale and teary.
By the time the divorce papers were being presented in London Charles was traveling
in the remote jungles of Brunei putting plenty of distance between himself and Fleet Street.
Charles visit coincides with the Sultan's fiftieth birthday and with a rumoured income of a hundred
dollars a second he's throwing a spectacular party.
A huge theatre is being built for the Sultan's favourite pop star Michael Jackson who'll
perform for the locals.
Nearby the Sultan's built a funfair to rival Disneyland a birthday present to his people.
Helen Vine's seven nightly news.
A pilot has died when his vintage aircraft crashed during a stunt at an English air
show.
His World War Two lightning fighter bomber dipped suddenly during a low fly past.
It rolled and plunged into the airfield in a ball of flame.
I knew in my mind that he wasn't going to pull out and as I thought that his wing tip
hit the ground he levelled out and pancaked and blew up into him past a sheet of flame.
The wreckage narrowly missed thousands of spectators.
The battle over the billion dollar century zinc mine in the far north west of Queensland
has taken a surprise twist tonight.
The company CRA has withdrawn its call for special legislation to secure title over the
site admitting it has become highly divisive.
Instead CRA says it will negotiate with local Aborigines under existing native title law.
And another mining company Western Mining and the Commonwealth Bank were attracting
most of the markets attention today.
The government's half share of the Commonwealth Bank listed on the exchange but gave little
to those looking for quick profits.
It's Australia's biggest float.
The government's half share of the Commonwealth Bank worth five billion dollars.
The first part of the installment float issued at six dollars reached just six fourteen and
closed back at exactly six dollars.
Quite disappointed because I thought it would have gone up more than it has.
It's a very good outcome I think both for the government and the taxpayers of Australia
and for all of the shareholders who have invested in the installment receipts.
Investors have to pay another four dollars and forty five cents next year.
And the mining sector stayed lower despite Western Mining confirming big expansion plans.
It will spend one point two billion dollars on its Olympic dam copper, uranium and gold
project at South Australia's Roxby Downs.
It will be the largest single capital investment in the history of WMC.
The expansion will create two hundred full time jobs, boost export earnings to six hundred
million dollars and attract critics.
It's fast track for the dollars.
Let's get the dollars.
Let's not worry about the environment.
Let's not worry about the Aboriginal communities in the region.
Nigel McCarthy's seven nightly news.
And in other finance news tonight the Australian share market fell away today.
The all-ordinary is finishing down twelve point four points.
Among the blue chips, BHP lost twenty cents while CRA closed twenty eight lower.
WMC, the company behind that massive uranium mine expansion, ended eight cents lower.
Coca-Cola Ametil lost twenty two.
TNT finished higher while News Corp dropped just one cent.
The Aussie dollar is trading at seventy nine point four eight cents US.
Eighty seven point nine one against the yen.
Fifty one point two seven against the pound.
Gold is trading at three hundred eighty three dollars eighty.
The FT100 was down eight point five.
The Nikkei is up nine seven.
The Hang Seng falling slightly.
And coming up in seven's news, more melee charges to be laid by the AFL and meet the
footballer fined for refusing to play for his own club.
The Newcastle Knights have failed again at home going down to Brisbane.
The Knights squandered a match winning lead.
The final score, Brisbane twenty four, Newcastle nineteen.
It's been many a season since Brisbane fans had to dig out their winter woolies.
This youngster was hoping his night at the football would be worth it.
And in the eleventh minute, his teeth stopped chattering.
The lats in defence saw Michael Hancock touch down.
A wobbly conversion saw the scores locked at six all.
Both teams went into the match on eighteen competition points.
But it was the Brisbane Broncos going to the break leading by two.
This forced Newcastle to reshuffle their line up.
Second rower Bill Peden was switched to the wing, the move paying dividends.
When Marquette crossed over, it seemed Newcastle was going to post its first win in Brisbane.
But a free try to the Broncos had them back in the match.
Leading by seven, the Knights saw their margin reduced to one.
And then Robbie Ross made sure Newcastle again left Brisbane winless.
They dive in, it's a try to Brisbane.
Collingwood Rockman Damian Monkhorst has been cleared of deliberately stepping on a North
Melbourne player in Saturday's match at the MCG.
Monkhorst, who's been suffering a lumbar spine injury, told the tribunal he lost balance
as Rue's David King fell in front of him after marking the ball.
And five Essendon players and five Bears players will face the tribunal on Wednesday night
on melee charges arising from yesterday's clash at the Gabba.
Controversial Adelaide Crows midfielder Andrew Jarman's been fined $10,000 and suspended
for two weeks for not playing against Carlton on Saturday.
After a two hour meeting, Jarman and Crows management emerged to announce Jarman would
also make a public apology.
Andrew Jarman's penalty comes after he refused to play in the AFL match, preferring instead
to play with South Australian Football League team Norwood.
The club says Jarman would have been sacked had it not been for his long association with
the club.
South African rugby union captain Francois Piniere has not got a broken arm.
Some good news as the Springboks come to terms with their loss to the Wallabies.
But the battered Bocs have only six days to reassess the loss.
They face the inform All Blacks on Saturday.
The world champion's ease back into training, still sporting the knocks from a tenacious
Wallaby offensive on Saturday night.
They defended tremendously well, they've learned from their game against New Zealand.
Their defence was excellent and well at the end of the day with their defence I think
they deserved to win.
Still troubled by a hamstring, Joubert has been cleared to play against the All Blacks
as has half-back Hugh Stander Vesthausen.
Most concerned centred round the fitness of Francois Piniere, plagued by an arm injury.
It's fun, I had an x-ray this morning and it doesn't seem to have any fractures in it.
After being overwhelmed by New Zealand, the Wallabies reply caught some by surprise, including
a former mentor.
Bob Dwyer, the ex-Australian coach saying that he tipped South Africa by ten points
and he was the ex-Australian Wallaby coach and I find it disappointing that people seem
to leave us, you know, we lose one game and they just abandon us.
Paul Gregg, Seven Nightly News.
Australian Emma George has set a new women's pole vault record at an athletics meeting
in Japan.
Emma cleared 4.45 metres, bettering her own previous 4.42 metre world mark set on June
29.
I was afraid actually, I was happy to jump that.
I would have really loved to have jumped 50 but 45 I can get back into running training
and try and improve on it next season.
Emma was one of nine foreign athletes invited to take part in a one-day international with
Japanese athletes on their way to Atlanta.
And for two of Australia's best swimming gold medal prospects the pressure is mounting.
Phil Rogers has done it all before but Scott Miller follows a golden wave of tradition,
John Seabin and Duncan Armstrong.
He's just turned 21 and this brash youngster from New South Wales is swimming faster than
ever.
Scott Miller's times in training have been brilliant but he's keeping his feet firmly
on the ground.
You know, if I come home with a gold medal, you know, I'll be stoked, you know, I'll be
over the moon.
I'll be over the silver, I'll still be happy as long as I'm doing my best.
Three metres to go, Seabin's going to take it out.
That's unbelievable.
Seabin's 17 years old.
He was the boulder from Queensland that stole the show in the pool in Los Angeles.
Now Miller will be hoping to follow in John Seabin's footsteps in the butterfly at these
games.
You know, I saw that, I was eight years old and it was the most amazing thing I've ever
seen.
We're now less than a week away from the opening events here at the pool and while
Scottie Miller will be swimming for gold in the butterfly, breaststroker Phil Rogers will
be out to improve on his bronze medal winning performance of Barcelona.
Deep or perhaps, Rogers lunging roses there too.
That is so tight.
Rogers is the oldest member of the men's swimming team at just 25 years of age.
Yeah, I mean, I'm confident of doing well.
If I can go in and do a personal best time, which is what I did, you know, four years
ago, then I feel confident in that.
You can't ask for any more than that.
In Atlanta, Jim Wilson, Seven Nightly News.
Now stay with us after the break for Tuesday's weather forecast and a preview of the technology
that will bring you closer to the Olympic action.
Now let's have a look at the weather for Tuesday.
The satellite shows a high pressure is clearing the skies from central Australia to the west
of the Great Divide.
On tomorrow's chart, a cold front will bring thunderstorms to Western Australia.
A high pressure will bring fine but cold weather from South Australia right across to the East
Coast.
Cairns, it'll be cloudy in 24.
Townsville, fine and also 24.
Brisbane, fine 17.
Rain for Broken Hill, 15.
Newcastle, fine 16.
Sydney, fine in 15.
Canberra, fine 11.
Mildura, partly cloudy 14.
Ballarat, becoming fine 10.
Melbourne, fine 13.
Hobart, becoming fine just nine degrees.
Adelaide, some rain 15.
Perth, strong winds and rain 17.
Darwin, fine and 30.
And the Alice, partly cloudy with 23.
And finally tonight, the Atlanta Olympics will provide viewers with their best ever
view of the events and it will all be thanks to the latest technology.
There are 170 official broadcasters.
Scores of satellite trucks are staggering 608 kilometres of cable.
All ready for an Olympic coverage to 3.5 billion people around the world.
With the most sophisticated camera technology yet, you'll get as close to the motion and
emotion as any spectators have ever been.
There are 400 cameras for 2,400 hours of television.
Cameras underwater tracking the swimmers, in the archery target, in the gold nets on
land and in the water, on the rowing boats and for the kayaking, this stunning view from
above that will run right down the course.
Television has totally transformed the Olympics, not only in making it accessible to the world,
but it's also showered it with money to give it the world dominance it now enjoys.
Broadcasters have paid 1.2 billion dollars for the rights to cover the 1996 games.
They'll start delivering on Saturday morning.
Lee Hatcher, Atlanta, 790 News.
And that's the news to this minute, our next National Bulletin, Sunrise at 6 o'clock in
the morning.
I'm David Johnston, see you tomorrow.
Good night.
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