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THE AGE, Monday 25 March 1985 5 Hospital shop steward hits out at union How to get total conveyancing protection and save around 50 Picture: SIMON COKDBI Con Gonopoulos. 8. of Thornbury, found it difficult to stop yawning during the speech of the Greek ambassador. Mr Vayenas, at the Greek National Day celebrations held at the Shrine of Remembrance. Seven thousand people turned up, of whom 5000 had marched in the parade.

Canberra food blockade is an option, dairy farmer rally told action and had to discharge several patients before schedule and restrict admissions to emergencies at the weekend. The stoppage by health workers on the Melbourne docks meant that dozens of passengers expecting to sail on the' vehicular ferry on Friday had to spend the night in their cars. But at a news conference on Saturday four women workers from the Royal Children's Hospital denied that Mr Zappulla was guilty of sexual harassment. They said Mr Zappulla was being victimised by the union because he did not speak English and because of his efforts to get overtime work for part-time workers. Mrs Giuseppina Accerito, Mrs Carmel Pace, Mrs Josefa Gangl and Mrs Vincenza Tuccitto said that they had all worked with Mr Zappulla for several years and that it was not Mr Zappulla who decided who should do overtime.

Mr Zappulla said in a statement that the HEF had not given the authorities time to make a fair investigation. "Instead they have called on the workers to strike. These workers were not aware fo the full extent of the accusations. This sham strike was a plot made by certain organisers of the HEF union," Mr Zappulla Menzies was 'lickspittle' on A-tests: McClelland By ROBERT WHITEHEAD SYDNEY. The atomic tests royal commissioner, Mr Justice Jim McClelland, who returned from London on Saturday, said the then Prime Minister was "a lickspittle of the British" during the atomic tests in Australia in the 1950s.

Mr Justice McClelland defended his attacks on the British during his three months of hearings in London. He said: "I doubt if we'd have got anything if I hadn't opened up with a blast." He said the bullying was justified. "They started off trying to bully us," Mr Justice McClelland said. "Their attitude was that we were interlopers disturbing the inertia of their bureacracy and inquiring into things they would rather have buried." Speaking on the Nine network's '60 Minutes' last night, Mr Justice McClelland said that even if he found there was no negligence, "I still think that the Menzies Government should have insisted on knowing a lot more before it gave its assent to the He said that the British were faced by an Australian Government of the time whose attitude was "ask and you shall He said it was not the nation which had accepted the risks of the tests, but Sir Robert Menzies "as a lickspittle of the The royal commission will conduct further hearings in Australia. Mr Justice McClelland said there was some evidence of laxity and negligence.

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The State Government refused to sack Mr Zappulla outright before a full investigation. Late last week the union extended industrial action to other hospitals and to the Port of Melbourne where the departure of the Empress of Australia was delayed for a day because of a strike by port health workers. After a meeting between the HEF and hospital management late on Friday there were hopes that the dispute would be settled after a meeting of hospital workers this morning. But the secretary of the HEF, Mr Les Butler, said last night Mr Zappulla 's statement would only inflame the situation. "I would have been optimistic, but I'm not optimistic now," Mr Butler said last night.

Mr Butler denied that Mr Zappulla had been victimised by the union. He said that early last week the recommendation of union organisers to members at the Royal Children's was not to stop work but this had been overturned by a majority of the members. Because of the six-day strike by HEF domestic staff at the Royal Children's, the hospital has cancelled about 120 elective operations. Last night a spokesman said the hospital would have to close its outpatient clinic unless staff resumed work by tomorrow. The Queen Victoria Medical Centre was also hit hard by industrial said.

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The president fo the United Dairy-farmers of Victoria, Mr Bill Pyle, said that if the plan went ahead, within three years the dairy industry would not be self-sufficient. He predicted milk rationing and a doubling of prices. The Arbitration Commission inquiry into the price of milk opens In Melbourne today. More than 90 submissions have been made to the commission, which agreed to set a new milk price and advise on future price controls after February's milk blockade. By PHILIPPA HAWKER Industrial action, including a food blockade of Canberra, was an option for the troubled dairy industry, a rally of more than 500 Goulburn Valley dairy farmers was told yesterday.

The president of the Australian Diaryfarmers Federation, Mr John Bennett, said that at least 20,000 farmers could be forced out of business and factory and transport workers' jobs would be affected, if the controversial national dairy marketing plan approved by Federal Cabinet was implemented. The plan alms to cut milk production in the long term by a quarter and cut prices by reducing regulation and phasing out some government aid. Mr Bennett said consumers would benefit from lower prices in the short term, but after two years would be depending on the vagaries of the market supply. A Goulburn Valley farmer, Mr David Everist, said farmers would organise a food blockade of Canberra if the plan were not changed. Mr Everist was an area organiser for the recent blockade of Melbourne milk supplies.

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Ph. 5371233. Weekend road deaths lift state toll to 136 Four people were killed on Victoria's roads this weekend, taking the state's toll to 136. Steven Trevor Smith, 17, of Box Hill North, was killed early yesterday morning when the car he was driving struck a brick fence and an electricity pole. Two unidentified men were burnt to death on Saturday about 7.10 am when their car was in a collision with a truck on the Stuart Highway, 59 kilometres west of Mildura.

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Murder charge A man charged with the murders of Abina Madill, 16, and Gary Heywood. 18, in 1966 will appear in the Melbourne Magistrate's Court today. Raymond Edmund, 41, of Mordialloc, was charged in an out-of-sessions court at Shepparton on Saturday with two counts of murder, three counts of rape, and two counts of assault with attempt to rape. He was remanded in custody. School support CANBERRA.

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Vietnamese strike CANBERRA. A 69-year-old woman is among six Vietnamese hunger strikers at Parliament House who want 22 communist Vietnamese students to leave Australia. The students are in Australia as part of a United Nations training program, but the Vietnamese who came to Australia as refugees say they are a cadre and plan to organise communist propaganda. The Foreign Minister, Mr Hayden, said yesterday that Australia accepted its obli ister, Mr Hayden, yesterday named two new ambassadors to South American Traders everyone in the IS I II Association of I rpfAilinn inrtintru or till 1 1 Victor Supported VttfA associated with it in II I countries and a new high commissioner to the Pacific island state of Kiribati. III WsSJ any way.

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