Record reporter, ROSLYN ROSS continues her series on the Loreto Sisters in a special feature marking the 400th anniversary of the order's founder. See pages 10 and 11.
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BRANCHING OUT IN HONG KONG
India's famed Mother Teresa renowned for her work with the poor has branched out with a new centre in Hong Kong. See story and picture page 3.
NEW VILLAS AVAILABLE New villas built by the Knights of the Southern C ross at Rossmoyne are now available for allocation. See story page 2.
ANTIOCH FAMILY R eporter COLLEEN HOWARD relates the experience of her family when her daughter joined Antioch. See story pages 4 and 5.
HOBART: Delegates to the Australian Teachers Federation IState schools) conference here were asked to "think twice" before embarking on a campaign of industrial action over the State aid question.
A CUPS S PECIALIST BOB BOYLE talks to jockey Bernie Ryan, a cups specialist rider. See story, pictures pages 6 and 7.
!SHOPS MOVE ON RATED VIIES
A ustralian bishops have repeated to the Senate Select Committee on Video Material their view that the importation and distribution of X r ated material (including "ER") should be immediately wholly prohibited. The prohibition should apply until legislation more closely in accord with the wishes of the Australian people can be formulated, the bishops said in a written submission. It was the fourth time since last May they have addressed this issue. The seven page submission of t he bishops says amendments have made little substantial change to Customs laws introduced last February.
The call was made by Mr Peter O'Brien, general secretary of the Queensland Association of Teachers in Independent Schools He told the conference: "Such a course of action would be totally counterproductive "It would once again reintroduce the bitter: ness and divisiveness characterising education in the Fraser years." He went on to say although the Hawke -Ryan funding package was far from perfect, it did guarantee a real increase in funding levels for both private and State schools.
BEAZLEY E XAMINED A lthough it was released almost a year ago, the Beazley report on education is still a talking point. A teacher's view of the report is on page 16.
Chairman of the bishops' conference Archbishop Rush
The present Regulation 4a failed to be adequately effective in controlling the importation of violent, pornographic or otherwise obscene material.
Story sparks response Phones ran hot at the Catholic Youth Office after The Record publicised a shortage of applicants for next week's Catholic Youth Conference and 50 more participants have enrolled. However this is a total of only 250, just half of the SOO for whom the conference is planned. Youth chaplain Father John Jegorow said in spite of the lack of numbers he was delighted at the number who will
Phones busy at office attend Australia's first state-wide Catholic youth conference. "There are Catholic youth living in every geographical area of Perth. "But there are not enough parents,
priests and parishioners willing to give those youth up to two hours a week of their time and to encourage them to attend such a conference as this," he said. "If there is no regular youth activity in a parish, the youth will feel they are simply not part of the Church and there is no point in attending a conference like this when there are far more exciting things to do," he said.
A detailed summary of the statement will be printed in The Record next week. Objections to the present regulation include: • importation is on the opinion of the Attorney General and not subject to a court examination; • bestial material can he imported regularly as though it is part of the stock in trade of Australian community. • violent and sexually violent material can he imported if it is part of the story line.
Former Federal Attorney General Senator Evans suffered from the groundswell against porn . . and how Spooner saw it in the West Australian newspaper.
Prohibition call
• the regulation pays no heed to the offence hard pornography and other literature gives to reasonably adult persons — the majority of Australians.
DOCI • the regulation does not deal with blasphemous material ridiculing religion. The bishops want the guidelines used by the cen-
sot to be made public and brought into line with general community standards. The statement is concerned that certain educational institutions can get access to prohibited material for showing to students. The bishops do not accept the so-called principle that adult persons are entitled to read and view what they wish.
"That in our view is no more than a dogmatic and unreasoned statement of individual belief."