UNEMPLOYMENT WORRY
Sam Marino has just told Cairns residents that unemployment will go up if Labor is returned in the upcoming state election.
Perhaps he should listen to the Prime Minister and the federal Treasurer, who have both stated that unemployment will rise to 8 per cent before Christmas. These numbers were announced in the federal budget.
Sam, just in case you do not know, both the Prime Minister and the federal Treasurer are both Liberal; perhaps your time would be better spent getting the facts right before you do press conferences.
Fred Inglis, Bayview
1745Writer
Jonathan Swift dies in Dublin. Guardians had been appointed to look after him after he suffered a stroke.
1781Britain’s
1781
Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington, commander of the American army, at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American Revolution and assuring America’s independence. 1831William
Charles Wentworth holds a giant party at his Vaucluse home for more than 4000 people to celebrate the departure of strict governor Ralph Darling, who sails to England on October 22.
1872The
biggest single mass of gold found, a 286kg rock named after German-born mine-owner Bernhardt Holtermann, is mined at Hill End, near Bathurst in NSW.
1926A
36-day imperial conference begins in London, chaired by British prime minister Stanley Baldwin and attended by Australia’s Stanley Bruce. It resolves that each dominion is self-governing and of equal status.
1934Holyman
Airways’ DH86 Miss Hobart disappears over Bass Strait, with its two pilots and 10 passengers missing. 1991Former
Queensland premier Joh BjelkePetersen gets off a perjury charge when a hung jury is discharged. The jury’s foreman is a member of the Young Nationals.
2001At
least 350 people drown when an overcrowded boat from Sumatra, carrying Iraqi and Afghani asylum-seekers, sinks on its way to Australia 2017Leader of the New Zealand First party Winston Peters agrees to form a coalition with Labour, making Jacinda Ardern PM, the youngest since Edward Stafford took office in 1856.