The Sunday Times (Perth), 13 November 1994

PUSH FOR THE ANSWERS IN UNI SACKING         [Mr Moore] [Dr Rindos]
                                          (photos of smiling blokes)

Questions on the University of WA, unanswered since August,
came under new focus in Parliament. 

Labor frontbencher, Mark Nevill, urged Education Minister
Norman Moore to expedite a response. 

The 10 unanswered questions concerned a decision to sack
archaeologist Dr David Rindos.  They involved a series of
employment practices and procedures at UWA.

Mr Nevill asked if Mr Moore was aware that the results of
internal UWA inquiries revealing evidence of academic and
sexual impropriety -- earlier reported by Dr Rindos -- had
been suppressed and not supplied to the UWA senate.

The 10 questions in August followed a series of questions
answered in December and March.

In May, Dr Rindos, under a freedom of information inquiry,
found all Mr Moore's answers were in fact being written by
UWA.

This prompted Dr Rindos to prepare a document analysing the
UWA answers Mr Moore had read to Parliament, and his
document claimed the answers were inaccurate.

Mr Moore's adviser, Professor Gordon Stanley, sent a copy
of the Rindos document to UWA but was forced to follow up
with a letter that asked for specific, not general, answers
to points raised in the document.

In the confidential follow-up letter to UWA Vice-Chancellor
Professor Fay Gale, he wrote: "Unfortunately it is not
satisfactory that your response has not replied to Dr
Rindos's allegations in detail, but rather in general. 

"The minister may well be put in the situation where he has
to respond to the details of Dr Rindos's allegations.

"It is my understanding that the document provided by Dr
Rindos may well have been sent to other MP's to stimulate
further questioning."

As Professor Stanley predicted, Mr Nevill has now tabled 10
new questions.