Orders in New South Wales Legislative Assembly to move a motion to condemn National Party Leader and Deputy Premier Wal Murray for allegedly interfering with proper tendering procedures in respect of the Walsh Bay redevelopment. March 5 March – Queensland State Cabinet gives Commission of Inquiry status to the investigation which Mr Tony Fitzgerald, QC, will conduct into the future management and conservation of Fraser Island. Federal Opposition Leader, Andrew Peacock, launches the Liberal Party's policy for the upcoming Federal Election. 6 March – The New South Wales Auditor-General clears the New South Wales Rail Chief, Sayers, of any wrongdoing. 7 March – The New South Wales Government launches its "Statecare" environmental policies on the same day that an oil slick is washed up on three Sydney beaches. 9 March – A "sombre, serious and responsible" Labor campaign is launched in Brisbane, 4 days after the Liberal Party's glitzy launch. Bushfires burn in the Adelaide Hills. 11 March – The Queensland Government introduces new heritage laws to protect heritage buildings from demolition by developers. Criminal Abe Saffron is released from prison. 19 March – Cyclone Ivor batters the Queensland coast. Wild storms hit Sydney. The Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody is to focus on police in a new inquiry. 20 March – Serial killer John Wayne Glover is arrested for a series of "Granny Murders" on Sydney's North Shore. 21 March – Allegations are revealed that a Minister misled New South Wales Parliament over North Coast land deals. Alan Bond sells off his brewing interests and Bond Media to Bell Resources. 22 March – Prime Minister Bob Hawke admits that Australia is in the first stages of recession. 23 March- A bushfire sweeps through the Adelaide Hills. Police conduct a drug raid on the Heidelberg Hotel, angering civil libertarian groups. Aboriginal groups accuse Charles Perkins of joining in an attack on land rights by the New South Wales Government. The Law Reform (Decriminalisation of Sodomy) Act 1989, decriminalising private sexual acts between two people of the same sex in Western Australia, goes into effect. 24 March – A federal election is held. The government of Prime Minister Bob Hawke is re-elected for a fourth term with its lowest primary vote ever – 39.4% and the loss of 8 seats. Australian Democrats Leader Janine Haines fails in her bid for the South Australian Lower House seat of Kingston, and