Taxi Fare Secrets Rally Against Uncritical Minister Action
Canberra advisory body questions taxi fare rise linked to a confidential cost study. It points to licensing profits, plate values up to 28 000 dollars, and weekly lease costs, urging public access to data and faster Taxi Council formation before any increase.
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Oe Act Advisory Council
Minister For the Interior
Advisory Council
Pead
Taxi Council
Taxi Advisory Council
ACT Advisory Council
Canberra
Commonwealth
Letters to the Editor on Canberra birds and administration
A reader praises Canberra management and fastens on patronage and patience. He asks for details on adult and juvenile friars in Canberra suburbs, notes Garran’s sparse bird life, and cites a plot census method for indigenous birds, listing species like red rumped parrot and noisy miners. Hugh Elliot.
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Tompoon Street
Garran
Canberra
Suzanne Edgar
Wegsale
Palais
Hugh Elliot
VICE REGAL Governor-General delivers morning address
Sir ee es eee ten announces a formal morning briefing yesterday, presenting ceremonial remarks and reaffirming constitutional duties. The event highlights the ongoing ties between the crown and government as observers note the gravity of the role.
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Sir Ee Es Eee Ten ‘Aabgrra
Morsing
Melbourne's central square saga bogged in endless delays
Melbourne faces a seven figure legal dispute with overseas contractors as a stalled plan for a central square near the town hall and cathedral drags on. The $10 million site remains an open, unfinished space with gray asphalt, shrubs, and no relief from traffic fumes.
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Easter
Melbourne
Sydney
Holding
Swanston Street
Collins and
Swanston Streets
St Paul's Cathedral
Collins Street
Rhodesia Papers affair tests Australian import laws and diplomacy
Investigators from Foreign Affairs and Customs probe Rhodesia Information Centre materials for illegal imports under the 1968 amendments. Questions focus on whether films brochures and other Rhodesia produced items entered Australia via the centre, and whether any diplomatic figures including Mr Lotter of the South African Embassy were involved. The case centers on customs classification and possible illicit shipments, with high level attention from Prime Minister McMahon and Ambassador Mills as officials await completion of the review.
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Rhodesia Information Centre
Sydney
Rhodesia
Australia
Minister For Customs and Excise
J.C. Lotter
Mills
Lotter
Melbourne Age
Review
Keith Chalmers
Age
Myrtle Street
Crows Nest
Smith
Salisbury
Nsw
NSW Registrar of Companies
Ryan
McCaw
Tme
A.C. Irod
NSW Companies Office
Government of
Department of Immunization
Ml Chalmers
Chalmers
League of Rights
Eric Butler
National Civic Council
B. A. Santamaria
Democratic Labour Party
Filma
Pretoria
Bradley
Costa Pafitis
Canberra
Pafitis
John Lotter
Pene
Pafilla
J.W
Twort
Department of Information
Censorship Board
Department of Customs and Excises
John Mills
Departments of Foreign Affairs and Customs and Excise
McMahon
Department of Foreign Affairs
Keith Waller
RIC
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Imall
Bernard Evans
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Star (Great Britain) Holdings Pty Ltd
Mr Hunt
Collins Street Hill
Swanston
la Trobe Streets
Victoria
Denzil Bradley
Ministry of Information
Union Bank of Switzerland
Zunch
Centre
Alexander Psalti
Victorian Liberal Party
Victorian State Council
Liberal Party
Jarman
Lib. View
Massey
Negus
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