Budget changes outline across tax and welfare programs
Government proposes broad tax cuts with a 10 percent average reduction and higher dependents allowances, plus raised minimum taxable income to 1041 from 417 affecting 600,000 taxpayers. Also planned are increased pensions, eased means test, housing grants, health and education spending, child care subsidies, enhanced estate duty exemptions, Aboriginal funding, defence, shipping and aviation charges, and arts and tourism grants with details on page sections.
Budget cuts and tax relief aim to boost economy
The Treasurer Mr Snedden unveiled an election year Budget featuring about 10 percent cuts in personal income tax, a weekly rise of $1.75 in basic pensions, and a pledge to abolish the means test within three years. It prioritizes social services, education, and individual tax benefits to spur spending, with planned capital outlays in defence and development.
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Snedden
Melbourne
ACTU
Hawke
PM orders inquiry on poverty in Australia
Prime Minister McMahon announced the reversal of a prior stance and said the government will institute a public inquiry into poverty in Australia. Social Services Minister Wentworth outlined draft terms of reference and possible membership, with areas including a poverty definition and poverty plateaus.
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McMahon
Australa
Wentworth
ABC
Late News On Cricket Test At Oval
Fragmentary report notes Australia in a fifth Test at the Oval with brief mention of pace bowlers and a small score window. Names and details are unclear but the piece references a 45 minute period and key players tied to an ongoing match context.
East German Airliner Disaster Leaves 156 Dead
East German experts sift through debris after an airliner exploded in flight killing all 156 aboard. The disaster, worst on record for a single aircraft, prompts investigations into the blast’s cause and origin.
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Koenigs
England all out as Australia teeters at Oval Test
England all out chasing in the fifth Test at The Oval as Australia stand at 21 for 1 at tea in their second innings. Graeme Watson fell for six, lbw to Geoff Arnold, leaving Australia one wicket down.
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London
Australia
the Oval
Graeme Watson
Geoff Arnold
Whitlam attacks Budget over unemployment in unprecedented speech
In Parliament and later as a press statement, Opposition Leader Whitlam denounced the Budget for not tackling unemployment, especially in Western Australia. He criticised failure to declare war on poverty and to set national goals, noting previous deficits and praising certain welfare ideas his party had long urged. The ACTU president Hawke condemned the Budget as political optics while acknowledging social gains, arguing the unemployment crisis remains unaddressed despite higher defence spending.
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Whitlam
House of Representatives
Mr Whitlam
Western Australia
ALP
DLP
Gair
Maxmum
Australia
Aborigines: Ten Million Shortfall in Aid Plans
The Government again allocates far less to Aboriginal advancement than advised by the Council for Aboriginal Affairs. Despite complex accounts and transfers from the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account, the shortfall for 1972-73 is at least $10 million, undermining stated welfare priorities. The shortfall stems from lower than proposed funding across grants, property purchases, and scholarship programs now overseen by the Department of Education and Science and the Aboriginal Affairs office.
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Council For Aboriginal Affairs
Commonwealth
Aboriginal Advancement Trust
Department of the Interior
Council For Affaire
Ment Trust
McMahon
Department of Education and Science
Snedden
Aboriginal Advancement ‘Trust
Office of Aboriginal Affairs
Papua New Guinea tribe pays after coffee crop deaths
In Port Moresby a Papua New Guinea tribe paid compensation after fourteen Korepa visitors from Goroka were killed when a hut they slept in burned down during a final payment event. The payment was scheduled to be made within a week.
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Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
Komunive
Goroka
ACT land revenue outlook to dip this financial year
The Department of the Interior expects land sale receipts for the ACT to fall to 17.5 million this year from 18.85 million last year, with overestimation of 0.6 million in 1971-72. Residential site sales rise anticipated, industrial site impacts unclear. Rates and rents rise expected, total ACT receipts projected at 49.498 million for 1972-73, up modestly from last year. Housing loan appropriation to rise to 20 million, split between the Housing Commissioner and cooperative building societies.
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Department of the Interior
Interior
ACT Electricity Authority
Commonwealth
Commissioner For Housing
Co-Operative Building Societies
Houss
Heavy US bombing near Saigon report page 2
Defence and Aviation Correspondent Frank Cranston discusses intensified US air attacks near Saigon amid strategic uncertainty. The article appears on page 2 with related notes on government changes and space-demanded sections across the issue.
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