Sir Magnus Cormack elected Senate president after votes
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack defeated Opposition whip Senator Justin O Byerne 31 to 26 to become president of the Senate after the Governor General swore in 30 new Senators, including Australia’s first Aboriginal member Senator Bonner. Senator Prowse beat Senator Fitzgerald for Chairman of Committees 30 to 0.
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Senate
Justin O'Byrne
Lab. Tas
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Paul Hastuck
Australia
Bonner
Sracenres Guilfoyle
Annabelle Rankin
New Zealand
Prowse
Fitzgerald
Lab
Nsw
Move to revoke reprimand for two editors by Senate
A DLP senator signaled a motion to revoke a May reprimand to J R Walsh Sunday Review and H R Rothwell Sunday Australian for breaching parliamentary privilege by publishing an unpresented draft report. Byrne would rescind the severe rebuke and apply to publishers as well, offering no reason.
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Bull
Nsw
J. R. Walsh
The
Sunday Review
H. R. Rothwell
Sunday Australian
Select Committee On
Senator Byrne
Qld
Senate Privile Committee
Byrne
Australia to be major uranium supplier says minister
Minister for National Development Swartz told Parliament that Australia would become a major world supplier of uranium. He defended deposits in the Northern Territory as significant, noted ongoing survey work, and warned against misrepresenting company figures. He cited deposits totaling at least 100000 tons and pointed to potential finds in South Australia.
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Swartz
House of Representatives
Northern Territory
A. A. Buchanan
Lib
South Australia
McAuliffe
Lab
Qld
Cotton
Hewson
Mecauliffe
Wid
Eyre Highway
Nixon
Premature statements draw Senate fury in Securities debate
A Labor Senator criticized Sir Magnus Cormack for preemptive remarks before the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange report. Cormack, who resigned as committee chair after becoming Senate president, faced attack from Senator Cant over statements plunging into a government supervisory body. Cant warned such acts waste time and recalled Looker announcing a national body to control exchanges.
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Select Committee On Securities and Exchange
Swartz
Senate Select Committee On Securities and Exchange
Queensland Mines
Labor
Magnus Cormack
Cormack
Senate
Cant
Lab
Commonwealth
Associated Stock Exchanges of Australia
Cecil Looker
WA Housing clash prompts Air Force rental rethink
An Aboriginal family moving near a Perth house led to claims the RAAF did not vacate the Western Australian Housing Commission home for that reason. Senator Drake Brockman confirmed the house is owned by the commission and leased to the Air Force, which no longer requires it. In other debates, ministers discussed employment of married women at Broken Hill, and questions touched on rugby union access in the Senate and various tourism and transport funding issues.
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Perth
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Howe
Drake Brockman
Willesee
Air Force
State Housing Commission
Broken Hill
Labour and National Service
Lynch
House of Representatives
Service pay rises for armed forces approved
The Kerr Committee recommended pay rises for all ranks in the armed services, to be paid from August 26. Defence Minister Fairbairn told the House last night the process will take up to three months to implement, with CMF and married men receiving allowances. Total annual cost about 34 million dollars, 29 million for 1971-72, and rates vary by pay classification. Opposition praise notes reforms as a positive start and hopes for further changes.
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