Beginnings of Justice and Social Welfare Reform in Australia
The Budget signals a radical shift in welfare with education scholarships housing aid nursing home and home care day care pensions and repatriation benefits. A formal inquiry into poverty and a national contributory superannuation scheme are promised to rationalise a complex system costing 2.53 billion this year. Reform hinges on tying pensions to earnings and moving toward a universal, means-tested policy with long-term planning.
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Australia
Commonwealth
Budget Social Services Proposals Expand Pensions and Care
The budget doubles the independent income allowance for pensioners delaying pension loss, extends pensions to wives, adds nursing home insurance, and funds $5 million for day care for special needs children. It boosts living allowances with education scholarships, expands coverage for age invalid and service pensioners, and criticizes contraceptive tax. The package marks a shift toward progressive social reforms led by Minister Wentworth amid long policy battles.
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Liberal-Cp
Menzies
Wentworth
Bonanza predicted as NZ wool prices surge in 1972 73 season
Australian wool buyers anticipate a boom after New Zealand winter sales see price jumps of 15 to 20 percent. Auckland bids topped last year, with 5,000 plus bales from Wool Commission stock sold, pushing average prices to multi‑year highs and risking a global shift toward acrylic fibers.
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Melbourne
New Zealand
Auckland
Wool Commission
Commission
UEB Textiles Ltd
J. H. Gemmell
Wool Board
Lands and Agriculture Committee
House of Representatives
Woolgrowers’ Action Committee
Corporation
Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Australia
Ethnic unity plans struggle after 50 years in USSR
After five decades of努力 to knit 100 ethnic groups into one society the Soviet Union shows gains in education and culture but remains far from full harmony. Reports of unrest in Lithuania charges of Russification in Ukraine and nostalgia for a non communist Georgia era mark the 50th anniversary. The campaign for international indoctrination underscores ongoing national frictions alongside a push for integration into a single socialist culture with Russian as common language. Significant contrasts appear between Georgia and Kazakhstan amid regional economic and cultural exchanges. The balance of ethnic cultures remains shaped by language, facilities, and state policy, with emigration pressures among Jews and varying status for Germans and Poles.
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Soviet Union
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Lithuania
Ukraine
United States
Nixon
Moscow
Siberia
Oldussian Empire
Krushchev
Baltic
Central Asia
Transcaucasia
Tadzhikistan
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Siberian
Birobidzhan
Israel
East Germany
Poland
Mations Aap
No wet season drive in Laos fails to recover territory
No wet season offensive by Royal Lao Government forces has materialized to reclaim land lost during the dry season. Vientiane force positions along the Mekong River remain under pressure as prospects for a stronger bargaining stance with the communists fade. Prince Souk Vongask, a special emissary for Pathet Lao leader Prince...
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Vientiane
Mekong River
Souk Vongask
Pathet Lao
Laos
The Dog Pound Kennels Criticized for Design Flaws
Mrs Hart argues the dog pound kennels are poorly built with woven wire mesh and scorningains iron walls and roof. She notes heat issues with a corrugated iron roof and extreme summer temperatures, claiming the kennels resemble ovens on hot days.
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Hart
Youn
Baby
Orks
Letters on cruelty to dogs and cycling paths in Canberra
A reader condemns cruelty to dogs held in a pound at Piallino citing 5 degree conditions and 15 hour confinement. Another letter urges Canberra cycle paths, noting missing sidewalk networks and unsafe roads, and argues for safer tracks to boost recreation and errands. A third writer criticizes Queanbeyan RSL for banning long hair, urging policy revision after an incident where a speaker was refused entry.
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Piallino
Elsie Jones
Canberra
Aranda
RSL
Queanbeyan Rsl
Queanbeyan
An RI
RSL Queanbeyan
Black Mountain tower eyed as possible Canberra planetarium
Asian News Service reports on plans for a Canberra planetarium linked to the Black Mountain tower project while noting war developments in Laos. Talks between Souphanouvong and Souvanna Phouma in Vientiane loom over a fragile ceasefire, as Lao forces and North Vietnamese troops contend for control around Long Cheng and Pakse.
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Black Mountain Tower
Canberra
Black & J. Mayne
Souphanouvong
Vientiane
Souvanna Phouma
Long Cheng
Vang Pao
Mekong Valley
Plain of Jars
Pathet Lag
Laos
Pakse
Kong Sedone
Governor-General and Lady Hasluck Open XC Championship
On Saturday morning Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck and Lady Hasluck returned to Canberra. That afternoon Lady Hasluck opened the 1972 Women’s Australian Cross Country Championships at Capital Hill. On Sunday morning the Governor-General and Lady Hasluck …
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Paul Hasluck
Lady Hasluck
Canberra
Hasluck
Capital Hill
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Ers
Romania
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Watson
NCDC
Penelope Lilley
National Service
RE. B. Brown
Black Mountain
Rty
Ientiane
Asian News Service
Luang Prabang
Khouarig
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