Fyshwick Fire Damages 23 Cars at Ace Motor Body Works
Fire at Ace Motor Body Works Pty Ltd on Kembla Street Fyshwick damaged 23 vehicles. Fire crews from Forrest Phillip and Ainslie stations arrived around 6 43 pm and had the blaze under control by 7 15 pm. Roof collapsed and brick walls cracked as investigators from ACT Police scientific branch and CIB inspect the site with damage estimated near 560 000.
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ACT Police
CIB
Ace Motor Body Works Pty Ltd
Kembla Street
Fyshwick
Forrest, Phillip
Ainslie
Ace Motor Works
Senate rejects national health insurance Bills
The Senate, with Liberal and DLP support, rejected the Government's Health Insurance Bills by a 30 to 23 vote. Debates on related health measures continue, including an alternative DLP bill favoring voluntary insurance, while fears of reduced care quality and overcrowding loom.
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Senate
Liberal and Country
DLP
Hayden
Rae
Lib. Tas
Health Insurance’ Commission
Hospitals and Health Services Commission
Everingham
Little
Vic
Abor
Melbourne stabbing ends in fatality at Kensington newsagency
John Bufalino 26 a butcher was stabbed to death in a Kensington newsagency. His father Giuseppe Bufalino about 50 was also stabbed while shielding him with an iron bar and was in a serious hospital condition. The incident reportedly followed an argument over the price of canned pineapple pieces at a supermarket owned by the victim’s brother.
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Melbourne
John Bufalino
Kensington
Guiseppe Bufalino
Wounded Arabs in Hebron Market Blast
Eight Arab residents of Hebron on the Israeli occupied west bank near Jordan were wounded today in an explosion in the town market. A Arab policeman was among the injured, a military spokesman said.
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Aviv
Hebron
Jordan
Todlay
Grants for Australian schools reach $700.5 million
Australia will distribute 700.5 million dollars in grants to all government and non government schools over two years. The agreement came after backing for the Governments major education program and amendments by the Government in both Houses. The plan includes extra funds for private schools and per capita grants for government and non governmentCategory A schools. The Senate is expected to pass the bills today or tomorrow amid Liberal party opposition and reported tensions within the Liberal-Country Party coalition.
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Australia
Country Party
The
Senate
Liberal Party
Liberal - Country Party
Education funding clash fuels party talks in parliament
In Parliament last night the Country Party backed amendments to the States Grants Schools Bill to salvage something from the government’s failure to honour promises. The dispute over school funding risks jeopardizing the 1974 75 program. Opposition Leader Snedden said he would block moves that could strain Liberal Country ties, reaffirming support for per capita grants for every child regardless of school.
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Snedden
Country Party
Anthony
Ilis
Liberal Party
House of Representatives
The
Schools Commission
Liberal - Country Party
Date for first Kambah residents set back eight months
The first residents in Kambah, Tuggeranong’s planned new town, face an eight month delay. Government houses now due by August, with only 27 percent completed, and private-enterprise housing waits on land lease allocations moved to mid next year.
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Kambah
Tuggeranong
NCDC
National Capital Development Commission
Government buys homes below market value in repurchase deals
The Department of the Capital Territory repurchases four houses within five years of original sale at prices below market value. Despite low purchase prices, original buyers profited, with gains ranging from about 2,000 to over 3,000 dollars in under two years. Improvements valuations varied, only small amounts were allowed in three cases. Turner Mawson Garran Braddon profits and prices are itemized.
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Department of the Capital Territory
Garvan
Turner
Mawson
Braddon
Garran
Turner House
Queen to Open Parliament in Canberra Visit
The Queen will open the autumn sitting of Parliament at Parliament House on Thursday February 28. She arrives from Port Moresby with Prince Philip and Princess Anne, and will depart Australia February 28 aboard the Royal yacht with Captain Mark Phillips. She plans regional visits in Adelaide, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory from March 1 through March 10 before sailing to Indonesia.
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Parliament House
Port Moresby
Prince Philip
Princess Anne
Mark Phillips
Australia
Adelaide
S WA
Darn
Royal Yacht
Indonesia
Book review of A History of Australia volume three
Colin Hughes reviews C M A Clark's History of Australia volume three covering 1824 to 1851. The survey traces Australia’s emergence as a nation seeking a moral purpose and places the work in the forthcoming BOOK REVIEW pages tomorrow.
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Australia
C. M. A. Clark
Colin Hughes
96 bed public nursing home planned for Narrabundah
A 96 bed public nursing home is proposed for Goyder Street Narrabundah with a target completion by late 1975 or early 1976. Federal Cabinet gave in principle approval in September after joint submissions from the ACT Minister and Health Minister. The project planning includes four bed wards single rooms and aims to keep residents mobile with occupational therapy and recreational facilities.
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Goyder Street
Narrabundah
Act
Capital Territory
Enderby
Everingham
ACT Health Services
Bill May
Yester
Department of Social Security
Canberra
Department of Housing and Construction
Govier Street
Forbes
Woden Valley Hospital
Tribunal to review MPs pay in new remuneration bill
The House introduced a bill to create a three member remuneration tribunal chaired by a judge or senior appointee. It will review salaries and allowances for first division officers, full and part time officials, Parliament members, and office holders, with advisory limits on judges. Reports will be public and annual reviews required.
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House of Representatives
Bowen
Trr
Bunal
Supreme Court
Supremes Court
$50m plan for more hospitals in states
The interim committee of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission urged the government to spend 50 million over the next three years to build new rehabilitation hospitals in all states. The report appears amid broader debates on education vouchers and constitutional issues facing the Whitham government.
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the Hospitals and Health Services Commission
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Vernment
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Ses
House of Repres
By Tony O'Leary
Ategory
FAR Y
By Bruce Wright
Sue Kan den Heuvel
Woden Valley
P.M. Problems
Whitham
Pace 3
Commonwealth Commission GE
Rhodesia
South Africa
World News
Parliament
Opera House
Give Records
Queanbeyan
Steven Green
Robins-Green Pty Ltd
Monaro St
Queanbeyan & Bosoghue Bldg
Paulmurt
Reaptress O Astralia Pty Limited
Pirie Street
Fecers
Capitol Press of Australia Pty Limited
John Fairfex & Bong. Limited
Cenberra City
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