Deputy P M to Retire Today
Sir John McFwen the Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Country Party will retire from Parliament. He plans a clean break and return to the family farm near Stanhope Victoria. Anthony the Minister for Primary Industry is expected to be elected in his place.
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Trade and Industry
Country Party
Parlianent Fachin
Peader Uy V4sk
Wall
Stanhope
Victoria
Mi Anthony
Sir Joh
Ob House of Representatves
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Fragmentary report describes policemen fired near Collector in Linkwood and treated at Groslburn Hospital. Mentions Overseas Telecom Communications Commission and a government minister announcement of a new lower rate telephone service starting today.
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Tor Act
Ther Natral
Collector
Chris Natht
Fox Howell Lut
Linkwood
Groslburn Ruse Hospital
Overseas Telecom Mmunwalons
Ausipalial
Sea Hand
Partmister Creneral
Sir Alin Hulme
Westernlae
Fragmented report on gifts and injuries across Australia
The report notes a minister and Mr McMahon in a trip where 2.06 metric tons of flour were gifted, with Switney diverted to Sain Cauner. Mrs Helen Walsh and her 11 year old daughter Marty were taken to visit Mel Walkh’s son John who remains in critical condition. John is at the Richmond Air Forcebase hospital after a car accident yesterday afternoon.
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Switney
Sain Cauner
Helen Walsh
Marty
Mel Walkh
John
Fencordepateration
Toy
Bea
Richmond Air Force
Farmer Declares Western Australia Secession Over Wheat Quotas
Me Len Cissidy of Hut River north of Geraldton announces secession from Australia and claims a new province of three hundred acres of farmland. He awaits the green light to approve a constitution, citing Wheat quota injustice as the cause of the move.
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Perth
Len Cissidy
Hut River
Geraldton
Australia
Western Australia
Oreen
Woman in serious condition after Red Hill crash
Mrs Verli Griffis remains in Canberra Hospital with serious injuries after a Tuesday night collision at the intersection of Carnegic Crescent and La Perouse Street Red Hill. Police investigated the road accident and indicated inquiries would continue.
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Verli Griffis
Bundeelu
Bunekieh
Canberra Hospital
Griffiths
Carnegic Crescent
la Perouse Street
Red Hill
Art prize in Hobart linked to Blue Gum Festival
Tasmania plans a 1000 dollar art prize for an original work tied to the Blue Gum Festival. The event follows a march path from Perth to Hobart aboard a Tasmanian A RAAF Hercules aircraft as part of a Sunday program.
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Hobart
Tasmania
Perth
Priest to Teach at State School Sparks Clothing Protest
Melbourne reports Sunday that the Victorian Protestant Federation will push for a change to toy clothing for a Roman Catholic priest teaching at Sunshine North Technical School this year. Father Goodwin will join staff and be addressed as Mister. The federation argues clerical garb could lead to other symbols being worn by teachers, warning of possible communist or Nazi imagery.
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Melbourne
Victorian Protestant Federation
Father Goodwin
Sunshine North Tech ‘Nical School
Federation
Goodwin
Nazara Com [Mmunist
Four drown as cruiser overturns in Port Phillip Bay
Four of six men drowned when a 22 foot cruiser capsized in Port Phillip Bay on Friday night. The vessel was hit by a large wave whipped up by 60 mph winds, casting six men into the water and leaving the area under searching authorities.
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Melbourne
Port Phillip Hay O
Stally
Mittagong
Postbox at Australian War Memorial Unveiled
The Australian Post Office announced a postbox would be installed at the Australian War Memorial. Letters posted there will bear a special post marker from February onward.
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Australian Post Office
Japanese TV team visits Canberra for life in a planned city
Japanese television personality Miss Kaoru Kanetaka, claiming to be the first from Japan to visit Antarctica, arrived in Canberra to film a travelogue on life in a planned city. Accompanied by director Ste Kn Aru sawa and cameramen K Tavendoined Me Yo Ithira, she plans to explore how young Australians live and work.
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Antarctic
Canberra
Kaoru Kanetaka
Ste Kn Arusawa
Dep Freeve Navy
Mise Kanetaka
Red China
Australia
Rain Wrecks Fairlight Music Festival At Mittagong
Heavy rain forced the Fairlight Music Festival four miles south of Mittagong to end early. Only a few hundred teens remained Sunday as mud and chaos marked the scene. Police arrested six or seven youths for drug use, and two teenagers were treated for overdoses at Bowral hospital.
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Spm
Fairlight
Mittagong
Wea
Pollice Rescue
Sydney
Sydney, Sunny
Bowral Dretrot
Gippsland Floods Cut Roads Isolate Towns and Rail Transport
Hundreds flee as floodwaters sweep Gippsland towns. The rail line remains vital for food and evacuee movement though roads are impassable. Latrobe River threatens with high tides, while rainfall swells MacAlister and Avon rivers and floods Hevfield Maffra Boisdale and Stratford areas.
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MacAlister
Avon
Thompson
Highlands
Hevfield
Maffra
Boisdale
Stratford
Family policy speech highlights to aid middle and low income
Sydney speech by Mr K C Davis for the Democratic Labor Party emphasizes priority on family needs amid inflation and urbanisation. He cites insufficient public policies and taxation as factors lowering real family income and outlines proposals including a state endowment for children, and government housing loans at 4 percent up to 15000 dollars to assist mothers not employed.
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Sydney
Cita
Democratic Labor Party
K. C Davis
Mr Day
DLP
Oman
Canberra hosts seventh Bridge Congress prizes at Parkroyal Inn
More than 300 players from all mainland states competed over the weekend in Canberra. In graded pairs life and national master winners were Borim and Rothfield from Victoria, with Lathbury and Pedersen of ACT close behind. State masters went to Canberra pairs Lila Bradbury with Julie Heydon and Henry Hudson with Bruce Morison, while Selwyn from Victoria led the scratch section. The Inter-City Cup concludes the event with Canberra defending the title as strong NSW and Victorian teams also place highly.
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Melbourne
Parkroyal Motor Inn
Canberra
Jim Borin
Jessel Rothfield
Vic
Pruir
Jeff Lathbury
Viggo Pedersen
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David Hoffman
Bill Hunt
Lila Bradbury
Julie Heydon
Henry Hudson
Bruce Morison
Neville
Belinda Pearson
Ee Kes
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Walsh
Griffin
McKinnon
Pinniger
Nsw
Ramshaw Michael
Roperton
Whites Vic
Ackermin
Cuplehorm
Hunt
Sebel
Victorian ALP backs unions power in new ballot plan
The Victorian ALP votes for a 6-40 ballot in favor of unions and a proportional representation system. At Festival Hall in Melbourne the weekend rank and file meeting supported the advisory council proposals while rejecting the unions and socialist faction led by former State ALP secretary Hartley.
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Melbourne
Festival Hall
ALP Advisory Council
Jett
ALP
Mir W H. Hartley
NSW and Victoria debate voting reform in federal ALP
The Australian Labor Party executives are set to endorse 60-40 proportional representation for Victoria and advocate a central group balance in New South Wales. NSW and Victoria figures warn of increased factional polarisation and power plays if the system is adopted, with critics arguing it could undermine first preference share and lead to centre-led manipulation. The Sydney meeting in early March and the Festival Hall talks shape expectations for the 1972 federal elections.
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ALP
Victoria
Mmeets
Sydney
Nsw
Festival Hall
Young
John Gorton
Viberia
Ten Die as NSW Road Toll Drops This Weekend
Ten people have died on New South Wales roads this weekend as authorities report a lower toll year to date. A passenger was killed on Lew Frogland Highway near Ingleburn after a collision. a year old man was among those fatally struck in separate crashes. Police warn of ongoing dangers during the Australia Day holiday with breathalyzer checks and radar.
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Lew Frogland
Ingleburn
Forest Lodge
Coluh Heiphis
Peist Watt
Anay
Contamiedra
Port Macquarie
Adlacardil
ACMA backs PM amid inflation fight
The Australian Chamber of Manufactures backs Prime Minister Gorton amid inflation concerns. Director general R. W. Anderson commented on the PM's televised state of the economy address praising the handling of a difficult task while noting potential opposition from some sectors.
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Asseitrabea Chamber of Manufactures For Australia
Association
R Won Anderson
Anderson
Pate
My Gorton
Imedia
John Grey Gorton
Coleagues
Australian shoe industry urged drastic stabilisation
The Australian shoe industry faces doom unless drastic stabilisation measures are adopted, said Stanley Biomeni, secretary of the Australian Board Trade Federation. He warned the sector risks collapse without government and industry cooperation.
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Melbourne
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