Australia must shape policy toward North Vietnam, says editorial
The piece argues Australia should recognise Hanoi and engage in reconstruction aid across Indo-China. It urges a balanced approach, noting Japan's moves toward Hanoi and Australia’s need to define its regional role. The author stresses timely policy framing and diplomatic articulation to influence Southeast Asia’s future.
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Australia
North Vietnam
China
Europe
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Mt Everest
Hanoi
Asia
Vietnam
Indo-China
South- East Asia
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Japan
South Vietnam
Red Cross
Asia-Pacific
India
WA education report calls for end to caning in schools
The series notes school hair and uniform rules lack health grounds to force changes and condemns punishments like caning and detentions. It urges phasing out corporal punishment, warns against overbearing discipline, and suggests reforms extending beyond the committee’s terms of reference.
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Teachers Union
WA Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations
Replacing discipline with self-discipline in WA high schools
An inquiry into school discipline found no widespread rebellion yet urged a shift to self-discipline. It recommends phased corporal punishment abolition, expanded student councils, greater school autonomy, and increased parent and student participation to improve student–teacher relations and school climate.
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Evans
Dettman
Irish Americans and the IRA Aid Controversy In New York
The visit of Mr Lynch to New York sparked debate over Irish American aid to the Provisional IRA. Funds from Boston and other cities were cited, with authorities aiming to curb illicit gun shipments and channel anger at perceived U.S. sympathy for the IRA. The Times notes mixed views among Irish Americans and calls for directing support to the Irish Red Cross.
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Provisional Ira
New York
Mr Lynch
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Dublin
IRA
Irish Red Cross
Ireland
Ulster
Atlantic
Provisional
Northern Ireland
Chinese seek global telecommunication links via U S tech
Chinese expansion in long distance telecoms accelerates with American communications technology. Western Union International leads circuits to 60 nations as satellite ground stations go in, linking Shanghai and China with the United States and abroad. Officials foresee traffic rising from 65 monthly calls to hundreds as new 252 circuits are scheduled by year end, signaling a broader trade and political imperative.
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United States
China
Santas Bots Oes Saencien
Hainkos and
Kyodo
Shanghai
Health centres debate in ACT coverage and decentralisation
A discussion on health centre ideology in the ACT argues that dispersing services may reduce travel for patients, but adding general practitioners to such units could centralise care. It notes Canada and the UK experiences, the untapped potential of peripheral suburbs, and the upcoming Woden and Belconnen hospitals as partial solutions while fearing increased doctor clustering and loss of house calls.
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Canada
Woden
Belconnen
Belconnen Hospital
Helen Wiles
Enderby
K. G. Fletcher
Volga Place
Aranda
Readers debate health centres and gambling in the ACT
Readers discuss preventive focus for health centres in the ACT and critique on proposed gambling schemes. Letters question government priority, urge targeting needy areas, and debate social impacts. Additional notes cover meat pricing tricks, consumer complaints, and broader political commentary on Heath and media in Australia.
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