Frustrations Grow With Canberra Traffic Reform Talks
Canberra motorists endure peak hour jams along Barton Constitution Avenue Northbourne Belconnen Way and Barry Drive as traffic plans expand with underpasses bridges and lights. ACOA Canberra studies a flexible "variable working day" to ease congestion and raise morale, drawing on MBB Munich and Melbourne precedents with monthly time credits and buyable time off.
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Police Question 150 as Cheryl Grimmer Missing Case Drags On
Wollongong Sunday report says 150 officers will question known sex offenders along the south coast in the hunt for three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer. Divers drill Fairy Meadow Creek as police push to rule out a concealed body while search, scaled down, continues with police and volunteers in rough terrain. A ransom note demanding $10 000 failed to surface at Bulli Library, leading police to suspect a hoax.
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Cheryl Grimmer
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Cheryl
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Man loses wife daughter and sister in deadly crash
Melbourne Sunday report states a man lost his wife, daughter, and sister when a car struck them on Hotham Street, St Kilda, around 7 50 pm. Mrs Helen Hay Scott 29 was eight months pregnant, Lynn 6 and Isabella Aird coll 45 were also killed. A 23 year old Melbourne soldier faces three counts of manslaughter and related charges including culpable driving DUI over .05 and excessive speed. He will appear in St Kilda Court tomorrow. The car then collided with another vehicle which overturned.
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Hotham
St Kilda
Helen «Hay Scott
Lynn
Isebella Airdcoll
Stilda
Scott
Call to lower speed limit after Blackheath crash deaths
Five people died and three others were injured after a head on collision on a winding stretch of the Great Western Highway half a mile east of Blackheath. The incident spurs a request to the Blue Mountains Council to petition Transport Minister Morris for a reduced speed limit. Names released include Rose Steiner 41 and Luciana Viegas 27 with others from Paddington Stanmore and Darling Point.
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Twomore
Blue Mountains
Rose Steiner
Darling Point
Luciana Viegas
Paddington
Maatteus Dos Santos Coelano
Estevan jAmerica
Stanmore
Nsw
Three Die in Melbourne House Fire
Police report three men died in a Melbourne area blaze at a weatherboard house in Koroit about 174 miles southwest of Melbourne. Rodney Brown 50 Ber Farley 65 and Vincent Kelly 40 were found among the ruins. fire fighters said no suspicious circumstances and the cause remained undetermined.
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Rodney
Ber“maing
Ward Farley
Shouse
Koroit
Vincent Kelly
Two Drownings Mark Weekend Toll In Victoria And NSW
In Victoria a dinghy capsized during a freak storm near Rushworth leaving three men and a boy dead and a deaf-mule friend and a non swimmer also drowned while a 3 year old boy and two others were rescued after clinging to the overturned craft for about 20 minutes. Names include Mathews Toohey and Desmond Tagell. In NSW a car rollover on the Hume Highway near Yass killed Frank Tanti, a Warrawong resident, with Miss Cherine Cobcroft and another passenger from Wollongong hospitalised.
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Wangara
Rushworth
Port Welshpool
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Warrawong
Wollongong
Chireen Cobcroft
Urrandra
Yass Hospital
Ramban critics attack ram export policy in Adelaide
The Stockowners Association of South Australia harshly attacked two Federal Parliamentarians for remarks on merino ram exports. Dr Patterson, ALP shadow minister for primary industry, and Senator Gair, DLP Federal leader, were called irresponsible. The minister Anthony said ram export ban would be relaxed on February 1. Patterson allegedly urged a union ban, while Gair sought a growers’ referee.
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Dum
Three Thousand Strike Amid Sydney Lockout
Three thousand boiler and refrigerator workers, crane and fork lift drivers, members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association, walked off late tonight in Sydney Newcastle and Wollongong. They oppose every item of a union claims log submitted for arbitration and will meet at Ham for tomorrow to decide strike duration. Employers may replace strikers with staff tabour. Tomorrow begins a resumption of work after Christmas holiday shutdown.
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Wollongong
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Woman Found Shot In Queanbeyan Hospital Area
Mrs Margaret Rose Jones, 21, found with a gunshot wound outside Queanbeyan Hospital on Thursday morning, improved to satisfactory condition at Canberra Hospital yesterday after initial serious condition. She lives on George Street Queanbeyan and remains under medical care.
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Canberra
Schuetzenfest draws huge crowd near Adelaide
In Hahndorf near Adelaide the Schuetzenfest drew an estimated 50,000 attendees for a 14 hour festival. The SA-German Association reported 1,500 members organized events with guests including German Ambassador Dr H Schirmer and Munich Mayor Dr Hans-Jochen Vogel. Thousands of pints of beer and extensive food shipments marked the celebration.
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Sa-German Association
Australia
H. Schirmer
Munich
Hans-Jochen Vogel
Tasmania
Germany
Premiers meet again in Adelaide for tax deal push
The six non-Labor states will present a united front to Prime Minister Gorton in Canberra on February 26 27 to review the tax reimbursement system. NSW Premier Askin calls the states financial straitjacket and seeks a fairer deal while WA Premier Brand foresees additional Commonwealth funds this year.
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Commonwealth
Gorton
Canberra
Nsw
Askin
David
West Australian Premier in Adelaide for finance conference
Sir David Brand arrives in Adelaide for the Premier's conference to seek a solution to the Commonwealth States financial crisis. He expects supplementary Commonwealth funds and a new formula to boost federal aid, with a broader Australia-wide tax approach under review.
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Adelaide
Western Australia
David Brand
Gorton
Commonwealth States
Elderly Woman Rescued From Lake Burley Griffin
An elderly woman who fell into Lake Burley Griffin near Weston Park was rescued and in satisfactory condition yesterday at Canberra Hospital. She was pulled from the water and taken first to the hospital jetty, then to the intensive care ward. Her name was not available, and officials do not know what caused the fall.
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Lake Burley Griffin
Canberra
Weston Park
Australian science curriculum conference opens in Melbourne
Curriculum conference in Melbourne at Monash University gathers over 40 educationists from across Australia to discuss a national science curriculum. The Australian Science Education Project aims to set standard guidelines and foster nationwide science education.
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Melbourne
Monash University
Australia
Eruption empties villages near Uluwan Volcano in New Britain
Eruption at Uluwan Volcano in East Nakanai New Britain continues 48 hours after initial report as the biggest in 20 years. Villagers have been relocated and vulcanologists expect several more days of activity. Officials warn crater blockage could trigger a larger eruption. District Commissioner Harry West notes possible intensified activity while specialists monitor from a mission station six miles away near the 7,500 foot peak.
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Uluwan
Nakanai
New Britain
East New Britain
Harry West
Pilot in sea bail out near Sydney Heads ends carnival scene
Sydney report says a tight-aircraft pilot bailed into the sea six miles off Sydney Heads after dropping seven parachutists over Queenscliffe where a carnival was underway. Pilot Ken Andrews, about 45, of Epping, was rescued by a Japanese brawler and treated before a police launch transported him to the carnival crowd, which learned of the incident only via radio.
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Ken Andrews
Epping
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