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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 27, 1958
Page
2
A January 27, 1958 address urges Australians to sustain national growth and population growth beyond the pioneering era. It warns against divisions and complacency while stressing unity, initiative, and the urgency of nation building amid plenty and looming future challenges.
Special services marked Australia Day across Canberra churches. Clergy urged more than patriot display, calling for penitence and a broader national reflection. They stressed housing issues and a need for a wiser puritanism in a young nation facing responsibilities in the Pacific.
About 120 attended the Burne Anniversary Dinner in Canberra where Mr. David R. Roberts urged correction of enduring myths about Robert Burns. The event, held since 1924, featured speakers, toasts, and Pipe Major Ogilvie piping in the haggis as attendees discussed Burns’s life and works.
Readers urged continued goodwill between Australians and Asians. The message emphasizes mutual respect and cooperative relations across communities.
Sir Douglas Copland argues Australia faces a historic surge in development and opportunity. He cautions adaptation to rapid change, highlights population growth and medical advances, praises the Colombo Plan, and urges expanded education and regional training to keep pace with global progress.
The piece argues that immigration could raise annual growth to 2.6 percent and workforce to 5.4 million in a decade, with population rising 24 percent. It highlights youth, education, rural expansion, mineral wealth, and calls for a grand plan via United Nations aid to fund development and foster an expanding world economy.
Fragmentary OCR reads early clipping noting responses from various parties and new advertising. The brief mentions competing arguments and shifting support around a campaign or policy, with no clear outcome stated.
Governor General Sir William Slim tells Australia Day audience that science and welfare build comfort, but culture and courage sustain democracy. He warns cold war pressures will test virile virtues, urges controlled immigration to enrich national character and thrift.
A party of three South Australian guiders camped last night in the guide hut at Flinders Way Corberra.
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