Senator McKellar opposes early federal election plan
Senator McKellar, visiting Perth to open the WA Country Party conference, said a late year federal election would be useless. He doubted December 7 would help the Government in the Senate and noted it already holds a large House majority. He described it as his personal view, likely shared by the Country Party.
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McKellar
Canberra
Senate
House of Representatives
Country Party
WA Country Party
Budget hints at election timing amid social shift
Melbourne notes the Budget due August 13 could reveal whether the Gorton government plans an election this year. Senator Cohen questions preelection measures and warns of a stalled Vietnam talks effort, criticizing government actions and urging decisive moves toward peace negotiations.
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Cohen
Gorton
Nlaane
Senate
Labor Hour
Vietnam
Ward
Frank Thring King of Cats Talks Rome Madrid and Art
Australian actor Frank Thring spoke in Canberra about lifelike Rome and Madrid, art and cats. The tall, heavy actor known for El Cid and King of Kings says he spends money on lovely things, buys crystal and paintings, and dislikes London while planning theatre work in Australia and Sydney television after The Crucible.
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Frank Thring
Canberra
Rome
Madrid
Art
Alley
Mr Thring
Frank
Australia
Maura
MGM
Thring
Sydney
Melbourne Theatre Company
Barkar
Hollywood
London
Death of Sir Henry Baker 77 hairbrained parliamentarian
Hobart reports the death of Sir Henry Baker 77 president of Tasmania's Legislative Council at Calvary Hospital. A journalist, barrister and parliamentarian, he helped found the Artists and Writers Association and influenced the Australian Journalists Association. His political career began in 1928 as Member for Franklin in the House of Assembly.
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Hobart
Sir Henry Baker
Tasmania
Legislative Council
Calvary Hospital
Henry
Arists and
Franklin
House of Assembly
Handicapped deprived of education in Australia speech
American authority Professor Gunnar Dybwad told the Wesley Pleasant Sunday Afternoon meeting that handicapped children face tolerable differences in treatment across Australia and are deprived of adequate free education due to prejudice. He urged public action to overcome this bias with community judgment.
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Australia
Gunnar Dybwad
Dybwad
Brandeis University
Massachusetts
Wesley
Army regiments set to reform into three battalions
A caption on Saturday misreported the plan. The Royal Anglian and Royal Hampshire Regiments will be amalgamated with the Gloucestershire Regiment to form a single battalion regiment.
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Royal Anglian Regiment
Queen's Regiment
4Th bin
Royal Anglian
Royal Hampshire
Royal Hampshires
Gloucore
Britain should use Australian facilities for forces says expert
Sir Robert Scott urges immediate arrangements for British forces to use Australian facilities to bolster East Asia policy. He argues Australia and Britain share a permanent security interest and that an Atlantic free trade area could enable Britain to project a global role, independent of the USA and the EEC. He warns Indonesia faces prolonged upheaval and that regional cooperation is at risk.
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Australia
Robert Scott
Asia
Robert
East Asia
The
Atlantic Trade Study
Britain
Ministry of Defence
Southeast Asia
New Zealand
Canberra
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Indonesia
Java
South-east Asia
Australian troops surprise Vietcong in Phuoc Tuy Bien Hoa
Australian soldiers disrupted Vietcong bases in Phuoc Tuy and Bien Hoa provinces. Reports say one Vietcong killed during early flare near a base occupied by Company 1st Battalion RAR. Additional clashes with about six enemy occurred during reconnaissance and operations by 3rd Battalion RAR and 4th ANZAC Battalion.
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Phuoc Tuy
Bien Hoa
Vietnam
Army Headquarters
Canberra
1St Batttalion, Rar
3Rd Battalion
RAR
Hien Hoa
Aborigines in homes unfit for humans near Bega
Health inspector L P Brasington reports most of about 165 Aborigines in the Bega area live in a handful of shacks tents and a disused dairy several miles from town. Buildings are draughty without water washing facilities and proper toilets though farmers Tarraganda and Murray's Flat are cooperative. He notes the area is not currently endangering community health.
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Bega
L. P. Brasington
Mumbulla Shire Council
Brasington
Tarraganda
Murray
Minister Visits Bega on Aboriginal Housing Plans
The rector Rev Frank Woodwell says families need housing or face living on river banks. Minister Wentworth, after visiting Bega and two farms, heard Prudence from the Bega Valley Aboriginal Advancement Association urging a coordinated federal approach to housing, employment, and education. Proposals include ending transitional housing, modern standards, appointing a social worker, funding a family club, preschool access, annual school rewards via camps, medical checks, and enhanced study and recreation facilities with trained teachers and libraries.
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Hrasington
Wentworth
Canberra
Bega
Bega Valley
Grazier's funeral today for Michelago man
The funeral of Michelago grazier Mr Brian Byron, shot on his property last Tuesday night, will be held in Broken Hill with a Requiem Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Wife Lois Byron will not attend, remaining in Queanbeyan hospital. A number of Michelago residents travel to Broken Hill for the service. Mr Byron had lived in the area six years, previously in Broken Hill and Menindee.
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Michelago
Brian Byron
Broken Hill
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Byron
Lois Edna Byron
Queanbeyan Hospital
Broken Hill-Menindee
Council to Sack Engineer in Coffs Harbour
Coffs Harbour Shire Council voted seven to two to dismiss its engineer Mr Russell Corben despite a local government report finding no justification. The decision followed a ministerially commissioned inquiry by Mr M R Clyde into complaints against Corben. He urged caution, saying the staffing issue rather than misconduct prompted the move. Corben declared shock and planned a compensation claim, with potential legal action.
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Coffs Harbour
Coffs Harbour Shire
Russell Corben
A. E. Hogbin
M. R. Clyde
Marion
Corben
Clyde
Hogbin
Morton
Increase in benefits under Workmen's Compensation Act announced
Minister for the Interior Mr Nixon announced higher benefits aligning with the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act. The new provisions will cover people travelling to and from New South Wales to work in the Australian Capital Territory.
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Nixon
Nsw
Australian envoy to Ireland named Colonel Honner
Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Honner has been appointed Australian Ambassador to Ireland by the Minister for External Affairs Mr Hasluck. Honner, a World War II AIF veteran, led the War Pensions Assessment Appeal Tribunal from 1945 to 1950 and has since chaired the War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunal. He also led NSW branches of the United Nations Association and the Liberal Party. He succeeds Hugh Robertson who just completed a three year term.
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Ralph Honner
Ireland
Hasluck
Honner
AIF
War Pensions Assessment Appeal Tribunal
Nsw
Uniited Nations Association
Liberal Party
Hugh Roberton
DLP Opposes Postal Rises as Post Office Faces Loss
Brisbane Sunday report says Democratic Labour Party leader Senator Gair vows to oppose any government move to raise postal charges. He notes speculation of up to 20 million loss last financial year and says charges are already high enough. He questions the Postmaster-General's Department and hints party backing could block rises with expanded Senate support.
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Brisbane
Democratic Labour Party
Gair
Canberra man delays land speed record attempt
Jeff Bush of Atherton Street Downer plans to break the 1.5 litre wheeled racing car land speed record but bad weather halted yesterday's attempt. Backed by four Canberra businessmen syndicate, the effort aimed at a property 10 miles south of Canberra. Official time-keepers from the Australian Motor Sports federation stayed overnight on site, and more than $20,000 has been invested. A Canberra TV station hired a light aircraft to locate the track without success. Contact attempts to Sydney and Albury to confirm the plan failed.
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Canberra
Jeff Bush
Atherton Street
Downer
Confederation of Australian Motor Sports
Tam
Meeting on higher egg prices today in Parramatta
SYDNEY Sunday Poultrymen plan a meeting of the poultry farmers association at Parramatta Town Hall tomorrow night to seek higher egg prices. NSW Few Board chairman H Town will attend though Agriculture Minister Crawford cannot attend, and he has set up a sub committee to study production controls. NSW Associated Poultry farmers president D RB Syme said the net price for eggs for the year to June 10 was 3c a dozen, the lowest in seven years.
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Sydney
Parramatta
Town Hall
NSW Few Board
H. Town
Nsw
Me Crawford
Crawford
Associated Poultry Farmers of Australia
D. RB. Syme
Dame Zara to launch HMAS Torrens in September
Dame Zara Holt will launch the RAN destroyer escort HMAS Torrens in September. Minister for the Navy Kelly said the Torrens would be launched on September 2 at Cockatoo Island Sydney where she is being built. She is the sixth of the RAN type 12 destroyer escorts, all built in Australia.
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Zara Holt
RAN
Navy
Kelly
Canberra
Cocka[too Island
Sydney
Australia
Appointment delay on ACT arbiter
The ACT may not have a permanent conciliation and arbitration commissioner until September at the earliest. G A Findlay died last September, leaving the ACT without commissioners. Recently two new appointees were named, T J Brack and C O Reilly, with Brack delaying until September and O Reilly set to start soon but without formal designation.
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G. A. Findlay
Labour and National Service
Bury
T. J. Brack
C. O'Reilly
Brack
Commonwealth
ACT Employers Association
Canberra Chamber of Commerce
O'Reilly
Arbitration Commission
Richard Kirby
J. B. Holmes
New
Act
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