Building research group urged to improve school plans
Perth readers report the Education Minister Mr Fraser backing a central building research group to aid planning of school facilities across Australia. He spoke at a Doubleview meeting supporting Liberal candidate Ian Winer, noting 170 million a year is spent on school buildings with wide cost variation. Travel grants for Australian scholars to study in the United States were announced by the Australian American Educational Foundation for 1973 74, open to senior degree holders and qualifying postgraduates.
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Education and Science
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Australia
Doubleview
Stirling
Ian Winer
Australian- American Educational Foundation
Appeal adjourned in Canberra on ACT award case
After further submissions before the Full Bench of the Arbitration Commission in Canberra on Friday, hearing of the appeal by the ACT Employers Federation against an award which gave increases to watchmen, caretakers and gift-drivers was adjourned until Wednesday in Sydney.
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Arbitration Commission
Canberra
ACT Employers Federation
Sydney
Australia fifth heaviest beer nation in Ian Potter survey
Sydney Sunday report notes Australia averages 27.9 gallons per person annually, ranking fifth behind West Germany Czechoslovakia Belgium and Luxemburg. The finding comes from a survey by Ian Potter and Co.
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Sydney
Australia
West Germany
Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Luxemburg
Ian Potter
Tragedy Near Kellerberrin as Plane Crashes
In Western Australia a Kellerberrin businessman, Alan Mather aged 47, died instantly when the light aircraft he was aboard struck high tension wires and crashed at North Baandee about 25 miles northeast of Kellerberrin. Four passengers escaped injury after a twin engine Cesima crash landed at Moorabbin airport. In Newport Rhode Island a 41 ft catamaran Lady of the Fleet, skippered by ex Sydney journalist Murray Sayle, was disabled five days into a trans Atlantic race from Plymouth and expected in Newport today.
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Kellerberrin
Alan Mather
North Baandee
Melbourne
Moorabbin
Yesteral
Newport
Rhode Island
Aapreuter
Sydney
Murray Sayle
Plymouth
Miss Valerie Rogers Freed After Prison in Spain
Valerie Rogers, 23, formerly of Adelaide, who had been detained in a Spanish prison since mid June on drug charges, was released and traveled to London with her mother Mrs P N Rogers of Glenunga Raid today.
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Valerie Rogers
London
Mra P. NS Rogers
Glenunga
HMAS Flinders Launched at Willamstown Dockyard Victoria
The RAN launched the hydrographic survey ship HMAS Flinders at Willamstown Dockyard Victoria on Saturday. Mia Mackay wife of the Navy minister performed the ceremony. The vessel will replace HMAS Paluma in early 1973 and head for the Barrier Reef and waters around Papua New Guinea. Applications for the ACT Total Water Agency Board allocation to charities have closed and about 108000 is expected to be distributed not before September.
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RAN
Willamstown Dockyard
Victoria
Mia Mackay
Mackay
Hmas Flinders
Barrier
Cet
Papua New Caines
Charnex
ACT Tatal Water Agency Board
Burglaries rise in Queensland says Police Minister Hodges
Brisbane reports show burglaries per 1000 houses climbing from 6.9 last year to 8.99 this year, figures released by Police Minister Mr Hodges indicate.
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Brisbane
Queensland
Hodges
Sidney James to star in The Mating Season in Melbourne
British comedian Sidney James will headline the comedy The Mating Season in Melbourne starting September 30. The engagement marks a return visit by James to the city for a stage performance drawing local audiences.
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Melbourne
Sidney James Wll
Acid tanker blackout disrupts Newcastle suburbs
A fuel tanker crashed into power lines on the Pacific Highway at Blacksmiths early today causing a one hour blackout across surrounding suburbs. Police and utility crews attended the scene and restored supply by morning. No injuries were reported.
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Newcastle
Blacksmiths
Baby dies found in water near Swansea Bridge
The body of 22 month old Jodie Parkes, last seen Friday playing near a jelly at Crown Island, was recovered this afternoon from about a foot of water near Swansea Bridge in Newcastle.
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Newcastle
Jodie Parkes
Coon Itland
Swansea Bridge
Seminar on Consciousness and History at ANU Draws Scholars
More than 40 academics from Australia and overseas attended a two day seminar at the Australian National University over the weekend. The event focused on how consciousness interacts with historical interpretation and included presentations from multiple researchers.
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Australia
Overseas
Australian National University
Training course for African inmates in Australia begins
Trainees from Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Swaziland, Zambia and Sudan will attend a three month training course in Australia starting in August, announced by the Australian administration of correctional services and the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra yesterday.
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Kenya
Ghana
Swaziland
Zambia
Sudan
Australia
Administration of Correctional Services
Department of Foreign Affairs
Canberra
Opera expert to inspect Sydney venue this week
Dr V Jordan the specialist acoustic consultant for the Sydney Opera House will arrive from Copenhagen this week to examine the cinema and chamber music theatre amid an expected disagreement between the architects and the Opera House Trust.
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V. Jordan
Sydney Opera House
Copen Hagen
Wene O
Oper Howe Trust
Pocket Compendium of Australian Statistics 1972 edition updated
The Statistics Bureau released an update to the 1972 Pocket Compendium of Australian Statistics last week. The revision consolidates key figures on population, economy, and social indicators, reflecting methodological changes and newly available data.
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The
Statistics Areau
Mosman by election: Arblaster retains seat
By election in Mosman for the SSW Legislative Assembly yields 28.5 percent nonvoters. Liberal incumbent Mr David Arblaster leads with 19,076 votes while ALP candidate Ann Canton trails. Other candidates include Bridget Gilling of the Australia Party and N Mackerras of the DLP. postal and absent votes remain to be counted.
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Mosman
SSW Legislative Assembly
David Arblaster
Liberal Party
Arblaster
Lib
Conlon Valp
Bridget Gilling
Australia Party
N. Mackerras
DLP
Advertising ethics stressed at Canberra conference
Australian Institute of Management heard senior Melbourne lecturer J B King urge advertising to respect its audience to gain community trust. N Delbridge of Masses Wynne Williams warned mass media advertising often lacks relevance to current problems. He urged firms to show real-world impact and consider public good while promoting products.
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University of Melbourne
J. B. King
Institute
National Library
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King
Masses
Wynne- Williams
Australia
N. Delbridge
Delbridge
Cotes
Mancare Centre founder Brigadier Maxwell dies at 65
Brigadier Farle Maxwell, founding director of the Salvat ion Army Mancare Centre in Fyshwick, died yesterday morning at age 65. Born in 1907 in Grafton, he trained as an officer in 1928 and spent decades in evangelical work and social services across NSW Queensland and Canberra relocation. He planned to retire in November. He is survived by his wife and three children, including Major Farle Maxwell who leads Brisbane City Temple Corps.
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Fyshwick
Farle Maxwell
Brigadier Maxwell
Grafton
Training College For
Orp
Nsw
Queensland
Maxwell
Arived
Canberra
Brisbane City
Chinese delegation welcomes in Adelaide for two games
More than 200 people greeted the Chinese table tennis delegation on arrival at Adelaide airport from Melbourne today. The visitors will play two games in Adelaide, reflecting a strong exchange between China and Australia in sport.
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Adelaide
Melbourne
Anti war leader recalls Sydney moratorium with North Vietnamese guest
Ken McLeod of the AICD spoke in Canberra on anti war and conscription history, tracing his shift from teaching to activism. He joined student groups and unions, describing police brutality at rallies and the rise of protests. The Moratorium Committee later invited Mia Binh, leader of North Vietnam's Paris peace talks, as guest of honor in Sydney in 1971.
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Association For International Cooperation and Disarmament
AICD
Canberra
Australian National University
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Bega
Sydney
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Entensa
Ausrie
Students For A Democratic Society
Sydney University Labour Club
Association For International Co-operation and Disarmament
Geoff Anderson
NSW Teachers Federation
Ken Thomas
Thomas Nationwide Transport Ltd
Paris
Mia Binh
Invitation from Hanoi to visit North Vietnam
Ste was unable to attend but delegated two peace talks representatives. They were refused entry to Australia, triggering Hanoi to invite five Australians to visit North Vietnam. The invitation was sent to Mr McLeod who after canvassing states selected a student, a trade unionist, an academic, and a pious representative to accompany him.
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Ste
Australia
North Vietnam
Hanoi
McLeod
Possible Australian birth defects linked to French nuclear tests
Melbourne report states Dr Cairns of Victoria said it was completely possible that infants in Australia were born with deformities from French nuclear tests in the Pacific. He warned of risks including cancer leukemia and limb deformities citing six South Australian cases and his radio discussion during a pro test trip to France and Britain.
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Australia
Pacific
Cairns
Lab
Vic
South Australia
Dr Cairns
Lalor
France
Britain
New Zealanders face lower death risk from general fallout
Wellington report shows general fallout death risk at one in 45 million versus French tests at one in 271 million. Lung cancer tops hazards with odds of one in 3,700, followed by car accidents, leukemia, drowning, and murder, per a DSIR Institute of Nuclear Sciences survey.
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Wellington
New
Tay Suaoe
Egg price shifts in New South Wales market
The NSW egg market will see price changes tomorrow as large grades drop 4c and 3c per dozen, while smaller grades rise 4c and 2c. New rates list large eggs at 0gram, 6le, 59, and smaller grades at 3-gram and Te. Chairman H. G. Todd of the Marketing Board attributes the shifts to seasonal production, with ample large eggs and a shortage of small ones.
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Sydney
Nsw
Fog “Marketing Board
Union man resigns from federal liquor union post
The Federal secretary of the Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia Mr Amos McVeigh resigns effective August 18 after more than 22 years in full time official roles. NSW secretary Mr John Branch is appointed acting Federal secretary while McVeigh remains active in the trade movement.
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Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia
Amos McVeigh
McVeigh
Union
Nsw
John Branch
Anglicans call for talks with Aboriginal leaders
The 31st synod of the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn adopted a resolution urging the Government to meet Aboriginal leaders in Canberra to arrange a revised site for their embassy. The vote followed an emotional debate about the need for fair hearings and dignified leadership for Aborigines, as ecumenical leaders urged more constructive talks.
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Canberra and
Goulburn
Australian Council of Churches
Australian National University Students Association
Canberra
ANL
G. C. Garnsey
Garnsey
K. R. Brewer
Army team investigates empty hand grenade box in Sydney harbor
The Army bomb disposal squad rushed to Palm Beach Sydney after an empty hand grenade box washed ashore. Officials evacuated the area as a precaution while experts examined the container for potential threats or remaining ordnance. No injuries were reported.
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Sydney
Palm Beach
Moves for harsher action on drivers in NSW
The NSW Government weighs tougher steps for drink drivers with a proposal to require medical certificates for those with blood alcohol above about 1 percent showing any past alcohol issues are resolved. A final report from a drink driving survey may shape this option.
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Sydney
Nsw
Mortis
Traffic Accident Research Council
Risk in hormones for middle aged business men
The National Times reports hormone treatment for middle aged business men carries risks for those seeking restoration of their real powers. The National Times is on sale now and all this week.
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National Times
The
Paper accuses Australia of aiding Ustashi in Yugoslavia
Borba accuses Australia of protecting Ustashi terrorists in Canberra and abroad. It cites alleged training grounds and weapons, asks why police assist in New Guinea but not in major Australian cities, and notes a parliamentary reply that displaying an Ante Pavelic portrait is not illegal. The piece references Pavelic’s wartime role and current alleged refuge.
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Hunt
Ustasha
Ante
Pavelic
Anne Pavelic
Paraguay
Ustashi
Marshall Wire
Majoncy
West Germany
Sweden
Australia
Aap-Reuter
Tanjug
Ante Pavelic
Canberra
Borba
New Guinea
Sales tax on pill may be lifted by government
The Federal Government considered lifting the 27.5 percent sales tax on contraceptive pills. A motion to abolish the tax carried at a party meeting led by A. A. Staley of the Liberal Party. Delegates also discussed tax deductions for single parents funding child costs. The session faced interruptions as protesters questioned legalized prostitution.
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Melbourne
A. A. Staley
Lib. Vic
Staley
State Council
The
Eral Party
Council
Senator Bonner marries Neville Bonner in Brisbane ceremony
Senator Bonner marries Neville Bonner in a brief ceremony at the One People of Australia League hostel in Mount Gravatt Brisbane. Attendants included DLP leader Senator Vince Gair and Health Minister Sir Kenneth Anderson. The couple plan a three day honeymoon at Bribie Island on the Sunshine Coast.
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Brisbane
Neville Bonner
Heather Ryan
One People of Australia League
Mount Gravatt
PikKilioran
Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs
Democratic Labor Party
Vince Gair
Health
Kenneth Anderson
Senator
Bonner
Brite Island
Sunshine Coast
NSW road toll climbs as weekend crashes claim lives
The NSW road toll for the year reaches 582 after a deadly weekend with thirteen deaths. A head on crash in Pharnlergiy toshay killed three men in one car, and others died in separate incidents at West am Friday mgt and Punchbowl. A girl died after a car hit a parked vehicle, another wreck plunged over a cliff, and a Hoxton Park collision claimed an Alvearoid woman. Police linked the fatalities to recent heavy rain and hazardous driving conditions. In Victoria seven people died on roads over the weekend, lifting July’s total to 93 and the year to 624, 30 fewer than last year.
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Pharnlergiy
Toshay
Avemenis
Benny
Punchbowl
Hoxton Park
Repeal Y Dents
Satirglay
Sher Cate
Welon
Pasctt Highteat
Wetherill Park
Four's a crowd in Canberra motorcycle crash
A weekend motorcycle crash in Canberra left a 740cc Honda extensively damaged. A young man told assisting bystanders that the misjudged corner was not his fault and that three brakes failed as he leaned the bike the wrong way. Police interviewed four men.
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Canberra
Harder to regain licences in Victoria policy debate
Melbourne Sunday. Acting Premier Hamer announced plans to make reissuance of licences harder for disqualified drivers. A Liberal Party State Council motion backed retesting including written, oral, practical, and psychological exams, with standards higher than initial licence requirements.
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Hamer
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