NSW Cabinet reshuffle aims to quell caucus rifts
Deputy Premier Renshaw gains Lands portfolio as Governor Woodward swears in ministers at Government House. The reshuffle shifts Education away from Heffron to free him for broader duties, with Mannix becoming Justice minister to satisfy caucus and strengthen the abolitionist shift in Parliament.
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Education
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Conservation
Australia seeks to ease West New Guinea tensions
Australian ambassadors in Djakarta and The Hague were urged to talk with Netherlands and Indonesian authorities to prevent misunderstandings and rising tensions over West New Guinea. Acting External Affairs Minister Sir Garfield Barwick told Mr. Cairns in the House of Representatives that Australia aims to avert conflicts between the Netherlands and Indonesia over HalIl and the deployment of armed forces. Officials in Canberra will follow the same approach with Dutch and Indonesian representatives.
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Australian External Affairs Department
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Canberra
Barwick Dodges Date On Phone Tapping Disclosure
Attorney General Barwick refused to reveal the date or produce documents showing that Security Service telephonic interception during the Chifley era was authorised. Ward and Calwell pressed for details as Labour ministers denied knowledge. Garfield defended non disclosure citing confidential instruction.
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Lab
East Sydney
Garfield
Labour
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Calwell
Chiffey
Chilfoy
Proclamation of Divorce Bill Deferred to October
The uniform divorce legislation, due to be proclaimed July 1, will not become law until about October 1. Attorney-General Sir Garfield Barwick said the delay allows courts and others to familiarise themselves with the new provisions as drafting continues.
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House of Representatives
Garfield
Thompson
Lab
Port Adelaide
Bill to Amend TV Control Law Grants Breathing Space for Applicants
In Senate debate the government outlined amendments to allow country television licence applicants a six to twelve month period to restructure company holdings and articles of association to comply with new Broadcasting Control legislation. Opposition warned of constitutional challenges under Section 92. Authorities said licences would issue first with post grant restructuring, and that further provisions address price terms for authorial material and board resignations.
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Australian Broadcasting Board
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House of Representatives
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Labour Party
Broadcasting Control Board
O'Byrne
Wright
Lib
Tas
Broadcasting Anstral Board
First Russian Rocket Signal For Retaliation Sparks Senate Debate
Senator Aiken denounces Marshal Malinovsky for vowing Soviet retaliation against air bases and urges that the first rocket fall on allies would trigger a rain of rockets on Russia. Mansfield warns of risk while Wiley cites global danger points amid U-2 tensions.
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Japan
Government limits aid to Chile quake appeal not sought
The Australian Treasurer Holt said the federal government had not sought to cap Australian aid to the Chile earthquake at 25 000 pounds. He noted contributions aligned with other nations. Acting Prime Minister McEwen said the call for a 25 000 pound fund followed a conference with Holt. no Cabinet meeting had occurred since the disaster, though discussions would occur at the next Cabinet session.
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Canning
Boris Pasternak Dies in Russia at 70
Boris Pasternak died at his country home after a month long illness. Nurses watched over him as he lay under an oxygen tent. The Peredelkino village author, famed for Dr Zhivago, had earlier suffered a heart attack and turned down the Nobel Prize in 1958 due to Soviet criticism.
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