Unemployment Surges in Australia Reaches High Since 1949 Coal Strike
Department of Labour and National Service reports 102,554 registered unemployed and 45,110 receiving unemployment benefits. Jobs data show a 13,187 rise in unemployment and 10,085 more on benefits since April end. Regions like New South Wales and Victoria see the largest unemployment shares with widespread underemployment and public works demand.
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Australia
Department of Labour and Natural Service
Slack period for jobs in Perth slows unemployment
The Treasurer and Senator Speaner visited Perth to study Western Australia development projects. The government acknowledged a slack job period and planned a temporary boost in the job creation program with added housing and public works allocations to speed up employment opportunities.
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Trust
Fieday
Wernilly
Holt
Speaner
Ticey
W.a’s
Hart
Girl Spy Victim Held for Arraignment in Washington
Chambers Scar beck an officer of the American Foreign Service is led by FBI agents to the U.S. District Court in Washington DC for arraignment on charges of passing national security information to Poland. He served as Second Secretary in the U S mission in Warsaw and reportedly was compromised by a Polish girl who entangled him with Russian agents and blackmailed him into revealing secrets.
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American Foreign Service
FBI
United States District Court
Washington
U.S
Fifth Wet And Windy Day Expected
Canberra forecasts a fifth windy day with continued wet weather and cold winds. Yesterday's temperatures reached 45.9 degrees at noon, snow fell near Upper Collar, and several road accidents occurred on slick surfaces. Ski runs at Perisher Valley and Mount Kosciusko reported heavy snowfall, promising good skiing for the weekend.
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Canberra
Snowy Mountains
Geauind
Perisher Valley
Kosciusko
Tragic Paris Express Train Crash Leaves 24 Dead
Rescue workers faced a grim scene after a Paris Express collision near Le Francois Station. Twenty four people died and about 150 were injured as ten coaches derailed and many cars sank into a swamp. survivors were evacuated to hospitals as blood plasma shortages affected transfusions.
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Paris Express
Aaving
Enie
Amuvicay Associated
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Kiran
Stuttgart
Stessburg
Yes- Titty-Le-Francois
Jacal
Missionary Killed in Plane Crash in New Guinea Highlands
A search party found the body of Father Harald McGife a Catholic missionary who died in a single engine plane crash in New Guinea's Eastern Highlands on Saturday. Initial reports say the missionary was killed instantly when the aircraft failed.
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New Guinea
Harald MecCife
Tol Hive
Canberra price shock prompts inquiry into high ACT costs
Times reports ACT residents face the highest food and drink prices in Australia with Canberra lines up to 12 percent above Sydney and 10 percent above Melbourne. Councillor Dalgarno calls for a Profiteering Prevention Act and a Royal Commission while urging an interior inquiry into why prices stay elevated. The council passes the motion unanimously.
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Australia
A. P. Dalgarno
A.C.T. Advisory Council
Times
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Mrs Freeth
Ir. Freeth
Queensland
Miss. Dalgasin
Mary
Australian Statistics
Census
Statistics Bureau
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Melbourne
Bro! Hill
A.C. T
Brokey Hill
Broken Hill
Avelaide
Brisbany
Adelaide
Perth
Toowoomba
Brisbane
Kelgoorlie
Cooleamundia
Goulburn
J. G Rogers
Assassins' Bid Foiled Amid Police Raids
Police in a series of raids between midnight and seaway yesterday seized three grandes and detained several suspects. A government official said arrests are possible as investigators continue to probe the plot and identify remaining conspirators. Meanwhile Ong Feng Guan, former National Envelopment Minister, announced a new party named the United Peoples Party with about 200 supporters from the Government Party.
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Ong Feng Guan
Peontes Actian Party
United Peoples Party
Ong
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