Major Civic Centre Projects Planned for Canberra
Canberra planners unveil a five year Civic Centre development including a City Hill square, a new police station, a repertory theatre, a Supreme Court building and a luxury hotel. The National Triangle would feature Russell Hill offices and a national centre on Capital Hill with six pavilions representing each state. A lakes scheme costing about £2.2 million would add 1740 acres of recreational foreshores, fishing and boating facilities, rowing and mosquitos control, linking Civic Centre with Russell Hill.
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Ainslie Avenue
City Hill
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Muore
Acton
City Square
Supreme Court
Canberra
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Northurne Avenue
Commonwealth Avenue
Farrell Street
Commonwealth Bank
Perth
Constitution Avenue
Russell Hill
Australia
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Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes Re-Elected Chairman
Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes of the Liberal party, a vocal critic of the government on foreign policy, was re elected chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee in a secret ballot. He defeated Mackinnon for the post with 19 government and one DLP member present. Labour did not sit on the committee.
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Wilfrid Kent Hughes
Chisholm
Mackinnon
Corangamite
D.L.P
Labour Party
Wilfrid
Dutch New Guinea
Sir Wilfrid
Man Jumps From Gallery Into House Chamber
A man leaped more than 20 feet from the visitors' gallery into the Canberra House of Representatives chamber and moved toward the mace before an attendant restrained him. Police later took him to Canterbury Mental Institution, with no charges filed.
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House of Representatives
House
Canberra
Palice
Kenmore
Parliament ‘House
J. Urquhart
Nasser warns of more strife in Iraq
President Nasser accuses Iraqi Premier General Kassem of cooperating with international Communism and predicts ongoing turmoil in Iraq. He denounces Kassem for organizing demonstrations and slander against the UAR while Mosul rebels face severe reprisals. Reports describe executions, air attacks near the border, and refugees heading for Turkey as fronts shift toward Syria.
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Iraq
New York
A.A.P
United Arab Republic
Kassem
United Press International
Damascus
Masser
U.A.R
Mosul
Plans for New Wing at Parliament House
Plans drawn for a new £90,000 wing to Parliament House to add 40 rooms for members. Approval pending after a joint government meeting followed criticism over crowding and ministers moving staff into the House, leaving members without rooms.
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Parliament House
Soft note at Broadbeach on China in ECAFE admissions
Western delegates and observers describe a restrained Russia seeking China’s ECAFE admission. The form of plea contrasts with prior urgent demands. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Firubin plans talks with Australia’s Casey on reopening the embassy as South Vietnam’s Quan Le-Quang argues against admitting any Asian Communist states.
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Russia
China
Christopher H. Phillips
Firubin
Austraia
Casey
South Vietnam
Quan Le-Quang
ECAFE
Atomic Research Centre Planned Near Gloucestershire Site
A 1 million pound atomic research centre is to be built near the Berkeley nuclear power station in Gloucestershire, with the announcement coming yesterday. The project flags a major expansion in atomic science facilities in the area.
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Atomic Centre
Gloucester
London
P-Reuter
Berkeley Nuclear Power Station
Gloucestershire
Influenza Epidemic Forecast for Australia
The director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Sir Macfarlane Burnet warned a flu epidemic could hit Australia this winter. He noted Britain Europe and America now face virus type B while Australia last saw a Lenaeed type A outbreak years ago.
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Australia
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Macfarlane Burnet
Macfarlane
Britain
Europe
America
Enid
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London Daily Express
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