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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 15, 1971
Page
2
South Australian politics heat up as Senator Greenwood attacks Premier Dunstan over fuel policy and a Rural rebuilding scheme. Debate covers a $100 million plan, agricultural industry support, and proposed commissions with mixed Senate outcomes.
Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson condemned alleged ASIO probes into MPs private lives as intolerable and promised to refer the matter to the Attorney General. The debate touched on international co operation with the British and Canadian parliaments and potential widening of committee powers. Medical costs rose 20.88 percent year on year, Health Minister Greenwood said, while the Federal Government planned Wool Commission lending of 17.3 million for 1970-71 with banks provision of up to 34 million for reserve price operations.
The Senate issued a severe reprimand to editors Walsh and Rothwell for publishing draft contents of the Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse before its presentation. The action marked the first bar appearance in 40 years as the Privileges Committee’s report was read and the motion carried.
Liberal Senator Branson of Western Australia, who retires June 30, was excused from the Senate Privileges Committee inquiry into how two Sunday newspapers prematurely published a Senate Committee report. The dispute concerns press timing and parliamentary privilege.
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