Lagging Hospitals Threaten ACT Bed Shortages
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works warns that hospital bed supply in the ACT could fall short of the six beds per 1,000 residents as population grows and as Woden and Calvary Hospitals delay, with a need for planning to reflect a multi city layout and larger self-contained hospitals.
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Planning delays in ACT hospital project prompt reforms
The ACT Hospital Planning Committee faced delays from 1964 to 1967 due to bureaucratic bottlenecks and scrutiny from Treasury. The Public Works Committee urges immediate action to add capacity by 1977 or 1978, proposes an agency to harvest design experience, and suggests sending Australian planners abroad under Lord Llewellyn-Davies to refresh expertise.
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Indira Gandhi hailed amid India’s crisis and promise
Tomorrow Australia will welcome Mrs Indira Gandhi as India faces multiple crises. She has to weld 500 million people together, reorganize the economy, and secure food and unity while under threat from violence and sectarianism. Her early record shows restraint and achievement, though critics warned she might be glamorous yet weak.
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Rhodesian African education under strain amid 2 percent cap
The Rhodesia Front plans to cap African education spending at 2 percent of national income, with few schools and scarce teachers. Hi Hie do not provide sustained secondary education. 26,000 Africans who passed Standard VI in 1967 would have nowhere to go in high school.
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Letters To The Editor on conscription and student protest
Reader letters discuss student unrest against the National Service Act and conscription. They reflect on university depersonalisation, the role of non violent action, and how young people seek authentic life, urging understanding and better methods to end conscription.
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Canberra
Vietnam Widows and DFRB Payments Question
Mrs L M Maher asks about DFRB weekly payments for widows and the full pay for various ranks. She questions whether all men killed in Vietnam receive the same DFRB sum and requests the full pay of a major, a private, and the corresponding widow’s benefits, with no deductions, noting a specific letter from Mrs Budcoe.
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Governor General bids farewell to Duke of Edinburgh at Canberra
The Governor General farewelled the Duke of Edinburgh on his departure from RAAF Base Canberra on Saturday morning. Later Lord Casey met Mr R Gardiner, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, and Lady Casey opened the Canberra regional meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club. The Governor General also met Criss Rudge, the prime Secretary at St John of Jerusalem.
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