Prime Minister Charts Five Year Defence Plan For Any Emergency
Sir Robert Menzies outlined Australia’s largest peacetime defence expenditure to Parliament, detailing a five year program costing £1,519.2 million. The plan boosts manpower and equipment across the three services, adds a 15,000 ton escort maintenance ship, forty Mirage fighters, eighteen Caribou aircraft, eight Iroquois helicopters, and strengthens Papua New Guinea with doubled Pacific Islands regiment personnel and a Boram airfield upgrade. Defense spending rises to a peak of £277 million in 1966-67.
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Robert
Australia
House of Representatives
Townley
R.A.N
Papua New Guinea
Pacific Islands Regiment
Boram
Wewak
Menzies
Laos
South Vietnam
Federation of
Malaysia
West New Guinea
M.F
CMF
Brookvale
N.S.W
Robert Menzies
Navy plans outline extensive postwar ship purchases and upgrades
Sir Robert outlined multiyear Navy spending including 1964-65 to 1967-68 totals, Caribou and Iroquois aircraft, Sea Aura anti submarine missiles for destroyers and frigates, a 15 000 ton escort maintenance ship, and revised fixed wing aircraft plans. Army and CMF expansions, pentropic division equipage, and Mirage purchases were also announced. An overseas review of Canberra replacement loomed.
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Sir Robert
America
Yarra
Parramatta
Melbourne
Sydney
Australia
R.A.N
Fleet K-Arm
Navy
Defense plans urged to expand Papua New Guinea forces
RSL National President A Lee said the government’s new defence proposals moved in the right direction but still fell short. He criticized the Pacific Islands Regiment for not meeting needs and urged an increase to at least three battalions plus reserves and a selective National Service scheme. He welcomed air and naval unit additions and urged quick approval of a modern strike reconnaissance aircraft to replace the Canberra jet bomber.
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Ra.a.f
Robert
Canberra
Calwell
R.S.L
Lee
Pacific Islands
League
Papua and New Guinea
Australia
East Asia
Lees
Canberra Sees Prolonged Cold Snap With Light Snow Forecast
Weather bureau warned of ongoing cold conditions in Canberra with gusty westerly winds. Forecasts indicate a maximum near 50 degrees with brief light showers and possible light snow on surrounding ranges. This week ranks among the coldest this year after a mild early May.
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Anberra
Weather Bureau
Injured Boy to Receive Further Ex Gratia Payment
The government will pay Robert Wilke an additional 1000 pounds ex gratia under the Railways Act for a railway station accident that cost him a leg. The total ex gratia payment follows a 2000 pound settlement made in May last year after the turntable incident in Canberra. government officials and the boy’s solicitor pressed for the extra sum.
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Robert Wilke
Canberra
Opperman
J. Fraser
Lab
A.C.T
Fraser
Trade Talks End With Broad GATT Guarantee For Australia
Australian deputy prime minister McEwen said guarantees secured at the Geneva GATT talks will balance benefits for Australia’s primary products with gains from industrialised nations. US envoy Herter called the agreement a good beginning and Rusk hailed it as a first class decision for the next tariff round.
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McEwen
Australia
Christian Herter
Kennedy
New Zealand
John Marshall
Ottawa
United States
Dean Rusk
Geneva
Widchy
Rusk
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NATO
GATT
British exporter praised for Teheran juke box reach
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury Anthony Barber told the House of Commons that a British exporter who visited Teheran has achieved wide reach with a juke box in every harem. The claim, reported by the Daily Mail, highlights the exporter’s hard work and success.
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London
Treasury
Anthony Barber
House of Commons
Teheran
Bridge Lanes Expected 10 Open Mid July
The first three lanes of the new Commonwealth bridge should be open to traffic by mid July said Minister Freeth in reply to Mr. Bury. Rainfall delayed the timetable. a lake dam near completion by September 30 will lead to filling the reservoir, though exact finish date cannot be predicted.
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Commonwealth
Interior
Freetts
Bury
Lib
Wentworth
House of Representatives
Freeth
Molonglo River
Interior approves offer of site for crematorium
Mr J. B. Fraser said the Department of the Interior would offer a site for a crematorium. He noted Minister Freeth had approved the offer and the department was arranging details. Fraser had been pressing for the site since November 1960.
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Department of the Interior
J. BR. Fraser
Lab
Ac.t
Fraser
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