Navy to sweep Port Phillip Bay for World War II depth charges
Two RAN mine countermeasures vessels HMAS Curlew and HMAS Sniper will sonar sweep a wide area in Port Phillip Bay to locate three depth charges dropped during World War II near Symonds Channel off Port Arlington. If found, divers will handle them. if not, the 30-year hazard will be removed and Melbourne Cup day may frame renewed public curiosity.
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Port Phillip Bay
Morrow
Uhl Rey
Melbourne Harbour ‘Trust
Hmas Curlew
Hmas Sniper
RAAP
Melbourne
Top PNG official suspended over nationalist protest
PORT MORESBY Monday AAP A public servant Simon Kaumi leader of a weekend protest march calling for overthrow of the Papua New Guinea Government was suspended on full pay following undisclosed Public Service Board charges linked to his part in Saturday’s nationalist rally The Chief Minister Somare said the charges would be investigated by a tribunal Kaumi led an anti Government group of intellectuals during the protest and said Heads will roll but I am willing to give my life for freedom
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Port Moresby
Simon Kaumi
Papua New Guinea
Kaumi
Department of the Interior
Public Service Board
Chie
Somare
Kanmi
Iheellectuals
Ife
Italian President appoints Fanfani as Prime Minister
Giovanni Leone named Amintone Fanfani to form a new government with reservation. Fanfani accepted the mandate to form the government, a senior official at the palazzo del Quirinale said.
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Rome
Giovanni Leone
Christian Bemucchi
Amintone Fanfani
Fanfani
Guirinale
Injured in jet flight mishap over South Australia
An eastbound TAA Boeing 727 encountered severe turbulence near Adelaide injuring more than a dozen passengers. The plane landed safely at Adelaide Airport with 11 taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, others treated aboard or continued on different aircraft. Passengers reported a chaotic scene as turbulence snapped seats and hurled hostesses. One passenger described the ceiling buckling and injuries including a cut lip and bruises.
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Adelaide
South Australlia
Aind
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Stanley Walden
Kewdale
Western Australia
Whitlam Defends Economy Against Opposition Critics
Prime Minister Whitlam voiced complete confidence in Australia’s economy at a Canberra conference of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union. He rejected opposition claims of weakness, cited solid banks and building societies, and praised government actions and unity.
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Whitlam
Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia
Canberra
Union
Roy Cameron
Cameron
Whitlam urges confidence despite unemployment fears
Australian Prime Minister Whitlam addresses concerns over rising unemployment while stressing Government programs in education health and transport to sustain high living standards. He attacks opponents as pessimists, vows to avoid deliberate unemployment as a tool against inflation, and pledges Government action to curb any avoidable job losses.
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Whitlam
Canberra delays deadlines for rate instalments
Canberra ratepayers may defer first payments until December 31 after the Department of the Capital Territory announced a late change to the rates deadline. The department said instalments would not be required until then, and that applications to pay quarterly instalments would be accepted only up to November 30.
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Canberra
Department of the Capital Territory
Canberra Times
Ries
Takeover threat to BLF branch reported
The Federal secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation Mr orm Gallagher said the federation would take over the NSW branch. The note appears among other items including remarks by Dr Kissinger and Liberal Party constitutional reforms.
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BLF
The
Builders Labourers Federation
Orm Gallagher
Nsw
Newcombe wins Japan Open in dramatic finish
Australian tennis star John Newcombe defeated countryman Ken Rosewall to claim the Japan Open title yesterday in a hard fought final. The back page report highlights Newcombe's victory as a key moment in Australia s expanding international presence in tennis.
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Newcombe
John Newcombe
Ken Rosen Wall
Dunk
Nsw
Billy Dink
Ian Stanley
Victoria
Bark Page
Missing funds hit Sydney Anglican schools
Sydney Archbishop Miost Reverend M L Loane announced that an internal audit of five Sydney Anglican Church schools found more than $100,000 missing. The loss triggered resignations and a council vote to close Moss Vale school by year end, disclosed at the annual Anglican Synod.
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Sydney
Miost
M. L. Loane
Moss Vale
Anglican Synod
Australia as Virgin Refuge for Cypriot Women
Melbourne report states about 2 000 Cypriot virgins aged 12 to 20 may seek refuge in Australia to escape rape feared in villages. Minister Cameron told a Labor conference the country is viewed as a safe haven amid Cyprus wartime conditions and noted difficulties arranging passages.
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Melbourne
Australia
Labor and Immigration
Cameron
National Conference of the
Building Workers’ Industrial Union
Sydney
Cyprus
World First Gremlin Photo Reported by CSIRO Scientists
Canberra researchers say their Coresearch report includes what they describe as the world’s first genuine gremlin photograph. The tiny adult microcreature, 0.46 picometers tall, allegedly wears a beanie and plays football, with a discarded catapult as its weapon.
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CSIRO
Canberra
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