Queen and Philip Arrive in Canberra for Aus Visit
The Royal couple landed from Fiji at 4 pm before about 1500 spectators, mainly schoolchildren and mothers. A brief 13 minute welcome featured a bouquet from Hackett Primary pupil Melanie Kelleher, a 21 gun salute, and a guard of honour. They later met officials and headed to Government House.
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Haddon Street
Hackett
Melanie
Fiji
Prince Philip
Canberra
Sth
Holsworthy
Sydney
Paul Hasluck
Hasluck
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Lakeside International Hotel
Queen
Parliament House
Australian Outward Bound Memorial Foundation
St John Ambulance Brigade
Forrest
Government House
Tasmania rejects offer to fund Pedder Lake moratorium
The Tasmanian Premier Reece rejected a federal offer to finance a three year moratorium on flooding Lake Pedder, estimated at 2.8 million dollars. The Federal Labor Caucus backed the moratorium but Tasmanian opposition argued the plan was inadequate while the Save Lake Pedder Committee kept vigil outside Parliament House.
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Reece
Feder.l Government
Lake Pedder
Labor
Mr Whitham
Peder
Causus
Cass
Ier
Save Take Pedder
Parliament House
Air search widens over Tasmania coast
One of the largest air searches in Australia begins tomorrow. Four RAAF and two RAN aircraft will sweep the sea around Tasmania for the missing El Star F cargo ship. Two Orions from Edinburgh base and two HSU4s from East Sale join the sea patrols. Navy trackers from Nowra, NSW, participate.
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Australia
RAAF
RAN
Tasmania
el Star
Edinburgh
South Austalia
East Sale
Nowra
Nsw
Union Leader Shot Dead in Melbourne Bar
Pat Shannon aged 45, a senior official of the Painters and Dockers Union, was shot dead in a South Melbourne hotel bar last night. Police probe continues as witnesses are questioned in the late news report.
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Melbourne
Painters and Dockem Union
Pat Shannon
Independent body to run health services ACT Health Commission
The Minister for Health Dr Everingham announced approval for an independent statutory authority the ACT Health Commission to administer health services in the ACT. It will report to the Minister, set policy, and oversee operations with earliest start January 1 1974. The Canberra Hospitals Management Board will be reconstituted for a short time, interim chairmen named, and staff from Canberra and Woden Valley Hospitals invited to join the commission.
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ACT Health Commission
Act
Canberra Hospitals Management Board
Resent
Allan Taser
Canberra
Woden Valley
ACT Health Services
Department of Health
Commission
Council
Advisory Council
Canberra Hospitals Management Hoard
ACT Hospital Advisory Committee
ACT Medical Association
Koois
Limit on house values under Canberra land system
Bruce Wright reports that Canberra will not cap the maximum price of houses built on land costing over seven thousand dollars under the new land allocation system. A government spokesman said homes on land up to four and a half thousand dollars must sell between fourteen and twenty one thousand two hundred. those on land costing four thousand five hundred to seven thousand must sell between sixteen thousand and thirty thousand.
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Department of the Capital Terriory
Attack on Israeli fortress near Sharm El-Sheik
Egyptian commandos slipped behind Israeli lines on a raid near Sharm El-Sheik while an Israeli task force fought to break Egypt's missile umbrella over the Suez. The Israeli command stated 18 raiders were captured and no damage was reported.
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Red Sea
Sharm El-Sheik
Egypt
Suez Canal
United Press International
Tured
Sinai Peninsula
Israel
Sinai Desert
Israeli War Update Reports Mixed On Suez Mission
The Israeli task force reportedly achieved success against the Egyptian anti aircraft network along the Suez Canal though officials gave few details on duration. Reports from the Southern Front claim 105 tanks were destroyed near Sasa as Israel repelled a larger assault near Damascus.
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Fron
United Press International
Israel
Sasa
Damascus
Germany
Soviet Union
Middle East
London
Aid resumed for Jordan amid Arab summit subsidies
Kuwait decided to resume annual aid to Jordan totaling about 16 million pounds weekly, part of a broader 145 million pound Arab subsidy plan approved at the 1967 Arab Summit to compensate Egypt and Jordan after the Six Day War. The programme also covered Saudi Arabia and Libya, with Saudi continuing support while Libya halted payments in 1970.
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Jordan
Habout Stern
Kuwatt
Saudi Arabia
Libya
Fordan Ie
Violence at Parliament protest averted by filibuster
Senator Georges of Queensland blocked a repeat of violent clashes by standing on the steps of Parliament House and asserting parliamentary privilege. About 70 Aborigines from several states held a three hour sit in, forming an Aboriginal embassy on the lawns. The protest ended as the senator blocked removal and prevented further escalation.
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Georges
Lab
Qld
Ree House
Beak Soane
Gayter
Parliament
Strike cuts grocery supply in Sydney amid act workers’ stoppage
A Sydney strike by 150 storemen and packers constrains grocery supply in the ACT. The report notes disruptions across pages 3 and 23, with broader economic effects. Access to medical services is mentioned elsewhere amid service losses and financial pressures on Dr J. H. McCarthy’s practice.
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Surrabundsh
J. H. McCarthy
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