Servility complex hinders Australian tourist service
Australians as a race did not serve well because service was confused with servility. Captain R J Ritchie of the Australian Tourist Commission told a Canberra conference that waiter training lagged behind international standards and urged a university course in management to lift professionalism. He cited high hotel costs, wage restraints, and the need for more low cost accommodation to boost growth, noting the Hilton Sydney’s $50 daily rate and the expensive cost per bed. He warned of a tourist triangle shortage and highlighted Japan and Germany as key future markets while projecting foreign exchange tourism earnings around $300 million and GDP impact near $400 million plus $100 million in tax revenue from tourism.
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Ian Myerscough
Canberra
Australian Tourist Commission
R. J Ritchie
Touris
Australia
Captain Ritchie
Jim Seedman
Hilton
Sydne
Sydney
Melbourne
North America
Germany
Japan
Bangkok
Bali
Ritchie
Commission
Great Barrier Reef
ACT tourism revenue and visitor projections prompt policy plan
An ACT tourism report shows 2.9 million visitors to Canberra and Queanbeyan from August 1975 to July 1976 spending about 73 million dollars. It forecasts 1986 visitor numbers between 3.8 and 4.1 million and urges immediate policy guidelines and a coordinated tourism strategy. The study was commissioned by the Department of the Capital Territory along with the former Tourism and Recreation Department and the National Capital Development Commission.
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Canberra-Queanbeyan
Legislative Assembly
Act
Department of the Capital Territory
Department of Tourism and Recreation
National Capital Development Commission
Australia hints at decriminalising marihuana possession
A Senate committee report urges decriminalising possession of small marihuana quantities and growing for personal use, proposing a pecuniary penalty of 100 to 150 dollars. It calls for a national drug strategy covering alcohol tobacco analgesics and illicit drugs and recommends strong advertising bans and state funded distribution debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Standing Committee On Social Welfare
Baume
Lib
Nsw
Committee of Six
Wheeldon
Lab
Australia
Sind
Power workers return to work ends Victorian strike
The Victoria power dispute concluded as maintenance staff at the Yallourn station voted to resume duties. About 2,000 of 2,300 striking workers supported returning to work, backed by the ACTU and unions. Hawke warned Fraser’s government against using industrial legislation, while an eight week Arbitration Commission inquiry began to set a new award for SEC maintenance staff.
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ACTU
Hawke
Yallourn
Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union
Canberra
Fraser
Hamer
Yadlourn
Arbitration Commission
Wal
SEC
Royal Commission Report Finds ASIO Breached Propriety
The Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security criticises ASIO for operating outside propriety and breaching the law at times. Justice Hope's findings flag deficiencies in intelligence assessment, records security, and government communication, with recommendations on limited government involvement and formal security checks for public servants.
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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Royal Commission On Intelligence and Security
Fraser
Justice Hope
NSW Council For Civil Liberties
Whitlam
ASIO
Soviet diplomats spymaster warns of ongoing Australian intelligence threat
Mr Justice Hope said more than half of 18 accredited Soviet diplomats in Australia were likely engaged in intelligence work. He warned Australia not to assume immunity from covert operations and noted that USSR intelligence agents were operating covertly in Australia since the 1940s, with some Australians betraying classified material to them. The Petrov Commission tied the defection period to sustained Soviet espionage and cautioned the public to expect continued attempts to recruit locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Royal Commission
Justice Hope
Petrov Commission
Petrov
Ussr
Griffith farmer's $100000 house linked to inquiry witness
In Jordan Phice Spence ACT the home once owned by Rocco Barbaro a witness in the inquiry is valued over 100000 with furnishings about 15000. Investigator notes show Barbaro pleaded guilty in 1974 to possessing marijuana on his Tharboxang farm near Griffith. Deposits into a bank from a Sydney company are noted, with calls of possible gambling earnings and a large equity gap between income and house spending. Continued on Page 3.
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Jordan Phice
Spence
Act
Rocco Barbaro
Come Mission
W.K. Fisher
Barbaro
Fishersand
Menver
Lister
Double Bay
Sydney
Queanbesan
Residential redevelopment policies worry land valuations
A National Capital Development Commission post discusses the introduction of residential redevelopment policies amid concerns about their impact on neighboring land valuations. The note appears on page 3.
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National Capital Development Commission
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Royal Commission Report
Hope
Asio Record
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Justice Woodward
F. Mahony
Justice Howe
Department of Foreign Affairs
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ASTO
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Tharboxang
Grifhith
Fisher
Jordan
New Zealand
Mathews
High Court
Geoffrey Sawer
South Africa
Davidson
Family of Man
Buck Page
World News 4
Parliament
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Ansomatiec
Ansett Airlines
Ansett
Phon
GF Australia
Northourne Ave
Philip Contig
Waale Valley
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