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<date>1965-09-16</date>
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<day.start>1965-09-16</day.start>
<para>The <inline font-weight="bold">PRESIDENT (Senator the Hon. Sir Alister McMullin)</inline> took the chair at 1 1 a.m., and read prayers. </para>
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<title>OVERSEAS INVESTMENT IN AUSTRALIA</title>
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<name role="metadata">O'BYRNE, Justin</name>
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<para>- Has the Minister representing the Treasurer seen the report of the Chase Manhattan Bank seminar in April last, at which the Treasurer drew attention to the three way squeeze of American investment on the Australian economy in the form of a reduced inflow of capital, an increased outflow of capital, and a mopping up of a good deal of the limited amount of capital available on the Australian money market for capital development by the process of interest debenture borrowing? In view of the Australian Government's commitments of 200 million dollars over the next five years in respect of debt maturities and sinking fund commitments, and the restrictive legislation in the United States of America, will the Treasurer take measures to counter the raid being made by big American companies in Australia on the Australian debenture market, and at least preserve some equity in the present development boom in Australia for the Australian people themselves? </para>
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<para>- Yes, I read the excellent fighting speech which the Treasurer made on behalf of the Australian Government at the seminar to which the honorable senator referred. The report has only just reached my desk and I have not read it thoroughly, but the Treasurer certainly put an excellent case for Australia. If the honorable senator will put the rest of his question on the notice paper, I shall get a considered reply for him from the Treasurer who is today going overseas and will, I understand, again discuss these very matters. </para>
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<para>- Can the Minister representing the Treasurer indicate why verbatim reports of Premiers' conferences are no longer available to members and senators? Will he make representations in the right quarters to see that this omission is rectified, in view of the importance to this chamber of these documents in any discussion concerning Commonwealth and State financial relations? </para>
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<para>- Yes,I shall discuss this matter with the Treasurer and ascertain the position. If there has been some alteration, as the honorable senator suggests, I shall ask the Treasurer to let me know why the alteration has been made. </para>
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<title>POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA</title>
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<name role="metadata">COHEN, Samuel</name>
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<para>- I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Territories a question which is supplementary to the question asked of him yesterday by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Keeffe.</inline> The Minister said in reply to <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Keeffe</inline> that no security police were directed to attend the meeting of the newly formed Papua and New Guinea political party in Port Moresby recently. Did the Minister's reply mean that security police did in fact attend the meeting, without authority? If so, what action has been taken to prevent attendance of that kind at future meetings of the organisation? </para>
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<para>- I am not sure of the answer to the honorable senator's question. All I can say is that I have been informed by the Department of Territories, as I told the Senate yesterday in answer to a question, that none of these people had been requested by anybody to attend any such meeting. Whether in fact any of them went along to this meeting, which I understand was a public meeting, I do not know; but I presume that if they wished to do so they could attend any public meeting. According to my information, they certainly were not directed, as has been suggested, to go to any such meeting in any official capacity. </para>
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<title>NATIONAL SERVICE</title>
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<para>- I direct a ques tion to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service. Has the attention of the Minister been directed to the report of a successful appeal to a New South Wales judge from a magistrate's national service ruling? Can he inform the Senate what appeal provisions, if any, exist in the legislation in relation to orders made by magistrates? </para>
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<para>- I would like the honorable senator to put the question on the notice paper so that the Minister for Labour and National Service can give a considered reply. This is obviously a very important matter. </para>
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<title>DEATHS OF SERVICEMEN ABROAD</title>
<page.no>470</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">MCMANUS, Francis</name>
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<para>- I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Army: What was the policy of the Australian Government in World Wars I. and II. and in the Korean and Malayan campaigns on bringing to Australia the bodies of Australian armed forces personnel killed abroad? Will the Government announce its considered attitude to this question in order to remedy the present position, which is that individual deaths in Vietnam are becoming matters of public argument and discussion, causing acute mental stress and embarrassment to the relatives of those killed? </para>
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<page.no>470</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">HENTY, Norman</name>
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<para>- I ask the honorable senator to put that question on the notice paper. It is one of great importance and I think the Minister for the Army should have an opportunity to reply to it directly. </para>
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<title>EDUCATION</title>
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<page.no>470</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">LAUGHT, Keith</name>
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<para>- My question is to the Minister in charge of Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research. Can he let me know the details of the amounts to be paid to schools, other than State schools, in South Australia for the provision of science blocks and science teaching equipment during the current financial year? </para>
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<page.no>470</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">GORTON, John</name>
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<para>- A detailed answer to this question would take some considerable time to give to the Senate, and I do not have the details with me at present. Dealing with schools other than Roman Catholic schools in South Australia, four such schools received £16,000 each in the last financial year. The remainder will receive £16,000 durng this triennium, except in the case of two schools, which T think are Scot's and St. Alfred's, which will receive £8,000. Eight of these schools in the last year of the triennium will receive another £4,000. bringing the total grants to them up to £20.600. In the case of Roman Catholic schools, in this triennium five or six will be receiving grants. If the honorable senator cares to put the question on the notice paper I will endeavour to have all the figures incorporated in "Hansard " at the next sitting. </para>
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<para>" TRANSMOUNTAIN BREAKTHROUGH ". </para>
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<page.no>470</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">BENN, Archibald</name>
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<para>- My question is directed to you, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President.</inline> Will you thank the Parliamentary Librarian for causing the film " Transmountain Breakthrough ", which was produced by the Snowy Mountains HydroElectric Authority, to be exhibited in the Senate Opposition Party Room on 16th instant? Will you also suggest to the Minister for National Development that he arrange with the Postmaster-General to have the picture exhibited on national television stations at a popular hour for the information and entertainment of the public? </para>
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<page.no>470</page.no>
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<para>- I am very pleased to hear the honorable senator's complimentary reference to the film, which is an excellent one, showing the type of development taking place in Australia. Australian documentary films are winning praise and acclaim overseas. The honorable senator's suggestion is a good one and I shall be pleased to bring it to the attention of the Postmaster-General. </para>
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<title>REPATRIATION</title>
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<page.no>470</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">MARRIOTT, John</name>
<name role="display">Senator MARRIOTT</name>
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<para>- I ask the Minister for Repatriation: In view of the current shortage of professional and specialist workers in Australia, will the Minister advise the Senate whether Australian repatriation hospitals are suffering from a shortage of trained nursing personnel? If so, what efforts are being made to obtain such staff, and is anything being done to increase training facilities at repatriation hospitals for school leavers who desire to take up nursing as a career? </para>
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<page.no>470</page.no>
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<para>- <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President,</inline> the employment of trained nurses is a problem for repatriation hospitals, just as it is for most other hospitals in Australia. In this respect, Victoria is giving more trouble than any other State. Whether this is because of the high employment rate for young women in Victoria, I do not know, but the Repatriation Department is having difficulty there in obtaining trained nurses. One means we have adopted to overcome the difficulty is to train student nurses. Last year 65 nurses graduated at repatriation hospitals such as those at Concord, Heidelberg and Greenslopes. In the report that I tabled in the Senate on Tuesday last, it is stated that we have 385 nurses in training at present. One of our difficulties is that after we have trained nurses they are promptly taken by other hospitals, unfortunately for us. We seem to be on the wrong end of the deal, because we do not get many nurses from other hospitals. </para>
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<para>Honorable senators may think that we are not paying our nurses enough. Their take-home pay, on the whole, is a little better than that paid to most nurses in States other than Victoria. In Victoria a new State award has been made for nurses. At present we are. negotiating with the Public Service Board to see what can be done to correct some slight anomalies that exist between the conditions of nurses employed by the Repatriation Department and those employed by other hospitals. </para>
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<para>- The lack of variety is a difficulty. </para>
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<para>- That is one suggestion. Another suggestion is that we have so many older patients that probably the work does not attract young nurses. The nurses we have employed are certainly tiptop. One of the things that impressed me about them, from the young ones up, is their spirit of dedication. It is a problem and we are doing what we can to overcome it. I do wish that we were a little better supplied with trained nurses than we are. </para>
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<title>NEW ZEALAND-AUSTRALIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT</title>
<page.no>471</page.no>
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<talk.start>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<para>- I wish to direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry a question with respect to item 4 on the notice paper under " Orders of the Day". This relates to the proposal that the Senate take note of the paper relating to the New Zealand-Australia Free Trade Agreement I ask the Minister: What are his intentions in respect of calling on the debate on this matter in the Senate? If possible, would the honorable gentleman arrange that the debate take place at an early date? </para>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<para>- I have not given any consideration to the matter raised by the honorable senator. I shall now give consideration to bringing on the debate at an early date. </para>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<para>- I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry whether, in view of Australia's continued monthly adverse balance of trade, which was over £44 million last month, he can give a definite assurance that no system of import controls is contemplated by the Government. </para>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<para>- The honorable senaor should know better by now than to ask questions without notice which involve policy matters. The question asked by the honorable senator involves a matter of policy. In due time, whatever is to be done will be duly announced by the Government. </para>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<title>AIRLINE PILOTS</title>
<page.no>471</page.no>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<para>- I address a question to the Minister for Civil Aviation. In view of the likely call-up of young airline pilots for national service training, can the Minister say whether the Department of Civil Aviation has made arrangements to protect the seniority of such pilots on company lists? Have arrangements been made to protect the licences and careers of such pilots? </para>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<para>- This problem arrived on the Department's plate recently. It involves one or two other departments. I can tell the honorable senator that this matter is being discussed departmentally at the present time. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>471</page.no>
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<title>POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA</title>
<page.no>471</page.no>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<para>- Will the Minister representing the Minister for Territories cause inquiries to be made to ascertain whether any security officers were present on duty at the first meeting of the first political party to be formed in New Guinea, to which Senators Keeffe and Cohen have referred in earlier questions, and whether any report was made by any such officers? Will he inform the Senate of the result of the inquiries? </para>
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<page.no>471</page.no>
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<para>- I will ask the Minister for Territories to examine the question asked by the honorable senator and bring the answer to his attention. Perhaps it would be better if I asked him to put his question on the notice paper so that the answer can be brought to the attention of all honorable senators. </para>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<title>HOUSING LOANS INSURANCE CORPORATION</title>
<page.no>472</page.no>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<para>- Will the Minister representing the Minister for Housing advise me whether there is a definite date on which the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation will come into operation? If there is, what is that date? </para>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<para>- I do not think any definite date has been arrived at as yet. However, shortly after the Housing Loans Insurance Bill was assented to, the Corporation was established and the Board was appointed. The Board has met on a number of occasions and is endeavouring to recruit senior and, to some extent, junior staff. That recruitment has begun already. The Corporation has established offices in Sydney and Melbourne and is in the course of negotiating for office space in Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart. Senior staff have been engaged in a series of discussions with lenders and other people whose activities and co-operation will be part and parcel of the whole scheme. At present it is hoped that the Corporation will open its doors for business towards the end of November. </para>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<para>- I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, who stated recently that 400 to 450 Asians are naturalised each year and went on to say that " Asians were allowed into Australia in certain undefined circumstances". Will the Minister inform the Senate who is the authority who defines the undefined circumstances? Can he give examples of the undefined circumstances? </para>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<para>- I understand that the honorable senator's question is prompted by an article that appeared in the Launceston " Examiner ". He has an intimate knowledge of that city. The article gave a report of a speech by the Minister for Immigration in which he was speaking in general terms on the Government's immigration policy. My understanding is that the Minister did not, in fact, in the sense that is presented by the question, refer to residential status as " certain undefined circumstances ". </para>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<para>- That was quoted in three newspapers. </para>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<para>- The honorable senator has been in public life for a long while. The Minister's statement may have been reported in three newspapers. The general policy as to the number of categories of Asians who may be admitted to Australia is decided by the Government. Within those categories the Minister for Immigration exercises a discretion under the terms of the Immigration Act. As to the more precise aspect of the question in relation to which the honorable senator seeks information, I suggest that he should place it on the notice paper so that the Minister for Immigration may furnish him with a reply. </para>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<para>- I ask the Minister representing the Minister for External Affairs whether he is aware that at the present time in Washington there is being held a conference of lawyers from all over the world, irrespective of politics, and that the conference was stimulated by the American Bar Association. Did the Minister note that yesterday the " Australian " published a statement, attributed to the President of the International Court, <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Percy</inline> Spender, which somewhat discouraged the idea that law could contribute to the prevention of war? Will the Minister arrange for the full text of <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Percy's</inline> contribution to the conference to be made available to the Senate? Lastly, will the Minister arrange for full liaison between delegates to that conference from the legal profession of Australia and officers of our Department of External Affairs so that full value may be received from the efforts of the conference? </para>
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<page.no>472</page.no>
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<para>- I read a report of a speech that was allegedly made by <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Percy</inline> Spender. As my recollection runs, it stated that he believed that international law could prevent wars but was unlikely to do so at the present time because nations would not accept international law. Therefore, force had to be used in the same way, but on a much larger scale, as force has to be used inside a country if somebody breaks the law and he uses force to prevent the -application of that law to himself. That is what I understood him to be saying. </para>
</talk.start>
<para>There will be no difficulty in getting the full text of <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Percy</inline> Spender's speech if the honorable senator wants it. Perhaps the best thing to do would be to place it in the Library rather than to present it to the Senate. I have no doubt at all that Department of External Affairs attaches in Washington are cognisant of all that is going on and that they will let the Department know all that is going on. But in case there is any doubt about this matter, I shall bring the honorable senator's request to the notice of the Minister for External Affairs so that this may be seen to be so. </para>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<para>- I address the following questions to the Minister representing the Minister for Health: In the light of disclosures contained in the annual report of the Director-General of Health for 1964- 65 that more than 2,000 air travellers had arrived in Australia without having received vaccination for smallpox, will the Minister furnish details of the offending airlines? Since the earlier plea of the Commonwealth Department of Health for co-operation apparently has been disregarded by some airlines, will the Minister consider the imposition of fines for future offences by airlines as a suitable deterrent? </para>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<para>- I shall bring the question to the notice of the Minister for Health and see whether an answer can be provided. </para>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<para>- Will the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior tell the Senate the reason for the cancellation of a lease of residential land that was purchased for 10s. in Canberra recently? Will the Minister inform the Senate of the number of occasions on which the appropriate authority has cancelled a lease following the seal of the contract by the drop of the hammer and the payment of 12 months' rent in advance? Have there been cancellations of leases where high premium payments have been involved? </para>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<para>- I understand that the reason for the cancellation of the lease that was mentioned by the honorable senator was that the successful bidder had already had a lease within the three-year limit. I shall direct the rest of the question to the Minister for the Interior to see whether a suitable reply can be provided. </para>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<para>- I direct a question to the Minister for Civil Aviation. Is it a fact that in the last financial year the Department of Civil Aviation subsidised the aero clubs to the extent of £150,000? ls it intended to increase that subsidy this year to £175,000? Can the Minister say whether the Department of the Army recently selected an overseas organisation to form an Army pilots school in Australia? If so, can this be regarded in any way as direct criticism by the Army of the value to Australia of the aero club movement? Bearing in mind the amount of Government subsidy granted to the aero clubs, will the Minister for Civil Aviation take the matter up with the Minister for the Army to ascertain what objections there are to Australian aero clubs training Army pilots? Further, is it intended by the Department of Civil Aviation to subsidise any overseas organisation that might be operating in Australia as an aero club? </para>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<para>- The Government has made available £150,000 for aero clubs in the past and has decided to increase the amount to £175,000 by providing an additional £25,000 for scholarships with a view to assisting in obtaining more Australian trained pilots and officers for the various airlines throughout Australia. I understand that the Department of the Army has been considering an arrangement with an Australian company to train pilots. Although the company is Australian, it has a strong overseas holding. This company bid by tender to undertake a training scheme for the Army. I do not know what was the outcome of the negotiations. I know that the aero clubs, as well as this Australian company representing an English company, were interested in the proposal but I do not know whether finality has been reached. However, I shall make inquiries. </para>
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<page.no>473</page.no>
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<para>- Does the Government intend to subsidise the scheme? </para>
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<page.no>474</page.no>
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<para>- 1 do not think the Government would give a subsidy to the company although at this moment I cannot answer the question flatly. I do not think the company would qualify for a subsidy. </para>
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<page.no>474</page.no>
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<title>LAW REFORM</title>
<page.no>474</page.no>
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<para>- I direct a question to the Minister representing the AttorneyGeneral. It concerns reports in the Press today of remarks made yesterday by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Justice</inline> Joske strongly criticising the manner in which law reform is being handled in the Australian Capital Territory. His Honour referred to the need for serious attention to what he called the " absurd criminal laws " of the Australian Capital Territory. </para>
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<para>- In what context did His Honour make the comment? </para>
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