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<session.header>
<date>1970-04-16</date>
<parliament.no>27</parliament.no>
<session.no>2</session.no>
<period.no>1</period.no>
<chamber>SENATE</chamber>
<page.no>849</page.no>
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<day.start>1970-04-16</day.start>
<para>The <inline font-weight="bold">PRESIDENT (Senator the Hon. Sir Alister McMullin)</inline> took the chair at 10 a.m., and read prayers. </para>
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<title>CAPITAL PUNISHMENT</title>
<page.no>849</page.no>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>Notice of Motion</title>
<page.no>849</page.no>
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<page.no>849</page.no>
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<electorate>New South WalesLeader of the Opposition</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">MURPHY, Lionel</name>
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<para>- I give notice that on the next day of sitting I shall move: </para>
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<quote>
<para>That leave be given to introduce a Bill to abolish capital punishment under the laws of the Commonwealth. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>849</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>SMUGGLING</title>
<page.no>849</page.no>
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<page.no>849</page.no>
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<electorate>NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">MULVIHILL, James</name>
<name role="display">Senator MULVIHILL</name>
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<para>- ls the Minister representing the Minister for Customs and Excise in a position to inform the Senate whether the Labrador dog being used in drug smuggling detection will be joined by an additional 2 or 3 dogs in this field of investigation? </para>
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<page.no>849</page.no>
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<name.id>JQR</name.id>
<electorate>NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">COTTON, Bob</name>
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<para>- 1 have a fairly high regard for Labrador dogs, but I cannot answer this question off the top of my head. 1 shall have to find out for the honourable senator. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>AIRCRAFT NOISE</title>
<page.no>849</page.no>
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<page.no>849</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">MARRIOTT, John</name>
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<para>- Has the Minister for Civil Aviation read today's copy of the "Australian." the sub-leader of which refers to a Senate select committee on aircraft noise? ls it not a fact that there is no Senate select committee on aircraft noise? Has the Minister any comment to make on the statement that the restrictions regarding the curfew on airports prove that airports are built in the wrong places? Is it not a fact that normally in Australia, apart from Mascot Airport, airports have been built and homes and industries have been built around Ihe airports after the airports have been constructed? </para>
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<page.no>849</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">COTTON, Bob</name>
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<para>- <inline font-style="italic">I</inline> have nol read the "Australian'5 sub-editorial referred to but, as the honourable senator has said, there is no Senate select committee on aircraft noise. There is a select committee operating in the other place. There have been <inline font-style="italic">comments</inline> in the Press about things that have been said to the House of Representatives Select Committee, but we do not have any plans in the Department of Civil Aviation to change our present attitude towards flights within curfew hours. The point about airports all being built in the wrong place is a strange one because one of the problems with airports is that people who want to fly from place to place have to board aircraft and leave aircraft close to the place where they want to be or from which they want to leave. I do not see how we can avoid this. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
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<title>APOLLO MISSION</title>
<page.no>849</page.no>
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<page.no>849</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">MURPHY, Lionel</name>
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<para>- Can the Minister for Supply give us the latest information on the progress of Apollo XLII? </para>
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<talker>
<page.no>849</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JZQ</name.id>
<electorate>NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
<party>LP</party>
<role>Minister for Supply</role>
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<name role="metadata">ANDERSON, Kenneth</name>
<name role="display">Senator ANDERSON</name>
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<para>- I recognise that everybody will be most concerned at the dramatic circumstances relating to the return lo earth of the Apollo crew. The information which was handed to me a short lime ago is that at 9 o'clock this morning Ihe Apollo spacecraft was onethird of the way back from the moon and confidence has increased progressively that there will be a safe return to earth on Saturday morning at approximately 3 a.m., Australian eastern standard time. The spacecraft orbit is now suitable for a safe reentry at a time about 20 minutes different from the proposed time of orbit re-entry. This results from a correction in the course last evening. The critical angle of re-entry is about 7 degrees. On its present orbit the spacecraft will re-enter al about <inline font-style="italic">6i</inline> degrees, which is within safe limits. There has been concern about the consumables in the spacecraft - water, oxygen, power and so on - but the steps which have been taken to counter any problems have been successful. At this stage, provided no further problems arise, the margin for the consumables is quite comfortable and safe. A small mid-course correction is scheduled for about 2.30 p.m. today. This will invlove a 15-second burn of the lunar landing module engine, which has been used in all the maneouvres since the event which caused the present critical situation. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>849</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>FI1J AIRCRAFT</title>
<page.no>849</page.no>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>849</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>K6F</name.id>
<electorate>SOUTH AUSTRALIA</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">CAVANAGH, James</name>
<name role="display">Senator CAVANAGH</name>
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<para>- I desire to ask a question of ihe Minister for Air. Has the Department of Air rejected the F111C aircraft in a bid to get the more powerful and costly FU IF aircraft as well as the use of Phantom aircraft in the interim period if necessary? Has the Department based its opposition to the F111C on alleged shortcomings in Australia's technical and operational capabilities, as is reported in this morning's 'Sydney Morning Herald'? </para>
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<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>850</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JXR</name.id>
<electorate>WESTERN AUSTRALIA</electorate>
<party>CP</party>
<role>Minister for Air</role>
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Thomas</name>
<name role="display">Senator DRAKE-BROCKMAN</name>
</talker>
<para>- The Department of Air has not rejected the FI 1 1C aircraft. In order to meet its requirements the Royal Australian Air Force has asked for certain modifications to the Fill. These include extension of the wing tips and reinforcement of the undercart </para>
</talk.start>
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<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>850</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>VIETNAM MORATORIUM CAMPAIGN</title>
<page.no>850</page.no>
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<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>850</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KMX</name.id>
<electorate>VICTORIA</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">GREENWOOD, Ivor</name>
<name role="display">Senator GREENWOOD</name>
</talker>
<para>- My question is directed to the Minister representing the Attorney-General. I ask: Has the AttorneyGeneral's attention been drawn to a statement which appeared in the South Australian Press to the effect that molotov cocktails are being made for the purpose of the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign? ls k a fact that the statement which appeared in the Press is attributed to a responsible officer of a political party who has said that he has evidence to this effect? Can the Minister state whether the Attorney-General would consider that this statement warrants investigation by a Commonwealth authority? If so, is action being taken? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>850</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KBW</name.id>
<electorate>TASMANIA</electorate>
<party>LP</party>
<role>Minister for Works</role>
<in.gov>1</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">WRIGHT, Reginald</name>
<name role="display">Senator WRIGHT</name>
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<para>- I have not drawn the attention of the Attorney-General to this statement. My attention was drawn to it during the course of the debate last night on the motion for the adjournment of the Senate. I shall ensure that the AttorneyGeneral is advised of the news article to which reference has been made. I have no doubt that either the State or the Commonwealth police force will do its duty in accordance with the facts. </para>
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<debate>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>850</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>CAPTAIN COOK BI-CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS</title>
<page.no>850</page.no>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>850</page.no>
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<name.id>KUS</name.id>
<electorate>QUEENSLAND</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">MILLINER, Bertie</name>
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<para>- I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior. Has the Minister's attention been drawn to a report on page 1 of today's 'Canberra Times', which states that Commissioner J. B. Holmes of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, in a judgment handed down on the application by certain trade unions for a public holiday to celebrate the Captain Cook bi-centenary, said thai he found it difficult to believe that Canberra would not proclaim a day to celebrate the Cook bicentenary? In view of the Commissioner's a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse judgment, will the Government now act to give effect to the spirit of it? </para>
</talk.start>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>850</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JQR</name.id>
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<name role="metadata">COTTON, Bob</name>
<name role="display">Senator COTTON</name>
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<para>- I have not seen this report on the first page of today's 'Canberra Times', but I shall certainly direct the honourable senator's query to the Minister in the other place. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>850</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<title>CIVIL AVIATION</title>
<page.no>850</page.no>
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<talker>
<page.no>850</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KAS</name.id>
<electorate>VICTORIA</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">WEBSTER, James</name>
<name role="display">Senator WEBSTER</name>
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<para>- My question is directed to the Minister for Civil Aviation. I ask: Does the Minister consider that the Government's present policy of requiring rural municipalities to contribute towards the capital cost and upkeep of certain airfields in Australia is a fair policy? Does the Minister know of any city municipality which is called upon to make a similar contribution to support an airfield within its boundaries? Will the Minister reassess the present policy and attempt to provide some alleviation for this financial impost on rural municipalities? </para>
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<page.no>850</page.no>
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<para>- What <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Webster</inline> is discussing is what is called the local ownership plan which has been taken up quite enthusiastically by a number of country towns, cities and municipalities. In many cases they have been able to make it a useful revenue exercise. There may be cases where it is not satisfactory. I do not know of these cases. I will be pleased to examine any case to which the honourable senator can direct my attention. I will have such cases looked into. But I can tell the honourable senator and the Senate that the system of local ownership, which involves the Commonwealth contributing 50% of the capital while the local people contribute a like amount - and maintenance costs are met on the same basis - is currently being re-examined over the whole Australian scene. This is being done, but I can also say that the system has been of benefit to many country areas. In many cases the local bodies have had substantial capital assets transferred to them and these have enhanced their financial position. </para>
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<para>- I ask the Minister representing the Treasurer: Is any examination being made by the Treasurer to provide for home buyers to enjoy concessional rates of interest on their home loans similar to those reported to be provided for people in rural industries? If not, will the Treasurer give the matter immediate consideration in view of the extra burden being placed on home buyers, both old and young, by the increased interest rate which has meant extra payments of up to S40 or S50 a year. </para>
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<para>- 1 understand a statement has been issued to the effect that interest rates on home loans have lately been increased. The honourable senator refers to the exemption of primary industries from the recently increased bank interest rates. What he suggests in regard to home ownership would be a matter for Treasury consideration. 1 know of no proposal to grant special concessions to home buyers, although 1 do believe that it is intended that when interest rates are increased the period of repayment of these loans will be extended so that the impact of any increase will not be felt, in terms of actual money paid out, in each instalment period. But this does not answer the honourable senator's question. He asks that home buyers should be given concessional interest rates. 1 will put his question to the Treasury. lt is a policy matter and I can do no more than refer it. </para>
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<para>- My question is addressed to the Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities whose portfolio is connected with the Department of Trade and Industry. Is it not a fact that over 1. million people have attended the Australian pavilion at Expo 70 in Japan? Has the Minister received any indication at this early stage whether these visitors are merely sightseers or could there be great benefit both to trade and industry and the tourist industry because of our obviously very popular pavilion at Expo 70? </para>
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<para>- The Department of Works takes great pride in the Australian pavilion at Expo 70 because it has been ranked by the Japanese Association of Architects as one of the first 6 pavilions at the exposition for attractiveness, novelty and forward design. We are very gratified at the numbers of people attending the pavilion but I have not been given any indication as to their thinking or as to any impressions they may have gained which would influence them to tour Australia or do business with Australia. I will advise the honourable senator when any such information comes to me. </para>
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<para>- 1 direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, ls the statement appearing in today's Press correct that Phantom aircraft would be available on a least- or a reimbursement basis and that such a lease would cost in the vicinity of $850,000 for each Phantom aircraft for 2 years? Should not the replacement be made in default of the delivery of the FI 1 1 aircraft ordered in L963? Will the Minister for Defence, during his time in the United States, shop around the American discount houses or used plane yards to see whether he can get a trade-in on the $200m equity that we have in the FI 11C aircraft? </para>
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<para>- Discounting the flippancy at the end of the question and replying to the matters of substance, f point to the background of what was said here yesterday and what the Prime Minister said in another place to the effect that until the Minister for Defence returns to Australia and reports to the Government on his discussions in Washington with the Secretary of Defence and others, it is unreal to be making up hypothetical questions and expecting an answer of substance. </para>
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<para>- We are reading these things in the Press. </para>
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<para>- Then the Press is making up hypothetical questions too. </para>
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<para>- Has the Minister representing the Attorney-General seen Press reports relating to our own Australian jockey Billy Pyers, at present living in France, who obviously is having great difficulties with the French courts over a traffic case which happened in France during 1 967 and has involved him in a gaol sentence and in numerous court appearances? Will the Minister request the Attorney-General immediately to contact the Australian office in Paris to ensure that every assistance is given to this Australian jockey who has been a good ambassador and who obviously is receiving a raw deal due to his lack of knowledge of French court procedure? </para>
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<page.no>852</page.no>
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<para>- Yes, at the instance of the honourable senator I shall direct the attention of the Attorney-General to the matter and ask him whether he considers that any action should be taken. </para>
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<para>- The Leader of the Government in the Senate will be aware that the Commonwealth and State officials committee on decentralisation was established at the 1964 Premiers conference. Was it the aim, in establishing this committee, that governments throughout Australia, particularly the Commonwealth Government, be encouraged to further assist the decentralisation of industry and the Australian population? Is the Minister aware of any one benefit which has flowed from the deliberations of the committee? Will the Minister consider a suggestion that a report of the committee's activities and findings be presented to the Senate? </para>
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<para>- I am aware that stemming from the Premiers Conference a decentralisation committee was created and is now in existence,I am not aware of the substance of the committee's deliberations. I will have the question examined to see whether it would be a good thing at this time to have a report of the commiitee's activities tabled in the Senate. </para>
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<para>- In directing my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Shipping and Transport 1 refer to an answer I received to a question on notice concerning the passage of oil tankers within the Barrier Reef area. The answer read as follows - </para>
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<para>- Order! </para>
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<para>- I must read the previous answer to get the answer that I require to my present question. </para>
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<para>- I am a little confused about this. Are you asking a question that you asked previously? </para>
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<para>- No. I am asking a question arising out of the answer to a previous question. I cannot ask this one unless I give the substance of the answer to the previous one. That answer stated: </para>
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<para>Investigations into this matter have been carried out, and it is possible Tor tankers to use routes that avoid the Great Barrier Reef area to a large extent. However, such routes generally involve considerable extra steaming distances and are therefore commercially unattractive. </para>
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<para class="block">Am I to understand from that answer that the commercial interests of oil companies are to be placed before the interests of the future of the Great Barrier Reef? If not, what action does the Government intend to take to protect the Great Barrier Reef in this direction? </para>
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<para>- The answer the honourable senator quoted, of course, was supplied to me by the Minister for Shipping and Transport in another place. I will need to direct this further query to the Minister. I believe that the comment relating to the commercial aspects of this matter have to be considered in the context of the first part of the answer, which stated that action was proceeding to examine this matter and to see what could be done. I understand the situation to be that it is possible for tankers to pass quite safely through certain passage areas. I equally understand that other tankers are of such weight that they have to pass outside this area. I do not think it is for me in this place and at this moment to exercise my own individual judgment on what ought to be the commercial judgment of people who operate shipping and transport portfolios and vessels. </para>
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<para>- My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate. Is there any truth in this morning's Press and radio reports that the Government has decided to withdraw the Sth Battalion from Vietnam in August or earlier and also that the present Army training team will be reorganised into a composite unit and used for training South Vietnamese men in one locality? </para>
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<para>- I have not seen the article referred to. I would want to see it. I certainly do not know of any proposals which are available to me to give to the Senate at this time. In the circumstances the proper thing for the honourable senator to do is to put his question on the notice paper. </para>
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<para>- Idirect a question to the Minister representing the Treasurer. Has the Commonwealth Bank increased to 6.75% the interest rate on loans to home buyers? Are these loans made from savings bank deposits? ls it a fact that the interest rate paid on savings bank deposits has been increased to 5% on deposits of §4,000 or more and that deposits of less than $4,000 have not been the subject of an interest rate increase? Will loans made to home buyers from deposits of less than $4,000 attract the interest rate of 6.75%? </para>
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<para>- I think it would be proper to obtain a comprehensive reply to the honourable senator's question. It is true, as he suggests, that there has been an increase in the home ownership interest rate. It is equally true that increased interest rates on money in savings banks have been announced. The honourable senator's reference to a limitation or ceiling of $4,000 is true, as I understand the position. He then went on to ask another series of questions which I believe should properly be answered by the Treasurer. If the honourable senator puts them on the notice paper I would hope to be able to give a reply to them when next we meet. I think it would be quite wrong for me to give at question time an answer on a matter that is in another portfolio. </para>
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<para>- Has the Minister for Air seen a report emanating from Washington that the Fraser mission to the United States leaves Americans confused as to what Australia really wants and that the Pentagon has made a major sacrifice in order to make Phantom F4Es available at short notice? Will the Minister agree that Australians are equally confused and concerned about what our Air Force wants and what our Air Force will get? Can the Minister tell us, as Minister for Air, irrespective of what the Minister for Defence might say upon his return to Australia, what we are going to get, whether the Air Force now wants the Phantom F4Es, the F111Cs, the F111Fs or any other type of aircraft as Australia's strike reconnaissance aircraft? </para>
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<para>- Both yesterday and today <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Anderson</inline> and I have given the only answer which I think it is possible to give. But I remind the Senate that following the fatal crash of an FI IIA on 22nd December, all Fills were grounded. A little later this grounding order was relaxed for 7 aircraft on a restricted basis - for testing purposes only. Following this, 2 suggested recovery methods for ungrounding the aircraft were submitted to Australia, but no firm proposals were made. However, there was an indication that there would be a delay in the delivery date of these aircraft. Following the lack of information in these 2 cases, <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Bishop</inline> asked me another question about the cost of parking the aircraft after they came ofl the assembly line in America, and at the time I said that we did not have the answer to that question. With all this information, or lack of it. Cabinet decided that the Minister for Defence would go to America to try to obtain some of the answers to these questions. </para>
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<para>Yesterday a statement was issued in the name of the Australian Minister for Defence and the United States Secretary of Defence, Melvin R. Laird. The last paragraph of that statement said: </para>
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<para>It Is understood that the Minister for Defence would be reporting to the Government the results of his exploratory- and I underline the word 'exploratory' - discussions, having ascertained the views of the United States Department of Defence on a number of issues. </para>
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<para class="block">Until we know what those issues are and the results of the discussions, neither <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Anderson,</inline> who represents the Minister for Defence in this place, nor I can add any further comment. </para>
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<para>- Is the Minister representing the Attorney-General able to say whether the committee of inquiry which was appointed by the AttorneyGeneral to consider the scope and adequacy of the appeal procedures available from administrative decisions of officers and instrumentalities has yet reported? If not, is the Minister able to give any indication of when the report of this committee might be expected? </para>
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<para>- I have not any information to the effect that the committee has reported, but I will make an inquiry of the Attorney-General and ensure that tha honourable senator gets the latest information. </para>
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<para>- Did the Acting Minister for External Affairs see in the Sydney Press on Sunday last a statement by Miss Anne Deveson drawing attention to an English newspaper article about the missing Australian journalist, Francis James, and staling 'whilst James languishes in gaol, somewhere on the mainland of China, nobody in Australia seems to be doing much to help him'? I ask the Minister whether the Australian Government has made any inquiries as to Ihe whereabouts of Francis James? If not, will the Australian Government do so, and inquire on a governmenttogovernment basis in order to find what we can as to the whereabouts of this man? As Australia is now the fourth largest trader amongst the countries of the world with mainland China, I ask the Minister: Should we not be able to secure reliable information as to the whereabouts of this Australian journalist? </para>
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