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  2. The Canberra Times

    THERE is little comfort in saying that Australia would not have as many as 99,000 unemployed teenagers if there was more encouragement for them to take up full-time courses at technical colleges. ...

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  3. THE Defence portfolio, held by Denis James Killen, 50, of Queensland, is one of the biggest and certainly the most wide-ranging of all of the Federal ministries. It entails responsibilities for hundreds of separate establishments, military and civilian, "sharp-ended" and scientific. It must necessarily liaise with other departments covering such diverse fields as manufacturing and intelligence and with a broad spectrum of private interests. Its elevation into the inner Cabinet in the Fraser Government is some indication of the importance attached to it by the Prime Minister, himself a former incumbent. It gave at least overt indication that it had acquired a significance not enjoyed for several years. Probably the best speaker in the Parliament and certainly one of its brightest, the new Minister has been hard at work trying to ascertain the breadth and depth of his charge.,One of his favourite methods has been to get out among the troops and catch their grumbles first hand. A Killen innovation was regular meetings of the Council of Defence, intended under the reorganisation legislation to be a body which would not meet very often and which could easily have acquired more ceremonial than real significance. He is using it as his direct input into the many realms of which he is master. A colourful speaker, he sometimes disguises his intellect with almost archaic rhetoric, but to accept this as an indication of unwillingness to too-deeply explore would be a major mistake. He likes to paint a broad canvas but he likes too to ensure that any particular detail can be seen in stark relief. This is indicated by his knowledge of a few propositions, put to him in Canberra last week. Mr Killen looks at some the problems of defence

    QUESTION: I think you were asked at the United Service Institute about the expansion of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. LETTERS to the Editor

    Sir, — A statement has been reported from Mr Ennals, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Commons, ...

    Article : 1,236 words
  5. VICE-REGAL

    The Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and Lady Kerr entertained the Marquess and Marchioness of Linlithgow, the ...

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