Self-government
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promise
The Papua-New Guinea House of Assembly is to be called into extraordinary session on January 8 so that its 94 members can amend a legis lative defect to Local Govern ment rules. Because of the de fect council rules, including tax rules, made since October, 1966, are invalid.
Reason for the urgency is to ensure that Mr. Oscar Tammur (see story at left) will have no legal loophole when he goes into court on a tax charge on January 28.
Meanwhile, as the old year closed, pressures were being ap plied in P-NG in other ways.
Leader of Australia’s Federal Opposition, Mr. E. G. Whitlam, beginning a 15-day tour of P-NG on December 29, said he would grant internal self-government to P-NG within a year if the Labor Party won the Federal election in 1972, and grant complete in dependence by 1976.