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3 MIN 50 COLOUR SOF DOCTOR CAIRNS AUST LABOUR PARTY MP AND DELEGATION OF FRENCH ATOMIC TEST PROTESTORS REFUSED BY QANTAS TO FLIGHT TO TAHITI EX SYDNEY TO CARRY OUT AGITATION AGAINST TRIALS. FILM SHOWS CAIRNS AND AUST LABOT LABOUR PARTY LEADER GOUGH WHITLAM AT AIRPORT PRESS CONFERENCE ATTACKING THE BAN(ENGLISH SOUND). CUTS TO SHOT OF LEADER OF PEACE DELEGATION PARACHUTE PROTESTERS GORDON MUTCH WHO ALSO ATTEMPTED TO GET FLIGHT TO TAHITI AND REFUSED. MITCH COMMENTS ON SAME. CAIRNS AND MITCH LEAVE THIS EVENING FOR PARIS AND FIJI RESPECTIVELY.



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Background: The Federal Labour M.P., Dr. Jim Cairns, said today he had been forbidden from flying into Tahiti where he had planned to investigate French nuclear tests in the Pacific.

At a press conference at Sydney airport, Dr. Cairns said he had been informed by Qantas that his party of eight protestors including Trade Unionists, members of the peace movement and academics, would be stopped from entering Tahiti.