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C . JJ AUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTER
OLYIIC APPEAL FUIOD
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. William McMahon, C. H. , M. P.
21 February, 1972
Good Evening;
Nineteen hundred and seventy-two is another
Olympic Games Year and the Australian Olympic Federation, of
which I happen to be the President, wants to send about 200 of
our top athletes to iZunich, Germany, to compete in the Games.
Now you know as well as I do that the Australian
is a great sportsman, and that he can compete and win in world
company. So we plan to be able to announce the team in May of
this year and to get them to Munich as soon as we can so that they
can compete in the Games in late August and early September.
In order to do that we have to raise something
like $ 400,000 to permit the mission to take place. My Government,
the Australian Government, has provided $ 80,000 to permit this to
happen and we have to collect the balance from people like you,
from companies and corporations, from associations and from the
trade unions as well.
We have to do this if the mission is to be
successful. So I ask you tonight to contribute to the maximum
of your capacity, and to make this trip a success.
Please do so, and give our athletes the opportunity
to compete and to beat the best from other parts of the world.
Good ni-ht and thank you.