PM Transcripts

Transcripts from the Prime Ministers of Australia

Whitlam, Gough

Period of Service: 05/12/1972 - 11/11/1975
Release Date:
30/05/1973
Release Type:
Media Release
Transcript ID:
2938
Document:
00002938.pdf 1 Page(s)
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  • Whitlam, Edward Gough
PORTRAITS OF SENATOR SIR MAGNUS CORMACK AND MR WILLIAM MCMAHON

-~ AUS IHAI IA,, LLPRESS STATEMENT NO.
May 1973
PORTRAITS OF SENATOR SIR MAGNUS CORMACK AND MR. WILLIAM McMAHON
The Historic Memorials Committee has decided to
accept commissioned portraits of the President of the Senate,
Senator Sir Magnus Corinack, by Mr. Bryan Westwood of Sydney,
and of Mr. William McMahon by Mr. Ivor Hele, of Aldinga,
South Australia. It is expected that the portraits will be
hung shortly in King's Hall, Parliament House.
The Historic Memorials Committee, consisting of
the Prime Minister, the President of the Senate, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Vice-President
of the Executive Council, the Leader of the opposition in
the House of Representatives and the Leader of the Opposition
in the Senate, is the body charged with acquiring official
portraits of Governors-General, Prime Ministers, Presidents
of the Senate and Speakers of the House of Representatives.
CANBERRA, A. C. T.

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