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A 1 1 PRESS STATEMENT NO, 111
4 July 1973
MOVEMENT OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT STAFF TO ALBURY-WODONGA
The Prime Minister announced today that the Public
Service Board would establish a Joint Consultative Committee
on the movement of Australian Public Service staff to Albury-
Wodonga. The Joint Consultative Committee would bring
together representatives of staff organisations, departments
and the Public Service Board to advise the Board on matters
such as the detailed arrangement of a transfer program of
Australian Public Service staff to Albury-Wodonga, conditions
of employment for staff affected by the transfers and the
sort of amenitites and community facilities that Australian
Public Service staff would like to see developed in Albury-
Wodonga. He said that the Chairman of the Public Service Board
had written to all Australian Public Service staff to inform
them of the consultative procedures that would be introduced
and of progress on the studies that were being made with
repsect to the movement of Australian Public Service staff
to Albury-Wodonga.
The acceptance by Australian Public Service staff of
Albury-Wodonga as an attractive place to live and work was
a key element in the success of Government plans for Albury-
Wodonga, he said. The Government believed that the adoption
of consultative procedures as outlined by the Public Service
Board would be the best way to achieve this acceptance.
The Joint Consultative Committee is to be established
once the Government has made the hroad policy decision on which
Australian Public Service departments are to be invo. lved in
transfers to Albu:,' y-Wodonga.
CANBERRA, A. C. T.