FOR PRESS 5* P. M. RELEASE SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30 1975 31
LATVIAN CONCERT, LATVIAN CLUB, ELWOOD, MELBOURNE
SPEECH NOTES FOR HON. MALCOLM FRASER M. P.
AUSTRALIA WILL CHAE1GE DIRECTION1 ON DFCFMFR 14TH
WE WILL IMMEDIATELY MOVE TO ASSERT OUR COTMITTMENT
TO FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY OUR OPPOSITIOiJ TO
SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
ONE OF OUR FIRST ACTIONS WILL BE
WITHDRAW1ING RECOGNITION. OF THE SOVIET
OCCUPTATION OF THE BALTIC STATES.
WE DO NOT BELIEVEYF THAT A CLEAR ACT OF AGGRESSION
AAINST SOVEREIGN AND IN EPENDlENT STATES SHOLa
BE LEGITIMISPD BY FORMALRECOGNITION
THE LABOR PARTY'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE . BALTIC
STATES HAS BFEEN PART OF A MORE GENERAL ATTITUDE
IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS, MR WHITLAM,
HAS BEEN MASQUERADING AS THE DEFENDER OF
DEMOCRACY
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BUT WHENl PARLIAMENT SAID HE HAD TO CALL
AN ELECTION HE SAID HE WOULD GOVERNrl
WITHOUT PARLIAMENT. FIRST SIGNIFICANT
STEP O1 ROAD-TO DICTATORSHIP
HE WAS PREPARED. TO DAMAGE. AUSTRALIA
RATHER THAN FACE THE PEOPLEHE
FORCED THE GOVERNOR GENERALTO DISMISS
HIM HE IS NOW POSING AS THE GREAT DEMOCRAT
ALL AP\ OU; ID THE 14ORLD PEOPLE LIVING IIDER
DICTATORII GO\ IR NFTS LO, G FOR T-IE FREE
ELECTIONS WE TAKE FOR GUITED
II ITS RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES LABOR HAS
CRITICISED DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES
HARDLY EVER CRITICISES COMMUNIST. COUNTRIES
POLITICAL RESTRICTIONS ON ANTI-COMMUNIST MIGRANTS 0
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LABOR HAS LET AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCES RUN DOWN
WORLD MORE UNSTABLE UNREALISTIC
WE WILL STRENGTHEN RELATIONS WITH COUNTRIES
WHOSE PHILOSOPHY IS SIMILAR TO OURS
WE WILL RESTORE AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCES
MUST BE MORE SELF RELIANT
I* WHO ARE-THE PEOPLE WHO; ARE APPEARING ON THE SAMEIPLATFORMS
AS THE LABOR PARTY THESE DAYS?
YOU ALL KNOW THAT MANY OF THE PEOPLE
WHO SUPPORT HIM ARE DEDICATED TO THE
' DESTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY,
RSE MEMBER THE DAYS WHEN THEY TRIED TO
HIDE THE UNITY TICKETS
NOW THE LABOR PARTY LEADERS ARE PARADING
WITH COMMUNIST LEADERS ON PUBLIC PLATFORMS.
AT LEAST NOW THEY HAVE THE COURAGE OF THEIR CONVICTIOTQS
LABOR HAS UIDERMINED PARLIArMFNTARY DEMOCRACY
AT HOME CONDEMNED DEMOCRATIC ALLIES AND IS
DESTROYING PEOPLES FREEDOM AND OPPORTTl1ITY
TO WORK
ON DECEMBER 14TH, WE WILL BEGIN A CAREFULLY
THOUGHT OUT STRATEGY TO GIVE AUSTRALIA FREEDOM,
PROSPERITY AND JOBS FOR ALL.
WE WILL BEGIN TO HELP ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT LABOR
HAS HARMED.
' WE WILL PUT
PROSPERITY. THE ECONOMY ON THE ROAD TO GROWTH AND
A NEW DEAL FOR MIGRANTS
BEG-IN PERSONAL TAX INDEXATION REFORMS
COMPANY TAX INDEX.
WE WILL ENCOURAGE INITIATIVE
WE WIILL REWARD ACHI'EVMFN1
ON DECEMBER 13TH, WE 1111 TURf ON THE LIGHTS..,
IN THTS WAY WE CAN WORK OUR WAY OUT OF OUR PROBLEMS
AUISTRALIA WI1 I COME OUT OF THE DARKNESS OF
THE LAST THREE YEARS I
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