PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESSJA27_: RY 30, 1976
THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION
The Government is
Japan Foundation. to proceed with legislation to establish an Australia-
This will be done in the Auturmn session of Parliament.
The objectives of the Foundation will be to deepen and broadn contzats
between Australia and Japan in all fields, including business, academic,
cultural, scientific and the trade unions -nd threby foster an understanding
in each country of the others problems and cultures.
It will promote mutual visits by selected persons research and
comparative studies in the social institutions of the t-o contries, the
social and natural sciences, industrial and creative arts and the humanities.
Those receiving assistance will be competent persons who arz already making
a contribution to their own sphere of activity.
The establishment of the Foun dation will fulfil one of the objectives set
out in the Government's foreign policy statement of 6 October 1935. iii.
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THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION
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