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PRIME MINISTER
E & O0E -PROOFONLY
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OPENING OF ALLAN GRIFFITHS! ELECTORATE
OFFICE, MELBOURNE, 12 APRIL 1984
t Finally I simply want to say this to you o
that there will be an election I believe either in December
to March, end of this year, early next year. I've made that
quite clear, I've made it quite clear that we will do that.
because it's going to be best for this country to combine
an election of the House of Representatives with the half
Senate election which must be held by May of next year.
People don't want to have an election now and then another
election in twelve months'. time. If we do that that will
be the 23rd time in the history of this country that you've
had the House of Representatives and the half-Senate together.
And my point to you is and I'd make also a further point that
when that election is held it will be held in conjunction with
a referendum which we'll put to the people of Australia
asking them to endorse the conept of simultaneous elections
so that never again will conservative governments be able
to put elections our of kilter in the way which they've so
consistently have in the past and get down to a regularity
of an election.