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Transcripts from the Prime Ministers of Australia

Menzies, Robert

Period of Service: 19/12/1949 - 26/01/1966
Release Date:
17/05/1963
Release Type:
Speech
Transcript ID:
742
Document:
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  • Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon
OPENING FO THE KOREE SHOW THE RT. HON. THE PRIME MINISTER (SIR ROBERT MENZIES ) BY LANDLINE FORM HIS OFFICE IN PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA ON 17/5/1963

OMUUG OF THE MOiU 31104 a Tax~ ET. Hmo.
Till PRIM MIXI8T3 ( SIR ROAftT
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UOGSt CJish" Of 17/ 1963
Xr., Pfsidmnt and Lodie" and Gntlsnom and Parliasontaiy
I mst begs h saying that this In the frst tim
in my public Ut., whieh Is am a fairly Lsogtbi Ono that
I hae oer been 4do , d to ore a fosetiom I tw lsan
ever a landlIfte. am yos, ' a P1residmit I ZedIbI!
iaft= d hr IW frsMi Mr, U& s Alias, Koko oweei4 this
movol Idea and I ; Izasnrmed .4w to do what y have
aO6 It In SnAdod ew of the miracles of moderm ommuethat
I* sittlag as I an In my offis In Cabema * had
be a1ble to speak to Vean the spoit in Nmie and I haa e
bear&. gut st~ lls utso enti* elJ UP to the okilm
I certainly wish I seuld be with you but It I we
with you, I would comne beak later an end fin that the pile
of Vwk an or 60s Which is already to blh had boom
rather W 0r and so I Mst may smething to you ftm a
16mg distane SWO of sas rowr distriot is a le1* btod es.
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emomwe mwv ye am P" eis lee have yewr em
ambitims Los tfhw deo" emt * leo are doveted as I kam
to impwUM the qual1% * f itOm~ and to the ievTiOpmmM
of yo ame an tro Itg Atwlian pWdofttoR sul
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chaps and the most to -dm A" vlomeits is the ' eof
or o~ m ifttims This Is as It shold bet becaus. we can begin
aU e tbughs a this Problem br MnYing, " yell Agtwalia
cannot doeep " a she ab@ WA devolop U41446 she atva et people
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attract either people or gas us Less * ba, herself has a wipos
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an the st. LtTooO" a ezILim eVemq
Nw, it Is quite Uam that we hae had em very
happy 4ewl mato of recent es. In the sow of mntetuis
and I h~ ttct will tsom us that will ownsl ts to stand
en t" But it . si wwem asgly time and wll
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ma~ t enhavi a pst wime of primwy axpart msom Just
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as they always do, Sweat psobasims. They loquire two thwItg
thr re to oantimma to maooe Tbv require an expanding
nor" as the-PkWladW Vof thing that Ay 14lepW.~
Is nov dis isnmL md and in Geneva and they req~ ar a
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amet of attentiu tog and 20t Witmt mses, an" the " aot

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pfts Inplaye IA this onliveing of Interest In thee pu'oblems
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