AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY - INTERIM COUNCIL
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PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT NO. 459
4 March 1975
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY INTERIM COUNCIL
The Prime Minister, Mr. Whit lam, announced today
that Mr. Fred Williams, of Melbourne, had accepted an
invitation to become a member of the Interim Council of
the Australian National Gallery.
Mr. Williams is well-known as an Australian
painter and graphic artist, and was a member of the former
Australian National Gallery acquisitions committee.
The Interim Council is responsible for all Gallery
affairs until the Gallery is established as a statutory
authority. It is expected that legislation to establish
the Gallery as a statutory authority will be introduced
during the current session of Parliament.
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