STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER - JT LANG
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STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
J. T. LANG
J. T. Lang's great achievement was to create new
opportunities for the people of New South Wales and by
example for all Australians. His first Government, half
a century ago, pioneered new forms of social welfare for
Australia, notably compulsory workers' compensation and
child endowment. That Government laid the foundations of
modern Sydney as an integrated community from the north
to the west. It achieved electrification of the railways,
the underground, a harbour bridge and the new Parramatta
road. So in a very real sense he was the founder of
modern Sydney.
27 September, 1975
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