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FOR MEDIA 2 APRIL 1979
AUSTRALIAN MINING INDUSTRY COUNCIL
It is a great pleasure to bc addressing the Australian Mining
Industry Council tonight. As you know there is a national strike
of certain transport workers. It is having a serious effect
on Australian industry. The irresponsibility of the Transport
Workers' Union leadership which is prepared to cut off
essential food supplies to the cities knows no bounds. As
a result of their action the Department of Industrial Relations

J^ U; THAILA.^ MNISTER
FOR PRESS 1 April 1979
US ARTICLE ON HYDROGEN BOMB
To-day's edition of the Sunday Observer . states that
" Classified information on how to make a hydrogen bomb has been
circulating in ' Melbourne". It also reports that " the information,
in the form of a 40 page article, including diagrams; wa:
deposited in a Melbourne bank vault after it was given to the
Sunday Observer". The Sunday Observer acted responsibly and c. elivered
that newspaper's copy of the article to the Government.

-Ij A8TI. 1ALI
PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS 1 APRIL 1979
ELECTORATE TALK
All Australians will welcome the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli
peace treaty. President Carter, Prime Minister Begin and
President Sadat have begun a significant new chapter in the
saga of the Middle East. For the Israeli people that saga
has spanned thousands of years with their exile to Babylon.
For the Egyptian people the signing of the treaty marks
the end of thirty years of hostility with a neighbour,
punctuated by fierce wars in the Sinai Desert. For America,

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PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT 30 MARCH 1979
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD COLVILLE " SUNDAY REPORT"
Question: Prime Minister, on the Postal Workers' dispute, a lot of people
have called your action during this dispute as highly provocative.
Why did you find it necessary to do what you did?
Prime Minister:
Well, I didn't think that the action was provocative for one
moment, and when you say a lot of people, it might be just one
or two union people who have done that. But the government has
taken as a general policy line the view that if people are not

J PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT 30 MRCH 1979
PRIME MINISTER: TALK-BACK, RADIO STATION 2KA, PENRITH, NSIV
Question: It's my pleasure to welcome to the studio the Prime Minister of
Australia, Mr. Malcolm Fraser. Mr. Fraser, we would like to thank
you for particularly making yourself accessible to the people
of the Western suburbs and the Blue Mountains in an open-line
situation. Prime Minister:
I'm very happy to be here, thank you.
Quetion:
We probably both agree, actually, that these same people know

FOR PRESS 30 March 1979
OPENING OF FERGUSON LODGE
I am honoured to have been asked to share with you today your
justifiable pride in the completion of this fine complex.
The buildings stand as a tribute to the inspiration of the late
Jack Ferguson, and I'm sure that all of us wish that he could be
with us today ~ for it has been the leadership and dedicated service
of people like Mr Ferguson who have revolutionised the care of
the handicapped in Australia.
Both the Commonwealth and State governments have contributed to

PRIME MINSTER
FOR PRESS 29 MARCH 1979
ASTEC STATEMENT
In making this statement, I should, at the outset, remind
Honourable Members that an advisory committee on Science and
Technology was set up in 1972 when I was the Minister
responsible for Education and Science.
This action was taken by the Coalition Government in the
light of experience and developments overseas. It followed
discussions with leading industrialists, the Australian
Academy of Science and senior Government scientists.
The Committee was disbanded by the Labor Government in

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS 27MRH 9
PARLIAMENTARY LUNCHEON FOR HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE OF WALES
This is a special occasion for us all, because it is a
pleasure and privilege to have you, Sir, as our guest
today in Parliament House.
We welcome you most warmly, for you come, not only as the
young and greatly respected Prince of Wales, but also as an
old friend of many Australians inside and outside this place.
Moreover, on this, your seventh visit to Australia in 13 years,
you've made many new friends some of whom, if our newspaper

PRIME~ MINISTER; 2
FOR PRESS 26 MARCH 1979
SILVER JUBILEE
OF
AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
It is a great pleasure to be with you today, the occasion of
the Silver Jubilee of the Australian Academy of Science.
The Jubilee comes at a critical time. The world is in the
midst of a scientific revolution, a revolution which is
changing the organisation of society as profoundly as the
industrial revolution changed the world which preceded it.
The pessimists see science and technology as juggernauts out

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,1j,, AUST1A/.-
PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS 25 MARCH 1979
GREEK NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY
I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to
speak on Greek National Independence Day, on the 158th anniversary
of the beginning of the Greek war of independence against the
Ottoman Empire.
The indomitable spirit that motivated the Greeks to throw off the.
foreign yoke after centuries of subjugation has been admired by
all those who believe in man's unbreakable commitment to freedom,