Fl. PRIME MINISTER]
FOR MEDIA MONDANY, OCTOBER 4 1982
COMONWLTn RECEPTION, BRTSBANg
I am very happy for all Australians to welcome all OLUr
guests to Australia. The Games have grown enormovsly since
they were first held in Australia, in Sydney, in 1938.
Then there were only 15 nations and I think 500 athletea
came across by ship. In Perth in 1962, there were 35 nations
and 1,000 athletes. Now there are 45 nations and ove-r 2,000
athletes.
The Ommnes have grow,. n a8 the Commonwealth has gr'own. The opening

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FOR MEDIA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 1982
ELECTORATE TALK
The significant tax cuts announced in the budget would not
have been possible had the Government not taken successful
action against contrived and artifical tax avoidance and
evasion schemes. Those tax cuts will be of very great benefit
to all Australians, and in particular, to families.
From 1 November, Australians will be able to earn $ 400
more before any taxation is levied, raising the tax free
threshold-to $ 4,595. In addition, the standard rate of

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NEWS BULLETINS
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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 1982
ADDRESS TO THE NATION
Nobody likes paying their taxes, but we all know that
governments have to provide services of a gi'-at many
kinds for education, health, roads z~ nd commnunications,
for the-general. well-being of the commnxr~ ity and it is
important that all people contribute !_ airly, in accordance
with their incomes, -to the goveranent revenues, needed to
provide them.

-x PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA MONDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 1982
GREENING OF AUS'I2RALIA, SYDNEY
For a long while the new settlers came to Austalia when they
found a good bit of land one of the first things they did was
to cut all the trees down or to ringbark them and seek to ieave
some open space. They had the view hich they thought wzac;
right then, but which ve now know is very misguided. They
thought cutting the trees down made the land more productive,
you could carry more sheep or carry more cattle or grow

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA MONDAY, 27 SEPTEM4BER 1982
ADDRESS TO THE CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURES, SYDNEY
I would like to thank you very much for asking me-to share
this evening with you. It is an important one. Manufacturing
industry is vastly important to the state of New South Wales
and to Australia. It provides a large part of our national
income and employs a very large number of people and it is going
through a fairly rugged time. I am well aware of that, but
I do not know how many of you here would like to swap with me the

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIAMONDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 1982
The Prime Minister has today received the following telegram
from the State President of the Tasmanian Division of the
Liberal Party, Mr Ian Chalk:
" At the meeting held on Saturday, 25 September
the State Executive of the Liberal Party ( Tasmanian
Division) fully supported the Federal Government
in their action over the current taxation issues
and encourages them to continue in a positive manner
in their efforts to recoup evaded taxes."
Ian Chalk
State President

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4ISTRLIA
PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA MONDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 1982
EXTRACT FROM PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS TO
NSW CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURES
Retrospective tax legislation is by no means new. As far
back as 1936 the British Parliament passed tax legislation
which operated on tax avoidance schemes entered into before
1936, and when that legislation was appealed in the Court
of Appeal, one of the highest courts in Britain, the senior
judge of that court made two very significant comments.
" For years a battle of maneouvre has been waged

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MED IA SUNDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 1982
MARIONETTETHEATRE, SYDNEY
I am very happy to be here with Tamie in support of this
appeal to raise as I understand about $ 700,000 for the
renovation of an old building next door the major part of which
is something considerably over 100 years old. Turning what
used to be a very bare and rudimentary sailors' home when it
was first constructed into a marionette theatre which will
serve this part of Sydney and Australia for a very long, long

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PREE MONISTER
FOR MEDIA SUN4DAY SEPTEMBER 26 1982
ELECTORATE TALK
The Government is determined to get rid of the cancer of
tax evasion, and blatant artificial and contrived tax
avoidance schemes.
Already the Treasurer, John Howard-, has done more to
eliminate tax avoidance and evasion schemes than any
Treasurer in the history of the Commonwealth. Some of
the rewards that honest tax payers are reaping fromr the
Government's unremitting campaign against tax evasion
are particularly evident in this year's budget. For the

POR MEDIA SUNDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 1982
ST BASIL'S DINNER, SYDNEY
It really is a very real honour for Tarnie and imyself to have
been asked to share with you this 25th anniversary of St Basil's
Homes for the aged. Those who conceived of the idea and through
the years who have worked for the homes made an enormous
contribution to the elderly and the frail aged within the
Greek community of AustrAlia and to Australia itself. I know
there had been government assistance from time to time
from the State and -prom. the Commonwealth, but what is really