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FOR PRESS 23 MAY 1978
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT
The Prime Minister will leave Australia in early June for a
visit to New York, London, Paris and Bonn.
While in New York he will'address the United Nations Special
Session on Disarmament.
This will be the first major conference held on disarmament in
years and will provide an opportunity to express the views
of Australia about the urgent need to concentrate the world's
resources on economic and social progress rather than on
building of armaments.

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OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
CANBERRA
FOR PRESS 22 May 1978
Joint Statement by the Prime Minister and the Victorian Premier
NORTH-WEST ONE-STOP WELFARE ( NOW) CENTRE COBURG
The Prime Minister and the Victorian Premier have announced
that the NOW Centre, an experimental welfare centre established
by the Royal Co: Lission on Australian Government Administration,
will continue for a further period till June 1979. In addition,
the Centre will expand its present space to include a ground

PRIME MAINISTE
FOPR PRESS 21 MAY 1978
ELECTORATE TALK
Last Friday, Australia paid tribute to Sir Robert Menzies.
Messages had come from many countries. His Royal Highness,
Prince Charles, represeted The Queen. Men and women flew
in from the United Kingdom, the United States, countries
of Asia, from New Zealand, from all parts of the Pacific,
from all parts of Australia to pay tribute to a man who had
served this country for a life time.
The service was simple. It emphasised Sir Robert Menzies'

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS 17 MAY 1978
ASSISTANCE TO CATTLE PRODUCERS
AFFECTED BY BLUETONGUE VIRUS
The Prime Minister has written to the State Premiers seeking
their agreement to sharing the cost of a number of measures
to assist cattle producers financially affected by bluetongue
control measures. The Minister for the Northern Territory has
written to the Majority Leader of the Legislative Assembly
extending a similar cost-sharing proposal to operate from
1 July 1978. Assistance costs in the Northern Territory in

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS 17 MAY 1978
ASSISTANCE TO WESTERN AUSTRALIAN AND
TASMANIAN APPLE GROWERS
The Prime Minister today announced the willingness of the
Commonwealth to join with the States of Western Australia
and Tasmania in examining joint dollar for dollar funding
of special assistance to apple growers affected by Cyclone
Alby in Western Australia and by frost and hail in Tasmania.
Mr Fraser pointed out that assistance of this type was not
normally provided under the natural disaster assistance

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS 16 MAY 1978
A. I. M. M. CONFERENCE, CANBERRA
I was delighted to be invited to be patron of this joint
conference, but the challenging task you have set yourselves,
and your speakers' depth of expertise, deny anyone, even the
patron, the opportunity to be patronising.
Australia's history has been inextricably linked with the
fortunes of our great mining industry. That link will remain.
Just as the gold rushes of the last century, and the discoveries

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS 16 MAY 1978
LOAN COUNCIL ARRANGEMENTS. FOR INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING
The Prime Minister announced today that he had again written to
State Premiers on the adoption by the Australian Loan Council
of guidelines for the Council's consideration of proposals for
special additions to the semi-government borrowing programme and
for overseas borrowings by statutory authorities.
Mr Fraser said in earlier statements on this subject on
Margch and 26 March he indicated the Commonwealth's willingness

FOR PRESS 16 MAY 1978
TELEGRAM TO DANE P-ATT NEJ NZIES
My Cabinet colleagues join with me in expressing our
deepest sympathies to you and your family at this sad time.
We all remember well the leadership and example of Sir Robert.
He was a prime exemplar of the practice and principles of
Cabinet Government. Above all, we all remember his
friendship, and his passing has touched each one of us in many
different ways.
On behalf of my colleagues, many of whom served with Sir Robert,
I express our deepest sympathies. ( Malcolm Fraser)

FOR PRESS 15 May 1978
SIR ROBERT MENZIES
It is with the deepest regret that I record tonight the
death of Sir Robert Menzies.
All Australians will mourn his passing.
Sir Robert leaves an enduring mark on Australian history.
His time as Prime Minister, from 1949-1966, was a time of
stability and growth.
He was the founder of the Liberal Party. He gave his Party
and his country strength and inspiration.
I valued greatly his counsel and support, and his friendship.
Like all other Australians I held Sir Robert in great respect
and affection.

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PRIME MINISTER.
FOR PRESS 14 MAY 1978
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH CODE FOR
COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
The Government has decided to implement the Code of General
Principles on Safety and Health designed to protect
Commonwealth employees from injury through work accidents
and to promote maximum occupational health.
This decision will give a lead to industry and commerce in
cutting down the one million man weeks now lost to Australia
every year through industrial accidents and injuries.