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FOR PRESS 10 July 1977
ASEAN POST-SUMMIT MEETING
The Prime Minister announced today that he had accepted
an invitation from the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk
Hussein Onn, to attend a meeting of the leaders of the five
ASEAN countries and the Prime Ministers of Australia,
New Zealand and Japan.
The meeting will be held in Kuala Lumpur following the
ASEAN Summit meeting on 4-5 August.
Mr Fraser said that he was looking forward to his discussions
with the other Heads of Government. He expected the talks

~ AUSTRALIA& July 1977
ELECTORATE TALK
This week, millions of Australians have received more cash in
their pay packets simply because of the Government's personal
income tax indexation policies. The amounts of extra " take-hone"
pay are significant.
For example, a taxpayer with a dependent spouse earning a weekly
wage of $ 200 which is about the level of average weekly
earnings will have his weekly take-home pay boosted by
$ 3.45. This represents an annual benefit of $ 187.50.

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lj) AUSI* Rt ALIA~ g
FOR PRESS 9 JULY 1977
ADDRESS TO W. A. LIBERAL COUNCIL PERTH
It is very good to be in Perth again and a great pleasure to
address this Council.
You have all undoubtedly had a very interesting week watching the
A. L. P. Conference go through its routines. Bob Hawke, having
been unable to get a safe Labor seat, announced that if he
was not given leadership of the Labor Parliamentary Party, he
would not go into Parliament. It seems that even two hats

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FOR PRESS 8 JULY 1977
STEEL EXPORTS TO THE E. E. C.
The Prime Minister was asked today to comment on the decision
by the Commissioners of the European Economic Community to
withdraw their request to Australia to impose a voluntary
cut in Australian steel exports to Common Market countries.
In response to these requests he said:
" I welcome the decision by the Common Market
Commissioners not to press their formal request
for restraint on Australia's steel exports.
This will be very important for the maintenance

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS .4 JULY. 1977
PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS AT THElI9th AUSTRALIAN LEGAL CONVENTION
S Y D N E Y
It is a great pleasure to attend the official opening of this,
the 19th AustraliansLegal Convention.
This morning I wish to say a few words about what I believe to be
the unprecedented programme of law reform which is now being
pursued by the Commonwealth Government.
In the last 18 months, there have been: a restructuring of the

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PRIME. MINISTER'S ADDRESS TO THE. NATION : 3 JULY .19.77
It was good to return to Australia last Tuesday after discussions
in the United Kingdom, Europe and in the United States. I would
like to take a few moments to touch on three aspects: the
Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in London, relations
between the United States and Australia, relations between the
European Economic Community and * Australia, and their importance
to Us.

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3AUSTRALIA
FOR PRESS 1 JULY 1977
PREMIERS' CONFERENCE/ LOAN COUNCIL MEETING 1 JULY 1977
Today's Premiers' Conference had before it a long agenda,
including some complex matters relating to the details of the
new tax sharing arrangements.
Under tax sharing, the states and local government authorities
already have access to, and a guaranteed share of, income tax
revenues. In the next stage the states will be able to increase
or decrease their shares of those revenues by increasing or

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FOR PRESS 30 JUNE 1977
COMMONWEALTH OMBUDSMAN COMMENCEMENT OF
OPERATIONS
On 17 March 1977 I announced the appointment of Professor J. E.
Richardson, Robert Garran Professor of Law at the Australian
National University, to the position of Commonwealth Ombudsman.
I am pleased to announce that Professor Richardson will take up
his appointment on 1 July 1977 for a period of seven years.
He will be supported by two Deputy Commonwealth Ombudsman who
are expected to be appointed shortly.

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PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE AT SYDNEY AIRPOnT
28 JUNE 1977
PRIME MINISTER
some of the more important parts of the visit as I see it.
The visit started with the rather lengthy Commonwealth Heads
of Government meeting and that did provide a very useful opportunity
to get to know and to meet at first hand a number of leaders in the
Commonwealth whom I otherwise would not have had an opportunity to
see. But two or three things came out of that meeting and there
was as you know the outright condemnation of Uganda overwhelmingly