PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS OCTOBER 20, 1976
PARJIAMENTARY LUNCHEON FOR LEE KUAN YEW
In welcoming you to Australia we all recognise that we are
welcoming a most remarkable man. Through you, Singapore has
built for itself a position in the region and beyond which
larger states might well envy.
We in Australia are now undertaking the difficult task of
restoring a large and complex economy to prosperity. Your
success in controlling inflation stands as a remarkable example
of what can be done. Inflation in Singapore averaged 24%~ in

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FOR PRESS 19 OCTOBER 1976
FLOODING IN QUEANBEYAN AND THE A. C. T.
The Prime Minister announced this morning that the Commonwealth
would join in providing financial assistance for the
relief of immediate personal hardship and distress to
persons affected by the flooding.
It would also consider sympathetically any requests from
the New South Wales Government to assist on other agreed
relief and restoration measures.
" It is too early to know the extent of assistance that
would be required" I, Mr Fraser said.

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, jUSTRA IlAL
FOR PRESS SUNDAY OCTOBER 17.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 21
ELECTORAL TALK
The Federal Treasurer, Phillip Lynch, renewed the Government's
offer of a fair and reasonable partnership for foreign investors
when he addressed a conference in Sydney this week.
He was careful to emphasise that the Government's priority
remains domestic economic policy. There is good reason, he
reported to the conference in Sydney, for confidence in Australia's
economic prospects.

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FOR PRESS 15 October 1976
RE-APPOINTMENT OF SIR ALAN COOLEY, AS
CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD
Sir Alan Cooley, has been re-appointed as a member
and Chairman of the Public Service Board for a further
term of five years from 1 November 1976.
Sir Alan, whose experience in the Public Service dates from
1939, was appointed Chairman of the Public Service Board
in 1971 having previously been Secretary to the
Department of Supply. 000ooo000

TRANSCRIPT OF FARMERS FEDERATION OCTOBER 14,_ 1976
P. M. Inaudible If all sections of the commpnity could adopt an equivalent
attitude, I think we would work our way out of our difficulties
very quickly indeed.
The last few years and still the present, are obviously
difficult for rural industries. National prosperity can't
be built on a declining rural sector; on a rural sector that
is not adequately profitable. It can't be built if the
manufacturing industry isn't adequately profitable. All
industries and all Australians are basically independent.

FOR PRESS 13 OCTOBER, 1976.
IVOR GREENWOOD
Mr Speaker: It is with great sadness that I inform the House
that Ivor Greenwood, Senator for Victoria, died this morning.
Ivor Greenwood's death is a tragedy that has made a heavy impact
on all Members of this Parliament. Ivor Greenwood was a man of
very great ability, at the height of his powers, with a major
contribution to make to his country.
I know that I speak for all Members of this House when I express
our deepest sympat'-hy to his family to his wife and children.

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FOR PRESS SAT. 9 OCTOBER 1.976
ADDRESS AT THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE HOUSE OF THE
PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVES OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
I am delighted to be here in Indonesia, at the invitation of
President Soeharto, during my first year of office as
Prime Minister of Australia.
I am grateful for the honour you have extended to me, and
through me to the Australian Government and peop. e, by your
invitation to address you th-is morning. I am especially
grateful as I believe that you have opened your present

FOR PRESS FRI. 8 OCTOBER 1.976
ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF THE P. T. JAMES HARDIE ASBESTOS,
INDONESIA
The factory which the President is opening today, P. T. James
Hardie Indonesia,, is Australia's largest joint venture
investment to date in Indonesia.
Though Australia had not traditinlybeasgifct
axporter of private investment capital, Australian companies
have, in recent years, shown. a keen interest in
participating in projects in neighbouring countries.
Indonesia, in particular, has been a focus for Australian

FOR PRESS FRI 8 OCTOBER 1976
ADDRESS AT THE STATE BANQUET GIVEN BY THE PRESIDENT OF
THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
It is an honour for me to visit Indonesia as a guest of
the Indonesian Government and people, at your personal
invitation. In your recent speech to the House of People's Representatives,
on Independence Day this year, you spoke of your deep concern
that Indonesia build up the production of its farms and
factories, you spoke also of the visible signs of achievement.
The new Palapa satellite system for domestic communication

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FOR PRESS 6 OCTOBER 1.976
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY: DONATION BY THE
SIR WILLIAM DOBELL ART FOUNDATION
Trustees of the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation have
donated the entire $ 250,000 collection of Dobell sketchbooks
to the Australian National Gallery at Canberra.
The 24 sketchbooks cover the late Sir William Dobell's
artistic career from his student days through an early
period in London and his New Guinea period to the
year before his death, 1970. Many of his drawings will