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PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESSNOVEMBER 17, 1975
ADDRESS TO THE NATION
Since coming to office last week as Caretaker Government
we have been fully advised by-depar. tments on the state of the
Australian economy.
Jobs, prices, prosperity are matters that concern us all.
In fulfilling our pledge to provide Australia With'sound
management until the election, we have given special emphasis
to our duty to be informed on the economy.
During-the last week, certain facts have come to light which*
we have a responsibility to place before you.

7SPRIME
MYNISTER
AND MEMBER FOR WANNON, MR MALCOLM FRASER
FOR PRESS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1975
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1975
ELECTORAL TALK
Ladies and Gentlemen, since I last spoke to you, the Labor Party
* Leader, Mr Whitlam has been dismissed as Prime Minister by the
Governor General and I have been commissioned as Prime Minister.
This would not have happened if Mr Whitlam had been prepared to
accept the decision of Parliament. What the Opposition Parties wanted
were general elections, to enable the people of Australia to pass

MR FRASER ON ' 4 CORNERS' SATURDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 1975.
I QUESTION: Mr Fraser if Senator Milliner had been replaced by a
Whitlam supporter would you be Caretaker Prime Minister today?
MR FRASER: They would have had to then reject the Budget instead of
just deferring it. Having one more number than the Labor Party could
muster left us with an advantage because we could defer the Budget, and
the reason we took that choice was because I was fearful that if it
had been rejected Mr Whitlam would have left it rejected until after

PRIME MINISTER8
) 4 NoF-sr Lq7
The Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, today announced that,
following the passage of the Appropriation Bills, the Administrative
Arrangements Order had been amended to return responsibility for
the GoverrLment's activities in relation to the procurement,
purchase and disposal of goods from the Department of Manufacturing
Industry to the Department of Administrative Services.
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The Prime Minister indicated that these functions had been
temporarily transferred to the Department of Manufacturing

PRIME MINISTER 7
PRESS STATEMENTNOVEMBER 14, 1975
Mr Whitlam's assertion that I should have resigned on the
basis of Tuesdays No Confidence Motion is nonsense. The
present situation arose because for the first time in nearly
200 years a Prime Minister refused to resign when Parliament
cut off his money.
Mr Whitlam refused to seek an election and refused to give
the people of Australia the vote which was needed to resolve
the situation. If he had done this he would have faced the
electors as Prime Minister.

THE CARETAKER MINISTRY
STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
THE HONOURABLE MALCOLM FRASER, M. P.
ON 11 NOVEMBER 1975 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
I STATED THE TERMS ON WHICH HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL,
HAD INVITED ME TO FORM A CARETAKER GOVERNMENT " THAT IS ONE
THAT MAKES NO APPOINTMENTS OR DISMISSALS AND INITIATES NO
POLICIES UNTIL A GENERAL ELECTION IS HELD".
I SAID THAT I HAD GIVEN HIS EXCELLENCY THAT
ASSURANCE. I ALSO SAID THAT THERE WILL BE NO ROYAL COMMISSIONS
OR INQUIRIES INTO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE WHITLAM GOVERNMENT

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Current Affair.
Amp
1 2 November
Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser.
Q. Had you known beforehand, about how all of this was going to
turn out, would you perhaps have waited out the next 18 months.
Fraser. No. I would have acted as we did act. If we had waited out
an extra 18 months I think we might well have seen the circumstances
in which Australians would not again have had an opportunity for a
completely free election. We have seen a former government that has
been prepared to take unconstitutional and illegal means on a number

12 November 1975

The Prime Minister, the Hon. Malcolm Fraser M. P. announced today that the Governor-General had agreed that elections for both Houses of Parliament would be held on Saturday 13 December 1975. The Prime Minister also announced that the Governor-General had sworn-in a Ministry to carry on the affairs of Government, at a ceremony at Government House Canberra.

Rss NFE P. E v, C
HARVEY, CHANNEL NINE NETWORK
12Z Nove: rs-ee:
THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER, MR WHITLAM AND A NUMBER OF HIS
MINISTERS ARE SUGGESTING THAT BACK DOOR DEALS WVERE DONE
BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE GOVERNOR GENERAL AND OTHERS TO
BRING ABOUT THIS SITUATION
FRASER THIS IS ABSOLUTE NONSENSE. I UNDERSTAND ITS BEEN OFFICIALLY
DENIED BY GOVERNMENT HOUSE. I CERTAINLY DENY IT. THE
SITUATION HAS COME ABOUT BECAUSE MR WHITLAM HAS BEHAVED
AS NOBODY HAS FOR TWO OR THREE HUNDRED YEARS HAS BEHAVEDTRIED