-FOR PEDIA WEDNESDAY, 10 MARCH 1982
SPEECH AT OPENING OF VICTORIAN ELECTION CA. PAIGN
This is a great night. We all like to be associated with
success, and I can feel success around me tonight. This is
going to be a great Liberal election campaign. A campaign
which will bring victory to the Liberal Party and continued
good government to this great State.
We all know that campaigns can be a mask for the reality which
lies behLind. They can conceal the real political intent
with screen that is all gloss, all facade. How many

FOR MEDIA WEDNESDAY, 10 MARCH 1982
AUSTRALIAN GREEK PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS
I have announced today the introduction of a program of
Australian Greek Presidential Awards in honour of the visit
of President Karamanlis.
The awards reflect the special links which Australia has
with Greece through our large Greek community, and will
help to naintain and strengthen them.
Awards will be granted each year to eight young Australians
to allow them to study or gain practical experience in Greece.
The awards will cover a wide range of activities that will

FOR MEDIA TUESDAY, 9-MARCH 1982
SPEECH TO THE PARLIAMENT
ON THE STATE OF THE NATION
Today, Mr Speaker, I would like the House to step back from the
cut and thrust of everyday political life to consider the
direction in which we wish to move as a nation in the next few
years. This Parliament has a profound responsibility to keep
abreast of the whole range of issues facing Australia. We
need to understand Australia's position in a broad perspective
as well as in detail, in the light of international as well

AS DELIVERED
PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA MONDAY, 8 MARCH 1982
LOWE CAMPAIGN DINNER
It is certainly a very pleasant thing to come to Lowe to support
Phillip and Pat Taylor in this by-election because I suppose
there are candidates, but Phillip Taylor, if you were trying to
write out a copy-book candidate for Lowe, I think you would
have taken Phillip Taylor's specification and that would have been
it. I said a little earlier this afternoon that Phillip
Taylor, the electors of Lowe are going to be getting two for one,

EMBARGO: 5: 00 pm
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY 7 MARCH, 1982
ELECTORATE TALK
Australia has long been concerned at the almost total exclusion
of our farm products from European markets markets which
were once ma-ior ones for our produce. We are equally disturbed
by the fact that European countries have also been exporting
increasing volumes of heavily subsidised agricultural produce
to third markets, in many cases markets which Australian
exporters have fought hard to build up after their virtual
exclusion from Europe.

FOR MEDIA WEDNESDAY, 3 MARCH,' 1982
VISIT OF PRESIDENT KARAMANLIS OF GREECE
The President of -the Hellenic Republic, His Excellency
Mr Constantine Karamanlis, will be making a State Visit to
Australia from Tuesday 9 to Sunday 14 March 1982.
The visit will be the first to Australia by a Greek
Head of State.
The President's program will include a number of public events
in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne which will provide an
opportunity for the many thousands of people of Greek descent
living in Australia to welcome him.

EMBARGO: 5: 0Q0 PM F
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY,_ FEBRUARY 28 1982
ELECTORATE TALK
Last ThursdaLy, Defence Minister Jim Killen announced the
Government's decision to acquire H. M. S. Invincible from the
United Kingdom. This follows his announcement last October
that Australia would acquire 75 FA18 aircraft from the
United States as our new tactical fighter force.
These are two of the most recent decisions in achieving the
Government's; programme to develop our defence force and to
enhance our overall defence capabilities. The Government's

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AS DELIVERED
FOR MEDIA FRIDAY' ' 26' FEBRUARY, 1,982
OPENING OF THE DELEGATION OF THE
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
It certainly is a memorable occasion to be here at the opening
of this part icular office. We regard it as an important event
in relations between the European Community and Australia.
I and my colleagues are honoured to participate in it. It is
a landmark in Australian-Community relations, and in one sense
I suppose it has indirectly flown from original discussions with

! EM~ BARGO: 9,40 PM
FOR MEDIA FRIDAY, 26 FEBRUARY J982
SPEECH AT THE DINNER OF THE ASSOCIAZIONE LIBERAJE ITALIANA
Through a s-oirit of free enterprise, Australia has developed
into one of the world's strongest and most dynamic economies.
With a population of just over 8 million in 1949, which has now
S grown to 15 million, we have developed into a vibrant,
concerned and diverse society marked by freedom and widespread
opportunity. over this period living standards have doubled and our whole
way of life has been uplifted. Now as always, Victoria

FOR MEDIA JOINT STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
AND THE PREMIER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The Commonwealth Government is to make a gift of
$ 2 million to South Australia as a contribution to the
State's Sesquicentennial celebrations in 1986.
The grant follows discussions between the Prime Minister
and the Premier. It is in line with the Commonwealth
Government's firm support for the Sesquicentennial
celebrations in Western Australia which were celebrated in
1979 and those in Victoria which are to be celebrated
in 1984-85