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AUSTRL! A
FOR MEDIA WEDNESDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 1981
VISIT TO COMMONWEALTH GAMES
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will visit
Australia next year to attend the XII Commonwealth
Games being held in Brisbane.
It is expected that The Queen and The Prince Philip
will be closely associated with the Games' ceremonies
and a detailed program will be formulated over the
next few months.
The Government is delighted that Her Majesty and
His Royal Highness have accepted the invitation to

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PRMIME MINISTER"~ L
NV
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY, 1 NOVEMBER, 19&) j. 2. Y
ELECTORATE TALK
During the World Heritage Committee Meeting at the Sydney
Opera House last week, the Great Barrier Reef, the Kakadu National
Park in Arnhem Land, and the Willandra Lakes region in western
N. S. W. were inscribed on the World Heritage List. This list
is made up of natural sites and man-made properties which are
judged by the Committee, using the highest standards, to be of
outstanding universal value to the whole of mankind. The sites

28 October, 1981

The Prime Minister today welcomed the announcement that Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Michael of Kent would visit Australia to attend a Concert Spectacular at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday, 26 November, 1981.

The performance will be a major entertainment for handicapped children~ arranged by the Variety Club of Australia and the Apex Club as a finale to the International Year of the Disabled.

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 1981
OPENING OF THE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTE MEETINGIt
gives me great pleasure to welcome to Australia the
delegations from the 21 countries which makeup the World
Heritage Committee, and I also welcome the observors who are
attending from a number of other countries.
am advised that some 61 countries have now signed the
World Heritage Convention, and the fact that several countries
have joined in the last few weeks shows that there is growing

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY, 25 OCTOBER 1981
ELECTORATE TALK
A peacekeeping force in the Sinai is an essential part of the
Egypt/ Israel peace treaty. This treaty, which requires Israel.
to move out of the Sinai Peninsula completely by next April was
chieved after 30 years of unremitting bitterness and fighting
between the two countries. In view of the distrust-which 30 years
of enmity has inevitably bred, it is not surprising that the
two countries, at the time when they made the peace treaty,

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CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY
FO EI THURSDAY, 22 OCTOBER, 1981
STATEMENT TO THE PARLIAMENT ON THE SINAI PEACEKEEPING FORCE
I wish to announce today to Honourable Members the Australian
Government's decision on the question of-Australia's
par ticipation in the proposed Sinai peacekeeping force.
In doing so, I want to set that proposal against the background
of the hi's tory of the Middle East over the last thirty years,
f or it is only against that background that the importance of

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA TUESDAY, 20 OCTOBER, 1981
STATEMENT TO THE HOUSE: RIVER MURRAY WATERS AGREEMENT'
I am pleased to inform the House that the Commonwealth,
New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia have endorsed
a draft of a new River Murray Waters Agreement. This was the
outcome of a meeting'which the Minister for National Development
and Energy and I attended last Friday in Melbourne, together
. with the three respective Premiers and their Water Resources
Ministers. The Premiers and I have agreed that the draft new agreement

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TiHE~ JOHN LAWS SHOW, RADIO 2UY, SYDNEY
20th October 3081
INTERVIEW WITH THE PRIME MIINISTtR OF AUSTRALIA,
TBE RT. HON. MALCOLM FRASER, CHI, 14P.
Five or six years ago 1. believed that overseas countries
would -get. their own economies right. much quicker. I
believed that they'd get InIlation down, I believ'ed their
economics would start growing and that. world trade would
start growing and that that therefore wvould assist,
Australia because we are very much ' an export country.

19 OCTOBER 1983.

His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Silvia of Sweden are to make a State Visit to Australia during late March and early April 1982 at the invitation of the Governor-General.

His Majesty has visited Australia previously when, as Crown Prince, he was a cadet on the Swedish naval training ship Alzsnabben which visited Australia in early 1967.

The State Visit will be the first by a Swedish monarch to Australia.

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY, 18 OCTOBER 1981
ELECTORATE TALK
The River Murray is Australia's most important water resource,
and effective and appropriate management is vital to the future
of the Murray. Everyone agrees that the Murray must be
safeguarded against deterioration, but the different concerns of
those people and groups who have an interest in the Murray meanl
that a balance must be struck between a variety of con~ siderations.
The Commonwealth Government, together with the state government~ s