I PRIME MINISTER 0.*
FOR MEDIA 9 July 1981
UNEMPLOYMlENT FIGURES
The preliminary estimates for unemployment during
June, released today, are welcome evidence of continuing strong
improvement in the employment situation.
Taken with the results of the May labour force survey,
released yesterday, they demonstrate a marked strengthening of the
labor market, in line with economic activity.
The Government can take a degree of satisfaction in
achieving a sustained turnaround in employment in this country

FOR MEDIA WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 1981
ROYAL WEDDING GIFT
( Statement by Acting Prime Minister, Mr Anthony)
Australia's wedding gift to Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
will be twenty hand-crafted silver platters.
The platters were designed by Mr Hendrik'Forster of Melbourne
and made by him from Australian silver.
They will be presented to Prince Charles and Lady Diana in
a french-polished box hand-made from Australian blackwood.
The gift was commissioned by the Government after ideas
were obtained from leading Australian craftsmen, including

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J!,_ AUSTRAI4
PRIME MINISTER
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1981
SPEECH TO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINACOLUMBIA
You have asked me here today as the Prime Minister of Australia.
Had I the time and you the patience, there are many aspects of
my country that I could enlarge upon: Australia's role as a
significant, independent-minded middle power; Australia as a
leading member of what people are starting to think of as the
Pacific coammunity, a region which contains the most rapidly
growing economies in the world; Australia as an ally of the

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA TUESDAY , JUNE 30 l1981
JOINT' STATEMENT BY THE ACTING PRIME MINISTER
AND THE PREMIERS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, VICTORIA
AND QUEENSLAND
The Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victorian and Queensland
Governments have established a judicial inquiry into the
possible drug trafficking and related activities of
Terrence John Clark and other persons associated with him.
It will be headed by His Honour, Mr Justice Donald Gerard Stewart
of New South Wales Supreme Court, who has been requested to

PRIM MNSTER
FOR MEDIA TtESDA133 JUNfE 190.-
SIR RUSSELL DRYSDALE
( Statement by the Acting Prime Minister)
I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of
Sir Russell Drysdale.
He was the first person to celebrate our vast Outback.
He found beauty even in a drought-stricken landscape.
Before Sir Russell, not many of us were awareof
the Outback its beauty and its character -* from the drover's~
wife to the aboriginal stockman, and to those fellows who tell
yarns in country pubs.
The sun-burnt colour that Drysdale found in our

FOR MEDIA TUESDAY, 30 JUNE 1981
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE ACTING PRIME MINISTER AND
THE VICTORIAN PREMIER
The Commonwealth and Victorian Governments have
extended the reporting date for the Royal Commission
inquiring into the Activities of the Federated Ship
Painters and Dockers Union to 31 December 1982.
RoTyhael Commrssion, headed by Mr F X Costigan, QC,
was originally asked to report on or before 30 September
1981 or such later date as may be fixed.
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THlE WH72? i, HOUSE
bOf fice of the Press Secretary
For Imm~ ediate Release ~ Ju~ e 30, 1982.
REMARKS BY
THE PRESIDENT AND
PRIME MINISTER FRASER
OF AUSTRALIA
AT ARRIVAL CEREMONY
The South Lawn
10: 11 A. M1EDT THE PRESIDENT: Prime Minister Fraser, th6 American
people welcome you to our country with a deep and a heartfelt
warmth reserved for only the best of friends. Nancy and I are
pleased to be able to welcome you and Mrs. Fraser as representatives
of a country with whom we are proud to be allied and the American

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PRIME MINISTER' S* REMARKS AFTER ARRIVAL CEREMONY AT THE
WHITE LOUSE, WASHINGTON
The discussions that we have had this morning, I regard as
being particularly useful and constructive. Quite clearly,
from the policies that have been implemented in the
United States under the President's charge, you would expect that
Australia would be in a fair measure of agreement on a number
of those policies. on the economic policies and the strengthening
of the dollar, and the strengthening economy of this country, we

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA WEDNESDAY, 24 JUNE, 1981
ADDRESS AT MEXICO BANQUET, MEXICO CITY
I thank you for your gracious welcome and I am delighted to..,
be visiting Mexico as Prime Minister of Australia.
More and more Australians are becoming aware of Mexico's
vibrant culture and dynamic growth. We know Mexico as a
significant country, characterised by independence of mind
and'-a determination to exercise its own judgment.
You are a non-aligned country, but you do not belong to the

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA WEDNESDAY, 24 JUNE 1981
DROUGHT AID NSW
The Prime Minister today announced the introduction by the
Commonwealth' of a new measure to assist drought-af fected
cereal producers in New South Wales.
Short term loans will be providedto cereal farmers to
enable them to sow crops.
These loans to farmers in necessitous circumstances as a result
of the drought have been included as a special measure ofassistance
for the duration of the current drought. They