PRIME MINISTER MONDAY, 23 MARCH, 1981
From the Press Office
SUMMARY OF ABC's
An emergency meeting will soon be underway in Poland in anotherbid
to resolve the hardening of attitudes between the Government
and Solidarity, the free trade union movement. Report from
Mark Colvin in Warsaw.
The Chairman of Elder Smith Goldsborough Morts, Sir Norman Young,
has reacted angrily to today's decision by. the South Australian
Government not to interfere in the takeover bid for the company
by Mr. Robert Holmes alCourt's West Australian based Bell group

PRIME MINISTER MONDAY, 23 MARCH 1981
From the Press Office SUMMARY OF ABC'S " NEWSV0YCE"
Poland's Free Trade Union leaders will be meeting in a few
hours time to discuss the latest moves in their threatened*
national strike. Talks with the Government have broken down
and the union will meet to discuss the issue. Report from.
Mark Colvin.
The National Executive of the Australian Labor Party has been
meeting all day in Canberra in a bid to solve the Party's
internal problems in Queensland. The Exectuive is expected

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MONDAY, 23 MARCH, 1981
Prince Charles'I Wedding
The Deputy Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. J. D.
Anthony, MP will represent the Australian Government at
the Privy Council Meeting being held in London on 27 March
1981. This meeting of the Privy Council will be the
meeting at which The Queen will signify her consent to the
marriage of The Prince of Wales to the Lady Diana Spencer.
All countries of which The Queen is Sovereign are
being invited to send a Privy Counsellor to-attend.

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ELECTORATE TALK
I want to talk tonight about the threats currently posed to
economic recovery by excessive wage increases and the 35 hour
week campaign.
A surge in labour costs at this time will place Australia's
economic recovpry at risk. We must take steps now to prevtnt
such a surge from occurring. Several major signs of recovery
are now plain to see. Prices are not rising so rapidly,
inflation is down at around 9% last year. The amounts spent

PRESS OFFICE TRAN4SCRIPT WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 1931
BUSINESSMEN'S BREAKFAST, BRISBANE, ADDRESS AS DELIVERED.
on a regular basis, but that will probably be. once a
year for Federal Cabinet meetings in Brisbane. I certainly
find them valuable... inaudible.., and meet in a more informal1
way than is generally the case if we are coming to Queensland
for a particular function, and then going out again.
I welcome very much the opportunities that have been
available. I said yesterday at this kind of function, two, three

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VISIT BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS,
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH
His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, will visit
Melbourne : rom Wednesday, 25 March to 28 March, 1981.
The visit r. flects the wide-ranging interests of the Duke
of Edinb-rgh and is primarily to enable His Royal Highness
in his xr:: v as President of the Central Council of
Physic re.. reatoi: of Great Britain to open and attend the
inauc-. re.' eting z--e International Assembly of National
Spor-ad: r ratiLs. His Royal Highness will also attend

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TUESDAY, MARCH 17 1.981'
PRE. MIERS
I would .1i e to clarify certain pres3 reports this morning.
The Premr-iersl Conference on 15 April will not be
discus. inc7 t-he relative shares of Corm. noaalth revenue
that go to the_ Sta# tes.
A special cliv"-Sion Of the Comonweal-th Grants Cornission
was s*,-bbhiyl = I> egdI slation in Ju ne 1978 to ex: amine the
relati v-z pror. ions o] E the Commonwealth revenuaes that should
b e P d to e h Stae
The tprcpor cman of payme-nYts from the Cc Ir-. omqealthi

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PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT MONDAY, MARCH 16 1981
PRESS CONFERENCE. THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE PREMIER
FOR QUEENSLAND ( BRISBANE)
Premier: just an interesting discussion, exchanging views on
quite a different number of subjects.
Question: Which particular subjects?
Premier: Well, no end of subjects. We talked about our hospitals,
State/ Commonwealth relationships and problems there
We have given a clear indication of our views which I
am sure will be taken into account. On irrigation matters

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MINISTPER FOR HOM4E AFFAIRS P4D LtZVIPNPOET
His Lcellency the Covernor-Ceneral ) as authorised me to
announce that Mr Ian wilson will be sworn later this week
as Minister for hone Affairs and Environment,
Mr Alan Cadman will replace VrS Wilson as ny Parliamsntary
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I--aft-delighted to jolflou n T tonight%, and I hope t-b
be here several. times through the year.
week, our Fo-r-n -A. ffair. 6 I'nistiat TionY Street,
fin~ alised a new and i r. p ortant a'grea znt with the United statea.
This agre-zmnt allorws ij; hited Staites B-52 ai.-craf t to put down--
at n while doirq surveillance and navigat. ion flight-3
over :-ndian Ocean ana-Qiieensland.
aiz t comre Cron Guiam, a United S tates bass in the Pacific,___
about3~ O kilov e-tresfrm awp.