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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA AUGUST 17 1980
ELECTORATE TALK
Local governments and local authorities throughout Australia
know now that they will benefit this year from a substantial
increase in Commonwealth funds. The Commonwealth's
undertaking to raise the proportion of personal income tax
collected going to local government to 2% has now
been fully implemented. As a result, the current allocation
for 1980/ 81 has gone up by more than 35% to more than
$ 300 million.
At least 30% of these funds are to be distributed to all

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FOR MEDIA SATURDAY AUGUST 16 1980
ADDRESS TO TASM4ANIAN STATE COUNCIL OF THE
LIBERAL PARTY, DEVONPORT
I welcome the chance to be with you again on this. important
occasion and in this important year. I sense that the spirit
at work here today is one of genuine pride Tasmanian pride
in the-productive partnership that has developed between the
Commonwealth Government and Tasmanians, and pride as Liberals
in what L1iiberalism has achieved for all Australians in the
last five years. And isn't that pride justi. ed?

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MED IA WEDNESDAY, 13 AUGUST, 1980
OPENING OF EUROBODALLA SHIRE COUNCIL,
NEW HEADQUARTERS, MORUYA, N. S. W.
Thank you for the invitation to be with you on this
important occasion. And thank you also, for your warm and
generous welcome.
I am told it is more than a generation since you were
visite-d by a Prime Minister, and I an certainly pleased to
renew the association. You need no telling that this is a

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA A S 12; 8 0
SPECIAL GRANT FOR QUEENSLAND.
Subject to the passage of the necessary legislation, Queensland
will receive a special grant of $ 6.7 million in 1980-81.
The grant is a general purpose payment and is in addition
to the State's tax sharing entitlement.
The special grant for Queensland in 1980-81 was recommended
by the Commonwealth Grants Commission and represents a . completion.
grant in respect of 1978-79. Although Queensland has applied

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY, 10 AUGUST, 1980
ELECTORATE TALK
Both the world economy and the Australian economy have been
through a difficult period since the first energy crisis in
the early ' 70s. All of the Western industrialised countries
felt these pressures. But the response in Australia by the
Whitlam Government was in itself a transparent crisis of
management and policy because in many ways Australia had
been in a more fortunate position than other countries.
Our natural resources, our great endowment of energy, our

4~ UTALIA
FOR MEDIA FRIDAY AUGUST 8 1980
ABORIGINES.-ADVANCEMENT LEAGUE
( VICTORIA) APPEALLI _ RC' 4
The Commonwealth Government will be contributing
to an appeal by the Aborigines Advancement League ( Victoria)
to provide funds for the erection of a new centre for the
league in Northcote, Melbourne.
The Commonwealth Government fully supports the objectives of
the appeal which is being conducted by a committee of
prominent Victorian citizens. Mr Ronald Walker, C. B. E.,
is the appeal Chairman.

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FOR MEDIA IVTEDNESDAY, 6 AUGUST, 1980
COMMONWEALTH ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Following implementation of the Government's undertaking to
increase to the percentage allocation of personal income
tax collections to local government, local authorities will
this year receive a massive 35.65%~ increase in general
revenue assistance.
Premiers have been advised that $ 300.79 million will be made
available to the States for passing to local government
authorities as general revenue assistance in 1980-81 under

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FOR MEDIA PRIMEY MIIS E AUGUST, 1980
ADDRESS TO SECOND ASEAN TPADE FAIR
MELBOURNE
The welcome I extend to you today, on behalf of the
Australian Government, is a very sincere and warm one.
This fair brings us another step foward, not only in confirming
the strength of the existing relationship between our countries
and our Governments: but also in confirming the growing
importance we place on this relationshi p. Through this fair,
ASEAN Governments and business leaders are given an important

PRIME MINISTER CAIM51 A
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY 3 AUG lk81% 8
ELECTORATE TALK
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE JOBS PEOPLE
Technological change is one of the challenges of a developing
society. Australia cannot, and should not, isolate itself
from it. It affects people and jobs and must be faced up to.
It was against this background that the Government initiated
the Myers Inquiry into technological change in Australia, the
report of which I released last week.
For many years there has been a great deal of public debate

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FORM}> OlhVIIDA~ Y 3A. J( lS9(
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