PRIME MIN~ ISTER
FOR MEDIA FRIDAY 23 1980
OLYM4PIC GAMES
The Government has learned with regret that the Executive of
the Australian Olympic Federation, in exercising its own
independence of government, has rejected the strong advice of
the Australian Government and today decided to send an
Australian team to Moscow.
In recent days, the Executive has been kept closely in touch
with the view of the Government and with latest developm~ ents..
The Government had indicated that an effective boycott is already

F 6I A I. M IrNIS T E
L 21 May 1980
FOR MEDIA Gift Horse for Her Majesty Queen-Elizabeth II
The Prime Minister said today that while The Queen was
in Canberra the Australian-bred racehorse, which was the
Australian people's gift to Her Majesty to commemorate the
anniversary of her reign and her Silver Jubilee visit to
Australia, . would be handed over.
In 1977, the year of the Silver Jubilee, it was
announced that a racehorse would be bred here and, when ready
for a racing career, would be sent to The Queen to race in

FOR MEDIA MONDAY, 19 MAY, 1980
HOBART TO BE HEADQUARTERS OF ANTARCTIC COMMISSION
Hobart has been selected as the site for the permanent
headquarters of the international Commission for the
Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. Hobart's
nomination was agreed to in principle by delegates from fifteen
nations meeting in Canberra yesterday at a Conference to
finalise an international Convent-ion governing the conservation
and management of marine living resources in the Antarctic region.

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PR1 T3E MIN ST R
: Or, " EDIA MONDAY, 19 MAY, 1980
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF APPELLATE JUDGES
SYDNEY
The Government. is very pleased that this Second International
Conference of Appellate Judges should be held in Australia.
At this Conference, the papers which are to be delivered
analyse -and discuss matters of fundamental concern to the
judiciary and to the administration of justice.
Much of what they deal with is focussed on the role which
courts have in their community and on the relationship

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PRIME MINISTER'
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY, 18 IAY, 1980,
ELECTORATE TALKIt
is quite clear that the Soviet Union has no intention of
withdrawing its invading troops from Afghanistan. It is
now almost 5 months since Soviet tanks rolled onto
Afghanistan soil.
It was the first time that Russia had stepped outside its
iron curtain to suppress, with its own forces, a sovereign,
non-aligned Third World country.
Since then, the Soviet Union has steadily increased-its

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PRIME MINISTER L;! RA$ RY~ i
FOR MEDIA SATURDAY,
OPENING OF THE FIRST STAGE OF THE AUSTRALIAN
* MARITIME COLLEGE, BEAUTY POINT, LAUNCESTON
Thank you for inviting me to open the " Practical Seamanship
and Fisheries Training Centre", the first stage of the
Australian Maritime College.
The College, of which this Centre is a~ part, is a further
step in a series of initiatives which may result in Tasmania
becoming known as the maritime centre of Australia. After all,
such a reputation is what one might expect of a State named

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FOR MEDIA FRIDAY, 16 MAY, 1980
EXCERPT FROM PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS TO
AUSTRALIAN LIBERAL STUDENTS' FEDERATION, HOBART
The package of offshore legislation which was introduced
into the Federal Parliament this Session is designed to
give the States a significant influence in the
territorial seas.
It is important that States should be able to influence
strongly policy in what happens offshore. It is not a
matter that should be determined solely from Canberra.
It is especially important for an island State like Tasmania,

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FOR .' EDIA THURSDAY,-MAY 15 1980
The Opening of the Black Mountain
Communications Tower
Th-is occasion formalises another step in the modernisation of
Australia's communications system and the development of Canberra.
Communications are essential to a competitive industrial nation.
But it is equally important to the development and maintenance
of personal and family ties. The word communications implies
technology,* a term which in some quarters has become associated

PRIME MINISTER
The Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser, M. P.
ADDRESS TO THE CONFEDERATION
OF AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY

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PRIME MINISTER aN I0? A
FOR MEDIA SUNDAY 11\~
ELECTORATE TALK
For the past week Australia has been host to Mr. Li. Xiannian,
Vice-Premier of China.
He leaves tomorrow for New Zealand.
Against the recent background of worrying international developments
in Afghanistan, Iran and Indo-China, it was heartening to receive
Mr. Li and to review with satisfaction the progress of Australia's
relations with China.
In the 1960s China was in the turmoil of its Cultural Revolution.