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FOR MEDIA TUESDAY, 25 MARCH, 1980O'n t
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE PROJECTS
The Prime Minister has written to Sir Charles Court outlining
details of the proposed upgrading of defence installations
in Western Australia, and thanking him for his assurances
of co-operation in the development of Australia's defence
capacity. The projects are:
Develop HMAS Stirling for base porting by 1982
arid home porting by 1986 at an estimated cost
of $ 26 million;

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PRIME . MINISTER I c LA
FOR MEDIA TUESDAY, MARCH 2
NORTHERN TERRITORY ADMINISTRATOR
TO CONTINUE FOR A FURTHER PERIOD
The Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, and the Chief Minister
of the Northern Territory, Mr Paul Everingham, announced
today that Mr J. A. England, C. St. J., would
continue as Administrator of the Northern Territory until
31 December; 1980.
Under previous arrangements, Mr England's term of office was
to end on 31 May, 1980, but he has now agreed to remain for
the extra . period.

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PRIME MINISTER
FORMEDIA MONDAY, MARC /, Z4_
ADDRESS TO THE
AUSTRALIAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION ASSOCIATION
In accepting the invitation to address you today, I am aware
of the essential contribution which your association and its
members can make to Australia's success in the decade ahead.
Your enterprise and your initiative: will be central to ensuring
that Australia's development in the 80s makes full use of our
resource capacity.
This is a potentially rewarding task.
It involves daunting challenges of course, but then higher

Australia's oldest major export industry has just come"* heuDth
a pointless, futile strike, which lasted eleven weeks.
The wool industry has been disrupted around Australia and around
the world because of the way in which a claim by the
Storemen and Packers' Union was handled in the Arbitration
Commission, and because the union refused to accept the final
decision made by the Full Bench of the Commission.
The Government had hoped the normal arbitral processes would
bring the dispute to an end. The Government became involved

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PRESS OFFICE TPANSCRIPT FRIDAY, 14ARCH 21 1980
PRESS CONFERENCE WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.
Prime Minister Muldoon:
We have circulated a communique which has attached to it an annex,
and I think perhaps we simply now make ourselves available for
question.
Question: Prime Minister, do you anticipate a further meeting between yourself
and Mr Fraser in the next six to 12 months to review progress?
Prime Minister Muldoon:
Well, if you look to 12 months I would say probably, yes. But the

PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED AT FAIRBAIRN ON DEPARTURE FOR NEW ZEA-AND
THURSDAY 20 MARCH 1980
Question Prime Minister what do you hope to achieve in New Zealand?
Prime Minister
over a long period New. Zealand and Australia have worked to
achieve closer economic relationships trading in particular
through the NAFTA Agreement. Now I think there is a consensus
on both sides but the NAFTA arrangement has probably gone about
as far as it can. It seems to have run its course and if there
is to be some closer retlationship between New Zealand and

PRIME MINISTER 2, ANR~
FOR MEDIA THURSDAY 20 MARCH Q 0*
COMMONWEALTH AND STATE GOVERNMENT AGREE ON
DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL BASE AT WOOLLOO> L00LO
The Commionwealth is to acquire the Maritime Services Board
w-. harves on the eastern side of Woolloomooloo Bay in Sydney
for the Navy.
The Commonwealth Government also has decided that a multi-storey
car park should be built in Cowper Wharf Road near Garden Island.
Both projects are part of a long-term plan to modernise the
Garden Island Naval Dockyard and Fleet Base at an estimated cost

PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH, 1980
PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED BY MIKE PETERSEN, CHANNEL 7,
CANBERRA Question Prime minister, for the moment it seems we have averted another
crisis. But how far is the Government prepared to go to see
that Mr. Laidely and others like him survive in their business?
Prime Minister
We are prepared to go a very long way indeed to see that small
business, individuals, have economic freedom in this country.
This is what it is all about. We have had a situation where under

PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH, 1980
PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED BY NEIL ADCOCK, 6PR, PERTH
TELEPHONE INTERVIEW
( QUESTIONS NOT AUDIBLE)
Question Prime Minister
( Inaudible) problem can be undertaken and pursued on a national
basis. The arrangements that we are making for co-operation
with the States, the arrangements that we are making in the
crime area for intelligence centres and all the rest it is
setting this basic approach on a national level that really is
the important thing. We are going to pursue that with all the

PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH, 1980
PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED BY GEOFF MEDWELL, 5DN, ADELAIDE
PHONE INTERVIEW, CANBERRA
QUESTIONS NOT AUDIBLE
Question Prime Minister-
Yes, it has. It is quite a while.
Question Prime Minister
Stopped, in an arbitrary sense, is the wrong word, because
we have said we will not withdraw passports. But I hope the
Australian Olympic Federation and the Olympic Federations of
many countries will heed the views of governments when we say
that getting the message through the Soviet Government and people