PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT 119 JUNE 1979
PRESS INTERVIEW:, PRIME MINISTER
AND PETER NOLAN, A. C. T. U. Secretary, INTERVIEWED BY
RICHARD CARLETON, NATIONWIDE.
RICHARD CARLETON
We'll come to the last-minute discussions in a second, Sir,
but to use your words, this futile dispute, and from that, I
think one could possibly draw this futile stoppage on Thursday.
on Friday morning in what way is Australia going to be a better
place as a result of that futile exercise?
PETER NOLAN
Well let's put it in these terms, that we didn't ask for this

PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT 1 UE17
INTERVIEW ON WESTERN AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE AND NSW OIL DISPUTE
Question Mr. Fraser, the ads in the national press today are said by
the Acting Premier of Western Australia to have been suggested
by you. Is that a fact?
Prime Minister
What I told Mr. O'Neil when he spoke to me some-time ago and
gave the facts as he understood it, I said " well, look that's not
understood in the Eastern States. I don't know if you are making
any effort to try and make sure that what you believe to be the

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PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT 19 JUNE 1979
PRESS CONFERENCE: FOLLOWING CABINET MEETING
Prime Minister
I think we all know that the Kurnell Refinery dispute, which is
going to cause enormously severe disruption in N. S. W. and
possibly beyond that, has arisen out of divided industrial
jurisdiction in N. S. W. itself. There is now a Federal award
covering the industry. The State Branch of the AWU wants to
break away from that and re-establish the authority of the
N. S. W. Industrial Commission. There have been a number of

FOR MEDIA 19 JUNE 1979
SALT II
The Prime Minister today welcomed the signing of the SALT II
agreement in Vienna by President Carter and President Brezhnev.
The 3S.-T II agreement is an important step forward, he said.
It should lessen the risk of nuclear war and place limits
on -he strategic arsenals of both the United States and the
Soviet Union. It should place limits on the development
by these two countries of new strategic systems and open
the way to future reductions in nuclear arsenals. An agreement

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PRIME~ MONISTER
FOR PRESS ELECTORATE TALK 17 JUNE 1979
There is no question no room for doubt that inflation
continues as the world's major economic illness. Inflation
respects no geographical or political boundaries. It hits
hard, fast and with constant pressure in every corner of
the globe with devastating effect. It is a disease that
not only retards the growth of markets at home and reduces
job opportunities it helps cripple world trade.
And it is this cumulative country-by-country and region-byregion

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FOR PRESS 17 JUNE 1979
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN STRIKE
Australia faces the possibility of a national strike towards the
end of this week and of bans being placed on Western Australia
that would isolate it from the rest of this country.
Whatever the issue, that degree of destruction,. of damange and of
harm to the nation cannot be justified.
I ask all trade unionists and their leaders in the trade union
movement, to think very carefully before they participate in a

PRESS OFFICE TRANSCRIPT
INTERVIEW WITH " TODAY TONIGHT" SHOW
BRISBANE 16 JUNE 1979
Question: Prime Minister, on Thursday you have a threatened national
stoppage. Is it your intention to do anything about it,
to in-ervene?
Pr i-. e Minister:
I been keeping in very close touch with Mr Viner, and
I hae also spoken to Des O'Neil, who is the Acting Premier,
in relation to this particular matter. It is very serious,
but I doubt really if everyone understands precisely what
has happened. I have been advised that there was a

PROVPhE UUNISTER
FOR MEDIA 16 JUNE 1979
QUEENSLAND STATE COUNCIL
The past few days in Queensland have been exciting for me
because this State is very much on the move in the great
new mining areas. The Government's policies of the last
three or four years gave given confidence to investors
and provided markets for products of Queensland mines.
The problems are the problems of growth and problems of
development. And they are the kind of problems we want.
In Queensland, moving out into the pastoral areas in the

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FOR MEDIA 14 JUNE 1979
GREAT BARRIER REEF
The Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser and the Premier,
Mr Joh Bjelke-Petersen, conferred today on the future
consultative arrangements for joint consideration of
recom-mendations of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Authority. This Authority is established by the Commonwealth
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act, which will continue
unchanged. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is designed to
provide for the progressive declarations and oversight of

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WILLESEE COMMENTS ON FRASER INTERVIEW.
FROM WILLESEE
14 JUNE 1979
WILLESEE: On Monday night in the program we showed a special
interview with the Prime Minister Mr. Fraser.
Last night Mr. Fraser's press secretary announced that the interview
had been cut and accused us of unfair editing.
Now this man's job is to say things on behalf of Mr. Fraser so we
have to presume that Mr. Fraser really believed we have been unfair