FOR PRESS: P. M. No 72/ 1970
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS.: FURTHER. GRANTS
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Approval has been given for the final series of grants recommended by the
Australian Council for the Arts from its budget for 1969/ 70. The grants, which tptal
$ 319, 523, will assist a wide variety of special theatre projects, music activities,
festival productions, Aboriginal arts programmes, and film-and film-making ventures.
From the Special Projects Fund further assistance for experimental

OPEN4ING OF NORVJICH UNION HO[ USE
SYDNEY N. S. W. 2 JULY 1970
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Mr. Ramsay, Distinguished Guests from Overseas, Ladies and Gv-, ntlemen:
I am glad to be here this afternoon to croak out a blessing on this
new building. It is particularly appropriate, I think, considering the way I feel this
afternoon, because if I feel the same way tomorrow afternoon, Sir, you are likely
to get a new policy-holder. They call it Asian flu. I think it is probably a bit of a

FOR PRESS PM. No. 71/ 1970
ECONOMIC CONSULTATIONS
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton
The Government began its pre-Budget series of
economic consultations in Canberra today.
In the morning, Ministers had separate diiscussions
with representatives of the Manufacturing Industries Advisory
Council, the Export Development Council and the Australian Council
z3f Trade Urnors. In the afternoon, Ministers conferred with national
organisations in two separate groups primary industry and

OPENING OF TULLAMARINE AIRPBORT
MELBOURNE, Vic. 1LJULY 1970
Spe c byj the Prime Minister,. Mr. ohn Gorton-
Mr. Premier, My Lord Mayor, Parliamentary Colleagues and Ladies and
Gentlemen: just about six years ago, on a very dank and drizzling and miserable
September day, in my capacity as Minister for Works, I drove the bulldozer which
turned the first sod for the construction of this air-port.
And very glad indeed I was to do it for two reasons. One was that it
began construction of an airport sooner than it had been thought construction woulld

FOR PRESS PM No. 70/ 1970
BARRIER REEF ENQUIRY: ASSISTANCE
WITH LEGAL COSTS
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton
The Commonwealth will meet the reasonable legal
costs, including Counsels' fees, of five conservationist bodies
appearing before the Royal Commission on Barrier Reef Petroleum
Drilling. Requests for financial assistance fur full-time
legal representation were received from the Australian Conservation
Foundation and four Queensland scientific or conservationist
organisations; The Great Barrier Reef Committee, the Queensland

FOR PR2SS P. M. No 69/ 1970
ECONOMIC CONSULTATIONS
Statement by the Prime M nister, Mr. John Gorton
Invitations have been extended to representatives of national
organisations to meet with Ministers in Canberra cn Thursday and Friday
( 2 and 3 July). Mnisters will meet representative national organisations in
three groups primary industry, manufacturing industry and commerce.
In addition, representatives of the Manufacturing Industries
Advisory Council, the Export Development Council and the Australian Council

FOR PRESS: P. M. No 68/ 1970
BRITISH ELECTION RESULT
Comment by the Prime Minister, Mr._ ohn Gorton,
I warmly congratulate Mr. Heath on his electoral success and
on his becoming Prime Minister. I have had a number of opportunities
both in Britain and Australia to get to know him. As a personality he is
familiar to all Australians not only in his capacity as a British political
leader but as a sportsman. His recent visit to Australia and his close
personal links here mean that he carries with him in his task o Prime

PRESS, RADIO A111 TV CONFERENCXE
GIVEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER, IMR. JOHN GORTON
AT PARLIAMENr HOUSE, CANBRA A. C. T. 18 JUNE 1970
PR IME MINISTER I'll be quite short, gentlemen, I thin:' w e have
recently concluded a Session which you will agree wao -full of
incident and which, I suggest, was full of some accornF, 113hment.
There have been significant statements on defence and on
foreign affairs, charting our course for the future. We at for 38 days,
which is a long Session, the longest Autumn Session, 1 think, in the

FOR PRESS: P. M. No 67/ 1973
PRIME MINISTER TO VISIT NEW GUINEA
The Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton, will visit Papua-New Guinea
from 5th to 1lth July.
His itinerary is still being finalised, but he will travel extensively,
visit a number of key centres, have discussions with elected Members of
the House of Assembly, and with the Administration, and meet with representative
groups and organisations throughout the Territory.
Mr. Gorton said today that he wanted to get a first-hand impression

THIRD NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE
INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS
SYDNEY. N. S. WX. .11JUNE J. 970
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Thank you, Mr. President, for your introduction. I cannot
remember the long list which you gave of those to whomn I shouild address
my remarks. May I confine it to the Prime Minister of New Zealand,
Mir. Holyoake and the other distinguished persons who are present.
Gentlemen, you have had a long day and you have listened, I
think, to seven speakers from the four corners of the earth, all of them