FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 42/ 1969
PREMIERS' CONFERENCE AND LOAN COUNCIL
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Arrangements have now been completed with the
State Premiers for meetings of the Premiers' Conference and
the Australian Loan Council to be held in Canberra on Thursday
26 June, continuing if necessary on Friday 27 June.
I will preside at the Premiers' Conference and
Mr. McMahon, as Treasurer, will be Chairman of the Loan
Council. CANBERRA May 1969

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6 JUN 19690
SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BY THE
PRIME MINISTER, THE KT. HON. J. G. GORTON, M. P.
PARLIAMENT HOUSE SITE
29 May 1969
The debate on the siting of the new and permnanent
Parliament House has now proceeded over something like the last
9 months. It resulted initially from the Government's decision
of last August to have a free non-party vote on the question of a site.
That debate provided a full opportunity for members and senators
to express their views, and most of them did.

66
VICTORIAN JEWISH BOARD OF DEPUTIES DINNER
MELBOURNE, VIC. 26 MAY 1969
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Mr. President, Mr. Ashkanasy and all those here assembled:
You do my wife and I a very great honour tonight and we
are touched by what has been said and by the welcome you have given
us. We find it quite heartwarming and we thank you for it.
You, Sir, mentioned the espousal or somebody
mentioned the espousal of Jewish causes. I do not think that what
motivates me or what motivates most Australians is a desire to espouse

REMARKS TO PRESS AT LIBERAL PARTY RALLY
MT. BARKER, S. A. MAY 1969
Q. PM. / 2
If you were asked questions about why you haven't
told them about Pine Gap or the F-Ills, why they are crashing, how
will you answer them?
If they ask me why are the F-llls crashing, I will say
all aeroplanes in the course of development have a number of crashes.
The F-ills at this stage of their development have had less crashes
than any other aircraft. As to when we are getting them I can only
answer by saying not until we are thoroughly satisfied that they are

LIBERAL__ PARTY RALLY Y
KING'SSCHOOL, PARRAMATTA, N. S. W. 24 MAY 1969
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Bowen, Parliamentary Colleagues, Your Grace the
Archbishop, and Distinguished Guests:-
The main object which I have in mind today is to have the
opportunity later for my wife and I to meet as many of you as it is possible
for us to do. But before we can arrive at what I hope will be the mrost
enjoyable part of the afternoon, and what I know will be for us the most

BENDIGO BY-ELECTION
TV Message from the Prime Minister
( Recorded 23 May_ 1969)
On June the 7th you will elect a representative for
Bendigo to the Federal Parliament. I ask you to elect Warren
Cambridge, the Liberal Party candidate, to help me and my
Government. He's Bendigo born and bred, active in community
service and, of course, was Mayor of Bendigo last year. He knows
Bendigo's special problems and can raise those problems where it
counts as a member of the Government ' s team. But he also has a

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FOR PRESS: PM. No. 62/ 1968
PREMIERS' CONFERENCE AND LOAN COUNCIL
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton
Arrangements have now been completed with State
Premiers for meetings of the Premiers' Conference and the Australian
Loan Council to be held in Canberra on Thursday 27 June and
continuing, if necessary, on Friday, 28 June.
I will preside at the Premiers' Conference and
Mr McMahon, as Treasurer, will be Chairman of the Loan Council
CANBERRA, 23 May 1968

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 41/ 1969
COMMEMORATIVE AIR RACE
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
The Commonwealth Government will give its support to
a proposed air race from England to Australia to commemorate the
anniversary of the historic flight by Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith
in 1919. We have offered a grant of $ 25, 000 towards the cost of
the project, which the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia is
planning to stage at the end of this year. The Commonwealth offer is
made subject to the Federation demonstrating that it can raise

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY
The Rt Hon. J. G. GORTON, M. P.
ON
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO THlE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
Ministeria Statement
[ From the ' Parliamentary Debates', 15 May 196R]
, Mr GORTON ( Higgins-Prime Minister)
leave-Mr Speaker, the House
will recall that I was to have had discussions
with the President of the United
States and members of his Administration
on the 1st and 2nd of April, but because
of the death of General Eisenhower the
discussions which were to have taken place

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midnight Monday 19 May 1969
FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 40/ 1969
DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR ROYAL VISIT
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pollard, K. B. E.
C. B., I D. So. 0., has been appointed to take charge of the planning
of the visit to Australia next year by Her Majesty The Queen and
His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. Sir Reginald Pollard
will be the Director-General.
Arrangements are being made with the Premiers