FOR PRESS: VISIT BY MR LESTER PEARSON
The Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson, cu-r ty
Chairman of the World Bank Commission on International Development
and former Prime Minister of Canada, will visit Australia in April
following discussions in a number of countries on matters concerning
economic development and aid.
Mr Pearson will arrive in Australia on Monday 14 April and
leave on Monday 21 April.
In Canberra he will be received by the Governor-General
and will call on the Prime Minister. He will also have discussions with

OPENING OF NEW LIBERAL PARTY HEADQUARTE 9 N
Brisbane, Q'd. 3 MARCH 1969
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chalk, Parliamentary Colleagues, Ladies and
Gentlemen: This is, of course, not by any means the first visit I
have made to Queensland as Prime Minister. Indeed, I am not quite
sure, but I think it might be the fourth or fifth or something of that
kind. It is a very happy occasion for a visit, to be able to open this
building, although I understand it has been in use for a month.

FORL PRESS P. M. No. 23/ 1969
ROYAL VISIT 1969
The Commonwealth Director for the visit by Their
Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Kent, in August 1969 is
Mr J. H. Scholtens, C. V. 0. Assistant Secretary, Ceremonial and
Hospitality Branch, Prime Minister's Department.
As announced on 30 December 1968, The Duke and
Duchess are expected to begin their visit in Canberra, from where thei
will travel to Port Moresby where The Duke will open the Third South
Pacific Games on Wednesday 13 August. Their Royal Highnesses will

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PRESS ! NTERVIEW GIVEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
MR JOHN GORTON AT BRISBANE AIRPORT 3 MARCH 1969
Q.
PM: VQ PM:
PM:
~ Q. PM: Mr Prime Minister, this morning's bombing of the
Russian Embassy in Canberra. Can you tell us a little bit about
that and what happened?
i can't tell you about that. I left Canberra quite early
and I haven't had anything which T can significantly say about that
at alf. Mr Prime Minister, thejapanese document affair
which is going on at the moment. Do you feel the Austra~ an

MOORABBIN LIBERAL PARTY BRANCH DINNER
TOWN HALL, MOORABBIN, VIC. V 28 ' FEBRUARY 1969
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton
Mr Chairman, Mr Mayor, Mr Chipp, Distinguished Parliamentary
Colleagues, both Federal and State, and Ladies and Gentlemen
That is rather a hard introduction for me to live up to,
though at the beginning of this speech I would like to say that as long as
I am entrusted with the Prime Ministership of this country, I shall try to
live up to it, and I know I will be supported in that by such Members of

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY
The Rt Hon. J. G. GORTON, M. P.
ON
DEFENCE
( Ministerial Statement)
[ From the Parliamentary Debates,' 25 February 1969] " 4,
Mr GORTON ( Higgins-Prime Minister)
-by leave-Mr Speaker, the purpose of
this statement is to inform the House of
what the Australian Government is prepared
to do militarily in Malaysia-Singapore
after the British withdrawal from those
areas and to set this in the context of our
general interest in, involvement in and
thinking concerning the region. It is not to

PARLIAMENTARY (/ 0P 4
LAUNCHING OF NEW FIVE-YEAR APPEAL
BY GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL
GEELONG, VICTORIA 24 FEBRUARY 1969
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Carton
Mr. Southey, Mr. Headmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen:-
It is not a sacrifice, Sir, but a pleasure for my wife and
I to have been asked tonigTht to attend such a cheerful and, in a way, such
a nostalgic gathering. Indeed, it is' such a cheerful gathering that I am
touched with a little wand of doubt as to whether everybody here knows

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 22/ 1969 4.
NEW DATE FOR FIVE POWER TALKS
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
The Five Power talks in Canberra will now be held
on 19 arid 20 June. In London last month, the Prime Ministers of
Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia, and the British
Defence Minister, agreed to a meeting in Canberra in May.
Subsequently, the Malaysian Government asked that
the dates be varied and the new arrangements have been made in
consultation between the five governmrents.

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 21/ 1969
ACQUISITION OF WILLIAM WESTALL DRAWINGS
FOR NATIONAL LIBRARY
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
The Commonwealth Government has purchased from
the Royal Commonwealth Society in London an important collection
of 139 drawings and water colours by William Westall, the young
landscape artist who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his
circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-3. These pictures, depicting
parts of the Australian coastline as it appeared before European

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 20/ 1969
VISIT TO CANADA
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
I have been delighted to accept an invitation from
Mr. Trudeau to make a visit to Canada on Thursday, 3 April,
after my meeting with President Nixon in Washington.
I am looking forward to this opportunity for an
exchange of views with another Commonwealth country which
has an increasing interest in the Pacific region.
CANBERRA 19 February 1969
Background Note: The Prime Minister begins his Washington talks