P. M. No. 82/1968

Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
( Commenting on Senator Gair's Press Statement)

I have made it clear that the Government wishes to provide  the Parliament with information on the arrangements made to purchase F-111's I have also stated that we will not provide information which has a security content or which is confidential between our Government and another Government should that Government object to such confidential information being made public.

 P. M. No. 81/1968

The Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton, will make an official visit to Western Australia at the end of this month at the invitation of the Premier, Mr. David Brand.

The Prime Minister, accompanied by Mrs. Gorton, will begin the official visit on Sunday, 29 September. He will return to Canberra on Thursday, 3 October.

STATE VISIT BY PRESIDENT PARK( OF KOREA
LUNCHEON AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE, 2SP98 N
17 SEPTEMBER 1968
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mvr John Carton_
Mr President, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
This function in our National Parliament gives the opportunity
to do you and your country honour. You represent a country with a history
which goes back much further than ours, and : you represent a country which,
in the course of that history, has had to face much harsher tests than ours.
You have known forcfign rule which we have not. You have

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY u b
,16 i~ 4
The Rt Hon. J. G. GORTON, M. P.
ON
OVERSEAS INVESTMENT IN AUSTRALIA
( Ministerial Statement)
[ From the ' Parliamentary Debates', 16 September 1969]
Mr GORTON ( Higgins-Prime Minister)
by leave -The importance to
Australia of a strong and continuing inflow
of overseas capital has never been questioned
by my Government. During the years
after the end of World War HI, the accumulated
total of private overseas investment
in Australia has been about $ 7,000m. Without

14 September 1968

Mr Chairman, Mr Fox, Mr Southey, Parliamentary Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen:

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 80/ 1968
VIS IT OF THE PRESIDENT OF KOREA
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
President Park Chung He6 of the Republic of Korea, and
Madame Park, accompanied by an Off icial Suite of 15, including three
Cabinet Ministers, will make a State Visit to Australia from 16 to 19
September. The President and his wife and party are scheduled to
arrive at R. A. A. F. Base, Fairbairn at 10. 00 a. mi on 16 September
and will be given a 21-gun salute. They will be welcomed by the

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 79. 1968
RENAMING OF U. S. NAVAL COMMUNICATION
STATION AT N. W. CAPE
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
The United States Communication Station at North West
Cape will be renamed next month in honour of the former Prime
Minister, Mr. Harold Holt.
The ceremony will take place on 20 September, within a
few days of the first anniversary of the official opening of the Station.
( This was attended by Mr. Holt on 16 September 1967.)
Dame Zara Holt will be Guest of Honour at the renaming

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY
The Rt Hon. J. G. GORTON, M. P.
ON
APPROPRIATION BILL ( No. 1) 1968-69
Second Reading
( BUDGET DEBATE)
[ From the ' Parliamentary Debates', 27 August 1968]
Mr GORTON ( Higgins-Prime Minister)
, D: 8. O]-This House has been asked, in the
farm of an amendment moved by the
Leader of the Opposition ( Mr Whitlam), to
express the opinion that the Budget is
inadequate. I am sure the House will do
nothing of the kind and, indeed, I believe
that* the only thing inadequate connected

01 CZECHOSLOVAKIA_
COMMENTS BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR JOHN GORTON
FEOLR EISINANRADIO 22 AUGUST 1968
I want to talk to you tonight about a matter which, though
it does not immediately impinge on the Australian people yet is of great
moment to them and to other free peoples throughout the world.
At approximately eight o'clock yesterday morning, Canberra
time, large forces of Russian troops, together with forces from other
satellite nations crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia in force against

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH 13Y
The Rt Hon. J. G. GORTON, M.
ON
CZECHOSLOVAKIA Ministerial Statement
[ From the ' Parliamentary Debates', 22 August 19681
Mr G40RTON ( Higgins-Prime Minister)
[ 8.01--Mr Speaker, the House is
debating a motion proposed on behalf of
, the Government by the Minister for
kernal Affairs ( Mr Hasluck). The
-tnotion is:
That the House expresses its distress at and its
abhorrence of the armed intervention in Czechoslovaldia
by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,