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FOR PRESS P. M. No. 56/ 1966
A. C. T. U. IN PRE-BUDG~ ET MEETING
The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, and a
group of senior Ministers will meet representatives of the
Australian Council of Trade Unions in Canberra tomorrow to
obtain at first hand the Council's views on the economic
situation. The Council will be represented by its Senior
Vice-President, the Hon, J. D. Kenny, and Secretary,
Mr. H. J. Souter. The President of the A. C . T Mr. Albert
Mcenk, is at present overseas.
This will be the first of a series of pre-

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PM, No. 54/ 196* 7
VtSIT TO THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN
Statement by the Prime MinisterBk2n. arljgi.
I shall be leaving Australia for a short visit to the United States
and Britain after opening the South-East Asia Treaty Organization ( SEATO)
Conference in Canberra on Monday, June 27.
During my visit I shall have talks with President Johnson, the
Vice-President, Mr. Humphrey, the Secretary of State for Defense,
Mr. McNamara, and other senior members of the United States

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FOR PRESS P. M. No. 55/ 1966
MINISTFR TO VISIT SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt.
The Minister'for the Army, Mr. Malcolm Fraser, leaves for a
comprehensive three-week visit to South-East Asia on Sunday, June 19.
Accompanied by the Secretary, Department of the Army, Mr.
Bruce White, the Minister will be making his first visit to troops
serving in various overseas locations.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, said today that the prime
purpose of Mr. Fraser's mission was to visit the 1st Australian Task

FOR PRESS : I P. M. No. 51/ 1966
LIBERAL NOMINATIONS PLAN IN QUEENSLAND
Comment by the Prime Minister. Mr. Harold Holt
The Queensland State Division is well known to be
strongly of the view that it should campaign actively through all
areas of Queensland in order to build support for the Party in a
growing State, and to make the policies of the Party more widely
known. It has been the practice for each State Division
of the Liberal Party to decide its own policy on the selection of
candidates and the seats whioh it will contest. W hen the position

FOR PRESS LIAY No. 50/ 1966
PRIME MINISTER'S MESSAGE TO GENERAL WESTMORELAND
The Prime Minister has cabled the following message to
the Commander of UnitGd States Forces in Viot Nam, General
Westmoreland:-" Wo ar@ approciative of the warm and generous
commendation of our First Battalion RAR expressed by
you at the conclusion of tho Battalion's tour of duty
in South Viet Nam. The Australian people are proud
of this Battalion which has performed up to the high
tradition of Australian military service.
" These Australian soldiers have played

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FOR PRESS P. M. No. 49/ 1966
INDOIESIA/ vIALAYSIA RELATI ONS
Statement by the Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon. Harold. Holt, M. P1
The Australian Government warmly welcomes the hopeful
signs of a favourable outcome of the talks between the
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Razak, and the Indonesian
Foreign Minister, Mr. Adamr Malik,
The talks were held in an atmosphere of genuine
goodwill and friendship which offers the prospect of an end
to confrontation. The Government has taken a close and

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FOR PRESS P. I. No.. 48/ 1966
QUEENSILAND ELECTION RESULT
Comment by the Prime Minister, Mr, Harold Holt
I warmly congratulate Mr. Nicklin, Mr. Chalk and
their colleagues of the coalition team on their fully-deserved
vote of ccnfidence. it was a personal triumph for IVMr. Nicklin to hold
his large majority intact after nine years of leadership.
The Coalition u'overnment has launched Queensland
on a programme of vigorous development. We look forward to
a continuing Commonwealth/ State collaboration.
CANBERRA, 29th May, 1966.

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P. M No. 47/ 1966
AUSTRALIAN DELEGATION TO THE SIXTH V. ORLD FORESTRY
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
The Prime Minister, Mr. iarold Holt, announced
today that the Minister for National Development, Mr. David
Fairb& irn, who is Chairman of the Australian Forestry Council,
would lead the Australian Delegation to the Sixth W'orld Forestry
Congress which will open in Madrid on 6th JTune, 1966. Mr.
Fairbairn is to leave today, 29th May.
The Sixth U. I'orld Forestry Congress, sponsored by the

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FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 46/ 1966
MR. CAL1, TELL'S TEIEVISIOU" DEBATE
Comment by the Prime M4inister, Harold Holt
This is the latest bright idea in Mr. Caiwell's
series of qdite frantic attempts to stem Labor's ebbing tide.
Not surpriSingly, he seems rattled to find that, at this stage
of his leadership, support f or the ALP, as revealed in the two
latest public opinion polis, has fallen to what must ' be about the
lowest point in his Party's history.
There is no novelty in a Leader of the Opposition

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 45/ 1966
DEATH OF PRIVATE NOACK
Statement by the Prime Minister. M~ r. Harold Holt
We have learned today with sadness that another
young Australian has lost his life in the military service of
his country. I offer my personal sympathy, and -uhat of my
colleagues in the Government, to the parents and relatives
of Private Noack. He was a National Servineran, the first
to be killed in action.
Private Noack was in South Viet Nam serving in
a Regular Army unit as a consequence of decisions taken by the