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DEVELOPMENT OF EXMOUTH TOWNSHIP
Joint Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold HWlt and
the ifremier of Western Australia, Mr. D. BranI
The ' ommonwealth and Western Australian State
Governments are to continue their financial suppnrt for the
development of Exmouth, the support township for the United States
Communication Station at Iorth iest Cape. The township In being
constructed by the Viest Australian State authorities.
This was announced today in a joint statement

IPTR-PPLIK 1 TRYU1ION
SPELCH OF ' JELCOIE, BY THE P-RIME I1INISTER. MR. HAROLD HOLT
AT PAFIJIMENT HOUSE, CA1U1BERRA 12TH APRIL. 1%
Mr. Chairman, Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and
Gentlemen: Thank you for that very encouraging reception.
It is a much more enthusiastic one than I usually receive in this
Chamber. Indeed, as I look around the Chamber, I was a little
discomfited at the outset to see how crowdod the Opposition benches
had become, but as my gaze wanders further afield, I see that quite

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NEW COMMONWEALTH LOAN FOR BRIGALOW SCHEME
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
It will be recalled that at talks in Canberra last
month, I assured the Premier of Queensland that Queensland's
request for financial assistance for the development of further
Brigalow lands in the Fitzroy River Basin of Central Queensland
would be brought promptly to the Cabinet for its consideration.
This Cabinet consideration has now taken place, and I have
been very pleased to write to the Premier conveying the

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POSTAL DISPUTE
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
A Committee of Cabinet has discussed further today
the situation arising from the Australia-wide stoppage last
Friday in the Mail Exchange Branches of the Post Office organised
by the Australian Postal Workers' Union, and the further
industrial action since taken in the capital city exchanges at
the instigation of the A. P. W. U. The Union has taken its action
to try to secure its demands regarding the manning of the

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AUSTRALIAN PA INTING FOR QUEEN MOTHER
At G:'-vernment House in Canberra today, the
Prime Minister, Mr. Holt, presented The Queen Mother with
a painting by the Australian artist, Clifton Pugh.
Called " Burnt Landscape" tit is tne of two
Australian paintings being given to The Queen Mother by the
Government and people of Australia to mark her current visit.
The second painting, " Storm Approaching
Marree", is by Kenneth Jack and was painted in 1965. The
Pugh work is dated 1964 and depicts the aftermath of a

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P. M. No. 32/ 1966
KOOYONG BY-ELECTION RESULT
Comment by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
The Kooyong result has given to the Federal
Parliamentary Liberal Party a very able young recruit who
should have a long life of fruitful parliamentary service ahead
of him. His majority is considerably below that attained by
Sir Robert Menzies in 1963, but it is unrealistic and misleading
to attach the significance to the percentage of movement which
Mr. Calwell has done. It is notorious that by-election

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CHANGED DATE FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF CO1MONWUlALTH DAY
Statement by the Prime IMinister, Mr. Harold Holt.
It has been decided, in consultation with the Premiers,
that Commonwealth Day will in future be observed in Australia on
the day on which The Queen's Official Birthday is celebrated,
instead of on the present date, May 24.
We think of The Queen as Head of the Commonwealth as
well as Queen of Australia. It therefore seems fittU. ng that we

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BRITISH ELECTION RESULT
Comment by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt.
Mr. Wilson and his colleagues are to be congratulated
on their clear-cut victory.
* I feel it will strengthen the United Kingdom and
benefit the Commonwealth generally now that the inevitable
uncertainty resulting from -m evenly divided Parliament has
been remedied. There has been, by practice and tradition,
very cordial relations between Australja and the United Kingdom
Governments regardless of domestic political philosophies.

SETT'ING PZ THM F( W3NATION STONE
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31st March 1366
Speech by the Prime Minister.-Mr. Harold Holt
As you have been told by Mr. Anthony, I shall
shortly have the privilege of introducing to you the best
known man in Australia. I shall be asking him then to
perform a task for which I think he has had more practice
than any other man I could name-in the public life of this,
or any other country; and those two facts alone as I
give them to you indicate the significance of the occasion

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY
The Rt. Hon. HAROLD HOLT, M. P.,
ON
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
[ From the " Parliamentary Debates," 31st March 1966]
Mr. HAROLD HOLT ( Higgins-Prime
Minister) Speaker, my colleague,
the Minister for External Affairs
( Mr. Hasluck), dealt comprehensively with
the matters that the House has been debating.
However, I believed that it would be
convenient if I were to take the opportunity
* provided by the motion that the
House take note of his statement to deal
with the three major matters that have