FOR PRESSW P-IAs No 12f/ 1972
COMMONWEULTH FINAUC TAL ASSISTANCE
FOR WEST ATYSTRALIAN STATE SHIPPI-N( SEIRVICP TO DARWIN
Statement by the Prime 14Minister, the-Rt Hon. William lIcMahon, CPS 1PP
The Comiionwealth has agreed to provide an interest-free
non-re payable canita3. grant of r milion to the Western Australian
Government for the purchase of a shin to service the D) arwin trade.
T7he romronileath accepts this nrovision of assistance
as a special case justified by tb-: imortance of the Darwin trade to

INTERVIEW
With Laurie Oakes, Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial, Canberra.
9 March 1972
Q The first thing I would like to ask is how do you sum up
your first year as Prime Minister
PM I've found it a very difficult year, mainly because so
many events have occurred beyond the control of myself and
the Government, and they've been of such an unpredictable
kind that we have found great difficulty in achieving the
objectives we've wanted to achieve., As an example, I felt
in December that we had the problem of wage increases just

"A CURRENT AFFAIR" - Interview given by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. William McMahon, CH, MP, on Channel 9 television network
8 MARCH 1972

Interviewer : Michael Schildberger

Q. Good morning, Prime Minister. Firstly, congratulations on one year in office.

PM: Thank you.

Q. Have you found being Prime Minister very different from the way you expected?

EMBARGO NOT FOR RELEASE BEFORE 10.40 PM ON 5/ 2/ 72
PRIME MINISTER
" THIS WKET6"
Transcrip-of Interview with the Prime Minister,
the Rt Hon. William McMahon, CH, MP, on Channel 7
Melbourne 5 MARCH 1972
Interviewers John Boland
Max Grant
Q. Prime Minister, this week you will celebrate
your first full year as Prime Minister, on Monday,
tomorrow, and I want to ask you two things. First of all,
has this been the hardest period of your p litical career,
this twelve months? With hindsight, would you have taken

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY
The Rt Hon. W. McMAHON, M. P.
Prime Minister
ON
LONG TERM AID TO BANGLA DESH
Ministerial Statement
[ From the ' Parliamentary Debates', 29 February 1972]
Mr McMAHON ( Lowe-Prime Minister)-
by leave-Honourable members will
recall that on 31st January the Australian
Government announced formal recognition
of the Government of Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman as the Government of the new
state of Bangla Desh. In announcing recognition,
the Minister for Foreign Affairs

FOR PRESS PM. No. 27/ 1972
VISIT OF PRESIDENT NIXON TO CHINA
Statement by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon.
William McMahon, CH, MP
When President Nixon last July announced his intention
of visiting China, I wi-. comed it without reservation and wished him
good fortune in an initiative which had the full support of Australia.
Now that the visit is successfully concluded and a
joint communique has been released, we can take stock of what was
accomplished and just as importantly what still remains to be

SOUTH PACIFIC FORUM 
23 February 1972

On behalf of the Australian Government I welcome you to Canberra for the Second Session of the South Pacific Forum. Most of you have been here before, but this is the first time we meet together in Australia as neighbours and friends to discuss matters of
common interest. 

C . JJ AUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTER
OLYIIC APPEAL FUIOD
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. William McMahon, C. H. , M. P.
21 February, 1972
Good Evening;
Nineteen hundred and seventy-two is another
Olympic Games Year and the Australian Olympic Federation, of
which I happen to be the President, wants to send about 200 of
our top athletes to iZunich, Germany, to compete in the Games.
Now you know as well as I do that the Australian
is a great sportsman, and that he can compete and win in world

-AUSTRALIA,-
PRIME MINISTER
FOR PRESS: PM No. 26/ 1972
NAVAL SUPPORT FACILITY COCKBURN SOUND, W. A.
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. William McMahon, C. H., M. P.
The Government considered today revised
estimates of cost for the construction of the Naval Support Facility
at Cockburn Scund, Western Australia. When the announcement was
made in October 1970 of the decision to proceed with the second
stage of the project the actual facilities on Garden Island the
total estimated cost was $ 38 million. The first stage, construction

FOR PRESS; PM. No. 25/ 1972.
CYCLONE AL~ THEA COMMON4WEALTH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. William McMahon, CH, MP.
Cyclone Althea struck the Townsville region on
24 December last. I informed the then acting Premier of Queensland
on Christmas Day that the Commonwealth Government was ready to join
with the State in providing finance for the relief of personal
hardship and distress and informed him that the co-operation of
Commonwealth facilities was being made available.
The Army and R. A. A. F. rendered sterling service, as