PRESS STATEI2ENT BY THE MVINISTER FOR NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
MVR PAUL KEATING, M. P. Canberra 4 November 1975
BURDEKIN BASIN INVESTIGATIONS
The Minister for Northern Australia, Mr Paul
Keating, said today that investigations into the potential
for development in the Burdekin Basin region of north
Queensland were nearing completion.
" The program of investigations, now in its third
year, is under the supervision of the joint Federal/ State
Burdekin Projects Committee".
" Particular attention had been paid to an assessment

St; L-ate ren No 5 8 7
3 N~ ovember 1975
THE BUDGET
Mr Fraser can muster the votes of half thr. Senat.-ors
to delay a vote on~ the B~ udget. By various strcagatemEs he
is trying to use this half of the Senate to force an e). e ction
for -the House of epeetivs
The system of Government that Australia has
enjoyed for 75 yecars would be destroyed if any Prime : Unister,
now or in the future, were to give in to the type of b: lackmail
Mr Fraser continue s to use.
The Senate has never rejected a Budget. Mr Fraser

PRIME MINISTER'S WEEKLY BROADCAST
RMR FRASER'S CLOWNS
SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER 1975
I don't suppose there has ever been a time when the
Opposition's behaviour has come closer to sheer knockabout
farce than it did during the past week. At the centre of
it all was the continuing drama of Mr Khemlani. For days
we were led to believe by the Opposition and the press that
Mr Kheilani had the answer to all Mr Eraser' s prayers
evidence which would somehow incriminate the Government and
justify the Opposition in blocking the national Budget.

PRIME MINISTER'S RADIO BROADCAST IN PORT AUGUSTA, S. AUST.
SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER 1975
It is a very great pleasure to be in Port Augusta
again in the centre of South Australia's iron triangle
and to have this opportunity to talk to you. I was last in
Port Augusta in April, before going on to Tarcoola for the
inauguration of the new railway line to Alice Springs. That
railway will be one of the many achievements of my Government
of benefit to the people of South Australia and the Northern
Territory. Since then South Australia has had a State election.

. I. ME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT PUBLIC MEETING, PORT AUGUSTA
2 NOVEMBER 1975
Mr Wallis, ladies and gentlemen. I was asked about
six months ago to come to Port Augusta today because it's
the Diamond Jubilee at the Diocese of Willochra. And this
was a somewhat unexpected invitation, so novel in fact, that
I penned it in six months ago in my diary. And in the*
meantime-some other events have occurred, so I thought that
yesterday I would travel to Port Augusta via Alice Springs
and Whyalla. And I'm happy to have an audience of Labor

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT THE WHYLL WORKERS CLUB S
1 NOVEMBER 1975
engagement f or months past up at Port Augusta
tomorrow morning. It's a diamond jubilee, an ecclesiastical
diamond jubilee. And I get so few of these invitations I
found it irresistable. So I though in the present situation
I should spend a day on the way at Alice Springs and then, of
course, we flew on here and I welcome very much the opportunity
to drop in at the Club.
There is perhaps a couple of things I might say to

PRIME MINISTER' S INTERVIEW WITH STUDENTS IN ALICE SPRINGS
ON RADIO STATION 8HA 1 November 1975
I gather the local commercial station has made available
some period every week for the students of the High School
to express these views and to interview visitors like
myself. This is a very fine contribution-by the radio
station itself; it's also a very proper opportunity given
to the students. Many people will get the taste for the
media; many people who go to High School here will now
want to become radio announcers and producers and the

PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE, ALICE SPRINGS
1 NOVEMBER 1975
PRIME MINISTER: commitment that we have, the Labor Government
said that it would create a fully electea ' Legislative Assembly:
it's done that. It said that it would produce votes for
Territorians in the Senate: it's done that. We have done in
our three years more for the Constitutional and political
development of the Territory than had happened-in the previous
three-quarters of a century. So obviously we are going to get
on with it. But one can't give a timetable, all that I can

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT PUBLIC MEETING, ALICE SPRINGS
1 NOVEMBER 1975
Ladies and Gentlemen: I've had along standing engagement this week
down in Port Augusta, but I thought that in the present circumstances,
the time when the Senate is on strike, when it's holding the whole
of the country to ransom, when there is going to be an election in
the next few months for the Senate, and because despite all Country
Party obstruction the people of the Territory will at last get a vote
for Senators in the National Parliament,. it is the people in the

PRIME MINISTER.' S ADDRESS AT A FUND-RAISING LUNCH, 0
ALICE SPRINGS, 1 NOVEMBER 1975
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you
very much indeed for the organisation you've put into the
events of today. It was a great meeting in the park this
morning and this is a magnificent gathering for lunch now.
And I'm most heartened at the reception you gave the newest
minister, the youngest minister, in the Australian Government.
Only 31 years old, he's been in the Parliament less than
six years; I can assure you there is very great com~ petition