THE PRIM4E MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
TUESDAY, 19 JUNE 1973
PRIME MINISTER: Ladies and gentlemen: There has been no
Cabinet committee meetings this week. Yesterday, today and
tomorrow we are holding these economic consultations with industry.
I thought it might suit you if I were to have this press conference
at noon, well before lunch, so that the afternoon papers could
get their turn. I have no announcements to give you. Last week
Mr. Jack Fingleton asked me about the cost of cable communications

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PRESS STATEMENT NO. i00
18 June 1973
VISIT BY THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH OCTOBER 1973
On 2 March 1973 the Prime Minister's Press Statement No.
59 stated that after The Queen's departure for London following
the opening of the Sydney Opera House, The Duke of Edinburgh
will visit each of the Australian States to make contact with
local organisers of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Australia,
to present Gold Awards and to see Award work in action.

18 June 1973
PRE-BUDGET DISCUSSIONS
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, today begins
a three-day series of pre-Budget consultations with
representatives of industry, commerce, unions and
consumer groups. At each session several other Ministers will
join Mr Whitlam. The groups he will meet are:
Monday 18 June: Primary industry; Manufacturing
industry.
Tuesday 19 June: Export Development Council;
Manufacturing Industries Advisory
Council; Australian Mining Industry
Council.
Wednesday 20 June: Commerce group;
Consumer group.

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M/ 97 14 June 1973
VISIT TO AUSTRALIA BY TTHE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR
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VISIT TO AUSTRALjIA BY THE SPECIAL RAPPOPTEUR
OF THTTE UNiTTED NATIONS' STTDY ON DISCRIIIINATION
AGAINST INDIGENOUS POPULIATIONTS, MR MARTINEZ COBO
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Whitlam, announced
O today that Mr Jose R. Martinez Cobo, Special Rapporteur for the
United Nations' Study on Discrimination Against Indigenous
Populations, would visit Australia from 16 23 June, to obtain
information about Australian Aborigines.

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M/ 96 14 June 1973
AUSTRALIA TRANSFERS LAND TO PEOPLE
OF THE NEW HEBRIDES
The Australian Government has agreed to relinquish
Australian land holdings in the New Hebrides to enable them to
be used by the people of the New Hebrides.
Announcing this today, the Prime Minister and Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Mr Whitlam, released the following agreed
joint communique by the Australian and British Governments:
" The Australian and British Governments have agreed in
principle that Australian lands in the New Hebrides known as the

THE PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE
AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA,
TUESDAY, 12 JUNE, 1973
PRIME MINISTER: Thanks for waiting ladies and gentlemen.
As you know, we have had a particularly long day of Cabinet
committees and Cabinet meetings today and we weren't able to
get through as early as usual. But, after all, there usen't
to be press conferences after Cabinet meetings were there?
I can't give you all the decisions because some of them require
meetings, of the Executive Council or consultations with all the

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12 June 1973
AP OINTMENT OF AUSTRALIAN ACEOWN SUL-GENERAL YORK
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Whitlan,
announced today that General Sir John Wilton, C. B.,
iD. S. O., had been appointed Australian Consul-General in
New York. Sir John Wilton will succeed Sir John Bates, C. B. E.,
Swho will complete a three year term in August of this year.
Mr Whitlam said that Sir John Wilton had had a
distinguished military career, having risen to become Chairman
of the Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1966-1970. Mr Whitlam

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M/ 94 8 June 1973
APTIOTNTMENT OF AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE
POLISH PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Whitlam, announced
today that Mr Francis Stuart had been appointed Australian
Ambassador to the Polish People's Republic. Mr Stuart will be
the first resident Australian Ambassador and will succeed
Mr L. J. Iawrey who has been dually accredited from Moscow.
Mr Whitlam said that the decision to accredit a resident
Ambassador in Poland and to establish an Australian diplomatic

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M/ 93 7 June 1973
PRIME MINIST71l'S VISIT TO INDIA: JOINT COMMTUNIQUE
The following is the text of the joint communioue issued
in New Delhi yesterday at the conclusion of the visit to India by
the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Whitlam:-
" At the invitation of Shrimati Indira Gandhi, Prime
Minister of India, His Excellency Mr Edward Gough Whitlam, Q. C.,
Prime Minister of Australia, visited India from 3 to 6 June,
1973. He was accompanied by Mrs h,.! itlam and senior officials of the
Government of Australia.

Press Conference given by the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr
E. G. Whitlan, at Vigyan Bhavan, New D-lhi, at 3.15 6 June
1973 Prime Minister: Mr, D'Penha and ladies and sentleen: You alreatr
have a copy of the conmunique that your Prime inister and I have
issued, so I think I'll just invite you to ask questions of me forthwith.
When I give my weekly press conference in Canberra, I start off with
the decisions that the Cabinet has made that day. Then I have questions.
Well, of course, I can't announce any Cabinet decisions, so we'll