SPEECH NOTES FOR THE PRIME MINISTER,
THlE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, QC, MP,
FOR THE OPENING OF THE FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL,
NORTH RYDE, N. S. W., 22 AUGUST 1975
1. 1 give full credit to John Gorton for recognising the
needs of the Australian film and television industry.
We agree on the need to develop an industry of world
standard. We agree that a flourishing film and TV
industry is possible only with a pool of expert trained
technicians and craftsmen, of creative producers, directors
and scriptwriters. That is what this school is providingalong

-1,, AUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTER
POLITICAL ACTIVITY BY VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, today described as
false and misleading suggestions made by the opposition
during Question Time that the Australian Government had
proscribed the right of domestic political activity of
Vietnamese refugees who have entered this country.
Mr Whitlam said that only nine of the nearly 1000
Vietnamese who have so far come to Australia had been asked
to provide an undertaking that they would eschew political

I PNG Independence Bill
legislation; therefore it should have a speedy
passage. Honourable members might be interested to
know that Australia's sister Commonwealth
country, Canada, sent people to Australia a few
years ago to look at the working of our legislation.
Canada embodied some of our administrative
arrangements, as it saw or interpreted
them, to form part of the law that it has passed in
this area. I suppose both sides of the House can
take credit for what has happened, flimsy though
the arrangements may have been and even

19 August 1975
M. I. T. E. R. S. GRANT
Cabramatta will benefit from a $ 41,000 grant for
new traffic signals and modifications to channelisation
at the intersection of the Hume Highway and Cabramatta
Road East. The Prime Minister and Member for Werriwa, Mr Gough
Whitlam, announced that the funds would be made availalbe
through the Minor Traffic Engineering and Road Safety
Improvements category of the Roads Grants Act. He said
that it was known that correction of known hazardous
locations was an effective and low-cost method of

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PROiME MINISTER Press Statement No. 545
18 August 1975
GOVERNMENT AIR TRAVEL
The Prime Minister announced today the
Government's decision that as a special measure of expenditure
restraint persons travelling at Government expense on internal
domestic airlines will, in future do so at economy class rates.
This decision will apply to Senators and Members of
Parliament, members of the Australian Public Service, members
of Australian Government Statutory and non-Statutory bodies

PRIf'IE. PI, 1STER'S QUEENSLAND BROADCAST HO, -23
ABORIGINALS
SUNDAY 17 AUGUST 1975
THIS WEEKEND I HAVE BEEN IN THE NORTHERN
TERRITORY, WHERE I ATTENDED A UNIQUE AND HISTORIC
CEREMONY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. I HANDED TO REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE GURINDJI PEOPLE A LEASE CONFERRING UPON THEM
UNDISPUTED RIGHTS TO THEIR ANCIENT TRIBAL LANDS AT
IWATTIE CREEK. FOR THE FIRST TIME, ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN GIVEN RIGHTS TO THEIR OWN LAND LAND WHICH
THEIR ANCESTORS FIRST INHABITED MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS

RECORDED PMESSGAE FROM THE PRiI" IE MINISTER.
THE HON. I E. G, tlHITLAM, QC, MP.,
FOR THE WIyI1RELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA'S
1975T-REMEMBERANCE DAY CONTEST
16 AUGUST 1975
I AM HONOURED BY YOUR INSTITUTE'S KIND
INVITTATION TO DECLARE OPEN YOUR 1975: RE-PEMBERANCE DAY
CON. TEST, IT IS RIGHT THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE
AMATEUR -RADIO OPERATORS WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR
A us -PIRAL A'D U -IOi. Tl,,' Sf? iCtffY'
THS OCCASION HAS TAUG,+ T ME. A. LITTLE MORE
ABOUT YOUR USEFUL AND REMARKABLE HOBBY. PERHAPS THE

Vincent Lingiari and men and women of the Gurindji people.

On this great day, I, Prime Minister of Australia, speak to you on behalf of the Australian people all those who honour and love this land we live in.

For them I want to say to you:

First, that we congratulate you and those who shared your struggle, on the victory you have achieved 9 years after you walked off Wave Hill Station in protest.

I want to acknowledge that we Australians have still much to do to redress the injustice and oppression that has for so long been the loss of Black Australians.

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PRESS STATE~ MENT NO. 544
August 1975-
APPOINTMENTS
The Prime Minis-ter, Mr Whitlam, announced
today the appointment of Sir Lenox Hewitt, as
Chairman of Qantas Airways Limited.
His appointment is to take effect from
Monday 25 August 1975. Sir Lenox has been Secretary of
the Department of Minerals and Energy since December 1972.
Sir Lenox' s appointment follows -the retirement
of Sir Donald Anderson, from the position of
Chairman of Qantas..
The Prime Minister announced that Mr James

CHIFLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE, DELIVERED BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
14 AUGUST 1975
As the fourth Chifley Memorial lecturer in 1957 I said:
" The way of the reformer is hard in Australia." I
intended neither pessimism nor prophecy, although one may
concede that little has occurred in the intervening 18 years
or the last two and a half years to lead to the belief that
reform in Australia is altogether a primrose path. In my 1957
lecture I attempted to point up the difficulties confronting