PRIME MINISTER'S INTERVIEW WITH PETER HARVEY, CHANNEL 9 NEWS
31 OCTOBER 1975
HARVEY: Prime Minister with the public opinion polls moving
towards you, as they are, you must be very tempted to go for
an election?
PRIME MINISTER: Oh yes there is a temptation, just a's there was
early in the year when Mr Snedden fell and was succeeded by
Mr Fraser, there was a great temptation to take advantage of
disarray in the Liberal Party.
HARVEY: Do you think you wouldwin now, sir?
PRIME MINISTER: Yes. I've thought all along that in any election

PRESS STATEMENT NO. 584
October 1975
Joint Statement by the Prime Minister, the Hon. E. G. Whitlam,
and the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, the
Hon. Lionel F. Bowen, M. P.
COMMITTEE TO ADVISE ON POLICIES FOR MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
The Prime Minister today tabled Volume 1 of the report
of the Committee to Advise on Policies for Manufacturing Industry
the Jackson Committee. Three further volumes containing supporting
material and statistics are expected shortly.
The Committee was established on 18 July 1974 with terms

. PRIME MINISTER.' Press Statement No. 585
October 1975
. ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS
The Prime Minister announced that the Administrative
Arrangements Order had today been amended to transfer the
administrative responsibility for the procurement, purchase
. and disposal of goods from the Minister and Department of
Administrativ6 Services to the Minister and Department
of Manufacturing Industry.
In the appropriations for the Supply period passed
last May, funds for the salaries of persons employed on

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PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 586
October 1975
THE BUDGET
The present constitutional crisis must be resolved, and it must
* be resolved quickly by the men who brought it about. There can
no longer be any doubt that the opposition's policy on blocking
the Budget has been rejected by an overriding majority of the
Australian people and, increasingly, by Opposition Senators
themselves.
Many of you will. have seen the results of the latest public polls.
To put it simply, they are quite devastating. It is not my usual

PRIME MINISTER'S CURTIN MEMORIAL LECTURE,
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, E,
CANBERXIA 29 OCTOBER 1975
0C1. " I HI
Thirty-four years ago -October 1941 -in\@ dl't at
political upheaval and at a time of supreme danger f t a,
the House of Representatives asserted its unchallenged and
exclusive right to make and unmake Australian governments. As a
result of that assertion of its exclusive authority, John Curtin
became Prime Minister of Australia.
It is timely to recall tonight the manner in which he
achieved office and the manner by which the first Curtin

Press Statement No. 583
28 October 1975
THE RANGER URANIUM PROJECT IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam; the Managing Director
of Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd., Mr Mackay;
and the Chairman of Peko Mines Ltd., Mr Proud signed this
afternoon a Memorandum of Understanding between the
Government and the Companies for the development and mining
of uranium ore deposits in the Ranger area in the Northern
Territory and for the production and sale of uranium
concentrate from that ore.

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Embargo: 5pm Sunday
PRIME MINISTER'S WEEKLY BROADCAST
THE THREAT TO RECOVERY
26 October 1975
During the past week we have had brought home to us
the harsh practical consequences of the Opposition's refusal
to pass the Budget. The violence done to our democratic
institutuions is monstrous enough, but the violence being
threatened to Australia's economy is scarcely less serious.
In its crab for power, in its bid to overturn the elected
Gover.-.. ent, the Opposition is threatening the whole difficult

] RIME' MINISTER'S BRO;; DCA; T ON CIAUNL., 7 26 OCTOFER 1975
Last week I mentioned to you about the torrent of
telegrams that I'd been receiving protesting against the
Opposition's unprecedented action in delaying the debate
on the Budget Bills. Since then I've attended many public
meetings last Monday in Melbourne's City Square;
on Friday in Sydney's Hyde Park; and just this afternoon
in Melbourne's Town Hall. And on each occasion it's been
remarkablethe sense of outrage that ordinary citizens have

PRIME MiINISTER'S SPEECHI AT JTHIIE " TV I-IiKE IT AUSTRALIAN CAMiPATGl
ML'LBOUR.. NE, 26 OCTOBER 1975
You've just seen the man who often represents me
. I'm now speaking in my own right.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've all shown by our
presence tonight that we want to make TV Australian
we've acknowledged in the flesh, directly, the men and
women of talent who can make television Australian.
On behalf of the Australian Government I support their
efforts. But I must confess that it's become much more