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PRIME MINISTER'S INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL
" IN SESSION" PROGRAM
21 April, 1975
Interviewer: Prime minister, your visit to Peru will be the
first by an Australian Prime Minister to South America. Do
you think that this is an area that perhaps we have neglected
for far too long?
Mr. Whitlam: I think so. I don't say that South America
is central to Australia's economic or political concern but
it is important and Peru is the country in South America
from which the discoverers of Australia set out. It will be

THE PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH
AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW CIVIC CHAMBERS AT QUEANBEYAN
MONDAY,. 21 APRIL, .1975
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME TO OPEN TONIGHT QUEANBEYAN'S
NEW COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND BABY HEALTH CENTRES YOU WILL KNOW
THAT I AM NO STRANGER TO QUEANBEYAN HAVING ATTENDED MANY
FUNCTIONS HERE AND HAVING HELD MAJOR CAMPAIGN MEETINGS HERE
IN 1972 AND 1974X THIS OCCASION AFFORDS ME AN OPPORTUNITY
TO RECALL COMMENTS AND COMMITMENTS I MADE AT THOSE CAMPAIGN
MEETINGS AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE HOW MOST OF THAT

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PR~ IAEBMINISTER' S OT3EENSTU. 1" i 11ROADCTAST
CONSERVATION
Sunday 20 April 19715
I don't suppose there is a more beautiful State in
Australia than Queensland. Its rich vegetation, its tropical
climate, its diverse natural beauty, its superb coastline
make it a haven for tourists and a constant joy for its ow%, n
citizens. Whatever I may feel about the Queensland Government
from time to time, I hope no one blames me when I come to
Queensland as often as I can for a spell of relaxation.

PRIME MINISTER'S INTERVIEW
FOR CHANNEL 7 STATE FILE SPECIAL
PERTH, SUNDAY, 20 APRIL, 1975
Interviewer: Is it possible in the next two years to create
a Socialist State in Australia having in mind this awful rate
of inflation which confronts you?
Mr. Whitlam: No. Even in the most favourable economic
conditions and with a completely different Constitutional
set-up, no, one couldn't.
Interviewer: Then it follows, would you rather have come
into Government at a different time than this awful time into
which you have been plummeted?

PRESS STATEMENT 499

21 April, 1975

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF CURTIN HOUSE,
PERTH APRIL, 1975
Mr. dhairman, Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, Mr. and Mrs. John Curtin,
Jnr., Sir Paul and Lady Hasluck, Mr. and Mrs. John Tonkin,
Ladies and Gentlemen
A year ago on the eve of the campaign for the 1974 Federal
elections, I laid the foundation stone for John Curtin House
in Canberra. That building, now nearing completion, will be
the national headquarters of the Australian Labor Party.
Today, 2,000 miles across the continent, I have the privilege

Press Statement No.* 498
April 1975
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR WHITLAM AND THE
PREMIER OF VICTORIA, MR HAMER
AREA IMPROVEMENT AND NATIONAL ESTATE AGREEMENTS
SIGNED
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, and the Premier
of Victoria, Mr Hamer, have signed formal agreements providing
for the expenditure in Victoria of $ 4,250,000 under the
Area Improvement Program and $ 1,119,000 under the National
Estate Program during 1974/ 75.
Under the agreements, the Australian Government

PRIME MINISTER's SPEECH AT SAN NICOLA BALL, PERTH
19 APRIL, 1975
Thank you very much indeed for the very kind words that
you have used about me and my wife. It is a very great
pleasure again to be guests of the Association of San Nicola
at the Annual Ball.
The last time I was your guest was three years ago and on
that occasion I remember undertaking that if I was translated
from Leader of the Opposition to Prime Minister, I would see
that people who had migrated to Australia, were placed in

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PRESS STATEMENT NO. 497
18 April 1975
TRIBUTE. TO. RAAF
The Prime Minister today paid tribute to the humanitarian
contribution made by the C-130 aircraft of the Royal Australian
Air Force which have been operating in South-East Asia since
March. He did this on the occasion of the return to
Australia of three aircraft which require servicing.
T2he Prime Minister recalled that the aircraft had
originally been sent to South-East Asia to fulfil an urgent

APPROPRIATION BILL
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
17 APRIL 1975
JUST OVER FIVE MONTHS AGO, ON 12 NOVEMBER 1974, 1
ANNOUNCED TO THE HOUSE A SERIES OF ECONOMIC MEASURES WHICH
SUPPLEMENTED ACTION ALREADY TAKEN IN THE BUDGET. THE
MEASURES HAD FOUR OBJECTIVES:-
FIRSTLY, TO MAINTAIN CONSUMER DEMAND THROUGH
A SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN PERSONAL INCOME TAXa
SECONDLY, TO ATTACK INFLATION BY REDUCING THE
PRESSURE FOR WAGE INCREASES THROUGH A SUBSTANTIAL
IMPROVEMENT IN AFTER-TAX TAKE-HOME PAY THIS YEARS