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PRIME MINISTER April 1975
ADDITIONAL NATIONAL HIGHWAY PROJECTS IN N. S. W.
The Australian Government has approved
additional National Highway projects in New South Wales.
These include construction and maintenance work on each
of the National Highways linking Sydney with Melbourne
and Brisbane, and on the Federal and Barton Highways
to Canberra. The Prime Minister and Mo'mber for Werriwa,
Mr Gough Whitlam, said today that one of the Hume
Highway projects was construction of stages of a

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PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 496
April 1975
SECOND ORPHAN FLIGHT
The Prime minister, Mr Whitlam, said a chartered
Qantas 707 would leave tomorrow morning to bring back to
Australia a group of Vietnamese children whose departure
from the Republic of Vietnam for adoption in Australia
had been approved by the Government of the Republic of
Vietnam and for whom a sufficient number of approved
adoptive parents were waiting in Australia.
Arrangements would be similar to those made for

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PRIME MINISTER I
Press Statement No. 494
April 1975
COMMISSION FOR CONSUMER AFFAIRS
The Australian Government has decided to establish
a Commission for Consumer Affairs to co-ordinate consumer
standards and handle public education on consumer matters.
The Commission will be an independent statutory
authority responsible to the Minister for Science,
Mr Bill Morrison. It will develop consumer product standards and
information standards for promulgation under the Trade
Practices Act.

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PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 495
April 1975
COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, announced today
that he would leave Australia on 23 April to attend the
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kingston,
Jamaica, and to pay official visits to Peru and the
United States. He would return to. Australia on 11 May.
Mr Whitlam said he would visit Peru from 24-27
April. He would be in Kingston from 27 April 7 May and
would then fly to Washington for a 27 hour visit. He would

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PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 493
14 April 1975
LOCATION OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENT
The Government has endorsed new criteria for
the location of Australian Government employment in
Canberra and other growth centres.
Most proposals for establishing new units of
Government administration, or relocating existing units,
have tended to assume they would be in Canberra. However
acceptance of all such proposals would place intolerable
strains on Canberra's growth resources in the short

QUEENSLAND BROADCAST NO. 4 2? c2
( SUNDAY 13 APRIL 1975) INDO-CHINA
THE TRAGEDY OF INDO-CHINA WHI6+ AS BEEN GOING
ON NOW FOR 30 YEARS ONCE AGAIN DOMINATES THE HEADLINES.
OUR TELEVISION SCREENS AND THE DEBATE IN PARLIAMENTX
FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTERS HAVE
HAD TO REPORT TO PARLIAMENT ABOUT AUSTRALIAN ACTIONS IN
VIETNAMX I AM THE FIFTH AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER TO
DO SO& LAST WEEK, HOWEVER, THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE IN
MY POSITION FROM THAT OF MY FOUR PREDECESSORS THE
AUSTRALIAN ACTIONS I HAD TO TALK ABOUT, INCLUDING ACTIONS

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH, ST. JOSEPH'S SCHOOL, MOOREBANK, N. S. W.
13.4.1975 It's true that the parish priest revealed that I was looking up
the article on Thomas Moore, not the one that is usually referred
to in this circle, not the saint but the land-owner. He was a
very good citizen. In 1810 he was declared a magistrate for
Liverpool, and he accompanied Macquarie when Macquarie later in
December 1810 surveyed the whole of this area and declared
Liverpool one of the original Macquarie towns.
So in Australian terms, the terms of settlement, European

ADDRESS BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E, G, WHITLAM, M. P.,
TO THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY STATE COUNCIL, NSW. BRANCH,
SYDNEY, 13 APRIL, 1975
SINCE I ADDRESSED YOU LAST YEAR, OUR OPPONENTS HAVE
CHANGED LEADERS BOTH IN NEW SOUTH WALES AND IN CANBERRA.
THE INTERESTING THING IS THAT THE NEW LIBERAL LEADER IN
PLAYED A CENTRAL ROLE IN DESTROYING THE FEDERAL
LIBERAL LEADERX I DON'T WANT TO GET STUCK INTO MR SNEDDEN,
BUT THERE ARE IMPORTANT LESSONS TO BE DRAWN FROM WHAT WAS
DONE TO HIMX THERE ARE LESSONS NOT ONLY TO BE LEARNT BY
THE LIBERALS BUT BY USX

PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS TO N. S. W. STATE COUNCIL
OF THE SYDNEY
13.4.1975 It was the Fisher Labor Government which inaugurated the
East/ West Railway and yesterday I symbolically inaugurated
the largest railway project in Australia since that time
a railway of about 830 kilometers costing $ 100 million, and
if I may respond to what John Ducker was saying by way of
introduction, this weekend in South Australia we did two
things which I believe indicate what could be done by
co-operation between a Federal and a State Labor Government.

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT TARCOOLA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
FOR INAUGURATION CEREMONIES OF TARCOOLA/ ALICE SPRINGS RAILWAY
12.4 .1975
Everything we say on this platform is being recorded even if it
is not being amplified. So even if you can't hear us today, I've
no doubt you will play the record of the occasion for the rest
of your lives. Maybe.
We were introduced today by our colleacjue Laurie Wallace, the
M. P. for Grey, in which electorate Tarcoola forms the centre
and it was like old times for him, because he lived in Tarcoola