PRIME MINISTER'S INTERVIEW WITH CHANNEL 10, AT TARCOOLA
12.4.1975
A. This is the biggest railway project which has been undertaken
in Australia since the Fisher Labor government commenced the East/
West Railway in 1912, but I think the significance of this occasion
doesn't just depend on commencing this very large project
$ 100 million, 830 kilometers long from the East/ West Railway here
at Tarcoola up to Alice Springs. Sure, it'll be important for the
pastoral and mineral and tourist industries in the whole of Central

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT THE COMMEMORATION DINNER, 2y
PORT AUGUSTA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
11.4.
M4r. Wallis, Mr. Smith, Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are meeting tonight at the road and rail crossroads
of Australia and we are meeting on a very great occasionan
important place, an important landmark in our history.
It was from this place in 1912 that the East-West Railway
commencod construction and tomorrow at Tarcoola we will
see the commencement of construction of the biggest railway
project since then.

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER$
\ THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM. M. P,,
FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE TARCOOLA TO ALICE SPRINGS RAILWAY,
SPORT AUGUSTA, SA,, 11 APRIL 1975
THERE COULD BE NO BETTER PLACE TO PROPOSE
A TOAST TO THE RAILWAYS OF AUSTRALIA THAN HERE IN PORT
AUGUSTA, THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT RAIL TOWNS IN AUSTRALIA,
A GREAT RAIL JUNCTION, THE CENTRE OF A COMMUNITY WHOSE
HISTORY AND PROSPERITY ARE CLOSELY LINKED WITH THE PROGRESS
OF AUSTRALIA'S RAILWAYS, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE POSTWAR
IMMIGRATION PROGRAM, WORKERS FROM MANY COUNTRIES HAVE

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P,,
AT THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SUBDIVISION
OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LAND COMMISSION,
HAPPY VALLEY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
11 APRIL 1975
I HOPE THIS WILL BE THE FIRST OF MANY SUCH OPENINGS
I SHALL ATTEND THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA. IT IS APPROPRIATE
THAT THE FIRST SUBDIVISION OF LAND PURCHASED AND PREPARED
FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT BY A STATE LAND COMMISSION SHOULD
BE HERE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE WAS AUSTRALIA'S
FIRST PLANNED CITY. COLONEL LIGHT, THAT FAR-SIGHTED

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT LAND COMMISSION CEREMONY,
HAPPY VALLEY, ADELAIDE
11. 4.
Mr. Chairman, the Deputy Premier, Ministers, Commissioners,
Representatives, our colleagues in the Australian, South
Australian Parliament and Local Council, Ladies and Gentlemen-
I don't mind how often I come to functions like this because
this function is the forerunner of many which will take place,
we hope, throughout Australia and which will have two very
great advantages. One is, that the old Australian dream of

NOTES FOR THE PRIME INIISTER
FOR THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION.*
MODERN MASTERS: MANET TO MATISSE.
AT THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.-
SYDNEY,. 9 APRIL 1975
THIS IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ART EXHIBITION
EVER TO COME To AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIANS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO
TRAVEL HAVE PERHAPSSEEN SOME OF THE WORKS, OR THEIR LIKE,. IN THE
GREAT GALLERIES OF NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE; OTHERS MAY HAVE
SEEN THEM REPRODUCED IN ART BOOKS; BUT THIS IS THE FIRST
OPPORTUNITY THAT THE LARGE PROPORTION OF AUSTRALIANS HAS HAD

, A S TXALIA(
PRIME MCNISTER PRESS STATE'ENT NO. 492
9 APRIL 1975
INTER-STATE COMMISSION ( QUEENSLAND RELEASE ONLY)
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, today dismissed suggestions
that the establishment of an Inter-State Commission might affect
transport costs in Queensland.
He rejected claims by the Queensland Premier that the
Inter-State Commission could result in increased rail
freights. He denied that industries in North Queensland would
be disadvantaged. " The Inter-State Commission is certainly not a plot to

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT INDO-CHINA. THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM,
PRIME MINISTER. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8 APRIL 1975
Thirty years ago France attempted to re-establish
her fallen empire in Indo-China. A war for independence
became a war of massive foreign intervention. It engulfed
a region. It challenged the might and will of the greatest
powor on earth. It made a wilderness of somte of'the fairest
portions of the globe. Thu most tranquil city in Asia
Phnomn Penh has been made, in the wo.-rds of the Member for

Press Statement No. 491
8 April 1975
HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA BUILDING
Work will begin this month on the construction
of a building for the High Court of Australia. The building
is expected to be completed in three and a half years.
The project, the contract price of which is
$ 18.4 million, has been awarded to PDC Constructions ( ACT)
Pty Limited. This company is also building the Australian
National Gallery, which is being built nearby and is of
closely compatible architecture.
The design of the building is the result of a

iJJAUSTRLIA
PIUu' Z MPISTER Press Statement No. 490
7 April 1975
CANCELLATION OF SECOND ORPHAN-FLIGHT
A second charter flight by a Qantas aircraft
which was to have departed this afternoon to bring a second
group of Vietnamese orphans for adoption in Australia has
had to be cancelled. The Prime Minister, in announcing the cancellation
of the flight, said the Australian Embassy in Saigon had
been advised late this morning by the Deputy Prime Minister
of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam, Dr Dan, that