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PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT NO. 459
4 March 1975
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY INTERIM COUNCIL
The Prime Minister, Mr. Whit lam, announced today
that Mr. Fred Williams, of Melbourne, had accepted an
invitation to become a member of the Interim Council of
the Australian National Gallery.
Mr. Williams is well-known as an Australian
painter and graphic artist, and was a member of the former
Australian National Gallery acquisitions committee.
The Interim Council is responsible for all Gallery

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, M, P.,
TO A DINNER GIVEN BY THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF AUTHORS,
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, 4 MARCH 1975
I AM HONOURED THAT YOUR COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT
HAS ARRANGED THIS EVENING FOR ME. THE LAST TIME I SPOKE
AT THE OPERA HOUSE WAS IN THE ELECTION LAST MAY. I WAS
IN THE COMPANY OF PATRICK WHITE, So YOU WILL SEE THAT I
HAVE ALWAYS HAD SOME SUCCESS IN GETTING WRITERS ON SIDES
NOW THAT AUTHO'RS ARE RECEIVING PUBLIC FUNDS, NOW YOU ARE
ALL ON THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL, I EXPECT AN EVEN BIGGER

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
TO THE FEDERAL CONFERENCE OF THE HEALTH AND
RESEARCH EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, MONDAY 3 MARCH 1975
It is seven years since I had the pleasure
of opening an annual conference of your association.
It was a memorable conference and a memorable year for
my party. It was in 1968 that Labor formulated its
health scheme. In my speech on that occasion I took
one of the first opportunities available to me to
explain publicly the fundamentals of our health program

NATIONAL GALLERY BILL 1975
SECOND READING SPEECH
BY
THE HONOURABLE E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
PRIME MINISTER
The purpose of the Bill is to establish an Australian
National Gallery in the national capital to develop, maintain
and exhibit a national collection of works of art and to
provide an art focus for the whole Australian community.
Like the Australia Council Bill, this is another
historic initiative taken by the present Government to promote
interest and activity in the arts in Australia. Our intention

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THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
ADDRESS BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
TO THE SYDNEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, WENTWORTH HOTEL, SYDNEY,
FRIDAY, 28 FEBRUARY, 1975. 4
IT IS MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS AGO SINCE I FIRST
ADDRESSED, AS LEADER OF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, A
MAJOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, NOT SYDNEY BUT MELBOURNE, IN
OCTOBER 1968y .1 HAD THE REPORTS OF MY SPEECH LOOKED UPx
SI FOUND THAT MY THEME ON THAT OCCASION WAS THE SAME AS I
HAD PLANNED TO TAKE WITH YOU TODAY, I SAID THEN SEVEN

26 February 1975
VISIT OF SOVIET TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
DELEGATION
The Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister,
Mr E. G. Whitlam, and the Minister for Science, Mr Bill
Moriison, announced today that a party of five Soviet
textile technologists vill arrive in Melbourne tomorrow.
The group is visiting Australia for twc weeks under the
auspices of the Australian/ Soviet Science Agreement, but
will also undertake somz activities arranged by the
International Wool SecretPariat.
Whilst in Australia the Soviet textile technologists

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
THE HON, E. G, WHITLAM, 0, C. M. P.
TO THE TASMANIAN STATE A, L. P CONFERENCE
I_ AUNCESTON, 23 FE3,. PUARY L975
JUST OVER TWO WEEKS AGO WE ENDED A SUCCESSFUL
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE PARTY IN TERRIGAL. THAT
CONFERENCE REKINDLED OUR SPIRITS AND STRENGTHENED OUR
DETERMINATION TO CARRY ON WITH LABOR'S PROGRAM AND PUT
US BACK ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY. YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT
OUR OPPONENTS PREDICTED ALL SORTS OF DISUNITY AND
DISSENSION IN TERRIGAL. IT WAS TO BE A CONFERENCE

AUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 457
22 February 1975
SENATE VACANCY
Mr Lewis will be flouting the unanimous wishes of
the Senate, the Parliamentary Liberal Party in Canberra and
now the Liberal Party Federal Executive if he goes ahead with
his defiance of convention in filling the Senate vacancy.
It is apparent to everyone except Mr Lewis and
the more backward elements of the Country Party that
conventions of this kind must be preserved if our democratic
parliamentary system is to survive.

PRESS STATEMENT NO. 456
February, 1975
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR GRANTS
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, announced today
grants and assistance totalling $ 305,300.00 for special
activities during, International Women's Year. This is the
second of a series of grants and represents a total commitment
so far of-over a half a million dollars ($ 538,800.00).
He stated that he had approved the grants on the
advice of the Australian National Advisory Committee for
International Women's Year. This Committee which was established

PRIME MRAINISTE 19 February 1975
FAIRFIELD RED GRANTS
The Prime Minister and Member for Werriwa,
Mr Gough Whitlam, said today that Fairfield Council should
feel particularly satisfied at their latest grants under
the R. E. D. Scheme. The Council received at total of
120, 256. Mr Whitlam. said that the Australian Ministerial
Committee on Regional Employment Development Schemes had
met a week ago to consider grant applications.
The largest single project grant was $ 279,828
which would cover 26 weeks employment for 56 people