JJ AUST ALIA L Press Statement No. 455
18 February 1975
APPOiNTMENT TO THE COAL INDUSTRY TRIBUNAL
The Prime Minister and the Premier of
New South Wales today announced the appointment of
Mr David Anthony Duncan as Coal Industry Tribunal.
The appointment was made under the joint
arrangements provided for by the Australian and
New South Wales Coal Industry Acts.
Mr Duncan, formerly legal officer for
the joint Coal Board, is to take up his appointment
immediately. He succeeds Mr Justice Gallagher, C. M. G.

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PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CQNFP. ENCE AT
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA ON
18TH FEBRUARY 1975.
QUESTION WHITLAM QUESTION The N. S. W. Premier, Mr Tom Lewis, has announced that
he intends to fill the Senate vacancy with a non-
Labor Senator. Sir, what's your reaction to this,
and secondly, is there any action that your Government
can take to ensure that the convention is observed?
My attitude to the matter has been made quite plain,
of course, for very many years. I was a member of
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PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 454
17 February 1975
Mr Anthony and Constitutional Conventions
Mr Anthony's latest outburst suggests that his memory as well as
his principles are on the down-turn.
It is only a little more than a year since Mr Anthony was an ardent
defender of the principle of Senate vacancies being filled by members of the
same party as Senators who had died or resigned.
So concerned was he about this principle that in 1973, before the
retirement of Senator Prowse, he telephoned the Premier of Western

AUS IHKA~
PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT NO. 453
16 February, 1975
TASMAN BRIDGE ADVISOR APPOINTED
The Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam, announced in
HoLart today that Sir Roland Wilson had accepted his
invitation to be his personal advisor on the Ti sman
Bridge reconstruction. Sir Roland will advise the Prime
Mirnister on all matters affecting the Hobart Metropolitan
area in which Federai Departments are involved. The move
has the support of the Tasmanian Premier, Mr. Reece, and
Australian Government Ministers with responsib: ilities in

ADDRESS 10 THE NATIOIN.
BY THE PRIME 1 INISTER,
MR, EG. W11r -LAM, m. P.,
SUNDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 1975
I want to speak tonight about some distrubing
developments in Australia's parliamentary system which
I am bound to say post as werious a threat to its
strenght and stability as we have ever encouintered in
our history. It's time to stop the rot. And that can really
be done only by the Australian people
Let me begin by stating a very general principle
about the working of our democracy. Our syster, depends very

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PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT NO. 453# 4
16 February, 1975
TASMAN BRIDGE ADVISOR APPOINTED
The Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam, announced in
Holart today that Sir Roland Wilson had accepted his
invitation to be his personal advisor on the T; sman
Bridge reconstruction. Sir Roland will advise the Prime
Minister on all matters aff& cting the Hobart Metropolitan
area in which Federal Departments are involved. The move
has the support of the Tasmanian Premier, Mr. Keece, and

SPEECH NOTES FOR THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
FOR THE HOBART CIVIC RECEPTION, 15 FEBRUARY 1975
1. IN 1803 LIEUTENANT JOHN BOWEN MADE THE FIRST
EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT IN TASMANIA AT RiSDON ON. THE
EASTERN SHORE OF THE DERWENT. THE SETTLEMENT
WAS NAMED HOBART AFTER LORD HOBART THEN BRITISH
COLONIAL SECRETARY. THE SITE WAS LATER FOUND
TO BE UNSUITABLE.
2. IN FEBRUARY 1804 19 FEBRUARY, 171 YEARS AGOLIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR DAVID COLLINS SELECTED A
SPOT FIVE MILES FARTHER DOWNSTREAM AT SULLIVAN
COVE AND TOOK POSSESSION FOR THE SETTLEMENT

SPFFCII BY iIIF PRIME MINISTR,
T 1l i 1. FEI -G1 . iiI TlIAM, .1oC.. I, Po.
FOR THE OPENING OF TIHE NEPFAN DIT I PICT
AGRICULTURAL, ! iORTICUIIITIIHRALA ND INDIISTRIAI. . IITY'S
ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW,
PENRITII, 1 FEBRUARY 1975
I HOPE NO ONE WILL ACCUSE ME OF JUNKETING IF I
POINT OUT THAT THIS IS MY SECOND VISIT TO PENRITH IN THE
PAST FIVE MONTHS. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF OPENING A T. V.
FACTORY HERE LAST SEPTEMBER; NOW I AM OPENING YOUR
ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW. AND IT IS HERE IN THIS COMBINATION

PREMIERS' CONFERENCE 11, FEBRUARY 1975
OPENING STATEMENT BY THlE PRIME MINISTER
THlE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.
WHEN WE MET IN JUNE AND AUGUST LAST YEAR WE WERE
AS lIE HAD TO BE PRE-OCCUPIED WITH INFLATION. AT OUR JUNE
MEETING, I TOLD YOU THAT IF TFE ECONOMIC SITUATION CHANGED
AND IT HAS CHANGED WE WOULD MEET TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN.
INFLATION IS, OF COURSE, STILL TO BE OVERCOME, BUT THERE IS
NOW A TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE
SECOND HALF CF 1974 THE ECONOMY TURNED DOWN DRAMATICALLY.

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PRIME MINISTER Press Statmnt No. 453
14 February 1975
ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE STATES IN 1974-75
Following discussions at today's Premiers' Conference
thie Australian Government has undertaken to support the
provision of additional funds for the States and their
authorities in 1974-75 totalling $ 240 million. This is
made up as follows:
* additional general revenue grants of $ 60 million
* additional State Government Loan Council programs
of $ 60 million
* additional borrowing allocations for larger State