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PRESS STATEMENT NO. 375
19 November 1974
The Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam, today sent the
following telegram to Mr. Barry Egan, Secretary, Australian
Workers' Union: " I send my congratulations on the decision
by the shop assistant and other members of your
trade union to respond positively to the Government's
proposals relating to pay claims and the scheme for
introducing cost of living adjustments. To your
trade union, and to all union members, I confirm
that the Government regards the recently announced

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PRIMES MAINISTE PRESS STATEMENT
19 November 1974
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, released the following
statement when he left Amberley late last night to return to
Canberra.. He had spent four days of intensive campaigning
for the Queensland State election.
The Bjelke-Petersen Government is cheating Queenslanders
of the benefits of increased Australian Government funds for
education, housing and local government. It is cutting back
its own expenditures in areas where the Australian Government
has given more money.

PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT NO. 374
19 November 1974
MESSAGE TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE
HELLENIC REPUBLIC
The Prime Minister today released the text of a
message of congratulations to Mr Karamanlis, following
the Greek elections at the weekend.
" To His Excellency Mr Constantine Karamanlis,
Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic.
In my message to you of 25 July this year I
congratulated you on your restoration as Prime Minister and
wished you well on your assumption of responsibility for

NOTES FOR THE PRIME MINISTER, THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
FOR A SPEECH AT ST PAUL'S HALL, IPSWICH, 18 NOVEMBERk 1974
1. I am proud to share this platform tonight with
Rex Connor, the Minister for Minerals and Energy. The people
of this city and this State have no greater friend and
benefactor. Labor's policies for the development of our coal,
minerals and other resources are in the best of hands.
Rex Connor's handling of our mineral resources has safeguarded
Australian ownership and vastly increased the returns to

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PRESS STATEMENT NO. 373
18 November 1974
CRUDE OIL POLICY
The Prime Minister announced that a regulation under
the Prices Justification Act 1973-1974 had been gazetted today
removing the supply of Australian indigenous crude oil from the
application of that Act. The recently announced proposed price
increase by Ampol Exploration Ltd. will thus no longer come
within the jurisdiction of the Prices Justification Tribunal.
The Prime Minister stated that the price applicable
to indigenous crude oil production was determined in October

PRIME MINISTER
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SURF LIPX SAVING CLUB GRANTS SURFEURS PAIAfLISE
18 November 1974
The Prime Minister said today he was concerned to
read of the Gold Coast City Council's decision to restrict
daily patrols of beaches during the peak school holiday
period. He hoped the Council's appeal to the Premier would
succeed. Mr Whitlam was speaking at Surfers Paradise where
he held a pross conference this morning.
Mr Whitlam said that the first ever federal grants
for life saving had been allocated by the Australian Labor

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW V
BROADCAST 9.3Oam NOVEMBER 18 ON 4BC
BETWEEN HAYDN SARGENT ( HTS:) AND THE PRIME MINISTER.
( Recorded Friday November
HS: Prime Minister, Mr Hawke said last night that he anticipated
that next year would be the worst year the world and Australia
had experienced since the great depression.
PM: I think he's right. I think the figures for the next
few months are going to be quite bad here and in every comparable
country, western Europe, North America, Japan.
HS: He says that he thinks maybe the western world has got

PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE
SURFER'S PARADISE
18 NOVEMBER, 1974
PRIME MINISTER: For the benefit of the news persons from the
South, I should introduce you to Mrs. Marian Reed, the candidate
for the Gold Coast State Electorate, and Bill Darcy, the M. L. A.
for Albert. Needless to say, if Queensland's Parliament was
composed on a democratic basis there would be twice as many
members from this area because the electorates are the most
populace in the* State.
One of the refreshing things about visiting Queensland

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PRESS RELhEASEL 18 November 1974
REGIONAL E1. PLOYvL1, NT DEVE~ LOPM4ENT SCHEME ( REDS)
The Prime Minister today released a list of Gold Coast
projects approved by the REYDS Committee of ministers at their
last meeting in Canberra on 13SNoiember. Mr Whitlam was
holding a press conference at Suri ers Paradise.
The Regional Employment Development Scheme is designed
to improve employment opportunities in areas of high unemployment
by encouraging local initiative in these areas to develop
suitable work programs.

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RURAL LOCAL ROADS
During a visit to Redland Bay, the Prime Minister said
he had been informed that the local Redland Shire Council had
been forced to stop road work on Stradbroke Island by a delay
in the allocation of funds provided by the Australian Government.
To date this financial year, the Australian Government
has provided $ 23.4 million to the Queensland Government for
road construction and maintenance. This represents four months'
allocation of the total amount to be provided to the Queensland