1 7 4 OVER THE YEARS, THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY HAS NOT ENJOYED
A VERY GOOD PRESS. By CONTRAST, WE HAVE BEEN GENERALLY
WELL-TREATED BY HISTORY AND THE HISTORIANS, IT IS
SOME CONSOLATION TO KNOW THAT HISTORY WILL RENDER A
FAVOURABLE VERDICT. THE DIFFICULTY IS TO WAIT AROUND
LONG ENOUGH FOR THE JUDGEMENT TO BE HANDED DOWN.
IF POSTERITY HAD THE V/ OTE, LABOR WOULD NEVER BE OUT
OF OFFICE. As IT IS WE HAVE THE PARADOX THAT WHILE
AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL HISTORY TENDS VERY LARGELY TO BE
WRITTEN IN TERMS OF THE HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR

SPEECH BY THE PRINE MINISTER,
THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, OC. M. P.,
FOR THE OPENING OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND
TECHNICAL LIBRARY ( ANSTEL)
CANBERRA 2 OCTOBER 1975
IT IS APPROPRIATE THAT IEXPRESS MY OWN AND THE
GOVERNMENT'S INDEBTEDNESS TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
NATIONAL LIBRARY COUNCIL, KENNETH MIYER. THIS IS THE
SECOND OCCASfON IN THE PAST WEEK WHEN IHAVE HAD
CAUSE TO'-ACKNOWLEDGE KEN MYER'S REMARKABLE RECORD OF
PUBLIC SERVICE. IN MIELBOURNE ON M'ONDAY I OPENED AN
EXHIBITION OF CHINESE CRAFTS WHICH THE M'YER STORES

PRESS STATE1m1ENT NO 568
September 1975
I
CRONULLA-SUTHERLAND RUGBY LEAGUE
Th@ Prime Minister added his voice today to
appeals to save the Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club.
Mr Whitlam represented the Cronulla area when he
was first elected to the House of Representatives and his
sons first played football at Cronulla schools.
He said at' that time the area was just emerging
from rural conditions. It had few prepared playing fields
or facilities for its residents.
Since then, local government authorities had done

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT 2
HIGH COURT PLAQUE UNVEILING,
CANBERRA, 29 SEPTEMBER ] 975
Mr Minister, Chief Justice, Your Honours, Your
Excellencies, Ladies arnd Gentlemen.
Today for the first time in Au * stralia's history
the High Court of Australia is sitting in Canberra: the
Chief Justice and all the Judges. And on a day like this
it's well to recall how-nobly they have fulfilled one of
their tenets:
Let justice be done even though it Pours,
But take good heart because on this site, one

PRIME MINISTER ON HSV7' S THIS WEEK PROGRAM
SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 1975
You will have noticed that in Melbourne this week-
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday there was a second meeting of
the Australian Constitutional Convention. The first meeting
took place in Sydney in September 1973. That meeting, the
Convention set up, unanimously, committees and working parties
to prepare for the next meeting. And then over the last three
months all the Premiers in Australia and I have co-operated
in arrangements for this meeting of the Convention in

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PRIME MINISTER' S WEEKLY BROADCAST
IMO ARE THE CENTRALISTS?
SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 1975
I made the point, last week that Mr Fraser is
having a hard time standing up to the bullying tactics of
the Country Party and some of the Premiers on the question
of passing the Budget. If Mr Fraser wants to prove himself
a true leader of the Opposition he must take a firm stand
on this issue and put an end to the damaging and irresponsible
speculation about an early election. He certainly failed that

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PRIME MINISTER J: õ , 7edi K 667
STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
J. T. LANG
J. T. Lang's great achievement was to create new
opportunities for the people of New South Wales and by
example for all Australians. His first Government, half
a century ago, pioneered new forms of social welfare for
Australia, notably compulsory workers' compensation and
child endowment. That Government laid the foundations of
modern Sydney as an integrated community from the north
to the west. It achieved electrification of the railways,

EMBARtGO: 7.00 PM
7 PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 565
26 September 1975
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION
The Prime Minister today announced that Mr Justice
A. E. Woodward, O. B. E. is to be appointed as head of the
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
Mr Justice Woodward has been a Judge of the Australian
Industrial Court and of the Supreme Courts of the Australian
Capital Territory and the Northern Territory since 1972. In 1974
he was appointed President of the Trade Practices Tribunal.

Press Statement No. 566
26 September 1975
CHANGE TO IWY PROGRAM
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlan, announced today
that, when the financial allocation for International Women's
Year activities was determined, it was also decided to review
the proposed program of events for the remainder of the year.
In keeping w~ th the program's original aims, preference will
continue to be given to projects directed towards Australian
women. One outcome of this review is that the United Nations
Inter-Regional Seminar on Women, The Media and The Arts:

JIVA
PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 564
24 September 1975
FOREIGIJ ITWJEST". 1IT " OT, I ry
4In this statement I am amnoiumcirog details of further developments
in the Government's -policies tov.-ards foreign investmient. These
developments follow a revie',, b0y the Resources Committee of
Cabcieet tai asect ofthe policies in the light of the
ex-perience gained since December 19/ 72. Their are also intended
to clarify certain aspects of our policies here th-cre appears to
be some confusion in the minds of forelign inve-stors.