EMBARGOED: 7.30 P. M.
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E. G. WHITLAM, QC, MP,
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 1974
Eleven days ago, we all voted to elect a new House of
Representatives and an entirely new Senate. Any doubt or delay
in the outcome stemmed not from any indecision on the part of
the electors, but from the complexity of our electoral laws.
The thrust and and clear meaning of your decision is beyond doubt.
You have returned the Government which you elected less than
18 months ago. You have returned us with a comfortable majority.

PRESS STATEMENT NO. 248
23 May 1974
APPOINTMENT OF DR P. S. LANG AND MR A. D. BRETT TO INDUSTRIES
ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, announced today that
Dr P. S. Lang and Mr A. D. Brett have been appointed Associates
of the Industries Assistance Commission, for the inquiry relating
to assistance for the promotion of rural products.
Dr Lang is a well known Victorian Grazier who has been
a member of the executive of President of the
Victorian Graziers Association and a Member of the executive

19 May 1974
PRIME MINISTER
STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.
The electors of Australia have voted to support their Government.
Their voice has been partly muffled by the peculiarities of the
electoral system. In New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and
South Australia there are some electorates with an enrolment of
only 50,000 aqd others with an enrolment of 80,000 or even more.
Nevertheless, some clear facts emerge.
The 12f Labor candidates won as many votes as the other 374
candidates combined.

S 1 L? 17 May 1974
1974 ELECTIONS
STomorrow's election will be the biggest ever held in Australia.
There are three ballot papers and record numbers of candidates.
In most States, and especially in New South Wales, the Senate
ballot paper is unusually long.
T All this will make voting arduous for many people.
It will test their care and their patience. I frankly acknowledge,
as I did at the outset of this campaign, the formidable task that
voters will face.
I need hardly stress that the size of the Senate ballot paper

4r-V AUST ALIA 16 May 1974
TERRORIST ATTACK ON ISRAELI SCHOOL CHILDREN
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, said today
that he was deeply shocked by the incident at Ma'alot
in Israel in which 90 children had been held hostage
by guerillas and by the tragic deaths of 16 of these
innocents. Mr Whitlam reiterated Australia's condemnation
of all such acts of terrorism especially those resulting
in the loss of innocent lives and the injury of children.
He said that this action was a deplorable extension of
the shocking practice of taking hostages.

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PRIME MINISTER 16 May 1974
ASSISTANCE TO STATE OF VICTORIA TO ALLEVIATE
FLOOD DAMAGE
The Prime Minister, Mr E. G. Whitlam, announced
today that as a result of reports of extensive flooding in
Victoria he had urgently telegramed Mr Hamer offering
financial assistance for the alleviation of personal
distress and repair of damage. Mr Whitlam also announced
that the Australian Defence services had been requested
to provide whatever assistance could be given to alleviate
the effects of the flood.

May 1974
VIP AIRCRAFT
ThuL Prhlio. Ministur, Mr E. G. WhiLlam said tonight:
" Any suggestion that I commandeered Mr Snedden's VIP jet for
my use this afternoon is totally false.
" Throughout the campaign Mr Snedden and I have each used one
of the two BAC 111 jets in the VIP Squadron. Mr Snedden hashad
exactly the same facilities at his disposal as I have.
" Last week the BAC III that I was using was temporarily
unserviceable. My staff and I transferred to a smaller and
slower aircraft. Mr Snedden continued to use a BAC III.

PRIME MINISTER May 1974
AUSTRALIA'S BLACK CULTURE FOR NIGERIA
Australia is to send up to 100 Aboriginals to Lagos next
year to take part in the Second World Black and African Festival
of Arts and Culture, the Prime Minister announced today.
The Festival will be held in and around Lagos in
November/ December, 1975.
Australian participation was invited after a meeting of
the planning committee in Lagos earlier this year.
A committee drawn from the Department of Aboriginal and
Foreign Affairs, the Australian Council for the Arts and the

STATEiENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
BAliKSTOWN MEETING. 15 , AY,-1974
Su_ PnBPFR ASKIN HAS SHOWN A RECKLESS AND
IRRESPONSIBLE INDIFFERENCE TO THE NEEDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES
AND THE OPPORTUNITIES HELD OUT TO HIM BY THE AUSTRALIAN
GOVERNMENT FOR FRUITFUL CO-OPERATION,
0 THIS GREAT DEFENDER OF fDERALISM, THIS SELF-STYLED
APOSTLE OF COMMONWEALTH-STATE CO-OPERATION, HAS REJECTED
0@ NEARLY EVERY. INITIATIVE FOR CO-OPERATION PUT FORWARD BY THE
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DURING THE PAST 17 MONTHS.
HIS DOCTRINAIRE OBSESSION WITH STATE RIGHTS HAS COST

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB LUNCHEON : PRIME MINISTER'S OPENING ADDRESS
MAY 1974
Mr. President, your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Please forgive me if I'm not too formal. I have no text to
declaim to you. I will make some preliminary observations
and then whether I like it or not I'll have to answer your
questions. I gather that on previous speeches in this particular round
there have been a great number of references to economic
affairs. I shall quote from a part of your newspapers
tomorrow morning which you won't be writing yourselves.