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PARLIAMENTAR--
Press Statement
/ 3 May 1974
PROPOSED PRICE INCREASES BY
PRESERVENE PTY. LTD.
I have received the attached report of the
Prices Justification Tribunal on certain price
increases proposed by Preservene Pty. Ltd. The report
is available to the public and may be inspected at the
offices of the Prices Justification Tribunal 10 Queens
Road, Melbourne or 100 William Street, Sydney.
Canberra, A. C. T.

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, IMR E, G. WHITLAM
AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
MONDAY 13 MAY 1974
ON 2 DECEMBER 1972 THERE WAS A NEW SPIRIT OF
HOPE KINDLED IN THIS'COONTRY. THAT HOPE, FOR A BETTER
AUSTRALIA, A MORE EQUAL AUSTRALIA, A MORE INDEPENDENT
AUSTRALIA, A MORE TOLERANT AUSTRALIA, A MORE COMPASSIONATE
AUSTRALIA, BURNS BRIGHTER THAW EVER. AND IT WILL BURN
BRIGHTER STILL,' AFTER 18 MAY.
EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE,
EVERY RESPONSE OF THE PAST TWO WEEKS AN ENTHUSIASM
AND EXHILERATION, A DETERMINATION BEYOND ALL MY EXPERIENCE

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EMBARGO: 4. OOPM SUNDAY 12 MARCH 1974
) AUSTRALIA 12 May 1974
PETROL PRICE
The Liberal and Country Parties are now clearly committed to
a massive increase in the price of petrol. It is no comfort to
Australian consumers to be told that the full impact might be delayed
a year. Not only would the price of petrol go up but all goods would
go up as a result of increased production costs and transport costs.
Mr. Anthony let the cat out of the bag let the tiger out of the
* tank. He has destroyed the Opposition's remaining credibility on

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PRIME MINISTER 11 May 1974
COUNTRY PARTY DOMINATES THE OPPOSITION
TVie most sinister factor in this campaign is the power
and influence of the Country Party over its Liberal partners.
Liberal voters should remember that a vote for the coalition
is a vote for the domination of the Country Party the most
selfish, sectional and reactionary of the major parties in
Australia. If we look at the record of the coalition we see
repeated evidence of the Country Party's power to browbeat and
manipulate the Liberals.

J 1AUSTKALA L
PRIME MINISTER May 1974
FREE ISSUE OF TREES AND SHRUBS TO SERVICEMEN IN QUEENSLAND
The Prime Minister announced today that the Australian
Government would assist married servicemen occupying Housing
Agreement homes in Queensland to establish and landscape
their gardens by providing trees, shrubs, lawn seed, top
soil and rotary hoeing free of charge.
Mr. Whitlam said that these items were normally provided
for all Service-owned married quarters completed after 1 July
1970 and also in dwellings allocated to servicemen under the

SAUSTI'. ALIA, 9 May 1974
SOIL PRICES
Mr. Anthony has finally come clean on the Liberal
oil price increase. He admitted in Perth yesterday that
Australian crude oil prices should be raised by at least
per cent this would mean a rise with mark ups of at least
3 cents in every gallon bought by the motorist. Quienslanders
use over 350 million gallons every year the proposal Mr.
Anthony has revealed would cost Australians over 1G60 million.
This is no way to beat inflation; it would make it worse.

J AUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTER 8 May 1974
VISIT BY H. R. H. PRINCE CHARLES
His Royal Highness Prince Charles has accepted
an invitation from the Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam, to
visit Australia in September and October.
Announcing this today, Mr. Whitlam said Prince
Charles would officially open the new Anglo-Australian
150-inch optical telescope at Siding Springs, New South
Wales. He also planned to visit other States, and the
itinerary for his visit would be arrang ed soon. i
Mr. Whitlam said Prince Charles had told him in

PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT
7 May 1974
Aboriginal Land Rights Commission Second Report
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, announced today that
the Government had accepted in principle the recommendations
contained in the Second Report of the Aboriginal Land Rights
Commission. The Report had been received by the Government following
its presentation to the Governor-General last Friday, 3 May, and
was now being released in accordance with the undertaking given by
the Prime Minister in his Policy Speech.

EMBARGO: 8. OOPM 6 MAY 1974
A. B. C. BROADCAST BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E. G. WHITLAM, QC, MP,
MONDAY 6 MAY 1974
Let me remind you of the basic choice you face in this
election. It's a choice between turning back returning to the
past or moving forward forward on a course of progress and
enlightenment. When you elected this government seventeen months ago
you gave us a clear go-ahead to carry out a vast and creative
program of reform.-You said: " We've had enough of run down schools,