PRESS STATEMENT NO. 229
18 April 1974
AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL ANTHEM
" Advance Australia Fair" will be played as the Australian
National Anthem at this year's official Anzac Day ceremony in Canberra.
The Prime Minister announced this in Canberra today.
Mr. Whitlam said he had asked the Minister for Defence to
instruct the Armed Services to play " Advance Australia Fair" on all
appropriate occasions. He had also written to other Ministers
asking them to give similar instructions to all departments and

EMBARGO: 7.30 p. m.
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
TUESDAY, 16 APRIL 1974
On 18 May we Australians will take part in an historic
expression of the will of the people. There is to be an election for
both Houses of the national Parliament, for the House of Representatives
and for the whole of the Senate. Further, you are being asked to
approve certain proposals to enshrine in the Australian Constitution
some basic democratic guarantees. I freely acknowledge the burden

. AJAUSTRALIA PRESS RELEASE NO. 228
APRIL 1974
The Leader of the Opposition's confused and
confusing grab-bag of economic policies is a model of
irresponsibility and a receipe for inflation. It would
seem that the Opposition believes the economy is slack
rather than fully extended. If so, Opposition spokesmen
are the only individuals to make this claim for many months.
When the Labor Party was elected by the people
in December 1972, there was unemployment and there was a need
for stimulatory Government action. In the year 1972, the

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PRESS RELEASE NO. 22
The Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam today released the text of his
correspondence with the Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck,
about the dissolution of the Twenty-Eighth Parliament on ThursdaZy.
Mr. Whitlam's letter to Sir Paul of April 10 road:
" I write, further to our discussions, to advise you that a situait. c
has arisen between the Senate and the House of Representatives
not only provides the conditions precedent to the exercise of th.
dissolution power vested by the Constitution in the Governo: r-Gen:

PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
THURSDAY 11 APRIL 1974
PRIME MINISTER: Ladies and gentlemen, I announced in the House of
Representatives last night that the Governor-General had agreed that
there should be a simultaneous dissolution of the Senate and the House
of Representatives. He required to be assured on two matters. First
that there would be supply for the public service until the election,
and the other that the electoral machinery was adequate to conduct

PRESS STATEMENT NO. ZZ 2.
April 1974
PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO PARTIES IN PRICES JUSTIFICATION
TRIBUNAL INQUIRIES
For some time now it has been apparent that provision
should be made to assist in the presentation of cases in
the consumer interest at Prices Justification Tribunal
inquiries. It is important that adequate presentations be
made to the Tribunal so that it will have all relevant aspects
of the matter before it during its deliberations. I pay
tribute to the quality of the Tribunal's past reports and

PRESS STATEMENT NO. 221
9 April 1974
RELEASE OF INDUSTRIES ASSISTANCE COMMISSION REPORT
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, today released the
Industries Assistance Commission report on Paper. He said that
this was in accordance with his earlier statement on 19 December
1973 that reports of the Industries Assistance Commission which
would not cause damaging speculation would be made public as
soon as they are printed.
Mr Whitlam said that the Government's decision on
the'report will be announced at the earliest practicable date.

PRESS STATEMENT NO. 219
8 April 1974
ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR THE DAIRY INDUSTRY
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, announced today
that the Australian Government is prepared to invest
substantially in the dairy industry during the next two
years to help it towards long term stability.
When it was agreed in July last to phase out the
dairy bounty, this Government undertook to introduce
restructuring measures which would best help the dairy
industry and the smaller dairy farmer.
Cabinet yesterday approved a program of assistance

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8 April 1974
NATIONAL ANTHEM
Please find attached copies of the results of the
National Anthem poll which the Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam,
incorporated in Hansard this morning.

PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE,
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
8 APRIL 1974
Opening statement by the Prime Minister.
The people of Australia should be very clear about how,
why and by whom their country has been suddenly plunged into a grave
and unprecedented Constitutional crisis. Beyond all the manoeuvring
and mud-slinging of the last week, one basic fact lies behind this
crisis: a group of Senators elected in 1967 and 1970 proposes to
deny the Australian Government, elected for three years in 1972, the
right to govern and the power to govern.