PRESS STATEMENT NO. 558
16 September 1975
AUSTRALIAN INCOME TAX DEDUCTIONS FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION
EXPENDITURE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, announced today
that transitional provisions in the Income Tax Assessment
Act 1975 relating to the allowance of deduction, for
Australian income tax purposes, of mineral exploration
expenditure incurred by Australian companies in Papua New
Guinea would be extended.
Amendments to the Australian income tax law
effected by the Income Tax Assessment Act 1975 provide that,

PROME Press Statement No. 557
September 1975
CHAIRMAN INCOME SECURITY REVIEW
The Prime minister announced today that the Chairman of the
Review Group for the Income Security Review would be
Mr I. Castles, Deputy Secretary, Department of the
Prime Minister and Cabinet.
On .8 September 1975 the Prime Minister announced the
decision to undertake the Income Security Review, and
thb terms of reference for it. The Review Group will
consist of officials from the Departments of Social Security,
Repatriation and Compensation, Labor and Immigration,

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Sunday 14 September 1975
The vast majority of us earn our living as employeesas
wage and salary earners. So we have a natural concern to see 0
that our wages keep pace with movements in the cost of living.
No Government has done more than mine to protect and indeed,
improve the real value of workers' incomes. With the support
of the trade union movement we have fought a long, successful
battle to bring in wage indexation. If it succeeds wage

Press Statement No. 556

14 September 1975

The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam announced today a radical new -approach to pricing of Australian crude oil as from 18 September 1975.

Mr Whitlam said the new policy had a two-fold objective. The Government wished to provide the maximum practicable incentive for exploration of new oil fields and at the same time wanted to give existing producers from known discoveries a fair return on their investment which would ensure that all economically recoverable oil is produced from known oil fields.

' s I SPEECH NOTES FOR THE PRIMNE MINISTER.
THE HON,. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.
FOR THE GOULBURN COLLEGE OF ADVANCED EDUCATION
12 SEPTEMBER 1975
1. IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BE INVITED TO ADDRESS THIS
STUDENT BODY AND SEE YOUR NEW COLLEGE. THE COLLEGE WAS
ESTABLISHED IN 1970 AS THE GOULBURN TEACHERS' COLLEGE.
A MONTH AGO ON 8 AUGUST--IT BECAME THE GOULBURN
COLLEGE OF ADVANCED EDUCATION. IT IS ALREADY PLAYING AN
ACTIVE, LIVELY ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY. IT HAS* ALREADY
MADE ITS MARK AS A VIGOROUS AND EFFICIENT INSTITUTION.

Press Statement No. 555
11 September 1975

 The Prime Minister, Mr E. G. Whitlam, announced tonight that in response to a request by BH South Limited the Government had agreed to allow the Company to export rock phosphate from its deposits at Duchess in Queensland. Initially exports would be up to two million tonnes per annum. over  the next ten years.

PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 553
8 September 1975
LOCATION OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT
The Australian Government has decided to transfer a
number of units of Australian Government employment to the
regional growth centres of Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst-Orange and
Geelong. The transfers will commence during 1975/ 76 and continue
to 1978/ 79, and will involve up to 1,200 Public Servants.
The Units to be transferred to regional growth
centres are
TO ALBURY-WODONGA
The Health Insurance Commission, Central Office

PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No.
8 September 1975
INCOME SECURITY REVIEW
The Prime minister, the Hon. E. G. Whitlam, today
announced the terms of reference and the administrative
arrangements for the Income Security Review. Mr Whitlam first
mentioned that the Review would be undertaken in the course of
his Chifley Memorial Lecture which he delivered in Melbourne
on 14 August 1975. The terms of reference for the Review, which
have been agreed to by the Government, are attached.
The Prime Minister said that it had been decided that

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THE REAL THREAT TO MEDIBANK
SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 1975
IN MY BROADCAST LAST WEEK I MADE THE POINT THAT
WHILE MR FRASER KEEPS TALKING ABOUT THE NEED TO CUT
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE, HE NEVER SPELLS OUT CONVINCINGLY
O WHERE THE CUTS WOULD COME FROM IF THE LIBERALS HAD THEIR
WAY) I SAID LAST WEEK: " IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH IMAGINATION
TO SEE W ERE THE REAL CUTS WOULD BE MADE... THEY WOULD COME
__.-FROM OUR PROGRAMS FOR BETTER HEALTH SERVICES AND HOSPITALS,

SPEECH NOTES FOR THE PRIME MINISTER FOR THE GERMAN-AUSTRIAN
CLUB JAHRESBALL, CABRAMATTA, 6 SEPTEMBER 1975
1. I AM DELIGHTED TO BE WITH YOU HERE TONIGHT WITH
MY WIFE, BACK IN MY OWN ELECTORATE, BACK AT THE GERMAN
AUSTRIAN CLUB FOR THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF YOUR CLUB
BUILDING. I WAS PROUD TO BE INVITED TO LAY THE FOUNDATION
STONE BACK IN 1965, WHEN I WAS THE DEPUTYLEADER OF THE
OPPOSITION AS WELL AS YOUR LOCAL MEMBER. I THOUGHT THEN
THAT YOU SHOWED GREAT FAITH, GREAT POLITICAL ACUMEN,
I. KNEW THAT YOU COULDN'T BE ACCUSED OF PLAYING REALPOLITIK,