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iress Statement No. 184
Statement by the xrime Fvinister, Mr Whitlam.
( Issued in connection with the statement to be made at 8. uO p. mo
tonight by Buckingham Palace see copy attached.)
The Queen to Return to Australia
I am pleased that it will be possible for The Queen
to return to Australia and visit Adelaide, Perth and Darwin.
This had been her hope after fulfilling her constitutional
rluties in the United Eingdom.
I know that the Premiers of South Australia and

PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT NO. 184
February 1974
PHOSPHATE FERTILIZERS BOUNTY
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, today announced that
the Government had decided that the Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty
should be allowed to expire at 31 December 1974. Mr Whitlam said
that the decision was being announced well before the ending of the
bounty to give primary producers and the fertilizer industry time
to make appropriate adjustments to their planning.
Mr Whitlam said that the phosphate fertilizers bounty

PRIME MINISTER
VISIT TO SOUTH-EAST ASIA 14 February 1974
" I have come to the end of a most important visit to
six nations of South-East Asia Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Burma,
Singapore and the Philippines. My visit served two basic purposes.
It enabled me to explain at first hand the aims and purposes of the
Australian Government's foreign policy and to hear the views of our
friends and neighbours on issues of common concern. It also enabled
me to set in train official negotiations on a wide range of practical
issues, especially in the area of trade.

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR, E. G. WHITLAM, 0l. C., AT
THE OPENING OF THE SOCIETY OF ST, VINCENT DE PAULO " OZANAM" HOME OF
PEACE AND CONTENTMENT, CAMPBELL, A. C. T. 14 FEBRUARY 1974
I AM ESPECIALLY PLEASED ON THE DAY AFTER MY RETURN FROM
SOUTH-EAST ASIA TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LAUNCHING OF A NEW
ENTERPRISE OF THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY. FOR AMONG THE VERY
WIDE RANGE OF ITS ACTIVITIES, THE SOCIETY HAS INCLUDED TRAINING
PROGRAMS AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA. UNDOUBTEDLY,

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENC' BY THE PRI1' B MINISTEIR OF
AUSTRALIA, MR. E. G. WiITLAI. AT MANILA INTERCONTIN-NTAL HOTEL
FEBRUARY 12, 1974.
The Prime Minister began by explaining the reason
for the delayed start to the conference.
Q: As you know, the scheme whereby Leyland's are seeking to
6ncourage Filipino migrants and mechanics to Australia
haass haasr ouysoeudr as trgornegat stdeaatle meonft si natbeoruets t Whiint -et hAe usPthrialliipapines
throughout this trip to South-East Asia but when this schemeA

. ij_ 4USTRALIA
. ACTING
PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMfENT NO. 181
11 February 1974
RELEASE OF TARIFF BOARD REPORTS
The Acting Prime Minister, Mr Barnard, today
released three reports which the Government had received
from the Tariff Board in the latter half of 1973. The
reports are titled, Textile Bags; Film Processing
Industry, Advertising Film ( Value for Duty); and Paper
and Textile Bags.
Mr Barnard said that the Government's action,
which was taken after receiving the views of
Mr G. A. Rattigan, Chairman of the Industries

PRESS STATEMENT
GOVERN11NTS APPROVE LOANS TO FLOODED BUSINESSES
JOINT STATrEMENT BY THE ACTING PRIME MINISTER,
THlE lION. L. 11. BARNARD, AND QUEENSLAND
PREMTER, Hri~ lON. J. BJEL1M-E-PETERSEN . L. A.
Thc Australian Government has agreed to a proposal
from the Queensland Government for the provision of loan
finance to business firms suffering physical loss as a direct
result of the recent floods.
2. This measure has been accepted as eligible under
the arrangement for reimbursement of State expenditure in
excess of $ 2 million annually.

4/ DATE
M/' 2 0 11 February 1974.
PRIME MINISTERS ADDRESS AT STATE DINNER,
KUAL~ A LJUMPUR
The following is an amended text of an address given by the
Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, at a State dinner in his honour in
Kuala Lumpur on 29 January 1974. This text should replace that
issued in our news release number M/ 9 of 29 January 1974:
" It is -thoroughly appropriate that I should have begun my
visit to six countries in the South-East Asian region here, in
Malaysia. I am no stranger to your country.

NEWS RELEASE
NQ DATE
M/ 19 11 February 1974i
PRIME MINISTER IN SINGAPORE'
The following is the text of an address by the
Prime IEinister, 11r Vhitlam, to the Singapore Press Club on
8 February 1974:
Iof Au's trali" aA wyaesa r toagooe xpmyl aipnr inthcei paclh antgaessk awse wa, , enreew ., m Parkiimneg i1r1inister
Australia's foreign policy in terms of our political inheritence
after twenty-three years of Opposition.
A year later my task is to put the established, firm
and irreversible policy of the Australian Government in terms of

AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION
EMBARGOED UNTIL 9.00 PM 7 FEBRUARY 7 February 1974
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA, THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM,
QC., AT A STATE DINNER GIVEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF
SINGAPORE, MR LEE KUAN YEW, SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 1974.
Each time one comes to Singapore, one is reminded of its
economic progress and vitality.
I can think of few countries in which one of the major problems
of the developing world namely sustaining the momentum of economic
growth has been so firmly and successfully met.