14RESS STATEMENT NO. 153
NO: VEBER 19735
M! INISTERIAL AND DEP9ARTMENTAL CHANGES
I have recommended certain , Ministerial changes to
His Excellency the G. overnor-General a! na ils Excellency today
has Sappointed the Honourable Les Johnson to be
. Minister for Housing and Construction,
consequent upon the abolition of the
Department of Housing and the renaming of
the Department of Works as the Department
of Housing and Construction.
accepted the resignation of Senator the
Hionourable Don Willesee as Special Minister

PRESS STATEMENT NO. 153
NOVEMBER 19753.
MINISTERIAL AND DEPARTMENTAL CHANGES
I have recommended certain Ministerial changes to
His Excellency the Governor-General and His Excellency today
has appointed the Honourable Les Johnson to be
Minister for Housing and Construction,
consequent upon the abolition of the
Department of Housing and the renaming of
the Department of Works as the Department
of Housing and Construction.
accepted the resignation of Senator the
Honourable Don Willesee as Special Minister

PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA,
TUESDAY, 27 NOVEMBER, 1973
PRIME MINISTER: Ladies and gentlemen, we were able to fit this
in this morning which, as you know, I try to do alternatively
if I can but House business usually prevents us being evenhanded
between the afternoon papers and the morning. You will be
interested in the report which I have just tabled in the House of
Representatives from Mr Terry Winter on the use that can be made
by the Australian Government of the powers which we are seeking at

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
MR. E. G. WHITLAM, QC, M. P,
TO OPEN THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF
THE NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL,
CANBERRA, P0; 4DAY 26 N0VEMBER 1973
THIS MEETING HAS ASSEMBLED TO GIVE PRACTICAL
EXPRESSION TO OUR HOPES WHATEVER GOVERNMENT WE REPRESENT,
WHATEVER PARTY WE REPRESENT THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
NORTHERN REGIONS OF AUSTRALIA WILL GO FORWARD WITH SPEED,
WITH CERTAINTY, AND WITH GREAT BENEFITS FOR THE PEOPLE
OF THE NORTH AND ALL AUSTRALIANS.
THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE FIRST MEETING THIS YEAR

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E?~ iBRGO: 6.00pm FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER:
PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 150
23 November 1973
GRANTS TO ARTISTS
The Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam, today announced grants
to artists totalling $ 258,000. Among the 86 artists who will
benefit are Mr. Guy Grey-Smith, Mr. Roger Kemp and
Mr. Lyndon Dadswell, each of whom receives a grant of
$ 10,000. In recommending the grants, the Chairman of
the Visual Arts Board, of the Australian Council for the
Arts, Mr. John Baily, said the three artists had made,

EMBARGO: 7.30 PM FRIDAY 23 NOV. 1973
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
FOR THE ELECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL ABORIGINAL CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
TELECAST 8.00 PM, 23 NOVEMBER 1973
Tonight I want to speak directly and personally to the
Aboriginal people of Australia. I take great pleasure in doing so.
This is the first time that an Australian Prime Minister has
addressed himself on radio and television to our Aboriginal people.
I certainly hope it will not be the last time, and that what I

EMBARGO: 6. OOPM FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 1973:
PRIME MINISTER Press Statement No. 149
23 November 1973
GRANT TO THE N. S. W. ART GALLERY
The Prime Minister today-announced that he had approved
a grant of $ 20,000 to the Art Gallery of New South Wales to
help clear its outstanding debt of $ 75,000 on the purchase of
the self-portrait by Pierre Bonnard.
The grant is conditional on the Government of New
South Wales providing the remaining $ 55,000.
The grant was recommended by the Visual Arts Board of

EMBARGO: 6.3OPM FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 1973
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P., FOR THE OPENING OF THE FIRST BIENNALE OF SYDNEY, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE,
FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 1973

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E. G. WHITLAM, TO THE
LABOR COUNCIL OF N. S. W. TRADES HALL, SYDNEY THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 1973.
PRICES AND INCOMES
I welcome this opportunity to address the Labor Council
of N. S. W. on the forthcoming referendums on prices and incomes.
Your council is the largest State trade union organisation in
Australia. Clearly the attitude of the one million members of
the 110 unions affiliated with this council will play an important

A. B. C. BROADCAST BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. E. G. WHITLAM, QC, MP,
CANBERRA, TUESDAY 20.11.73
On 8 December less , than three weeks from now you
will be voting on two questions of great importance to Australia's
future and the prosperity of each one of us. You will be voting
in two referendums to decide whether to give the Australian
Parliament the power to make laws about prices and incomes.
I want you to vote YES on both questions. If you do,
you will be giving the national Parliament and the national