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M/ 139 26 September 1973
SENIOR AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS
The Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Mr Whitlam, announced today a number of senior appointments to
Australian diplomatic missions overseas. He announced that
Sir James Plimsoll, would become Australian Ambassador
to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and that he would be
succeeded as Ambassador to the United States by Sir Patrick
Shaw, currently Australian High Commissioner to India

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NQ DATE
M/ 137 25 September 1973
AUSTRALIA TO OBSERVE ANDEAN PACT
The Special Minister of State, Senator Willesee,
announced today that Australia had been accorded observer
status to the Andean Pact organisation. Senator Willesee
said that the Pact, whose members were Bolivia, Chile,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, was an important
sub-regional grouping, whose activities were of considerable
interest to Australia. Pact members were concentrating on
increasing economic co-operation and integration for their

THE PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE
AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
TUESDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER, 1973
PRIME MINISTER: I have a few announcements which I regret
I couldn't give to you or my fellow members of the Parliament
before this. Some of the announcements I have relate to
decisions by the Executive Council and while the Executive
Council used to sit on Thursdays and we brought it forward
to midday on Tuesdays, one still has to wait till it concludes,
before one can make any announcements of the decisions which

Jj4AUS-. 1lA! I( A j4 PRESS STATEMENT NO. 132
24 SEPTEMBER 1973
FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS
The Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign
Affairs said today that the Australian Government had
formally and officially informed the Registrar of the
International Court of the nuclear tests conducted by
France at Mvururoa Atoll in July and August and had
pointed out that, in the view of the Australian
Government, this constituted a breach of the interim
measures order made by the Court on 22 June.
Mr Whitlam. said that although he still hoped

EMBARGO: 9.00 p. m. 24 September 1973 Check against delivery
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR E. G. WHITLAM, TO
THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE HEAVY ENGINEERING MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION LAKESIDE HOTEL, CANBERRA, MONDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 1973
Some of you may remember, when we brought down our
Budget, certain commentators describing it as Phase I of the
Government's economic policy. I suppose this occasion will be
branded as Phase IV of our manufacturing policy. Yours is
the fourth manufacturers' dinner I have attended in the past few

NQ DATE
M4/ 136 21 September 1973
AUSTRALIAN AID TO0 INDO-CHINA
The Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Mr VWhitlam, today announced a further stage in the Government's
plan to contribute to the post-war reconstruction of all
countries in Indo-China.
Mr Whitlam said that Australia's first consignment
of aid for North Viet-Nam had now been shipped by the chartered
vessel " Cosmos" and was expected to reach Haiphong early next
month. The shipment was valued at $ 600,000 and comprised 70g000

EMBARGO: 8 P. M.
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. E. G. WHITLAM, TO
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AT THE
GENERAL MOTORS HOLDEN DINING HALL, WOODVILLE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
FRIDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 1973
once already this week I have had occasion to draw attention
to the remarkable number of manufacturers' dinners I have been
eating, or will eat in the space of a fortnight five in all.
Manufacturers well know the way to my heart.
These eating engagements are, of course, also speaking

1/ 3
T,, IA IA~~. Press-Statement No. 131
September 1973
RADIO-ACTIVE IODINE IN MILK
The Prime Minister announced today that
the low levels of radio-active iodine which had
earlier been observed in Perth's milk supply were
no longer detectable. of the nine major milk
supplies included in the Government's monitoring
program, Perth's was the only one in which
radio-active iodine had been detected.
CANBERRA. A. C. T.