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NQ DATE
M/ 135 20 September 1973
BORDER ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS AGREEMENT
The Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs,
S Mr Whitlam, announced today that discussions would be held in
Jakarta beginning on 25 September for a Border Administrative
Arrangements Agreement relating to the border between the
Indonesian province of Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea,
An Agreement delineating the border was signed in
Jakarta on 14 February 1973o The proposed new Agreement will

NQ DATE
M/ 134 19 September 1973
AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTS CHOSEN FOR NEW
EMBASSY BUILDINGSThe
Australian Government has commissioned six firms
* of Australian architects to design and supervise the building
of new Australian Embassy and High Commission buildings in
* Saigon, Suva, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Paris.
The last major chancery construction overseas was the
Australian Embassy Chancery at Washington which was designed in
1960 by Bates, Smart and McCutcheon, of Melbourne.
Announcing this today, the Prime Minister and

Tuesday, 18 September 1973

EMBARGO: 9630PM MOND) AY 17 SEPTEMBER 1973
-SPECHBY THE PRIME MINISTER MR. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
TO THE ANNUAL DINNER~ OF THE AUSTRALIA. N ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERSt
ASSOCIATION, LAKESIDE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL, CANBERRA,
MOND~ AY 17 SEPTEMBER 1973
Your convention is the second of two conventions I have
attended in the past fortnight. Yours is an annual event; the
Constitutional Convention occurs with roughly the frequency of
Halley's Comet. The last one was 82 years ago. I notice that one
of our magazines published a photograph of me on its cover the

If
September 1973 FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS
France's withdrawal of notice of a danger zone in part
-of French Polynesia had not ended Australia's anxiety about French
nuclear tests, the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Mr. Whitlam, said tonight.
The notice, signed by the French Minister for the Armed
Forces, appeared in the French Government Gazette of 14 September0
It cancelled, as from midnight 15 September, the notice issued on 4
July " prohibiting" ships from entering a broad zone of the high

( N
EMBARGO: 8.15 P. M,
PARRA14ATTA BY-ELECTION
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. E. G. WHITLAM, M. P.,
PARRAMATTA TOWN HALL,
FRIDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 1973
A fortnight ago, I launched Labor's campaign for Parramatta.
Tonight, I launch another campaign not a campaign on behalf of the
Australian Labor Party, but a campaign on behalf of the Australian
people. And this campaign is not a test for the Australian Labor
Party but a test for the Australian people themselves. And it is
a test for great, important, and vocal sections of the Australian

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MlINISTER, MR, E. G. WHITLAM,. O. C.,
AT THE OPENING OF THE MASTER BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION CENTENARY
PARADE OF HOMES AND PRESENTATION OF THE " PEARCE RESERVE" TO
THE MUNICIPALITY OF BLACKIOWN, AT KINGS LANGLEY, NEAR SEVEN
HILLS,-FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 1973-
No ONE SEEING THIS EXHIBITION CAN BE OTHER THAN
IMPRESSED AND ENCOURAGED BY THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN
BUILDING INDUSTRY, No ONE CAN DOUBT THE INDUSTRY'S ABILITY TO
PROVIDE HOUSING OF HIGH QUALITY AND IMAGINATIVE DESIGN. IT

DEPA-TEN OF
FORIG
NQ DATE
M/ 132 14 September 1973
PRIME MINISTER'S MESSAGE TO LAOS
The following is the text of a message sent today by
the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Whitlam,
to the Prime Minister of Laos, Prince Souvanna Phoumas
" On the occasion of the signature of the protocol
annexed to the Agreement on the Re-establishment of Peaoe and the
Realisation of National Concord in Laos, I wish to express my
warmest congratulations and best wishes to you and to the people

E1MBARGO: 10.00 P. M.
_ AUSI RAI A A,
PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT NO. 130
14 September 1973
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS GOVERNMZENT GRANT FOR WORLD
DESIGNJ CONGRESS, JAPAN
The Prime Minister, Mr. W-. hitlam, today announced an
Australian Government grant of $ 25,000 to assist 45 designers,
teachers and students from all Australian States to attend the
Eighth World Design Congress to be held next month in Kyoto,
Japan. The grant was recommended to the Prime Minister by the
Visual Arts Board of the Australian Council for the Arts in

No DATE
M/ 131 13 September 1973
AUSTRALIA PROPOSES CITANG", S TO SOUTH PACIFTC COMTIIllON
Australia has proposed changes in the functions of the
0 South Pacific Commission, aimed at revitalizing the organisation.
These were outlined in an address to the South Pacific
Conference in Guam yesterday by Australia's Special Minister of
State, Senator Willesee, who is leader of the Australian
delegation to the conference.
Senator Willesee proposed that from 1975 there should
be a de facto merger of the South Pacific Commission and the