Speeches and broadcasts

Start Date
01 January 1961
End Date
31 December 1961
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Original Consignment/Series 6/File 152
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2nd June, l°6l SYDNEY  

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1961 MENCE 3HSEP SHfff  

TOM L' A. arBWta Pf. A,#! »U ,,-AUg  

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¿sms¡k .isr.  

Mr. Falkiner, ladles and gentlemeni  

In caso forget it declar® tu® Show Opon. (Laughter)  

(Applause) ¿tod either from your applauso that that's roniły all  

Πnood to do about it. (Laughter)  

dut had very plaintive letter Træ Georg© Falkiner  

Inviting me to cone down hore· He reminded ae that it was 10  

years sino© cam® horo last to do this job· wasn't likely to  

forgot iti Jo cause with all the optimisia timt chara eteri so  

.am who had only boon Frise Minister, at tliat time, for tw© years  

all that optimism has long sine® desortod mo cam® down just  

with hat, flow down from Canberra and was to fly bask at the and  

of th® afternoon· There was, just hat and, of course,  

tain number of garnets on mo. was very well resolved, people  

wore immensely courteous they were not so angry with sie in 1951  

as they have boon occasionally since and we got on very well·  

left liere and caught the plane at about quarter past five, and  

we got overhead at Canberra. There ms thunderstorm and the  

lightning flashed and th© clouds wore sweeping around and every  

now and then could see th© lights, as ï imagined them, of my own  

house and dear mental picture of my poor wife saying ” .Nere is  

my wandering boy tonight?” Finally the pilot came down ná said  

”I'm sorry, we ve to go back to Jydney”. If any of you have ever  

tried to sleep in Sydney hotel, having nothing to wear except the  

kind of thing I'm now wearing, you will understand exactly how  

well remember that occasion.  

Thore* one other thing would like to say. ©member  

it from th© time before and it is quit© fascinating. There is  

very studied form of insult delivered to politician fay you  

”sheep fellers”. Just as th® politician begins to think ”how that  

wasn't a* bad sentence”, an interj actor says "tasaa, haaa, bauaa”.  

You can hear it ail round the place. Whereas this regrettable  

looking old ram opposite me, ever since arrived and sat own has  

been wrinkling his nostrils at me. (Laughter) very subtle form  

of Insult that, and one which must set about introducing into the  

tfouse of Kepruson ta lives (Laughter) You couldn't call sen to  

order, could you, for wrinkling his nose. You can't rise to  

point of order and say ”The honourable member for” let's take  

name at random ”East Jydney” (Laughter, applause) "is winkling  

his nose at me”.  

Anyhow, Jir, whatever ay sins, or long since forgotten  

merits may be, you don't need to apologise to me for asking me to  

mmm to this Jhow, because as you have rightly said this is the  

groat industry in Australia. There can be no question about that  

at all. (Applause) X'vo had it very muoh in my mind of recant  

times because, us Imay tell you rather confidentially, we've taken  

few rather unpopular steps in the last six months wouldn't  

want to have it mentioned outside but don't mind admitting that  

tîiat is so. (Laughter)  

tot just want to take the opportunity of saying to you  

that ©very step that is taken to suppress inflation in Australia is  

bound to bo unpopular with somebody ţ but it can't be unpopular  

with you. Mecause if there is one great industry in Australia it  

is the wool industry, and if there is one Industry that can't  

afford domestic inflation it's yours. You meet the world, you meet  

the world's demand, you are paid /hat the world will pay youţ but  

you can't pass your added costs on to tho man next door. leople  

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