Whitlam pleads for another chance for Labor.  The following is the text of the address to the nation by the Labor leader, Mr. Whitlam, in Melbourne last night. Men and women of Australia, the whole future of Australian democracy is in your hands. The decision you make on December 13 goes far beyond who shall govern Australia for a few months or a few years. It goes to the heart of how Australia is to be governed into the twenty-first century. Above all, Australia must be re-united- united about our basic faith in the value of parliamentary democracy, as a means for change, and as a means for good government. The shame of the past six weeks must be wiped away. In those shameful six weeks, a stacked senate went on strike against a Budget vital to Australia’s welfare and the nation’s economy. The nation and the nation’s elected government were held to ransom. And by those means, the elected government in full commend of the confidence of parliament was deposed.  NOV 11.---Day of infamy. In Australia to continue to be a parliamentary democracy? Are we to have Government’s elected by the people through the people’s House? Are elected governments to govern? These are the questions. Upon the answer you give depends the survival of parliamentary democracy as we know it, or as we all believed we knew it until November 11, 1975. Remembrance day, 1975. Remember that day. Mr. Fraser’s day of shame, a day that will live in infamy. In place of the government you had twice elected, a bad twice elected, a government with an unchallenged majority in the nation’s parliament are the very men whom you twice rejected in less than three years and last rejected just 18 months ago. In place of a twice-elected Prime Minister who retained an unchallenged majority in the parliament, it is a man who at the very moment be received his commission was censured by the people’s house for unconstitutional and reprehensible conduct. The house of parliament declared no confidence in him. Now the people must declare no confidence in him in the name of parliamentary democracy- in the name of the survival of parliamentary democracy in Australia. Remember indeed November 11, 1975, but above all remember the actions and motives of the men who forced this situation. At the crucial time for the nation’s economy the senate went on strike. For four weeks, a mere half of the senate, using the stolen proxy of a dead Labor Senator’s vote, stalled the Budget. It has been the costliest strike in Australia’s history. Never before in our history has there been a strike for the sole purpose of paralysing the whole national administration. Never before in our history has there been a strike against parliamentary democracy. But what was what they did and they were able to do it only over a dead senator’s corps, not my words, but the words of a former liberal premier, now Senator Steele Hall of South Australia. These are the men who by their actions have shown their contempt for the House of Representatives, the House of the people. Yet these are the men who would ask you to give them a majority in the people’s House. By their actions they have misused and abused the powers of the Senate. Yet these are the men who would ask you to give them a majority in the senate. By their actions they have shown that they were prepared, in their grab for power, to do any damage to the economy, to cause any hardship to thousands upon thousands of their fellow Australians, to destroy Australia’s good name as stable parliamentary democracy. Yet these are the men who would ask you to trust them with the management of Australia’s economy, the conduct of your affairs and the reputation of Australia. The safeguards @ parliamentary democracy in Australia’s built up by the Constitution, by convention, by tradition, by the hard-won rights of the people are now being struck down. The people alone can restore them and the people must restore them, if they are not to be lost forever. The shame that now hangs upon Australia and Australia’s good name must be wiped away. It shall be on December 13. For the third time in three years, I call to the nation for its support. Twice you have given it. How many times must the elected government be elected before it is allowed to govern? How many times must the people’s will be expressed until their will is accepted? How often do we have to obtain endorsement for our program before it can be implemented? How often must three-year programs for three-year parliaments be presented to the people and supported by them? Are a majority of the Australian people to be forever denied a fairly-won share in shaping Australia’s destiny? The three-year program you endorsed on December 2, 1972, was cut off in mid-stream 17 months later in April, 1974. On May 18, 1974, you once again declared your support for a new program- for a further three years. The sabotage to the program began almost as soon as you had given us the power to implement it. Our opponents have confessed that they embarked upon a course to destroy the program in April, 1973. If their action are now condoned, the people will have given to the senate- a bare half of the Senate- the right to dissolve the House of Representatives every six months- every May and every November when the elected government has to obtain supply. And they could do this merely by refusing to bring the matter to a vote- by just going on strike.  Paying for disruption.  Last year, at a critical time for the management of the Australian economy they succeeded in bringing the decision-making processes of the nation to a halt for two months, and in keeping this nation without a parliament for three months. We are all still paying for the disruption they deliberately engineered @ an economic price, a political price. They have succeeded in creating unparalleled political disruption and total suspension of government. Australia has no government at this moment. Even when the true government of Australia is elected for the third time in succession on December 13 we will all continue, for months and months and perhaps years to come, to pay the consequences of their actions over the last six weeks. Decisions which can save scores of small business dependent on government contracts, the decisions which can ensure that as many schoolleavers as possible will be quickly absorbed into the work-force, cannot be taken, they cannot be now taken for weeks and weeks yet. The decision needed to restore the economy, decisions which had already been taken and were the key part of our budget were delayed by the senate so as to delay or even destroy their quickest and best effect. The benefits of the sweeping new tax reform contained in the Hayden Budget, due to take effect on January 1, are in jeopardy. The future of tenders and contracts affecting hundreds of businesses and thousands of employees is in double. Above all wage indexation, the key to our fight against inflation and unemployment- is in mortal danger. That policy is succeeding. Its continued success depends upon the greatest restraint, responsibilities, discipline, goodwill and co-operation from employees. These were forthcoming. My government had @ the basis for co-operation. Employees accepted that false and temporary advantages forgone in excessive wage demands were more than compensated by real and lasting benefits through my government’s program- through benefits in health, in education, in genuine welfare. The success of wage indexation is inseparable from success of the program of reform which the people of Australia have already twice endorsed. What possible basis for co-operation can there be if the program- or program- which alone gives any meaning to that co-operation, were to be thrown away? The co-operation we had secured on the basis of the real benefits of our program resulted in a dramatic fall in the rate of inflation last quarter. We had won one round in a long fight- the people, the employees of Australia, had won for themselves one round in our national fight against international inflation and unemployment. In a mixed economy and a free society, the most difficult task of all is for a government to secure voluntary wage restraint. Alone of all western democracies, our government had succeeded. For nearly three years Australia has shared with every comparable country, and with all our trading partners, economic conditions of difficulty unparalleled for 30 years. But of all these nations Australia alone has had to deal with deliberate disruption of efforts towards economic recovery by a political combination determined to destroy the elected government at all costs.  All governments have been trying to solve these intractable problems of worldwide inflation and worldwide unemployment. My government was a successful as any comparable government in dealing with them. But my government alone has had to wage this war in the face of economic sabotage by its political opponent.  WAR ON TWO FRONTS. My government alone has had to wage the war on two fronts. In circumstances which called for long-range economic planning of a complexity and a difficulty beyond all living experience, my government alone was denied the power to plan ahead with certainty for more than six months. In economic circumstances which require that the elected government must be able to assert all its authority to see that its economic policy is carried out, my government alone was denied the right to govern at all. In times of unparalleled economic difficulty around the world, in a world situation needing the full and undivided attention of the government and the administration, the mustering of the best national advice available and the summoning of all the purposeful energies and resources of the nation, our  Opponents ensured that for month after month, the government, the Administration and the whole nation should be preoccupied with purely political and partisan matters. Our opponents used every weapon at their disposed to paralyse the Administration. They failed to do so- until November 11. Their failure- up to November 11- none the less inflicted prolonged economic damage upon Australia. Their success on November 11 is already inflicting untold damage. Our victory and our vindication on December 13 will certainly mean that Australia will recover. But we cannot overestimate the damage already done; the cannot underestimate the extent to which the recovery which will begin on December 13 will be needlessly drawn out by what they have already done to Australia by their conduct in these crucial months and weeks and days- the needless disruption, the needless delay in economic recovery, the needless doubts about the future of our democracy, the needless division in our national unity, the needless diversion from great national purposes. It is against the known actions and known conduct of our opponents that every offer they make during this campaign must be judged. Can they be trusted on any matter when they have shown that they cannot be trusted in the greatest matter of all the parliamentary system itself? Remembering what we have seen them do since April, 1973, when they began their wrecking, reckless course; since April, 1974, when they disrupted Australia for three months; since March, 1975, when the new leader pledged to let the elected Government govern; since October, 1975, when he reneged on that pledge; and since the infamous November 11, could you trust these men with anything? In all the great fields of policy, there is a great unknown about the intentions of our opponents. The frantic drumming-up of new policies, which they undertook in recent weeks, fools nobody. Their so-called alternative Budget produced in parliament three months ago has already been declared by its author to be inoperative. The second greatest thing Australians have to fear about our opponents and what they would do in government is all those things which we don’t know about their intentions. But the greatest thing we have to fear about them is what we already know about them. We don’t know what they would do if they had the power in the next few months. We do know what they have done in the last two months. We don’t know what they would do if they had the power in the next two years. We do know what they have done in the past two years. And what they have shown with brutal clarity is that they will obstruct and disrupt, will @ the constitution, break its conventions, set aside the will of the Australian people to get their way. Far from accepting the verdict of December 2 1972, and May 18, 1974, they escalated the level of constitutional violence and obstruction. More legislation has been rejected in the Senate in the past 12 months than in the previous 50 years. More bills have been rejected since 1972 than in the previous 72 years of federation together. Twenty-one of those bills now form the grounds of the double dissolution forced a fortnight ago. The history of five of those bills illustrates completely their methods and their motives.  ARCHAIC BOUNDARIES  These are the bills about the equality of votes in Australia. Our opponents were determined to prevent a House of Representatives election on fair electoral boundaries. They are determined to prevent Australians wherever they live being counted as equal. That was their purpose in forcing an election in 1974. The joint sitting in August, 1974, made equal representation the law of the land. Our opponents have prevented that law being carried out. These elections are to be held on boundaries in breach of that law. The present House of Representatives electorates were based on the census before last in June, 1966. In New South Wales, Victoria Queensland and South Australia, some electorates @@@ more votes than other electorates within the same States. Our opponents were determined to have an election on these archaic boundaries- against the law of the land. Nothing could better illustrate their contempt for the people and their contempt for the law of the land. Despite the obstruction, our government had already passed more numerous and more significant measures than any government in Australia’s history. These achievements will remain enduring witness to the energy and zeal of the twice-elected government. But more than that, they attest our faithfulness to the pledges we made to the Australian people in 1972 and again in 1974. Despite obstruction, not just by the Senate, but by some State Governments, we have carried out our pledges, more fully, more faithfully, than any Government Australia has ever had before. Twice we put to the people programs for three years. Twice the people supported those programs. The assassination of the 29th Parliament in mid-life has left a great deal of unfinished business. The unfinished business includes: the 21 bills which the Senate has twice rejected since August last year. The bills which the senate had already once rejected this year and the pending bills for: the National Companies Act; the National Rehabilitation and Compensation Scheme; the Consumer Protection Authority; the Ombudsman; the Legal Aid Scheme; the Petroleum And Minerals Right; The Public Lending Right; the Corporation and Securities Industry- to eliminate the scandals disclosed by the Cormack Committee, @ Committee and Georges Committee in hearings going back to March, 1970; the Insurance Corporation- to provide cover against natural disasters and to insure houses at cost and the referendum for simultanous elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives for interchange of powers between the federal and state parliaments and federal assistance with local government debts. Let us finish the task, the task of fully implementing our three-year program. But this time let’s make sure that never again in Australia’s history can the people’s will be set aside of an unrepresentative Senate. In 1972 I said that our program had three great aims; to promote equality; to involve the people of Australia in the decision making processes of our land; and to liberate the talents and uplift the horizons of the Australian people. Our aim- our ongoing aim is this: that in so far as the community acting through its elected government can ensure it, there shall be no second-class citizens in Australia. The substance and the spirit of our reforms and achievements are now all gravely imperiled. For the first time Australia had a government determined to make the conditions of the more equal for all Australians, wherever they live in Australia. For the first time for a generation Australia had a Government dedicated to equal education opportunity for all our children.  MEDIBANK FOR ALL.  For the first time, the best available medical and hospital care is equally open to all Australians through Medibank. For the first time, Australia had a Government which insisted that pensions of all @ would be linked @ to the prosperity of all other citizens. Pensions reached 25 per cent of average weekly @ under the first Hayden Budget, compared with 19 per cent in the last Liberal Budget. Pensions have increased by 80 per cent- double the increase in consumer prices. The means test has been abolished for all pensioners over 70, and the Hayden Budget proposed the next step towards complete abolition- by removing the test for all persons over sixty-nine. for The first time Australia had a national Government involving itself directly in the affairs of our cities, accepting responsibilities for cities, the great established centres and new growth centres. For the first time local government had direct access to the national finances. For the first time, the Grants Commission promoted equality between regions in every State. For the first time Australia had a national Government prepared to co-operate in renewing our decaying urban transport systems. The foundations were laid for a national highway system. We have constructed the administrative and legislative framework for modern, mobile armed forces. We embarked on the largest re-equipment program ever undertaken in peacetime. My government had already passed a record 29 acts for the benefit of members and former members of the Defence Force and had four more before the parliament on November 11. For the first time, Australia had a government which guaranteed woolgrowers incomes, just as, 30 years ago, another Labor government guaranteed wheatgrowers incomes. My government had already passes a record 29 acts for the benefit of primary industries and had 11 more before the parliament on November 11. For the first time, Australia had a government seriously concerned to give equality of opportunity to women and to remove all forms of discrimination against women. Every federal department is now charged to take women’s interests into account. For the first time, Australia’s government recognised its continuing responsibility to migrants after they arrived in Australia. Every federal department is now charged to take migrants interests into accounts. For the first time, Australia had a government determined to promote Australian ownership and control of Australian industries and resources. For the first time, Australia had a national government determined to fulfil its constitutional obligation towards the Aborigines, a government which for the first time gave them rights to land. For the first time Australia had a government determined to preserve, protect and enhance Australia’s national estate- our natural and historical inheritance, what we keep from our past, what we transmit to the future. For the first time Australia had a national Government which recognised the significance of the arts and artists in our society. These great initiatives- none of which could conceivably have occurred without a Labor Government, all of which have been opposed or denounced by our opponents- must be allowed to reach their full potential. The work of the Schools Commission, which has transformed the opportunities of all our children wherever they live, must be allowed to continue. Mr Fraser opposed the Schools commission tooth and nail. He opposed the needs concept in education. He opposed free education at universities, teachers, colleges of advanced education and technical college. He was the prime minister in the first effort to destroy our Budget, our first Budget, in 1973, because he was determined to destroy our schools program. That program is now marked down for savage attack. It is marked down for destruction. Our program for real equality of opportunity would be replaced by a policy of elitism. All the great reforms- abolition of fees, tertiary and technical, help for isolated children, the secondary allowances scheme, the adult secondary education program, higher education opportunities for Aborigines, migrant education - are in peril. They must continue. A whole range of new initiatives were in train or in preparation before we were untimely cut off - the new dimensions and expanded fruits of a program which had been subject to unparalleled obstruction and often mindless resistance from the Senate and some State governments. But our major and immediate task must be that the Hayden Budget is given a chance to work, is at last given that chance which was denied to it throughout the critical weeks in September, October and November. The benefits of that Budget in taxation reform, the tax cuts, the new rebate system, pension increase, education, Medibank , hospitals, child care, must be protected and preserved. Never in our history have we Australians been faced with so momentous a decision. For the choice we make on December 13 must decide the whole future course of this nation. What course shall Australia now take? If our immediate problems are to be overcome the course must be one of cooperation between all sections of the community. Our opponents have destroyed for themselves any chance of building co-operation. They have disqualified themselves from the task of leading a united nation. We have already proved our ability to get co-operation in the area where it is now most necessary and urgent. But the co-operation we seek in the future and must have if Australia is to have a strong and secure future must extend to all sections of the community. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Our opponents have deliberately and willfully sown the needs of a terrible division. To confirm them in the power they have usurped would be to confirm and deepen for all time the division they have created.  PRINCIPLES BETRAYED.  But in this election you are not only choosing between two parties: you are not only choosing between two sets of policies. You are making a choice about the whole future of Australia and the whole future of Australian parliamentary democracy. I ask you to choose resoundingly for democracy. I ask you to render a resounding verdict in favour of the principles and traditions which have served Australia well for the past three-quarters of a century. Parliamentary democracy is worth another chance. Give it that chance on December 13. I appeal for support from our young men and women because in their hands lies the choice of the kind of Australia they shall live in for the rest of their lives- a true democracy or a take one. I appeal from support from the older members of our community who have seen the betrayal of those principles and traditions which throughout their lives have brought security and stability to Australia. I appeal for support from our fellow-Australians born overseas, men and women who chose to live with us because they believed that at least in Australia parliamentary democracy seemed safe, stable and secure. I appeal again to those millions upon millions of my fellow Australians who supported us in 1972, and again in 1974, in the belief that they were electing a democratic government for three years and were giving that government a mandate to carry out its three-year program. And above all I appeal to those thousands and thousands of my fellow Australians who hitherto have voted otherwise, and have supported other parties, but who have always supported in their hearts and minds the far greater cause -the cause of democracy, the cause of the Australian way, the cause of Australia herself. For that is what is at stake in this election. My whole public career has been dedicated to the proposition that reform and change needed in Australia can and must be achieved through democratic parliamentary means. For 15 years as deputy leader of my party and Prime Minister of Australia. I have maintained that faith: and the Australian Labor Party has held to that faith with me. Now that faith is challenged in a way none of us would ever before have believed possible. I shall never abandon that faith - because my faith rests not just in parliamentary democracy itself, but in the Australian people themselves in their commonsense, their intelligence, their decency, their instinctive sense of fair play. Let us all make sure that December 13, 1975, is recorded for all time as the day when the Australian people asserted for all time that parliamentary democracy would survive in Australia for all time. Let us make sure that government of the people, for all the people, through the House of the People, shall endure in this nation forever.  Labor basks in sunshine.  By James Cunningham.  Mr. Bob Hawke was perfectly right. It was he said, sensibly, much better to bask in the sunshine of Sydney Domain than to be shut up in the Opera House. The Labor Party, Mr. Hawke went on to allege, had been frustrated in its attempt to book the Opera House for the official opening of Mr. Whitlam’s election campaign. And for this he bluntly blamed our opponents perverted sense of what democracy is all about. Still, whatever the reasons for being there, people at this massive lunchtime rally yesterday clearly believed that they were in the right place at the proper time. Indeed, after watching the people gathering for an hour felt that anyone who had wanted the Opera House must have seriously misjudged the drawing power of the principal performer in this political drama. Estimates of the crowd varied. Mr. John Ducker, NSW Labor Party president, who chaired the meeting, put it at 60,000. Police suggested more cautiously that the figure was about 20,000. Other observers came up with around 30,000. Certainly it was the biggest political rally Sydney has seen for many years. And how could any deposed Prime Minister, now fighting back, have wanted a better setting? The late Jack Lang, dismissed as Premier of NSW, had spoken here to assembled thousands in the 1930’s. Now it was Gough Whitlam’s turn. And for him also the crowd roared and chanted. The people who came to the Domain yesterday were the armies of the afternoon. They were the lunchtime office workers, the trade unionists who had downed tools, the family groups and some young lovers who lay down and listened close together. There were shorts and thongs and bare feet, business suits and brief cases. There were uniformed school girls who munched apples under the fig trees. And there were the banners, red and purple and green, and the blue flag of the Furcka Stockade with its four stars waving above the sun hats. There was also the seemingly interminable chanting that is now a feature of each Whitlam rally. Did anyone, one wondered, ever want Curtin or Chifley or even Menzies as these people now appear to want Gough. Mr. Whitlam, in a grey suit and the tan deepened by platform appearances under the sun was, of course, performing on a wicket of his own choosing. He flighted his words like a spin bowler tempting it batsman. And the crowd took them and flung back their approval to the far boundaries of the Domain. Yet how suddenly, when it was all over, did the crowds melt away back to their desks and their work benches. Soon there was nothing left but about 15.000 lunch wrappers. There was however a final word of praise from Supt. N. H. Bowden, Deputy Metropolitan Superintendent of Police. It was a well-behaved and good-humoured crowd, he said. We had no trouble. An ALP spokesman said last night that $18000 had been collected from the crowd and the AMWU had presented a cheque for $35000.  Give democracy a fair go.  The former Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam accused the Fraser Government yesterday of having betrayed democracy. Mr Fraser and his crew - these burglars masquerading as caretakers - must be thrown out of the Cabinet room bag and baggage. Opening his election campaign in Sydney yesterday, Mr. Whitlam called on the Australian people to set right a great wrong. The wrong must be righted . . . the shame must be wiped away. Only the people of Australia can do it - and they will. Mr. Fraser, he said, had not only betrayed the millions and millions of people who had voted Labor in the past two elections. He had also betrayed his own followers- the decent Australians, good Liberalk supporters, who place their faith in the parliamentary system and who believed that the Liberal Party was loyal do that system, loyal to parliamentary democracy. Mr Whitlam made no election promises in his speech. Instead he made it clear he intended to base his campaign on the constitutional crisis. This election cuts across all old party lines, he said. At stake now is not just the right to govern after December 13 of the party with a majority in the House of Representatives, the House of the people. At stake is the right of all future elected governments, whatever party, to govern. This time it’s not just a question of fulfilling election promises. The question is whether Australia allowed to fulfil her great promise as a stable parliamentary democracy, in a time when everywhere around the world, democracy is under challenge. Mr Whitlam urged Australians to give their children a fair go on December 13. Make sure that they have the chance to grow up in a safe, stable, secure parliamentary democracy, he said. Give parliamentary democracy a fair go. To condone what happened during the past six weeks would ensure that it will happen again and again until the parliamentary system itself breaks down. We all must make sure it shall never happen again. The only way to make sure that it will never happen again is for the people of Australia to render a crushing verdict of censure against these betrayals of democracy.  Pensioner groups urge Labor vote.  Two pensioner organsations are campaigning for the return of the Labor Government. The secretary of the Combined Pensioners association in NSW, Mr. J. Sharrock said in Sydney yesterday that the decision was not political but practical. We are not a party organisation and we guard this very highly, he said. But we believe the Labor Party has taken a progressive step forward in the interests of pensioners. The association has nearly 100000 members in Australia- 16000 of them in NSW. Mr. Sharrock said that members of the association’s executive had examined the Liberal NCP social welfare policy with dismay. There were no positive or constructive propositions in the policy. In these circumstances, it is in the welfare of pensioners to reject it. In Melbourne the Australian pensioners Federation said: during Labor’s three years in office steady progress has been made in establishing sound social security principles. The federation said the Liberal-NCP’s social welfare policy, announced on October 20, was a welter of words silent on benefits in dollars and cents.  Fraser tore up rules- Dunstan.  MELBOURNE, Monday. - The caretaker Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, had torn up the rules of democracy in Australia. South Australia’s Premier, Mr. Dunstan, claimed today. Democracy cannot continue in this country under what Mr. Fraser proposes, Mr. Dunstan said at a press conference in Melbourne. He is proposing that a government should have the confidence of both Houses of Parliament. How can any government govern when it is faced with the Upper House forcing elections every six months, when it does not have to face elections itself? All politicians know the rules on this, and Mr. Fraser and his friends have just torn up the rules. Mr. Dunstan said the constitutional aspects of Mr. Whitlam’s dismissal as the elected Prime Minister of Australia transcended Australia’s economic problems. The basic, real issue in this election we will have democratic government in Australia, he said. But people should be looking at the economic aspects, particularly, Mr. Fraser’s utterly disastrous policies. Mr. Dunstan spent most of today campaigning on the behalf of Mr. Lamb, the ALP member for La Trobe.  Coalities to offer investors incentives.  From MIKE STEKETEE.  CANBERRA, Monday. - The Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, is expected to offer voters a three- year program of investment incentives and tax cuts to bring Australia back to economic stability. In his campaign opening speech tomorrow nigh t in Moorabbin Town Hall, in metropolitan Melbourne, Mr.Fraser will give a timetable of measures starting from the time the Liberal-NCP is elected to office and including the next regular Budget in August and those in the following two years. The aim will be to give business a clear indication of Government policies affecting them in future years so that they can plan with confidence. The Prime Minister will promise several immediate measures to get the economy moving again. These are expected to include investment allowance- initially at 40 per cent- allowing firms to deduct for tax purposes 40 per cent of the funds they use for investment. Mr. Fraser will renew his commitment to the proposal of the Mathews Committee to index personal income taxes, meaning that individuals would not pay additional tax if a pay increase was due solely to inflation.  Desperate- DLP claim.  The Federal secretary of the DLP, Mr. Jack Kane, denounced the campaign opening speech of the former Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, yesterday as desperate, dishonest and deceptive. He said Mr. Whitlam was campaigning on the propriety of the Senate blocking Supply because he was afraid to stand on his record.  Fear is poll weapon for both sides.  The psychology of fear is bound to be exploited in this election campaign by both Mr.  Whitlam and Mr. Fraser. It has begun already. Mr. Whitlam’s speech to the vast crowd in the sunshine at Sydney’s Domain yesterday had a shilling undertone. Mr.  Whitlam combined fear of the known with the even more frightening fear of the unknown. He portrayed Mr. Fraser as a ruthless Opposition Leader who had stopped at nothing to destroy an elected Government and would be equally ruthless in Government. He repeated the message in his speech at Melbourne’s Festival Hall last night. The greatest thing we have to fear about them is what we already know about them. Mr. Whitlam said of Mr. Fraser and his coalition. We don’t what they would do if they had the power in the next two years. And what they have shown with brutal clarity is that they it obstruct and disrupt, will defy the Constitution, break its conventions, set aside the will of the Australian people to get their way. Mr.  Whitlam won the 1974 election on the slogan of Fair go for Labor. Yesterday he set out to win the December 13 election with a new and bigger slogan – fair go for Australia. He has resolved to present this campaign as an historic, even noble, struggle to save democracy from the Mongols led by Genghis Fraser. His first stirring words to the crowd spilling over the verdant amphitheatre formed by the Domain sloping down to Woolloomooloo were: A great wrong must be set right. He repeated them at Festival Hall: men and women of Australia, the whole future of democracy is in your hands. This is one of the few campaign statements he has made with which Mr. Fraser will be in complete agreement. Mr. Fraser will be offering a different solution- the only way to save the country will be to make him Prime Minister. He will declare that nothing in the future could be more frightening than the past record of the Whitlam Government with its staggering unemployment and ripping inflation. December 13 will show whose psychology of fear is the more potent. Did Mr. Bob Hawke make the Freudian @ yesterday when he referred to an awesome composite creature called Mr. Gough Fraser?  Family Action Movement  The Family Action movement will open its NSW Senate campaign at a a Wallongong rally tonight. The movement, the electoral body of the Festival of light, will field three candidates in the December 13 senate election - Mrs. Frieda Brown, the Rev Fred Nile and Mr. Ken Harrison. Mrs. Brown and Mr. Nile will give their policy speeches in Wollongong Town Hall tonight, outlining their concern for moral issues and family life.  OECD predicts 15 pc inflation in Aust.  MELBOURNE, Wednesday-An international economic agency has forecast that Australia will have an inflation rate of around 15 per cent during 1976. The estimate, by the organisation for economic co-operation and development, compares with Australia’s annual rate of 12.1 per cent in the September quarter and a peak reached in march this year of 17.6 per cent. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser was asked today about a newspaper report mentioning the 15 per cent figure. Mr. Fraser replied: I confirm the basic accuracy of the report. The significance of this is that in early every other OECD there have been tremendous improvements in the rates of inflation. In Australia, there has been virtually no improvement. Mr. Fraser called a press conference at his Melbourne home, where he is recovering from severe influenza which forced the postponement of his campaign opening last night. Mr. Fraser called the press conference to discuss industrial relations, but the questions concentrated very heavily on the economy and particularly on his statement last night that Australia during 1976 would have the second highest rate of inflation among the major Western nations. Today he defined these countries as the seven largest industrial powers. These are the US, Britain, Canada, West Germany, Japan, France and Italy. Australia, though not a member of the group, is among the 24 member nations of the OECD. The 12.1 per cent annual inflation rate applying in the September quarter placed Australia eleventh in this list of 24. With inflation falling in other countries, a 15 per cent rate next year would move Australia well up the ladder. Mr. Fraser said the OECD estimate was the only firm figure he had received, but in Canberra the former Treasurer, Mr. Hayden, said he was confident inflation would not exceed 10 per cent for 1975/76. Economists contacted today, mainly in the Treasury, forecast a rate of between 10 and 15 per cent for 1976. The general view of the Treasury is that there will be a continuing gradual decline in the underlying trend of price increases. The former Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam, tonight challenged Mr. Fraser to release the documents on which he was basing his claims. On unemployment Mr. Fraser said information provided by the Department of Labour, indicated the number of people out of work could reach 335.000 by June next year. Mr. Fraser refused to say whether he was still aiming to reduce the Budget deficit to $2800 million- the figure estimated in the Budget in August which Mr. Fraser at the time said should be maintained. The projected deficit has since risen to $4,000 million, largely because of the fall in tax revenue caused by the deceleration in wage increases. Mr. Fraser denied suggestions that someone in the Liberal Party had given the ALP a copy of his policy speech, which was released yesterday before the postponement of the campaign opening. How do you feel about a member of your professional, if it was a member of your profession giving it to a member of the Labor party when it was under embargo? he asked journalists. He did not know who had given a copy of the speech to the ALP but pressmen had been the only persons to receive copies. On industrial relations, Mr Fraser said that in 1972 under a coalition Government strikes cost the loss of two million working days and $32 million in wages. In 1974, after two years of Labor Government 6,25 million days and $218 million in wages had been lost.  Labor plan to house needy.  CANBERRA, Wednesday.-A Labor Government would provide home loans for low income and other needy families, the former Minister for Urban and Regional Development, Mr Uren, said today. Mr. Uren said the Australian Housing Corporation would make loans available on a deferred repayment basis. Repayments would be limited to no more than 30 per cent of borrowers’ regular household gross incomes in the first year of a loan. They would start at low levels and rise year by year for the first ten years. Mr. Uren said that the Housing Corporation, established by Labor last June, would make $20 million available for loans in 1975-76. It is understood that the Whitlam Cabinet fixed the amount to be made available just before the Government was dismissed on November 11. Interest being charged at present was 11,5 per cent. Mr. Uren said the people the corporation was seeking to help were; low income families. initially loans would be available only to applicants whose regular gross weekly incomes, excluding overtime and child endowment, did not exceed 110 per cent of average male weekly earnings in their State. This ranged from $158 in South Australia to $205 in the ACT. In NSW it was $173. Mr. Uren said the main trust of the program was directed to second mortgage loans for home purchase or building using the deferred repayments system.  Report was confidential, says Hayden.  Canberra, Wednesday. The former Treasurer, Mr Hayden, has refused to agree that the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, release a confidential document said to show that Australia will have the second highest inflation rate among the major Western nations next year. Mr Hayden said Mr. Fraser could go ahead and release the document at his own responsibility, but he would not be a party to breaching the trust of the organisation which had supplied the figures- the Organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD). Mr. Fraser said yesterday that the OECD forecast for 1976 had predicted that Australia’s inflation rate would be three times greater than West Germany’s and twice that of the US and Japan. But he refused to give any figures because they were confidential and when pressed today said he wanted Mr. Hayden’s approval for further disclosures. Mr Hayden said Mr Fraser had embarrassed Australia by breaching the trust of the OECD in releasing confidential forecasts prematurely for blatant electoral purposes. To mitigate his error he has invited my complicity. However, I will disappoint him, he said. Mr Fraser had irresponsibly waffled about the forecast, but would he tell full truth by releasing the assumptions on which the forecasts had been made? The preliminary forecasts were out of date because they had been based on the Budget estimate that wage levels would rise by 22 per cent. Current forecasts for wage rises had been reduced to 15 per cent or less. Mr Fraser knows that the OECD forecast of an Australian inflation rate of 20 per cent for 1975 was overestimated by at least 7 per cent. I adhere to my forecast, made several times this year, that labor’s policies could see a rate of 10 per cent or even lower, next year. Mr Fraser had given only as much information as he thought electorally necessary but he should tell the full story on inflation in Australia.  Fraser backed by the voices….  Melbourne, Wednesday. The prime Minister, Mr Fraser had the help of a girl’s choir to get his press conference off the ground today. Just as journalists were assembling in the garden of his South Yarra Home, an organ began playing a hymn in the adjoining Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School. Glad tidings of comfort and joy were the words which came drifting across the backyard fence as Mr Fraser began speaking. The Prime Minister’s statements did not quite measure up to this description. He spent most of the next hour talking of rising inflation, 335,000 unemployed by next June, the rising number of strikes and the disastrous path along which Labor had led the Country.  Whitlam: court compromised.  The Chief Justice, Sir Garfield Barick, had seriously compromised the High Court, the former Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam, said last night. After the High Court had reserved its decision on a challenge to House of Representatives electoral boundaries, Sir Garfield had responded to the invitation to the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, to express his view on the Course Sir John had decided to take, he said, in an interview in the ABC television program, This Day Tonight. It is certainly an extraordinary situation where the Chief Justice has before him the preparation of a judgment on whether they should be an election for the House of Representatives and then agrees to express a view to the Governor-General on that very subject Mr. Whitlam said. He has compromised the court and many of his colleagues have told him so. The Interviewer: His brother judges have told him? Mr. Whitlam: Oh, yes, yes. Mr. Whitlam said it was not the job of individual judges to express views on legal matters. The court acted as a whole. Sir Garfield in recent constitutional cases had been in the minority. Mr. Whitlam said it was unlikely that the High Court's decision would be brought down before December 13. Mr. Whitlam was asked why he had fallen foul of the managing director of News Ltd, Mr. Rupert Murdoch. I don't know, i can’t explain this, Mr. Whitlam said. He was all over us three years ago. I did not compromise myself with him then as I think would be realised. I think it is the media in Australia. Not only the newspapers but the commercial TV stations are owned by about four people. They all want to play the role of king-maker. It's not only Warwick the king-maker now, Murdoch wants to be. They ant it to be thought that they can decide who will be Prime Minister who will be the Government or who won't be.  Pensions link to CPI.  CANBERRA, Wednesday. The coalition parties promised today to adjust repatriation pensions automatically twice a year to keep up with increases in the Consumer Price Index. The promise was included in the party’s repatriation policy issued today by its spokesman, Senator Durack. The policy is essentially the same as the Labor Government's policies except for the automatic adjustments undertaking. The former Minister for Repatriation und Compensation, Senator Wheeldon, said today that the Labor Government had raised the TPI (Totally and Permanently Incapacitated) pension to the level of the minimum wage, and had kept it at that level with twice-yearly increases. The Liberal policy proposed to abandon this principle in favour of CPI-linked increases, he said. If CP1-linked increases had been given over the past three years, the TPI pension would now be $4 a week less than it was. But a coalition spokesmen denied that the automatic TPI increases implied any abandonment of parity with the minimum wage. The Liberal policy announced today promised to examine, as a matter of urgency, assistance to pensioners in nursing homes, some of whom were now paving $36.75 a week for board from a pension of $41 a week. Adequate loans to help ex-servicemen re-establish themselves, in civilian life would be provided. It also promised that, a soon as economic circumstances permitted, proposals, for the relief of widows of general rate war pensioners would be examined and further extension of the service pension to embrace former members of Allied forces would be considered. Senator Wheeldon said the coalition policy was the worst example of plagiarism he had seen.  Steel Hall names NSW Senate team.  The Liberal Movement's leader, Senator Steele Hall, introduced the party’s NSW Senate team of three businessmen yesterday. Two of them are Liberal Party dissidents. The team’s leader is Mr Terry Morgan, a 33-year old businessman and company director, of Davidson, who resigned the presidency of the Frenchs Forest Liberal Party branch earlier this year because the Libs were starting to move too far  to the Right. They seemed hell, bent on governing at any cost, he said yesterday. Mr Morgan resigned altogether from the Liberal Party last week. It's not such a drastic step; we (LM) are basically a Liberal party believing in free enterprise and very much antisocialist, be said. But 1 don't believe that the liberal Party had a right to defer the two appropriation bills. The second member of the team is Mr. Bill Payne, 26, of Glebe, an advertising executive, who was president of the Kirribilli-Neutral Bay Young Liberals and resigned last year because of dissatisfaction with the Liberal Party. I have followed Steele Hall's integrity and that it one of the reasons why I am standing for number two on the ticket, he said yesterday. The third member, Mr Bruce Irwin, 40, of West Pymble, general manager of an office supply company, believes that there is need for somebody to occupy the middle ground in a climate of extremism. Steele Hall reflects the kind of values and beliefs in the Parliamentary system and in the general beliefs of democracy that I believe more Australians should have. Mr. Irwin said that he had never bean ideologically committed to either of the major parties. In introducing the team, Senator Hall also announced the establishment of the Liberal movement in NSW with its headquarters in Artarmon. He said preferences would be given to Liberal Party candidates. But whichever party won the elections, the Liberal Movement would not block Supply.  Defector from Labor ranks.  Labor Party supporters in the electorate of Robertson were a shock yesterday when their former leader defected to the coalition parties. Mr. Arthur Mollett, a Wyong business and civic leader had been president of the Wyong branch of the Labor Party @ the Federal Council for Robertson for many years and was former Federal Labor candidate. There is no little doubt the leaders I once admired and respected, men like the late John Curtin and Ben Chifley would turn in their graves if they knew the party image of today.