§ Baroness Gardner of Parkesasked Her Majesty's Government: What arrangements will the United Kingdom be making to mark the Australian Bicentenary in 1988.
§ The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Young)This is an important anniversary and we will wish to see it marked accordingly. A Britain-Australia Bicentennial Committee is being set up under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Gadsden to consider what arrangements might most appropriately be made.