The Australian Prime Minister, who hosted the 1969 Australian Film Awards, was a serving minister under a Stanmore born prime minister. This Stanmore born prime minister had as his press secretary to Tony Eggleton.
Sir John Grey Gorton {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (9 September 1911  19 May 2002) was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia and long serving minister in the governments of Sir Robert Menzies, Harold Holt, Sir John McEwen and Sir William McMahon. 
 He was born in Stanmore, New South Wales and won a scholarship to study law at the University of Melbourne. 
 Australian Prime Minister John Gorton hosted the ceremony. 
 He is best remembered by many Australians as the press secretary to the Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, at the time of the latter's disappearance and death in December 1967. 
