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FOR MEDIA 12 NOVEMBER 1991
I regret that the Premiers have cancelled the Special
Premiers' Conference.
Not only are they declining to discuss ongoing Special
Premiers' Conference issues. They are also discarding the
opportunity to address with the Commonwealth at the Perth
Conference, as we had agreed, fundamentally important issues
such as employment which they put on the agenda and
community violence and gun control.
As such, they have done a disservice to the nation,
themselves and their constituents.
As I said earlier today the Commonwealth was not prepared to
have the whole Commonwealth-State process held to ransom for
a State income tax.
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