TEL: IO. Dec. 92 13: 07 No. L2 r. u
PRIME MINISTER
I'RANSCRJyf OF ThME PRIME MINISTE, THE HON P. J. KEATING MP
DOORSTOP, I) FERN PARE, SYDNEY, 10 9 8 -1-11-0199
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3: 11.4 per c4ti uncmpluyvnnt
PM: It it a very disappointing figuro, vty dbjappontinfg, and fe only light we can e4
on that horizon is the inceas@ in vasancis which seems to be going on now quite
inexorably around Ibe cwby. But the tigrw= art volatik, we had unemployment
riing by onc per ccnt hi Quenslnd In a month and taing one per cent in Westan
Australia in a month , and obviousy tha's not bappencd.
1: The arcgatw fgurt is Am going up ln't it?
PmN But thc agaS~ tc3s are going up amid they art noi going to tn down until the
growth wc've got now des acelvrat.
Do you think that you have missed an opportunity by not going waziy to an
election? You've let the Coaltion off the book.
PM: No, no, the Coaition.. jt Inaot, whater problems we'vc got today with
unemploytnct, what wcmld we have if dicrc was a 15 per cent tax on cvCythtfl
or a Sbiflioncut to the BudgMt. Thchavo got nopokicy prripionsand what
John Hcwson's proven d& wook is they don't even hive courge In the one they
bliwd in.
PM: But woy frg t tt'ityanth
P.% 4 Thy got frigh; that'sr it, they hrve takn ffiht, ftt's what has happec4 to them
ENDS
Keating, Paul
Period of Service: 20/12/1991 - 11/03/1996
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