PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 30 JUNE 1986
I am pleased to announce that, after consultation with the Queen,
His Excellency the Rt Hon. Sir Ninlan Stephen, AK, GCMG, GCVO,
KBE, will remain in office as Governor-General of Australia until
the end of 1938.
I welcome te fact that the Governor-General will continueoin
office throughout the Bicentennial year. Both Sir Ninian and Lady
Stephen have rade an outstanding contribution to Australia since
Sir Ninian'u appointment in 1982 and will continue to do so.

FOR MEDIA 30 JUNE 1986
As I indicated on 11 June 1986 in my Address to the Nation
on the Economic Situation and the Supporting Statement, the
Government is committed to reversing the growth trend in the
Federal Public Service.
While the Government believes that a good public service is
essential to the well-being of our society, it is committed
to ensuring that the public service becomes increasingly
more efficient.
As foreshadowed, we will be taking steps to streamline and
rationalise existing functions and agencies to produce a

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TRANSCRIPT OF 11.00 AM 30 JUNE 1986
PM: It was a remarkable achievement by any standards not just to
found a new party in Australia but to bring it to a situation
where it has such considerable power. it does hold the balance of
power in Australian politics. And without any question it is Don
Chipp that has done that. No one else.
JOURNALIST: How do you think the Democrats will fare without Don
Chipp? PM: it will be a much harder job for them. it is obviously
impossible to quantify these things Paul, but the appeal of the

FOR MEDIA 29 June 1986
As I foreshadowed in my Address to the Nation on 11 June, I have
now written to business leaders and business and professional
associations calling for shared restraint in incomes and prices.
All told, 161 letters have been despatched.
The Government has welcomed the decisions of the National Wage
Bench, handed down on Thursday. These decisions were consistent
with the approach suggested in my Address to the Nation and
provide for firm restraint in the growth of award wages and
superannuation payments.

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TRANSCRIPT OF PM ON THE MIDDAY SHOW TUESDAY 24 JUNE 1986
MARTIN: Welcome Mr Hawke. Thank you for your time. How are you
feeling? PM: I have felt better, but we're on the way up.
MARTIN: Alright. Apart from questions here we're going to throw
it open to everyone. when we announced two weeks back that you
were coming on and you agreed to come on to talk, we had a
predictable number of letters from people in the bush and other
states who couldn't make it. We'll try and run through at some

PRIME MINISTER
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TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW ON THE SUNDAY PROGRAM 15 JUNE 1986
OAKES: Prime Minister, welcome to Sunday.
PM: Thank you very much indeed.
OAKES: Sir, your Address to the Nation seemed to have been
panned by everybody business, unions, most commentators. Was it
a flop?
PM: No it wasn't a flop Laurie, I am not simply saying that
through pride of authorship. What I was about there was to alert
the Australian people that we have to, for the time being, accept
a reduction of standards. It was by definition not a Budget

TRANSCRIPTI OF INTERVIEW WITH DEPRYN flINCH, 3AW, 12 JUNE 1986, E 0 E PROOF ONLY
Hi P resumably anybody who did what you had to do last
nig ' would be disappointed when you see the papers and hear the
rea~ ction to it, the rejection of a lot of the spirit of what you're
saying?
H. one would have liked a more fulisone response but I've been on the air
this morning Derryn and 1 think the sound media has been very, very
much m~ ore perceptive, if I may say so, I hope you keep that record
up. But, people who were expecting a budget speech, where you were

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TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH JOHN HEWITT, 2MMM 12 JUNE 1986.
JOURNALIST: How are you this morning after waking up and
receiving quite a lot of criticism from all sides of the fence,
it seems?
PM: I'm durable, John. Obviously I would be less than honest is
I said I wouldn't have liked a more fulsome reaction. I must say
that this morning I've been on a lot of radio programs around
Australia, as has Paul Keating, I must say the reaction has been
very, very much better on the sound media. It has been much more
positive.

PRIME MINISTER ON RADIO 4BC ( HAYDN SARGENT SHOW) 12/ 6/ 86
H. S. Mr Hawke seems to have copped flak from both sides
of the fence from the unions and from the employers.
Good morning Mr Prime Minister
PM: Good morning Haydn, how are you?
HS: You've copped flaK from both sides of the fence this
morning after last night's speech. The unions weren't
happy, the employers weren't happy. Were you
expecting that sort of reaction?
PM I think in politics in the broad senseadd that
includes Industrial politics, people have

TRAN'SCRIT OF IM'ERWrl WITH-GWXJFM NEGUS, 2UE/ 3AK, 12 JUNE 1986, E 0 E PROOF ONLY
N. After all the blood sweat and tears of the last few weeks on the economy
yoii must feel pretty let dollntg~ s universally actoss the country
today, at aeast on page one, what you put to us last night has been
thoroughly rejected.
Well let's say this that some union spokesmen have, some business
spokesmen, have the editorials have, been like the curate said, partly
good, partly bad. I think the ground work has been laid and I think a