PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 9 MARCH 1990
L. ABOR' S RURAL AND REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Labor has implemented an effective plan to improve the
primary industries and resources sector over its seven
years in office:
Maximising the sector's competitiveness through
general economic policy decisions
floating the dollar
deregulating the financial sector
lowering company and personal tax rates
setting achievable and economically justifiable
wages targets
fiscal surplus and expenditure restraint
lifting productivity, as the latest OECD

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF PM INTERVIEWED BY GREG CARY ON BRISBANE RADIO 4BC
9/ 03/ 90.
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GC-$ Welcome Mr Hawke, it's good to see you you're enjoying
the campaign?
PM: As a matter of fact I am, yes.
GC: You talked yesterday in your policy launch of dreams, you
talked of visions. I remember we talked not a long time after
you attained the highest office in our land, you talked of a
dream for our country a vision for our country, if you were to be
beaten March 24 how much of that remains undone?

My Friends, Fellow Australians
The message I bring to you today is a message of confidence
in the future of Australia, and a renewed commitment to a
better, fairer future for all Australians.
It is a message based firmly on realism
the realism and substance of our policies for the
future, the fact that the tough and hard decisions we have
had to make for the good of Australia are starting
to work,
the fact that we are building together a nation of
opportunity, fairness and security,
and above all, on the strength of the Australian
people.

PRIME MINISTER
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Ladies and gentlomen
The planning for this now theatre block at the Concord
Repatriation Hospital began in 1983 an important year of
cous for my Government as well as for the Concord
Repatriation Hospital. I am very pleased to be here as
Prime Minister to mark the successful culmination of the
project. I firmly believe that the Auatralian community would want

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF PANEL INTERVIEW WITH STEWART CRANNEY, RADIO
2MMM, SYDNEY, 7 MARCH 1990
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CRANNEY: This morning, in the run up to the election, we're
joined by a panel of experts in their field Greg Sheridan
from the Australian, Peter Garrett, President of the ACF, Dr
Kate Short from the Total Environment Centre,
Financial Correspondent Peter Switzer, from Rolling Stone
and The Age newspaper Sean Carney, our Canberra Bureau
Political Chief John Hewitt and MMN's News Director David
White. And of course, Bob Hawke.

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF LIVE CROSS TO IAN LESLIE, CHANNEL 10 NEWS,
SYDNEY, 6 MARCH 1990
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LESLIE: Mr Hawke, the greenies have said a Hawke victory
would be better for Australia than a Peacock win. How
good is that news?
PM: Well, it's good news, but it's deserved news, Ian,
because as I said the other night, the facts are that on
every major decision we've made to save the Franklin, to
stop logging in Daintree, to stop mining in Kakadu, to
save the tall forests of Tasmania, they are our decisions

TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, LAKE LODGE RECEPTION
CENTRE, BALLARAT BOTANICAL GARDENS, LAKE FORESHORE, 6
MARCH 1990
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PM: Well ladies and gentlemen, yesterday Mr Peacock
managed in one day to massively insult both the
intelligence and the commitment of the Australian people.
He insulted their intelligence by parading before them a
policy speech which had a $ 6 billion credibility gap, $ 6
billion at least of unfunded promises. And in that
regard, let me say this people will remember the 1987

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, RICHMOND BRIDGE, HOBART
MARCH 1990
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PM: Today we are witnessing yet another piece of
dramatic evidence of the commitment of the Liberal and
National Party coalition to ensuring that those who are
already most privileged in this society should have that
privilege further entrenched. The policies that they've
announced in regard to child rebates and child care
rebates mean very simply that there is no targeting in
terms of need. Those who are already best off in the

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, PERTH ZOO, 3 MARCH 1990
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PM: It's very appropriate that we should be meeting in
this environment which is a clear manifestation of
another area of our environmental concern which we've
enhanced today by making further funds available for the
endangered species program that is going to be developed
here in Western Australia. This comes at the end of a
week where the Coalition has once again indicated its
environmental vandalism credentials. We have the example

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 2 MARCH 1990
I have sent the following message to Prime Minister
O Andreotti of Italy:
Mr Dear Prime Minister
On behalf of the Government and people of Australia may
I say that the news of former President Pertini's death
was received here with much sorrow.
Dr Alessandro Pertini was one of the great
humanitarians of our time and brought to his Presidency
and long career as a democrat, politician and
statesman, qualities which earned him the respect and
admiration of the international community.