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SPRIME MENISTER
FOR MEDIA 32 JUNE 1986
The Report of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group was
released in London today ( 12 June).
The Group performed its task with great determination and
integrity. I wish to express my personal appreciation of the
role of the Australian member and Co-Chairman of the Group,
Mr Malcolm Fraser, in this process. He and his colleagues
tackled a difficult task with energy, sensitivity and skill.
The Report is a powerful and compelling . ccount pf the daily

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PRIME MINISTERA
AGREEMENT ON TASMANIAN WOODCHIP L-ICENCES
A Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU) between the Commonwealth
and Tasmanian Governments about the conditions for expor--ts of
woodchips was signed in Canberra today.
The Memorandum was signed by the Feaeral minister for Primary
Industry, Mr John Kerin, the Tasmanian Premier, Mr Robin Gray,
and the State Minister for Forests, Mr Ray Groom.
Mr Kerin said the industry could now proceed on a firm basis.
" The community can be assured that the woodchip operations will

PRIME MINISTER
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TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW ON ABC 7.30 REPORT 11 JUNE 1986
GOWARD: Mr Hawke, thank you very much for joining us this
evening. PM: My pleasure Pru.
GOWARD: How quickly do you believe your policy outline tonight
will start correcting our balance of payment difficulties and
heading us away from bananahood.
PM: I think that in many respects it can start immediately if
the Australian people, as I believe they will, respond with the
changes of attitudes that you rightly referred to Pru, then that

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TRANSCRIPT OF THE PM ON CARLETON WALSH WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 1986
CARLETON: Have you not got it right this time. If you got
everything that you asked for in the speech would that finally
fix the economy.
PM: I think it would at this stage do everything that we as a
Government and a community could do. We've always got the
position Richard, as you well appreciate, that we're here in this
situation because of what the rest of the world has said to us
about the prices they're going to pay to us for our exports. If

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH TERRY WILLESEE 11 JUNE 1986
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WILLESEE: Mr Hawke thanks for your time.
PM: my pleasure Terry.
WILLESEE: Mr Hawke, you addressed the nation earlier tonight in
your shirt sleeves. Was that symbolic?
PM: No, it is the way I usually am in my office.
WILLESEE: It wasn't preplanned?
PM: No, I feel more comfortable that way in my office. That is
the way I always am there and it seemed the most appropriate way
of doing it.
WILLESEE: I just thought, given with your pep-talk, to get us

TRANSCRIPT OF MIKE WILLESEE 11 JUNE 1986
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WILLESEE: Does this mean you have now taken a more direct
responsibility for the economy?
PM: In one sense, but I want to say that I am deeply indebted to
the assistance I have received from Paul Keating, who has been
shoulder to shoulder with me in the preparation of this material.
And I also thank my colleagues on the ministerial committee who
have been involved with me. But it is the case Mike that as
Prime Minister and particularly in a time of crisis I have to be

ADDRESS TO THE NATION ON THE ECONOMIC SITUATION
THE HON. R. J. L. HAWKE, AC, MP
CANBERRA 11 JUNE 1986
Good evening,
As a nation we now have to do some tough and challenging
things together. I want to tell you
why we must do them,
what some of those-things are,
why we will overcome the challenge facing us as a
nation.
Let me first put the position as concisely as possible:
Our exports of commodities such as wool, wheat, coal and
iron ore have, for a long time, been a major source of our
national income.

P~ RIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 9 JUNE 1986
Mr Freddy Argy, OBE, has been appointed Director of the
Office of the Economic Planning Advisory Council..
Mr Argy haG had a varied and'distinguished career as an
economic adviser and manager in a range of positions.
After an ea~ rly career in the private sector, Mr Argy worked
in the Department of Trade and the Treasury until 1968 when
he spent five years in the then Department of Labour and
National Service.
He then became Chief Economist of the AIDC where he worked

PROME MINISTER
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EXTRACT OF SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
AT THE SA STATE ALP CONFERENCE
ADELAIDE SUNDAY 8 JUNE 1986
Delegates,
We are at a watershed year in the history of our Government, our Party
and our nation.
our conduct in the challenging weeks and months to come, our conduct as a
Government, as a Party but, above all, as a people, the whole
Australian community will be crucial in shaping Australia's future fo. r
the rest of the century and beyond.

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 7 June 1986
Neville Wran's decision to stand down as Premier on July 4 farks
the end of a decade of outstanding service to the ALP, New South
Wales and Australia.
Under his leadership the NSW Labor Government has provided that
state with a decade of continuous, comprehensive and consistent
reform.
At all times during my term as Prime Minister I have found
Neville Wran willing to act in the best interests of both New
South Wales and Australia.
The national achievement of the past three years above all the