PRIMEST AINIE
FOR MEDIA 6 JUNE 1986
I am pleased to announce the launch of a competition to select a
design for a memorial to the Australian Army. The establishment
of the memorial in Anzac Parade, Canberra, has been approved by
the Canberra National memorials Committee, of which I am
Chairman. The memorial is to be completed in 1988 for an
official unveiling as part of the Bicentennial celebrations.
The National Capital Development Commission, which is conducting
the competition on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, will

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 4 June 1986
The occasion of world Environment Day June) is an opportunity
to emphasise the relationships between the goals of environmental
protection and of the International Year of Peace.
The common theme in the pursuit of peace and the protection of
the environment is people living in harmony with each other and
with their environment. Australians, like all other citizens of
the Earth, should support the cause of a just and lasting peace,
and must carefully manage and nurture the resources which the

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me make a brief statement to the effect that it
is quite clear in the light of the national accounts that have
been available in this last week that the Australian economy has
had inflicted upon it, as a result of a massive decline in the
terms of trade, a reduction in its economic capacity to sustain
standards. I have accepted, in those circumstances, this
Government has accepted, that it was necessary for the Government

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-NEGUS: Are you there Mr. Haw3k?
M1. AWKE; Good day George, how are you?
NEGUS: Ifm well thatnkyou. We dragged you kicking and screaming out
* of an important meeting I gather.
HAWKE: I beg your pardon?
NEGS: We dragged you kicking and scyeaming froM an important meeting
Igather? M. IAWE; Oh Never kicking, never screaming, but always willing to
have a yarn with you George.
-NEGUS: A few things on your mind at the moment I'd say.

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 2 JUNE 1986
The most recent economic statistics, notably the March
quarter National Accounts and the ABS Survey of Investment
Intentions graphically highlight the magnitude of the
economic task before Australia.
While no major change in direction is required the
statistics provide further confirmation of the need for some
modifications to our already successful policy to meet the
new challenge presented by world trading conditions.
They also show clearly that the co-operation of all sections

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NATIONAL ITALIAN DAY CELEBRATIONS
THE DOMAIN SYDNEY 1 JUNE 1986
CAVALIERE CAPELLETTO, PREMIER WRAN, YOUR EXCELLENCY,
DR ERIC DA RIN, CONSUL GENERAL ALVISE MEMMO, MAYOR
SUTHERLAND, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
TODAY WE ARE CELEBRATING AN IMPORTANT DAY FOR ITALY THE
ANNIVERSARY OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, A DAY ON WHICH
ITALIANS TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION.
HERE IN AUSTRALIA THIS OCCASION GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO

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JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, do you think you've won them over today?
PM: It wasn't a question of trying to win them over. I gave
Peter and his colleagues a promise that I would come and visit
them. They asked me to. It was a generous invitation and I'm
fulfilling that undertaking. I wasn't coming here to win votes,
I wasn't coming here to lose them either. I hope that out of
this visit Peter, and the people here, can accept that firstly,

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TO A PUBLIC MEETING AT CANOWINDRA NSW
SATURDAY 31 MAY 1986
Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen
Today I want to talk about the Labor Government and the
bush. Farmers are businessmen and women, people who are prepared
to take the risks. They are usually self-reliant. They are
realists, people who do not usually make extreme demands. I
do appreciate, however, that at times such as now many of
you do feel some sense of being left to carry your many

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JOHN LAWS: We talked earlier today at some length of the
government's political and economic problems
at the moment,* the pressure is on the government,
whether they see it as being a problem or
accept it as being a problem I don't know.
In a nutshell, it's got to get business investing
in new production to compete with imports
arnd to sell manufactured goods overseas, it's
got to cut a swath through the government's

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TENTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER
MAY 1986
I AM DELIGHTED, AT LAST, TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ADD,
IN PERSON, MY TRIBUTE TO NEVILLE WRAN, HIS GOVERNMENT AND
THE NEW SOUTH WALES BRANCH OF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AS
WE CELEBRATE THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOVERNMENT'S
ELECTION ON 1 MAY 1976.
I SAY ' AT LAST', BECAUSE I WAS UNABLE TO BE PRESENT ON THE
EARLIER OCCASIONS AT WHICH SO MANY, NOT ONLY FRIENDS AND