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TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH MARK DAY -19 SEPTEMBER 1985
DAY: Mr Hawke, welcome.
PM: Thank you very much, Mark.
DAY:: The reverse to that question is can you sell them?
PM: Yes, I believe we can, Mark, because the guiding principle
of this tax reform package is fairness and equity. The ordinary
Australia), the ordinary viewer, the honest taxpayer has been
paying far too much tax because the tax rates have been pitched
at too high a level. Very largely that has been because of the

18 September 1985

In the light of media reports emanating from Paris, I have sought and obtained an assurance that no member of the Australian intelligence and secur-ity community had any foreknowledge of, or involvement in, the sinking of the ' Rainbow Warrior'

I reiterate the Australian Government's condemnation of that cold-blooded, premeditated act of international terrorism and our support for the New Zealand Government's efforts to have the perpetrators identified and brought to justice.

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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE PARLIAMENT HOUSE, PORT MORESBY
16 SEPTEMBER 1985
JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, has Mr Somare indicated any change of view
on the Australian patrol boats?
PM: I am glad that question has been asked. I have had a
discussion with the Prime Minister and I am very pleased to
announce that Papua New Guinea will be taking four patrol boats.
Q So they will become part of the program. I am very pleased to
announce that. And it will be important I think to have this

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TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH TREVOR WATSON ( ABC) PORT MORESBY
16 SEPTEMBER 1985
WATSCN: Mr Hawke, what is Australia's response to Mr Mitterand's
invitation to you and other South Pacific leaders to go to Mururoa?
PM: I simply want to say to President Mitterand what I have
said recently and that if he wants to invite the countries of
the region to come to Mururoa so that he can show us how
absolutely safe the tests are then I suggest to the President
that he organise the picking up of all the testing equipment

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER ON THE OCCASION OF THE
SIGNING OF THE MEMORANDUM OF. UNDERSTANDING ON AID
PORT MORESBY 16 SEPTEMBER 1985
MR PRIME MINISTER, DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, LADIES
GENTLEMENTHE AUSTRALIAN-PAPUA NEW GUINEA RELATIONSHIP: HAS BEENAND
WILL CONTINUE TO BE -A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
TO BOTH OUR COUNTRIESIT
IS AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP ONE MARKED BY MANY
SHARED POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND OTHER INTERESTS-IT IS A
RELATIONSHIP WE CAN BE PROUD OF ONE WHICH STANDS
COMPARISON WITH ANY ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN FOREIGN

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TRANSCRIPT OF PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE
PORT MORESBY AIRPORT 15 SEPTEMBER 1985
JOURNALIST: -Prime Minister, on a domestic issue, has agreement
been reached on the package of taxation reform?
PM: Well they were well on the way when I left them at 1050
this morning. It will be announced in due time.
JOURNALIST: Do you think it will be achieved this weekend?
PM . We will be ale -to announce it this w ek I believe.
JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, you apparently sewed up a capital gains

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 13 September 1985
Professor Jack Richardson, the Commonwealth Ombudsman,
will retire when his second term of office ceases on
23 September 1985.
The Government is still considering a permanent
appointment to replace Professor Richardson. It may be
some little time yet before an announcement can be made.
In the meantime a Deputy Commonwealtn Ombudsman,
Air Vice Marshal J. C. Jordan will act as
Commonwealth Ombudsman.

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 13 September 1985
Federal Cabinet this week discussed the future of phosphate
mining on Chriptmas Island.
Following the meeting the Prime Minister sent the following
message to the Administrator of Christmas Island:
" In 19u4 the Christmas Island phosphate operation was
restructured in an attempt to restore the commercial
viability of the Phosphate Mining company of Christmas
Island Ltd.
unfortunately, the expectations of the restructuring
programme have not been fulfilled.

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SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER ACTU CONGRESS
SYDNEY 12 SEPTEMBER 1985
Mr President, Delegates,
Let me first, take this earliest opportunity to
congratulate your President-elect on his election as
leader of the great Australian trade union movement.
I do that, first, Simon most sincerely, in the personal
sense. But as one who had the privilege of being one of your
predecessors, I do it with a deep sense of both the
honour and the responsibility your colleagues have

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TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW ON CARLETON-WALSH REPORT, 12 SEPTEMBER 1985
WALSH: Prime Minister, the media and the commentators have
hailed the election of Mr Howard as marking a new ez a matter of
substance and not just the cosmetics in the Libei. Party. Do
you see it that way? 7
PM: Well, I think it is the start of a new era, but I wouldn't
be hailing it, if I were the Liberals. We have now had the
opportunity for a few days of seeing Mr Howard in action. And
I don't wish to be churlish about this, but I probably have a