PRIME MINISTER
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OPENING ADDRESS, ST MARY'S VILLA, CONCORD, 7 JULY 1985
YOUR GRACE, ARCHBISHOP CLANCY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASUtCE TO BE HERE TODAY TO SHARE THE
SATISFACTION AND JOY YOU MUST ALL BE FEELING IN SEEING
ST MARY'S VILLA NOW A REALITYI
REALISE THAT OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS A GREAT NUMBER OF
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT, AND THEIR
GENEROSITY HAS BEEN REMARKABLE.
BY GIVING SO GENEROUSLY OF YOUR TIME, EFFORT AND MONEY
YOU HAVE EXPR~ ESSED YOUR CONCERN FOR THE AGED IN YOUR

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CLOSING REMARKS NATIONAL TAXATION SUMMIT 4 JULY 1985
Ladies and Gentlemen, what I would like to do in opening up
what I hope will be a very fruitful session is to indicate
as I see it, the areas where I think it is fair to say
there is total agreement that has emerged out of the
proceedings of the Summit to this date. And from that to
move to indicate what we perceive are perhaps what could be
described as areas of majority agreement not total. To
indicate on that basis without any concept of putting to you

PRIME MINISTER
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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE 4 JULY 1985
PM: Ladies and Gentlemen, at the conclusion of an extraordinarily
s uccessful Summit, I would remind you of the ninth of the nine
principles, which at times seems to have been overlooked. The
words of it exactly: Ninth any reform package must have
widesprea ' d community support, including support of a widely
representative National Taxation Summit, of economic organisations
and communite groups. We have just concluded that Summit, the

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OPENING ADDRESS BY THE PRIME MINISTER
HON. R. J. L. HAWKE, M. P.,
NATIONAL TAXATION SUIMIT -CANBERRA 1 JULY 1985
It is with sincere pleasure that I welcome you all to
the nation's capital to take part in this historic
National Taxation Summit Conference. And I do so not
only on behalf of the Australian Government, but on
behialf of the Australian people.
Your presence here, your participation in this
Conference, represents in itself a remarkable

The ACTU sought information from Treasury and the EPAC
Secretariat on a number of tax reform options, and
with the agreement of the ACTU that information is made
available to Summit participants.
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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE 30 JUNE 19a5
PM: Ladies and Gentlemen, we now meet on the eve of the
Summit. The Government goes into the Summit certain that
the overwhelming majority of Australians believe that the
existing tax system has virtually disintegrated, certainly
to the point where they desi:-e to have a different system
one which is fairer and more efficient and more easily
understood. On the basis of that belief we have done the
hard work of analysing that system and showing the ways in

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PRIME MINISTER
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PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED BY HAYDN SARGENT ON RADIO 4BC
TALKBACK, BRISBANE 27/ 6/ 85.
HS: Mr Hawke I understand on Monday night the members of the
Centre Left faction met and decided they wanted option A
which must cause you some concern?
PM: I don't know, I haven't had dny such reports and I'd be
eurprsed if any such decision had been taken, but anyway
what I've said is that we'll go to the summit, we'll listen
to what's said and as a govetrnment we'll go through the

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PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED ON CHANNEL 7 ( BRISBANE) STATE AFFAIR
( INTERVIEWER MIKE DARCY: ANCHORMAN GLENN TAYLOR), 27/ 6/ 85 6o30 pm.
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GT: A major split has appeared in the Federal government's
campaign for tax reform. The powerful Centre Left of
the Labor Party, headed by Queensland's Bill Hayden, has
declared it will be opposing the government's preferred
tax plan. It seems no one wants to buy the package
which the Prime Minister and Treasurer have been trying

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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCEr BRISBANE, 26 JUNE 1985
PH: Just before we are open for questions, ~ I thought I
might help you today by an opening statement. I have had
the opportunity of meeting with my colleagues of the
Queensland State Parliament and in that meeting I indicated
. to them that.. we had been-drawing-. atentlaon-. in.ñ he -Federal
Parliament and would continue to be doing so to the grosg
economic incompetence of the Premier of Queensland and of
his Government. As I pointed out to them, the evidence is

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FOR MEDIA 25 JUNE 1985
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE MINISTER FOR
ARTS, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT
The Prime Minister, Mr Hawke and the Minister for Arts, Heritage
and Environment, Mr Barry Cohen, today announced Commonwealth
Government plans for the development of the National Maritime
Museum in Sydney at Darling Harbour.
The Commonwealth has accepted the offer of the New South Wales
Government of a 4.75 hectare site for the Museum in the Darling
Harbour Redevelopment Area.