25 October 1984

North Queensland Engineers and Agents will shortly receive a substantial defence contract.

The Federal Government has agreed to provide Indonesia with three more attack class patrol boats under the defence co-operation program. Australia has already given Indonesia five similar patrol boatsi which-are used for coastal surveillance, anti.-smugglinq and fisheries protection.

PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED BY GLENN TAYLOR -BRISBANE CH. 7
STATE AFFAIR WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER 1984
TAYLOR: At this stage -its early in the campaign but nevertheless
aeveral subjects have emerged as alection iaques
Already. Some of them have been raised right bero in
Queensland welcome to you'Prime Miniater.
Tax seems to be becoming predominant as the isBU* and
an-you used yo'urself the ex pression the politics of
fear today it is almost a situation of countervaLlinig
fear. The fear on the one hand of Labor's capital

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PRIME MINISTER
PRESS CONFERENCE LABOR HOUSE, BRISBANE, 24 OCTOBER, 1984
E 9 0 E PROOF ONLY
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, you are ndfdoubt aware of the
latest opinion poll which shows that Andrew Peacock is less
favoured as Opposition Leader than John Howard and even
Malcolm Fraser. Can you see him going the same way as
perhaps Bill Hayden did a few months ago.
PM: Far be it for me to interfere in the problems of the
Liberal Party. But it was interesting to see that John Howard
and Malcolm Fraser were preferred in front of Mr Peacock and

FOR MEDIA 24 October 1984
The Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, and the Minis! ter for Primary
Industry, Mr John Kerin, announced today that the Federal
Government is making $ 5.5 million available to assist the sugar
industry.
The assistance is to be given under Part A of the Rural Adjustment
Scheme. This is consistent with the Government's approach to all rural
industries -policies which are an investment in their long term
security. The Rural Adjustment Scheme Part A provides debt reconstruction
and capital works assistance for producers who have the capacity

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PRIME MINISTER
E. O. E. -PROOF ONLY
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE WITH LOCAL MEDIA,
LAUNCESTON 23 OCTOBER 1983
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, is it Federal Government policy
that the responsibility for nurs~ s education be transferred
from universities to colleges of advanced education by 1990?
PM: It's not from universities.
JOURNALIST: Sorry, put in control
PM: As it exists now, nurses training is hospital based essenitially.
We have responded to requests from the Nurses Federations themselves

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PR-ME~ RINESTIER
7 EX TALKBACK, LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA LEON RYNER WITHTHE PRIME MIN~ ISTERc
9.30 AM 23.10.84
BYNER: HAVE YOU HAD TIM[ YET TO CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT YOU WILL
DEBATE WITH ANDREW PEACOCK5 MAYBE THE 22ND or NOVEMBE. R?
HAWKE; I THINK THE TIMING IS STILL A MATTER-OF DISCUSSION.
THAT WE'RE QUITE HAPPY TO HAVE THE DEBATE. WE THIN~ K WHAT IT'S HAVE A TELEVISION
WE'VE SAID,*: LEON, IS
PR~ OBABLY BETTO BE
DONE AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB IN CANBERRA AND I THINK REALLY THE . NATIONAL

FOR M4EDIA 23 OCTOBER 1984
LAUNCESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL
In * accordance with a long-standing-Labor Party commitment,
the Federal Government will meet half the capital cost of the
final stage of development of Launceston General Hospital.
The final stage is estimated to cost up to $ 34 million,
and the Federal Government's contribution has an upper
limit of $ 17 million.
The completion of development of the hospital will overcome
severe difficulties caused by the current separation of
services and facilities on opposite sides of Charles Street.

PRIME MINISTER
ALP LUNCH LAUNCESTON, 23 OCTOBER 1984
E. O. E. PROOF ONLY let me say that having dealt with those two
issues of direct importance to the people of Launceston and
this region, that I would like to spend some time now in talking
with you about what has emerged as a fundamentally important
issue in this campaign in the light of yesterday's release
by Mr Peacock and Mr Howard of their so--called Tax Policy.
We have been told as Australian citizens over the last 18 months
that the Liberal and the Nationa. Party would produce a tax policyas

PRIME MINISTER
' TRANSCRIPT ABC TV ( NORTHERN TERRITORY) PROGRAM: TERRITORY TRACKS
MONDAY OCTOBER 22 1984 HOSTED BY RUTH DEXTER
Well last week also saw the visit of the Prime Minist~ er, Bob Hawke, to
strike the first major blow In the Labor Party's election campaign in
the Northern Territory. Geoff Adlide reports;
GA: A bulldozer clearing the way for a Labor victory in the Territory
at least that's the hope of its driver, Prime Minister Bob Hawke. The
Prime Minister spent the first day of his national ciampaign here-in the

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PROOF. ONLY -E O E
TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE COLONIAL MOTOR
LAUNCESTON 22 OCTOBER 1984
PM: Well this long awaited statement on taxation policy
by the Liberals is deserving of and will receive the contempt
of the Australian people. Someone making an application for
a loan from a bank for an advance to start a pie stall would
have to provide more details to their bank manager than these
people have been prepared to advance to the people of Australia.
They have had 18 months to bring forward a tax policy. They