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TRANSCRIPT GOOD MORNING AUSTRALIA -LAURIE OAKES
13 July 1984
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OAKES: Mr H-awke you've won on everything that matters this
week. I think you'd be fairly happy with the Conference.
Yes, I'm very happy with it Laurie indeei6.
I think it's been good for the Party# good for the country.
DAKE~ S: What do you thiynk the Party's got out of it.
Well it's got sensible policies and sensible, I think,
has to be judged, if I c an put it in termq of the speech I
made to the Conference,. of what's relevant to the Party's

PRIME MINISTER
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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE 13 JULY 1984
JOURNALIST: How do you think it went?
PM: I think it was an excellent donference. I think that I
can say on the evidence available to all of us that the
Conference turned out in the way I asked it to in my speech
on Tuesday that is that the great majority of delegates
came to conclusions, made decisions, resolutions which were
couched in an understanding of the responsibility, not just
to the Party, but to the people of Australia as a whole. And

FOR MEDIA 13 July 1984
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Hawke, and the Premier
of Western Australia, Mr. Burke.
The Commonwealth and Western Australian Governments have
agreed on January 1 next year as the date for the handover
to the State of the Army land on Rottnest Island.
The State Government will pay the Commonwealth $ 2.2 million
as a contribution towards the replacement elsewhere of
improvements on the 55.7 hectares of land.
Arrangements for the transfer have been worked out by

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA J. 2 July 1984
The Federal Government welcomes the announcement of an
agreement on new industrial relations arrangements in the
building industry as part of which national building
employers indicated their intention to seek leave to
withdraw from deregistration proceedings against the BLF.
The Government strongly believes that the agreement provides
the beat prospects for a real improvement in industrial
relations in the building industry.
It is the clear expectation of the Government that all

EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERED
SPEECH TO THE BULLETIN-NEWSWEEK LUNCHEON 4 JULY 1984
IT IS A HAPPY COINCIDENCE AND I AM SURE A HAPPY OMEN
FOR SUCCESS THAT THIS FIRST ISSUE OF THE COMBINED
BULLETIN-NEWSWEEK SHOULD FALL ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
SO, FIRST LET ME SAY TO OUR FRIENDS FROM NEW YORK,
REPRESENTING THE AMERICAN HALF OF THIS VENTURE, THAT YOUR
PARTICIPATION IS ENTIRELY COMPATIBLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF
INDEPENDENCE WHICH THIS DAY CELEBRATES NOT FOR AMERICANS
ALONE, BUT FOR ALL THOSE WHO CHERISH DEMOCRACY EVERYWHERE

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HAWKE: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll just make a very brief
preliminary comment and then I'll be available for your
questions. I have not until today felt inclined to go into
any extensive public comment or make myself available in
regard to issues that would be involved with the upcoming
executive and conference. The State Conferences of the
parties have been going on. I did not go to those conferences,
I have been asked to go to them and it wasn't appropriate

FOR MEDIA 29 June 1984
Professor Jack Richardson AO has been appointed for a
further term as Commonwealth Ombudsman until September 1985.
The reappointment of Professor Richardson reaffirms the
Government's continuing commitment to better government
administration. As the inaugural Ombudsman, Professor Richardson-has made a
valuable personal contribution to ensuring that the office of
the Commonwealth Ombudsman is a respected and effective review
mechanism. His reappointment is a measure of the Government's commitment
to this end.

PRIME MINISTER]
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TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH IAN McMINT4,-MACQUARIE NE-TWORK
CORRESPONDENT 28 JUNE 1984
McMINN: What I would like to basically talk to you about
Es the union thing in particular and, as I see it, as a
catalyst in many things, Prime Minister, and that is as I see
it, the Labor Party if you are beholden to sectional
interests which are totally impractical and the Labor Party is
not going to achieve in a social reform situation. And that
is my basic position.

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 27 June 1984
The Prime Minister today announced that the Governor-General
in Council had approved the appointment of Patrick John ( Pat)
Galvin to the position of Secretary-to the Department of
Home Affairs and Environment.
Mr Galvin, who previously held the position of Deputy Secretar: y
in the Department of Home Affairs and Environment, was
appointed to the Australian Public Service in 1950. He has
held senior positions in the Departments of External Territories,.

JOINT COMMUNIQUE -ISSUED HOBART -26 JUNE 1984
The Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, and the Premier of Tasmania,
Mr Gray, signed a Memorandum of -Understanding in Hobart
today which covers the arrangements for Commonwealth assistance
to Tasmania consequent on cessation of the Gordon-below-
Franklin scheme.
The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding represents the
culmination of 12 months of negotiations. The key elements
of the settlement have been agreed following a number of
discussions over recent months between Mr Hawke and Mr Gray.