TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, NEW ZEALAND HIGH
COMMISSION RESIDENCE, CANBERRA 6 FEBRUARY 1990
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JOURNALIST: The Democrat preferences in Thomastown don't
seem to be going, or aren't going your way. Does this
worry you?
PM: Look, if there's any worry about the votes of the
Democrats in Thomastown it should be by the Liberals. To
have themselves being outvoted by the Democrats is a very
real concern for them. We haven't disguised the fact,
before the Thomastown election, that there'd be a swing

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, OAKLEIGH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE
HALL, MELBOURNE, 4 FEBRUARY 1990
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, the by-election, not a good
result in Thomastown.
PM: We said before the election that there'd be a pretty
substantial swing. But they, as I think everyone
acknowledges, they'd been state issues. The real issues
of the federal election are the ones I've been talking
about in here. They are the ones that people will be
voting on. The future of Medicare was not an issue out

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
CAMPAIGN LAUNCH FOR SIMON CREAN
MELBOURNE 4 FEBRUARY 1990
I am going to leave you in doubt as to when the election is
to be held.
But I will leave you in no doubt at all that whenever it is
held, it will see Simon Crean elected to Federal Parliament
as an important addition to the ranks of the Labor
Government. I have said in the past that there is a deep and
unbridgeable policy chasm dividing this Labor Government

TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, AUCKLAND GOLF CLUB, 3 FEBRUARY
1990
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JOURNALIST: H-ow was the golf game this morning, how did
it go?
PALMER: It was a very nice day, lovely weather, honour was
totally satisfied trans-Tasman. The Prime Minister of
Australia and the Prime Minister of New Zealand are all square
after 18.
HAWKE: So the series remains two/ one.
PALMER: Yes. It will have to be resumed at a later date.
H-AWKE: I had to par my last two to catch him though.
JOURNALIST: You started off well though.

TRANSCRIPT OF JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE WITH THE RT HON
GEOFFREY PALMER, PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AUCKLAND, 2 FEBRUARY 1990
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PALMER: Ladies and gentlemen, the Australian Prime
minister and myself have just concluded a very fruitful
round of talks and one of the results of those talks, and
indeed of previous Australian and New Zealand cooperation
on this important issue of driftnet fishing is that the
Australian Prime Minister is going to sign the Driftnet
Fishing Convention on behalf of the Government of

JOINT PRESS STATEMENT
RT HON 0 W R PALMER, PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND
HON R 3 HAWKS, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA
2 FEBRUARY 1990
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At a ceremony today attended by the Prime Minister of New
Zealand, the Right Honourable Geoffrey Palmer, the Prime
Minister of Australia, the Honourable Bob Hawke, signed the
Convention for the Prohibition of Fishing with Long Driftnets
in the South Pacific. Mr Palmer had signed the Convention
in November last year.
Both Prime Ministers acknowledged that the Convention, which

C d TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE ON DEPARTURE FOR NEW
ZEALAND -1 FEBRUARY 1990
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JOURNALIST: think you'll be able to squeeze in a bit
of business, given you have three days in Auckland?
PM: a serious question?
JOURNALIST: What do you hope to achieve on your New
Zealand visit over the next few days?
PM: Well I'm scheduled to have some discussions with Mr
Palmer, the Prime Minister. We will be covering a range
of issues of mutual concern. Also of course I hope to
see something of our athletes and performance at the

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH NEVILLE OLIVER, ABC RADIO,
AUCKLAND 1 FEBRUARY 1990
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OLIVER: just joined us in our Commonwealth Games
studio here in Auckland, the Prime Minister of Australia,
Bob Hawke. Welcome Prime Minister.
PM: Thanks Neville. Can I just say at the outset,
congratulations for your coverage. I mean it's been
fantastic. So very well received in Australia I can tell
you. OLIVER: Thank you very much. How has the Australian
performance been received in Australia?

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TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, PARLIAMENT HOUSE,
JANUARY 1990
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PM: The Cabinet today considered a report from the
Foreign Minister on developments in Eastern Europe. That
report to, of course, a considerable extent was based on
Gareth Evans' recent visit to two Germanys and to Poland,
Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Out of that report the
Government made a number of decisions which we regard as
constituting at this stage an appropriate response to
those important developments. Gareth Evans will be