JAUSTHRALIA
PRIME MINISTER
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PRESS CONFERENCE GOA AIRPORT, 25 NOVEMBER 1983
PM: What I'm going to do is just take you through what
h appened this morning generally and tell you something of
what I said. And then there is a domestic matter I'd like
to go to.
The two things that were involved this morning were the
international economics and there was a statement on Cyprus
by the President and a couple of contributions from Bangla
Desh and Guyana. I didn't have the opportunity of speaking

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TRANSCRIPT Or NEWS CONFERENCE, AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION,
NEW DELHI, 24/ 11/ 83, MR. HAWKE, MR. LEE KUAN YEW, MR.
GHAZALI SHAFFIE
PM: Well Gentlemen, Lee Kuan Yew and Mr. Dhanablan and I
have had a very useful discussion over lunch and I think
I can say from the point of view of the Australian Government
that any -let -me use words carefully any degree of
misunderstanding that there may have been has been eliminated
and we have a clear understanding of the commionality of our

PRIME MINISTER
PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH NOTES INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
AND DISARMAMENT
CHOGM, NEW DELHI, 23 NOVEMBER 1983
THE ARMS RACE HAS REACHED ALARMING PROPORTIONS
$ 700 BILLION PER YEAR,
IT IS GRAVELY THREATENING EVERYBODY ' S SECURITY,
ARMED CONFLICT CONTINUES IN MANY PARTS OF THE
WORLD, THERE ARE 10 MILLION REFUGEES AS A RESULT
OF SUCH CONFLICT.
IT IS A SCANDALOUS WASTE OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND
INGENUITY. ECONOMIC GROWTH, JOBS, AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT ARE BEING MATERIALLY SET BACK BY
EXPENDITURE ON ARMS.

. J., AUS> 3TI1AL1A
PRIME MINISTER
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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE, AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION,
NEW DELHI, 23 NOVEMBER 1983
PM: It seemed to me that what might be most useful to you were
iff I were to go through, not every detail but the outline of the
contribution that I made and relate it to the proposals that were
contained in Mr. Trudeau's opening submissions.
So going first of all through the contribution I made I went in
opening to the dimension of the problem that we're dealing with

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SPEECH BY THE AUSTRALIAN PRIM. E MINISTER
AUSTRALIA-THAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
BANGKOK 22 NOVEMBER 1983
MR CHAIRMAN
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR WARM WELCOME.
THE AUSTRALIAN-THAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAS MADE A . VALUABLE
CONTRIBUTION TO MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THAILAND AND
AUSTRALIA. PERHAPS MOST SIGNIFICANTLY THE EXISTENCE OF THE CHAMBER
REFLECTS AN AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL PRESENCE ON THE GROUND
HERE IN THAILAND; ITS MEMBERSHIP COMPRISES AUSTRALIANS AND

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PRME MVISE
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PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE, ORIENTAL HOTEL, 22 NOVEMBER 1983
PM: Ladies and Geritlemen, I will start by going over for
the benefit of the non-Australian contingent an outline
that I gave to them yesterday of the talks that Foreign
Minister, Bill Hayden and I had with the Prime Minister and
Foreign Minister of Thailand and then add some further
comments to that.
In those discussions yesterday I repeated what both Mr. Hayden
and I had said consistently inside our own Parliament and

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. BOB HAWKE
THAILAND: STATE DINNER
21 NOVEMBER 1983
MR PRIME MINISTER, DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
AUSTRALIA AND THAILAND ARE CLOSE FR* IENDS.
My GOVERNMENT IS FIRMLY COMMITTED TO STRENGTHENING THIS
FRIENDSHIP. THERE HAS BEEN REMARKABLE GROWTH IN AUSTRALIA-THAI RELATIONS
SINCE THE MODEST BEGINNINGS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
OVER THIS TIME STRONG GOODWILL AND MUTUAL RESPECT HAVE
DEVELOPED.

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PRIME MINOSTER
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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE, ORIENTAL HOTEL, BANGKOK,
AFTER MEETING WITH THAI PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER,
.21 NOVEMBER 1983
PM: Well Bill and I have had extremely useful and constructive
morning with the Prime Minister and the Foreign
Minister together and then lunch with the Foreign Minister.
We could not,' I believe, be more satisfied than we are with
the talks that have taken place. May I just go through
generally the country that we've covered and then if you'd

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TRANSCRIPT OF TV INTERVIEWSPRIENTAL HOTEL, BANGKOK, 21 NOVEMBER 1983
JOURNALIST: What happened, Prime Minister?
PM: Well, we had a most useful discussion where we had, I believe,
an identity of views and complete understanding, I believe, on
the part of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of
Thailand about Australia's position.
JOURNALIST: I was just going to say, what did General Prem
say specifically about ASEAN?
PM: Well, we indicated our basic agreement with the thrust

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT -PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE-
17 NOVEMBER 1983
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PM: Ladies and gentlemen, I thought I'd just make a brief
statement about the visit which will commence later on today
and then be available for any questions you'd like to ask.
I'm going to refer firstly to the visit to Thailand. As I
said in the Parliament yesterday, of course I'm looking forward
to that visit with Bill Hayden to meet Prime Minister Prem
and Foreign Minister Siddhi. We will naturally be talking about