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SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF FAMILY ALLOWANCE SUPPLEMENT
QUEANBEYAN 13 DECEMBER 1989
Today we ar6 celebrating the second anniversary of the
Family Allowance Supplement.
It is one of my Government's truly significant and enduring
improvements in social justice, providing tax-free cash
assistance to low-income families.
At present, more than half a million families some 1.2
million children are being helped with Family Allowance

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF UNEDITED INTERVIEW WITH PAUL LYNEHAM, 7.30
REPORT, 13 DECEMBER 1989
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LYNEHAM: Prime Minister, thanks for joining us.
PM: Pleasure.
LYNEHAM: Well you're heading for the holidays at the end
of this week with the mortgage rates still at 17% and
according to today's Morgan Gallup Poll you're 2-1/ 2%
behind the Opposition. It's not much of a Christmas
present really is it?
PM: Well, I'm not going off to the break in any sense of
depression. I watch the polls with interests, as you

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH IAN McMINN, RADIO 3AW,
MELBOURNE 11 DECEMBER 1989
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McMINN: Good morning Prime minister, not 21 that's for
sure. PM: A bit more than that mate.
McMINN: How was your birthday bash?
PM: It was good. We saw a lot of old friends stretching
way back some I went to school with and some I haven't
seen for some time. It was a very very happy and rather
long night.
McMINN: A rather long night? Not like the old days?
PM: I beg your pardon?
McMINN: Not like the old days?

PRIME MINISTER
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OPENING OF
AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION'S
NEW HEADQUARTERS
MELBOURNE 11 DECEMBER 1989
There is a healthy, vigorous debate in this country about
our economy. Attention is rightly focussed on Australia's
international debt. The country is said to be living beyond
its means yet much of Australia's external deficit is
financing the means to lift our productive capacity in the
future; to earn export income and to replace imports.

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF UNEDITED INTERVIEW WITH JIM WALEY, A
CURRENT AFFAIR, 8 DECEMBER 1989
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WALEY: Prime Minister, thanks for your time and
congratulations on your 60th tomorrow.
PM: Thank you very much Jim.
WALEY: You're not getting Boft in your old age, are you?
PM: No, I've never felt better, Jim.
WALEY: Well everyone's remarking today about your
turnaround on the pilots. Why the change?
PM: It's not a turnaround Jim. There has to be the
distinction made between the issue on which I was

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TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, JOHN CURTIN HOUSE, 8 DECEMBER
1989
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JOURNALIST: Is there a need of better quality candidates
not only in New South Wales, but federally?
PM: Well, I think that all parties always ought to
strive for the best quality candidates they can get. I
think that the Labor Party in a strange, mysterious,
unco-ordinated way over the years has thrown up some
very, very good members on that. I was particularly
fortunate when I became Prime minister to have a Ministry

t 0 TRANSCRIPT OF QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION, NATIONAL PRESS
CLUB, 7 DECEMBER 1989
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JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, as the first member of the Press
to ask you a question, may I take the opportunity to wish
you a happy birthday?
PM: Thank you very much indeed.
JOURNALIST: Could I ask you two questions?
PM: Yes.
JOURNALIST: The first one, we have reports in the paper
this morning that the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Mr Ali
Alatas, said there'd be further talks, Cambodian peace
talks. Can you tell us what status Australia's proposal

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NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
CANBERRA 7 DECEMBER 1989
A 60th birthday is not the occasion for a policy
statement from me.
But like turning 21, or 40, turning 60 is a landmark at
which it is permissible to engage in some personal
reflection. And when half of those 60 years have been
spent in public life it is natural that such reflections
should traverse public matters including, to put it
quite frankly, my hopes for my children and my

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, SMITH FAMILY-TRADESMEN'S
UNION CLUB, WODEN, 6 DECEMBER 1989
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JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, what do you think of the ACT
Government? PM: It's not as good as the last one.
JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, another election.
PM: Look I'm not intervening in those affairs. They've
got to follow their own processes, make up their own
minds. JOURNALIST: Isn't the whole system a farce though, given
that this could happen?
PM: Well I don't think you'd call the whole system a

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LAUNCH OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S DEATH PENALTY POSTER
CANBERRA 6 DECEMBER 1989
I am proud to be associated with the celebrations this week
of Human Rights week and with the launch of this poster
against the death penalty, just as I am proud to be a patron
of the Amnesty International Parliamentary Group. This
poster we are launching today bears the signatures of the
Governor-General, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the