TRANSCRIPT OF JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE WITH THE HON BOB
BROWN, MINISTER FOR LAND TRANSPORT AND SHIPPING SUPPORT,
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, 5 DECEMBER 1989
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PM: Australia is faced with terrible carnage on its
roads. The figures are quite dramatic when you
understand that someone dies every three hours, someone
is seriously injured every nineteen minutes and someone
suffers minor injuries every six minutes. Road accidents
are the major cause of death in people up to middle age
and they account for 75% of the deaths of young men. We

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 5 DECEMBER 1989
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE MINISTER
ASSISTING THE PRIME MINISTER ON PUBLIC SERVICE MATTERS,
THE HON PETER MORRIS
The Federal Government is committed to breaking down all
remaining barriers to Equal Employment Opportunity.
All Australians have the right to achieve their full
employment potential and, while progress has already been
made towards this goal in the Australian Public Service,
we must move forward with vigour.
To ensure continued progress, we are pleased to announce

FOR MEDIA 5 DECEMBER 1989
The Commonwealth Government has decided to take further
action to reduce the national road toll and improve the
efficiency of safety regulation of road transport, by
inviting the States to adopt the following uniform
measures on a co-ordinated basis:
national .05 level alcohol limit
national licensing of heavy truck and bus
drivers national uniform speed limits
speed limiters for heavy vehicles.
adopt zero alcohol limits for young drivers
increase enforcement to ensure that 1 in 4

FOR MEDIA 4 DECEMBER 1989
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE CHIEF
MINISTER OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
We announce today our signing of an agreement
guaranteeing Commonwealth funding for the Australian
Capital Territory's public hospital system for the next
four years.
Signature of the Agreement brings the ACT into line with
the States and the Northern Territory in regard to public
hospital funding arrangements and reflects its
independent status after self-government.

TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, KIRRIBILLI HOUSE, SYDNEY
3 DECEMBER 1989
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JOURNALIST: How are you Sir?
PM: I'm very very well indeed thank you. I'd obviously
like to take this first opportunity of extending my sincere
congratulations to Wayne Goss and his team there for their
historic victory in restoring Labor to government in
Queensland for the first time in 32 years. They ran a
magnificent campaign which Wayne Goss led with singular
success. He was able, properly, to persuade the people of

FOR MEDIA 2 DECEMBER 1989
I welcome and endorse the positive and speedy response by
President Bush to the request for assistance from
President Aquino.
United States action to help counter the illegal attempt
to overthrow the freely-elected Government of the
Philippines is playing an important part in enabling it
to reassert its authority.
At the end of a year in which democracy has triumphed
through ' people power' in large parts of Eastern Europe,
it would be a tragedy if Philippines democracy fell to
force of rebel arms.

CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
LAUNCH OF RURAL AND REGIONAL STATEMENT
WARRAGUL 1 DECEMBER 1989
At the outset I want to thank your local member Barry
Cunningham and all those who have worked with him for
arranging this very important function today.
I appointed Barry as the first chairman of the Country Task
Force that I established in 1986 to advise me and the
Government on the needs and wishes of rural Australia.
The Task Force is made up of Labor'MPs who represent rural

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 1 DECEMBER 1989
I am pleased to announce today a series of initiatives to
improve access to Federal Government services for people
living in rural and regional centres and isolated areas
across Australia.
The review of our policy designed to improve the quality
of life for people in non-metropolitan Australia contains
a number of new three-year programs.
These include
$ 4.5 million to provide support for long term carers
of disabled people in rural areas;
a $ 3.4 million rural women's health strategy

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TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, WARRAGUL ARTS CENTRE
1 DECEM4BER 1989
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JOURNALIST: I was wondering why this is your second visit to
Warracgul in such short a time. Are you concerned about Mr
Cunningham retaining McMillan?
PM: No, no. He will increase his majority. But there've been
good reasons for coming here and as I indicated in my remarks in
there I like the region very much. It's been an important part
of my life when I lived in Melbourne. But when I was down then

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
PARLIAMENTARY RESOLUTION ON RAOUL WALLENBERG
NOVEMBER 1989
I move:
That, noting the continued international concern about
the fate of Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, who
disappeared into Soviet hands in January 1945 following the
defeat of Nazi forces in Budapest, and recent
discussions between Soviet authorities and
Raoul Wallenberg's family about his fate, this House:
affirms its admiration for the selfless and heroic work
of Raoul Wallenberg in saving the lives of tens of