PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 5 OCTOBER 1989
I wish to announce details of the membership and initial
work program of the Prime Minister's Science Council.
The creation of the Council was one of the measures
announced in the joint statement ' Science and Technology for
Australia', which I and the Minister Assisting for Science
and Technology, Mr Jones, released in May of this year.
In that statement, Mr Jones and I said that the Council
would be ' a major new national forum for consideration of
science and technology issues'. The Council will meet at

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PRIME Y1i
FOR MEDIA 5 OCTOBER 1989
The Government has decided to reduce greatly the area known
as the Kakadu Conservation Zone and correspondingly increase
the area of Kakadu National Park. The remaining area, from
Coronation Hill to El Sherana, will be the subject of
concurrent inquiry processes as outlined below.
Reducing the Conservation Zone
A Government decision of 4 June 1987 laid down the following
principles for the resolving of the final boundaries of
Kakadu Stage III and the Conservation Zone

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PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, HYATT HOTEL, CANBERRA
4 OCTOBER 1989
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JOURNALIST: Are you pleased with the pilots' outcome?
PM: Just let's understand what has happened. The pilots
have reiterated in their press statement that they are not
going to operate within the guidelines. They have issued a
log of claims. They have no employees in the airlines now.
The matter is before the Commission and it will be precisely
for the Commission to determine whether in its judgement, in

PRIME MINISTER
CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
COMBINED ANNUAL DINNER OF THE
HEAVY ENGINEERING MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION
AND THE
HEAVY ENGINEERING PROJECTS
CORPORATION OF AUSTRALIA
CANBERRA 4 OCTOBER 1989
Heavy engineering today is a very different industry from
that of just a few years ago.
After the so-called resources boom was found to be largely
illusory, despite the feverish overselling of the previous
Government, your industry faced up to and confronted a

PRIME MINISTER
PARTIAL TRANSCIPT OF DORSOP, MATIOAL TER SPTS CBM1,
PATT LARS, 29 SPT U 1989
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JOURNALIST: Are you disappointed with Victoria's loss of the
grand prix, the motorcycle grand prix to New South Wales?
PM: That's really an internal matter. I aean it's not for
me to express an opinion upon it. Australia is going to have
the grand prix and while there would be opinions one way or
another but I don't intervene in domestic you know state
politics. That's
JOURNALIST: Is there any influence that you can bring to

PRIME MINISTER
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39 SPITEBn 1989
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JOURNALIST: IMr Hawke, interest rates, with your deal with
the five major banks the smaller banks are crying foul?
PRIM NVI ST: Are they?
JOURNALIST: Yes
PRIME NIZXSTER: Well, I don't see that there's any case for
that. We have got a position where, in regard to those who
have got the equivalent of the BD's, a position has
developed where the disability that was involved when we
made the arrangement to run those down has meant that they

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JOURNALIST: xr Hawks, have you in fact eliminated child
poverty in the term in which you said you would in the 1987
promise? PN: As I said, Bishop Hollinguworth and others recognise
that because they are not playing games like the Opposition.
We said we would do what was within our power. That is to
eliminate the financial need for child poverty. No
government can determine what happens in an individual

TRANSCRIPT OF QUESTION AND ANSWER SEGMENT WITH JOHN
MCINTOSH, SATELLITE HOOK-UP TO NEW YORK AUSTRALIAN
INVESTMENT CONFERENCE 28 SEPTEMBER 1989
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MCINTOSH: Good morning. It is John McIntosh and I am
talking to you now from the Metropolitan Club in New York,
which was the Club founded by J. T. Morgan so we are here
gaining inspiration. I have got some questions for you. We
have a limited amount of time, I understand, so I might
break five minutes before the half hour is up to ask you if

JOINT APPEAL TO THE STATE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
Mr State President
we, the undersigned, call on you most urgently, and in the
name of human compassion, to grant clemency to Mr Mangena
Jeffrey Boesman who is, we understand, sentenced to be
executed on Friday 29 September.
we are strongly and universally opposed to imposition of the
death penalty, which is an inhumane and degrading form of
punishment in violation of the most fundamental of human
rights the right to life. It is because of this that

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 28 September 1989
The Government has appointed Mr Roger Holdich as
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security for a
period of three years.
Under legislation enacted by my Government following
the recommendations of Mr Justice Hope, the
Inspector-General occupies a pivotal position in
ensuring the accountability of Australia's security and
intelligence agencies; for example, he is able to
conduct inquiries as a result of complaints from members
of the public, at the request of a Minister or at his