I PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, RAAF BASE FAIRBAIRN, 24 AUGUST 1989
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JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, what do you think of the , pilots
resigning?
PM: Well, it's a tactic that they're using. All I am
saying is that we will continue in cooperation with airlines
to do everything we can to provide the best available
service while this matter is resolved.
JOURNALIST: And that's got to be a considerable payout by
the airlines, do you think that will create an economic
problem for them?

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, WILLS ELECTORATE OFFICE, MELBOURNE,
24 AUGUST 1989
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PM: The airlines will not succumb and so arrangements
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skeleton service and this is being done with the combination
of the international airlines and the RAAF.
JOURNALIST: This looks like being a protracted dispute
then?
PM: Well I hope not but we are not going to give in on this

' IPRIME
MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 23 August 1989
I am pleased to announce that the Prime Minister of
Thailand, General Chatichai Choonhavan,, will visit Australia
as a guest of my Government from 29. August tb 3 September
1989. This will be the second visit, by Prime . Minister
Chatichai, his first as Prime Minister, and. the second by a
serving Thai Prime Minister. Prime Minister, hatichai will
be accompanied by his wife,, Khunying, Boonrue , Choonhavan.
Australia values its close relations with Thailand, an

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CITIZENSHIP -CEREMONY
FAIRFIELD .23 AUGUST 1989
Distinguished guests,
Fellow citizens,
Let me first of all extend my congratulat
the Fairfield City Council for organising
ceremony today. ions and thanks to
this important
More than forty years ago, on 30 September 1948, the then
Australian Government I record-with pride that it was a
Labor Government introduced into Parliament the

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH JOHN LAWS, RADIO 2UE,
23 AUGUST 1989
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LAWS: OK, well you better tell them, because they'll
want to know one garlic tablet per morning?
PM: Yes, one garlic tablet after breakfast and you won't
get the flu.
LAWS: OK.
PM: You've got to do it every day, John.
LAWS: Really?
PM: Yes.
LAWS: All the time?
PM: All the time.
LAWS: OK, well I'll try it. Yesterday one of your many
Press Secretaries-
PM: Eh? I've only got two, mate.
LAWS: Well, one of them rang my only one and said that the

I PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, SCHOOL OF ARTS, FAIRFIELD, 23
AUGUST 1989
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JOURNALIST: Can we ask about the pilots? Stand downs have
* begurn. What's your view of the situation?
* PM: 1I Well I just hope that the pilots will understand that
thelairlines, supported by the Government, are not going to
giv~ in to these outrageous demands. As I say, I don't want
conirontation, war or anything else with the pilots. All I
* wanj Is that they should act as the overwhelming body of

PRIME MINISTER
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ALP DINNER
SYDNEY 22 AUGUST 1989
One week ago, Paul Keating brought down this Government's
seventh budget.
It was a budget designed to advance Labor's long-term vision
of a more prosperous and fair Australia.
There can hardly have been a Budget as well received across
the community as this one has been.
That's not surprising: with its massive $ 9 billion surplus
a complete turnaround from the prospective $ 9 billion

TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, ABC STUDIO, MELBOURNE 21 AUGUST
1989 3 OS0 PROOF ONLY
JOURNALIST: the Opposition leader got through the
dress rehearsal for an election. Are we seeing the same
sort of thin? from you now, I mean with your interviews
today, television
PM: Remember there was a Budget last week? we made
arrangements that we would be out selling the Budget: the
week after. That's what I'm doing. I must say the Budget
has gone over so well and been so broadly accepted that John
didn't to want to ask any questions about that. but

TRANSCRIPT OF ' THE RAY MARTIN SHOW' ( WITH PAUL KEATING)
MONDAY, 21 AUGUST 1989
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MARTIN: We now have, first time ever on television or radio
together, the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke and Mr Paul Keating,
the Treasurer. Would you please welcome them both. I'll tell
you what, you talk about wanting to go into television when
you finish politics, live television's kind of fun. Thanks
for your help, thanks for coming here, very much indeed. Now
it gets us to the opening story, I suppose, which, of course,

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH DON CHIPP, RADIO 3AK,
MELBOURNE, 21 AUGUST 1989
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CHIPP: It was about 25 years ago, we almost had a punch-up
the first time we met, a friendly one. It was in John
Gorton's office, solving the problems of the world and I
0 heard this voice about 10 metres away saying, ' who's that
fellow, get him out of here'. And I said who's going to get
me out? You come up here and say like a couple of big
kids we, in high noon fashion confronted each other and I