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LAUNCH OF THE REPORT " CHILD CARE IN THE WORKPLACE"
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE PERSONNEL AND
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS GROUP, MTIA
CANBERRA 7 AUGUST 1989
Bert Evans and Members
of the MTIA,
Parliamentary Colleagues,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
I want to thank you, Bert Evans, and the metal Trades
Industry Association, for your invitation to launch this
important study at your Conference.
In recent years, the MTIA has been at the forefront of

NATIONAL 9 NETWORK CANBERRA BUREAU
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Date: 6 August 1989 Time: 0940
Source: NATIONAL NINE NETWORK Programme: Sunday Programme
Jim Waley: In spite of continuing gloom at the state of the
economy, the leading voices of Labor's -federal government were
unusually silent this week, hushed perhaps in the hope that given
the stage to himself, Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock would
fluff his lines during his five day, five state mock election*

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 2 AUGUST 1989
I have sent the following message to Allan Border:
Congratulations on your historic Ashes victory. The
1989 side has performed magnificently as individuals, as
a team and as representatives of Australia.
Your own leadership has been superb. I know of no
Australian sportsman who has fought more courageously
for his country or more richly deserved this ultimate
achievement for an Australian Test captain.
Bob Hawke

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STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER
Administration of Aboriginal Affairs:
Mr Menzies' Final Report
Honourable Members will recall that; on' 11 April 1989, I
made a statement in this House reporting on the outcome of a
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series of inquiries into the administration of Aboriginal
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Affairs. Those inquiries were established in response to
allegations of s. erious shortcomings in the administration,
including financial management, of the Aboriginal

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, 27 JULY
1989 E 0 E PROOF ONLY
PM: Well the time has come when a very specific question
has to be put to Mr Peacock, the Leader of the Opposition.
The question is simple, quite uncomplicated. Did he or did
he not say to a luncheon meeting of the executives of John
Fairfax that the Opposition would not be releasing all the
details of its proposed spending cuts before the election?
Most specifically, did he tell the luncheon that there would

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH PAUL BONGIORNO, RAAF BASE,
FAIRBAIRN, 26 JULY 1989
E 0 E PROOF ONLY
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, what is the importance of
today's multicultural agenda?
P14: Well the importance for all Australians is that it will
do two things. It's about social justice. That is ensuring
that all Australians, irrespective of their background, they
shall have equal access to the resources of government and
equal opportunity to develop themselves within Australia.
But also it's important for all Australians whether they

PRIME MINISTER, z~
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LAUNCH OF THE NATIONAL AGENDA FOR A MULTICULTURAL AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY 26 JULY 1989
Sir James Gobbo,
Members of the Advisory Council
on Multicultural Affairs,
Sir William Keys,
Fellow Australians,
Rarely could it be more appropriate that we greet each
other, as we do today, with those words, ' Fellow
Australians'. For looking around this room I see the faces of Australia.
They are the faces of almost every continent, race,

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH PAUL MURPHY, TONIGHT, SBS TV,
26 JULY 1989
E 0 E PROOF ONLY
MURPHY: Can I begin by asking you what does the agenda
which you've outlined today mean for ethnic communities in
Broadmeadows, Cabramatta, Whyalla, Darwin, wherever they
happen to live in this country?
PM: It means these things. Firstly, a recognition now, I
think, not just from the Government, but forcefully in front
of the whole Australian people about the fact that every
person in this country, irrespective of race, colour, creed,

' a TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH PETER THOMPSON, ABC AM, 21 JULY
1989 E 0 E PROOF ONLY
THOMPSON: What's been the key factor in the greening of Bob
Hawke? PM: well, the first thing to say about the greening of Bob
Hawke is it's not a recent phenomenon. In the election
campaign which brought us to Government in the beginning of
' 83 1 then led I might say against some opposition within
my own Party and certainly against the total opposition of
the Liberal and National Party I led the fight to save the

PRIME MINISTER
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LAUNCH OF STATEMENT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
WENTWORTH, NSW
JULY 1989
This morning's journey through three States, culminating in
this launch at Wentworth, symbolises two realities about our
environment. It shows in a graphic way that the degradation
of our environment is not simply a local problem, nor a
problem for one State or another, nor for the Commonwealth
alone. Rather, the damage being done to our environment is