PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 20 JULY 1989
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Sir Ninian
Stephen as Australia's first Ambassador for the Environment.
Sir Ninian will clearly bring a wealth of knowledge and
experience to this important assignment, which will involve
the following tasks:
to project and promote the Government's international
environmental policies to the international community
and within Australia;
to advise the Government on international environmental
policy matters;

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEWS WITH PAUL LYNEHAM, 7.30 REPORT,
JULY 1989
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LYNEHAM: Mr Hawke, thanks for joining us.
HAWKE: Thanks Paul.
LYNEHAM: How much of today was about saving the environment
and how much of it was about winning green votes to save the
Government? PM: All of it was about saving the environment. I believe
that when the election has come, that the people of
Australia as far as they take the environment into account
will give us the marks, not just because of today, but we

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH JOHN HAMILTON, ABC RADIO, PERTH
16 JULY 1989
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HAMILTON: Today on Hamilton's People my guest is Prime
Minister Bob Hawke. Welcome to the program Prime Minister.
PM: Thank you John.
HAMILTON: You've been Prime Minister now for over six
years, you've won three elections. How do you keep up your
enthusiasm? What makes Hawkey run?
PM: It's a very complex question. No-one, I think, is
capable of analysing themselves completely. But elements
are, one, I made a very brilliant decision as soon as I

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
LAUNCH OF " DIVERSITY IS GREAT, MATE"
NORTH PERTH 16 JULY 1989
Premier Peter Dowding,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
I am delighted and genuinely proud to be here today, back in
the city of my youth, to launch this publication on
community relations in the inner-city area of Perth.
The booklet is the result of a project commissioned some
eighteen months ago by my own Office of Multicultural
Affairs and the Western Australian Multicultural and Ethnic
Affairs Commission.

WPRIME M4INISTER
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WA ALP STATE CONFERENCE
PERTH 15 JULY 1989
Delegates,
At the outset I want to take this opportunity to offer
publicly my congratulations to Peter Dowding, and to his
team, and to you, for your magnificent win in the State
elections of 4 February.
It was an inspiring, fighting win that demonstrated again
one of the fundamental facts of Australian political life of
the 1980s.
That fact is the fact of Labor's ascendancy: Labor's

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OPENING OF THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
OFFICIALS OF TEE AUSTRALIAN WORKERS' UNION
SURFERS PARADISE 14 JULY 1989
Errol Hodder,
Friends. The Australian Workers' Union holds a very special place -in
the history of trade unionism and the history of the
Australian Labor Party.
More than a century ago, forty shearers joined together in
the pursuit of better wages and working conditions and
formed the Amalgamated Shearers' Union, the forerunner of

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PRIME MI. N ISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, GEORGE GEAR'S ELECTORATE
OFFICE, PERTH 14 JULY 1989
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JOURNALIST: Is your Job made more difficult at the moment
with a senior Minister uayjflg that the Labor Party hasn't
got more than a 50/ 50 chance of getting back in?
PM: No, not at all. Next question.
JOURNALIST: ( inaudible)
PM: I've expressed It. Haven't you caught up with today's
news. r have expressed my disagreement, yes. We're
going to win. And if you can get onto even money it's

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE. SEAWORLD NARA RESORT HOTEL,
SURFERS PARADISE 14 JULY 1989
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JOURNALIST: The eight backbenchers concerned about interest
rates in Canberra last night, were they wasting their
time? PM: No, people never waste their time meeting.. As I
said when I got off the plane yesterday from the South
Pacific Forum, I never object to people meeting. But the
important thing is that we start in earnest on Monday
with the Budget preparation processes. We will do, as

TRANSCRIPT OF ARRIVAL STATEMENT, RAAF BASE FAIRBAIRN, 12
JULY 1989
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JOURNALIST: Do you support the Treasurer's move to ban the
officials from Treasury and the Reserve Bank from talking to
Moody's? PM: I haven't had a chance to talk to him yet. I've been
dealing with international matters. I'll no doubt hear from
Paul about this. I'm sure he had very good reason for doing
it.
JOURNALIST: But you weren't aware of it before it happened?
PM: Look you ought to know by now you've been watching me

SPFS( 89) 1 9
TWENTIETH SOUTH PACIFIC FORUM
TARAWA, KIRIBATI
-11 JULY 1989
FORUM COMMUNIQUE
The Twentieth South Pacific Forum was held in Tarawa, Kiribati, from
10-11 July, 1989. The Forum was attended by Heads of Governments of Australia,
the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, New Zealand, Nauru,
Niue, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Fiji, Papua New
Guinea and Solomon Islands were represented by their Deputy Prime Ministers,
Tonga by its Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence and Western Samoa by its