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Hawke, Robert

Transcript 7676

TANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, MEDIA CENTRE, SOUTH PACIFIC
FORUM, TARAWA, KIRIBATI, 10 JULY 1989
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister what do you hope will be the
effect of the $ 6.25 million initiative to study the
Greenhouse effect
PN: Well, a basic service that we want to provide is the
assurance to the countries in the region that we are not
just looking at this from a point of view of large countries
like Australia and Europe and North America, but that we
have a very real understanding that for some of then this is

Transcript 7675

PIRNIIMSTEE
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, TARAWA AIRPORT, KIRIBATI, 9
JULY 1989
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JOURNALIST; Prime Minister, can you tell us, what's your
interest driftnet fishing and what can the Forum do
about it?
PM: I think it really is a disaster for the region.
Essentially what it is doing is taking a yield which is more
than sustainable. In other words, if they keep taking a
yield like this they'll eventually, and eventually not being
a very long time, they'll wipe out the basic resource. For

Transcript 7674

FOR MEDIA 7 July 1909
Following a request from the Prime Minister of Papua New
Guinea, Mr Namaliu, during talks I held with him in Canberra
on 24 May, the Government of fered to provide four Iroquois
UIlH helicopters, and associated training for Papua New
Guinean aircrew, to assist the PNG Defence Force develop a
rotary wing capability.
Subsequently, the PNG Government indicated that it wanted to
secure the early delivery of these helicopters, particularly
against the background of developments on Bougainville.

Transcript 7673

PRIME MINISTER
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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
REALISING THE POTENTIAL: A WORKSHOP ON WOMEN
AND AWARD RESTRUCTURING
CANBERRA 6 JULY 1989
It gives me great pleasure to be opening this important
workshop on women and award restructuring.
I say it is important and I think I am as qualified as
anyone to define just how important is this workshop and the
subject with which it deals.
As advocate and later as President of the ACTU, I was
proudly and actively involved in the struggle of the labour

Transcript 7672

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PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, PARLIAMENT HOUSE
JULY 1989
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JOURNALIST: When are interest rates going to come down
Prime Minister?
PM: You haven't learnt anything since I've been away. You
know I don't make a prediction about that. All I'm saying
is what I said before I went. That is that all arms of
policy, including monetary policy, will remain as tight as
they need to be for as long as they need to be to achieve
the objective of policy, and that is to bring down the level

Transcript 7671

FOR MEDIA 5 JULY 1989
The Government will be recommending to the Governor-General
that Dr Chris Higgins, currently a Deputy Secretary in the
Department of the Treasury, be appointed Secretary of that
Department with effect from 18 September 1989.
The vacancy arises following the appointment of the present
Secretary, Mr Bernie Fraser, as Governor of the Reserve Bank
from that date.
Dr Higgins has been a Senior Executive ( SES) Officer in the
Treasury from 1975, having joined the Treasury in December

Transcript 7670

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PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF A SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
AT THE LAUNCH OF " PERSONAL ACTION GUIDE FOR THE EARTH"
PARLIAMENT HOUSE 5 JULY 1989
For anyone concerned about the future wellbeing of the
environment, the roll call of contemporary environmental
problems is daunting: Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez, the
Amazon basin, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer,
the greenhouse effect.
In our own country, land degradation, soil erosion, the loss

Transcript 7669

TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, PARLIAMENT HOUSE
JULY 1989
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JOURNALIST: When are interest rates going to come down
Prime Minister?
PM: You haven't learnt anything since I've been away. You
know I don't make a prediction about that. All I'm saying
is what I said before I went. That is that all arms of
policy, including monetary policy, will remain as tight as
they need to be for as long as they need to be to achieve
the objective of policy, and that is to bring down the level

Transcript 7668

SPEECH FOR REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PRIME MINISTER AT THE
GALA CONCERT IN TRIBUTE TO MADAME NANCY CARUANA
OF THE GREEK FOLKLORE CENTRE
TEACHERS' FEDERATION THEATRE, SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY
8.00 PM, 30 JUNE 1989
Madame Caruana, Members of the Greek Folklore Centre,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am delighted to have this opportunity to represent the
Prime Minister at this very happy occasion tonight.
Madame Caruana is well known to you all, not only for
her own notable performances, on stage and on screen,

Transcript 7667

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MISTR OF AUSTRALIA
THE HON R J L HAWKE AC MP
BANQUET DINN( ER HOSTED BY CHANCELLOR KOHL
BONN THURSDAY 29 JUNE 1989
I am delighted to be in Bonn, Mr Chancellor, to return your
visit to Australia last October, for our Australian
Bicentenary; and it is a very great pleasure to be able to
renew our friendship and resume our discussions so soon.
Your visit, the first ever by a Federal Chancellor,
represented a milestone in the relations between our two