TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, DARLING HARBOUR EXHIBITION
CENTRE, SYDNEY 2 MAY 1990
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, can you clear up once and
for all whether the consumption tax is on the
Government' s agenda?
PM: You'll get a very clear statement of the
Government's position on this from the Treasurer early
next week which will make it abundantly clear that what
we said in the election campaign we meant. And that is
that we will not be introducing a broad-based consumption
tax. JOURNALIST: In the term of this Government Prime

TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, RAAF BASE FAIRBAIRN, 27
APRIL 1990
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JOURNALIST: Are you going to inspect the flood damage?
PM: Well I don't know about that but I'll certainly be
talking as soon as I can to Mr Keating who has been up
there. JOURNALIST: Are you concerned though? Have you been
receiving briefings on the trip?
PM: Yes I have been receiving constant briefings, that's
right, yes. As I said before, I express my deepest
sympathy to all those who have been adversely affected by

FOR MEDIA 26 April 1990
STATEMENT BY THE ACTING PRIME MINISTER
THE HON PAUL KEATING MP
The Government has finalised the terms of reference for the
Resource Assessment Commission's inquiry into the use of the
resources of the Kakadu Conservation Zone. The Prime
Minister has written to the Hon Justice D G Stewart,
Chairman of the Resource Assessment Commission, formally
asking him to commence the inquiry. A copy of his notice to
the Commission setting out the terms of reference for the
inquiry is attached.

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PRIME MINISTER
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
DAWN SERVICE, GALLIPOLI
APRIL 1990
The ANZACs who came ashore at this place, at this hour,
on this day, seventy five years ago, and their comrades
who followed them here during the eight long months of
the dreadful combat that ensued, were not, despite all
their efforts, to achieve their military objectives.
But because of the courage with which they fought,
because of their devotion to duty and their comradeship,
because of their ingenuity, their good humour and their

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TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, ANZAC COVE, GALLIPOLI,
APRIL 1990
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JOURNALIST: How do you think the day has gone?
PM: I think it has been a day which everyone will
remember right from the very beginning we had the
moving Dawn Service and then right through the breakfast
it was good to see the, the old veterans together again
then and I think we had a very moving service at Lone
Pine and I think one of the most moving parts of the day,
of course, was at lunch time when we had the two old

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, NATIONAL PARK CENTRE,
ECEABAT, GALLIPOLI, 25 APRIL 1990
JOURNALIST: Well, how do you feel, Mr Hawke?
PM: I think, like all the rest of you, still very
emotionally effected by, by this morning and just
particularly, as you've seen, I've spent a lot of time
with the old veterans and just to sit and listen to them
is a most moving experience. Most of them are still
thinking about the mates they left behind which is very
moving. JOURNALIST: And how are they Mr Hawke?

The landings on Gallipoli seventy-five years ago were followed by eight months of untold sacrifice and suffering, which were to claim the lives of more than one hundred thousand men of the armies of Turkey, Germany, France, Britain, India, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE ON DEPARTURE FROM
ANKARA, TURKEY, 24 APRIL 1990
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JOURNALIST: With only hours to go till the anniversary
landing or commemorating landing at Gallipoli, have you got
any further thoughts than those you've expressed to the
media and to the Australian public
PM: Well, except to say that now that I have been in Turkey
f or a day or so I am further reinforced in the admiration I
have for the way in which the Turkish authorities have gone
out of their way to ensure that this Australian pilgrimage

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PRIME MINISTER
EBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER AT OFFICIAL DINNER
GIVEN BY PRIME MINISTER AKBUWUT
ANKARA 23 APRIL 1990
Mr Prime Minister and Mrs Akbulut
Distinguished Guests,
I am privileged to be the first Prime Minister of Australia
to visit this great country, so rich in its history, its
civilisation and its cultures. It is a happy coincidence
that tday shulthb
T I-& UsJ4" ido u bLWe 91h ñ SDy, 1 0m. an
institution to which you, Mr Prime Minister, made such a

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TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, RAAF FLIGHT TO TURKEY, 22
APRIL 1990
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JOURNALIST: the Gallipoli book in particular that
has struck you?
PM: I think the courage of the men involved and their
mateship. We pride ourselves as Australians properly, I
thinlk, on the concept of mateship and it was there at
Anzac Cove that that concept was most dramatically and
effectively crystalised, in my judgement. There's no
doubt about the, their courage too against overwhelming
odds. Very interesting. If you read the background,