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ADDRESS BY TEE PRIM MINSTER OF AUSTRALIA
THE HON R J L HUMlE AC HP
TRADE AND INVSTIT CNEEC
LONDON 22 JU= 1989
Mr chairman
Ministerial Colleagues
Distinguished Guests
I welcome you all most warmly to this significant,
unprecedented and timely conference. The concept which this
conference embodies originated in the discussions I had with
the British Prime Minister during her visit to Australia
last August for our Bicentenary. Mrs Thatcher and I agreed

PRIME MINISTER
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ADDRESS BY THE FRIXE MSTER or AusTRALiA,
THE RON R J L HAIME AC HgP
AT A rEETNG OF THE ANZAC PARLIAxmNmA~ y GROUP
WESTIIINSTER, * WNDON 22 JUNE 1989
Mr Chairman
Distinguished Members of the Lords and Commons
I am very grateful to the ANZAC Group for this opportunity
to address under its auspices this gathering of members of
the Lords and Commons.
No Australian -certainly no Australian Prime Minister
could stand in this place and fail to be powerfully reminded

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TRANSCRIPT OF DEPARTURE STATEMETS BY PRIM MINISTERS HAWKE
AND THATCHER, 10 DOWNING STREET, WNDONO 21 JUNE 1989
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HAWKE: Mrs Thatcher has invited me to make the initial
comments. The first thing I say is to express to Mrs
Thatcher the appreciation of the Australian Government for
the catalytic role which she's taken to put a new vigour
into the Australian/ United Kingdom relationship. I think it
commenced with a visit to Australia last year and upon her
return she has ensured that the preparations for our visit

TRANSCRIPT OF PMES CONFERENCE Lon= O, 21 CONi 1989
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PM:' Gentlemen, what I'd like to do at the outset is to give
you, and refer to, the issues briefly and I'm open to any
questions that you would like to address to me on those
matters. The first subject of course was a mutual welcoming by the
British Prime Minister and myself, my Ministers and hers on
the fact of the meeting and the stature of the meeting.
There has never before been a meeting at such a high level
of Prime Ministers and Ministers which was indicative of the

PRIME MINISTER
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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTR OF AUSTRALIA,
THE HON R J L BAN" E AC MP
DINNER HOSTED BY THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
MANSION HOUSE, LONDON 21 JUNE 1989
My Lord Mayor,
Your Royal Highnesses,
Your Excellencies,
My Lords,
Aldermen, Sheriffs, Ladies and Gentlemen
That great citizen of London, Dr Johnson, declared more than
two hundred years ago that the man who was tired of London
was tired of life itself.
I have visited London on many occasions as a student on my

TRANSCRIPT OF UNEDITED INTERVIEW WITHl JOHN SNOW, ITN TVLONDON
20 JUNE 1989
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SNOWz No-one imagined that Hong Kong would be a
particularly high priority on anyone's agenda, but it is
certainly for the British Government and China, for youyou
have a certain number of dissidents in your Embassy in
Beijing. Do you sense at all that the West is already a bit
inclined to go back on its horror and just get back onto
working terms with the Chinese?
PM: No, its not correctly put, as simply as that. I

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF UNEDITED INTERVIEW W1T BRIAN REDHEAD, BBC
RADIO 4, LONDON, 20 JUNE 1989
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R. EDHEAD: The whole world I think heard and witnessed your
deep concern and upset about China. For a man who's been in
politics a long time, why were you so personally concerned
about it?
PN.: I had a lot of myself invested in China. In a sense,
as I put it in talking to some of my close friends, a little
bit of me died when that happened. I've spent very, very

TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, HOTEL MEURICE, PARIS, 19 JUNE
1989 E 0 E PROOF ONLY
JOURNALIST:. Prime Minister imports are obviously still
increasing dramatically. Should there be a further interest
rate rise?
PM: I'm not saying there should be a further interest rate
0 rise. I repeat what I've said consistently, that all
settings of policy will be kept as tight as is necessary to
deal with the situation. Just making a general comment on
the figures. The figures come in at about the mid range of

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH FRENCH JOURNALISTS TGV ( VERY
FAST TRAIN), PARIS 19 JUNE 1989
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, can you tell us first about
what happened this morning in the agreement of the
environment? PM: When we talked about the environment there were three
elements for that. I guess the most important was our
agreement in regard to the Antarctic. Let me give you the
words of the agreement. They are Australia and France
call upon the consultative parties to the Antarctic Treaty

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA
THE RON R J L HAWKE AC MP
DINNER HOSTED BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY ? AND
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENXT, M. ROGER FAXIROUX AND
THE ASSOCIAT MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFAIRS,
NM= EDWIGE AVICE
PARIS MONDAY 19 JUNE 1989
I am delighted to be able to return to Paris for my second
official visit to France. I count it a special privilege to
be here as Prime minister of Australia at this time on the
eve, as it were, of the celebration of the epoch making