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THE HON R J L HAWnE AC MP
AUSTRALIAN WAR NENORIAL
VILLERS-BRETONNEUX SUNDAY 18 JUNE 1989
Citizens of France, fellow Australians
The great Napoleon said:
" It is geography alone which decides the policy of
nations".
No nation understands the meaning of this better than France
in this century.
And no place in Europe has seen its results in history more
than the Somme.
Yet, for all its truth, this memorial to Australians who

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ADDRESS BY THE PRIM MINISTER OF AUSTR~ ALIA
THE HON R J L HAMM! AC NP
AT A RECEPTION HOSTED BY THE MAYOR
VILLERS-BRETONNEUX SUNDAY 18 JUNE 1989
Mr Mayor
Distinguished Guests
Citizens of Villers-Bretonneux
I speak for all my Australian colleagues here today when I
say how deeply moved we are by the warmth and generosity of
the welcome we have received in Villers-Bretonneux.
We are indeed far from home. Yet there is no place in

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FRANCE, 18 JUNE 1989
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister Mr Cousteau indicated this
morning that the French Government are now on board on this
Idea of a Wilderness Park for Antarctica. Are you pleased
with that?
PM: Well that's the indication he gave'-to me. I'm certainly
pleased if that's the case. I'll need to obviously have that
confirmed when I see the Prime Minister and the President
tomorrow but the indications are good.

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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister do you believe you'll get the
French Government's support for your position on the
Antarctic? PH: It's too early to say but there's some indications that
they are sympathetic to our position. I'l~ l be talking with
the Prime Minister on Monday and I think some of the
officials might be talking before then. But there's
certainly some indications that they are sympathetic.
They've had some progress of course since we've made the

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16 JUNE 1989
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JOURNALIST: what do you expect the reaction will be to your
decision to extend visas to Chinese nationals?
PM: I hope that it will be understood as a compassionate
and responsible decision. We understand that it would be
intolerable to have a situation in this country where any of
these students here or people from China face the prospect
of repression or punishment on their return. So we've madethis

FOR MEDIA 16 JUNE 1989
I welcomed the opportunity this morning to meet a delegation of
representatives of Australia's Chinese community and to hear their
views about the problems facing the community, and their relations
and friends in China, as a result of the current tragic situation
there. I used the opportunity provided by this meeting to announce a range
of important new Government initiatives designed to help ameliorate
some of these problems.
The Government has now decided to extend all temporary entry

TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, SYDNEY CONVENTION CENTRE
14 JUNE 1989
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JOURNALIST: A message for the Chinese students in
Australia Mr Hawke, do you have one?
PM: Two. First of course to reaffirm the sense of tragedy
that we share with them for what has happened in their
country and second to say to them quite directly that we
will be very accommodating in our approach to any requests
that are made where there is clearly a legitimate concern on
the part of any Chinese student that a return to China in

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CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON, SYDNEY CONVENTION
CENTRE, 14 JUNE 1989
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JOURNALIST: ( inaudible)
PM: Well obviously the things I'll be saying now are
different to what they would have been at the beginning of
this month because earlier of overseas in ' 84 when I
visited Hong Kong I was there putting a message that I
believed that the developments in China at the time should
be welcomed by Hong Kong and that there was a shared

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
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on Friday I will be departing on an overseas visit that will
take me to France, the United Kingdom, the United States,
the Federal Republic of Germany and Hungary.
The visit, which concludes on Monday 3 July, is an important
one for Australia.
It follows my earlier visits to Moscow, with a stopover in
Japan, in December 1987, to Washington in June 1988 and to

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FOR MEDIA 1989-06-14
JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE PRIME MINISTER
AND THE WA ACTING PREMIER, MR PARKER
The Federal and Western Australian Governments have signed an
agreement guaranteeing Commonwealth funding for Western
Australia's public hospital system for the next five years.
For the first time, the Federal Government has agreed to
index the grant not only to take account of general cost
increases but also to reflect ageing and growth of the
State's population.
older people are major users of hospital services and the new