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PRIME MINISTER
INTERVIEW WITH MIKE CARLTON, RADIO 2GB, 13 APRIL 1989
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CARLTON: Can we get the election question out of the way
first? will you go to the polls this year?
PM: No, Mike. I've made that quite clear in a program I
recorded last night, you just jumped in front of Am by a
quarter of an hour
CARLTON: Rightly so.
PM: So, it's quite clear that all we're doing is what we
said we'd do last year. I mean this is a situation where I
made a promise last year, middle of last year, that I'd

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH HEATHER EWART, ABC AM,
13 APRIL 1989
E 0 E PROOF ONLY
EWART: Mr Hawke, your critics say this statement isn't
about sound economics but about winning the next election.
What do you say to that?
PM: They are wrong. Just let me dispense with this concept
of this being something for an early election. we promised
in the middle of last year that we would be making a
statement in respect of a tax/ wage trade-off to operate from
the middle of 1989. All we're doing is delivering on that

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 12 APRIL 1989
The wage tax family package announced tonight substantially
addresses the issues raised with me by representatives of
the Women's Tax Convention.
The tax cuts, in particular the reduction in the lowest
rates, will benefit women workers.
The majority of women workers earn less than $ 25,000 a year.
A single taxpayer on average female earnings of about
$ 17., 000 will receive a tax cut of $ 11 a week, or a fall of
almost 19 per cent in the amount of tax paid.

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PARLIAMENTARY STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
ADMINISTRATION OF ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS
11 APRIL 1989
Honourable members will recall that in November last year
the Government announced a number of inter-related inquiries
into the administration of Aboriginal affairs.
The background to the establishment of these inquiries was
material provided and statements made in Senate Estimates
Committee processes, and elsewhere, alleging serious
shortcomings in the administration, including financial

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 11 APRIL 1989
Mr David Beddall, Member for Rankin ( Queensland) has been
appointed chairman of the Prime Minister's Country Task Force.
He succeeds Mr David Simmons, Member for Calare, who is now
Minister for Defence Science and Personnel.
Mr Beddall has been Member for Rankin since 1984, and was Member
for Fadden from 1983 to 1984.
He has been a member of the Country Task Force since it was
formed in March 1986.
During that time he has played a major role in addressing the

FOR MEDIA 10 APRIL 1989
The Federal Government's goal for Australia's economy is to
make it strong enough to compete with the world's best.
Labor inherited a closeted economy denied access to goods
and services at world prices, which made consumers worse
off, and held back potentially efficient industries.
Australian industry was fragile, and uninterested in
competing on world markets.
A pre-condition of change was a responsive financial sector,
so early priorities were to float the dollar, relax exchange

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE WITH JOHN KERIN,
MINISTER FOR PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY, PARLIAMENT
HOUSE, 10 APRIL 1989
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PM: Well, I want to just make a few general observations by
way of introduction to the important announcement that my
colleague, John Kerin, has got to make in regard to the
deregulation of the wheat industry.
The basic point I'd make is that, of course, from the very
beginning of our time in Government in 1983, this Government

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 8 APRIL 1989
United States Vice President Dan Quayle will be visiting
Australia from Wednesday 26 April to Sunday 30 April as
President Bush's special representative at this year's
celebration of Australian-American Friendship Week. He will
be accompanied by Mrs Quayle and attend celebrations in
Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and other centres.
His visit will be the first by a senior member of the new
United States Administration, and follows the precedent set
by President Bush who represented the United States at the

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 6 APRIL 1989
The Government has decided on a national program for
responding to the global threat posed by the Greenhouse
effect. The Government's strategy involves a research-oriented
program of action in. the first instance. A great deal has
yet to be learned about the Greenhouse effect, its timing
and impact on different countries and regions. We cannot
sit and wait until the effects of global warming are upon us
and then start working out how we should deal with them.

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, 6 APRIL
1989 E 0 E PROOF ONLY
PM: I wanted to take this opportunity of announcing the
important decision that the Cabinet made earlier this week
in regard to the Greenhouse effect. We have decided that
there must be acceleration of work in this country on this
very important issue.
Before I just mention briefly the decision that we've taken
it may serve to put the importance of this issue in
perspective. I'll just give you one or two statistics. It