PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, CYPRUS COMMUNITY CLUB OF NSW, SYDNEY
12 MARCH 1989
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JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, when do you hope to have these
immigration policies up and running?
PM: Which immigration policies?
JOURNALIST: These new ones that you mentioned today, these
multicultural PM: I didn't mention any new immigration policy. What I
said was there was a National Agenda for multicultural
Policies and we've established the Committee which has
brought in the preliminary report. That's now being further

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
OPENING OF THE CYPRUS COMMUNITY CLUB OF NSW
STANMORE 12 MARCH 1989
Mr President,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Tonight's ceremony marks the sixtieth anniversary of your
club. Looking around your new club premises, I see the evidence of
the determination of the Cypriot-Australian community to
make the very best of life in this great country.
So in celebrating that landmark we are celebrating not just

TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, JOHN CURTIN HOUSE, 10 MARCH 1989
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JOURNALIST: Was there any progress last night Sir, on the
Airport question?
PM: There was progress. We went very late but it's an
extraordinary, complex issue and a lot of figures have to be
examined, tested and I think this is an issue of such
importance that the public will expect us to take our time
in making sure that we get it right and that's what I want
to do. So it'll be up for consideration again next week.
JOURNALIST: How much time do you think it'll take?

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PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW/ TALKBACK WITH DOUG AITON, RADIO
MARCH 1989
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AITON: Prime minister, welcome to
PM: Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be with you.
AITON: It's very good to see how healthy you're looking. I
mean we were talking earlier about how Malcolm Fraser aged
in office over the years. You've done the reverse really.
PM-Thanks. Well I must say Doug, I've never felt better
than I do now and I've got a lot things to thank for that.
More than anything I've got Hazel to thank for it. She

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
RAOUL WALLENBERG TREE NAMING CEREMONY
CANBERRA 9 MARCH 1989
Ladies and Gentlemen,
In a century that has seen too much proof of mankind's
capacity for hatred, oppression, depravity and inhumanity,
the heroism of Ralph Wallenberg is an inspiring beacon.
Wallenberg single handedly protected the lives of tens of
thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis in World War II.
Those efforts truly place him in the select company of men

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PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, 9 MARCH
1989 E 0 E PROOF ONLY
JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke what were the factors that caused..
to state your concerns about the Protocols?
PM: let me make clear what the Protocol 1 of the Geneva
Convention does. It relates to the treatment of civilians
and civilian targets in war time and it's designed to
prevent attacks on them. The decision to sign it was taken
by the previous Liberal Government. This Government took a

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STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
ON NAMIBIA
6 MARCH 1989
Madam Speaker,
I seek to leave to report to the House on recent events in
Namibia and Australia's role in assisting the implementation
of UN Security Council Resolution 435 of 1978, providing for
the withdrawal of South African military forces from Namibia
and the holding of elections under UN supervision and
control
As announced by the Ministers for Defence and Foreign
Affairs and Trade on 2 March 1989, a contingent of three

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PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE WITH TREASURER KEATING,
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, 3 MARCH 1989
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PM: Paul and I decided that we would like to do this
together because as you know it was our joint idea after the
price index figures came out that we should have this
conference and I thought it appropriate that Paul should
join me as we both report on the conference and give you the
opportunity of asking questions that you might direct to us.

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PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH PAUL LYNEHARI 7.30 REPORT
3 MARCH 1989
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LYNEHAM: Welcome to the program.
PM: Thank you Paul.
LYNEHAM: You all agreed at today's conference that there
was no quick fix to the housing problem. The thing is
that's what many families need isn't it?
PM: Yes well you can't give a quick fix. What we've done,
it's a unique thing for the Commonwealth to involve itself
in the housing scene in the way we did today and I think