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FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
KARACHI 8 FEBRUARY 1989
Tariq Sayeed, President,
Vice-Presidents. Secretary-General and distinguished members
of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and
Industry,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am very pleased to be here today, on my first visit to this
vibrant city of Karachi. it is hard to believe that on this
place, one hundred and fifty years ago, stood a small fishing

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STATE BANQUET PAKISTAN
6 FEBRUJARY 1989
Prime Minister,
It gives me enormous satisfaction to bring greetings from
Australia to you and the Government and people of Pakistan as you
once again assume your place among the democratic family of
nations. It is also a great personal pleasure to be the first head of
government making a bilateral visit to Pakistan since your
election as Prime Minister.
The last Australian Head of Government to visit Pakistan was the

SPEAKING NOTES FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
KANCHANABUR! WAR CEMfL. TERY
4i CBPUARY 1989
FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS, THE STORY OF' THE POWs WHO BUILt-THE
BURMA RAi;. ROAD RANKS wiiTH GALLIPOLI, THE BATTLEFIELDS
OF FRANCE AND TOBRUJK AS ONE OF TAfE MOST EVOCATT'F AND
POWERFUL REMINDERS CF THE B1RAVERY AND THIE SACRIFICE OF
AuSTRALIANS AT WAR.
SO ! T IS WiTH HUJMl1. ITY AND A SENSE OF HONOUR THAT
HAVE JUST LAID A WiREArH DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO LIVED AND DIED BUILDING THE BURMA
RAILROAD.
THE DIMENSIONS OF AUSTRALIA'S LOSSES ON THIS INFAMOUS

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4 FEBRUARY 1989
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JOURNALIST: How long do you think it will be before the
uncertainty is cleared up, or is there no i'incertainty?
* PM: Mr Dowding is not claiming victory ton~ ght although he
is optim~ istic that the Government has been returned. He
thinks it could be a day or so before all the details are
finailised as to what the order of the outcome would be but
he, as I say, is not claiming vIictory but thinks-the
Government has been returned.

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LUNCHEON OF COMBINED BUSINESS COMMITTEES
BANGKOK 3 FEBRUARY 1989
Ladies and gentlemen,
As part of my visit to the United States last year, I had
the pleasure of addressing a luncheon hosted by the Economic
Club of Chicago.
After I spoke, the Chairman of the luncheon thanked me and,
as was fitti. ng in an international forum, hie produced a
classic definition of diplomacy.
Diplomacy, he said, was the art of saying " nice doggie, nice

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3 FEBRUARY 1989
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, if I could start with a domestic
political question, could you~ clarify for us now what you*
meant in your answer yesterday in referring to any possible
deferral of the tax cuts that this wasn't in your thinking at
this stage?
PM: it's a case of getting unnecessarily knicker knotted
over a phrase on your part. I have made clear consistently
that the tax cuts will come in on the first of July, period.

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BANGKOK 2 FEBRUARY 1989
Thailand and Australia have been close friends for many
years now. It is a friendship based on common international
Sinterests and on an expanding economic relationship.
Moreover, Mr Prime Minister, we have a shared commitment to
the democratic processes. Unfortunately we live in a world
where this cannot always be said with conviction.
Mr Prime Minister, it is because we can build still further

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2 FEBRUARY 1989
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* JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, are you disappointed that Bill.
Kelty has described the idea of taking housing out of the CPI
for wages purposes as conceptually flawed?
PM: No, I don't make any judgement on that statement of Bill
Kelty's. I know that the ACTU is agreeing with the idea of:
examining the way in which the issue is being treated. out
of that discussion that will take place we would hope to get

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1 FEBRUARY 1989
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JOURNALIST: What does it feel like being in the Olympic
Stadium? PM: It's a great thrill particularly . with the reproduction
up there of the Australian team's involvement and the
highlights they have just shown of Duncan Armstrong's
great swim. I can understand the sense of pride of the
Koreans too in their achievement here of creating these
facilities. Truly, it's truly marvellous.
JOURNALIST: What is your message for Melbourne out of