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OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS
TOWNSVILLE 15 AUGUST 1988
All Australians and particularly those who are of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander descent can feel proud to be
hosting the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts.
For 16 years since 1972, * this Festival has provided a unique
showcase for the cultures of the Pacific region a forum
for traditional skills and a means of showing new directions

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TOWNSVILLE TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL
CENTENARY DINNER
TOWNSVILLE 14 AUGUST 1988
one hundred years ago next week a group of Townsville
workers gathered at Grosskoff's Family Hotel here in
Townsville for an historic meeting.
The bricklayers, carpenters, seamen, wharfies, builders,
laborers, tailors and butchers who came together on 23
August 1888 carried this motion: " That they form themselves
into a branch of the Trades and Labor Council of

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OPENING OF THE BURDEKIN FALLS DAR
BURDEKIN 14 AUGUST 1988
For almost a century the dream of a dam upon the Burdekin
River has inspired generations of people with the promise of
new prosperity for North Queensland.
Today we mark the realisation of that dream the completion
of the Burdekin Dam and the formal opening of a new era for
the people of this State.
In opening this dam today I pay unreserved tribute to all

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 12 AUGUST 1988
The Minister for Resources, Senator Cook and the ministerF
for Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories, R
Senator Richardson, will visit Tasmania next Thursday nl
18 August to carry forward the consultations I initiated
yesterday on Tasmanian forestry and conservation issues. T
The Ministers will meet the State Government, the Labor 0
opposition, employers and the trade union movement. t
An agenda of issues for discussion with the Tasmanian
Government is being developed by the two Governments.

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 1.1 AUGUST 1988
The Right Honourable David Lange MP, Prime Minister of New
Zealand, will make an official visit to Australia with Mrs
Lange from Monday 15 to Sunday 21 August. The visit is in
response to my invitation to him to come to Australia during
the Bicentenary and reciprocates my own visit to New Zealand
last November.
Mr and Mrs Lange will spend tine in Brisbane, Canberra and
Sydney. The New Zealand Prime Minister will attend World
Expo 88 in Brisbane as his country's National Day guest and

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA9 AUGUST 1988
I have today sent the following message to Their Royal
Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York:
The news of the Royal Birth has been received with delight
throughout Australia. The people and the Government of
Australia join with my wife and me in offering our
congratulations on this joyous occasion to you both.
We look forward with much pleasure to your coming visit to
Australia in this our Bicentennial year.
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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA7 AUGUST 1988
The Government has decided to make 1988/ 89 a year of
citizenship. This will be an appropriate initiative flowing from
Australia's Bicentennial year, in which all Australians have
been celebrating their pride in their nationhood.
As I stressed in my Australia Day address, what makes a
person an Australian is having a commitment to Australia.
It is that common commitment which binds Aboriginal
Australians, the Australian-born of the seventh or eighth
generation and all those of their fellow-Australians born in

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY WA BRANCH
RURAL AND REGIONAL SEMINAR
BUNBURY 6 AUGUST 1988
At the outset I want to congratulate the West Australian
branch of the Australian Labor Party on its initiative in
organising this biennial seminar over the last six years,
and to thank them for inviting me to deliver the keynote
address. This seminar priovides a valuable forum for Labor to outline
to Party members and to the wider community the breadth of

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I have heard with sadness of the death of Sir Keith Shann.
Sir Keith was an outstanding Australian public servant who
had a distinguished career spanning almost 40 years. He
made important contributions as a diplomat in Asia and at
the United Nations and in Canberra as a senior officer of
the Department of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the
Public Service Board.
Sir Keith established a world-wide reputation for diplomacy

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PREMIER DOWDING'S ' DECISION MAKERS LUNCHEON'
PERTH 5 AUGUST 1988
Peter Dowding,
Ladies and gentlemen.
In less than a month on 3 September the Australian
people will be asked to make four changes to the
Constitution.
The four proposals are:
to provide for four year maximum terms for bath Houses
of the Commonwealth Parliament;
to establish fair and democratic Parliamentary elections
throughout Australia;