PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 21 MARCH 1990
The people of Namibia celebrate their attainment of
independence today. On this historic occasion I have sent
the following message of congratulations to President Sam
Nujoma. " Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on the attainment
of the independence of your country. I share your joy and
satisfaction on this truly historic occasion and on behalf of
the people of Australia I wish you and the people of
Namibia peace and prosperity for the future.
Australia has had the welcome opportunity to assist your

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TRANSCRIPT OF QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION, NATIONAL PRESS
CLUB, CANBERRA, 21 MARCH 1990
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JOURNALIST: Tracy Lois, Austereo News. Prime Minister
the Chamber of Commerce says today's national account
figures show we're heading for a recession and whichever
Party's in Government on Monday they'll have to move
immediately to bring down interest rates. Andrew Peacock
says if it's him he'll make an announcement on Sunday to
ensure the market moves on Monday. Will you be doing
more than just ringing Bernie?

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PRIME MINISTER
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FOR MEDIA 21 MARCH 1990
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
( ANBERRRA WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 1990
Ladies and ( lentlemen, Friends,
I believe the events of this campaign have confirmed the
accuracy of what I said five weeks ago: that this is the
most import;, nt election since 1949. Now, near the end of
the campaigi,, I want to use the opportunity which you
have given le, not to make new announcements not to
cover all the ground in detail but to sum up; to

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW BETWEEN BRIAN WHITE ( 2UE) AND PRIME
MINISTER, BOB HAWK~ E.
21 MARCH 1990
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WHITE: And nov we come to the second of our election interviews,
once again being broadcast to quite a number of stations around
Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales, as well as MRE.
I welcome once again to 2HD, 2MCI 2RE, 2RG, 2SSS, 4124, 5CS and
Welcome to you and your listeners. Now my guest the Leader
of the Labor Party, Bob Hawke, the Prime Minister, sitting

TRAkNSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH JaNA WENDT, a CURRENT
AFFAIR, 21 MRCH 1990
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WENDT: Mr Hawke, thank you very much for your time.
PM: Pleasure, Jana.
WENDT: Are we on the brink of a recession?
PM: No. If you use the economists' analysis you have
two quarters of negative growth. Last quarter, the one
before this one just coming up today, 0.9 percent for the
quarter growth, this one, minus 0.2, so we had one
quarter and this quarter is a 0.9 statistical discrepancy
which, when it's rectified could have you in positive

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH KEITH CONLON, ABC RADIO
ADELAIDE 20 MARCH 1990
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CONLON: Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, good morning.
PM: Good morning Keith.
CONLON: Welcome to
PM: Thank you very much indeed.
CONLON: It's been a campaign that many people are
complaining about in terms of getting off the issues and
now we've got another one. But with the promise that we
will get back to some of the fundmentals that I think the
electorate wants to hear about, have you introduced
racism as Mr Peacock says?

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TRANSCRIPT OF NEWS CONFERENCE, AWA DEFENCE INDUSTRIES,
ADELAIDE, 20 MARCH 1990
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, how reasonable is it to
expect a fall of two percent in interest rates after the
election? PM: Well, if you look at what I said, the context I was,
the two percent came up in terms of some reference I'd
seen to, in going through a whole lot of media in the
last few hours of some comment by Mr Howard that he'd
talked about two percent. You'll notice that I was

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW/ TALKBACK WITH VINCENT SMITH, RADIO SAA
MARCH 1990
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SMITH: Are you feeling a bit of pressure.
PM& No, I don't feel pressure, I realise that I've got to
work right up until Friday night, and I'll do that.
SMITHs Do you feel that things like this MFP row place
0 pressure on you, indeed diversions from the issues.
PM: I think it's a very unfortunate diversion, I think
however that the electorate will slot that into their overall
assessment of which side has addressed the issues and addressed

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 20 MARCH 1990
LAUOAI afUN n LAW 4WUBHTDI CE SIT6TIVTYVR
My Government's commitment to law reform, law enforcement
and the effective administration of justice in borne out by
our record, we have made major reforms in areas as diverso
as corporate regulation, human rights and privacy, the
attack on organised crime, family law and services and the
infrastructure and operation of the Federal court system,
LAbor's fourth ter initiatives will therefore build on thi
substantial steps wn have already taken.

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH DEAN BANKS, DENNIS DONOHUE
AND ROSS STEVENSON, ' LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY', RADIO 3AW
19 MARCH 1990
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BANKS: It's a very good morning to the Prime Minister Mr
Bob Hawke. Good morning and thank you for joining us.
PM: Pleasure Dean.
BANKS: Thank you for bringing your entourage.
PM: Good. Well I like following your entourage around
from station to station too.
BANKS: You were locked in mortal combat there for a
moment weren't you, or verbal combat with my colleague