PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 30 JUNE 1988
VISIT TO AUSTRALIA OF CANADA'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
The Canadian Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon Don Mazankowski,
will visit Australia from 30 June to 7 July. He will
represent the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable
Brian Mulroney, as Canada's official bicentennial visitor.
I will be meeting with Mr Mazankowski to discuss the Toronto
Summit, multilateral trade negotiations and the prospect for
reform in international agricultural trade. Australia and

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 28 JUNE 1988
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mrs Margaret
Thatcher, will be visiting Australia as a guest of the
Government for the Bicentenary from 1 to 6 August. Mrs
Thatcher will be having official discussions in Canberra,
and visiting Perth, Melbourne and Sydney and Expo 88 for the
British National Day.
Mrs Thatcher's visit, in this Bicentennial year, will serve
to underline the warmth and friendliness of the relations
between Britain and Australia and to remind us of the

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 28 JUNE 1988
The Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Noboru Takeshita, will visit
Australia 1-5 July at the invitation of the Australian
Government. Mr Takeshita will be accompanied by his wife, several
Parliamentarians and a party including senior Government
officials. This will be Prime Minister Takeshita's first visit to Australia,
although I have met him in Japan on three previous occasions,
most recently in December last year, soon after his appointment
as Prime Minister. I am delighted that Mr Takeshita is visiting

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA
THE HON. R. J. L. HIAWKE, AC, NP
JOINT MEETING OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS
WASHINGTON -23 JUNE 1988
Mr Speaker
Mr President
Members of Congress
Friends By inviting me to speak today to the Congress of the United
States you honour not only the Prime Minister of Australia
but all Australians.
Yours is an institution which, down through tho yoars, has
reflected the views and aspirations of the American people

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ECONOMIC DECLARATION FROM TORONTO SUMMIT
The Prime Minister today welcomed the priority given by
lpadurs at tho Toronto Ecnic SviujuiL L. u the reform ot worLd
agricultural trade, but expressed disappointment that the
] padars could not agree tha~ t early steps would be taken at
the M~ id-~ term Review of the Uruyudy Round to wind back farm
subs idies.
Agricultural trade reform was a key issue at the Economic
Summit, It Is pleasing that the leaders at the Summit

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THE HON. R. J. L. HAWKE, AC NP
" AUSTRALIA 1988 AND BEYOND"
CONFERENCE COSPONSORED BY THE ASIA SOCIETY AND TIHE
AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK 20 JUNE 1988
Ladies And Gentlemen,
An early edition of Baedeker the great nineteenth century
travel-guide had this commonsense piece of advice for
visitors to New York:
" Tips are of an appallingly high scale in this city end
must by no means be omitted if efficient attention is

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KCONCEI C CLUB LUNCHEON
CHICAGO 20 JUNK 198
Seventy six years ago, a young Chicago architect etablished
a permanent link between this city and Australia.
Walter Burley Griffin was selected as the winner of an
international competition to design a now national capital
for Australia.
His design became the blueprint for the City of Canberra a
design which, ap any visitor to Canberra appreciates, is

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 20 JUNE 1988
The Governor-General appointed on Friday 17 June, Dr Robin
Bell as a Deputy Commonwealth ombudsman.
Prior to his appointment Dr Bell was the Senior Assistant
Secretary in charge of the Freedom of Information Branch of
the Attorney-General's Department. His doctorate is in
nuclear physics but he is also legally qualified and has
been admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the A. C. T.
Supreme Court. Dr Bell has worked mainly in the
Attorney-General's Department, but he has also worked in the

FOR MEDIA 19 JUNE 1988
A major exhibition of Egyptian antiquities, Gold of the
Pharaohs, will come to Australia this year.
The exhibition will be in Australia for 10 months under the
auspices of the International Cultural Corporation of
Australia, and will be seen in four cities.
The Egyptian Government has agreed to send the exhibition to
Australia in 1988 as a gesture of goodwill for Australia's
Bicentenary. It is the first major exhibition of Egyptian
antiquities to come to Australia and one of the largest ever

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AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL DAY, EXPO
BRISBANE 18 JUNE 1988
Sir Edward Williams
Sir Liew Edwards
Graham Richardson
Bill Glasson
Distinguished guests
Ladies and gentlemen
We are now half-day through our Bicentennial year, and have
witnessed a spectacular series of celebrations, the likes of
which will not be seen again in this country for a very long
time. Some of these events have been the result of years of