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LUNCHEON IN HONOUR OF THEIR MAJESTIES
THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPAIN
PARLIAMENT [ HOUSE 16 JUNE 1988
Your Majesties
Minister Distinguished Guests
The Australian Government and people are honoured to welcome
you to our country in our Bicentennial year.
This year we are celebrating 200 years of European
settlement of this continent. But it is right that today we
recall that the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Harbour

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Cabinet will meet in Geelong, Victoria on Thursday 7 July
1988.
The meeting is in response to a long standing invitation
from the Geelong City Council and will be held in the City
Hall. The Cabinet is looking forward to visiting Geelong, one of
Australia's major provincial centres, which is celebrating
its sesqui-centenary this year.
My Cabinet has met away from Canberra on a number of
occasions in the past and I intend that we will have further
meetings in regional centres.

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TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH AT RARUNGA SPORTS AND CULTURAL
FESTIVAL, NORTHERN TERRITORY 12 JUNE 1988
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Traditional owners Of Barunga, tradtional owners from
throughout the Northern Territory and those from South
Australia, Western Australia and Queensland who are present
with us today, Chairman, the Northern Territory Land
Council, all Aboriginal people from elsewhere in Australia,
my friend and colleague the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
Gerry Hand, and friends one and all.

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The Prime Minister of Ireland, Mr Charles Haughey,
accompanied by Mrs Haughey, will visit Australia from 11 to
16 July as a Guest of the Government.
The visit reciprocates my memorable visit to Ireland last
year, and reflects the contribution of the Irish and people
of Irish descent to all aspects of Australian life, a
contribution of which we are especially reminded in our
Bicentennial year.
In Canberra, Mr Haughey will present Ireland's Bicentennial
gift of convict records to the National Library. He will

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38TH BIENNIAL AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY FEDERAL CONFERENCE
HOBART 8 JUNE 1988
Australia today is a stronger country, a fairer country, a
country far better equipped to face the future than it was
in March 1983.
And these things are true because the Australian Labor
movement has fulfilled, better than ever before, its
fundamental and historic role.
we have proved ourselves, as never before, the Party of
progress and reform.

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FOR MEDIA 5 JUNE 1988
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE MINISTER FOR
THE ARTS, SPORT, THE ENVIRONMENT, TOURISM AND TERRITORIES,
SENATOR GRAHAI RICHARDSON
Australia is to sign an international treaty aimed at
protecting the ozone layer.
Australia will sign this week the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, one of a series of
actions which the Commonwealth is taking to protect the
ozone layer.
Action to protect the ozone layer is high on the

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FOR MEDIA 2 JUNE 1988
The. Government is proposing to recommend to the
Governor-General the following appointments:
Following the retirement at the end of the first week of
July of Dr Harris from the post of Secretary, Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade ( already announced),
Mr R A Woolcott AO, will be appointed to that post.
Mr Woolcott has had extensive experience in the foreign
policy field, holding a number of senior appointments in
that portfolio including in recent years as Australian

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INSTITUTE OF MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT NATIONAL SEMINAR
CANBERRA 30 MAY 1988
For well over 100 years local government has been an
integral element of the way Australians govern themselves.
over that time there have been enormous changes in the role
and functions of local government, and in its relationship
with the other two tiers of the national structure of
government. Today there are over 800 local government bodies, over 8,000

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FOR MEDIA27 MAY 1988
The Queen has approved Letters Patent and Regulations
establishing the Australian Fire Service Medal which will
form part of the Australian system of honours and awards.
The Regulations provide for the Medal to be awarded for
distinguished service by a member of an Australian fire
service.
The awards will be made by the Governor-General on the
recommendation of the Minister responsible for each fire
service and will be notified in the Commonwealth of
Australia Gazette. The first awards will be announced in

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CEDA LUNCHEOV NELBOURNE 27 flAY 1988
Eleven months ago the Australian people were faced, in the
Federal Election campaign, with a fundamental choice about
the future direction of our country.
The choice was nothing less than a decision about whether
the cQuntry'could continue forwards or whether it would
disastrously slip backwards.
This is not the time or the place to rehearse the many
policy differences which separated the Government and the