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" CRY FREEDOM" PREMIERE
SYDNEY 10 FEBRUARY 1988
AS Australia celebrates its Bicentenary, " Cry Freedom" is a
stark, powerful remi'nder that, in South Africa, a different
kind of anniversary is in train: the fortieth anniversary of
apartheid. In these forty years, many former colonies throughout
Africa, the Caribbean and in our own Asia-Pacific region
have achieved nationhood with majority rule and

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 8 FEBRUARY 1988
The Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic
Affairs, Mick Young, has informed me of his decision to
resign from political life as from today.
It is a decision which I deeply regret and one which I urged
him to reconsider, but Mick feels that such have been the
events of the last week he no longer has the desire to
continue in political life. I would emphasise that there
are absolutely no circumstances other than those he mentions
in his press release that have pressured him to resign.

FOR MEDIA 8 FEBRUARY 1988
Their Excellencies the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen and
Lady Stephen will make a State Visit to the People's Republic of
China from 9 to 16 February 1988, at the invitation of President
Li Xiannian.
Their Excellencies will visit Beijing, Xian, Hangzhou, Kunming
and Guangzhou.
The visit, the first by an Australian Head of State, represents a
further step in the development of close and friendly ties
between Australia and China in the fifteen years since diplomatic
relations were established in December 1972.

PRIME MINISTER
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LAUNCH OF RURAL WOMEN'S SURVEY
BATHURST 8 FEBRUARY 1988
David Simmons,
ministerial colleagues John Kerin and Margaret Reynolds,
Dorothy Ross
Today we are releasing the results of a very important
survey about the needs of Australia's rural women.
But we are doing more than simply publicising the results of
a survey as valuable an exercise in consultation as that
survey has been.
We are also demonstrating our recognition that women living

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 2 FEBRUARY 1988
The Government has decided in principle to appoint three
additional Commissioners to assist the Royal Commission into
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, following a request by
Commissioner Muirhead.
The additional Commissioners will operate as separate
fact-finding Royal Commissions charged with responsibility
for investigating the circumstances of particular Aboriginal
deaths. Their work will be co-ordinated by Commissioner
Muirhead who will retain responsibility for the final
overall recommendations.

KRINMSE
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BICENTENARY TEST MATCH DINNER
SYDNEY 2 FEBRUARY 1988
When the first English team to tour Australia returned home
in 1862, Roger Iddison of Yorkshire was asked his opinion of
Australian cricketers. He replied ( and perhaps Michael
Parkinson, Geoff Boycott or Bob Appleyard could correct my
pronunciation): " Well, I doan't think mooch of their play,
but they're a woonderful lot of drinking men".
Over the next 130 years, Iddison's analysis turned out to be

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PRIME MINISTER
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Today, all around this vast country, from shore to shore and
across the many miles between, Australians are celebrating
our most momentous anniversary -two hundred years of
European settlement.
Australia Day is a focus in our Bicentennial Year when, as
well as celebrating our present achievements, we can
remember the past and what we owe to the people who have
been before us the Aboriginals who have lived on this
continent for some 40,000 years those who settled

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AT THE HANDOVER CEREMONY Or THE YOUNG ENDEAVOUR
SYDNEY MONDAY 25 JAUARY, 1988
I thank you, Sir John Leahy, for your generous remarks.
And I am delighted to respond to your invitation to accept,
on behalf of the government and people of Australia, this
magnificent Bicentennial gift from the government and people
of the United Kingdom.
This ship the YugEndeavour bears a name imperishably
linked with CpanCook's great voyage of discovery.

PRIME MINISTER
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NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
CANBERRA 22 JANUARY, 1988
My latest appearance at this most important Australian forum
was, of course, just before the Federal Elections last July.
It will not have escaped you that, had we made a different
decision about the timing of the election, many of you might
well be about to go on the campaign trail over the next few
weeks. As it is, we are now able to have the Bicentennial Year

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RECEPTION rOR CAPTAINS or TALL SHIPS
SYDNEY -21 JANuARY 1988
I am delighted to meet the Captains and crew of the Tall
Ships representing foreign governments, and the Ambassadors
and High Commissioners to Australia of those governments,
and to have this opportunity of expressing my appreciation
and that of the Australian government and people for your
participation in our Bicentennial celebrations.
When the Bicentennial Authority proposed to the Govern ment