29 September 1987

Opposition obstruction to the Australia Card Legislation would, unremedied, allow tax and welfare cheats to pocket up  to $900 million a year at the expense of the rest of the country. The Australia Card would have been the single most effective instrument for dealing with tax cheating and welfare fraud.

29 September 1987 

A competition to design a National Memorial to the Australian Army, commemorating all facets of its long and proud history, has been won by a West Australian sculptor. Mrs Joan Walsh-Smith of Gidgegannup, Western Australia, in
association with Ken Maher and Partners Pty Ltd, is the winner of the competition.

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 25 SEPTEMBER 1987
I am very shocked and saddened at the news of a second coup
by the Army under Colonel Rabuka in Fiji. I believe all
Australians will share this reaction.
The informuation available so far is incomplete. But it is
clear that the Army has taken over newspapers and radio
stations and closed them down, that Suva is effectively
under military control and that Colonel Rabuka, as he said
on the radio in Fiji, has moved to prevent the formation of
a bipartisan Government. He has said that he will move

PRIME MINISTER
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AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW POST-BUDGET DINNER
SYDNEY 16 SEPTEMBER 1987
Alan Kohler
Ladies and gentlemen
The Budget which Paul Keating delivered last night on behalf
of the Government was the culmination of five years of hard
work; five years of assiduous reordering of spending
priorities; five years of cutting out waste and
inefficiency; five years of tax reform.
The Budget is another step down the path we have followed in

FOR ESDEIPAT1E3M BER 1987
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The terms of all non-Commonwealth members of the Economic
Planning and Advisory Council have now expired and I today
announce the membership of the new Council.
Consistent with the rotational arrangements provided in the
EPAC Act, Premiers Unsworth, Bannon and Gray have now been
appointed for a two year term. These replace Premiers Cain
and Burke and Chief Minister Hatton.
The EPAC Act requires that non-Government membe-rs be

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 13 SEPTEMBER 1987
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I will be visiting the United States, Canada, Ireland,
Switzerland and Yugoslavia between 9 and 25 October.
I am looking forward to having informal talks with Secretary of
State Shultz over the weekend of 10 and 11 October in San
Francisco. The talks will follow up the valuable discussions
held during the visit to Australia of Mr Shultz and Secretary of
Defense Weinberger in June and will cover international political

10 September 1987

Mr Bisas, President,
my ministerial colleague, Clyde Holding,
Mr Peter Spyker,
Ladies and gentlemen,

At the outset I want to thank you for your invitation to address your 15th Annual General Meeting not just because it gives me an opportunity to congratulate you on your work over the last decade and a half, but also because I want to comment on the wider national context in which you, and the Federal Government, have performed our respective tasks.

 9 September 1987

Simon Crean,
Delegates,

It is with a deep sense of pride and appreciation that I address this ACTU Congress in this your 60th anniversary year.

Pride and appreciation, because I am the first Labor Prime Minister elected to three successive terms of Government to address the Congress of Australia's trade union movement and because this great movement gave me an incomparable opportunity to learn to know this country and its people.

PRIME MINISTER
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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF QUEENSLAND
BROADBEACH 7 SEPTEMBER 1987
Sir Albert Abbott, President, and Lady Abbott,
Councillor Bill Layer, Chairman, Albert Shire,
Alderman Denis Pye, Mayor, Gold Coast City,
Ladies and gentlemen.
This is the ninety-first annual conference of the Local
Government Association of Queensland but it is the first to
be officially opened by a Prime Minister.
So as well as thanking you for-that honor it is appropriate

4 September 1987

 I will make an official visit to New Zealand from 19-23 November at the invitation of New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr David Lange.