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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 24 APRIL 1987
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An outstanding international line-up of tall ships will visit
Australia for the Bicentennial celebrations and take part in the
first tall ships race in the Southern Hemisphere.
Tall ships from Europe, Asia, and North and South America will cross
the oceans to participate in Australian port festivities in this
major Bicentenary event.
I am delighted that so many nations have accepted the Australian
Government's invitation to take part in Tall Ships Australia 198.8.

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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
* GRADUATION ADDRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY 23 APRIL 1987
Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Dean, ladies and gentlemen.
Through you, Vice-Chancellor, this distinguished institution
has done me a great honour in awarding me this Doctorate of
Laws. it is now 37 years since I received my first degree,
graduating as a Bachelor of Laws from the University of
Western Australia in 1950. I did not expect that in the

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LAUNCH OF THE AUSTRALIAN NUGGET BULLION COIN
SYDNEY 23 APRIL 1987
Ladies and gentlemen,
Today we launch the Australian Nugget gold bullion coins,
marking the culmination of two years of co-operation between
the Federal Government and the Government of Western
Australia.--Many groups deserve recognition for this achievement,
including the West Australian Development Corporation,
trading as Goldcorp Australia, the Perth Mint, the

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 9 April 1987
The Government's newly established Advisory Council on
Multicultural Affairs is to prepare a National Agenda for a
Multicultural Australia. I proposed this to the Council at
its inaugural meeting in Canberra today.
The National Agenda will comprise a program of specific
priorities that will translate our policy of
multiculturalism into a series of concrete initiatives.. It
will need to be developed on the basis of consultation with
a broad range of community interests.

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AUSTRALIAN MADE PHASE II LAUNCH
GREENSBOROUGH -7 APRIL 1986
Last June, when I announced the Australian Made Campaign I
was confident it would be a success.
I was confident that Australians were waiting for a campaign
like this and were repared to do their bit for the country
by choosing Australian made products where they represented
value for money.
But I am pleased to say that my high hopes for the campaign
have been well and truly exceeded.
Because the message conveyed by the ' True Blue'

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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 7 APRIL 1987
Today I launched Phase Two of the Australian Made campaign at the
Greensborough Shopping Centre in Melbourne.
The Australian made campaign launched last August as part of a
national drive to increase consumer awareness and preference for
locally made products has shown that Australians want to buy
local products and that local manufacturers are capable of
producing goods which are competitive in price and quality with
imports. The campaign has succeeded in changing entrenched attitudes

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JOURNALIST: Mir ! Hat.' ke, are you concerned about the Libyan
presence in the South Pacific?
PM: Yes, I am. And I didn't wait until I saw it in the
Age newspaper today to know about it. I have expressing
my concern about this for a considerable period of time.
And not just expressing our concern but for some time with
the United States I have told them that they would be making

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7 APRIL 1987
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JOURNALIST: today in McEwan, tomorrow in Isaacs. These
are two of Labor's most marginal seats. Now in these areas,
as in many other areas across the state, people are still
trying to come to terms with Australia's economic crisis.
They don't understand it. They know it's getting harder to
live. Housing interest rates are still high, things cost
more, living standards are falling. There's talk of selling

JAUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 6 APRIL 1987
The Crown Prince of Thailand, His Royal Highness Maha
Vajiralongkorn, will be visiting Australia from 8 to 11 April as
the guest of the Australian Government.
The Crown Prince has a longstanding association with Australia,
having spent six years of his education at the King's School,
Parramatta and the Royal Military College at Duntroon. The Crown
Prince has also visited Australia in 1981 and 1985.
During his visit to Canberra the Crown Prince will be staying

TRANSCRIPT OF COMMENTS, PARLIAMENT HOUSE MONDAY 6 APRIL 1987
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PM: You've been waiting since when?
JOURNALIST: 9.00 o'clock.
PM: Are you getting a bit hungry?
JOURNALIST: Not really. How do you feel about four year terms
Prime Minister?
PM: I've made it quite clear all along, I think four year terms
make a lot of sense.
JOURNALIST: Are you going to speak to Mr Howard about it soon?
PM: Is he the one to speak to, or is it Mr Elliot?
JOURNALIST: Do you think Mr Elliot is going to make it?