PRWME MINISTER
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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
OPENING OF GREEK-AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE
MELBOURNE 13 M4ARCH 1987
Thank you for your invitation to open the Greek-Australian
conference here in Melbourne today.
I must at tic outset extend a special welcome to our
distinguishied guests from Greece. The Greek Government has
made a signi.~ icant contribution to the success of this
conference by sending to us the Deputy minister for Culture
responsible or Greeks Abro ' ad, the Minister-for the Aegean,

Jj, AUSrQA* LIA-i
PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 10 Iarch 1987.
JOINT PRESS STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE MINISTER FOR
SCIENCE> I BARRY JONES,
The Government is delighted to announce a $ 750,000 five-year
sponsorship by Shell Australia Limited for the travelling
component of the National Science and Technology Centre.
The Prime Hinister received a cheque for the firot instalment of
the sponsorship from the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Shell Australia, Mr Kevan Gosper, in Canberra today.

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FOR ? IEDXA 9 MARCH 1987
Forty nine mamber countries of the Commonwealth celebrate
Commonwealth Day today.
The Common'woalth today represents a quarter of the vyorld~ s
population, a third of its sovereign and independent nations, and
people of al colours and creeds.
Successive Australian Governments have regarded the Commonwealth
as having a valuable role to play in international affairs. The
commonweal Z~ has helped to promote international acceptance of
the princ~ ples of self-determination, non-racialism, human

PRIME~ MINISTR
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" OUR FOURTH ANNIVERSARY"
BATHURST 8 MARCH 1987
Fellow members and supporters of the Australian Labor Party,
Cabinet and Parliamentary colleagues, Friends:
Last Thursday we passed an historic milestone in the great
march of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Labor
Movement the fourth anniversary of our government's
election on 5 march, 1983.
For four years now this Government has proudly represented

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Jj, QU I) lALI( Ati
PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 6 March 1987
The releasu today of the ANOP youth survey shows clearly that
the attitjues and views of young Australians are in line with
my Govern* 0ent's youth strategy.
It is very satisfying that the $ 1 billion invested by my
Government': in our young people over the past two years is
proving to bLe well spent.
The survoe;, carried out by ANOP in October. 1986, was a
continuation of the Government's commitment to consult young

4JlAUSTRALIALL
FOR MEDIA6 MARCH 1987
I was ve: y sorry to learn of the death on Tuesday of the
distinguished author and journalist, Cyril Pearl.
Cyril Pear:' made an outstanding contribution to Australian
social hic: tory and journalism. His civilised, witty and
humane w: iting in such works as Wild Men of Sydney, Morrison
of Peking and The Dunera Scandal will live on in our
literatu: e.
I extend my deepest sympathy to his widow and his sons.
PRivE vMImSTER

FOR MEDIA 4 MARCH 1987
The Prime Minister announced today the appointment of two new
members of tho Australian Science and Technology Council ( ASTEC)
and the reappointmeint of two members.
The two new members are Professor James McCleod, Professor of
Medicine at the University of Sydney, and Dr Alessandra Pucci,
Managing Director of the biotechnology company Australian
Monoclonal Development. Professor McCleod has been the Bushell
Professor of Neurology since 1978 and a member of the Board of
Royal North Shore Hospital since 1980. Dr Pucci was the

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FWRME MWNSTER
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OPENING W) THE AUSTRALIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT CENTRE
CANBERRA 26 FEBRUARY 1987
Sir Albert Abbott, National President of the Australian
Council of Local Government Associations,
Tomn Uren,
Ladies and Gantlenen
it has boen a long held objective of the Australian Council
of Local Govornment Associations to have its own building in
the National -Capital a bricks and mortar presence in
Canberra which would both assist and highlight the

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OPENING OF MTIA HOUSE
SYDNEY 24 FEBRUARY 1987
Jim Dowrie
Barrie Unsworth
Members of the MTIA
Ladies and Gentlemen
The Meta~ l Trades Industry Association stands today as one of
the nation's foremost industry participants in the great
econom'c transformation sweeping Australia.
I have had occasion in the past to pass on to you my and my
Governmnt's unqualified praise for the role you are playing
in thiG dramatic and historic change.

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P1 i -AMMIEN IiSTEZR
TRANSCRIPT OF COMMENTS, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, 23 FEBRUARY 1987I
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JOURNALIST: treating Sir Joh as joke?
PM: No, I don't think anyone treats Joh entirely as a joke.
JOURNALIST: charnce-_ of becoming--Pr-imeMin-ister?
PM: I don't think so but Mr McMullan was quite right in
S looking at a vwhole range of scenarios some of them fanciful
but that The job of the Secretary of the Party, to look
at cevery conceivable scenario. He was quite, right in doing