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OPENING OF FRDXANTLK COMMONWEALTH OFFICBS-AND CUSTrKS HOUSE
PERTH -7 FEBRUARY 1987
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AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

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PUTTING IT TOGETHER.
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CAME ACROSS THE IDEA OF A BOOKLET TO HELP ELDERLY -PEOPLE LIVE
SAFELY AT HOME.
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TRANSCRIPT OF COMMENTS BY THE PRIME MINISTER ON THE FRONT STEPS
OF PARLIAMENT HOUSE THURSDAY 5 FEBRUARY 1987
PM: that I hope that we were gracious winners in 1983 and we
S_ -will -certainly be gracious losers in 1987, and we will be very
very tough competitors again in 1990-91. But I want to say as I
did last night when I spoke to him, congratulations to Dennis
Conner I admired the way he took his defeat in 1983 and I have
admired his tenacity and single-mindedness in setting about

b TRANSCRIPT OF STATEMENT FOLLOWING TALKS WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK
KUBBEH PALACE, CAIRO 2 FEBRUARY 1987
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PM: I have had the' opportunity-of having-an extremely
7 i nteresting._ discuss! on. wi rth ePresident.; And he has been
generous enough to share with-me-his-views-about-the-processes,
as he sees them, that will need to be involved in securing a
resolution of the Israeli-Arab dispute. He also talked about
other areas of conflict and problems in the region most
particularly the Iraq-Iran war and the situation in Lebanon. I

JAUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 2 February 1987
JOINT PRESS RELEASE BY THE ACTING PRIME MINISTER, MR BOWEN
AND THE CHIW MINISTER OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, MR HATTON
The Acting Prime Minister, Mr Bowen and the Chief Minister
of the Northern Territory, Mr Hatton today announced joint
Commonwealth/ State Bicentennial funding for three projects
in Central Australia.
The three prujects are the restoration of the Hermannsburg
mission settlement, the Ghan Railway preservation project
and the Alice Springs Telegraph Station.

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT BANQUET GIVEN BY
HIS EXCELLENCY DR ATTEF MOHAMMED NAGUIB SIDKY
PRIME MINISTER OF THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT, CAIRO
1 FEBRUARY 1987
MR PRIME MINISTER
M-MRS-STDKY
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS o
I HAVE GREATLY-APPRECIATED, MR PRIME MINISTER, YOUR WARM WELCOME,
YOUR GRACIOUS HOSPITALITY, AND IN PARTICULAR THE VERY BENEFICIAL
EXCHANGE OF VIEWS WE HAVE ENJOYED TODAY.
ALTHOUGH THE LINKS BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES GO BACK TO TWO
WORLD WARS IN WHICH AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS CAME TO EGYPT, THERE

PRIME MINISTER
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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE,.. TAHIRA PALACE, CAIRO
iF_ EUARY 1987
JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, are you worried about the way the
America's Cup-is-going?-
-Yes. I--hope I get home in-time; to-turn-it ar6und...
JOURNALIST: Have you spoken to anybody at home at about
PM: About the America's Cup. No, I haven't. I made one phone
call to see how it was going. But I haven't issued any
instructions.
JOURNALIST: Do you still think we will win?
PM: I hope so.
JOURNALIST: Have you bought Mr Reagan's hat yet?

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH HEATHER EWART FOR AM,
0 P O F O L
THE PRIME MINISTER, . R HAWKE, IS ON THE LAST STOPOVER IN HIS
S . IDDLE EAST TRIP. HE ARRIVED IN CAIRO EARLIER THIS MORNING. LATER
S TUDAY HE'LL 9EGIN TALKS WITH SENIOR GOVERNt. ENT PEOPLE FROM" OUR
S 2IGGEST TRADE CUSTOMER IN THE REGION, INCLUDING OF COURSE THE
EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT, HOSNI MUBARAK. MR HAWKE'S HARKED SHIFT I. M
PERSONAL THINKINiG, TO THE POIN. T WHERE HE TOLD-HIS ISRAELIHOSTS. LAST
WEEK THAT THEY SHOULD RECOGNISE THE PLO AND PARTICIPATE IN ANi

PRIME MINISTER
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH HIEATH-fER EWART. ABC RADIO
31 January 1987
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EWART: Finally Mr Hawke, do you have any response to the New South
Wales* by-ejection results.
PM: I don't know all the details as you will appreciate at this
stage but it does appear as distinct from the blustering of the
John Howard and the Liberals that they were going to win these
seats, the big loser is the Liberal Party. They have had their
vote slashed and Labor seems to have held the seats. I would say