TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH ANNE-MCCAIG, -2WS, FOR STEVE-RAYMOND'S
SHOW, 31 JANUARY 1987
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MCCAIG: Prime Minister your love for Israel goes back many years. What is
. it about that country tha's capture your at-tentioh?
-PM: Well it's a complex of reasons. I suppose-like very very many people
around the world part of it and a large and immeasurable part was the
sense of shared guilt that I had that the world had allowed the
annihilation of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. And in a way we all share

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH JOHN STANLEY, MACQUARIE RADIO,
31 JANUARY 1987
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STANLEY: Prime Minister you have said youi that bel-ieve you-are
now as up to date on the Middle'East as anyone else, apart from
the parties themselves, what are you going to do with that knowledge
now that you have got it?
PM: I have already done sime things with it. I took from Jordan
as I indicated to them that I would, the story of their commitment
which I absolutely accept to the processes of securing peace between

PRIME MINISTER
TrRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH REGIS FAUCON.. TELEVISION FRANCE CHANNEL
OQNE, ._ 31 January 1967-.__-
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FAUCON: How bad are the relations now between France and Australia?
PM: You would really have to address that question t~ o Monsieur
Chirac. As far as I am concerned we have done nothing to strain
the relations. My attitude and the attitude of the government
and the people of Australia towards the people of
France is one of very considerable admiration in so many ways.

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PRIME MINISTER'S PRESENTATION TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
SPECIAL SEMINAR
DAVOS,. 4 30 JANUARY 1987
OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW ECONOMIC LINKS WITH AUSTRALIA
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
THIS MORNING I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THE WAY_ I SEE
AUSTRALIA'S ECONOMIC POTENTIAL, AND THE OPPORTUNITIES
AVAILABLE TO THOSE WITH AN INTEREST IN FORGING CLOSER
ECONOMIC LINKS WITH OUR ECONOMY THROUGH INVESTMENT IN
AUSTRALIA. IAM PLEASED TO SEE THAT THE EME ORGANISERS HAVE AGAIN

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PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE, CONGRESS HOUSE, DAVOS,
SWITZERLAND
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JOURNALIST: Mr Hawke, what. reactions -have-you . had
so far to yesterday's speech?
PM: It' s been very positive. People have been very
gracious in their comments, but as in all these things
the judgement is to * be made later on. . I meant what
I said at the beginning of the speech that one doesn ' t
feel like coming half way round the world, or right
round the world, if you think you are talking to people

PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE, KING DAVID HOTEL. JERUSALEM,
29 JANUARY 1987 E 0 E PROOF ONLY
JOURNALIST: WagJt did Mr Peres have to say-whfl You repeated. I
what you had to say earlier in the day about the PLO and
Israel reocg s~ ingech th
PM: I think the fullness of the discussions I had with Mr Peres
on that subject are appropriately left to us at this point. Suffice
to say that he completely understood the sense in which I put those
propositions. JOURNALIST: Did he raise with you the possibility of when you

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EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY.*
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
EAF SYMPOSIUM
DAVOS 29 JANUARY 1987
FOR SOME YEARS NOW YOU HAVE BEEN KIND ENOUGj TO INVITE ME TO
JOIN" YOU HERE IN DAVOS-IT WOULD 9E EASY T( SAY THAT ITHAS
NOT BEEN PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE TO ACCEPT YOUR INVITATION
BEFORE THIS BUT IT WOULD BE UNTRUEWHILE
THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE HAS FOR US IN AUSTRALIA BEEN
DIMINISHED BY THE MARVELS OF MODERN TRANSPORT, ONE. DOES'NOT
LIGHTLY CROSS THE WORLD MERELY FOR THE PROSPECT OF CONGENIAL

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PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE, KING DAVID HOTEL, JERUSALEM
-2"--ANUAR-Y--l-93-7--
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JOURNALIST: Why d: you support the concept of the Palestinian
PM: I think it would repay you see exactly what I said before you frame the
question. What I said is. that Australia sipport s the rights of the
Palestinians to self-determination including should it be their choice
to a state of their own and I alm said from discussions that I ha'ie had

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM
28 JANUARY 1987
To BE GRANTED THE DEGREE OF DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY HONORIS
CAUSA--BY-T-I-S-GREAT-UN. IVER. SLTY IS__ NE OF THE HIGHEST HONOURS
ISRAEL CAN OFFER, AND I FEEL DEEPLY HUMBLED BY YOUR GENEROSITY.
I i-S NOW NEAR LY SEVENTY -YEARS-SI NCE-THE-UN IVERSI TY-S-TWEVEFOUNDATION
STONES, REPRESENTING THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL,
WERE LAID HERE AT MT SCOPUS, SIGNALLING THE START OF THE GREAT
ACADEMIC VENTURE OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY.
BACK IN 1918, THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS STILL A DREAM, SO THE

TRAN'SCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE, KING DAVID HOTEL, JERUSALEM
27 JANUARY 1987
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JOURNALIST: Mr Hawk-,-did you-urge--Mr -Shamir-to accept-thhe
Soviet Union and the PLO in an international peace conference?
P: I -put -to -the-Pri-me iitr tIbeiv h conciept _ oftfh~ e_
international conference had merit. And that means that I also
indicated in that context there is a place for the Soviet Union
as part of that process. . As far as the PLO was concerned, I didn't
go specifically to that. It is quite clear that the question of