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Transcripts from the Prime Ministers of Australia

Hawke, Robert

Period of Service: 11/03/1983 - 20/12/1991
Release Date:
11/08/1988
Release Type:
Media Release
Transcript ID:
7372
Document:
00007372.pdf 1 Page(s)
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  • Hawke, Robert James Lee
UNKNOWN

PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 1.1 AUGUST 1988
The Right Honourable David Lange MP, Prime Minister of New
Zealand, will make an official visit to Australia with Mrs
Lange from Monday 15 to Sunday 21 August. The visit is in
response to my invitation to him to come to Australia during
the Bicentenary and reciprocates my own visit to New Zealand
last November.
Mr and Mrs Lange will spend tine in Brisbane, Canberra and
Sydney. The New Zealand Prime Minister will attend World
Expo 88 in Brisbane as his country's National Day guest and
have discuss-ions in Canberra with me and senior ministers
focusing on a range of bilateral-. and regional issues. In
Sydney he will formally hand over the vessel Akarana, New
Zealand's bicentennial gift to Australia. 1091 03

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