PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, MANUKA OVAL 2 APRIL 1989
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JOURNALIST: Are Australian workers entitled to expect tax
cuts and a wage rise from July 1?
PM: The tax cuts will come from July 1 and the specific
timing of the wage cuts is a process of negotiation in the
Commission, as you know.
JOURNALIST: Any time-frame though?
PM: I don't set the time-frame for that, that's negotiated
and settled in the Arbitration Commission. That's well
known, I don't set that.
JOURNALIST: Simon Crean this morning agreed that this
Government is a little bit unpopular. What do you say to
that? PM: The test of the Government's popularity will be at the
election, that's when it matters. There've been some
reasonably bad items of news on the inflation front and the
balance of payments front, interest rates are high. It's
not a classic economic prescription for economic popularity,
for political popularity, but I'm confident about the basic
attitude of the Australian people to this Government, both
now and when the election comes.
ends
Hawke, Robert
Period of Service: 11/03/1983 - 20/12/1991
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Release Date:
02/04/1989
Release Type:
Interview
Transcript ID:
7551
Document:
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- Hawke, Robert James Lee
TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTOP, MANUKA OVAL - 2 APRIL 1989
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