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Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.

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Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

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Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.
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Mates Position Surreptitiously
I just loved him and he loved me… He was a most humble man, the most decent man I’ve ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me.

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I just loved him and he loved me… He was a most humble man, the most decent man I’ve ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me.
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Religious
You’ve got to remember the Cold War was a very real thing then, so the relationship with the United States was very, very important.

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You’ve got to remember the Cold War was a very real thing then, so the relationship with the United States was very, very important.
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Real
And that’s what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.
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Final Finance Record Regime Sanction
An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.
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Abonded Assumption Constitute Production
“If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia.” And he was right, because we were just going backwards.
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Backwards Keep
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Benefiting Doubt Reform
I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It’s very easy to underrate her significance.
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Elizabeth Number Numbers Queens
It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this.
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Apprehensive Nuclear Pacific South
The world will not wait for us.

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The world will not wait for us.
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Waiting
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

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The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
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Loudest Scream
[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.
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Commonwealth Elizabeth Immersed Members Roles
Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

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Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.
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Commonwealth Real Rooms
[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.
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Infinitely Leader
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.

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While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.
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Employment
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Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.

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