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I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.

Bob Hawke

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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Class Employment Income Leadership Society
I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he… He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that,
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Australia Personal Relationship White Yew
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 had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.
BOB HAWKE

Camps Fighter Freedom Liking Much Too
Institutions do live on their history.
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History Institutions Live
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
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Important Loudest Scream
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 Commitment Initiative Nuclear Pacific South
Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.
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Distribution Diversion Heaven Men Political
It was Indira Gandhi who very much lined up with the Russians. And she was, you know, within the Commonwealth, basically one out on that.
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Commonwealth Country Firsts India People
[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.
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Automatically Basically Government Numbers
And, of course, he was, because nothing more advanced his cause – the cause of terrorism – than the invasion of Iraq. It was an absurdity.
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Absurdity Advanced Cause Country Invasion Terrorism
There is a reciprocal respect for [ Elizabeth II], for her interest in the Commonwealth. The members of the Commonwealth recognise that here is a genuine interest from the top. So, that’s one reason. I’m not putting it necessarily in order of importance.
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Commonwealth Genuine Member Order Reason Recognize
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 Income Production Proof
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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Cold Important Real Remember War
I assumed the leadership within the Commonwealth for the fight against apartheid. I was very much assisted by Brian Mulroney, the Prime Minister of Canada, [and] Rajiv Gandhi, when he became the Prime Minister of India. And there were trade sanctions.
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Aparthed Canada Country Fighting Leadership People
[Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he probably met a lot of black students there who were also probably lonely.
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Grammar Lonely Oxford Race Straight Thinking

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