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I think she finds the Commonwealth and her position as Head of the Commonwealth infinitely more interesting than being the Queen of England, because she has no significant role in the latter.
BOB HAWKE

Commonwealth Country Infinitely Latter Position Queen Significance
Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.
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Bills Country University Wells
It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we had some terrible fights, including an enormous one in Canada.
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Commonwealth Country Defend Enormous Fighting Hate
I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.
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Enormously Great Integrity Respect
There was some suggestion that there was a rapprochement developing between China and the Soviets, but nothing could have been further from the truth.
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Country Developing Nothing Soviet Truth
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 Thinking
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
He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.
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Belive Brotherhood Necessarily Religious Truth
One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You’d have an allotted time.
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Commonwealth Elizabeth Ii Feature Government Meetings
George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn’t far behind in a way.
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Behind Fanatic Juniors Religious Way
[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
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
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Important Loudest Scream
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
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
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 Investment Record Regime Sanction
Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.
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Distribution Diversion Heaven Men Political

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