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We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

Bob Hawke

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.
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Distribution Diversion Heaven Men Political
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
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Important Loudest Scream
By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
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Australian Children Poverty
It [also] lives on its history, now, to some extent: its achievements [ of the Commonwealth] in Rhodesia and South Africa, which were enormous. And they’ll live on that for some time,
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Achievement Achievements Commonwealth Country South Thinking Time
We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister, we were going to his home for dinner.
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Country Home Minister People Prime Two Visit
The world will not wait for us.
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Leadership Waiting World
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 Thinking
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
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 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
The first meeting in 1983 was held in India and I was very off put by her. I just couldn’t abide her, basically.
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Basically First Meeting
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
I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He’s one of the worst human beings I’ve ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.
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Black Mets Mugabe White
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
You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.
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Commonwealth Conversation Economics Impressed
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

We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

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We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

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