I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.
BOB HAWKEYou’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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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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And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.
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I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.
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As far as we’re concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.
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My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven’t improved Australia’s security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
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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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Institutions do live on their history.
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She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, “Do-what-you’re-told, Lady”. But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.
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[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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The world will not wait for us.
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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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The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
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By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
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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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