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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.

Bob Hawke

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
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Australian Children Poverty
I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
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Fence Squat Uncomfortable
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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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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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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Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.
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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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Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of 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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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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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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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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The personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]… For instance, once she goes – if she’s ever going to die, it seems to be questionable – if Charles [of Wales] were there, whether there’d be the same sort of cement is very questionable, I think.
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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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The world will not wait for us.
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We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren’t working; they were just being busted.
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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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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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