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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.

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
Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.
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Distribution Diversion Heaven Men Political
I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.
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Enormously Great Integrity Respect
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
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
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
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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Anything Commonwealth Organisation Sporting Sports
It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.
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Commonwealth Leadership Roles Worthwhile
Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.
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Mates Position Surreptitiously
[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
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
The world will not wait for us.
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Leadership Waiting World
Institutions do live on their history.
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History Institutions Live
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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Gentle Incapable Manipulation Men Rearrangements Resources
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
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

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