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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 had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.
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I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
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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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Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.
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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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Institutions do live on their history.
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I just loved him and he loved me… He was a most humble man, the most decent man I’ve ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me.
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[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.
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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.
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I don’t know who described Mahathir [bin Mohamad] as a pillar of the Commonwealth, but they don’t know what they’re talking about.
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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 respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.
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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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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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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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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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