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Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.

Bob Hawke

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[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.
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Commonwealth Elizabeth Immersed Members Roles
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

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The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
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Loudest Scream
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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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 Roles Worthwhile
And that’s what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.
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Final Finance Record Regime Sanction
I said, “Will you help us?” He said, “Yes.” So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied.
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Applied Aside Sanction Treasury
People often wondered why. What I see as a possible explanation is [that] he came from a very wealthy family – a ‘squattocracy’ – and he had private education at home and then he went to boarding school at Melbourne Grammar School, one of those lead schools in Australia.
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Boarding Squaitocracy Why
One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth.
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Commonwealth Intelligent
The world will not wait for us.

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The world will not wait for us.
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Waiting
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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Vancouver Working
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.

BOB HAWKE

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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Religious
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Instance Suitcases
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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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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Real
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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Bring Down Regime Sanction
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
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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Good Relationships
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 Nuclear Pacific South

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable.

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