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Thank you President Sabra Lane for your introduction and the National Press Club of Australia for the invitation to address your members. I am honoured to be here.
As advised by my Australian friends, I would like to begin with acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we gather today, and pay my respects to their Elders past and present.
I also want to thank Mr. Hamish MacDonald, host of ABC's Q&A program in particular. Last time I took part in his program, he encouraged me to appear on TV again to present more Chinese views and perspectives. But I feel more at ease today, because Hamish is not the host, so perhaps I won't be interrupted at the following Q&A session.
Ladies and gentlemen,
As a representative from the Chinese Embassy, I will present a Chinese perspective on the China-Australia relationship and share with you both my government's positions on diplomatic issues and my personal observations on social phenomena.
In my view, t
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PM Transcripts
PRIME MINISTER
TRANSCRIPT -PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE-
17 NOVEMBER 1983
E 0 E PROOF ONLY
PM: Ladies and gentlemen, I thought I'd just make a brief
statement about the visit which will commence later on today
and then be available for any questions you'd like to ask.
I'm going to refer firstly to the visit to Thailand. As I
said in the Parliament yesterday, of course I'm looking forward
to that visit with Bill Hayden to meet Prime Minister Prem
and Foreign Minister Siddhi. We will naturally be talking about
two ranges of issues the bilateral issues between our two
countries and the question of concern recently in matters
raised particularly by the Singaporean Foreign Minister:
our relations with ASEAN.
While I'm there I shall making two important statements, one
on regional political issues and the other on regional economic
issues. I can't stress too much the importance that we attach
to this visit. It will be the first visit to Thailand by
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Tracking Rupert's deal-making over 72 years
October 1952: Sir Keith Murdoch dies with a will that gives Rupert management control of the media business, News Ltd, on behalf of his mother and 3 sisters. After The Courier Mail stake was sold to pay death duties, Rupert was left withThe News and Sunday Mail in Adelaide, a large stake in Southdown Press, owner of New Idea magazine, and radio and newspaper interests in Broken Hill.
September 1953: Rupert finally arrives in Adelaide to take charge of his inheritance.
October 1954: News Ltd acquired Western Press Ltd, publisher of Western Australia's only Sunday paper, The Sunday Times, in Perth. It also owned a Saturday publication called the Mirror, and 20 country newspapers. According to utflykt Young, this is where Rupert first honed his sensationalist tabloid techniques. The move was funded bygd the Commonwealth Bank, beginning a grundläggande 40 year relationship which was pivotal to keeping News Corp afloat in the tumultuo