Speeches

I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak tonight, and to add my welcome to Claude Smadja. Your visit is a very important one for Australia, and for Melbourne.

Over the last two weeks Australia has airlifted almost 2,500 people from Dili. This includes Australians, U.N. staff and almost 2000 East Timorese seeking safe haven. Yesterday the U.N.

Ladies and Gentleman, thank-you for the invitation to be here tonight and to be involved in your awards ceremony.

The Economic Outlook I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak tonight.

Thank you very much Peter Wilson for that introduction and some stories that I didn’t want to be reminded of.

When the last CPI figures came out I made the comment, that there was no life in the inflation dragon. I did not say that the inflation dragon was dead - there was no life in the inflation dragon.

Thank you so much Dr Ang for talking about my greatest achievements.

Ladies and Gentleman I am delighted to have the opportunity to address the 1999 National Gala Conference Dinner of the Investment and Financial Services Association.

Thank you for the honour of officially opening the 1999 Red Shield Appeal. The Red Shield Appeal is the Salvation Army’s major annual fundraising drive.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to Melbourne and the fourth Manila Framework Group Meeting.

To the special guests and delegates to the 10th International Conference of Bank Supervisors I wish you a warm welcome to the conference and to Australia.

Introduction Today I am pleased to be present at the birth of two new institutions which will occupy central roles in the framework of financial sector regulation in Australia.

When delegates met at the Constitutional Conventions of the 1890s their business was very different to that we are dealing with today.

Over the 1980s, Australias underlying inflation rate averaged around 8%. Australia was seen as in inflation-risk zone.

Well as Don said I have had a very proud and very fulfilling relationship with the NFF for a long time, certainly fulfilling for me.

I was an undergraduate at Monash University in 1978, when the Liberal Club inaugurated this lecture to honour and perpetuate the name and memory of Sir Robert Menzies.

The members of the MTIA, to my ministerial colleagues, members of the Labor Party.

Introduction Last week the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund, the world forum of central bankers and finance ministers, were held in Hong Kong.

Mr Speaker, I move that the Bill now be read a second time.