I am doing a bit research on Australia-China relations over the past 30 years.

I remember Bob Hawke made a passionate speech on 9 June, 1989, in response to what happened a few days earlier at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.

I was expecting that speech made by a PM was in the public domain. Apparently not. I failed to find it online.

The only file can be found online is an audio file stored in the UK, and is not readily available to the public.

Here is the link: http://radio.bufvc.ac.uk/lbc/index.php/segment/0010600482004

Do we need to go to Wikileak to get the file?

That is simply ridiculous. It is Australia for goodness sake! Why? for the protection of Bob, or China?

Who can help?

Hi Peng
You could probably write to the ALP National Office and they can source one for you but I imagine that speeches would be catalogued in any good Uni library or you might try the Australian National Library or the National Archives.

Try these as a place to start:

http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/bhpml/speeches_photos.asp

http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/about/portal_partners.aspx

Good luck.

Peng:

I presume that you live in Melbourne because you mentioned having studied at Deakin University. Therefore I would start my research with the State Library of Victoria - telephone - 8664-7002 or online at: http://www.slv.gov.au/services/ask-librarian. The National Library of Australia has the speeches of Bob Hawke as part of their collection - you can contact the National Library of Australia in Canberra - telephone 02 - 6262-1266 or online at: http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian

The following website may also be of some interest:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/25/1072308628745.html

Good luck.

Thanks, all links tried, all dead.
The article Lexi mentioned, read already, interesting.
Still trying to find the original speech script. I will ring a few numbers and see what happens.

Peng,
If it is the speech I think it could be, I too am amazed that it is not freely available. Is it where Hawke offered 'permanant residence' visas to all the chinese students in Aus at the time?

My only suggestion is to try the Parliamentry library or the Author of Hawkes biography. Good luck.

Banjo, it is.
As if the matter is not curious enough, I cannot even find a translated version of the speech. One would expect those who benefited from the decision would have a copy of such an important speech, like the Redfern Address by Paul Keating.

Anyway, I am waiting for responses from the National Library.