TNAG-2225-FCO40-3196-Political-relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-Australia-1991 — Page 7

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Your Grellengy

Before the recent

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recent international/conference in Hong Kong on the Bill of Rights, I sent you copy of the paper I prepared for the conference.

I now attach copy of a paper prepared for the Centenary Conference of the History Department of the University of Sydney in which I deal with the beginning and the end of British rule in Hong Kong.

I regret to say, as an Anglophile and admirer of many things British, that the end is fast developing to be as shabby as the beginning. This is the view I have expressed in my paper and it was reinforced by my observations at the recent conference in Hong Kong.

His Excellency Mr Brian Barder British High Commissioner Commonwealth Avenue

CANBERRA

ACT 2600

With thuna pesmal regards

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MICHAEL KIRBY

The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG Telephone (+61 2) 230 8203

GPO Box 3 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia DX 829 Sydney Telefacsimile (+61 2) 235 1006