He Is Simply A Shiver

In The End It's The Big Picture Which Changes Nations And Whatever Our Opponents May Say, Australia's Changed Inexorably For Good, For The Better.

The Lesson Of The Federation Should Be That The Lesson Is Over. Australia Must Have A New Idea Of Itself. We Have To Strike Out In A New Direction, In A New Way, Armed With Our Own Self-regard, Our Own Confidence And Fully Appreciating Our Own Uniqueness. All Other Roads Will Lead Us Into The Shadow Of Great Powers.

We Took The Traditional Lands And Smashed The Traditional Way Of Life. We Brought The Diseases And The Alcohol. We Committed The Murders. We Took The Children From Their Mothers. We Practised Discrimination And Exclusion. It Was Our Ignorance And Our Prejudice. And Our Failure To Imagine That These Things Could Be Done To Us.

For John Howard To Get To Any High Moral Ground He Would Have To First Climb Out Of The Volcanic Hole He's Dug For Himself Over The Last Decade. You Know, It's Like One Of Those Deep Diamond Mined Holes In South Africa, You Know, They're About A Mile Underground. He'd Have To Come A Mile Up To Get To Even Equilibrium, Let Alone Have Any Contest In Morality With Kevin Rudd.

In The End, Rational Policy Is Always Good.