It Is A High Honour

By Way Of Personal Instinct, I Have An Inherent Distaste For Grandiose Rhetorical Statements, Which Don't Have Any Substantive Dimension To Them

A Core Challenge For Australia Is - How Do We Best Prepare Ourselves For The Asia Pacific Century - To Maximise The Opportunities, To Minimise The Threats And To Make Our Own Active Contribution To Making This Asia-pacific Century Peaceful, Prosperous And Sustainable For Us All.

Something My Mum Taught Me Years And Years And Years Ago, Is Life's Just Too Short To Carry Around A Great Bucket-load Of Anger And Resentment And Bitterness And Hatreds And All That Sort Of Stuff.

Education Is Both A Tool Of Social Justice As Well As A Fundamental Driver Of Economic Development.

We Are So Fortunate, As Australians, To Have Among Us The Oldest Continuing Cultures In Human History. Cultures That Link Our Nation With Deepest Antiquity. We Have Aboriginal Rock Art In The Kimberley That Is As Ancient As The Great Palaeolithic Cave Paintings At Altamira And Lascaux In Europe.