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

My Task, As A Member Of This Parliament And A 30-year Member Of The Australian Labor Party, As Its Former Leader, As Its Former Foreign Minister And Its Former Prime Minister, Is To Now Throw My Every Effort In Securing Julia Gillard's Re-election As Labor Prime Minister At The Next Election.

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.

For Australians, Climate Change Is No Longer A Distant Threat. Our Rivers Are Dying, Bush Fires Are More Ferocious And More Frequent And Our Natural Wonders - The Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, Our Rainforests - Are Now At Risk.

2009 Was A Tough Year, But Australia Rose To The Challenge Of The Global Financial Crisis. It Shows What Can Be Done When We All Join Together And Work Together, Governments Of All Persuasions State, Territory And Local; Businesses Large And Small; Unions And Local Communities Right Across The Nation.