Speeches

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Introduction It's a pleasure to welcome you all back to Parliament House for this annual event.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to Parliament's Great Hall. Welcome to that special time of year in Canberra.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Introduction Ladies and gentlemen, sometimes democracy is capable of achieving great things.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- My apologies for not being there in person today.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Twenty years ago this week the then Labor Treasurer, John Dawkins, addressed this conference in Wollongong.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- As many would know Parramatta is where the salt water of Sydney Harbour meets the fresh water from the hills.

Good evening. It's good to be here again with you lot. We drank deep to good effects last year and it's been a satisfactory twelve months since then.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Good afternoon everyone. It's a pleasure to be here.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- This Australian American Leadership Dialogue – 20 years old – and the collective passion and intellect in this hall, is part of a broader friendship between A

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- It is good to be here. It's interesting that it's in Maurice Blackburn.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Good morning delegates. Thank you, Ged, for that welcome.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- My thanks to Gerard and Anne and the team here at the Sydney Institute for providing this platform for important democratic discussion.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- In August last year the Productivity Commission gave us the news, and it was not unexpected.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- I must say that at a personal level I enjoy reasonable relations with the member for Dunkley, but listening to his speech I did feel we had entered the twilig

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Thank you and I'm delighted to be here. I'd like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet. Acknowledgements:

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- First of all, whilst I listened carefully to what the member for Goldstein had to say—which unfortunately is not something his leadership team does very often

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Good morning everyone, it's a pleasure to be here. I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land upon which we meet as well.

-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- I move that the Bill now be read a second time.

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-- CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY -- Good morning everybody.