Speeches

Major General McLachlan thank you very much for such a wonderful introduction. It is a privilege to be here.

I want to take you back to the early 1990s to the kind of nation we were then – insecure, uncertain about our economic prospects, battered by recession, suffering high unemployment and job insecur

On this day, seventy-five years ago, in this city of Sydney, an elderly woman by the name of Helen Porter Armstrong passed away. We know her better as Dame Nellie Melba.

Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to begin by thanking the many constituents that have contacted me both for and against this Bill and have put their views to me.

Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today.

Introduction It is a great pleasure to be here today as part of the G'day LA Australia Week programme.

Thank you Laurie.

Well thank you Kerry. To Senator Robert Kemp, Bruce Billson, the young and famous Senator Kay Patterson – we have known it all these years Kay. It is wonderful to be here. To Anj.

Good Morning Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the 2005 Global Forum on Taxation.

 Well thank you very much Lynne and thank you to all of the people from the Australian Public Service who have come out to this lunch today.

I am delighted to be back in Beijing speaking to the Australian Chamber of Commerce again. I first had the opportunity to address you a little over eight years ago.

To Helen Kroger, the President of the Victorian Division, to Robert Doyle, our State Victorian Liberal Leader, to Julian Sheezel and our Vice-Presidents and to the wonderful delegates.

It is a great pleasure to be back again to open this twentieth Merrill Lynch Australian Investment Conference in New York.

Three years ago Australia’s first Intergenerational Report provided a framework for thinking about the economic challenges Australia will face over the next 40 years.

Last Monday, 15th August 2005, was the 60th Anniversary of Victory in the Pacific (VP Day).

…this truck to Phil Baressi, the Federal Member for Deakin to Tony Smith, the Federal Member for Casey to David Hodges, the Mayor of the Shire Ranges.

I clearly remember 17th December 1967:- the day Harold Holt disappeared in the surf off Portsea. It is my first clear memory of a political event. I was 10 years old.

Thank you very much Mr Kuroda. You and I have been colleagues for a long time including through your previous work with the Japanese Government.

Well to Bryan and to Bobbie and to the people of Hillsong, it is a privilege to back here again after your welcome of last year.

What a great pleasure it is to be here to launch the journal of ideas Looking Forward. At the outset, I want to pay tribute to Andrew Southcott for his editorship of this journal.