“I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to hav...”

“Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth,...”

“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 an...”

“My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national inte...”

“Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I a...”

“These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the A...”

“Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that w...”

“For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, letha...”

“Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our h...”

“My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.”

“Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at in...”

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”