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...
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 Abori...
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the thi...
But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of Chi...
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our futur...
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indi...
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human h...
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just pas...
I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a posit...
The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because witho...
