We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.
This game is something Australians really look forward to.
As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.
I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.
Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.
I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.
Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.