I Try To Use The Australian Idiom

No Choice We Can Make As A Nation Lies Between Our History And Our Geography. We Can Hardly Change Either Of Them. They Are Immutable. The Only Choice We Can Make As A Nation Is The Choice About Our Future.

For John Howard To Get To Any High Moral Ground He Would Have To First Climb Out Of The Volcanic Hole He's Dug For Himself Over The Last Decade. You Know, It's Like One Of Those Deep Diamond Mined Holes In South Africa, You Know, They're About A Mile Underground. He'd Have To Come A Mile Up To Get To Even Equilibrium, Let Alone Have Any Contest In Morality With Kevin Rudd.

I've Always Held The View That Great States Need Strategic Space. I Mean, George Washington Took His Space From George Iii. Britain Took It From Just About Everybody. Russia Took All Of Eastern Europe. Germany's Taken It From Everywhere They Can, And China Will Want Its Space Too.

One Is Left With The Thought That Given The Way We Now Abuse The Ocean And Abuse The Climate That We Are Heading Towards Our Own Iceberg, Which Is Looming On The Horizon. It's Not Visible Yet But It Certainly Exists There And It Won't Be My Generation That Has To Deal With The Fact That The World Is Not Bountiful Forever, That The Ocean And The Atmosphere Are Not Free Goods To Be Abused, That Will Have To Feed These Vast Populations. That Will Be Your Generation.

The Fact Is Burke Is Smarter Than Two Thirds Of The Western Australian Labor Party Rolled Together.