People Are Happiest When They Are Giving,

I Was Elected By The Australian People To Bring Back A Fair Go For All Australians. I Have Given My Absolute Best To Do That.

It Is Tragic That We Have Lost One Of Our Nation's Finest Actors In The Prime Of His Life. Heath Ledger's Diverse And Challenging Roles Will Be Remembered As Some Of The Great Performances By An Australian Actor.

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 History. On Behalf Of The Australian Parliament, This Year I Offered An Apology To Indigenous Australians For The Wrongs They Had Suffered In The Past.

If Australia Wants An Effective United Nations, We Have To Be Comprehensively, Not Marginally, Engaged.

We Have Seen This Complete Right Wing Takeover Of Modern Liberalism, And It Is An Ugly Spectacle To Behold.