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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 Resentment And Bitterness And Hatreds And All That Sort Of Stuff.

By Way Of Personal Instinct, I Have An Inherent Distaste For Grandiose Rhetorical Statements, Which Don't Have Any Substantive Dimension To Them

We Have A Prime Minister, I'm The Foreign Minister, I'm Trying To Get On With The Job Of Doing Australia's Foreign Policy.

It Is Unlikely That You'll Have Anything Emerge From Mef (major Economies Forum) By Way Of Detailed Programmatic Specificity.

My Task, As A Member Of This Parliament And A 30-year Member Of The Australian Labor Party, As Its Former Leader, As Its Former Foreign Minister And Its Former Prime Minister, Is To Now Throw My Every Effort In Securing Julia Gillard's Re-election As Labor Prime Minister At The Next Election.