The Labor Party Is A Party Of

In The End, Rational Policy Is Always Good.

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.

Australia Without The Irish Would Be Unthinkable... Unimaginable... Unspeakable.

We Took The Traditional Lands And Smashed The Traditional Way Of Life. We Brought The Diseases And The Alcohol. We Committed The Murders. We Took The Children From Their Mothers. We Practised Discrimination And Exclusion. It Was Our Ignorance And Our Prejudice. And Our Failure To Imagine That These Things Could Be Done To Us.

The Lesson Of The Federation Should Be That The Lesson Is Over. Australia Must Have A New Idea Of Itself. We Have To Strike Out In A New Direction, In A New Way, Armed With Our Own Self-regard, Our Own Confidence And Fully Appreciating Our Own Uniqueness. All Other Roads Will Lead Us Into The Shadow Of Great Powers.