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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.

The Labor Party Is A Party Of Conviction. The Liberal Party Is A Party Of Convenience.

A Familiar Question For Australians Is How Much We Are A Product Of Our Circumstances, And How Much We Are What We Have Made Ourselves To Be. In Truth, By The Act Of Migration The Country Was Made: By That Voluntary Act And By The Emigrants' Ambitions It Was Built.

In The End It's The Big Picture Which Changes Nations And Whatever Our Opponents May Say, Australia's Changed Inexorably For Good, For The Better.

If You Are Sitting On The Title Of Any Block Of Land In New South Wales You Can Bet An Aboriginal Person At Some Stage Was Dispossessed Of It.