Thank you very much Mr Randall. Tomorrow, with a simple yet eloquent pledge, about 14,000 people from more than 70 countries of origin will become Australian citizens. This Australia Day celebration of citizenship embodies a profound truth and a simple irony. The truth is that people come to this country because they want to be…

Tonight I want to report to you about Australia’s response to the Asian tsunami disaster which has decimated the lives of so many people across the nations of our region. More than 150,000 people have been killed, while millions more are injured or homeless. Whole communities have been washed away. And we are in a…

Mr Speaker and Mr President of the Senate, today we welcome a man, we honour an office, we recommit to an alliance and we declare that, above all of those things, common values between nations unite nations and peoples more than individuals or institutions. The things that unite the Australian and American people are shared…

As the sun sets over this beautiful island we gather here in sorrow, in anguish, in disbelief and in pain. There are no words that I can summon to salve in anyway the hurt and the suffering and the pain being felt by so many of my fellow countrymen and women and by so many…

Ladies and gentlemen, I know that I speak for all Australians, and I mean all Australians, in expressing a sense of outrage, sadness and horror at what has occurred overnight in Bali. This wicked and cowardly attack, clearly on the evidence available to us, an act of terrorism and have no justification and would be…

Ladies and Gentlemen, it was with great pleasure that I learned of your invitation to address Asialink on your Fifth Anniversary. I was pleased to accept, and I am particularly pleased that my first address on foreign policy since becoming Leader is to such a distinguished forum concerned with such an important relationship for the…