Attaining A Phd Is Just An Excuse

The Time Has Now Come For The Nation To Turn A New Page In Australia's History By Righting The Wrongs Of The Past And So Moving Forward With Confidence To The Future. We Apologise For The Laws And Policies Of Successive Parliaments And Governments That Have Inflicted Profound Grief, Suffering And Loss On These Our Fellow Australians.

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.

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.

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.

A Continuing Narrative Throughout Australia's History That Says It Is Better To Build Up Than To Tear Down - This Is The Continuing Mission Of Labor.