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There Is A Very Special Place In The Australian Psyche For Sport. It Is One Of The Pillars Of The Australian Way Of Life. You Don't Really Understand What Makes The Australian Nation Tick Unless You Understand The Great Affection Australians Have For Sport.

The Most Important Civil Liberty... Is To Stay Alive And To Be Free From Violence And Death.

The 'black Armband' View Of Our History Reflects A Belief That Most Australian History Since 1788 Has Been Little More Than A Disgraceful Story Of Imperialism, Exploitation, Racism, Sexism And Other Forms Of Discrimination. I Take A Very Different View. I Believe That The Balance Sheet Of Our History Is One Of Heroic Achievement And That We Have Achieved Much More As A Nation Of Which We Can Be Proud Of Than Which We Should Be Ashamed.

Nonviolent Action On Behalf Of Justice Is No Automatic Forumla With Promise Of Success: But Neither Is War. After All, At Least Half Of The People Who Go To War For Some Cause Deemed Worthy Of It Are Defeated.

If The Tradition Which Claims That War May Be Justified Does Not Also Admit That It Could Be Unjustified, The Affirmation Is Not Morally Serious. A Christian Who Prepares The Case For A Justified War Without Being Equally Prepared For Hte Negative Case Has Not Soberly Weighted The Prima Facie Presumption That Any Violence Is Wrong Until The Case For An Exception Has Been Made.