If You Accept It To Be Natural

The Alternatives [to The Stimulus Packages] Were To Do Nothing Or, Worse, Effectively Replicate The Premiers' Plan Of 1931 When Governments Cut Expenditure, Thereby Compounding The Problems Created By A Private Sector Already In Retreat. The Result, Of Course, Was An Economic Rout, Appalling Unemployment And A Decade Of Negligible Growth Through The 1930s

Australians Are A Passionate Lot. We Are Also A Very Practical Lot.

The Apology Opened The Opportunity For A New Relationship Based On Mutual Respect And Mutual Responsibility Between Indigenous And Non-indigenous Australia. Because Without Mutual Respect And Mutual Responsibility, The Truth Is We Can Achieve Very Little.

I've Been Around Long Enough To Not Take Seriously Statements Like I Am About To Be Crushed. I'm About How Do We Seek Re-election Of The Australian Government, How We Prevent Tony Abbott From Being Elected. The Bottom Line Is That It Should Be All Hands To The Pump Rather Than Saying Other, Frankly Negative And Internally Divisive Things.

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.