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I Think When People Talk About Civil Liberties, They Sometimes Forget That Action Taken To Protect The Citizen Against Physical Violence And Physical Attack Is A Blow In Favour And Not A Blow Against Civil Liberties.

The Believer's Cross Is No Longer Any And Every Kind Of Suffering, Sickness, Or Tension, The Bearing Of Which Is Demanded. The Believer's Cross Must Be, Like His Lord's, The Price Of His Social Nonconformity. It Is Not, Like Sickness Or Catastrophe, An Inexplicable, Unpredictable Suffering; It Is The End Of The Path Freely Chosen After Counting The Cost. It Is Not, Like Luther's Or Thomas Muntzer's Or Zinzendorf's Or Kierkegaard's Cross, An Inward Wrestling Of The Sensitive Soul With Self And Sin; It Is The Social Reality Of Representing In An Unwilling World The Order To Come.

Young People Are At Risk Of Being Disinherited From Their Community If That Community Lacks The Courage And Confidence To Teach Its History.

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.

I Accept That In A Free Society You Have To Justify Reductions In People's Liberties. I Accept That, Bearing In Mind My Starting Point Is That The Most Important Human Right Is The Right To Life.