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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.

In Your Telephone Call, You [malcolm Turnbull]said That Neither You Nor The Cabinet Would Be Supporting My Nomination. When I Asked The Reasons For This, You Said That Neither You Nor The Cabinet Has The View That I Had The Qualifications For The Position [of Un's Secretary-general].

It Is A High Honour To Be Elected Prime Minister Of Australia.

2009 Was A Tough Year, But Australia Rose To The Challenge Of The Global Financial Crisis. It Shows What Can Be Done When We All Join Together And Work Together, Governments Of All Persuasions State, Territory And Local; Businesses Large And Small; Unions And Local Communities Right Across The Nation.

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.