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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.

It Is Tragic That We Have Lost One Of Our Nation's Finest Actors In The Prime Of His Life. Heath Ledger's Diverse And Challenging Roles Will Be Remembered As Some Of The Great Performances By An Australian Actor.

We Want A National Emissions Trading Scheme, The Government Does Not And Has Rejected One For Years. We Want To Boost The Mandatory Renewable Energies Target, The Government Has Failed To Do That. We Want A National Demand Side Management Strategy For The Country To Reduce Electricity Consumption And The Government, Up Until Now, Has Done Very Little On That Score.

Politics Is About Power. It Is About The Power Of The State. It Is About The Power Of The State As Applied To Individuals, The Society In Which They Live And The Economy In Which They Work. Most Critically, Our Responsibility In This Parliament Is How That Power Is Used: Whether It Is Used For The Benefit Of The Few Or The Many.

Compassion Is Not A Dirty Word.. It's Time We Rehabilitated Compassion Into The National Political Vocabulary Of This Great Nation Of Ours.