We in this generation have no greater responsibility than to pass on intact to future generations Australia’s priceless environment.
My Government unequivocally accepts that responsibility.
That’s why we stopped the damming of the Franklin.
And that’s why we protected our irreplaceable rainforests, the tall forests of Tasmania, the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu.
March 8th, 1990
economy education social security trade environment health waterThe Labor party will legislate for national insurance covering life, sickness, industrial diseases, accident, unemployment, and the needs of the primary producers.
October 24th, 1922
defence industrial relations social securityAt Mr Howard’s policy launch on Monday there was nothing on climate change. Nothing on water. Nothing on hospitals. Nothing on infrastructure. And whatever amount of money Mr Howard may yet throw at these long standing challenges over the next ten days, it just not going to be real. The truth is, it’s all just too late to be believable.
November 14th, 2007
climate change communications and technology economy education health industrial relations waterTax reform is fundamentally important to what we’ve got to do in Australia. It’s fundamentally important to developing the productive culture that we need in Australia, it’s fundamentally important, not only to get people to work harder, to work overtime, to save, to build a business. Tax reform is absolutely fundamental.
March 1st, 1993
economy education employment health industrial relations social security infrastructureAugust 25th, 2013
climate change economy employment foreign affairs health immigration industrial relations infrastructure social securityOur country has now withstood the direst trials; it has lived through its darkest hour; it is now confronting the dawn of a victorious and a better day. The Labor Government has done its duty. Australia stands at this election one of the free countries in the world. For that we have toiled and striven. And we know that the time has come when a preserved Australia can once again advance.
July 26th, 1943
defence employment communism economy social securityJune 26th, 2016
crime economy education employment environment family health immigration industrial relations infrastructure trade womenNever be in any doubt: I will never tolerate a situation in which my fellow Australians live in the economic shadowlands, drifting in and out of unemployment and low wage jobs without a helping hand. That is not the Australian way! Our thinkers, our creators, our inventors, our scientists and technologists—these are just some of the people crucial to Australia’s future.
October 31st, 2001
climate change communications and technology defence economy education employment environment health social security crimeToday a whole generation of Australians know that the world does not owe us a living. We are the first generation of Australians to really understand what it means.
I think I began to understand towards the end of the 70s – it was then I began to form what was for me at least a new idea about Australia.
The thought took hold of me that we could be a creative country, as well as a so-called lucky country.
February 24th, 1993
economy health arts education employment environment family social security water womenIt would be difficult to over-estimate the benefit that would accrue to industry and to the nation if we could by this means succeed in dispelling the atmosphere of distrust and suspicion which now unfortunately surrounds the relations between employer and employee, and in infusing into those relations a spirit of close and cordial co-operation and an ever-increasing measure of understanding and good-will.
September 18th, 1929
economy industrial relations