In My View, The Ideal Prime Minister

Over The Christmas Period, I Spent Time With Both Bob Hawke And Paul Keating, And You Listen To Stories And Tales Of How Hard It Can Be When It's Really Hard, And I Think We Easily All Talk Ourselves Into The Proposition That It's Never Been As Hard As This. Well It's Been Hard In The Past. It's Been Really Hard. So You Keep Doing It And, The More You Do It, The More You Gain Strength And Confidence That You Can Do It.

There's Not A Sense That The Person Who Is Waiting On The Table Is Somehow A Lesser Person That The Person Who Is Eating In The Restaurant.

So In Many Ways For Me, Having Lived Through What I've Lived Through, And Endured What I've Endured, I've Got More Confidence That I Can Do The Next Bit - And There's Something Sustaining About That.

The Cartoon Absolutely Captures Something That Acres And Acres Of Copy Can't. And Even Photographs Can't.

We Encourage China To Engage As A Good Global Citizen And We Are Clear-eyed About Where Differences Do Lie.