No Diplomatic Intervention Will Ever Be Made

I Conclude Where I Began, I Was Elected By The People Of Australia To Do A Job. I Was Not Elected By The Factional Leaders Of Australia, Of The Australian Labor Party To Do A Job - Though They May Be Seeking To Do A Job On Me, That's A Separate Matter. The Challenge Therefore Is To Honour The Mandate Given To Me By The Australian People.

Australia Is A Nation Of Compassion. Courage And Compassion. And The Third Of These Great Values: Resilience.

We Are So Fortunate, As Australians, To Have Among Us The Oldest Continuing Cultures In Human History. Cultures That Link Our Nation With Deepest Antiquity. We Have Aboriginal Rock Art In The Kimberley That Is As Ancient As The Great Palaeolithic Cave Paintings At Altamira And Lascaux In Europe.

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.

The Alternatives [to The Stimulus Packages] Were To Do Nothing Or, Worse, Effectively Replicate The Premiers' Plan Of 1931 When Governments Cut Expenditure, Thereby Compounding The Problems Created By A Private Sector Already In Retreat. The Result, Of Course, Was An Economic Rout, Appalling Unemployment And A Decade Of Negligible Growth Through The 1930s