I Conclude Where I Began, I Was

I Am Determined To Honour The Confidence Which Has Been Extended To Us By The People Of Our Great Land. And I Say To All Of Those Who Have Voted For Us Today, I Say To Each And Every One Of Them That I Will Be A Prime Minister For All Australians.

If You Accept It To Be Natural And Normal To Be Gay Then It Follows It Is Not Right For Two Folk Who Love Each Other To Be Denied Marriage.

There Are Many Who Criticise The United Nations. And Those Of Us Who Know This Institution Well Know That It Is Not Immune From Criticism. But Those Who Argue Against The United Nations Advance No Credible Argument As To What Should Replace It. Whatever Its Imperfections, The United Nations Represents A Necessary Democracy Of States.

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.

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.