SPEECHES, OP EDS AND SCRIPTS

Op ed: Remembering George Floyd in grief, outrage and a fierce desire to do better
United States Ambassador to Australia Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr.

Democracy requires continual struggle to live up to its promise, as do alliances that, like ours, are rooted in principle and not in calculation.


Speech: Australia’s identity and what it means in foreign policy
Australia’s Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs The Hon Tim Watts MP

National identity isn’t static.

It’s something that every one of us builds every day.

It lives in the ideas, the values, the stories that we share in common with our fellow Australians.

In the imagined community of what it means to be Australian.

Speech: 2023 Alfred Deakin Institution Oration
Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, The Hon Pat Conroy MP

Those children born today will be seven in 2030, the date by which the world agreed to fully implement the SDGs. Will they be free from hunger?

By 2050, they will be 27. Will they have decent work?

Speech: ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024 – keynote address to the Maritime Cooperation Forum
Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator The Hon Penny Wong

We are bound by the geography that fate has chosen for us, and we are strengthened by the partnership we choose for ourselves.

Speech: Remarks to ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Bali bombings
Australia’s Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs The Hon Tim Watts MP

Today, we pay tribute to those who died.

We stand with the survivors, relatives and families and support them at this time.

And we remember the valour and quiet courage of those who saw the worst of humanity and responded with the best.

Speech: National Press Club address, Canberra
Australia’s Minister for Trade and Tourism Senator the Hon Don Farrell

I’ve seen first-hand, the real human impact of the tariffs on wine – with neighbours leaving grapes to wilt on the vine, rather than suffer the uncertainty of the global market.