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The task before us is to get Australia back to work, to give our young people, our unemployed, our small business people, our migrants a new hope – hope for decent jobs, hope in their future and the future of their country. The deepening economic crisis, the deliberately created unemployment call for bold, decisive measures. I shall be putting forward proposals to cut through, once and for all, the knot which ties unemployment and inflation. We reject the defeatism and despair which says to...

The Australian people face a historic decision on December 13. On that day, we will be deciding the future of our country. Let us all as Australians determine to restore prosperity, defeat inflation and provide jobs for all. Let us all as Australians decide to reward initiative and encourage achievement. Let us decide to realise at last the aspirations of all Australians for security, self-respect and for freedom to control our own lives. This election results from the dishonesty and...

Our nation is on the move. We are ready to stride into a new era of prosperity and development. We have broken through in the fight against inflation. Under Labor, inflation reached nineteen percent. We have halved that. Inflation is nine percent and falling. We have reduced taxes, revived incentive and restored fair reward for achievement. Under Labor, taxes doubled. We have ended the big tax ripoff. Now Mr. Whitlam wants to start it again. Business is being revitalised, profits are up...

Challenges Tonight, I want to talk to you about the challenges and opportunities that lie before us. First, we must maintain responsibility in economic affairs because, without that, all else fails. Second, we must harness this nation’s resources in a co-ordinated and responsible programme of national development. Third, we must see that from the prosperity we generate, we provide adequately for those in need. Fourth, as individuals and as a nation, we must encourage ability and cultivate...

And the first pledge I now make, a commitment which embraces every other undertaking, is that everything we do as a Government will have the one great goal - to reunite this great community of ours, to bring out the best we are truly capable of, together, as a nation, and bring Australia together to win our way through the crisis into which the policies of the past and the men of the past have plunged our country. For the facts are there – stark and grim – for every Australian to see seven years...

My fellow Australians, When from this place in February 1983 I first asked for your support, I sought from you an act of great trust. Our nation was then in deep crisis – the worst economic crisis for more than fifty years, and a searing crisis of the national spirit, after a decade of confrontation and division. Unprecedented circumstances demanded unprecedented responses. Therefore, on behalf of the Australian Labor Party, I asked for your support, your co-operation – and your active...

When you look at the history of our country, one thing stands out – Australia was built by the individual efforts of people, not big governments or big unions or big business. They played their part, but the real Australian success story is the story of men and women who struggled hard against the odds, who got things going and who provided a better life for their children. Our country was built by people who are sometimes referred to as ‘ordinary Australians’ but are in fact the real heart of...

Politics is not about abstract theories. It is about people and how they want to live their lives. Sir Robert Menzies, founder of the Liberal Party, once said that a government must remember ‘the forgotten people’. Today, as Australia moves into the new decade, that mission is more important than ever. In the past few years, Australia has become a ship without a rudder. The fundamental truth is that our physical, human and financial resources are not being used in the most effective manner...

Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer, my Lord Mayor, my Ministerial and Parliamentary colleagues, my fellow Australians. I want first of all to say how proud I am to be delivering this speech on behalf of a great and strong and enduring Coalition between the Liberal Party and the National Party. Our two great parties have shared 11 and a half years in office, and we have fought for the best interests of the Australian people, wherever they might live, and the speeches you heard earlier from Peter...

Three years ago, I asked the people of Australia to entrust to Labor the most important responsibility a government can have – I asked Australians for a mandate to create jobs and help the unemployed. To create jobs, I asked Australians to give Labor the task of creating sustainable economic growth on which jobs depend. To create jobs, I sought a mandate to make Australia stronger; to find our place in Asia and the Pacific; to encourage the industries of the future; to massively expand education...

Women and Men of Australia, We gather as one united party: ready to serve, ready to lead, ready for government. Labor is ambitious for the great success that our country can achieve, determined to share that success with all who help to achieve it. Confident that a great future is within Australia’s reach – and certain that Labor has the plans to grasp it. Knowing that this election can be won – and working every day to win it. Mr Turnbull says he’s got this in the bag, he claims he’s already...

Thank you, Mark, for that kind introduction, and for all you’ve done to keep WA safe and strong. I look forward to working with you – and all our state premiers. Like Peter Malinauskas – who is here today and is already doing a magnificent job as Premier of South Australia. But I want to work with all premiers, regardless of which party they are from. I want to bring all the states together and get things done for the whole country. My fellow Australians, In just 20 days’ time you can vote for a...