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Peter Costello, Chris McDiven, my parliamentary colleagues and my fellow Australians. This campaign, more than any other that I have been involved in, is very much about the future of the Australia we know and the Australia we love so much. The one single, irrefutable question that must be asked and answered by the Australian people on the 10th of November is who is better able to lead Australia over the next three years into difficult, challenging but times and circumstances which ought not to...

Deputy Prime Minister, my fellow Australians. Eight and a half years ago it became my immense privilege and honour to become the Prime Minister of this wonderful country of ours. And over the eight and a half years, I have shared the hopes and aspirations and the dreams and the achievements of my fellow Australians. I have tried to feel the pain and the grief of those of my fellow Australians left saddened through the loss of loved ones in tragedies such as the murder of 35 people at Port Arthur...

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...

Let there be no mistake. This is the most important election in memory. Today we stand against radical right-wing proposals which are hostile to fundamental Australian beliefs and Australian institutions and all that we have achieved in recent years. Not new proposals, but old ones. Proposals which have been tried in other countries and which in every case have failed – at great social and economic cost. Dr. Hewson says these other countries did not try hard enough. He is nothing if not zealous...

Isn’t it great to lead a united political party with a deputy I can trust, a predecessor who’s a friend and a former prime minister who’s a hero! My fellow Australians, this election is about you. It’s about your future, your family’s future and our nation’s future. But not everyone thinks so. The Labor Party thinks that this election is all about them. They’re worried about who gets the top job while the Coalition wants to create more jobs. They’re worried about their own squabbles while we...

Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you all. Thank you so much. Thank you Craig, thanks mate, thank you for your very warm welcome to Reid. Thank you Barnaby. Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce you are a great Coalition colleague and around the Cabinet table a powerful advocate as we have heard today for regional Australia and your electorate of New England. Deputy Leader Foreign Minister, friend of so many years, Julie Bishop – thank you for your extraordinary tireless dedication to our...

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...

Aren’t they fantastic? How good is Mum? How good is Jenny? Well thank you friends, thank you colleagues. They are the women in my life; I couldn’t love them more if I tried and they couldn’t love me more if they tried. Happy Mother’s Day Mum. Happy Mother’s Day Jen and to all the mothers, happy Mother’s Day, wherever you are today. Today is a day when our hearts are especially focused on family and of course, our mums. For some, it’s a very sweet memory. For some today it’s a painful void for...

How good is it to be in Queensland? Thank you all very, very much. How good? How good indeed. Australians all one and free. I acknowledge the Turbal and Yuggera peoples, the traditional custodians of the land on which we gather today, and I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging. I honour all who have served or are serving in our Australian Defence Forces and I just thank them. I thank them for their courage, for their service, and their love of our country. I also honour...

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...

Liberal and National Party friends and colleagues – thank you for that incredible welcome. Thank you for the hard work you’re doing across the country to win hearts and minds. Thank you for being here today for our campaign launch in Western Sydney – one of many important battlegrounds in this election. To Melissa McIntosh – should the Coalition win government, you will be an outstanding first ever federal Minister for Western Sydney. To David Littleproud – thanks to your friendship and...