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Malcolm Fraser – 1977
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...
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Bob Hawke – 1990
My friends, fellow Australians, The message I bring to you today is a message of confidence in the future of Australia, and a renewed commitment to a better, fairer future for all Australians. It is a message based firmly on realism the realism and substance of our policies for the future the fact that the tough and hard decisions we have had to make for the good of Australia are starting to work the fact that we are building together a nation of opportunity, fairness and security and above all...
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Malcolm Turnbull – 2016
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...
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Scott Morrison – 2019
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...
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