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Kevin Rudd – 2007
Welcome to my home state of Queensland. Welcome to my home town of Brisbane. And welcome to my local community here on Brisbane’s south side. It is great to be among people who are passionate about our country’s future. On November 24, Australians will face a stark choice: a choice between the future and the past. Today the case I put before the Australian people is that if we are to secure the future for our families, for our communities and for our nation - the government of Australia must now...
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Kevin Rudd – 2013
In this election, we are now engaged in the fight of our lives. It is a fight about the values which underpin Australia’s future. A fight about our vision for Australia’s future. And it is a fight about how we go about building our nation’s future – a future for the many, not just the few. And for those who say the fight is up, I say they haven’t seen anything yet. Because we have something worth fighting for. And that’s the jobs of all Australians. The pay packets of all Australians. And an...
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Julia Gillard – 2010
Friends thank you very much and friends thank you to Bob Hawke – thank you for that generous introduction. And thank you Bob for proving to us that you can make big change with strong leadership and by striving for consensus. It’s a great lesson, thank you Bob Hawke. And can I acknowledge too Kevin Rudd who is with us today a man of great achievement. A man of great achievements – with great achievements to lie in the future for our nation, thank you Kevin. And friends can I also acknowledge...
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Tony Abbott – 2013
I am so proud of my girls…I am proud of my family that has given me so much…I am so proud of my team, and I am so proud of our country. Again, I want to speak directly to you, the Australian people. This election is about making a great country even better; and that starts with changing the worst government in our history. I will spend the next two weeks reassuring people that there is a better way, while Mr Rudd will spend the next two weeks trying to scare you about what might happen if he...
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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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Explore how language in Australian election speeches has evolved – from the rise of terms like internet and terrorism, to shifts in readability and speech length over time.

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