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Since its recent and calamitous Budget, the Menzies Government has finally forfeited the respect and lost the confidence of the Australian people. It has broken every major pledge with which it won office in 1949. I name only a few to put value back in the £; to abolish all restrictive controls; that taxation could and would be reduced. Its complete inefficiency and reckless expenditure in the vital matter of the nation’s defences have brought protests even from some of its own supporters in the...

As Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Party, I want to talk to you about the issues on which we will fight this election. Basically, it is an election about policies… Policies that will directly affect you and your families and for many, many years to come. They will be years of changing values and expanding opportunities, especially for the young. It is also an election about two fundamentally different ways of governing. The Liberal way which seeks to encourage the freedom, the talents...

Tonight, we commence the journey that will return Australia to its true course: a future of achievement, prosperity and security for all Australians. The Labor experiment has been tried and it has failed. Through broken promises and sheer incompetence, the Labor Party has forfeited the chance you gave it to build Australia. Now, it is for the Liberal Party and Country Party to take up the responsibility of government. The decision you make will determine our lives far rest of this century. The...

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...

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...

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...

My fellow Australians. At this election you have the power to change our country for the better. You have the opportunity to take Australia into a new decade; with new vision, with new purpose and with a new Labor Government. I make this promise to my fellow Australians that if you vote Labor, we will put the fair go into action: A pay-rise for wage earners Help with the cost of living for families, including cheaper childcare At long last, dental care for pensioners, covered by our Medicare If...

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...

Thank you, Roger. You are a great Labor Premier and a true friend. You always stand up for Western Australia – and our Labor Government stands with you. I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging. My fellow Australians, Three years ago in this great state, my colleagues and I launched our election campaign. We asked the people of Australia to honour us with the responsibility of serving as their...