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2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.


Kevin Rudd


#australia #businesses #challenge #communities #crisis

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.


Kevin Rudd


#also #apology #australia #australian #australians

As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.


Kevin Rudd


#committed #country #direction #doing #got

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.


Kevin Rudd


#also #australia #challenges #change #china

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia.


Kevin Rudd


#australia #being #continent #cultures #fascination

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.


Charles Ruff


#continued #danger #grave #grave danger #impeachment

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.


Jonas Salk


#courage #dreams #imagination #make #reality

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.


Edward Sapir


#creative #international #international language #language #logical

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.


Edward Sapir


#category #complete #consistently #grammatical #handled

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.


Susan Sarandon


#activist #actor #because #empathy #exactly