Senate Motion – October 7 Anniversary

Senate Chamber, Parliament House Tuesday, 8th October 2024   At 6:29 a.m. on the 7th of October 2023, the music stopped at the Nova Festival in Re’im. 12 months ago yesterday, those festival goers, young people dancing, enjoying a weekend out, living the life that so many young Australians do at similar festivals, stopped and…

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Australia China Business Council

Parliament House Thursday, 12th September 2024 Canberra, ACT   As always when I’m in Canberra, I called my kids last night. Our youngest, just turned 12, asked what I would be doing over the next day. I mentioned that I would be speaking to an important group about Australia’s relations with China. She said, “will…

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Council on Geostrategy – London, UK

Wednesday, 4 September 2024 85 years ago today, England and France declared war against Germany. What was to follow was both calamitous and fortunate; tragic yet heroic.   Freedom loving people owe everything to this generation of leaders and lifters, who carried the day in World War II against oppression and aggression.   Their victory,…

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World TB Day Parliamentary Breakfast – Results Australia

Thank you very much for that welcome and for the opportunity to be with you all once again for this important parliamentary breakfast this year. I’d like to acknowledge the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples of the Canberra area and all of Australia’s traditional custodians. To Pat Conroy, Minister for International Development, thank you very much…

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AIIA National Conference

Australian Institute of International Affairs Monday, 13th November 2023 Canberra, ACT   [Thanks/greetings omitted]   Let’s face it, the world has rarely been a stable place. If it were a stable place, we would still be cave dwellers and hunter-gatherers.   Today we are in a time of a growing number of regional wars, and…

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Q & A – Economic & Social Outlook Conference

Thursday, 2 November 2023   Cameron Stewart: Fascinating observations about the situation we’re in right now. I’d like to start off with the biggest story in the world. Just weeks ago, of course, 14 other Israelis were killed by Hamas. We now have a terribly large amount of Gazan civilians being killed. The divisions in…

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Address – Economic & Social Outlook Conference

Economic and Social Outlook Conference Thursday, 2 November 2023 Crowne Palladium, Melbourne VIC Well, thanks very much, Cameron, for that fabulously gloomy introduction. And here we stand between all of you and cocktail hour, as it was just billed, with the very depressing topics to discuss. So, let me start by saying I’m an optimist.…

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