GRAHAM
ROWLANDS
The
future
- It’s quite clear. I
can’t make it any clearer.
- In the simple words of the
English language
- my government is the government
of the future.
- Whether or not we’ll be the
future government
- is entirely in the hands of the
Australian voters
- the Mums & Dads, the small
businessmen & women all
- looking to the future as
we’re looking to the future.
- Without us there can be no
future. We are the future.
- We’ll address future
problems in the future but we’ll
- start by addressing the future
in the present. Now.
- The past? Well, yes, of course
I’m proud of our past.
- No, not hundreds of lashes, not
ringbarking trees
- not the poisoning of the flour
& the waterholes
- not the bleaching of our coral,
the waste of our water.
- I’m proud of the service of
our servicemen & women
- their noble sacrifices, their
victories, their defeats.
- Yes, I embrace their defeats
against impossible odds
- as the whole of Federation
embraced them at Gallipoli.
- I regret the stabbing in the
back of our boys in Vietnam
- & the cowardly opposition to
our forces now in Iraq.
- Sometimes I long for the old
days of conscription.
- The past? No, I
don’t want to dwell on the past.
- The Liberals & the Nationals
are marching in step.
- There’s a buoyant economy.
There are low interest rates.
- There’s the lowest
unemployment in over thirty years.
- The past? The past eleven
years aren’t the past.
- In future, naturally, I’ll
focus on the future
- but I’m already focused on
the future. Right now.
- Even in the past I was focused
on the future
- that has now inevitably passed
on into the past.
- Yes, the future. We’ll
march on into the future.
- I won’t apologise. I
categorically make no apology
- for saying God save the future
of this great country
- from a future worse than death.
God Save The Queen.
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