Melbourne Convention And Exhibition Centre, Melbourne *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** [Acknowledgements omitted] Thank you for the opportunity to officially open Austech and National Manufacturing Week. This event is Australia’s largest annual exhibition specific to manufacturing. With over 300 exhibitors in 2013 this showcase just goes on getting better each year. I am especially pleased [...]
Public Speeches
Speech to the Australian Olympic Committee AGM
Speech to the Australian Olympic Committee AGM
Address Australian Multicultural Community Services (AMCS), Multicultural Conference
***Acknowledgements omitted*** It gives me great pleasure to be here representing the Federal Labor Government at today’s conference focussing on the support we provide our diverse communities into the future (“Delivering Diversity in the 21st Century”). I would like to thank the Australian Multicultural Community Services staff and volunteers – and other service providers in [...]
Address to the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference 2013
Address to the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference 2013
Address to Our Sporting Future Forum 2013
Check Against Delivery Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Wurundjeri people. Craig Martin, Chair, Committee of Australian Sport and Recreation Officials Simon Hollingsworth, CEO, Australian Sports Commission Craig Hill, Australian Sport Technology Network Michael Johnson – thank you for joining us from the United States INTRODUCTION: It was [...]
Opening ceremony of the Akhil Australia Marathi Sammelan
***Acknowledgements omitted*** I am delighted to be here representing the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Julia Gillard, at the opening ceremony of the Akhil Australia Marathi Sammelan. I would like to congratulate the Marathi Association Sydney for hosting this weekend’s triennial conference of Australian Marathi speakers, the eighth and largest to date – it [...]
Video address to the Business of Sport Summit, Sydney
Successive Australian Governments have been proud supporters of Australian sport, and our Government is no different. Whether it be by backing the athletes that put on the green and gold and represent Australia on the world’s stage, or supporting a strong local clubs system that delivers weekend sport for tens of thousands of kids every [...]
Speech at the Urban Development Institute of Australia National Congress on Housing, Population, and Growth
Melbourne Wednesday 6 March 2013 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OMITTED I’d like to thank the organisers from the Urban Development Institute of Australia for giving me the opportunity to speak at this event. My presentation today will focus on population through our shared history of migration and the contemporary trends and challenges of [...]
Speech at the Centenary of Canberra Sports Women’s Ball
Parliament House, Canberra Check against delivery Ladies and Gentlemen, it is wonderful to be here tonight to celebrate the sporting achievements of Australian women. As we celebrate 100 years of Canberra, I think both the early settlers who called these limestone plains home and the founding visionaries who shepherded the national capital from an idea [...]
Speech to the Fed Cup Foundation 2013 – breakfast with the stars
What a pleasure it is to be here this morning, I’d like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Waranjuri people and pay my respects to their elders past and present. To Judy Dalton, president of the Australian Fed Cup Foundation. And congratulations Judy on your induction into the Hall of Fame, you [...]
