In The End, Rational Policy Is Always

You See, Psychologically, Australia Must Understand It Has To Live In The Region Around It. Australia Must Find Its Security In Asia; It Cannot Find Its Security From Asia.

No Choice We Can Make As A Nation Lies Between Our History And Our Geography. We Can Hardly Change Either Of Them. They Are Immutable. The Only Choice We Can Make As A Nation Is The Choice About Our Future.

The Great Curse Of Modern Political Life Is Incrementalism.

I've Always Held The View That Great States Need Strategic Space. I Mean, George Washington Took His Space From George Iii. Britain Took It From Just About Everybody. Russia Took All Of Eastern Europe. Germany's Taken It From Everywhere They Can, And China Will Want Its Space Too.

In The End It's The Big Picture Which Changes Nations And Whatever Our Opponents May Say, Australia's Changed Inexorably For Good, For The Better.