(2014) Speech Notes to the ADFA Graduation Ceremony
Forest Gump once said that life is life a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get next. Today we have a better idea.
(2013) Speech at Opening of the New Cotter Dam
Chief Minister, Katy Gallagher, Speaker Vicki Dunne, other Assemby Members, Mayor Tim Overall, Gai Brodtman, ACT Member of the House of Representatives, Senator Gary Humphries, other MPs, distinguished guests, Chief Executive Mark Sullivan, former ACTEW Chair Jim Service, former Director Ted Mathews, Board members, fellow ACTEW workers, our alliance partners, friends
(2011) Farewell to Banzic
What can one say about this bloke? As Adam [Geha] has noted he has been here a long time. One of the early starters. Not on a daily basis. I mean he has had an office in the west, then Melbourne, then here a bit, and back to Perth.
(2004) Faithful Servant: Tribute to Frank Mossfield
Frank’s story commands our interest tonight. When you think of Frank, the words loyal, decent, determined – a big word for ‘guts’ – faithful, Labor, union, come to mind.
(1995) Pat Staunton’s Testimonial
Sometimes I have wondered what she was like when she was younger. For example, the fresh freckled faced girl aged 16, just out of school, boiling water for cups of tea in the accountants’ office in Townsville. Apparently it was Sir Artie Fadden’s old firm and the retired politician would sometimes drop in, flag his hat, and ask “how are you girlies?” to what we would now call the support staff.
(1992) Speech at the Opening of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel
Speech delivered 29 August 1992, reproduced in: Labor Council of New South Wales Annual Report and Auditor’s Report for 1992, Labor Council of NSW, Sydney, pp. 12-13.
(1990) Avoiding the “Struldbrug Life”
Half of my reluctance in speaking to you this afternoon is due to memories of my own graduation.
(1990) Speech Welcoming Nelson Mandela to Sydney
Mr Gareth Evans, Foreign Minister representing the Prime Minister, Mr John Dowd, Attorney General representing the Premier, Mr Jeremy Bingham, Lord Mayor of Sydney, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – welcome to Australia, Mr Mandela!
(1988) A Workers’ View [concerning the New South Wales Tax Task Force Report]
Speech to a forum on State Taxation. Assessing the New South Wales Tax Task Force, Proceedings of a Public Forum held at the Hilton Hotel, Sydney, on 14 December, 1988, Conference Series No. 9, Australian Tax Research Foundation, Sydney, 1989, pp. 47-50.
(1984) Speech in Honour of Owen Harries
I am sure that most academics would shudder to think that one of their former students – on the strength of a single year’s experience – would purport to explain to such a gathering what he was like as a teacher.