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If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.