The greatest speech in non-indigenous Australian history.

Redfern Park Speech - Hon. Paul Keating, Prime Minister of Australia, 1991-1996

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I remember watching this in school.

^ your Marxist teachers were force-feeding propaganda to adolescents in school time?

And as for you, Mr Ash, can you tell us what is the Second Greatest Australian Speech? And how can a 30-year-old like you make pronouncements like this for a history which covers 200 years.

It's hyperbole in ignorance.

What about Parkes' Tenterfield Speech?

What about Bartons' Speech 'A nation for a continent'? Or Chifley's 'Light on the hill'

What about the speeches on the dockside when 7000 Sydney-siders stopped the Hashemy from unloading convicts at Circular Quay?

What about all those burblings from your Saint Mary MacKillop?

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^ your Marxist teachers were force-feeding propaganda to adolescents in school time?

And as for you, Mr Ash, can you tell us what is the Second Greatest Australian Speech? And how can a 30-year-old like you make pronouncements like this for a history which covers 200 years.

It's hyperbole in ignorance.

What about Parkes' Tenterfield Speech?

What about Bartons' Speech 'A nation for a continent'? Or Chifley's 'Light on the hill'

What about the speeches on the dockside when 7000 Sydney-siders stopped the Hashemy from unloading convicts at Circular Quay?

What about all those burblings from your Saint Mary MacKillop?

You forgot Robert Menzies 'The Forgotten People'.

And Keatings speech (written by Don Watson) was voted the third after Christ's 'Sermon on the Mount' in Radio Nationals unforgettable speech peoples choice vote. Also do you have a gripe about this speech since Keating is a Catholic of Irish descent? Hmmm.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/speeches/

^ I'm sorry to say that list was made by the muffin-heads of the new ABC.

Unfortunately the ABC is becoming unbearable with so much of it's expanded airwaves being filed up with dumbed-down info-tainment and science-tainment and history-tainment.

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^ your Marxist teachers were force-feeding propaganda to adolescents in school time?

lolz

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The greatest speech in non-indigenous Australian history.

Redfern Park Speech - Hon. Paul Keating, Prime Minister of Australia, 1991-1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhmTLN3Ddo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G0gizfu5Ms

it's such an extraordinary speech. Just so deeply and profoundly moving given by one of our nation's greatest ever orators.

My favourite part is, and i'm paraphrasing, where he discusses our collective response to indigenous injustice as a failure of imagination.

That's such an amazingly insightful way to put it, genuinely original, simple and exactly true. He's my political hero, for this speech as well as many other things he did.