Great Australian Speeches – Pamela Robson

Great Australian Speeches is an all Australian collection of history-shaping speeches.

Great Australian Speeches brings together a diverse and often moving collection of over 50 speeches ranging from colonial times to the present day. Some have resonated with a power enough to shape the nation; others encapsulate the best – and worst of the Australian character.

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This selection proves that stirring oratory is not simply the preserve of politicians and military figures. Here is bushranger Ned Kelly as his death sentence is passed, a speech within a
speech as he interrupts the address of Judge Barry with words of defiance.

Also featured are singer

• Nellie Melba’s farewell speech, the irony of which neither speaker nor listeners appreciated at the time
• Miles Franklin’s tribute to Henry Lawson ‘who gave us this kingdom as our own’
• David Malouf’s ‘An experiment in human engineering’ speech.
• Iconic political speeches include Governor Phillip’s message to the First Fleet on landing at Sydney Cove
• the opening address of the Federal parliament by MP William Groom, ex-convict
• Robert Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’ speech of 1942
• Mick Dodson’s ‘Stolen Generation’ protest of 1997
• the ‘dismissal’ declarations of Gough Whitlam and Governor General John Kerr
• Kevin Rudd’s statesmanlike ‘Sorry’ speech of 2008.

Links and Further Reading

• Watch Kevin Rudd’s Sorry Speech

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