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Good Evening. I'd like to acknowledge the
Indigenous Owners of the land on which
we gather and meet this evening and pay
my respects to Elders past, present and
emerging. Welcome to the Annual Lecture in Political Science and International
Studies. My name is Professor Katharine
Gelber and I'm the Head of the School
of Political Science and International
Studies at The University of Queensland.
I'd like to welcome all of you this
evening, including Senator the Honourable
Penny Wong - Leader of the Opposition in
the Senate and Shadow Minister, Senator
Claire Moore - Senator for Queensland, Senator Murray Watt - Senator for Queensland,
members of the Consular Corps, Mr. Peter
Varghese AO - Chancellor of University of
Queensland, members of the University
Senate and the University's Senior
Management group, representatives from
government and industry, distinguished
guests, ladies and gentlemen. We are very
honoured to host this event this evening
which we see is an important
contribution to public debate on vital
topics to do with governance and
governing in the 21st century in
Australia and globally. We see this event
as a small attempt to enhance the
quality of that debate. We're facing
a crucial time in international
democratic politics when core liberal
institutions are being challenged by
forms of politics that seek to question
their legitimacy, undermine their
validity and question the basis on which
they operate. In some quarters, political
rhetoric has become caustic, seeking to
separate informed public debate from
evidence and reasoning. Yet there are
others who in this context are striving
to address the balance and facilitate
important conversations about where the
country and the globe are headed. In that
context we're very proud to host this
event which seeks to help facilitate a
political culture which promotes
critical reasoning, independent thinking
and problem-solving. A culture which
rests on, requires even, evidence and
facts. A culture which supports and
embodies the best of public discourse.
And the reason we do this is because
these are the kinds and standards of debates that we need.
This is what will enable us all to meet
and address current and future global
challenges. And so we look forward this
evening to an address and without any
further ado, I will ask the Chancellor of
The University of Queensland
Peter Varghese AO to introduce our guest
speaker this evening.
Well thank you very much Katharine and
good evening to all of you, and may I add
my very warm personal welcome to each of you and to say how delighted we are you
could join us for the 2019 Lecture in
Political Science and International
Studies. And it's my great pleasure to
introduce our guest speaker Senator the
Honourable Penny Wong. As Katharine has
said, these are challenging times for
anyone dealing with international
relations. To adapt a phrase from the
late Tom Wolfe, I think in many respects
we're facing a bonfire of certainties.
Whether it's the strains that are
rules-based international order or under.
Whether it's the tone and substance of
US-China relations. Whether it's the rise
of authoritarian leaders of the back of
identity politics and populism. Whether
it's a slowdown in global growth. There
are so many reasons why our current
international environment in my views
probably as uncertain as it has been
since the Second World War. So for anyone
seriously grappling with foreign policy,
these will remain testing times and I
can think of no one better placed to
address some of these issues than our
speaker tonight, Senator Penny Wong. Penny,
as you know is the leader of the
Opposition in the Senate, The Shadow
Foreign Minister. She brings to the job a
range of experiences including as a
Senior Minister in the Rudd and Gillard
Governments, work earlier in her career
as a lawyer in industrial relations
and as a union official. But most
importantly Penny Wong is a serious
policy thinker and at a time when
distraction seems to characterise much
of our political culture, it's important
that we have more serious policy
thinkers amongst our political leaders.
Like any serious politician, she comes to
issues with her values and her worldview
and that's her starting point but in my
experience Penny is also one of those
who is very much open to evidence-based
policy making
which means that her ending point may
not always be where her starting point
is. Penny is particularly well-placed I
think to talk about the international
environment. Her personal life story has
given her a close association with the
region. She was born in, Malaysia and came to Australia as a young child and in her
time as Minister for Climate Change was
actively involved in many difficult and
delicate negotiations. I'm delighted that
Senator Wong will also take some
questions at the end of her speech.
Delighted for two reasons. One is because
you'll be able to see further evidence
of her approach to policy, but also
because having been at the receiving end
of a lot of forensic questioning from
Senator Wong during estimates, I'll take
a certain quiet pleasure in watching
the roles reserved so it's a great
pleasure for me to invite Senator the
Honourable Penny Wong to deliver the
2019 POLSIS Lecture.
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Well that was a very generous
introduction Peter, thank you very much
for that. I have to say one of the things
I did say to my staff as we were driving
over was I actually think Peter Varghese
was the best performer at estimates that
I'd ever dealt with so there you go. I
only managed catching him once I think
which is disappointing. Can I first
acknowledge the Traditional Owners of
this land and pay my respects to Elders
past, present and emerging. Can I thank
UQ, Katharine and in particular the
Chancellor Peter Varghese for the
opportunity to speak with you.
Few other acknowledgments - my
parliamentary colleagues, Senator
Claire Moore who's the Shadow Minister for
International Development in the Pacific,
Senator Murray Watt who's a fellow
Senator also from Queensland and members of the consular corps. Thank you for your
attendance today. I also acknowledge
the great many senior members of the
university community from the University
Senate and the Senior Management group.
To all distinguished guests and to all
of you, thank you so much for the
opportunity to give this 2019 Annual
Lecture in Political Science and
International Studies. It's a privilege to be here. Students and
academics from this University do
contribute to national debate in many
areas and certainly in foreign policy. I
do point to the contribution of your
Chancellor Peter Varghese who as you
know not only is the former Secretary of
the Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade but recently led the
development of the India Economic
Strategy 2035. It's a strategy which
charts a course for deeper and broader
economic engagement between Australia
and India and its recommendations are
supported by Labor particularly because
of its in alignment with the ambitious
ambitions of our future Asia initiatives.
But tonight I want to talk to you about
foreign policy and international
development and I start with the
foundations of Labor's foreign policy.
Our foreign policy is founded on the
belief that we deal with the world as it
is and we seek to change it for the better.
A foreign policy that is not just
transactional but is purposive and those
purposes are defined by our values, by
our interests and by our identity. We
know what we stand for - compassion,
equality, fairness, democratic principles
and the protection of rights. We know
what our interests are - the security of
the nation and its people, the prosperity
of the nation and its people, a stable
peaceful region anchored in the rule of
law and constructive internationalism.
And we know who we are - an inclusive, diverse nation which draws
strength from the waves of immigrants
who have come to our continent and our
First Nations peoples. Our foreign policy
will speak to who we are,
the confidence we have in ourselves, the
values we believe in and to the region
and world in which we wish to live.
Labor recognises that our international
development program is a key element of
Australian foreign policy and that it
reflects a key element of the Australian
character. The generous nation of a fair
go. So together with Labor Shadow
Minister for International Development
and the Pacific, my colleague Senator
Moore and I have been working to develop and
articulate our agenda for Australia's
International Development program. In
2017 our international development
caucus working group undertook
consultations with key aid and
development stakeholders and that
work has been invaluable. It is
contributed to our understanding of the
sector's concerns with a current aid
program and it is contributed to shaping
the objectives, strategies and actions
for a short and Labor Government. But
let's start with where we are. I haven't
used the phrase bonfire of certainties,
but I've expressed a similar views
perhaps in somewhat less visually
interesting language. The current global
context is one characterised by
disruption, changes in the balance of
economic and strategic power,  economic
and social inequality, rising nationalism,
challenges to the liberal base,
rules-based order and many other factors
are reshaping our world.
This disruption is compounded by
humanitarian crisis of an unprecedented
scale. Globally, over 65 million people
are displaced, more than those displaced
as in the aftermath of World War II. And
in these circumstances Australia's
international engagement including our
international development program is
of even greater importance. At a time
when our national interest compels us to
strengthen our engagement, the Abbott,
Turnbull, Morrison government has not
only neglected Australia's International
Development program, but has
savagely attacked it. Since its
election in 2013 the aid budget has been
on and ever diminishing trajectory. Over
eleven billion dollars has been slashed
from Australia's aid budget to date
including more than a hundred and forty
million in the most recent budget update.
Currently, overseas development
assistance sits at 0.22% of gross national income. This is set to
fall to 0.19% in 2021/2022 and forecasts
indicate that by 2026/2027 this figure
will fall to just 0.16% which is the
lowest on record. That is 16 cents in
every $100 of national income. The
Minister for finance recently confirmed
this Government's cuts to Australia's
international development program amount
to $80 billion dollars over the
medium-term
to 2028/2029. These cuts have not only had a very real impact on the people who
benefit from investments in areas like
health and education, they have damaged
Australia's reputation as a reliable
partner in the region and lessened
Australia's influence precisely at the
same time our national interest compels
us to engage more deeply. This
Government's willingness to cut aid to
this extent means that repairing
Australia's International Development
program is beyond our collective reach in the short term. We have consistently
called for a return to bipartisanship - a
bipartisan approach to Australia's
International Development program. Half a century bipartisanship has been cast
aside and at a time when nationalism and
populism is again on the rise,
parties of government do need to come
together to demonstrate that investment
in International Development does not
come at the expense of domestic
prosperity. Rather it contributes to it.
But those calls have gone ignored in a
time of ultra partisanship when the
legitimate concerns of Australians
struggling with low wage growth and cuts
to services can be irresponsibly
exploited to undermine the importance of
our aid program. That this is being
undertaken by the same people who have
delivered record low wage growth and
cuts to schools and hospitals, underlines
the cynical use of nationalistic
rhetoric. Of course this isn't a
phenomenon unique to Australia with
trends towards nationalism and populism
sweeping democracies around the world
and these are driven by many factors, but
one thing we do know is that inequality
is a central factor. Labor's agenda of a
fair go for all Australians is an
expression of Labor values. But it is
also necessary to protect the health of
our democracy. By working to address
inequality at home we can foster the
public support necessary to build
Australia's International Development
program so that it once again reflects
the generous spirit of the Australian
people. And we must. The region requires
it and so too does our national interest.
Labor believes Australia can show
humanity, decency and compassion to
ensure a fair go for all at home, on our
doorstep and abroad.
Australians are generous. In 2018 we
ranked second in the world giving index
behind only Indonesia - a reflection of
the Australian willingness to help a
stranger, donate to charity and to
volunteer. And our International
Development program should once again
reflect the generous spirit of the
Australian people. It is something we
should be proud of. Development
assistance must contribute to our
national interests and reflect our
values and it can and should serve development objectives and broader
strategic goals. Rather than seeing
humanitarian and national interest goals
as a binary, the starting point for our
International Development program
should be the kind of region we want.
A region which retains a system of
institutions, rules and norms to guide
behaviour, enable collective action and to
resolve disputes. A region in which those
seeking to make or shape rules do so
through negotiation not in position. A
region with an open trading system and
investment transparency so as to
maximise opportunity. A region where
outcomes are not determined only by
power. A region where all people live in
peace and prosperity. Now we know that
poverty alleviation is a necessary
although not sufficient foundation of
stability and prosperity, and democratic
governance and human rights are critical
to sustainable development and to
lasting peace. So a region with these
characteristics reflects our national
interests and our values. Supporting and
strengthening such a region will require
better coordination of Australia's
engagement across government NGOs,
academia and the private sector. Aid is a
key enabler of development but we must
work to bring together other elements of
Australian engagement - diplomacy, trade,
labour mobility and private sector
investment. Recognising
this will require a change in mindset in
both the Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade and the development sector. All
of us with a stake in International
Development must come together and align our engagement so that Australia's
contribution has maximum impact in these
disruptive times. Better alignment and
coordination will be a key imperative
for an incoming Labor Government under
a Shorten Labor Government. The
objective of our International
Development program will be to promote sustainable economic development, poverty
reduction and inclusive development in a
way that reflects our values and
supports our national interests. This
purpose cannot be achieved without
addressing the declining trajectory of
Australia's aid budget and we do not
underestimate the task of rebuilding the
International Development Assistance
Program. At Labor's National Conference
in December the party adopted an
amendment to the platform which
committed us to increasing official
development assistance as prepared
percentage
of GNI every year we are an office
starting with our first budget. But the
damage done by the current Government is
substantial and rebuilding the program
will not be achieved in one year or in
one term of government. It is a fiscal
challenge, a long-term challenge but most
of all it is a political challenge.
Pauline Hanson who you send us - it's my
favourite joke to Pat Murray Watt -
continues to call for the entire
development assistance budget to be cut.
She says Australia is shamefully wasting
billions on overseas handouts to corrupt
governments and unaccountable NGOs. It is a call sadly echoed by some members
of the LNP. And I say this to you tonight -
all of us who believe in a strong, secure,
prosperous and generous Australia, must
push back.
We must articulate why Australia's
International Development program
matters. It matters to the lives of those
in our region. It matters to our
influence in the region, and it matters
to our national interest. Our
International Development program has
not only been undermined by cuts to
budget but also by reduction in the
capacity of our public service to
deliver it. The loss of leadership and
technical expertise affects our ability
to maximise the impact of our aid spend.
There has been a great growth in the use
of managing contractors under the
current government with just 10
companies now managing 20% of the aid
budget. Greater outsourcing of our
International Development Program gives
rise to the legitimate concern that
these arrangements are driven more by a
lack of capacity or risk aversion rather
than a focus on improved development
outcomes. In 2013 the Abbott Government
abolished AusAid. But as I said in my
speech, their Council for International
Development Conference in November 2017, you can't unscramble that particular
omelette. Instead a Shorten Labor
Government will focus on working with
DFAT to build development capability
and ensure it is prioritised and valued.
Greater recognition of and demand for
this capability will not only be good
for the department, it will be good for
the countries with whom we partner and
good for Australians increasing
confidence that taxpayers dollars are
achieving the intended outcomes and supporting our national interests. We will examine
the way aid is structured and governed
within the department to ensure it is
managed appropriately and effectively.
And we want to rebuild and reward aid
and development skills. Encouraging
and attracting people with
development schools in the department,
those who have expertise in specific
areas or thematic areas and who
understand what works in low and
middle-income countries. We would expect
graduates be trained in the basics of aid
design and management just as they are
trained in the basics of the
department's other areas of work. We
would expect senior officers to
engage with and draw upon external
expertise in designing and implementing
development programs just as we would
expect those with aid in development
skills to be adept at policy development,
diplomacy and strategic thinking. And
there should be flexibility within the
department and across the public service
to draw upon specific skills and
expertise when needed. I have spoken
elsewhere at some length of the economic
dimension to the strategic shifts we are
witnessing. These give rise to two key
imperatives. The first is a greater
capacity within DFAT to
integrate economic analysis and
diplomacy as a core function and a
stronger capacity to harness the various
aspects of Australian economic
engagement both government and private
sector towards our strategic objectives.
To this end a Shorten Labor Government
will invest in the department's
geo-economic capacity and expect that
the new Counsellor positions that we have
announced will play a key role in
country to ensure our development trade
investment and diplomatic policies are
integrated. Good diplomacy has never been
an abstract art and in today's world the
deployment of the full gamut of
Australian engagement is even more
critical. Our development assistance
programs across the region
should be visible to and coordinated with the various Australian enterprises operating
there. Labor will encourage them
reward officers who undertake postings
in Asia and the Pacific. Such postings should be highly valued in
career progression and further the
skills and experience and expertise of
locally engaged staff are an asset which
must be valued, utilised and built upon.
Labor will also work to improve
communication and transparency in
Australia's aid program by ensuring
transparency standards are sufficient
and represent a level playing field for
all delivery partners and by providing
project level information for all
projects and programs above $1,000,000.
Achieving the best value for taxpayer
funds must be an overriding objective in
the delivery of the program. We also will
better communicate results of
Australia's investment to the Australian
public so Australians can see the impact
of their tax dollars and have confidence
they are being spent wisely. Australia's
International Development program should
be focused and targeted where Australia
can have the most impact and influence
and that is our own region. This reflects
our interests, our capabilities and our
strengths. Bill Shorten
has made clear that the Pacific is
a priority for Labor. We see the region
as, in the words of the Pacific leaders,
one blue Pacific continent - Australia's
front yard. We believe in a deep and
comprehensive partnership with Pacific
nations in which Australia is a
responsible and constructive partner. We
can be the natural partner of choice for
Pacific nations but we cannot take this
for granted. In Papua New Guinea, one of
our closest and most important neighbours,
we invest over $550 million dollars in
aid annually and we should all be
concerned that despite this PNG still
has some of the poorest social and
development indicators in the world. This
apparent lack of return on investment
leads some to advocate scaling back our aid budget even further. But we can't
turn our back on the real needs of some
of our closest friends and neighbours.
I do believe that this makes clear a
fresh approach is needed. So if elected,
we will work in partnership with the
Government of Papua New Guinea to
examine whether our aid dollar is having the best impact possible. Unlike the
coalition, Labor's increased focus on
the Pacific will not come at the expense
of key partners in South and South-East
Asia. In fact it is irresponsible and
counter to the national interest to raid
programs in one group of her partner
nations to fund others. Supporting and
building the Pacific region to the
detriment of other nations won't serve our
relationships, our influence nor our
long-term prosperity and security. There
are some who dismissed the
need to continue giving aid to
middle-income countries. Can I say I
disagree. As the World Bank outlines
middle-income countries are a diverse
group by size, population and income
level, home to five billion of the
world's seven billion people. They
represent about one third of global GDP
and our major engines of global growth
and they are also home to 73% of
those living in poverty in today's world.
I speak of countries which include
Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Across South-East Asia, extreme poverty
has fallen and this is a good thing, and
there are now 36 million people
living on US dollars, $1.90 per day. But there is more to be done.
Those living on incomes between $1.90
and $10 a day still comprise a
significant percentage of the
populations of many of our neighbours and
they are highly vulnerable to economic
setbacks. Gains that have been made have
not necessarily led to a reduction in inequality and that situation is
compounded by myriad challenges
including conflict and violence,
compounded by inadequate justice systems, urbanisation and the lack of access to
natural resources, natural disasters and
the closing space for civil society. In
addition, countries face structural
imbalances, economic imbalances,
structural weaknesses and often
complicated development pathways. These
may hold or reverse economic gains. So
aid and technical assistance can
continue to play an important role in supporting our neighbours
efforts to achieve development outcomes.
It can also help ensure that no one gets
left behind - the pledge at the heart of
the Sustainable Development goals and
the 2030 agenda for Sustainable
Development. I do not believe Australia's
interest is served by lessening
engagement with those countries in our
region who have achieved some economic
development. Because development
challenges change but they do not
disappear. So we recognise the importance
of aid to middle-income countries and in
our view Australia's development
assistance should leverage our strengths,
be tailored to each country, recognise
different circumstances and needs and
our different roles and relationships. In
some countries for some objectives
traditional grant aid may be the best
way to achieve an outcome. In others a
combination of grants, government backed
development financing, public-private
partnerships and private sector
engagement will be the most effective.
And another case Australian technical
assistance or expert advice may best
achieve our goals. We want to work in
partnership with our neighbours and we
want to work in close coordination with
like-minded partners leveraging our
respective expertise, funding and
presence to enable an effective division
of labor. So just as I've made the case
for leveraging Australia's comparative
advantage in the context of our trading
relationships when I was trade
spokesperson, we must also look to how
Australia's strengths, experience and
expertise can be drawn on to maximise
the benefit of our International
Development program. Health, education,
climate change, infrastructure, and gender
equality and inclusion will be central
themes for Australia's International
Development program under Labor and I
want to focus initially on health.
Because health outcomes in our region
continue to be unacceptable. The recent
outbreaks of polio in Papua New Guinea
are evidence of this. The maternal
mortality rate in Australia in 2016 was
8.5 deaths per 100,000
women giving birth.
In Papua New Guinea that number is 215.
99% of all maternal deaths occur in
developing countries. Investment in
health care and family planning improves
individual well-being and contributes to
prosperity and stability in communities
and country. Aid can and does make a
difference.
For example consider Timor-Leste. The
infant mortality rate is 41 per 1000
live births - that's still too high. It
compares to 3.1 deaths per 1000 live
births in Australia. But it is down from
131 in 1990 so that is a lot of lives
saved. A recent study by PWC for the Fred
Hollows foundation found that every
dollar invested in vision contributes
four dollars to the local developing
economy. And that's why when we were last in government in 2008 the Rudd Labor
Government deployed a consortium
approach to deliver the Avoidable
Blindness initiative. Unfortunately the
Abbott, Turnbull, Morison government has
reduced annual aiding expenditure on
eye health by approximately 41% over the
last four years. So it's part of our
focus on health I announced today that a
Shorten Labor Government will invest
32 million dollars in a Pacific
Avoidable Blindness and Vision Loss fund.
This investment will clear the backlog
of cataract blindness across the Pacific.
It will enable a treatment of over
19,000 people with the most severe cases
of visual impairment and it will train
up to 600 additional health
workers across the region to deliver
programs on the ground. It is an
initiative which plays to our strengths
and an initiative underpinned by
consortium approach with potential
organisations including the Fred Hollows
Foundation, Vision 2020 and the Royal
Australian and New Zealand College
of Ophthalmologists. Climate change and
infrastructure - this is an area I really
do want to focus on if we are elected and
an area which has been under done given
the ideological position taken by too
many in the current government. We'll
start with a central proposition which
is quality infrastructure is key to
economic development and future
prosperity and we know that many in our
region have substantial unmet need. So
in response we need more innovative
financing mechanisms in order to enable
Australia to work in partnership with
nations to provide them with the ability
to meet their development aspirations.
Last year Bill Shorten announced that
Labor intends to establish a government
supported infrastructure financing
facility and we're very pleased when Mr.
Morrison subsequently announced similar
intentions. I know there are some who are
concerned in the sector about the model
that the current Government has outlined.
Can I say a Labor Government will work
with the aid and development sector to
ensure the implementation of a model
that is fit for purpose and contributes
effectively to our development goals in
line with our values and national
interests. But while this work continues
we would seek to utilise the mechanisms
that are established by the current
Government as a starting point. But
beyond funding, our support for
infrastructure would also offer capacity
building job opportunities and training
support for governance and project
management and technical assistance to
help achieve the right design
arrangements and the right financing
arrangements including to ensure climate
resilience. While much of the
infrastructure financing will be focused
on the Pacific, we have made clear that
under a Labor Government there will be
opportunities to finance and assist with
infrastructure in South-East Asia as well.
As a disaster prone region we can
support climate resilient infrastructure
and systems and we want to work with our
neighbours to ensure their
infrastructure is sustainable and
resilient as we go forward. This is the
right thing to do but it is also part of
our work to restore Australia's
credibility and reputation as a creative,
collaborative and energetic
member of the community of nations
committed to addressing climate change,
because we recognise the reality of
climate change. And we understand that it
is a lived experience particularly for
many of our friends and neighbours.
Supporting personal and financial
security for women is critical to gender
equality and ultimately the full
participation of women in the economy
and in government will only be achieved when women are
confident and secure in their most
fundamental rights. I am concerned by the
Government's refusal to sign the UN
International Women's Day statement.
Particularly by reports that we withheld
support for the statement because of his
access to safe abortion. Labor has made
clear we believe reproductive choice and
access to basic health care as integral
parts of achieving gender equality. A
strong civil society is vital to
democracy, inclusion, transparency and
openness. Is it vital to accountability
and the protection of minorities and
marginalised groups. So if elected a
Shorten Government will engage with
civil society not only as partners in
the delivery of projects but to support
and strengthen the work that they do and
the role they play in their own
countries. And our engagement with civil
society will include non-government
organisations, business and professional
associations, unions, women's
organisations, media and religious
institutions. Ensuring their viability is
more pressing in the face of rising
authoritarianism, the shrinking space for
civil society and increasing attacks on
the freedom of the press across many
parts of our region. So Labor will
significantly increase the annual base
grant for fully accredited NGOs in the
Australian NGO cooperation program at a
cost of 32 million dollars over the
forward estimates. It is in an increase
which reflects our commitment to working
with NGOs to strengthen
Australia's aid delivery and it also
reflects our recognition that
non-government organisations play a
vital role in engaging with civil
society. To advance and protect those
with disability, LGBTIQ, ethnic and
religious minorities and other human
rights, Labor will also appoint a Human
Rights Ambassador. We want to build the
capacity of trade unions abroad to
ensure people have access to fair and decent
work and rights that work are better
protected. Our support for civil society
also recognises the role and
responsibility business has both in
enabling development and ensuring human
rights are protected overseas. So we will
develop a national action plan on
business and human rights and strengthen
the national contact point - that is the
body that works to address human rights
abuses by Australian businesses and
examines ways to provide better guidance
to Australian companies on managing
their requirements and their obligations.
So I'll end where we started. We are living in a time of disruption and the magnitude
and nature of change shapes Australia's
strategic, economic and foreign policy
interests. Accompanied by humanitarian
crisis of unprecedented scale, it is
essential that Australia's International
Development program meets the
challenges of these times. So a Labor Government will rebuild Australia's International
Development program. We will reverse
the declining trajectory of the budget, we
will rebuild capability and most of all
we wish to restore consensus. And our
International Development program will
speak to who we are, the confidence we
have in ourselves, the values we believe
in and the world and region in which we
want to live. Thank you very much.
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