I see Australia defined very much for the future in the maintenance of that egalitarian spirit. How we handle the increasingly borderless world, globalisation as some people call it, how we handle the impact of that on our society and how we ensure that Australian values civilise the impact of that borderless world on our society will be one of the great challenges. And how we ply the unfolding advantages of medical science and medical technology, and how we handle the inevitable ethical tensions that that will create in our community as well as taking advantage of the enormous human benefits that it will deliver, they are some of the challenges. As always you need to maintain a stable economic growth base because that is the way in which people get jobs and the way in which they are able to bring up their families. But there will some things that will be constant.
Values are constant, circumstances are different.
And the challenge of any civilisation, any society, is to apply its values to changing circumstances. Australians have always been able to do that in a very spectacular way. Now today is a day of history. As our current Prime Minister facing an election this year, you've said previously that half way through the next term, should you win, you would be ready to move on. Well I'm not into being remembered by the Australian public.