Well I certainly don't see Australia exclusively defined in terms of whether or not this country becomes a republic. How we handle the increasingly borderless world or 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 apply 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. 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 be 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 changed circumstances. Australians have always been able to do that in a very spectacular way. Well I think the challenge of civilising the impacts of this borderless world in which we live, it's not new in the sense that people have talked about it before, but it is certainly one of the greatest challenges that we have. Well I'm not into being remembered by the Australian public.