Well May We Say: The Speeches that Made AustraliaSally Warhaft In a time when little attention is paid to public speaking, this bestselling collection provides a reminder that this country has a unique and distinguished tradition of public oratory. Included here are speeches by Paul Keating, Patrick White, Geoffrey Blainey, Ben Chifley, Sir William Deane and many more. From the inspirational to the eulogising, from the political to the satirical, from the sacred to the controversial, the speeches in this long overdue anthology are each deftly introduced by innovative researcher Sally Warhaft. This is the definitive collection. Now in its third reprint. |
Contents
Sir Henry Parkes The crimson thread of kinship runs through us all | 3 |
Alfred Deakin These are the times that try mens souls | 11 |
Sir Edmund Barton Unite yourselves and preserve the union | 18 |
Miles Franklin The hardy pioneer in Australian literature | 24 |
Bessie Rischbieth There are sinister elements in our midst | 32 |
Sir Howard Florey For in the last analysis it is ideas that count | 38 |
Sir Ninian Stephen So it was acceptance by me and of me | 52 |
Robert Manne Neither column in this moral ledger will cancel | 58 |
John Curtin The hands of the democracies are clean | 100 |
General Douglas MacArthur We shall win or we shall die | 107 |
Padre Fred Burt The rabbit that runs is always in more danger than | 114 |
Harold Holt All the way with LBJ | 123 |
Clive James There was a harvest of our tallest poppies A bitter harvest | 134 |
Alfred Deakin The keystone of the federal arch | 141 |
Sir Robert Menzies The forgotten people | 148 |
Dame Enid Lyons The dignity and worth of the family | 157 |
Andrew Fisher Our last man and our last shilling | 73 |
Sir John Monash Feed your troops on Victory | 81 |
Sir John Monash It is an occasion for elevating the public spirit | 90 |
Sir Thomas Blamey It is in this outlook that danger lies for Europe | 91 |
Herbert Vere Evatt Freedom from fear can never be separated from | 164 |
Gough Whitlam It is jolly decent of the Prime Minister to let us know | 176 |
Susan Ryan Fishes on bicycles | 182 |
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