A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.


Address to the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of parliament of the Republic of Ireland, 20 September, 1993.

Paul Keating Quotes

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In...

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In...

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In...

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In...