Paul Keating Quote

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.


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...