But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change questions of energy and food security the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.
Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
You do not know our culture our ethics or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
But the imposition of morality onto science - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
The private citizen beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion will soon see perhaps that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Fashion is an imposition a reign on freedom.