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senn 发表于 2023-10-14 21:38
说了一大堆
完全感觉不到重点
重点没写完，自己去看吧。
My fellow Australians, the first time I spoke to you as prime minister of this nation, I repeated a commitment I had given many times before as Labor leader.
I promised that our government would seek to implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart. I gave my word to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and elders who had poured their hopes and aspirations into that extraordinary statement.
I spoke to the people from all walks of life and all sides of politics, the people of every faith and background and tradition, who had embraced this cause. I promised our government would seek to answer the generous and gracious call of those 440 powerful words through a voice, recognition, enshrined in the constitution. I never imagined or indeed said that it would be easy. Very few things in public life worth doing are. Nor could I guarantee the referendum would succeed. History told us that only eight out of 44 had done so.
What I could promise was that we would go all in, that we would try, and we have.
We have given Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the fulfilment of their request that we take forward an idea that had been decades in the making, and we would give the Australian people the opportunity to decide for themselves.
We have kept that promise. We have given our all.
We argued for this change not out of convenience but from conviction, because that’s what people deserve from their government. And of course, when you do the hard things, when you aim high, sometimes you fall short.
And tonight we acknowledge, understand and respect that we have.
As prime minister, I will always accept responsibility for the decisions I have taken, and I do so tonight.
But I do want Australians to know that I will always be ambitious for our country, ambitious for us to be the very best version of ourselves.
I will always be optimistic for what we can achieve together.
In that spirit, just as I offered many times to co-operate with people from across the political spectrum on the next steps in the event of a yes victory, I renew that offer of cooperation tonight.
Because this moment of disagreement does not define us, and it will not divide us.
We are not yes voters or no voters.
We are all Australians, and it is as Australians, together, that we must take our country beyond this debate without forgetting why we had it in the first place.
Because too often in the life of our nation and in the political conversation, the disadvantage confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been relegated to the margins.
This referendum and my government has put it right at the centre.
All of us have been asked to imagine what it would be like to walk on someone else’s shoes, and we’ve been challenged to examine decades of failure from both sides of politics, despite all of the good intentions in the world.
Indeed, those arguing against a change to the constitution were not arguing for the status quo, because no-one could say that more of the same is good enough for Australia.
Let us hold onto that truth, because a great nation like ours can and must do better for the first Australians.
And while there has been talk in recent times about division, let us now co-operate to address the real division. The real division is one of disadvantage - the division that is the gap between Indigenous and nonindigenous Australians in life expectancy, in educational opportunity, in rates of suicide and disease.
The gap that separates Indigenous Australians from the right to make a good life for themselves.
Tonight, I want to recognise that for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, this campaign has been a heavy weight to carry and this result will be very hard to bear.
So many remarkable Indigenous Australians have put their heart and soul into this cause, not just over the past few weeks and months but through decades, indeed lifetimes, of advocacy.
I have been honoured and humbled to stand by you and witness your extraordinary courage and grace, your great love for our country and your deep faith in our people, none less than my friend standing with me here today. [Linda Burney]
You continue to inspire me and make me prouder than ever to be Australian. I have never been as proud to be Australian as when I sat in the red dirt at Uluru with those wonderful women. I have made lifetime friends, and for that I am grateful.
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