“No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.”

—  Paul Keating

"A Prospect of Europe", 1997 speech at the University of New South Wales.

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Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia 1944

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