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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.

— Paul Keating

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This is the sweetest victory of all. This is a victory for the true believers; the people who, in difficult times, have kept the faith.

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