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“Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.”

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Phillip Adams, born on July 12, 1939, is an outstanding farmer renowned for his passion for agriculture and his promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. more

“The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.”

“What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.”

“Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.”

Long Today Turns Girl Stuff Wonder Four Ready Dresses Size Sexy Confusion Vulgar That Girl

Author:Carolina Herrera

“You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.”

People Kind Process Leadership Divine Ministers Australia Prime Prime Minister Selection Australian

Author:John Howard

“The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.”

Needs Past Force Leadership Situation Lessons Draws Tasks Recognise Analogies Need A Change Statesmanship New Situations

Book:Malcolm Fraser on Australia

Source: Malcolm Fraser on Australia

“At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.”

“Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.”

Political Turns Leadership Volume Massacres Venom

Author:Phillip Adams

“While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.”

Left Leadership Hurt Break Produce Stones Sticks Bones Atmosphere Thrive Toxic Rhetoric Untrue Holistic Interconnected Lunacy Sticks And Stones

Author:Phillip Adams

“Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?”

Today Leadership Tomorrow Stones Sticks Sticks And Stones

Author:Phillip Adams

“I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.”

Art Motivation Stuff Process Clear Sea Conditions Draws Flow Swim Delicate Membranes

Author:Geraldine Brooks

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