Fellow Liberals
Acknowledgments
I want to begin by acknowledging our country.
I celebrate Australia’s Indigenous heritage – a heritage that extends over 60,000 years, and I pay my respects to the Gadigal and all traditional owners of the lands from which we’ve variously travelled this morning, and to their elders past, present and emerging.
I celebrate the giants of our modern history, on whose shoulders we stand, and our constitutional and democratic foundations – foundations that as a member of Parliament I seek to serve every day.
And I celebrate our multicultural present and future – because in Australia every race, creed and belief contribute to making us the most successful multicultural nation on earth.
Friends, I’d rather be standing here as a minister in a fourth term Coalition Government, continuing the work of delivering good government for the people of NSW.
But fourth terms, even for good governments, are extraordinarily difficult to win, and I pay tribute to Dominic Perrottet, Chris Stone and everyone in this room who worked so hard in the lead-up to the election.
We lost the last election despite Dom, not because of him. He took on the Premiership in difficult circumstances. He moved remarkable, far-reaching reforms. History will judge Dom very kindly, as a Premier with extraordinary policy foresight.
