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President, friends – Steeled by the horror of the most catastrophic conflict in history, humanity forged our United Nations. Its purpose often defined not as ...

We created this institution recognizing that while our interests as countries may differ, we have shared purpose as people, because we can only solve our bigges...

It is my honour to speak on behalf of Australia in the venerated General Assembly Hall, which signifies so much to the world’s peoples. It remains the only plac...

Mr President, It is a pleasure to give Australia’s National Statement to the General Assembly. Here in Canberra, I’m on the ancient land of the Ngunnawal people...

Mr President, This is an historic and unusual gathering of our General Assembly. We gather not in the great city of New York, but from among our people, from ac...

Much has changed since the United Nations was established many years ago. Australia was there in the beginning and we are here today because we continue to beli...

We are all proud members of this venerable institution. If this place and our membership in it stand for anything, then we stand for an international order base...

The United Nations was founded in response to the horrors of the Second World War. Nations resolved to prevent a repeat of that catastrophic global conflict. Ov...

The tenor of our times is change — accelerating at a pace and on a scale unprecedented in all of human history. In less than a generation, billions have been li...

We meet this day at an important time for the United Nations, 70 years after its foundation. Australia’s representative to the San Francisco Conference in 1945 ...

In what can seem to be darkening times, I want to begin with a message of hope. Amid all our problems, the murderous rage of the Islamic State in Iraq and th...

As a freshly minted Foreign Minister, I am delighted to take part in this general debate. Only a few weeks ago, Australia held national elections and chose a...

You now preside, Sir, over a forum for every voice — an Assembly of all people and nations, one for no country or bloc to dominate solely or lead as one alone,...

Since we last gathered in this great Assembly one year ago, we have witnessed developments of historic dimensions. There has been democratic protest and demo...

This great body has been in existence for two thirds of a century — three times longer than its predecessor body, the League of Nations, and longer than prev...

I come to the Assembly, as Australia has each year since the first session of the General Assembly in 1946, and I come in the same spirit, to seek solutions ...

I would like to congratulate Mr. d’Escoto Brockmann on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. The Australian delegatio...

I join my colleagues in congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. I would also like to wish...

I would like to begin by joining with my colleagues in congratulating Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on her election to the presidency of the General Assembly at...

Australia is a founding Member of the United Nations, and we have long supported this Organization’s important role in world affairs. The United Nations has man...