Moments in politics that shaped Australia

Australian Community Media

Australia's political history has been marked by transformative moments that have had enduring impacts, altering the nation permanently, and here are a few notable instances.

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00:00 [Music]

00:07 [Applause]

00:09 Well may we say God save the Queen.

00:12 [Applause]

00:16 Because nothing will save the Governor-General.

00:19 [Applause]

00:22 They had orders that nobody in the square be spared.

00:28 And children and young girls were slaughtered.

00:34 Anti-personnel carriers and tanks then ran backwards and forwards over the bodies of the slain.

00:43 We who did the dispossessing, we took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life.

00:52 We brought the diseases and the alcohol.

00:57 We committed the murders.

00:59 We took the children from their mothers.

01:02 [Applause]

01:04 It will add to the overall safety and good of the Australian community.

01:09 That is an element of turning around the culture in this country and that is the reason why the Government stayed in Sydney.

01:17 Sorry about that, but there is no other way, there is no other way to get the system down.

01:23 I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not.

01:30 And the Government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man.

01:36 Not now, not ever.

01:38 Because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn't need a motion in the House of Representatives.

01:46 He needs a mirror.

01:48 you

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