"Firstly, I must of necessity express some obvious qualifications about my remarks. Foremost, I can never fully imagin…"

"Of course, that is probably an unattainable state of perfection. But I hope to establish my bona fides in striving to…"

"I have set tangible goals against which I am willing to be judged. Ultimately, though, true and enduring progress in …"

"That is no easy thing for a General to say in public, and yet I have now said it publicly in Australia many times. It…"

"I was no longer comforted by the cliché that a ‘few bad apples’ were undermining the great work of the vast majority.…"

"We in the ADF occupy a special constitutional role. We train for mastery of military force and are entrusted and sanc…"

"Our monopoly on violence and the particular place we occupy in our national psyche, demands that we must earn and mai…"

"As an aside, my father commanded a battalion during the Vietnam war and I can happily report that whatever our fellow…"

"Sadly, it had become clear in recent years that the tribal culture, through which we sought to build small teams capa…"

"And finally, it is truly fitting that I bring this message to an event held under the auspices of the United Nations.…"