https://t.inks.page/wiki/Paul_Keating Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Keating?t=2026-04-06 We have heard often since the last election the mantra that Australia doesn’t have to choose between our history and our geography. It appears again in the Howard government’s recently released White Paper on foreign policy. But just think about that assertion for a minute. What could it possibly mean? No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

• "A Prospect of Europe", Robert Schuman Lecture at the University of New South Wales, 4 September 1997.

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