Well done to both Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull, who this morning made excellent speeches in Parliament’s Great Hall, to representatives of the Forgotten Generation.
Speeches
Inside Palin’s closed-door anti-abortion rally
Sarah Palin banned the media from a recent speech before a right-to-life group, but Politico snuck an operative in. Amongst the usual Bible-bashing and fist-pumping, she also floated an interesting conspiracy theory about the new design of US dollar coins.
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The lost Sarah Palin speeches
Read the concession speech the Republican Party wouldn’t let Sarah Palin make after the 2008 US Presidential election, plus the victory speech she never got to make.
Comparing the party leaders’ speeches: in wordle form
How does Tory leader David Cameron’s recent big pitch to the nation stand up against the speeches of Gordon Brown, Tony Blair or Margaret Thatcher? What if we compare them… as a wordle!?
Read David Cameron’s pitch to Britian
British Conservative leader David Cameron looks poised for victory in the country’s next election. Read his pitch to “put Britian back on its feet”.
The “other” moon landing speech
What if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never made it off the moon? How would the public have been told? Following on from the recent death of President Nixon’s speech writer, William Safire, here is his most eloquent speeches that never was.
Rudd’s radical global reforms
Pals Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama may be due for their first rumble. Rudd’s major NY speech calls on the US for global leadership, while Obama tells the UN the US can’t fix the world’s problems.
Video of the Day: Inside the mind of a killer
Do murders have the same brains as you and me? Neuroscientist Jim Fallon explains what makes psychopathic killers tick.
Palin’s resignation: the edited version
Sarah Palin’s resignation speech was never going to be the Gettysburg Address, but it still lacked, er, polish. Just how bad was it? Vanity Fair let their sub-editing team loose on a transcript to find out.
Keating’s eye on the tiger
The full text of Paul Keating’s John Curtin Prime Ministerial lecture last night, where he took aim at Rudd for being anti-China.
