The Prime Minister, John Howard, has welcomed President George W. Bush to the Australian Parliament.
Bush delivered a speech to members of both houses.
- Listen to Howard’s speech:
Transcript of John Howard’s remarks of welcome to President Bush.
Mr Speaker and Mr President of the Senate, today we welcome a man, we honour an office, we recommit to an alliance and we declare that, above all of those things, common values between nations unite nations and peoples more than individuals or institutions. The things that unite the Australian and American people are shared values: the belief that the individual is more important than the state, that strong families are a nation’s greatest asset, that competitive free enterprise is the ultimate foundation of national wealth, and that the worth of a person is determined by that person’s character and hard work, not by their religion or race or colour or creed or social background.