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Excerpted Remarks to May 1993 CEC Conference

“What I would like to contribute, is the suggestion of how we should look at the situation in Australia and the tasks of Australians, given the current world situation…”

“Obviously, the Australian, by virtue of coming from Europe, has a very special place in this picture, if the Australian can but realize those potentials within himself or herself. The Australian knows European culture, and can readily express, assimilate, that culture, to the benefit of other people in the region. The great challenge of this period, I propose, is to bring the Confucian heritage of China to its proper realization as, for example, Leibniz, among others, recognized that, and as Sun Yat-sen, one of the great leaders of modern China, also recognized that. The European Christian tradition-the Christian Platonic tradition-which gave us modem science, which gave us every useful achievement which European civilization has contributed to mankind in general; this is our heritage. This is the heritage which we must share, especially with its most crucial values, with our friends who represent Chinese and other heritages in this part of the planet.

Without the notion of the individual as in the image of God the Creator, as having creative powers and being an individual, therefore, not just part of a collective soul; and without the individual conceived as having the power of creativity, creative reasoning, we cannot realize fully the potentials of the Confucian heritage of China. And that is our job, to mediate that. In order to mediate that, we must express that ourselves.

So in Australia, it is indispensable for the Australia of the 21st century-if such an Australia is to exist-that we must express that. We must express the European heritage as a contribution to the period of the Western Pacific and of the Indian Ocean Basin. We must understand a close relationship, geographically and culturally, to our friends to the North on the Asian mainland and on the rim.

We must develop and incorporate the most advanced technologies and the best education, represented by the European tradition in Europe and in the Americas. We must make that available in terms of machine-tool skills and other kinds of scientific and other development to our friends in southeast Asia and on the subcontinent, the Asian mainland to the East. And that is our destiny.

We must give Australia a purpose for existence, a {cultural} purpose for existence, in terms of the entirety of the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean Basin. Australia must make itself {indispensable} to the peoples of this region; and it can best do that by resolving to abandon the demontage, the destruction of its industrial and agricultural potential, the destruction of its scientific potential, which has occurred in recent years, and become an outpost of the very best which the Americas and Europe and the European tradition have had to offer, to the benefit of all of the peoples of this region, so that all of the peoples of this region will know that the continent of Australia and the nation of Australia, is a beacon of benefit to them all, which they will treasure, as they would treasure any benefit of that sort.”