Richard Glover Quotes

There’s been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.

All our best heroes are losers

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.

Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.

We haven’t had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It’s partly because of our trade with China. China’s been doing relatively well. So some of the tensions around a low-wage economy haven’t quite happened here in the same way as they have in the United States.

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch
Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort,
Relieves the load of poverty, sustains
The captive, bending with the weight of bonds,
And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.