Two hundred years ago our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple yet noble idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Women ought to have representatives instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years is to have the best future for our nation then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people not by the factions.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets in the daily work of the communications media in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.