Being in this tends to make me more reflective than normal, which is probably a good thing because I’m normally very animated when talking about education. But being present in the War Memorial Museum reminds you of our history and gives us pause to reflect on, in particular about the memorial part – the war memorial part of this place. I was humbled to be honoured to speak on behalf of our community. On those occasions in particular, the community comes together to think about the history of this nation; our battles –internally and externally - primarily, externally. Those that have been lost to those battles and the reasons why. We were involved in those wars and ostensibly, our primary focus has been for our freedom. That we would preserve the hope of our humanity and in particular, our freedom. The opportunity amidst that freedom to actually look to a positive light full of hope, optimism, a positivism and so its in that sense of reflecting back on our history recognizing the fact that this nation has forged its past, and certainly look towards its future in the hope of freedom, and in the hope of economic expansion, and a life whereby each one of the young people have a sense, in their life they can have a hope and a dream and have an expectation on delivering on those hopes and dreams....
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