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The Australian High Commissioner invited Mr McKinnon to speak to the 36 people on a course run by the College.

Ambassador Hughes, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen

From Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego - Building Partnerships with Latin America

New Zealanders have a real reputation for being open and easy to get along with. As Foreign Minister travelling as I have for the past six years I reckon you can spot a kiwi overseas a mile off.

Not many of you will have failed to notice an election looming. A US politician once said, Politics is a bit like roller skating.

As far as I can recall this is the first public occasion in New Zealand dedicated to discussing, in depth, the implications of Hong Kong's return to China.

It gives me real pleasure to speak at the opening of todays symposium. I count myself lucky to have the first words on a topic which is open to an enormous range of comment and analysis.

I'm pleased to be able to come and speak to you tonight. I read the other day
public speakers fall into three categories:

This afternoon I want to paint a picture from a more personal
palette, rather than from one with perhaps the more limited colours of

You are lost, my son, to these marae
And sorrow weighs me down
You are in Egypt, my son, and Gallipoli
Alas, what pain! Farewell, farewell!

On the 16th having a breeze, we sailed along the shore of the land we had passed the day before, which appeared as wild and romantic as can be conceived.