Peter Cosgrove
Peter Cosgrove
General Sir Peter John Cosgrove, AK, MCis a retired senior Australian Army officer and the 26th and current Governor-General of Australia...
armed difficult period spirit true
This is a difficult period for all, but in the true spirit of the armed services, they will not be forgotten.
ethos indeed legacy strengthen
Their legacy will indeed strengthen that ethos and foundations of that spirit.
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I talk to friends in Allentown, in Philadelphia, in Washington, D.C., and they all follow Gerry. Kids everywhere love him, maybe because he looks like a kid himself.
night
He's not a 40-minute a night guy, no one is at that level. But he has done that on occasion.
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A part of Kopassus has a unique, military counter-terrorist function in Indonesia, and it's that particular part of Kopassus where we're looking for heightened levels of cooperation.
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I was the sort of loose forward who lay contentedly on the bottom of a ruck, composing sonnets on the one hand and, on another plane, contemplating applying the squirrel grip to an opponent.
military operations successful
This is one of the most complex, challenging and most successful military operations we have ever run,
job physical somebody unfair
It's just like any job, you don't want to put somebody into the job who, for physical limitations, can't do the job. That would be unfair and we wouldn't want to do that,
leadership loyalty integrity
It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.
leadership leader universal-truth
Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.
leadership kids eye
Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.
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Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!
leadership government optimism
I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their predicament and that governments were committed to helping. Equally an optimism had to be engendered, a belief that not only would they recover but would emerge 'bigger, brighter and better than ever.'
leadership determination home
But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.