Your Excellency,
I present your new ministers and, through you, I present the people of Australia their new government.
We are all conscious of the honour of serving our country as ministers of the Crown and members of your Executive Council.
We pledge ourselves to serve the people of Australia for their benefit to the very best of our ability.
We are determined to honour our commitments: to scrap the carbon tax, to stop the boats, to get the Budget under control, and to build the roads of the 21st century.
We will be a problem-solving government based on values, not ideology.
We will strive to govern for all Australians, including those who didn’t vote for us.
We won’t forget those who are often marginalised: people with disabilities, indigenous people and women struggling to combine career and family.
We will do our best not to leave anyone behind.
We aim to be a calm, measured, steady and purposeful government that says what it means and does what it says.
We hope to be judged by what we have done rather than by what we have said we would do.
We are conscious of the ideals of duty and service exemplified by our Queen whom you have so graciously represented here in Australia.
And we will not spare ourselves; we will not spare ourselves in order to deserve the trust placed in us this day.
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