 But when you think about it, Australia is a Western country. Our institutions, many of them, of course, were inherited from Great Britain. A very heavy Irish influence. Enormous post-World War II European migration. So we are in so many ways an offshoot of Western civilisation. We've had, as this gathering testifies, enduring and intimate links with the United States for generation after generation. But, of course, we live cheek by gel with Asia and we live in the fastest growing region in the world. China is now by far our largest export destination. Japan still takes 20% of our exports and Korea produces the largest single company as a purchaser of Australian commodities, a company called Posco. So when you add all of that together, we, of course, are very directly affected by this remarkable economic explosion that's taking part in the Asia Pacific region. Now, Australia and China have a very important economic relationship. We also have a very important people-to-people relationship. The largest foreign language, the foreign language most widely spoken in Australia now, is Chinese. It used to be Greek or Italian. It's now Chinese. It's just a function of the fact that the immigration from China from both the mainland from Hong Kong and Taiwan has been of more recent vintage. But it's a reminder of the important people-to-people links Australian universities are more favoured as an overseas university destination by young Chinese and any other country. And it's one of the major, several years ago, education was Australia's third strongest export and so much of that was to our region. One of the advantages of going to international conferences is every so often you take away a vignette of a statistic. I was in international conference in Singapore last year and the vignette of a statistic I took away was about the size of India's population between the ages of 15 and 24. The Indian population between 15 and 24 is the largest of that age cohort of any country in the world by far. And it neatly exceeds the total population of Indonesia, which neatly exceeds the total population of Indonesia. Just think about that. Think about what that means when you look at the useful population of India compared with the aging population of China. We're in Australia quite interested in that and of course, apart from the fact that the Indians play cricket which is one of their great dishes and I'm sorry to say in recent months it played it rather better than my country has played it on the test field. Of course, we are very, very interested in the growth that's occurring in Indonesia at the present time and I was delighted to read in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that the level of direct foreign investment in Indonesia has risen quite dramatically over the last 70 years but to determine across the political divide that Australia and America will be close. And the reason why we're close is that one very simple reality I learned in international politics is that the things that bind countries together more than anything else are common values and the common values of the United States and Australia are there to be seen. The commitment to democracy, the belief that the worth of an individual derives not from racial class or ethnicity or from religious belief that derives from character and individual worth. The giving people the incentive to work hard and achieve is the most effective way of keeping them out of poverty.