00:00I'm ready and able to undertake the role you have entrusted in me.
00:04I will be an optimistic, modern and visible Governor-General, committed to the service
00:09and contribution that all Australians expect and deserve from the holder of this office.
00:15Ahead of her time, Dame Quentin Bryce described this in 2013 as striking a balance between
00:21observing traditions and protocol and being thoroughly contemporary.
00:26I will remain alive to changing expectations and needs, whilst holding fast to the respect
00:31for the role and its place in our peaceful democracy.
00:34I believe that our democracy is the golden thread that unites Australians across this
00:39vast continent and down the generations.
00:42I am keen to begin the work of professionally and conscientiously discharging my executive
00:47and constitutional responsibilities.
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