Nation shall speak unto nation

The ABC were wetting themselves with excitement yesterday over the first official recognition by Gordon Brown of the continent of Australia. ABC correspondent Rafael Epstein was at a press conference; he piped up, identifying himself as an Australian, and posed a question on - what else? - climate change. Brown flustered for a moment and then came out with "you led the way on the long-life electric bulb". Somehow it just doesn't have that Churchillian ring to it.