The Power of Rhetoric in Speech Writing

The first two guests we had on the podcast were Bob Lemon who was Al Gore's speech writer and Don Watson. So I'm really happy to meet you and speak with you today. I want to talk to you about the financial crisis, Australian politics and China. Those are the three topics I want to touch on in the time that we have but before we get started I wanted to ask you about speech writing.So a couple of days ago Scott Morrison delivered a national apology for the victims of institutional sexual abuse. And I always think the thing that makes great speeches great is that they're about important things,. But I'm always fascinated at the same time by the power of words to enhance the