One of the most powerful speeches I ever heard was delivered in a casual meeting of the NSW Rostrum public speaking organisation.
I’m told the club was once a regular haunt of a young and ambitious Tony Abbott – a place where he refined his speech-making skills.
The speaker on this evening was not a public figure that I recognised. She was a lawyer who had migrated from Iran to Australia as a teenager and had come to speak on the topic Little Things Matter. A Lot.
Afghanistan: