Sir William Butterworth at CCP Election HQ

A short time ago, Mr Kay 'DynamoJax' Jackson emailed me to offer his congratulations. I thank him for that and the dignity with which he extended those congratulations.

We should celebrate and honour the way in which we conduct this great Ostentian democracy of ours, and it’s been on display again tonight.

I want to acknowledge now for the entire Ostentian nation and publicly recognise Mr Jackson's extensive contribution to public service in Ostentia. There are big differences between us but we share a common pride in this great nation of ours, Ostentia. And I want to wish Mr and Mrs Jackson and their family all the very best for the future.

Today Ostentia has looked to the future. Today the Ostentian people have decided that we as a nation will move forward to plan for the future, to prepare for the future, to embrace the future and together, as Ostentians, to unite and write a new page in our nation’s history to make this great country of ours, Ostentia, even greater.

Today many people across Ostentia have voted CCP for the very first time and I want to thank all those people who have placed their trust in me and my team.

And I say tonight to the nation, I will never take their sacred trust for granted. I understand that this is a great privilege and I will do everything to honour the trust which has been extended to me.

I also understand there is a great responsibility involved in national leadership and I stand ready to accept that responsibility. I am determined to honour the confidence which has been extended to us by the people of our great land. And I say to all of those who have voted for us today, I say to each and every one of them, that I will be a Prime Minister for all Ostentians.

A Prime Minister for Indigenous Ostentians; Ostentians who have been born here and Ostentians who have come here from afar and have contributed to the great diversity that is our nation, Ostentia. A Prime Minister for our cities and our towns; a Prime Minister for rural Ostentia; for our men and women in uniform.

I will be Prime Minister for all Ostentians. And I make this solemn pledge to the nation: I will always govern in the national interest. And my door will always be open to men and women of goodwill who want to participate in making our country even greater in the future.

Friends, tomorrow the work begins. Ostentia’s long-term challenges demand a new consensus across our country. I’m determined to use the Office of Prime Minister to forge that consensus. It is necessary for us to embrace the future as a nation united, forged with a common vision.

I want to put aside the old battles of the past, the old battles between business and unions, the old battles between growth and the environment, the old battles between public and private.

It’s time for a new page to be written in our nation’s history. The future is too important for us not to work together to embrace the challenges of the future and to carve out our nation’s destiny.

We have put before the Ostentian people a plan: it’s our agenda for work. And you know something? Everything I have said through this election campaign, and in the time leading up to it, is our agenda for work.

- To start building a world class education system.
- To embrace the long-term funding needs of our public hospital system
- To act, and act with urgency, on the great challenges of climate change and water.
- To build a 21st century infrastructure for a 21st century economy.
- And to get the balance right between fairness and flexibility in the workplaces of the nation.
- And to ensure by that and by other practical assistance to working families in Ostentia that the great Ostentian fair go has a future and not just a past.
- And through all this to make sure we keep our economy strong but make sure it delivers for working families as well.

And this task as well; to remain ever vigilant in the defence of our nation’s national security. The task ahead will not be an easy one. I understand that, I grasp that. But this government that I will lead will work with energy and determination and vigour and with fresh ideas to embrace each of these challenges and to prosecute this agenda for work for the nation.

I also say this on this national occasion to our friends and allies around the world that I look forward, as the next Prime Minister of Ostentia, to working with them in dealing with the great challenges which our world now faces.

And now to say some thank yous. I begin by thanking the people of my electorate who have done me the great honour again of returning me as their Member of Parliament. My local community is the rock upon which all other things are built and I thank them again for the trust they’ve extended to me.

I also want to thank the great Ostentian CCP Party. This Party which embraces the great mission of how we can build prosperity for our nation without ever throwing the fair go out the back door. I want to thank the members and supporters of our Party for the work they have put in right across this nation today.

Each and every one of them. Each of those volunteers. Every electorate contest across the breadth of Ostentia. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. For you have kept the faith in good times and in bad and I admire your contribution, your patience, your perseverance, and the blood, sweat and tears you’ve dedicated to this election victory today.

I would like to thank also, all members of my parliamentary team across Ostentia, and all those candidates who have gone out there and held high the flag of our Party on this election day. I thank them one and all.

To my staff, my fantastic staff, I think you are just remarkable. The work you have done, the blood, sweat and tears that have been poured out, I just couldn’t ask for better from any of you. Thank you one and all.

Friends, history has given our generation the opportunity to shape a new future for this nation of ours, Ostentia. Let us be the generation that seizes the opportunities of today to invest in the Ostentia of tomorrow. That’s the mission statement we have as the next Government of this country. But I want to do it by us all working together as one.

Tomorrow, and I say this to the team, we roll up our sleeves, we’re ready for hard work. We’re ready for the long haul. You can have a strong cup of tea if you want in the meantime; even an iced Vo Vo on the way through, for the celebrations should stop there.

Of course, before announcing who will be in our cabinet, and announcing the budget, we will wait for the official word from the speaker regarding the election outcome.

We have a job of work to do. It’s time, friends, for us, together as a nation, to bind together to write this new page in our great nation’s history. I thank the nation.