Thank you.

Hi, everybody.

I want to begin just acknowledging that we are meeting on stolen land that always is and always will be Aboriginal land.

And I also want to say thank you to the Socialist Alliance for inviting me to speak on behalf of Australia's solidarity with Latin America today.

I know we've been hearing a lot about the Monroe Doctrine.

And in Latin America, we hear about that all the time.

And just to remind everybody, in 1823, President James Monroe, the president of the US, stated that Europe would never have an influence in Latin America again.