The transcripts of Dick Cheney's public speeches in Sydney yesterday are available on the vice-presidential website:

• A brief, but enormously insightful comment at a breakfast for the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue at his private fortress called the Shangri-La Hotel, 7.59am Friday 23.2.07 (transcript)
• At 9.35am, he begins his keynote address to the AADL (transcript)
• A quick trip down his private driveway otherwise known as the Cahill Expressway and Oxford Street, to Victoria Barracks in company with Dr Nelson, MD. (transcript)