No doubt the Yanks are better at the preacher-style of uplifting and florid oratory. But I suspect that Australian audiences don't warm to it. You can imagine that attempts to duplicate this style in Australian politics would be met with blunt assessments that the speaker was being a wanker.
The best orators in Australian politics are much less flowery and usually deploy a brutal wit. Gough Whitlam, Paul Keating and Peter Costello were all brutally effective. In particular, Keating was capable of considerable artistry, for instance one occasion where he described a visit to a house where "clocks were dripping off the walls". But their best work was more brutal than artful. Hawke was able to inject considerable emotion into his oratory but he won the right to do so only because he had qualified as a down-to-earth Aussie bloke by that stage. And sometimes the overblown rhetoric, for example fixing a year by which no child would live in poverty, would come back to haunt him.
The best orators in Australian politics are much less flowery and usually deploy a brutal wit. Gough Whitlam, Paul Keating and Peter Costello were all brutally effective. In particular, Keating was capable of considerable artistry, for instance one occasion where he described a visit to a house where "clocks were dripping off the walls". But their best work was more brutal than artful. Hawke was able to inject considerable emotion into his oratory but he won the right to do so only because he had qualified as a down-to-earth Aussie bloke by that stage. And sometimes the overblown rhetoric, for example fixing a year by which no child would live in poverty, would come back to haunt him.