When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.