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

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.

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

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

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

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.