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

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

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

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.

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

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.