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.

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

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.

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

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

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.