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.

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.

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

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.