Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.