Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

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

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

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 will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.