[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this. So, I explained to them that, as far as I was concerned, this didn't involve any diminution in our commitment to the ANZUS relationship. But David Lange took it further and he barred visits of US nuclear warships to New Zealand.

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

You've got to remember the Cold War was a very real thing then, so the relationship with the United States was very, very important. As was the relationship that I was developing with China: that was something I did very much. And they weren't conflicting things.