While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

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

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

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

[ 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.