Michelle Landr is a fabulous member of Parliament. She is a true representative of that community. She's a classic middle-of-the-road Australian who represents the interests of her community with passion and with a lot of common sense.

There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded.

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.

I was interested in politics since the age of 14.

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.