If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member." I interjected "I remember." Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.