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

She was a remarkable person and the love of my life.

She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. We were married for almost 70 years. She encouraged and sustained me and our four children, their families and many other people in a life full of engagement with Australians from all walks of life.

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

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

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.

Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.