Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.

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

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.