Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.