I have got a reputation to protect.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.