I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.