Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

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

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

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.