I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.