If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

She was my accountant, so I just believed her.

In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.