Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

She was my accountant, so I just believed her.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

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

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.