I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

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

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.

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.