If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.

There are some things that can't be measured.

We are constantly being told that we've never been wealthier. And many of us are. On average we all are. But that's just the problem.. no one is average.

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.