We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.

If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.

I am determined to honour the confidence which has been extended to us by the people of our great land. And I say to all of those who have voted for us today, I say to each and every one of them that I will be a prime minister for all Australians.