My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

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

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.