Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

I'm not gay, im just liberal-curious

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.