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

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

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

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

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.