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.

John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

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.

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.

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

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

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