You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia.

I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.

The royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.