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

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

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