When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.

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

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

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