Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

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.

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

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.

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.