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

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.

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

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

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.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.