I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

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.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

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

I've always been prepared to put my money where my mouth is.