The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

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?

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.

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.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

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.

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