I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.

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

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.

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

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.

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.

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