You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.