The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.