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?

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

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

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

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