I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

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

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

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.

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.