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.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

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.

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.