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.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

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?

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

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