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

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.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

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

Good economics is good politics.

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

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?