The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

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

In the end, rational policy is always good.

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.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

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.

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