One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.

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

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.

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

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

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

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