We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

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

In the end, rational policy is always good.

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

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

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.