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.

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

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

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.

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

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.