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

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

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

In the end, rational policy is always good.

Good economics is good politics.

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