If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

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

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

I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.