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

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

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.

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

Good economics is good politics.

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

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