Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Good economics is good politics.

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

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

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.