One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

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

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

In the end, rational policy is always good.

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

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