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

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

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

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.

The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

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.