The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

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.

I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

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

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