Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.

I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.

If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.