The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.