The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

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.

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.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.