But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.