There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.