Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.