I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

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

More excuses for more failures.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.