I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

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