To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

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.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

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

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.