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.

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

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

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

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.