I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

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

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

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