Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

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.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.