When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

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.

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.

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

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.

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.