It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.

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.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.