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

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

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

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.