A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

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

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

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

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.