I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.

A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.