And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

The voice stuff is super fun and I get to be anyone, but on-camera, I get to go in with wardrobe and sets and stuff and be in an environment that's not normal, and I love that.

Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer.

I burn with no causes.