I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked and to learn basic political skills and techniques.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

I was President of the Queensland Young Liberals in 1981.

I was interested in politics since the age of 14.

There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded.

Only God would adore his own death.

Keep your heart and mind open to allow things to come in.

Horror shares an edge with hilarity.

the problem at this point is that there is a problem.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.