I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.

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.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.