In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

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

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

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

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

If your mind is not at peace you cannot find it anywhere else in the world.

Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.

It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.

As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

Jesus was a management expert too.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.