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

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.

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 you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

scales are the grammar of music.

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.