On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Bring relevance to the people before teaching them to be believers

If you want to change the world, first change yourself.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

When I graduated from high school, this is in Los Angeles, I was very interested in taking a trip to Mexico to see the archeological sites. So three other people and myself drove down there.

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]