Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Defence is our best attack.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart beats in my words.

There must be something to acupuncture - after all you never see any sick porcupines.

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'