So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

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.

As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.

People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.