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

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.

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

A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

I really have a love for comedy. I can't express it enough.

After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Love is the answer to any sort of healing.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.