We Accept That Sometimes In Difficult Circumstances,

Most Of The People Who Are Coming To Australia By Boat Have Passed Through Several Countries On The Way, And If They Simply Wanted Asylum They Could Have Claimed That In Any Of The Countries Through Which They'd Passed.

What The Housewives Of Australia Need To Understand As They Do The Ironing Is That If They Get It Done Commercially It’s Going To Go Up In Price And Their Own Power Bills When They Switch The Iron On Are Going To Go Up.

Like The Governor-general, When Asked What You Enjoy Most About The Job My Tendency Is To Say "today", Because Of The Insights You Get Into Our Nation And Because Of The Privileged Contact You Have With So Many People.

This Is A Government Which Is Proposing To Put At Risk Our Manufacturing Industry, To Penalise Struggling Families, To Make A Tough Situation Worse For Millions Of Households Right Around Australia. And For What? To Make Not A Scrap Of Difference To The Environment Any Time In The Next 1000 Years.

It's Very Easy For Australians Living In Big Cities To Either Romanticise Or Demonise The Situation In Aboriginal Places - To Kind Of Look At Things Through The 'noble Innocents' Prism Or Through The 'chronically Dysfunctional' Prism, And I Suspect That Is So Often The Case.