In Politics There's Never A Magic Wand.

So In Many Ways For Me, Having Lived Through What I've Lived Through, And Endured What I've Endured, I've Got More Confidence That I Can Do The Next Bit - And There's Something Sustaining About That.

If We Change The Way The Electricity Sector Operates, We Can Bring Down Our Levels Of Carbon Pollution, And Continue The Crucial Task Of Tackling Climate Change. Putting A Price On Carbon Would Do This.

The Death Of Malcolm Fraser Underwrites A Great Loss To Australia... I Always Thought Malcolm Would Be Around A Lot Longer. I Must Say, I Wished He Had Been.

Over The Christmas Period, I Spent Time With Both Bob Hawke And Paul Keating, And You Listen To Stories And Tales Of How Hard It Can Be When It's Really Hard, And I Think We Easily All Talk Ourselves Into The Proposition That It's Never Been As Hard As This. Well It's Been Hard In The Past. It's Been Really Hard. So You Keep Doing It And, The More You Do It, The More You Gain Strength And Confidence That You Can Do It.

We See Community Organizations As Major Service Providers And Economic Drivers Rather Than As Recipients Or Distributors Of Charity, And Coordinators Of Volunteers. Today They Constitute What's Referred To As 'the Social Economy'.