More Excuses For More Failures.

It Is A Very Heavy Responsibility [to Be A Prime-minister] To Make, But Someone Has To Make It For Our Country And I Am Thrilled And Honoured To Have That Opportunity And That Responsibility.

My Mum And Mad Were Both Very Generous, Encouraging Parents.

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.

The Only Thing I Wouldn't Do Is Sell My Arse.

I Feel A Little Uncomfortable At Being Asked The Sorts Of Questions That Other Catholics In Public Life Tend Not To Be Asked.