There is a reciprocal respect for [ Elizabeth II], for her interest in the Commonwealth. The members of the Commonwealth recognise that here is a gen….

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth….

If you've got good chemistry at the top, it's an enormous help. It's easy to have good chemistry with some, not so easy with others. With [Robert Mug….

When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait - he rang me up. I was ….

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well..

The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but….

I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his knees morning and nigh….

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect..

It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this. So, ….

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd hav….

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism..

I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, "What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come aboard?" I said, "We've got a….

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans..

I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but ….

[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has playe….

Institutions do live on their history..

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies..

It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we ha….

While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present pars….

I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the in….

I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statem….