Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I lov….

Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot..

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged..

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development..

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you..

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia..

I'm not gay, im just liberal-curious.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy..

If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage..

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community..

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families..

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing ….

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution..

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity..

I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intentio….

In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for t….

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; e….

Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark o….

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help..

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural ….