The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly..

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water..

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia..

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. H….

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was….

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is ba….

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get ….

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound b….

Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it..

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is ….

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols ….

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own..

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the wa….

People learn from failure or from lack of success..

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to r….

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once ….

What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have peo….

The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And so from time to time peop….

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time..

I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles….

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less….