Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of Australia Birth: January 18, 1944
The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together..
A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In trut….
John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the gu….
If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it..
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You ….
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for ….
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable..
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads o….
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies..
You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. Thi….
Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong.
I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage..
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Aus….
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is lo….
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the….
You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find ….
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you..
The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience..
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government..
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours..
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism..