Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks..

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better..

[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triump….

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage..

Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the thin….

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….

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, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads o….

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 ….

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you..

The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, i….

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience..

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours..

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government..

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out..

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….

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 ….