We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Defence is our best attack.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

Love holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.

With every single role, you're not going to get a role unless you invest your whole heart into it.

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.