I Want To Make It Clear That

I Feel A Little Uncomfortable At Being Asked The Sorts Of Questions That Other Catholics In Public Life Tend Not To Be Asked.

The Australian Public Are Very Fair And They Are Always Prepared To Give The Leader Of A Major Political Party A Fair Go.

The One Thing That Has Changed Dramatically When You Talk To The People Of New Zealand And People From Ireland? They Feel A Darned-sight Better About Themselves Because They Made The Decision To Do What They've Done, And I Can Say To You, We Would Feel A Bloody Darned Sight Better About Ourselves Once We Get An Opportunity To Put This [vote On Same-sex Marriage] Out There.

The Climate Change Argument Is Absolute Crap

It's Very Easy For Australians Living In Big Cities To Either Romanticise Or Demonise The Situation In Aboriginal Places - To Kind Of Look At Things Through The 'noble Innocents' Prism Or Through The 'chronically Dysfunctional' Prism, And I Suspect That Is So Often The Case.