I'm Not Running For Canonisation.

I Do Not Regard Myself As A Christian Politician. I Regard Myself As A Politician Who Just Happens To Think Religion Matters. I Would Be Appalled, Absolutely Appalled, To Think Religion Drove Anyone's Politics In A Secular Democracy Like Ours.

You Try Turning Up In America Without Documents, Without A Visa, Without A Passport; You'll Be Treated As Very, Very Much Illegal.

In Respect Of Indonesia, I Am Determined To Be The Best Possible Friend Of Indonesia That I Can Be, Consistent With My Overriding Duty To Protect Our Country. We Would Never Do Anything That Was Damaging To Indonesia, Because We Want Indonesia To Flourish. We Want Indonesia To Take Its Rightful Place As One Of The Really Important Countries Of The World, As It Will, Sooner Or Later.

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.

Whether Carbon Dioxide Is Quite The Environmental Villain That Some People Make It Out To Be Is Not Yet Proven.