The Great Curse Of Modern Political Life

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 Looming On The Horizon. It's Not Visible Yet But It Certainly Exists There And It Won't Be My Generation That Has To Deal With The Fact That The World Is Not Bountiful Forever, That The Ocean And The Atmosphere Are Not Free Goods To Be Abused, That Will Have To Feed These Vast Populations. That Will Be Your Generation.

I've Always Held The View That Great States Need Strategic Space. I Mean, George Washington Took His Space From George Iii. Britain Took It From Just About Everybody. Russia Took All Of Eastern Europe. Germany's Taken It From Everywhere They Can, And China Will Want Its Space Too.

I Think Leadership's Always Been About Two Main Things: Imagination And Courage.

I Try To Use The Australian Idiom To Its Maximum Advantage.

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 Children From Their Mothers. We Practised Discrimination And Exclusion. It Was Our Ignorance And Our Prejudice. And Our Failure To Imagine That These Things Could Be Done To Us.