We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.
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.
Leadership is not about being nice. It’s about being right and being strong.
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, Victory, and walked off the field.
This is a low flying person.
I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
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 its security from Asia.
Silly what’s his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.
Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.