We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.
The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
There’s always a lot happening. I mean, that’s the thing about politics: it’s just one damn thing after another!
Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.
We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.
I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you’ve paid.
I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation’s legacy of unutterable shame.
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.
No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British heritage.
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don’t expect it to make excuses.
Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.
We shouldn’t be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.