Australia's government is extremely sensitive to any idea of an American containment of China. Australia sees the rise of China as a huge economic opportunity with few diplomatic drawbacks.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification

If you look at raw resources exports, they've grown 700 percent [to China] in the last decade.

Integrated television is the way to go and unless the government gets its head around that, a quick conversion is not going to happen.

Public respect for political parties has plummeted, and democratic government discredited, ... The massive fall in voters can only be attributed to voter disillusionment in their governments -- successive governments.

It is naive to think that what is done to the judicial filibuster will not later be done to its legislative counterpart, ... The legislative filibuster . . . in the not-so-distant past was our only defense against the excesses of a bipartisan liberalism.