They are wonderful inspirations. They are here with us. And, if they can jump up here and do it, we certainly can. And so that's how we keep going.

They were each lifted up individually in a hoist, in a basket, that was lowered to them, lifted up in the helicopter, taken to the ground.

It was windy, dark, and there was fire and smoke, so that's a challenge for the pilot and the paramedic who's operating the hoist.

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.