One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy
Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.
It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
I myself am an absolute abyss.
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.
Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
In the absolute sense - kind of from the God's-eye view - God might feel like, "I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty. "