“Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the ...” — Julie Bishop Quote

Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.

I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.

There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

The main thing I've learned from touring with Skillet is just how impactful music is because I have traveled the world from Russia to Japan to Australia and I have seen music impact people.

I'd always had this romantic idea, ever since I've been writing scripts, that I would travel one day and pull up stumps, as we say in Australia. It's a cricket reference. You can Google it. Pull up stumps in some country like Italy or Spain and do my little Truman Capote thing.