It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

Rachel Ward

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

Ginger Rogers

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Angela Ruggiero

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

Terry Pratchett

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Neil Gaiman

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Kahlil Gibran

Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

Orson Scott Card

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

King Hussein

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

John Keats

In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.

S.L. Coelho

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Blaise Pascal