You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Life is very short; be willing to serve.
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.
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.
It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
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.
Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.
There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries and technologies to successfully meet the challenge of climate change.
At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.
The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects.
Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.
I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.
The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
