I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interests, not talk them down, and that is a view which I have communicated very directly to the chairman of the board on behalf of the Government,

Since that trade can contribute to job losses, we have an obligation to help these people.

Prevention is always better than cure and that applies not only in health but it also applies in terrorism. You can't cure terrorism, you can't bring somebody back to life after they've been killed by a terrorist and therefore laws which are designed to anticipate and to prevent a terrorist act are laws that Australians should support, and I believe most Australians will support these laws.

I know he lent Jimmy Barnes a car ... and paid some bills for him.

It doesn't mean that JI is crippled but it does mean that somebody that is believed to have been behind the two Bali attacks, the Marriott attack and the attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta may well have been taken out of the equation,

Wilson, you are his horse, so I think you can sit down.