No other Australian retailer ever has decided to take on the world. We're going to take on the world.

There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don't know if anyone in the media gets the internet thing and Harvey Norman. I think they have some strange interpretation of it that bears no resemblance to what actually happens.

People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!

I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.