This is basically surplus, and the vaccine has a limited shelf-life. So instead of disposing of it, we wanted to make it available to people who may have missed earlier opportunities to get their shots.

We knew we'd have a good response, but we really didn't anticipate what happened there.

They are pretty tough kids. They don't come from backgrounds where they've had life given to them. And they've always been willing to rise up to the challenge.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

I've worked in restaurants my whole life. It's hard work, but I've always loved it. I don't know if I could work in any other business.

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.