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Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze, Arabs, Circassians. I will be prime minister for the center and for the periphery, for students and senior citizens.

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.

While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.