I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.