Julia Gillard

"What I believe, what the Labor Party believes, is that marriage is between a man and a woman."

"It did seem to me that tomorrow you could wake up to anything, and that there just are no rules anymore."

"I was offended when the Leader of the Opposition went outside the front of the parliament and stood next to a sign that said 'Ditch the witch'. I was offended when the Leader of the Opposition stood n…"

"Now I understand for Mr Downer and other members of the chattering classes in the Liberal Party: they might think what qualifies you to know about national security, is you sit in a minister's office …"

"I really don’t know why this wasn’t a career ending moment for Tony Abbott. Sexism is no better than racism."

"Here he is, trying to fudge one way and fudge the other; This morning he went out and accused me of a crime. Back it up or shut up."

"There was no cataclysmic moment of revelation, but as I moved into my 20's, doubts grew and then overwhelmed." ..."

"I was seriously worried about his psychological state, I thought he wasn't coping, and he wasn't showing any signs of finding a way back to coping ... At that point, if you'd asked him to make a huge …"