alternatives and understood the risks" - On RU486, 6 February 2006. "Even if dispossession is taken to mean that government has a higher responsibility to Aborigines than to other Australians, the production of beautiful art and connectedness to the land does not warrant the maintenance of a way of life also characterised by unemployment, substance abuse and domestic violence. If people choose to live in difficult to service places, that's their business." - From an article published in The Australian, 27 June 2008. "I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons" - Quote from an undergraduate piece he wrote on feminism, featured in this GetUp ad that also highlights other quotes. "You don't have to be a Catholic to be troubled by the current abortion culture" - From Sunday Profile, 12 June 2005. "The Government accepts that some 14 and 15-year-olds might prefer that their parents not know about the medical procedures they have had or the prescription drugs they are on. But children should not be presumed to be the best judges of their own long-term interests and should not have the right to go behind their parents' backs... The real issue here is whether 14 and 15-year-olds can make informed decisions about what is right and wrong for them. And if they don't have that capacity, should they be allowed