Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

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.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.