Simeon Duncan

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Beware of belittling God’s crooked sticks. With them he may write the message that that makes a thousand people glad.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.

The Government gets a piece of totem legislation through the House of Representatives and immediately turns the victory into an extraordinary case of excessive executive secrecy.
In partnership with Greens Leader Bob Brown, the Government decided it was perfect reasonable to deny Parliament, its own MPs and the general public details of how it would pay to ensure support for the mining profits tax legislation.
If a private individual tried this, offering cash in secret to get a law passed, they would end up in jail. Probably they would share a cell with the member of Parliament who took the money.