Anyone who's been a teenager, or raised one, knows growing up is hard. Kids can be cruel to their peers, and many young people go through tough times and experience low moments.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Both casual, unthinking discrimination and deliberate, malicious homophobia erode self-confidence and undermine mental health. Both are far too common, not just in our schoolyards or online but in sporting clubs, in the outer and even in our national parliament.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

I'm married. Who cares about me?

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.