John anderson

It is high time that (former deputy prime minister) John Anderson and ... the Howard government ministers Alexander Downer and Warren Truss appear before the Cole Commission to answer issues raised in evidence yesterday.

The whole purpose is to really establish something that might be seen as a de facto marriage and I just don't support them. I regard marriage as something that belongs to a man and a woman. We extend extraordinary freedoms for people to choose their lifestyle but I actually think that marriage involves a man and a woman committing themselves to one another for the purposes of providing an appropriate environment for children to grow up in.

We do it because we love it,

He's family.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.