But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change questions of energy and food security the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

While weight loss is important what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

Australia is the only island continent on the planet which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas which can drive stronger storms and more acidic oceans which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself 'Hey am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

Listen - of course money changes everything but so does sunlight and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience you can change things: countries structures economic models colonial states.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The propensity to truck barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men and to be found in no other race of animals.

What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to ourselves and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog anxiety the way your skin sweats the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio the telephone Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

Change creates fear and technology creates change. Sadly most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear it is trying to drive change for the future and that's a good thing.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear uncertainty and division in society.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

The meaning I picked the one that changed my life: Overcome fear behold wonder.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

In Australia there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming my life changed.