My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.