I've always said: if we ignore the issues that people want us to talk about, then you will have movements outside of the establishment political parties grow.

For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.

There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.

I've always said: if we ignore the issues that people want us to talk about, then you will have movements outside of the establishment political parties grow.

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

What I seek to do is to establish the facts as I see them, or as I understand them, and to engage in constructive dialogue to get good outcomes.

I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.