People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Defence is our best attack.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.