Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

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.

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.

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

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

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.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.