There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

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.

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.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

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.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.