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

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.