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.

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.

Defence is our best attack.

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

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

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.