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.

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

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.

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.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

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

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