It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.

I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in.

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.