The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.

We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.