I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

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.

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

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

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

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