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

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

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

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.