Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is.

Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

There are some things that can't be measured.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

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'.