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.

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.

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

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

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

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

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.