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.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

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

Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

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

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.