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.

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.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

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

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

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