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

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

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

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.

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

I'm on the record as saying things like I think it's important for people to understand their Bible stories, not because I'm an advocate of religion - clearly, I'm not - but once again, what comes from the Bible has formed such an important part of our culture.

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