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

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.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

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.

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

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

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