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

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.

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

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

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.

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

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