It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.