Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.

In terms of our region, what we need to ensure is that the rise of China [is] conducted in a manner that does not disturb the security and the relative harmony of the region upon which China's prosperity depends. Now - now, that requires careful diplomacy, it requires balancing.