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

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

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

You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia.

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.