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

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.

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.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

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.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.