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

You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.

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.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

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

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

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.