There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.

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

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

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