Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

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

you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.

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.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

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