I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm TurnbullNobody 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.
Malcolm TurnbullDo the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
Malcolm TurnbullThe royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.
Malcolm TurnbullTo 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.
Malcolm Turnbull