The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

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

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

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.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.