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.

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

I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

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.