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

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

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

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

Do 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?