People learn from failure or from lack of success.

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

The 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.

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

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.

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.

I've always been prepared to put my money where my mouth is.