I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

The climate change argument is absolute crap