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

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.