In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.

We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

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

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.