The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.