The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...

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

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.