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.

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

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.