Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party

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.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

I'm not running for canonisation.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!