No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.