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.

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

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.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

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.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

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