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.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party

The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

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

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.