I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.