I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.