Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!

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.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.