I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

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.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.