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

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media and yet it is there for everyone to see. It is kind of like electronic graffiti. The political process is accelerated and intense in a way that I don't believe it ever really has been before.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

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.

What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.