The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

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

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.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.