I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

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.