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.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

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.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party

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.

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