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.

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.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.