Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.