I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

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

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.