It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

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

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.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.