If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

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.

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

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.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.