My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.

The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.