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

You cannot win an election without a fight

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

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