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

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.