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

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.