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 just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

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.

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

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

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.