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.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.