Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

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

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