There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

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

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

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

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.