If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

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

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.