To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

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

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!