I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

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

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

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

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