There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

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

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.