I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure

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.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.