Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

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

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.