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

There are no factions in the Liberal Party

Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

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

We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.