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

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

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

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

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

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.