For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

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

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

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

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.