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.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.