My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

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

What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.