What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.