I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

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.

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.

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

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

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.