Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.

What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.