No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.

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.

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

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