We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

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.

Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

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